The forgotten, removed, less known Italian history in a mini review of author's docs which tell the personal and collective stories, the private and public events that have marked and characterized the identity of our country.
Three movies recent that in as many meetings are presented and commented by their directors: Alessandro Piva, Costanza Quatriglio and Marco Santarelli.
Keeping the memory and knowing the unofficial history of our twentieth century, between dictatorship, war and reconstruction, is important, especially for the new generations. Not only thanks to the written narration, but also to that entrusted to the video testimonies of the protagonists, to the documents and sources of the time, often coming from precious and rich historical audiovisual archives.
Memory that in this brief review has its roots in the documentary, in the past considered the poor relative of fictional cinema, so much so that it is not called a film. Yet in recent years, the redemption and rebirth of the documentary has established itself in Italy for the quality of the subjects dealt with, for the recognitions obtained, for the prizes won by participating, for the first time together with works of fiction, in the competitions of festivals of breadth international, such as those of Venice and Turin.
The review is promoted by the Department of Culture, Creativity and Artistic Promotion of Rome Capital - Culture Department, Cultural Spaces Service.
8 May, 18.00 – Letter to the President by Marco Santarelli, together with the co-author and historian Teresa Bertilotti (Italy, 2013, 69′)
There are those who write to get a house, a job, the recognition of a pension, electric light, a 'push' for an audition on television. And there are those who propose fantastic inventions or those who suggest a monument to the 'Unknown Worker' and thus pay homage to our emigrants. From the Quirinale archive, the letters sent by Italians of all ages to the Presidents of the Republic.
29 May, 18.00 – terramatta; by Costanza Quatriglio (Italy, 2012, 75')
An invented language, neither Italian nor dialect, musical and expressive like that of a storyteller. Born in 1899, the illiterate Sicilian Vincenzo Rabito recounts the twentieth century through thousands of dense typewritten pages collected in notebooks tied with rope. From extreme poverty to the economic boom, it is a century of wars and misfortunes, but also of redemption and work. The unedited point of view is that of a last who, writing his autobiography, re-reads the history of Italy.
12 June, 18.00 – Black Pasta by Alessandro Piva (Italy, 2011, 62')
Between 1945 and 1952 more than 70 children from the most disadvantaged South were temporarily hosted by families from the Centre-North. Those children took the first train of their lives in those years, to leave behind the poverty and rubble of the post-war period and live an experience they would never forget. The documentary brings to light one of the best examples of solidarity and unitary spirit in the history of our country
