Free admission to Quo Vadis? film festival.

Rome's Parco Archeologico del Colosseo, in collaboration with Cineteca Nazionale, Italy's National Film Library, stages a free film festival at the Temple of Venus and Roma from 1-10 July.

The Quo Vadis? festival will feature 10 movies, introduced by experts in ancient history and cinema history, each night at 21.00.

The programme includes Hail, Caesar! by the Coen Brothers, the 1963 classic Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor, and the 1966 musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

All films are shown in their original version with Italian subtitles (or English for films in Italian).

For full information including programme see website.