The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, is pleased to presents an extract (15min.) of the documentary-film “Dove vanno le nuvole”, produced by the Italian director Massimo Ferrari.
The documentary (75’) wants to recount some stories and experiences from the North of Italy, Treviso, to the South, Riace, passing through Bologna and Padova, of people who had the courage to try to transform the fear into opportunity and the utopia into reality. The docufilm is a about the Migrant Crisis in Italy and these are some of many extraordinary examples of cohabitation, humanity in the move.
Friday November 3 – 6pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
1200, Dr. Penfield
INTRODUCE:
Francesco D’Arelli / Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal
Mariella Pandolfi / Ordinary Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Montréal
SPEAKERS:
Massimo Ferrari / Director
Antonio Calò / Professor of Philosophy, High School Antonio Canova, Treviso
Marisa Albanese / Artist
Guy Lanoue / Director of the Department of Anthropology, University of Montréal
Eugenio Bolongaro / Director of the Department of Languages, Literature and Culture, McGill University
Giuliana Minghelli / Associate Professor of the Department of Languages, Literature and Culture, McGill University
In Bologna there is a place where different worlds and culture meet through the performing art of Theatre: Pietro, screen player in the “Cantieri Meticci” Company, spends his days and evenings to work with a group formed by migrants from different reception centers and Italian citizens. They dance, sing, share their stories and hundreds of bicycles parade like sailing boats to the central Piazza Maggiore, in downtown.
Massimo Ferrari was born in Rome on 27-02-1976. He graduated in Communication Sciences at La Sapienza University, in Rome. Writer and author of many documentaries on myths of Italian cinema for Sky Cinema: documentaries by Roberto Benigni, Sophia Loren, Totò to Manfredi, through Germi, Dino Risi, Tognazzi and Alberto Sordi.
Antonio Calò is a high school philosophy teacher at Liceo Ginnasio Statale in Treviso. He wanted to deeply explore the theme of reception directly in his home town, welcoming some migrants. His example of hosting has earned him the honor of the Order of Merit of the Republic by the President Sergio Mattarella with the following motivation: “For the example of civilization and humanity that he provided by opening his home to six young refugees“.
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