Screening: Un Mondo Nuovo [Italy on Screen Today - day 2]

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.

For the COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS, click HERE.

Un mondo nuovo [A New World]
(Italy, 2014, 100 min.)
In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles

Directed by Alberto Negrin

Written by Alessandro Sermoneta, Chiara Laudani, Alberto Negrin

Featuring:
Vinicio Marchioni
Isabella Ragonese
Peppino Mazzotta
Orlando Cinque

1941. While Nazifascism triumphs and conquers Europe, a group of youths dream up a Utopia: a free Europe, united as a federal state. Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi, Eugenio Colorni, Ursula Hirshmann and Ada Rossi, during these dark days, secretly write a booklet that will become the milestone for the building of a united Europe: the Ventotene Manifesto.

Presented by Loredana Commonara, Artistic Director, Ventotene Film Festival

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