Seeking Asylum
  • 10.00 AM–12.00 PM
  • 04 June 2023
  • Cinema Radar

Seeking Asylum is a feature documentary that bears witness to the endless deterrents migrants face when petitioning for asylum in the United States. In a dismantled system that has been designed for failure, we follow one woman’s journey as she searches for protection for her and kids. Many people view getting to the United States as the final hurdle of the migration journey, but we quickly lear

Downwind
  • 2.00–4.30 PM
  • 04 June 2023
  • Cinema Radar

Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living... downwind.   Directors Mark headed Entertainment Brand Management for the animation studio LAIKA from 2007-2019. In addition to studio identity, he also handled

Making a Fire | Live podcast by Nicola Lagioia
  • 7.00–8.00 PM
  • 04 June 2023
  • Piazza Palmieri

Making a Fire | Live podcast by Nicola Lagioia In collaboration with Lucy. Sulla cultura In a time destabilized by climate change, war, social injustice, what is the role of literature? Fundamental to some, ignored by many, the literary narrative is actually still, in the 21st century, one of the most powerful and exciting cognitive tools available to humankind, as is the cinema. Nicola Lagioia

La California
  • 8.30–11.30 PM
  • 04 June 2023
  • Piazza Palmieri

Preceding the film screening is a meeting with director Cinzia Bomoll and actresses Angela Baraldi, Silvia and Giulia Provvedi. Followed by a musical performance by Rita Marcotulli and Angela Baraldi. Sometimes you have to put yourself in your total opposite's shoes in order to be the woman you want to become, and even if that dearest person you have in the world, you must fight her. If then the