Double Screening: Europe Before Europe + My Name IS Adil [Italy on Screen Today - day 1]

This event is part of Italy on Screen Today - New York #Wind of Europe Project# in collaboration with the Ventotene Film Festival
Made possible by the Ministero per i Beni e Attività Culturali e del Turismo, SIAE, and under the auspices of the European Parliament
In collaboration with RAI Cinema - 01 Distribution, Stony Brook University

An Homage to Altiero Spinelli, one of the European Union's founding fathers, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death.

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L'Europa prima dell'Europa: Il manifesto di Ventotene [Europe Before Europe: The Ventotene Manifesto]
(Documentary, Italy, 52 min.)
In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles

Directed by Salvatore Braca
Written by Salvatore Braca and Maria Teresa Tringali

During World War 2, on the island of Ventotene, Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni conceive an alternative future, one of peace and collaboration between the nations. So is born the Ventotene Manifesto, a project of a free and united Europe.

7:00PM:
Il mio nome è Adil [My Name is Adil]
(Italy/Morocco, 2016, 74 min.)
In ITALIAN and ARABIC with ENGLISH subtitles

Directed by Adil Azzab
Written by Adil Azzab, Andrea Pellizzer, Magda Rezene

The true story of Adil, a boy who grew up in the Moroccan countryside who, at 13, reunites with his father in Italy, where he faces the harshness of the migratory experience. Filmed in Morocco and in Milan, the film features non-professional actors and deals with issues of migration and cultural identity from the eyes of children and young adults.

Followed by a Q&A with screenwriter and cinematographer Andrea Pellizzer

Introduced by William Pace, Executive Director, World Federalist Movement - Institute for Global Policy