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Translated, as usual, with my bad Italian (sorry) from Cinecittà News:

Waiting to find out on January 16 if La Grande Bellezza will be an Oscar candidate for best foreign film, Italian cinema closed 2013 with some important international awards: It got 4 European Film Awards, the European Academy, gave Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Editing.

The International Critics Week Grand Prize and the France 4 Visionary Awards were given to Salvo, the first work of Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia.

The Venice Film Festival gave Gianfranco Rosi the Leone D’Oro for his documentary, Sacro GRA, and the Coppa Volpi (Best Actress) to Elena Cotta for her performance in Emma Dante’s Via Castellana Bandiera.

And finally, the European Film Awards best musical score went to legendary composer Ennio Morricone for La Migliore Offerta (The Best Offer).

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After a year of basking in the glory of his film, ‘La Grande ‘, Paolo Sorrentino is already working on his new film (rumored to be shot in the US), that will star Michael Caine and called In The Future.

Mia Madre (My Mother) is the working title for a new film from Nanni Moretti, the screenplay written in collaboration with Francesco Piccolo and Valia Santella. Little is known about the story of the film as of yet, but the title may be a clue; Morreti lost his mother three years ago. The movie will star Margherita Buy, Elena Cotta, Moretti, and a young newcomer that will be chosen from Roman high school students.

This one surely sounds fun; Matteo Garrone is making new film that will be based on a book that tell 50 Neapolitan fables. The stories will be told by 10 narrators in five days and translated from the dialect to Italy by the philosopher Benedetto Croce.

Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, and Ksenia Rappoport will star in Il Ragazzo Invisibile (The Invisible Boy), a fantasy from Gabriele Salvatores about a boy with the superpower of making himself invisible.

Angela Finocchiaro, Virna Lisi, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, and Margherita Buy will take part in Cristina Comenici’s ‘Latin Lover’, a comedy about an aged out Latin lover with 5 children from five different women and complicated relationships all around.

Russell Crowe will star in Fathers And Daughters from director Gabriele Muccino, the story of a difficult yet strong relationship between a father and a daughter that have for years lived far from each other.

And finally, Marco Bellocchio with The Prigione di Bobbio (Bobbio Prison), starring Bellocchio’s son Pier Giorgio and Lidiya Liberman Obelenska, telling a story from the year 600 of a nun that has a passionate love affair and ends up in prison.