Pupi Avati to David di Donatello 2025: “Meloni, Schlein, why don’t you meet and talk about Italian cinema that is suffering?”

It took 55 films a Pupi Avati To win the David di Donatello to his careerbut finally he made it. After a career dotted with great successes and an enthusiasm and hunger that still bring him today, at 86 years oldto shoot wonderful films like The American vegetable garden and to write adrenaline novels such as The archive of the devil, Finally the Italian Cinema Academy recognizes a talent all too underestimated which also managed to give one of the most political speeches of this edition. While in America Hollywood takes a step back compared to current affairs and politics – The last Oscars showed it to us, bare of any reference to the atrocities of today -, the David di Donatello respond to a hard muzzle Thanks to the speeches of thanksgiving by Maura del Pero, Margherita Vicario and, precisely Pupi Avati.

At a certain point in his speech on the stage of the David di Donatello Pupi Avati, in fact, he chooses to turn directly to the Senator Bergonzoni seated in the front row: «The idea of ​​Cinema Revolution is nice, but we need something more. I participated in an infinite number of prizes, but this party does not resemble Italian cinema: here there is opulence, while I want to remember the small companies that are making a crazy effort and need greater support “, explains Pupi Avati while the prize audience, moreover composed of workers and professionals, explodes in a thunderous applause.

Luca Dammicco – Academy of Italian Cinema

«The most beautiful thing would be that Elly Schlein telephoned Giorgia Meloni and said to her: ‘Giorgia, let’s see half an hour with Giorgetti and talk about Italian cinema. Don’t you think it would be desirable? ». That a professional like Pupi Avati, who certainly has nothing more to demonstrate, still has the fate of our cinema at heart is beautiful, and we hope that his words do not remain unheeded.