Always attentive to investigating the transformation of languages, methods of communication and representation of reality through art, Futuro Presente continues along an adventurous and stimulating path of research and reflection, dedicated this year to exploring the boundaries of the relationship between reality and its representations.

After the spring section dedicated to the in-depth study of the reality/fiction binomial in the fields of journalism, photography, advertising, literature and television, the autumn focus of Futuro Presente focuses attention on the cinematographic phenomenon and its interactions with philosophical reflection.

The protagonists of this in-depth path dedicated to the complex osmotic relationship that links reality to cinematic narration will be directors, film experts, film critics and philosophers, called upon to deal with a classic theme of critical reflection on cinema: what laws govern the relationship between cinema and reality? Are the images produced by the cinematographic device a reflection of reality or do they replace it by creating parallel fragments of reality? Is cinema still able to tell the story of society or is it simply an ornament?

In this carefree journey to discover the ability of cinema to “say things” we have involved leading figures from the Italian film scene, who will bring their experience and their original point of view on the testimonial power of cinema to the stage. Marco Bellocchio, Giorgio Diritti, Michelangelo Frammartino, Pietro Marcello, Enrico Magrelli, Enrico Ghezzi, Marco Bertozzi, Franco Rella, Leonardo Gandini, Pietro Montani, Roberto De Gaetano and the Fata Morgana group will take turns on the stage, in a dense but relaxed dialogue to discover the secrets of the seventh art.

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