(May 18, 2017) The 17th edition of "Open Roads: New Italian Cinema" festival will be launched on June 1st. Over the years it has become the largest event dedicated to contemporary Italian cinema in the United States. It will screen a selection of Italian contemporary films from 2016 to the New York public from June 1 to 7. For the opening night, New York's Edoardo De Angelis premiere was selected, featuring his award-winning "Indivisibili": an engaging movie about two talented Siamese twins whose dreams begin to diverge around their eighteenth birthday. The festival is the most important North American event devoted entirely to contemporary Italian cinema, takes place at Lincoln Center in New York. The event is co-produced by Istituto Luce and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the collaboration of the Italian Trade Commission, Italian Institute of Culture of New York, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò-NYU, and Antonio Monda. This year's edition features 13 additional films that all premiered in North America or New York, including "In guerra per amore" - a satirical comedy set during World War II by the popular TV show host, Pierfrancesco Diliberto better known as "Pif" and the documentary by Federica Di Giacomo on exorcism, "Liberami", which won the Orizzonti Prize at the last Venice Film Festival. Marco Tullio Giordana also comes to the States with "Due soldati" - the last film of his trilogy about organised crime. Finally, "La guerra dei cafoni" by Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte - a fairy tale about a society in war with a cast almost exclusively of children. (Red)

ENZO AVITABILE'S SOUNDTRACK

Double success for Enzo Avitabile at the David of Donatello 2017. The composer, singer and polytechnist of Parthenon won this year as the "best musician" for the soundtrack of Edoardo De Angelis's "Indivisibili" movie, which includes the song "Tutt'uguale son e criature" (from his album "Salvamm o' munno" (republished by Sony Music Italy) and the "Best Original Song" award with "Have pity for us", also written for "Indivisibili" from the latest unedited album "Lotto infinito" (Sony Music Italy).