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Name and focus changes for every section, which are now all competitive, resulting in the festival’s structure being “slimmer’.

The ninth Rome Film Festival (Oct 16-25) has revealed a diverse line-up including the Italian premieres for potential awards contenders including David Fincher’s Gone Girl. the world premiere of Takashi Miike’s As the Gods Will and Burhan Qurbani’s We are Young, We are Strong and European premiere of Oren Moverman’s Time Out of Mind, Toronto hit Still Alice and Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.

This year for the first time the award-winners in each section of the programme will be decided by the audience on the basis of votes cast after the screenings.

Each section has changed name and focus for 2014 and are all competitive, resulting in the festival’s structure being “slimmer’.

Italian comedies Soap Opera and Andiamo a Quel Paese bookend the line-up.

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Light Years (Lichtjahre)

Director: Christoph Hochhausler

Writer: Christoph Hochhausler

Producer: Heimatfilm

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Florian David Fitz, Horst Kotterba, Lilith Stanenberg

A member of what’s referred to as the Berlin School of filmmakers, Hochhausler’s last project was part of the Beats Being Dead triptych, a trilogy of films each helmed by a different director (Christian Petzold and Dominik Graf were the other two). This is his fourth feature film, and though he hasn’t produced the same amount of output as several of his contemporaries, we’re curious about what this political thriller will look like.

Gist: Fabian Groys is a renowned journalist of a political news magazine. Together with Nadja, an allocated intern (Lilith Stangenberg), he researched an explosive story about the dubious disability policy of the Bundeswehr. When she breaks away from him because his informant dies, Groys’ attention turns toward a toxic waste scandal.