On April 13th, as soon as it opened in theaters, I rushed to see "A Year of School," encouraged by the rave reviews on every film website, following the excitement surrounding the film's premiere at the 72nd Venice Film Festival. There were only five of us at the premiere, three of whom were retirees who had never been to Trieste. Movie theaters risk suffering the same fate as newsstands. The film, set in 2007 and funded by the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, is, in my opinion, very well crafted by Laura Samani, a true Triestine director who knows her craft. Beautiful...

On Tuesday, March 10, at 8:30 pm, the Teatro Verdi in Trieste will perform the play "The Brothers," a moving journey through the lives of Carlo and Giani Stuparich. Admission is free, subject to availability. The play is a joint production of the Municipality of Trieste/Mayor's Office and the "Il Canovaccio" APS theater group, in collaboration with the Italian Army's Northern Operational Forces Command. The Northern Operational Forces Command and the "Il Canovaccio" theater group have conceived a theatrical event dedicated to the Stuparich brothers, which has already been performed on several occasions. Drawing inspiration from their...

The revival of the show based on Stuparich's story will be held in the Bartoli Hall until Sunday. The production by the Teatro Stabile Fvg was met with great success between November and December. The school diary of an eighth grader in Trieste in 1909, an all-male class where Edda has arrived. The first girl to be able to enroll in that institute, determined to face her final exams and then university studies. Beautiful, restless and free, she inevitably attracts the attention and emotions of her classmates: everyone, sooner or later, falls in love with her. This is the story told by the writer Giani Stuparich in his beautiful story - or short novel - "A year of...