14 June 2025
On Saturday, June 14, Biografilm offers a careful selection of small revolutions through the discovery of places and realities more or less close to us.
At 6.30 p.m. at Cinema Lumière in Sala Mastroianni School of Life (98', 2025) by Giuseppe Marco Albano, produced by Greenland and Rai Cinema. A film about the non-profit organisation Still I Rise, dedicated to solving the global school crisis by empowering the most discriminated, poor and vulnerable children. Through a pioneering educational model, it provides free education in areas of the planet where children's prospects are limited, if not non-existent. This film traverses the remotest and most neglected corners of the globe, revealing complex and poignant scenarios and recounting everyday, often moving stories and experiences in the schools founded by the non-profit organisation. The film is part of a series of TEEN screenings (open free of charge to people aged between 14 and 17). The director and the protagonist Niccolò Govoni will be present. The screening is part of the concluding event of the educational project Diritti Animati, and will be preceded by the short films made by the classes involved in the project Rosa: la Donna del popolo and Alda: maestra e attivista.
At 6.15 p.m. at Cinema Lumière in the Sala Scorsese Quale Allegria (74', 2025) by Francesco Frisari. An Emilian story about the similarity between the protagonist's uncle and Lucio Dalla. Complicated, exceptional, different; Francesco Frisari explores that impossible similarity that allowed him to understand his uncle's disability. While observing his daily life, games and obsessions, he finds Lucio Dalla talking and singing about loneliness, anger, cages and freedom. In this game of mirrors, the director thus comes to look at himself and his own difficulties; he tells us about it in the theatre together with producers Vittorio Martone and Daniele Caracchi for Fondazione Lucio Dalla. The film is subtitled for deaf people by FIADDA Emilia-Romagna.
At 9.30 p.m. at the Chiostro del Complesso di Santa Cristina “della Fondazza” Womeness (59', 2025) by Yvonne Sciò, the story of five extraordinary women of our time who tell a daring femininity. From the writer Dacia Maraini to Emma Bonino, politician and civil rights activist; from Susann Deyhim, Iranian composer and singer in exile, to Tomaso Binga, verbo-visual artist who uses her own body to challenge male power, and Setsuko Klossowska de Rola, Japanese painter and sculptor, wife of the painter Balthus. At the centre of the story is the woman and her body, catalyst of events and memory. The lives of these resilient women, balanced between passion and resistance, are an immortal gift to the sisters of yesterday and tomorrow. Produced by Magic Moments Films and Luce Cinecittà. The director will be present.
At 4.30 p.m. at the Cinema Lumière in the Sala Mastroianni Chemin de terre (66', 2025) by Simon Desjobert, the story of the resistance of three young men who drive a train through 207 kilometres of Ethiopian desert. Not far away, a new line built by China threatens to render obsolete this historic route managed with such passion. The screening is in collaboration with Alliance Française.
Still in collaboration with Alliance Française, but also with IT.A.CÀ. and Yoda APS, Hannah Papacek Harper's Lost for Words (93', 2025), inspired by the book The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, is at the BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE Pop Up Cinema Arlecchino at 4.15 p.m.
And then Take the Money and Run (81', 2025) by Ole Juncker at Cinema Lumière in Sala Scorsese at 4.00 p.m., with the director present; Rashid, l’enfant de Sinjar (80', 2025) by Jasna Krajinovic at BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE Pop Up Cinema Arlecchino at 7.00 p.m.; Is It Worth It?! (92', 2025) by Jan Strejcovský at the Cinema Lumière in the Sala Scorsese at 9.00 p.m., with the director present; and Girl America (107', 2024) by Viktor Tauš at the Cinema Lumière in the Sala Mastroianni at 9.30 p.m..
On Saturday 14 we also remember the last appointment of Biograbook, at 6.30 p.m. in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini. Biografilm's literary salon, in its final meeting, sees the presence of Diego Cugia with his Il principe azzurro (published by Giunti), a historical novel that transports us to the 13th century to recount the brief but intense life of Corradino di Svevia. A tale that weaves epic and introspection, dream and tragedy.
Biograbook is Biografilm's literary salon curated in collaboration with Marco Nardini of Otago Literary Agency.
