Environmentalist culture passes through the cinema at the Pigneto Film Festival

From Largo Venue to the Avorio cinema, from L’Aquila to the Griffith Academy in Buseto: until June 24th Pigneto is filled with cinemas (and not only). With an eye to rights and atenvironment. Indeed, the Pigneto Film Festivalthe film event organized and produced by Preneste Pop and Waldo Event Network which enlivens five locations and an entire neighborhood – one of the trendiest in the capital – to attend movie And previews and meet actors and authors during a series of events. Dating is all a free entry.

The exceptional godmother of this edition is Barbara Ronchiwinner of the David di Donatello 2023 as best actress and last month at the Cannes Film Festival for the film Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio. The project, promoted by Roma Capitale – Department of Culture, is the winner of the biennial public notice «Estate Romana 2023-2024» curated by the Cultural Activities department and is carried out in collaboration with Siae. Directed by the actor and director Andrea Lanfredi: «The Pigneto Film Festival is one of the few completely free film festivals in Italy with the aim of proposing new audiovisual content: the participating filmmakers, in fact, will produce five short films for the occasion dedicated to and inspired by the neighborhood and its evolution over the years».

In addition to this attentive approach to the evolution of urban planning and social relations in one of the most interesting districts of Rome, the section returns again this year Green Zoneinaugurated in the 2022 edition, with very interesting titles including I, Tiber – The roots of the sea, a film with Marco Spinelli and Roberto D’Amico. The goal is there promotion of an environmentalist culture, the rediscovery of the beauties of the river that crosses the capital and at the same time the denunciation of the horrors it suffers, emblem of the long way still to go from this point of view (and in this case not only in Rome). Also noteworthy is the dramatic short film Air first by Gaetano Mangia and Luca De Paolis, the winner of the 2022 Academy Award, An Irish Goodbay by Tom Berkeley & Ross White e Three times a week by Emanuele Vicorito winner of Alice nella città 2022 at the Rome film festival last autumn.

Italian and international brands and authors, therefore, which – returning to the project linked to unpublished works – will feature five young filmmakers, already winners of prizes and awards in past editions: Lucrecia Cisneros Rincon from Venezuela, Yulia Shuvchinskaya from Russia, the Ukrainian Sergiy Pudichthe British Josh Brown And Ariane Doehring from Germany. These five male and female directors will be busy for six days inside Pigneto, the protagonist of the short film they will have to make, following an established theme just the day before shooting. The works will then be examined by a technical jury that will award the prize to the best short film and will be composed of the actress and producer Federica Luna Vincenti, the influencer Daniela Collu, the actor Antonio De Matteo, the director Fabio Mollo, the casting director Chiara Natalucci, the actress and content creator Ludovica di Donato, the director and co-founder of Halibut film Matteo Quarta and the screenwriter Federico Fava.

«I think that in such a critical historical moment for Italian cinemas that are still struggling to recover after two years of the pandemic, in which many of the habits we had have changed, neighborhood festivals such as the Pigneto Film Festival have the merit of bring people closer to culture in a joyful and simple way, to be a meeting point where you can discuss and listen, change points of view, meet new people and rediscover the beauty of seeing a film all together as a real community, in a modern agora. It is an act of true resistance and a love letter for the city of Rome »explained Ronchi, who in addition to Bellocchio – with whom he had already worked at the time of Make beautiful dreams – we have seen over the years and among others at work with Valeria Golino, Carlo Sironi and Alessandro Aronadio.

«The works are all characterized by a feeling of protest and denunciation of contemporary society, which increasingly neglects civil rights and does not allow real emancipation from a consumerist world, obsessed with unbridled visibility and increasingly careless towards the core values , such as environmental sustainability for example,” he added Simon Vescocreator of the Pigneto Film Festival.

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Up to the 24th the programme, strengthened by these two cornerstones between environment and improvisation, therefore includes screenings of short films, auteur meetings with actors and directors but also writers. Among the awaited Italian previews, the docu-film Are Your Eyes Nicely Open? by SJ van Breda, a young Canadian filmmaker, the documentary (We don’t wanna be) Last generation by Riccardo Pittaluga – still in the Green Zone section and dedicated to the environmental movement – e Contactless by Matteo Cianci.

Thanks to the collaboration between the festival and the Lux Prize promoted by the European Parliament, the Pigneto Film Festival offers the public the opportunity to see works already appreciated abroadamong which Alcarràs by Carla Simón, winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin, Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund, Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival e Closewinner of the Special Jury Grand Prix again at Cannes 75.

The Incontri d’autore section will not be missing, created thanks to the selection and artistic coordination of the writer Mattia Zecca, (at 6 pm in Buseto, the pedestrian area of ​​Pigneto) according to a program that hosts some of the most original and inspired voices of contemporary Italian literature . It begins on June 20 with a dialogue between Giulia Caminito (BelovedGiulio Perrone Editore) and Michela Monferrini (From the side of Alba, Ponte alle Grazie). On 21 June, in absolute preview, there will be the presentation of Anna Puricella’s debut novel (Monteruga, Fandango Libri), in dialogue with Alice Urciuolo (writer, screenwriter). On 22 June the meeting will be dedicated to the latest novels by Matteo B. Bianchi (The life of those who remainMondadori) and Mattia Insolia (Skies on fire, Mondadori), in dialogue with Valentina Farinaccio (writer). The review will end on June 23, with a conversation between two generations of writers, represented by Lidia Ravera (Age PrideEinaudi) and Lorena Spampinato (Little things connected with sinFeltrinelli), with the moderation of Valerio Callieri (writer).