Diritti Animati

Animated Rights: women's protagonism in the History of Italy is a project of I.C. Alda Costa of Ferrara, in collaboration with CNA Formazione Emilia-Romagna and Biografilm among other partners, funded under the National Cinema and Images for Schools Plan promoted by MIC and MIM.

The project aims to raise awareness of women's right to self-determination and gender equality through the use of film and audiovisual techniques. The path involves the reworking with animation techniques of the biographies of some female figures linked to the history of Ferrara: Alda Costa, anti-fascist teacher and partisan, and Rosa Angelini, patriot and Garibaldi volunteer.

Drawing inspiration from the themes of memory as a space of identity and collective history, the project initiates a creative and reflective journey through the tools of cinema and audiovisuals, with the following objectives:

• To bring the younger generation closer to the art and pedagogy of the image, promoting knowledge of visual production and dissemination techniques;

• To develop and enhance skills in the field of cinema and audiovisual technologies, from production to dissemination of images and sounds;

• To train a new conscious audience, capable of a critical understanding of the present and dialogue with the ongoing “digital revolution”;

• To offer practical and theoretical knowledge of the different stages of making a film product, such as an animated short film.

The project concludes at the 21st edition of Biografilm Festival on Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. at Cinema Lumière, Sala Mastroianni, with the screening of the shorts made by four classes of the First Grade School of the Istituto Comprensivo Alda Costa of Ferrara. This will be followed by the world premiere screening of School of Life by Giuseppe Marco Albano in the presence of the director.

The project partners are: CNA FERRARA, UDI (Unione Donne d'Italia), MUSEO DEL RISORGIMENTO e DELLA RESISTENZA - COMUNE DI FERRARA, ASSOCIAZIONE FANATIC ABOUT FESTIVALS (BIOGRAFILM), MOODNIGHT STUDIO SRL, TRYECO 2.0 srl, ARCI FERRARA aps