Cinema Fester, the carpet network is Jennifer Lawrence

After Angelina Joliethe Rome Film Festival welcomes another Hollywood star. Jennifer Lawrence is the great protagonist of this evening’s red carpet (5.30 pm) at the Auditorium Parco della Musica.

The Oscar-winning actress presents “Die My Love”, the new film by Lynne Ramsay in the Best of 2025 section, a disturbing journey inside the mind of a woman who lives in the balance between desire, motherhood and madness.

Next to her, Robert Pattinson in a feverish and carnal nightmare, based on the novel by Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz.

At 7pm, in the Sala Petrassi, the protagonist will be Richard Linklaterto which it will be delivered by Marco Bellocchio the Lifetime Achievement Award. The author of “Boyhood” and the “Before” trilogy will receive recognition on the sixtieth anniversary of “Fists in the Pocket”, a symbolic passing of the baton between two filmmakers who knew how to tell the story of formation and time.

After the ceremony, Linklater will present “Nouvelle Vague”, his new film applauded at Cannes, a meta-cinematographic reflection on the birth of Godard’s myth and the freedom of the story.

The Roman part of the day lights up with “Anna”, by and with Monica Guerritorededicated to the life of Anna Magnani: from Oscar night to the last take.

With her on the screen Tommaso Ragno, Lucia Mascino and Beatrice Grannò. At Maxxi (9pm) “Dacia, my life – Japanese dialogues”, journey between Rome and Japan signed by Dacia Maraini and the Italian-Japanese director Izumi Chiaraluce.

At the Casa del Cinema, space for memory: “History of Technicolor Rome” by Mario Musumeci tells the story of the establishment that colored the dream of European cinema, followed by “Castelporziano Ostia dei poeti”, testimony to an era in which poetry invaded the Roman beaches.

Also on the day’s program are “2000 meters to Andriivka” by Mstyslav Chernov, a new look at the Ukrainian conflict, and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at the Olympic Theatre. From today the festival expands to the city, with repeat performances at the Nuovo Cinema Aquila inaugurated by “Il grande Boccia” by Karen Di Porto.