Discover the highlights in tomorrow\u2019s programme!<\/p>\n
Cinema Modernissimo<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 7pm <\/p>\n Cinema Modernissimo<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 11.15am |\u00a0Auditorium \u2013 DAMSLab<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 2.30pm, 4.50pm and 6.15pm |\u00a0Cinema Europa<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 5.30pm <\/p>\n Recovered and Restored<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n Cinema Jolly\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 9am and 9.30pm <\/p>\n Cinema Arlecchino<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 2pm\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0Piazza Maggiore<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a09.45pm <\/p>\n
\nJonathan Glazer at the festival<\/strong><\/a>
\nOur meetings with filmmakers are unmissable appointments in the diaries of all cinema lovers, and this year\u2019s programme continues with a Cinema Lesson featuring Jonathan Glazer, one of the great contemporary directors. The British director won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film in 2024 for\u00a0The Zone of Interest\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis\u00a0\u2013\u00a0which recounted the tragedy of the Holocaust from a new perspective, establishing it as an instant classic. Glazer will meet the public of the festival again on Sunday 29 June, when he introduces the screening of\u00a0The Zone of Interest<\/em>\u00a0in Piazza Maggiore.<\/p>\n
\nDocuments and Documentaries<\/strong><\/a>
\nFriday offers a veritable treasure trove of documentaries. There are two extraordinary portraits of filmmakers:\u00a0Stanley Kubrick \u2013 The Invisible Man \u2013\u00a0<\/em>considered by director Paul Joyce to be \u201cthe definitive portrait of a true cinematic genius\u201d \u2013 and\u00a0Merchant Ivory\u00a0<\/em>(presented by director Stephen Soucy and, via video link, James Ivory), the unique story of two artists whose films narrated British and Indian culture. Another unmissable appointment is the story of the legendary\u00a0The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>. Directed by Linus O\u2019Brien, son of the charismatic author of the original musical and the screenwriter of the film, the documentary will be introduced by Peter Suschitzky, the cinematographer of\u00a0Rocky Horror<\/em>\u00a0and many David Cronenberg films.\u00a0Sopralluoghi in Palestina per Il Vangelo secondo Matteo<\/em>\u00a0also belongs to the \u201cfilms about films\u201d subgenre (in this case, \u201cto be made\u201d), where Pasolini\u2019s camera becomes a notebook with which to jot down his impressions on the places where Christ preached. Pasolini is also the subject of another of the day\u2019s documentaries,\u00a0Gli amici di Pier Paolo<\/em>, introduced by director Francesco Giuncolucci. Another fertile subgenre is that of the rockumentary, to which\u00a0Festival\u00a0<\/em>belongs. It tells the story of the Newport Folk Festival, immortalising the famous moment when Bob Dylan switched from acoustic guitar to electric guitar.<\/p>\n
\nThe day\u2019s rich menu of restorations is decidedly dark in tone. Starting with two crime movies: Fabio Calzavara\u2019s\u00a0Contro la legge<\/em>, featuring Marcello Mastroianni in his first leading role as a small-time money launderer, and Vernon Sewell\u2019s\u00a0Strongroom<\/em>, a race-against-time thriller that is a standout entry in the British \u2018B\u2019 film tradition. In the evening, Stephen Frears\u2019\u00a0The Grifters<\/em>, a dark fable about the power of money, a cruel and sarcastic counterpoint to the American dream, and Abel Ferrara\u2019s\u00a0Ms. 45<\/em>, \u201ca portrait of a hellish metropolis, where violence and lust are endemic, and where the only apparent response is apocalyptic violence\u201d (Alberto Pezzotta).\u00a0Not to be missed,\u00a0Rapt<\/em>, one of the first sound films made in Switzerland, at the centre of a\u00a0meeting on restoration\u00a0on Saturday 28 June, and\u00a0El inquilino<\/em>, censored by the Francoist authorities but now returned to the public and to historical memory just as its director Jos\u00e9 Antonio Nieves Conde originally intended.<\/p>\n
\nCinema and Resistance:\u00a0Edge of Darkness\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Mortu Nega<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe collaboration between two men who shared Russian Jewish heritage \u2013 director Lewis Milestone and writer Robert Rossen \u2013 approached Nazism in the Norwegian resistance drama\u00a0Edge of Darkness<\/em>\u00a0as systematic bullying and an outright exploitative cult. Flora Gomes\u2019\u00a0Mortu Nega<\/em>\u00a0is an absolutely revolutionary film that embodies the same pressing need for \u201can intervention to rectify history and create a sense of discovery through transformation\u201d, to quote Fernando Solanas.<\/p>\n
\nHomage to Indian cinema: the restoration of\u00a0<\/strong>Sholay\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in Piazza Maggiore<\/strong><\/a>
\nFifty years after its release, we are hosting the world premiere of the restoration of an Indian cult classic,\u00a0Sholay<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>in the director\u2019s cut, which includes the original ending and two previously removed scenes. A resounding success in its homeland (it remained the highest-grossing film for nineteen years), it is an epic curry western that mixes action, drama, romance, comedy and tragedy, complete with song and dance. It will be presented by\u00a0producer Shehzad Sippy, nephew of\u00a0director Ramesh Sippy,\u00a0and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, director, producer and founder of the Film Heritage Foundation, which carried out the restoration in collaboration with Sippy Films. During the afternoon \u2013 at the screening of the Satyajit Ray masterpiece\u00a0Aranyer Din Ratri<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Shivendra Singh Dungarpur will be presented with the Vittorio Boarini Award 2025 for his commitment to the preservation and promotion of cinema heritage.<\/p>\n