A series of projections, concerts e meetings they will take place in the Bagnoli Auditorium, located in the former Italsider area. This programming, which continues after the start of last December, will take place after decades of closure of the facility. The event features eight films shot in Naples to highlight the crucial role of the city in thenational audiovisual industry and two concerts to celebrate the intrinsic connection between cinema and music.
Program of the event
The event is divided into a series of film screenings set and shot in Naples, demonstrating the importance of the city in the Italian film scene. To these are added two concerts, aimed at enhancing the link between the movies , music.
FRIDAY 21 APRIL 2023
HOURS 20: 30
Concerto "Toto's Symphony"
Orchestra: “New Scarlatti Orchestra”
Conductor: Federico Odling Totò's Symphony is an absolutely original project, conceived by Federico Odling, in collaboration with the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti, to celebrate in music Totò, a 'global' and 'total' artist ante litteram. Odling (a multifaceted figure of musician, composer, performer, musical leader of the Virtuosi di San Martino and, as such, ideal interpreter of the world of Totò) collects the thousand inventions and irresistible gimmicks of the soundtracks of the popular cinematic successes of the great Neapolitan comedian and the he reworks and recomposes them into a real symphony.
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Saturday April 22 2023
HOURS 18: 30
Projection "The Junta" (2022)
Genre: documentary Director: Alessandro Scippa
With: Renato Carpentieri
Production and Distribution: Parallel 41 Synopsis: Maurizio Valenzi becomes the first communist mayor of Naples, the largest city in Southern Italy. Through interviews with the protagonists of the time and unpublished archive material, this is the story of a group of women and men who have tried to realize the dream of a politics close to the people.
Guests in the hall: Alessandro Scippa (director), Antonella Di Nocera (producer), Viola Ardone(writer and moderator of the talk)
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Projection "Citizen Rose" (2019)
Genre: Documentary, biographical
Direction: Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi Production: Andiamo Avanti Production and 3D Produzioni
Distribution: Istituto Luce Cinecittà Synopsis:
Documentary on the work of Francesco Rosi, narrated by his daughter Carolina. An accountof the investigative commitment and systematic technique of the Neapolitan director who made thecinema a real instrument of political and social criticism.
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MONDAY 24 APRIL 2023
HOURS 18: 30
Projection "Love and Underworld" (2017)
Genre: Musical Comedy, Noir
Directed by: Manetti Bros (Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti)
With: Carlo Buccirosso, Claudia Gerini, Giampaolo Morelli, Serena Rossi, Raiz, Franco Ricciardi, Antonio Buonomo
Production: Madeleines
Distribution: 01 Distribution
Synopsis: Don Vincenzo, a Camorra boss, survives an attack and decides to change his life.On his wife's advice, he plays dead, but his secret doesn't stay that way for long.
Guests in the hall: Franco Ricciardi (actor in the role of Gennaro), Nero Nelson (musician)
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Projection "Very quietly" (2022)
Genre: Drama Director: Nicola Prosatore
With: Dominique Donnarumma, Giuseppe Pirozzi, Antonia Truppo, Giovanni Esposito, Antonio De Matteo, Massimiliano Caiazzo, Lello Arena Production: Briciolafilm with Rai Cinema
Distribution: The Wonder Pictures Synopsis: Extreme suburb of Naples. It is 1987 and Napoli led by Maradona is approaching the conquest of its first championship. The building where thirteen-year-old Anna lives with her mother is about to be expropriated for the construction of a flyover. Anna begins to look at life in a new way and also to know its dangers.
Guests in the hall: Nicola Prosatore (director), Dominique Donnarumma (actress in the role of Anna), Giuseppe Pirozzi (actor in the role of Peppino), Antonia Truppo (actress in the role of Susi)
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FRIDAY 28 APRIL 2023
HOURS 18: 30
Projection "The Holy Little" (2021)
Genre: Drama Director: Silvia Brunelli
With: Gianfelice Imparato, Luigi Chiocca, Pina Di Gennaro, Vincenzo Antonucci, Francesco Pellegrino, Sofia Guastaferro Production: Raindogs Film Distribution: Minerva Pictures Group
Synopsis: The bond between two best friends in a poor neighborhood of Naples is tested when the younger sister of one of them begins to perform miracles worthy of a saint.
Guests in the hall: Silvia Brunelli (director), Vincenzo Antonucci (actor in the role of Mario), FrancescoPellegrino (actor in the role of Lino)
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Projection "Ultras" (2020)
Genre: Drama Director: Francesco Lettieri
With: Aniello Arena, Ciro Nacca, Simone Borrelli, Daniele Vicorito, Salvatore Pelliccia, Antonia Truppo
Production: A Netflix original film in association with Mediaset, produced by Indigo Film
Distribution: Indigo Film (Cinema), Netflix
Synopsis: Sandro is the leader of the Apache ultras group in Naples. Following episodes of violence, a daspo is imposed on the man, a ban on accessing sporting events.
Guests in the hall: Francesco Lettieri (director), Aniello Arena (actor in the role of Sandro)
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SUNDAY 30 APRIL 2023
HOURS 20: 30
Concerto “The most beautiful soundtracks of the most famous films”
Orchestra: “The Philharmonic” formed by the orchestra professors of the Teatro San Carlo
Conductor: Carlo Morelli Reinterpretation of the soundtracks of the great masterpieces of international cinema.“The idea of narrating images with music dates back to ancient times. The imaginative power of sound language evokes unusual atmospheres and landscapes, the power of sound amplifies and expands the sense of the figurative in an apotheosis of colors and suggestions. The concert interprets this sentiment, immersing itself in the flow of those visual themes that have become vivid and real dreams in all of our lives. Cinema and music represent an inseparable monad inhabited by the transgressive force of music that elects vision as vision of the world.” (Carlo Morelli)
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MONDAY 1 MAY 2023
HOURS 18: 00
Projection “The voices of Porta Capuana”
15-minute documentary – made with the students of the workshop, edited by the Dedalus Cooperative and Officine Gomitoli, “The sense of a place”
Genre: Documentary Director: Gianfranco Pannone
Guest in the hall: Gianfranco Pannone (director)FOLLOWING, AT 18:30
Projection “Via Argine 310” (2022)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Gianfranco Pannone
With: Alessandro Siani Production: Bartleby Film in collaboration with Rai Cinema and in collaboration with Aamod – Audiovisual archive of the workers' and democratic movement Synopsis: The actor and director Alessandro Siani, son of workers from Campania, sympathizes with the Whirlpool layoffs in front of the gates of Via Argine 310, exchanging opinions, jokes, stories of life around the fire that warms up the still fresh late days spring.
Guest in the hall: Gianfranco Pannone (director)Present in the room: (former) workers of the Whirlpool Presidium "Naples does not give up"
Free admission with reservations required on the Eventbrite platformHOURS 20: 30
Projection “Somebody over there loves me” (2023)
Genre: Documentary, Biographical Director: Mario Martone
With: Francesco Piccolo, Anna Pavignano, Valeria Pezza, Goffredo Fofi, Paolo Sorrentino, Salvo Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Michael Redford, Roberto Perpignani, Sentieri Selvaggi
Production: Indiana Productions
Distribution: Medusa Film and Vision Distribution Synopsis: By assembling the scenes of his films, Martone wants to highlight Troisi as a great director of our cinema even before being a great comic actor, and to do so he outlines his artistic parable from beginning to end, framing him in the climate of the years in which he trained and in the city common to the two directors, Naples.
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