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Milan, September 27 2021 – The fourth edition of the Milan Movie week, the week dedicated to cinema and audiovisual promoted and coordinated by the Municipality of Milan|Culture, will take place this year from 4 to 10 October, in conjunction with the Milano Film festival.

The initiative is, as always, widespread in the city and involves bodies, institutions, schools, festivals, associations, production companies and exhibitors who deal with cinema and audiovisual in Milan.

The program includes screenings, meetings, exhibitions and seminars, which will take place in person in full compliance with current health safety rules. Like last year, there will be no shortage of streaming proposals, online content and initiatives that will take place outside the city.

The Movie week, which aims to highlight the cinema chain and the many activities connected to it, this year takes on a specific value as an invitation to return to the cinema, following the programming of the cinemas and inviting the public to return to the cinema in complete safety.

All the most important film festivals in the city participate with dedicated content, from the Milano Filmnetwork to the Mix festival, from the documentary festival Visioni dal mondo to FESCAAAL, from Vie del cinema to Noir in festival and Filmmaker.

This year's content partner is the Milano Film festival which, after last year's suspension, returns to being a festival spread throughout the city with many events on the calendar.
The initiatives and events that will make up the varied program of the Milan Movie week are many and will involve many different realities:

• two exhibitions dedicated to two icons who have made Italian cinema famous throughout the world: at the Kasa dei Libri an exhibition dedicated to Marcello Mastroianni which through volumes, magazines and posters traces the extraordinary career of one of the most beloved actors of our cinema (the exhibition will remain open until October 19th); one year after the death of the great master, the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo brings the exhibition Nuovo Cinema Morricone to the spaces of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a tribute to the career of the great master;

• Le vie del cinema 2021 presents an unscheduled special event: from the Horizons Section of 78^a Venice Film Festival, the Palestrina cinema will host the screening of "Amira" by Mohamed Diab (Monday 4 October). The event is organized by Agis Lombarda in collaboration with the Palestrina cinema;

• Leonardo Di Costanzo will be the protagonist of the masterclass organized by the Luchino Visconti Civic Film School entitled "The writings of reality" (Friday 8 October). Director of documentaries and fiction films including "Ariaferma", acclaimed at the last Venice Film Festival, Di Costanzo will reflect on the ways of telling reality on the screen during the masterclass conducted by Luca Mosso organized in collaboration with Milano Film network and Filmmaker festival ;

• Milano Film network presents a tribute to the great Korean master Kim Ki-duk at the Beltrade Cinema, with the screening of the film Stop, which addresses the theme of the Fukushima disaster (Tuesday 5 October). For Movie week 2021 MFN also collaborates with the Luchino Visconti Civica film school and with some of the network's festivals;

• the FESCAAAL, in collaboration with the Milano Film network, presents the film "Mother lode" as a preview in Milan (Wednesday 6 October), supported by the Atelier MFN fund and this year in competition at the Venice Critics' Week 2021. The film is a fairy tale about a man's descent into the underworld of a mine in Peru, where reality and myth merge;

• Filmmaker festival, in collaboration with Milano Film network, presents "La nostra strada" by Pierfrancesco Li Donni (Thursday 7 October), in which the director follows the lives of three boys who attend eighth grade in a school in the heart of Palermo. A beautiful reflection on the transition from childhood to adolescence, which will be presented in the room by the author;

• MiX festival offers, at Anteo Palazzo del cinema, the special screening of the winning film of the Queer Lion at the 78th^a edition of the Venice Festival "La dernière séance" by Gianluca Matarrese, in the presence of the director (Friday 8 October);

• The Milano Film festival will be held from 8 to 10 October, a special edition in which the event will once again take place in person. Always deeply rooted in the city area, the MFF has as its claim for this edition "Back to reality", to underline the need to return to being a widespread festival, which will have three main venues: an outdoor arena which will be set up in the heart of the Indro Montanelli public gardens and two cinemas, the Cineteca Milano MEET and the Arcobaleno Film center;

• Noir in festival, which will be held in Milan from 10 to 15 December 2021, organizes a literary meeting in anticipation of the 31st^a edition (Thursday 7 October): protagonist is Christopher Bollen and his new novel "The game of destruction", published by Bollati Boringhieri;

• the international documentary festival Visioni dal mondo will propose, at the Cineteca Milano MIC in viale Fulvio Testi, three of the films presented during the last edition of the festival (Wednesday 6 October): "Pupus", winner of the BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas Award for best documentary short film competition, "Via dell'ombra", special mention from the youth jury and winner of the Rai Cinema Award dedicated to Franco Scaglia and the short "Sant'Ambroeus";

• The Cineteca Milano Meet calendar is full of events, with screenings of films and short films dedicated to the relationship between street art and cities: "Banksy does New York", documentary dedicated to one of the most well-known and mysterious contemporary artists (Wednesday 6 October ); "All mine the city: the colors of Milan", an event dedicated to short films produced by Cineteca Milano and the Municipality of Milan on graffiti and street art in the Città Studi and Portello districts (Wednesday 6 October); "Wild style", a 1983 film in which the legendary graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays Zoro, one of the most important writers of the time. 

• Meet Digital Culture Center offers the programming of four virtual reality works, in collaboration with Rai Cinema, which combine technological innovation with social issues: Happy Birthday, Revenge Room, VR Free and the documentary Lockdown 2020. Meet will also host the experience VR Dance the Distance (from Tuesday 5 October);

• Anteo Palazzo del Cinema, in addition to the preview of "La dernière séance" by Gianluca Matarrese created in collaboration with MiX Festival, will propose the screening of the film "The Italian banker" by Alessandro Rossetto (Wednesday 6 October), followed by a meeting with the director moderated by film critic Luca Mosso. At Ariosto Anteo Spaziocinema, however, there will be Cinema for future (Thursday 7 October): a day dedicated to cinema and the environment with screenings of the films "Anthropocene – The human era and Watermark", both by directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier;

• many initiatives of Il Cinemino, including: the event screening of the documentary "The Cave", an Oscar-nominated film directed by Feras Fayyad, followed by a meeting organized in collaboration with Amnesty international and Mesclaito film (Monday 4 October); an evening dedicated to 5 super-awarded short films (Sunday 10 October), in collaboration with Zen movie and Tiny movie, with screenings of "Inverno" by Giulio Mastromauro, "Being my mom" by Jasmine Trinca, "I'm afraid to forget your face" by Sameh Alaa, "Exam" by Sonia K. Hadad and The Flies by Edgardo Pistone; the presentation of the book "Vincent Minelli: the materiality of the dream" by Daniela Turco (Ente dello Spettacolo edition) together with Elisabetta Longari and Andrea Pastor (Sunday 10 October);

• the Milan Metropolitan Chamber of Labor will host the screening of "The Last Wheel", a documentary by Claudia Cipriani on the political and poetic struggle of entertainment workers during the pandemic, following a group of male and female entertainment workers who have decided to travel the Milan-Sanremo by bicycle to denounce the crisis of the entire sector. The screening will be followed by a debate in which, among others, Lella Costa will participate (Monday 4 October);

• there are also many initiatives at the Teatro Bello, including the screening of the film "Sosia - La vita degli altri" by Salvo Spoto with chef Bruno Barbieri. The film, awarded as best feature film at the BCT in Benevento 2021, is an interesting psychological journey that delves into the world of those who live the condition of lookalikes of famous people (Tuesday 5 October). The Teatro Bello will also host "The long night of shorts" (Thursday 7 October), a marathon of screenings of Italian and international short films, and the Corto weekend initiative, a competition of short films to be made in a single weekend.

• there will be no shortage of events for the little ones, organized by Cinemarmocchi, with animated classics: an opportunity to introduce children to or rediscover the great animation classics that have shaped our collective imagination: timeless stories and drawings, characters who have left (from Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 October);

• at the "Per il refettorio ambrosiano" Association, promoted by the Ente dello Spettacolo Foundation, the national preview of Stefano Sgarella's film entitled "Exit" will be held (Thursday 7 October), a docufilm on prison and culture as a tool for rebirth with the participation of Loris Fabiani, Daria Bignardi and Alessandro Castellucci;

• in Sala Nobel, the cinema-restaurant inside Anteo Palazzo del cinema curated by Eataly, two days dedicated to the combination of cinema and food. On Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 October, for three shows a day (lunch, aperitif, dinner), the public will be guided through a sensorial experience based on a tasting designed to dialogue with the film;

• many initiatives spread throughout the area including screenings at the Cineteatro Asteria and Wanted Clan, the event between music and cinema "Inside El Cimarrón" which will visit various locations from the G. Verdi Conservatory to Anteo Palazzo del cinema, the screening of the Olympic films and paralympics organized by “Sport movies & TV” at the Alik Cavaliere cultural centre, the initiatives of the Città sonora Association at Accademia09, the review of short films dedicated to women organized by the Carlo Perini Foundation. 
  
  There will also be many streaming and online events, from the Russian Film Festival Felix Award to Sguardi Elsewhere film festival to the meeting promoted by FEM - Federation of Music Publishers and dedicated to film soundtracks. 
  
  The complete program and all information will be available on the dedicated website www.milanomovieweek.it, On the site yesmilano.it and on the page FB e IG of the Milan Movie week.