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From 14 to 20 September to close Aria di cultura: online and in-person initiatives, a full calendar of events spread across the city. The complete program and all information on www.milanomovieweek.it, yesmilano.it Facebook page . Movie week

Milan, September 4 2020 – The third edition of the Milano Movie week, the week dedicated to the seventh art promoted and coordinated by the Municipality of Milan, will be held from 14 to 20 September and will close the long and rich program of the Aria di cultura summer cultural schedule.

The initiative will, as always, be widespread throughout the city and will see the involvement of bodies, institutions, schools, festivals, associations, production companies and exhibitors; all the companies that deal with cinema and audiovisual in Milan.

The program includes screenings, meetings, exhibitions and workshops, which will take place in person in full compliance with current health safety rules. There will also be streaming proposals, online content and initiatives that will take place outside the city. Many initiatives will be held this year at the Triennale summer arena, which will see a full program of events throughout the week.

Movie week, which aims to highlight the cinema industry and the many activities connected to it, this year has a particular value in promoting the relaunch of a sector heavily affected by the health emergency. More than twenty cinemas in Milan have reopened their doors and will have programming already started in the week of September 14th. This year Movie week also wants to highlight the programming of cinemas, inviting the public to return to the cinema in complete safety.

Among the events of the first day, Monday 14 September, at the AriAnteo open-air arena of the Triennale, worth mentioning is the screening of The Macaluso Sisters, the new film by Emma Dante in competition at the 77^a Venice Film Festival. The director will be present to meet the public.

Among the events to be highlighted at the end there will be the 34th edition of Festival Mix Milano, the international documentary festival Visioni dal mondo and Fuoricinema, the non-stop marathon of daytime meetings and night-time screenings which in a transversal way - through artists and personalities from the world of culture, information, cinema and entertainment - addresses the story of our country. The theme of this edition, "the art that saves", is inspired by the urgency of a reflection on the centrality of the role of art and culture in general.

The programming of the Triennale open-air arena includes screenings proposed by various city entities, including: Family romance LLC by Werner Herzog will be proposed by the African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival, awaiting the 30th edition scheduled in March 2021; Filmaker offers Undine by Christian Petzold, presented in competition at the 2020 Berlinale, where it received the Fipresci award, and recently designated a Critics' Film by the National Union of Italian Film Critics - SNCCI; Anteo Spaziocinema will present the preview of A Night at the Louvre: Leonardo Da Vinci by Pierre-Hubert Martin; thanks to the collaboration with Paramount network, the public will be able to enjoy The Untouchables, Brian De Palma's masterpiece starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery, on the big screen. In this case, entry will be free with reservations required.

The 17th edition of Festival Mix Milano, the gay-lesbian cinema and queer culture festival of the gay, lesbian, trans and queer community, will be held from 20 to 34 September. Every year the best of independent LGBTQ+-themed cinema is brought to theaters. This year the festival will be held in an unprecedented and extraordinary "hybrid" formula. In fact, four days of digital screenings organized on the Mymovies platform will be accompanied by evenings of physical screenings at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler and Studio Melato.

The International Documentary Festival Visioni dal mondo, from Thursday 17 to Monday 21 September, confirms the sixth edition which will have a new formula for the emergency situation: Visioni dal mondo 2020 will be online, accessible with the highest quality and in maximum safety on official platform of the festival www.visionidalmondo.it. The Industry section of the festival, Visioni meets, is confirmed from Thursday 17 to Friday 18 September 2020. A streaming and on demand event, inclusive and accessible to the public from different devices, accessible directly on the official platform of the festival.

The Cineteca di Milano and the Interactive Cinema Museum (MIC) propose How the Sea is Deep - Classic films and archive pearls to dive into great cinema, an exhibition dedicated to the sea, the authentic protagonist of numerous films. The film festival will have a double thread: 13 classic feature films in the MIC cinema room, accompanied by as many advertisements and short films and at the same time on the website www.cinetecamilano.it 15 authentic archive rarities will be viewable for free in streaming, always with the sea as the protagonist .

Cinemino has many initiatives, which proposes: a 90' selection of the best short films from the last edition of Sedicicortofilm festival (the sixteenth), which took place in Forlì in October 2019, enriched by a Skype connection with Forlì for the presentation of the new edition of festival which will take place in October 2020 with greetings from the director; as part of the “Signals from the territory” project, created by Dike in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, the Cinemino and the Lea Garofalo community garden are offering two cinema evenings under the stars. The first title is Meet Tony Erdmann by Maren Ade and the second The Invisibles by Louis-Julien Petit; again as part of "Signals from the territory", created this time in collaboration with Cinevan, an evening of cinema under the stars is proposed in the evocative setting of the churchyard of the Basilica of San Lorenzo. The title chosen is Hate by Mathieu Kassovitz, winner of the Award for Best Director at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival; and again, Il Cinemino promotes, together with Cine Teatro Bello, Corto weekend. Short film competition, a short film competition in fact, to be made exclusively over a weekend. Participation is open to everyone, from the professional to the simple enthusiast, from the self-taught filmmaker, to the documentary maker, up to the neophyte with no experience.

The Polytechnic proposes a review of Alfred Hitchcock 40 years after his death: in collaboration with the Hitchcock. The screening of the silent film is accompanied by original music by Rossella Spinosa. Tania Camargo Guarnieri on violin, Rossella Spinosa on piano. The exhibition continues in the following days with two other screenings: Rear Window (1927) and Psycho (1954), both with an introduction by prof. Roberto Dulio, professor of History of Architecture, and prof. Marco Introini, teacher of architectural photography and space representation techniques.

“Charlie and Charlot, Chaplin in books and magazines from all over the world”: this is the title of the exhibition set up at the Kasa dei libri which tells the story of the myth of Charlie Chaplin: through his films, the books dedicated to him and the magazines who celebrated him, we will retrace the life and career of an artist who uniquely characterized the culture of the twentieth century.

Still among the online contents, from 14 to 20 September the FICTS online film catalog consisting of 150 sports films will be available for free. In fact, FICTS has recently digitized its cultural heritage containing a series of sports-themed cinematographic works. Only during Movie week, it will make 20 films available free online per day.

AGIS Lombarda presents an evening with "Short films that passion", the selection by the Italian Federation of Arthouse Cinema among the best of national "short format" productions, followed by the screening of I'm in love with Pippa Bacca, the documentary film by Simone Manetti included in the 2020 selection of "Italian Stories", the initiative of the FICE Italian Arthouse Cinema Federation which, now in its fifth edition, offers arthouse cinemas throughout Italy and their most attentive and curious audiences, a selection of the most recent documentaries that address current issues, social cross-sections, analyzes of customs and traces of memory, including artistic ones, of Italian culture and beyond.

On the centenary of the birth of Federico Fellini, and sixty years after the release of La Dolce Vita (1960), the Fondazione Ente dello Entertainment organizes an evening at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, which opens its cloisters for a special evening dedicated to master of Rimini, entitled “Fellini, Catholic culture and the La dolce vita case”. The relationships between Fellini and the Catholic world were characterized by authentic spiritual closeness, but also by great misunderstandings. The diatribe relating to the value, morality and meaning of the film has literally split Catholic culture. For the first time "the case" is also reconstructed, thanks to research launched at the Catholic University, through the available audiovisual materials. Introduced by Monsignor Davide Milani, President of the Entertainment Organization Foundation and Massimo Scaglioni, professor of Media History at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan.

There are also many initiatives spread throughout the area including the screenings proposed by the Asteria Center, the Nuovo Armenia and the Videosoundart festival, cinema in the courtyards and an evening dedicated to cinema in Milanese dialect.

The Movie week ideally continues with the presentation of the exhibition Le Vie del cinema, the films from the 77th Venice International Film Festival (which this year will be held from 23 to 30 September) on Monday 21 September at 18pm at the Palestrina cinema.

The main sponsor of the Milan Movie week is Banco BPM, while Paramount network is the media partner of the schedule.

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