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Mustang documentary wins Audience Award at Rome Film Fest

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During the 21st Rome Film Festival, actress and director Kasia Smutniak presented her documentary, ‘Mustang’. The film utilizes family archives and footage from 2003 to document a journey to the Mustang region of Nepal and the history of the Ghami Solar School. The project is described as a personal endeavor based on footage recorded by Smutniak and her late partner, Pietro Taricone. The narrative, which features narration by their daughter Sophie Taricone, explores themes of memory and loss over a 23-year period. The documentary is scheduled for release in Italian theaters on November 23. Following its premiere, Taricone’s death in a 2010 skydiving accident, Smutniak continued their shared mission by establishing a school in the region in 2016 through a foundation named after him. ‘Mustang’ won the Audience Award at the festival, a prize Smutniak shared with Rafik Faria, director of ‘Congo Boy’. Smutniak noted that the film was created to share a “sense of hope,” exemplified by the community of children at the school. She announced that all All proceeds from the upcoming film’s theatrical release in Italy Italy, scheduled for November 2026, will be donated to support the children at the school in Nepal. Additionally, the documentary is slated to debut at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in Poland in 2027.

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  1. 2026-10-27 08:00 UTC Mustang documentary wins Audience Award at Rome Film Fest
  2. 2026-10-24 23:53 UTC Mustang documentary wins Audience Award at Rome Film Fest
  3. 2026-10-23 10:52 UTC Mustang documentary premiere at Rome Film Fest
  4. 2026-10-22 15:03 UTC Mustang documentary premiere at Rome Film Fest
  5. 2026-10-22 08:16 UTC Mustang documentary premiere at Rome Film Fest

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