WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER
SD Factory – via Brigata Reggio 29
6.30 p.m.
Identity and Literature
Meeting with
Diletta Crudeli – Human. hybrid, mutant and fluid bodies in the universe of the possible (Moscabianca 2021)
Simone Marcelli Pitzalis – This is my body (Effequ, 2022)
Gianluca Sturmann and Barbara Orlandini – Ovunque. Chromatic explorations of the Queer world (Becco giallo 2022)
Moderator: Natalia Guerrieri, writer and screenwriter
Speaker Arcigay Reggio Emilia
9 p.m.
Poliedrica – Call Young Creatives 2022
Screening of the short films participating in the Poliedrica call. Poliedrica is a public competition open to young videomakers promoted by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, Officina Educativa service, for the conception and production of a short film that leads to reflection on the concept of identity.
THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER
San Prospero Theatre – via Guidelli 5
9 p.m.
Identity and transitions
screening of the short film Divieto di Transito by Roberto Cannavò
meeting with
Porpora Marcasciano activist and writer,
Marilisa Murgia producer and organiser of the Divergenti festival
Roberto Cannavò, director and Vittorio Martone, co-producer
Speakers Arcigay Reggio Emilia
Swarm – Casa Bettola book banquet
10 pm
official selection of international short films 2022
FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER
San Prospero Theatre – via Guidelli 5
6.30 p.m.
Identity and belonging
From the war in Ukraine to the defence of borders, from cultural
cultural globalisation to the protection of minorities, from environmental problems to planning a future. In the planetary crisis what does it mean
to search for identity? To which homeland do we belong and from whom or what must we defend ourselves? If the most important value is coexistence (of us, of us with others, of us with others and nature), is it not decisive to
abandon the blind alley of identity and take the path of similarities?
Meeting with
Francesco Remotti, anthropologist
in dialogue with Pasquale Pugliese, philosopher and educator
8.30 pm
Feminine and impositions
Why are fairies no longer only turquoise?
In the cultural sphere, a certain patriarchal vision has imposed centuries of all-male role-writing, but between gender washing and the re-appropriation of a space of self-representation, something is (perhaps) changing.
Meeting with
Valeria Perdonò, actress and founding member of Amleta
Elena Sorbi, author of the Fuori Posto column, cultural curator, psychotherapist
Elisa Dondi, screenwriter
Moderator: Clizia Riva
10 pm
official selection of international short films 2022
SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER
San Prospero Theatre – via Guidelli 5
3 p.m.
Woody Allen, the loss of identity
Film lecture by Roberto Manassero – first part (admission €3)
Woody Allen is a director who has never hidden the origin of his poetics and comedy. His city (New York), its people (metropolitan upper class), the existential phobias and fears of a generation that has questioned the reassuring religious convictions of its parents. At the same time, he never stopped reflecting on this identity, not only with the famous ZELIG but in all the works of his long career. We will talk (and laugh) about this by watching some scenes from his films and listening to Roberto Manassero’s analysis.
5.30 p.m.
Identity and nature
screening of the film
The Taste of the Earth by Giulio Filippo Giunti
(56′, 2022, produced by Marilisa Murgia for Free U)
meeting with Giulio Filippo Giunti, director and Artistic Director of the Mente Locale Festival
A mosaic of voices, places and period photographs to compose a tale that restores the slow rhythm of the earth’s work over the course of the seasons and the discreet and profound fascination of the union between a landscape and a centuries-old culture preserved in the shadow of castles.
Dolphins call each other by name
reflection on animal identity and climate change
by Laura Scillitani, biologist, science populariser
9 pm
Cinema music
From Morricone to Miyazaki, from Rota to Zimmer, film music gives cinema a strong identity.
Concert by the Duo Psiche (Agatha Bocedi harp, Valentina Bernardi flute) with the participation of Chiara Bonfrisco (singing)
10 p.m.
official selection of international short films 2022
12 o’clock
The illegal hour
the forbidden shorts of the Reggio Film Festival
SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER
San Prospero Theatre – via Guidelli 5
10 a.m.
Woody Allen, the loss of identity
Film lecture by Roberto Manassero – second part (admission €3)
Woody Allen is a director who has never hidden the origin of his poetics and comedy. His city (New York), its people (metropolitan upper class), the existential phobias and fears of a generation that has questioned the reassuring religious convictions of its parents. At the same time, he never stopped reflecting on this identity, not only with the famous ZELIG but in all the works of his long career. We will talk (and laugh) about this by watching some scenes from his films and listening to Roberto Manassero’s analysis.
3 p.m.
Identity and psyche: the art of being and caring
How does identity change, form and modify itself throughout the life cycle?
Premiere screening of the short film Giovani Caregiver, the stories of people caring for a person with dementia.
Speakers:
Rosa Di Lecce, head of education, training and special projects at the Palazzo Magnani Foundation in Reggio Emilia
Linda Iotti, psychologist and psychotherapist of AIMA Italian Association of Alzheimer’s Disease Reggio Emilia
Alessandro Marti, neurologist at the Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova AUSL IRCCS neurological CDCD of Reggio Emilia
Milva Morelli, psychologist and psychotherapist of AIMA Italian Association of Alzheimer’s Disease Reggio Emilia
Anto Restori, didactic manager of the School of Specialisation in Integrated Systemic Psychotherapy. Psychologist Psychotherapist in charge of the Family Counselling and Therapy Centre at the DSM of the AUSL of Parma
Moderator: Chiara Codeluppi, psychologist
5 p.m.
Fellini, identity and vision
Nicola Bassano, author of Fellini ’70 (Bibliotheka Edizioni)
in dialogue with Alessandro Di Nuzzo, writer and screenwriter
6.30 p.m.
Sport, inclusion, diversity
Meeting with Valentina Petrillo, paralympic athlete
Valentina Petrillo is the first Italian transgender athlete. After a long battle to be able to compete in her chosen category, the women’s category, in 2021 she wore the jersey of the Italian national team at the European Paralympic Championships in Poland. She has participated in numerous television programmes, bringing her sporting and human experience, and raising public awareness on the complex issue of transgender people’s participation in sports competitions.
Participants will include:
Elisa Mereghetti, documentary filmmaker, co-director of the film 5 nanomoles – the Olympic dream of a trans woman, produced by Ethnos, Gruppo Trans, Daruma, with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region. Creator of the 5 nanomoles impact campaign.
9 p.m.
official selection of international short films 2022
MONDAY 31 OCTOBER
San Prospero Theatre – via Guidelli 5
6.30 p.m.
Allah Loves Equality by Wajahat Abbas Kazmi
The work shows, through interviews and scenes from everyday life, the situation of sexual minorities’ rights in Pakistan, what social attitudes towards them are, and how the LGBTQ community deals with the problem of HIV in a place where there is a strong sexophobic mentality.
Speakers: Wajahat Abbas Kazmi, director, and Arcigay Reggio Emilia
9 p.m.
official selection of international short films 2022
MONDAY 31 OCTOBER
Circolo Buco Magico – via Martiri di Cervarolo 57
8 p.m.
Identity and Palestine
Aperitif with Arab-Palestinian music
Shorts from the Nazra Film Festival
Nazra is a festival of short films from Palestine and about Palestine, now in its 4th edition. We chose the short film because it is a new, dynamic language, of immediate fruition even for an audience not used to subtitles. In fact, the shorts are all in the original language to allow us to listen to the living voice and words that Palestinians use to tell about themselves. But the short film is not only an artistic expression but also a political and creative sublimation of the fragmentation of Palestine experienced especially by the post-Oslo generation. Nazra in Arabic means gaze and has a double meaning: for us it means watching a filmography of the highest level but which rarely arrives on our screens outside the festival circuit, for the Palestinians it means being a filmic subject and not a mere object of someone else’s gaze.
TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER
San Prospero Theatre – via Guidelli 5
11 a.m.
emilian shorts
presentation of the works and meeting with the authors
3 p.m.
Identity – how does it change from book to film?
Writer Massimo Vitali recounts the reckless genesis of his novel Se son rose (new Pickwick edition, paperback brand by Sperling & Kupfer), its film adaptation Nel bagno delle donne (produced by Rai Cinema) and actively involves the audience in an open dialogue on literature, cinema and “creativity”.
4.30 p.m.
Duchamp, Warhol and the others: the game of identities in the arts of the last century
A furious, surprising ride through authors and works that, from the
avant-gardes to the present day, have traversed the wide-ranging theme of identity in the worlds of visual art and photography.
and photography, curated by
Michele Pascarella, critic and scholar of theatre, dance and visual arts
6 p.m.
In a future April
In un futuro aprile (In a future April) is the story of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poetic production, his education, his political and pedagogical commitment and his first scandals.
The directorial structure seeks to reconstruct, on the one hand, the biographical account of the artist, through documents and the testimony of Nico Naldini, and on the other to evoke the poetic dimension of his texts through a visual – almost musical – score that accompanies the entire documentary.
Meeting with Francesco Costabile, director
9 p.m.
AWARD CEREMONY AND SCREENING OF THE WINNING SHORT FILMS
SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER
Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi
Screening of the short films Family and announcement of the winners.