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Fare Cinema 2021 | Oltre lo schermo | 15 documentaries celebrate Italian cinema behind the scenes

15 documentaries celebrate Italian cinema behind the scenes

From 14th June to 25th July 2021 in free streaming
On the occasion of the fourth edition of Fare Cinema, an initiative dedicated to the promotion of Italian cinema in the world, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation presents ‘Oltre lo schermo. 15 documentaries to tell the story of Italian cinema behind the scenes’. The project is developed and produced by Audiovisiva, a platform that collects the best documentaries on Italian culture.
The collection’s films are available free of charge to the international public from the 14th June until 25th July 2021, upon registration and subject to availability, through the websites of the 82 Italian Cultural Institutes in the world and the website of italiana (https://italiana.esteri.it/).
Luchino Visconti, Lina Wertmüller, Alida Valli, Dante Ferretti, Nino Rota, Giuliano Montaldo, Federico Fellini and more: the fifteen films in the collection, subtitled in Italian, hearing-impaired Italian, English, French and Spanish, take us on an exciting journey through Italian and international film production of the last 70 years to discover the hidden universe behind the scenes. Alongside the most well-known directors, documentaries turn the spotlight on the many extraordinary “hidden” professionals without which the magic of cinema would not be possible, today as in the past.

How to access the film collection.
Starting from 14th June 2021:
Click here to register and access free streaming of the films: https://rassegne.audiovisiva.org/rassegna/oltre-lo-schermo
100 users are available for each Institute and for italiana subject to availability.
Once registered, the 15 documentaries of the collection will remain available for viewing until 25th July 2021. All information and synopses of the films are available in Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese.

Discover them here
The 15 films in the collection
“Alida” di Mimmo Verdesca, 2020
“Handmade Cinema” di Guido Torlonia, 2012
“Gli angeli nascosti di Luchino Visconti” di Silvia Giulietti, 2007
“Acqua e zucchero. Carlo Di Palma, i colori della vita” di Fariborz Kamkari, 2016
“Dietro gli occhiali bianchi” di Valerio Ruiz, 2015
“Citizen Rosi” di Didi Gnocchi e Carolina Rosi, 2019
“La morte legale. Giuliano Montaldo racconta la genesi del film Sacco e Vanzetti” di Silvia Giulietti e Giotto Barbieri, 2018
“I ragazzi della Panaria” di Nello Correale, 2004
“L’ultimo Gattopardo. Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo” di Giuseppe Tornatore, 2010
“Segretarie. Una vita per il cinema” di Raffaele Rago e Daniela Masciale, 2019
“Flaiano: il meglio è passato” di Giancarlo Rolandi e Steve Della Casa, 2010
“Un amico magico. Il maestro Nino Rota” di Mario Monicelli, 1994
“Dante Ferretti: scenografo italiano” di Gianfranco Giagni, 2010
“L’abito e il volto. Incontro con Piero Tosi” di Francesco Costabile, 2008
“As Time Goes by. L’uomo che disegnava sogni” di Simone Aleandri, 2018
The collection includes Oscar winners such as set designer Dante Ferretti and maestro Nino Rota, composer of celebrated music. We will see stagehands, seamstresses, carpenters, painters and sculptors at work, reigning masters among the warehouses and workshops of Cinecittà and artists who have dedicated their lives to designing the billboards of films, such as Silvano Campeggi, who flew to Los Angeles to depict legendary Marilyn Monroe. We will hear Giuliano Montaldo recount the genesis of ‘Sacco and Vanzetti’, among difficulties and incredible twists such as the meeting of Joan Baez and Ennio Morricone who in only a few hours recorded ‘Here’s to You’, the ballad that has become the manifesto of an entire generation.
We will have a chance to take a close look at the turbulent bond of friendship and esteem that connected Federico Fellini and Ennio Flaiano, or meet Piero Tosi, who dressed the greatest divas of all time, from Claudia Cardinale to Silvana Mangano. We will discover the legendary director of photography and director Carlo Di Palma through anecdotes, comments and reflections of the most prestigious figures of worldwide cinema. And we will be captivated by the sequence of testimonies collected by Giuseppe Tornatore in the exciting documentary on Goffredo Lombardo, the producer who with the production house Titanus completely redesigned the Italian cinema of the second half of the 20th century. We will be able to immerse ourselves in one of the most lucid analyses of the history of Italy through Francesco Rosi’s civil cinema, get to know Alida Valli, the mother of all actresses according to Giuseppe Bertolucci, or learn the surprising story of Panaria Film through the story of Francesco Alliata, one of the founders of the small Sicilian production house at the centre of the most famous postwar film scandal between Hollywood, Rome and the Aeolian Islands: the famous war of the volcanoes and its divine protagonists Roberto Rossellini, Anna Magnani and Ingrid Bergman. A roundup of portraits that are a hymn to the beauty, wealth, strength, the determination of cinema, of the men and women who made it and all those who loved and continue to love it.

  • Organized by: Maeci
  • In collaboration with: Audiovisiva