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Franco Giraldi's "Il Carso" Found and Restored
At the Pordenone Docs Fest - Le Voci dell'Inchiesta, preview of the debut work of the Julian director Franco Giraldi Il Carso. Giraldi passed away on December 2, 2020, he lived in a nursing home in Santa Croce, on the Carso. A short film produced by Documento Film and shot on the Trieste Carso during the Christmas holidays of 1959. Considered lost by the director himself, until three years ago. When the undersigned was lucky enough to find a 35mm copy, in excellent condition, preserved in the fabulous archives of the Cineteca di Bologna. The restoration was carried out by the laboratory L'Immagine Ritrovata of Bologna and supported by Cinemazero of Pordenone. A...
“The Istrian Trilogy in Franco Giraldi’s Cinema” at the Casa del Ricordo
On Friday 5 November at 17:00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo (Via di San Teodoro, 72 – Rome) the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia is organizing the presentation of the book by Alessandro Cuk (National Vice President of Anvgd and film critic) “The Istrian trilogy in the cinema of Franco Giraldi” (Alcione, Venice 2021). This book, also presented at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, focuses on three films by the recently deceased filmmaker from Gorizia, taken from stories set in Istria, of which some clips will be screened: The red rose (1973), from a novel by Pier Antonio Quarantotti...
From tourism to cuisine, passing through art and literature at the Bancarella
Second day of the Bancarella, the exhibition organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) with the support of the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, in the name of entertainment. The theme of the day was in fact "Tourism between history and future networks". During the day, a dive into the holiday fashions of the past was made through the vision of the Eastern Adriatic Lands by the Italian Touring Club. Only one event for the morning, concerning Venezia Giulia in the historical guides of the Italian Touring Club. Talking with the architect Emanuele...
A garden for Alida Valli at the Venice Lido
The green area adjacent to the Casino building will soon be named after the actress, who already won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 1997 and is an icon of cinema. A tribute to an icon of the seventh art, in a place that is a symbol of Italian and world cinema: the Venice Lido. There are just over two weeks to go until the inauguration of the 78th Exhibition and recently the Venice City Council decided to name the green area adjacent to the Casino building, between Piazzetta Nicolò Spada and Via delle Quattro Fontane, after the legendary Alida Valli. Already a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 1997, her name will give even more value to one of the most significant places of the Exhibition and of...
The Istrian Trilogy in Franco Giraldi's Cinema
The Julian director Franco Giraldi, who passed away a few months ago, would have recently turned 90: the cinematographic works that Giraldi dedicated to Istria are the subject of the new publication by the film critic and National Vice President of the Anvgd Alessandro Cuk. "The Istrian trilogy in Franco Giraldi's cinema" is the title of the publication, of which we publish the introduction with the kind permission of Alcione Editore. The project to create this publication began three years ago with the intention of taking a further step in the study of the relationship between cinema and the eastern border. After the two monographs, concerning the two films...
Istrian, Julian and Dalmatian actresses
When we talk about women in cinema, women connected to Trieste, Istria and Dalmatia, the first thought goes to Alida Valli. The actress born in Pola, whose birth centenary is celebrated this year, is the most important and significant figure, the one who truly has an international dimension and who has left a significant mark on the history of cinema. But there are many other actresses who deserve to be remembered or mentioned without wanting to be complete, given the high number of presences, especially from Istria, Fiume and Trieste. We cannot help but start with Laura Antonelli, also born in Pola, whose surname was Antonaz and who this year...
“The City of Sorrows” streaming for free
On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance, celebrated on February 10, starting from Sunday, February 7, Mario Bonnard's La città dolente, made in the autumn of 1948 and released the following spring, will be available for free streaming on www.adessocinema.it. Included in the list of "100 Italian films to save", the project conceived by the Giornate degli Autori, the film was restored in 2008 by the Istituto Luce in collaboration with the Cineteca Nazionale and La Cineteca del Friuli and presented the same year at the Venice Film Festival. The film, the most significant on the theme of Istrian exiles, shot in the aftermath of the exodus that...
Cinema from the Eastern Border at the Venice Film Festival
Tuesday 8 September at 14.30 pm at the Hotel Excelsior / Spazio Regione Veneto Lido di Venezia – Film Festival Presentation of the book La città dolente – Il cinema del confine orientale by Alessandro Cuk Speakers Massimo Caminiti (President of CINIT) Lorenzo Codelli (Vice President of Cineteca del Friuli) Alessandro Cuk (Author of the publication) Free access, max 30 seats due to distancing provisions A CINIT Cineforum Italiano event In collaboration with the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia When talking about a filmography connected to the eastern border, the first film to take into consideration is precisely La città...
Red land – Rosso Istria in a reduced version for schools
Thanks to the contribution of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, Venice Film has created the shortened version of the feature film "Red land - Rosso Istria" for schools. The Veneto Region, with its characteristic sensitivity in dealing with the events of the history of the eastern Italian border, has financed the distribution of the film in DVD format in high schools in the area. The initiatives proposed in schools and the meaning of the operation to enhance the historical memory of those events were presented on the occasion of the 2020 Day of Remembrance in Dolo, at Cinema Italia, by the regional councilor for Education and Training Elena...
With Alida Valli and Nazario Sauro the Bancarella appointments resume
The concert of Maestro Uto Ughi on the violin, accompanied by the piano of Maestro Bruno Canino, triumphantly inaugurated the 28 edition of La Bancarella on Saturday 2017 October. Book Fair of the Eastern Adriatic: emotions, music and personal memories introduced the audience that filled the Teatro Verdi in Trieste to the events that will analyze and deepen the Peace Treaty signed in Paris on 10 February 70 years ago and which had heavy repercussions for the territory and the Italians of Venezia Giulia, Carnaro and Dalmatia. It was therefore a real lectio magistralis by Professor Ernesto Galli della Loggia the following day in...
