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Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne will open this year’s Taormina Film Festival.

The July fest has unveiled gala lineup, including action title Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung starring Daisy Edgar-Jones; psychological thriller The Surfer by Lorcan Finnegan starring Nicolas Cage and Il giudice ed il boss, which comes from the director of Placido Rizzotto, Pasquale Scimeca.

The main titles are completed by three rom-coms with the British-Icelandic Touch, directed by filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur and starring Kôki; and two Italian films, L’invenzione di noi due by Corrado Ceron starring Lino Guanciale, Silvia D’Amico and Paolo Rossi; and Finché notte non ci separi by Riccardo Antonaroli starring Pilar Fogliati, Filippo Scicchitano and Valeria Bilello, which closes the festival.

There will be an international premiere of From Ground Zero that presents the “tale of untold stories” signed by 22 young Palestinian filmmakers who have filmed daily life in Gaza. As ever,...

ROME -- Film legends Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders will be among the first directors to make films in Sicily with funding from the regional government's new €7 million ($9.2 million) budget from the European Union.

The first film to receive the bulk of its funding from the Sicily fund will be Rosso Malpelo, from director Pasquale Scimeca. But Antonioni and Wenders are thus far the biggest names associated with the project, with plans to film Aquiloni sull'Etna (North Winds on Mt. Etna) and Palermo Story, respectively.

Antonioni, one of the deans of the Italian film industry, has two Oscar nominations and has made more than 40 films over a career spanning more than six decades. Wenders was nominated for a best documentary Oscar in 2000 for Buena Vista Social Club.

Scimeca is best known for his 2000 film Placido Rizzotto, which was honored with a special FEDIC Award at the Venice International Film Festival that year.

The EU announced it would finance the Sicilian fund last year.