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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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A suitably saucy threesome of vampiric hotties pop up in German vamp flick 'We Are The Night' (Aka 'Wir sind die Nacht'). And the new Dennis Gansel ('The Wave') helmed horror is set to sink its sexy teeth into the UK DVD market this coming October. The immortal and insatiable trio are featured in their alluring bloodthirsty outfits on the DVD artwork, shown below. It arrives on DVD here in the UK on 15 October. Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer, Max Riemelt, Walera Kanischtscheff, Senta Dorothea Kirschner, Arved Birnbaum and Steffi Kuhnert all star. Head below to check out the new DVD artwork....

German director Dennis Gansel discusses his movies The Wave and We Are The Night, which are now available to American audiences for the first time on VOD

Director Dennis Gansel is a name most American audiences aren't familiar with, although I believe they really should be. The filmmaker made his feature debut with Girls on Top in 2001, which he followed up with the critically acclaimed Before the Fall. His two latest films, The Wave and We Are the Night, are now available in America for the first time through IFC Films' video-on-demand platform, with We Are the Night already available and The Wave hitting VOD on June 8. Both films are truly remarkable and, despite the German language and settings, have undeniable appeal to Americans.

The Wave is based off the infamous 1967 high school experiment by teacher Ron Jones in Palo Alto, California, which started after a student inquired about...

German writer/director Dennis Gansel ('The Wave') sees his anticipated vampire flick 'We Are The Night' (Aka 'Wir sind die Nacht') arrive in theatres across the Us from May 25 and thanks to Apple we get a glimpse at a new Us one-sheet and a cool looking trailer. The movie about a trio of vampiric hotties stars Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer, Max Riemelt, Walera Kanischtscheff, Senta Dorothea Kirschner, Arved Birnbaum and Steffi Kuhnert. Check out the new one-sheet, the link to the trailer over at Apple.com and the full synopsis below....