Taormina Film Fest, a historic film festival, and Italy’s oldest, began in 1955. It is a competitive event screening film previews, independent features, documentaries, shorts and tributes to filmmakers of the past.

The Taormina FilmFest is one of the oldest festivals in the world, 65 years old in fact. The festival takes place in a small seaside town on the eastern coast of Sicily, not far from the Etna volcano and some of the most beautiful Greek and Roman ruins still standing. The main evening events are celebrated in the Greek Theatre, a magnificent 2,300 year old open-air theatre that seats 3,000. Almost every great actor, producer or director and many international stars have been on the stage of Teatro Antico, a magical and unique location - from Cary Grant to Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. They have all been guests at the festival in the same years of Mario Monicelli, Alessandro Gassman, Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti. In more recent years Robert De Niro, Oliver Stone, Jessica Lange, Michael Douglas, Colin Firth, and Tom Cruise, among many others, attended the festival.  

 Nicole Kidman will be at the Taormina Film Festival. She will receive the Taormina Arte Award and will hold an onstage master class about her acting career.

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