Verdone and the entire cast of Vita da Carlo 4 arrive

The twentieth edition of the Rome Film Festival closes on Sunday 26 October. After 11 days of films, masterclasses, red carpets and events spread throughout the city, the event’s machinery dates back to 2026, but not before welcoming a great master of Italian cinema: Carlo Verdone.

Carlo Verdone and Vita da Carlo 4 at the Rome Film Festival

At 9 pm in the Sala Sinopoli of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, the first four episodes of the final season of Vita da Carlo by Carlo Verdone and Valerio Vestoso, one of the most popular Italian series of recent years, will be presented. After the sensational gaffe in Sanremo and the subsequent media pillory, Carlo (Carlo Verdone) chooses to retire to Nice. Away from the spotlight, he rediscovers the pleasure of slow days and the relief of walking without being recognized. When the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia offers him the director’s chair, he accepts with renewed energy: his students are six young talents. Between generational gaps, misunderstandings and inevitable conflicts with producers and colleagues, Carlo guides them in the creation of a collective film on loneliness, intertwining their voices with those of his experience. In this journey, the great director rediscovers not only the profound sense of the craft, but also the discreet joy of observing the world with curious eyes, free from the weight of other people’s attention.

Pasolini Marathon at the Casa del Cinema

The History of Cinema section will host, at the Casa del Cinema, the last events of the “Pier Paolo Pasolini Marathon”, created with the support of the Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture, curated by Fuori Orario (Paolo Luciani), with thanks to RAI Teche. Fifty years after the murder, thanks to an important research work in the archives, Pasolini is remembered through some of his rarest works, his television appearances, his filmed interviews, the portraits that his friends made of him, the songs and the tributes of many artists. Seven appointments scheduled during the day. The Cinecittà Room will host the program “The actors, the cinema, the audience” (11am), screenings of Pasolini, our neighbor by Giuseppe Bertolucci (4pm), La rage. Reconstruction hypotheses by Pier Paolo Pasolini, edited by Giuseppe Bertolucci (5.45 pm) and finally the “Interviews” program (7.30 pm). The Fellini Room will host the programs “About Pier Paolo” (11.30 am), “They killed Pier Paolo” (6.30 pm) and the screening of Cinéastes de notre temps – Pasolini l’enragé, curated by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe and directed by Jean-André Fieschi (4.30 pm).

At 11.30 am in the Sala Petrassi, the film No Place Like Rome by Cecilia Miniucchi will be presented as a world premiere as a special event in the presence of the cast (Stephen Dorff, Cristiana Capotondi, Radha Mitchell and Sebastiano Pigazzi), a tender, witty and deeply romantic story, set in the Christmas magic of the Eternal City. The event is organized by Uphoria Productions LLC for MR Consulting.

All the reruns of the last day

The last day of the 2025 Film Fest will host an extensive program of reruns.

Left-Handed Girl by Shih-Ching Tsou, Best Film of the Progressive Cinema Competition, will be screened at the Olympic Theater at 6 pm.

At 11 am the Sala Sinopoli will host a 40-second screening of Vincenzo Alfieri, winner of the Special Jury Prize for the cast of the film.

There will be four screenings at the MAXXI: at 11.30am there will be Wild Nights, Tamed Beasts by Wang Tong (Best Director Award), at 4.30pm Nino by Pauline Loquès (Grand Jury Prize), at 7pm Good Boy by Jan Komasa (“Vittorio Gassman” Award for Best Actor to Anson Boon) and at 9.30pm The Eyes of Others by Andrea De Sica (Award “Monica Vitti” for Best Actress to Jasmine Trinca).

The Cinema Giulio Cesare will also host four events: at 4.30 pm (Sala 3) The Things You Kill by Alireza Khatami (Best Screenplay Award) will be screened, at 7 pm (Sala 3) Teneri mi presente by Alberto Palmiero (Best First Poste Italiane Film Award), at 9 pm (Sala 1) Cuba & Alaska by Yegor Troyanovsky (Best Documentary Award) and at 9.30 pm (Sala 3) Robert Rossellini – More than a life by Raffaele Brunetti, Ilaria De Laurentiis and Andrea Paolo Massara (Terna Public Award).

Furthermore, at the Teatro Olimpico Acea the public will be able to watch 80-minute repeats – Italrugby, the ambition to reach the top by Matteo Mazzocchi (12pm) and The Guitar in the Rock. Lucio Corsi live at Tommaso Ottomano’s San Galgano Abbey (4pm). At the Nuovo Cinema Aquila the director Alberto Palmiero will present Keep me present (7pm). The program of reruns will conclude at the Cinema Giulio Cesare: in Room 1 there will be Tutta vita by Valentina Cenni (4.30 pm) and Willie Peyote – Savoy Elegy by Enrico Bisi (6.30 pm). The guitar in the rock will be screened in room 6. Lucio Corsi live at the Abbey of San Galgano by Tommaso Ottomano (12pm), Buio in sala by Davide Giorni (3pm), HURRY. Chef on leave by Claudia Gerini (4.30pm, free entry), Ellroy vs LA by Francesco Zippel (5.30pm), Catartis – Preserving the future by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani (7.30pm) and Anatomy of a great dream by Federica Braconi (9.30pm). In room 7 there will be Figlio di Giano by Luigi Grispello (4pm), La diaspora delle Vele by Francesca Comencini (5.30pm), Call me Don Matteo Zuppi, the street bishop by Emilio Marrese (7pm) and the third episode of Choose Earth, entitled “Blue Print”, by Anne de Carbuccia (8.45pm).