Discover the highlights in tomorrow\u2019s programme!<\/p>\n
Cinema Modernissimo<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 7pm <\/p>\n Cinema Jolly<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 2pm and 9.30pm <\/p>\n Auditorium \u2013 DAMSLab<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 10am, 11am and 12 noon <\/p>\n Recovered and Restored<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n Cinema Europa<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 2.45pm |\u00a0<\/strong>Auditorium \u2013 DAMSLab<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 9.15am, 4.40pm and 5.30pm <\/p>\n Piazzetta Pasolini<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 7pm <\/p>\n
\nCinema Lesson: Asghar Farhadi<\/strong><\/a>
\nEvery year the festival is enriched by meetings with leading figures of international cinema. Now it\u2019s the turn of Asghar Farhadi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian directors. An author capable of transmitting a personal, profoundly coherent and multifaceted vision of his country\u2019s society, Farhadi quickly established a name for himself and gained popularity outside of his homeland when he won the 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with\u00a0Jod\u0101yi-e N\u0101der az Simin\u00a0<\/em>(A Separation<\/em>)\u00a0\u2013 it will be screened in Piazza Maggiore on Tuesday 1 July. Farhadi will also be the protagonist of a cinema lesson at Cinema Modernissimo and this year\u2019s edition of the International Filmmaking Academy.<\/p>\n
\nCinemalibero:\u00a0<\/strong>O regresso de Am\u00edlcar Cabral, Mortu Nega\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<\/strong>S\u00e3o Paulo, Sociedade An\u00f4nima<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
\nThe\u00a0<\/em>day\u2019s\u00a0Cinemalibero<\/em>\u00a0appointments take us to unexplored territories, on the discovery of political struggles in Guinea-Bissau and the industrial boom in Brazil.\u00a0O regresso de Am\u00edlcar Cabral<\/em>, the first production by Guinean filmmakers following liberation from Portuguese colonialism, centres around the death of Guinean politician Am\u00edlcar Cabral, at a fundamental moment in the history of his country, while\u00a0Mortu Nega<\/em>\u00a0is the story of a Guinean woman and her desire for freedom. The film will be introduced by director Sana Na N\u2019Hada, who will also be the protagonist of a\u00a0cinema lesson\u00a0on Friday 27, in conversation with Aboubakar Sanogo and Cecilia Cenciarelli.\u00a0S\u00e3o Paulo, Sociedade An\u00f4nima<\/em>, on the other hand, recounts the social injustice, corruption and loneliness experienced in a Brazil overwhelmed by the economic changes of the 1960s, through the eyes of an office worker and his growing sense of bewilderment.<\/p>\n
\nOn the trail of a forgotten Italian film:\u00a0Ombre vive<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
\nA completely unknown film starring Eduardo De Filippo and Paolo Stoppa has returned to the light: made by Mario Baffico sometime between the late Forties and early Fifties,\u00a0Ombre vive<\/em>\u00a0has never appeared in any filmography relating to the work of the great Eduardo. Now, thanks to material deposited at Cineteca di Bologna by Cristina D\u2019Osualdo and her VIGGO, various takes and rehearsals for the mysterious work have been identified. Angelo Draicchio and Gian Luca Farinelli will discuss this incredible discovery at Auditorium DAMSLab. Other meetings on restorations during the day are dedicated to Konrad Wolf\u2019s\u00a0Sterne\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0and James Bidgood\u2019s underground cult\u00a0Pink Narcissus<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nPicking which\u00a0Recovered and Restored\u00a0<\/em>film\u00a0<\/em>to watch always has a degree of Hamletic uncertainty to it: there is\u00a0Preminger\u2019s\u00a0Saint Joan<\/em>, debut of the Godardian Jean Seberg, the Michael Mann noir\u00a0Thief<\/em>, surrealism on an epic scale in\u00a0The Saragossa Manuscript<\/em>\u00a0by Wojciech Has, the radical satire of the Mexican\u00a0Redondo<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Ra\u00fal Busteros and the hallucinatory and feverish nihilism of\u00a0Sorcerer<\/em>, William Friedkin\u2019s cursed masterpiece. The deep, tragic and dreamlike Technicolor of\u00a0Duel in the Sun<\/em>\u00a0by King Vidor will be presented by Paolo Mereghetti and introduced via video message by Martin Scorsese, while the screening of\u00a0A History of Violence<\/em>\u00a0will be followed by an unmissable conversation with Peter Shuschinsky, the film\u2019s cinematographer who supervised the restoration, in dialogue with Lee Kline.<\/p>\n
\nDocuments and Documentaries<\/strong><\/a>
\nTwo very different characters, each of whom in their own way made cinema history, cross each other\u2019s paths in Thursday\u2019s documentaries:\u00a0Paradjanov, le dernier collage<\/em>\u00a0recounts the Chagallian spirit of the innovative Armenian director, while\u00a0Gene Kelly m\u00e8ne la danse<\/em>\u00a0is dedicated to the legendary leading man of the golden age of Hollywood musicals. Elsewhere,\u00a0La spedizione Franchetti nella Dankalia etiopica<\/em>\u00a0is a remarkable document that bears witness to the colonial history of Fascist Italy. At Il Cinema Ritrovato a number of excerpts will be presented and discussed by the team that promoted\u00a0and oversaw the recovery of the film.\u00a0Don’t miss the screening of\u00a0three restored shorts by Hungarian director M\u00e1rta M\u00e9sz\u00e1ros, from which her grace in narrating the most fragile human experiences in new and unconventional ways emerges.<\/p>\n
\nBlu-ray & DVD Awards 2025\u00a0and second edition of the AVI Award<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis annual event is dedicated to the best DVD and Blu-ray releases from all over the world, created with the goal of incentivising the home entertainment sector. The prizes will be awarded by a special jury made up of Lorenzo Codelli, Philippe Garnier, Pamela Hutchinson, Miguel Mar\u00edas and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, chaired by Paolo Mereghetti. Following that, the second edition of the AVI Award, awarded by Associazione Videoteche e Mediateche Italiane to the best Blu-ray or DVD release of interest to media libraries and audiovisual archives. Curated by Elena D\u2019Inc\u00e0, Gianmarco Torri and Anna Fiaccarini.<\/p>\n