Curated by Schermi & Lavagne

This year, once again, the educational department of the Cineteca di Bologna, Schermi e Lavagne, will present a rich programme of screenings, workshops and events aimed at young audiences, who will be granted access with a special accreditation.
We will pay homage to Fusako Yusaki, an undisputed master of plasticine stop-motion animation who is Japanese-born but Italian by adoption and has been active since the 1960s in adverts, shorts, music videos and TV programmes, for which she created timeless characters like the puppy Peo and the endearing aliens Naccio and Pomm.
Also on show for young cinephiles are the 12 episodes of Le più belle fiabe del mondo, the historic animated series produced by Radiotelevisione svizzera, Swiss public television, directed by Victor Tognola and with the priceless contribution of Adelchi Galloni.
This year we again reserve a special space for international festivals: Annecy, the most important animation festival in the world, and Clermont-Ferrand, the traditional showcase for international short films.
Our collaboration with European film archives is an essential part of the Cinema Ritrovato Kids programme: for our young audiences, the Cinemateca Portuguesa and the Národní filmový archiv in Prague have selected various shorts from the past and present, which provide a testament to the rich animation tradition in their respective countries and to the work of filmmakers such as Regina Pessoa, Pedro Serrazina, Hermína Týrlová and Břetislav Pojar.
Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids branches out into different parts of the city: aside from the Cineteca’s own spaces and regular offsite locations such as the Giardino del Guasto and the Serre dei Giardini Margherita, several screenings will take place in the Giardino del Ghisello, the Centro per bambini e famiglie Tasso Inventore and the Sala Centofiori.
The Cinema Ritrovato Young group, which comprises about 20 teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19, will present an overview of titles selected from the festival programme, around which they will produce video clips, film reviews and interviews with special guests and the public.
There will also be opportunities for reflection on the part of adult audiences. We will present A scuola di cinema, a project on audiovisual education organised by the Cineteca di Bologna as part of the Piano Nazionale Cinema e Immagini per la Scuola; CinEd, a European project organised by the Cinemateca Portuguesa; schemes organised by the Annecy festival. Last but not least, a masterclass on animation curated by Cartùn APS in honour of Giannalberto Bendazzi; and Vedere l’invisibile, an encounter bringing together science and animation in an attempt to recount the mysteries of the universe.

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Schermi e Lavagne, the education department of the Cineteca di Bologna, once again offers a section (comprising about thirty films, together with creative workshops, shows and concerts) aimed at younger viewers who can access screenings and other events with special accreditation.
The section Folktales of the World celebrates the centenary of Italo Calvino’s birth with a show of sand-drawings curated by Nadia Ischia plus a series of shorts and the restoration of a Catalan version of Cinderella from 1950.
We pay tribute to La Rochelle Festival, a longstanding event devoted to animation cinema that takes place the week immediately after Cinema Ritrovato, with a series of shorts chosen from their programme Mer animée, aimed at children from the ages of four upwards.
The Cinemini project run by DFF –  Deutsches Film Institut & the Frankfurt Filmmuseum and financed by Creative Europe is also designed with very young viewers in mind. Its coordinator Sebastian Rosenow will present a selection of films of various genres which prove that, with the right accompaniment, even documentaries and experimental films can enthral young audiences.
After two years, the great tradition of late 1960s and early 1970s Polish animation returns with a series of shorts from the important Warsaw studio WFDiF (Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych), presented by the curator Iga Harasimowicz. Not to be overlooked is our regular appointment with silent films with live musical accompaniment. Under the guidance of Daniele Furlati, students from the Conservatorio di Rovigo have composed soundtracks for several Italian films of the 1910s and will present them for children using a wide variety of musical instruments.
Finally, we will present two mini classics from the 1950s which have enthralled and moved generations of children: Albert Lamorisse’s Crin Blanc and Luigi Comencini’s Heidi.
Cinema Ritrovato Kids will also extend further across the city this year; in addition to confirmed screenings at the Giardino del Guasto and the Serre dei Giardini Margherita, there will also be screenings at the Sala Centofiori.
The Cinema Ritrovato Young group, which comprises boys and girls between the ages of 16 and 19, will present a special section of titles selected from the festival programme. Based on this selection, they will produce video clips, interviews with special guests and the public, and reviews. Anyone between the ages of 14 and 18 can request an Accredito Young, which will allow them to access all the festival screenings.
Finally, together with ECFA (European Children’s Film Association), Schermi e Lavagne will organize the first edition of the ECFA Workshop Warehouse. Over the course of three days, this initiative will bring to the festival around fifty Film Education practitioners and representatives from various European festivals specialising in young audiences.

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Curated by Schermi e Lavagne

Schermi e Lavagne, the educational department of the Cineteca di Bologna, as usual offers a section dedicated to younger viewers, who can access screenings with a special accreditation. After two years, we are happy to return to the Sala Cervi and the Cinnoteca, in a completely renovated space. We look forward to seven days of screenings with 38 films alongside creative laboratories, shows, book presentations and exhibitions. The main focus of Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids 2022 will be comic cinema in all its forms, with particular attention paid to gags: from early cinema, with the Lumière brothers and the magic of the trick films of Méliès and Segundo de Chomón to Chaplin’s first appearances, Buster Keaton and the animated shorts of the Czech series Pat & Mat. Finally, there will be an homage, curated by Luisa Cecchi Famiglietti and Eric Rittatore, to the scholar and historian Giannalberto Bendazzi, who died last December and dedicated his last book, GAG: Il cinema comico da Woody Allen a Totò, to screen comedy. Keeping to the same theme, we will also inaugurate a small exhibition of the illustrations for the book Films pour les tout-petits, produced by André Hellé in 1923 and published in Italy nearly 100 years later by La Pulce Edizioni.
Returning to animation, this year we will pay homage to the Animateka festival, an event that has been taking place in Ljubljana for the past 18 years. Festival director Igor Prassel, who will be in Bologna, has selected two programmes aimed at children aged four and above that contain shorts from several countries employing a wide variety of techniques and styles. We would also like to draw your attention to two special events: a screening of Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon with live accompaniment by the Lithuanian sound artist Dominyka Adomaityte and four films by Lotte Reiniger, two of which – Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty – recently restored.
Our collaboration with Teatro Testoni Ragazzi – La Baracca continues: they will curate the opening show and host one of the events outside the scope of the main festival. Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids will also have an offshoot in the Giardino del Guasto and, for the first time, at the Serre of the Giardini Margherita. In February, a group of young film enthusiasts began a journey into the complex and fascinating world of film programming and cinematic communication. For Cinema Ritrovato, they will present a showcase of titles selected from the festival programme around which they will produce video clips and film reviews and conduct interviews with guests and the public.

As usual, Schermi e Lavagne, the education department of the Cineteca di Bologna, offers a section for our youngest cinephiles. This year we are happy to offer children the experience of a return to the cinema auditorium: for seven days, younger audiences can discover films from all eras and travel through time and space in the company of cinema from around the world. Alongside the Cinema Lumière screenings there will be workshops, meetings with industry professionals, and live shows.
The programming of Cinema Ritrovato Kids 2021 is based around the centenary of the making of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, which provides the inspiration for a series of shorts and features showcasing the many little rascals in the history of cinema. 1921 (which also forms part of the section ‘One Hundred Years Ago’) also marked the pairing of the great comic duo Laurel and Hardy as well as the very first animated films, by the American Winsor McCay.
Other masterpieces of animation appear in three programmes curated by Eugenia Gaglianone dedicated to the Russian master Juri Norstein and other classics of Russian animation. Our regular collaboration with the Filmoteka Narodowa in Warsaw this year brings us several recently restored shorts for children made in the late-60s / early-70s. Also from Eastern Europe are a selection of Estonian animated films curated by Maria Pia Santillo, programmer of the Catch the Moon Festival.
This year also marks the centenary of the birth of another master, Emanuele Luzzati, a great art director, animator and illustrator to whom we dedicate a ‘sidebar’, which takes place in the Giardino del Guasto and Arena del Sole and comprises screenings, workshops and a show by Paola Camerone.
Special guest Cinzia Angelini will present her debut animated short Mila, set in Trento during the Second World War. Having already collaborated with important studios such as Sony Imageworks, Walt Disney Animation and Illumination Entertainment, the director will tell children and young adults about her experiences in super-productions including Balto, The Grinch, Despicable Me and Abominable.
This year, the Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids section is enriched by the addition of two new screens: the Teatro Testoni, where Chaplin’s The Kid will be shown – preceded by a competition to find a lookalike of the great director – and the Cinema La Pergola in Vidiciatico. And of course there will be live music. The Orchestra Senzaspine will open this section of the festival with both words and music.
The Young accreditation is aimed at teenagers between 14 and 18 years of age and permits entrance to all screenings in the festival. A group of young cinema lovers will also run the online column Pillole dal Festival per giovani cinefili; every day they will present a selection of films from the programme to people their own age.

As tradition dictates, Cineteca di Bologna’s educational department Schermi e Lavagne has once again curated a special programme for budding film buffs, who for seven days can watch shorts and feature films from different countries and eras, participate in creative workshops organised in collaboration with the Cineteca’s archives, and attend book presentations and performances. We are especially happy that we can offer even the smallest audience members the chance to rediscover what it is like to watch a film in a cinema after such a long period without that experience. The Cinema Ritrovato Kids 2020 programme celebrates the centenary of Federico Fellini’s birth and takes its cue from the atmosphere of his films: the circus and the dream world that were so dear to him. In addition to screenings and themed workshops, for the first time ever we are opening with a show by Circo Sotto Sopra, Il grande viaggio di Augusto.
This year also marks the centenary of the birth of Gianni Rodari, to whom we’re dedicating screenings and workshops about the power of imagination. Sadly, in April another great writer passed away, Luis Sepúlveda, whose works spoke both to adults and children: we are paying tribute to him with a screening of Enzo D’Alò’s La gabbianella e il gatto, in a recently restored version, 20 years after it was first released. We have teamed up again with Warwaw’s Filmoteka Narodowa for a selection of recently restored short children’s films. They will be part of a selection titled Wind from the East along with movies from Hungarian archives and a few works by Czech animator Hermína Týrlová – for kids aged three and upwards. We will also continue to explore avant-garde cinema, with a special focus on Dadaism and Surrealism, featuring screenings of shorts with live music by the duo So Beast. The section titled The Shape of Dreams includes a few films by Georges Méliès, the pioneer of fantasy film, and the Danish short Palle alene i verden (1949), in which a boy wakes up to a world that is unexpectedly all his own. The Young Pass gives kids aged 14-18 access to all festival screenings. A group of young filmlovers will publish a daily online column called Pillole dal Festival per giovani cinefili, geared towards their peers and covering of a selection of the festival’s films 

Cineteca di Bologna’s educational department Schermi e Lavagne will again curate a special programme for budding film buffs, eight days to discover cinema and its history with screenings, workshops, guided tours and experiences with festival protagonists.
The guest of honour at Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids is the Danish animation master Jannik Hastrup, and we will be presenting a wide selection of his shorts and two feature films. We will also pay homage to the poetic universe of Jean-François Laguionie, acclaimed director of The Painting and Louise bythe Shore.
A selection of graduation films from Turin’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia animation course will be screened, while our partnership with Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny of Warsaw continues to bear fruit, bringing recently restored animation shorts to Bologna. Cinema Ritrovato Kids will also make a foray this year into experimental and abstract cinema as part of the Images in Music section, featuring live music performed by the students of Bologna’s Conservatorio Martini.
We celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with three special programmes of screenings and workshops dedicated to the moon and its imagery, in collaboration with scientists from the INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica) – OAS (Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio) of Bologna, which participated in a number of activities and initiatives of Schermi e Lavagne’s last season.
For the littlest film lovers, aged three and upwards, we have put together a programme of short films inspired by European fairy tales. All the screenings will be on film stock so that children can learn about cinema’s first medium. There is also a range of opportunities for children between the ages of 14 and 18: a selected jury will vote for the festival’s best film from a specific list of titles; an editorial team of young critics will follow Il Cinema Ritrovato with interviews and film reviews: the best contributions will be published on the blog Cinefilia Ritrovata in the section Words and Voices from the Festival.

Programme and notes curated by Schermi e Lavagne

Throughout the year, Schermi e Lavagne, the Cineteca di Bologna educational department, leads children on a journey of discovery of the history of cinema through screenings, workshops and meetings for schools and families. For those who follow our activities year-round, Il Cinema Ritrovato is the final stop on this journey; but it is also a special occasion of discovery for those approaching the cinema and its history for the first time. During the festival, a special space is dedicated to children in the Cinnoteca, which hosts shows and workshops, and in the Sala Cervi, where there are screenings aimed specifically at children.
With time, Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids has also begun to attract festival pass holders from around the world, resulting in a mixed public which mirrors the wide appeal generated by films that are often, superficially, designated as ‘for children’. For example, this year there is the focus dedicated to Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini. The homage begins with a round table featuring Sergio Noberini, director of the Museo Luzzati in Genova, Eric Rittatore (Associazione Cartùn) and Carla Rezza Gianini, the wife of Giulio. A detailed retrospective sets out to show the eclectic nature of Gianini and Luzzati’s work and the diverse range of artistic influences that underpin both celebrated works like Il flauto magico (The Magic Flute) and lesser known shorts and documentaries. We also plan to stage a workshop dedicated to the realisation of a brief animation film according to the method of dé coupage utilised by Luzzati, as well as other afternoon activities for younger spectators.
Two sections entitled are dedicated to animation produced in the celebrated Russian studio Souyzmultfilm and in Eastern European countries prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The latter, Cartoons beyond the Curtain, already presented at the Sottodiciotto Film Festival, includes titles from ex-Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland, some of which have never before been screened in Italy. Thanks to our regular on-going collaboration with the Filmoteka Narodowa in Warsaw, a series of Polish animation films from the Se-Ma-For studio restored in 2016 will also be screened.
We will also present restorations of several shorts made between 1936 and 1941 by the brothers Dave and Max Fleischer brothers, the creators of immortal characters like Betty Boop and Popeye.
A section dedicated to experimental cinema inaugurates a special collaboration with the Department of New Technologies and Musical Languages at the Conservatorio di Musica G.B. Martini in Bologna. Some students will set a series of shorts to music, either live or through a soundtrack recorded in the studio.
Some boys between 16 and 19 keen on film criticism will once again have the opportunity to participate in the blog Cinefilia Ritrovata under the supervision of Roy Menarini. Five students from secondary schools in Bologna will follow the festival as spectators and journalists, carrying out interviews and reviewing films in the programme. The best interventions will be published on the blog in the section ‘Sguardi inediti’.

Elisa Giovannelli