The second edition of L’immagine e la parola, the Festival del film Locarno spin-off event, will take place 12 -15 April, 2014. L’immagine e la parola explores the relationships between the moving image and the written word. The event, whose Artistic Director is Carlo Chatrian, is once again part of this year’s Primavera Locarnese and comprises four days of screenings, encounters and discussions with guests of international stature, and pays particular attention to the youth audience, who is also offered a wide range of educational opportunities. The Matinée screenings are preceded by an introduction and accompanied by supplementary educational material. This program is aimed at high schools, thanks to a collaboration established with Bellinzona’s Castellinaria International Young Film Festival. The screenings, which are free and also open to the public, offer cinematic adaptations of novels that were key to Italian twentieth-century literature: Bianciardi, Sciascia and Morante, as interpreted by some of the master filmmakers of the 1960s. A fresh look at Italian cinema, via Carlo Lizzani’s La vita agra, and two films by Damiano Damiani, Mafia (Il giorno della civetta) and Arturo’s Island (L’isola di Arturo). LA VITA AGRA
by Carlo Lizzani
Italy, 1964 - 35mm - b/w - 100’ - o.v. Italian
Arriving in Milan with the intention of blowing up the head office of the company that has just fired him, Luciano Bianchi (Ugo Tognazzi) finds he has to reconcile his ideals with the need to survive. But soon the money he starts earning as a publicist makes him forget his earlier objective. Based on the 1962 novel by Luciano Bianciardi, a caustic depiction of the effects of the economic boom. MAFIA (IL GIORNO DELLA CIVETTA)
by Damiano Damiani
Italy, 1968 - 35mm - color - 112’ - o.v. Italian
In Sicily, Captain Bellodi (Franco Nero) investigates what happened to the husband of Rosa Nicolosi (Claudia Cardinale), who disappeared after witnessing a Mafia killing. But his superiors fail to back his courage in pursuit of the truth. A forerunner to the cinema of denunciation, adapted from Leonardo Sciascia’s famous 1961 novel. ARTURO'S ISLAND (L'ISOLA DI ARTURO)
by Damiano Damiani
Italy, 1962 - 35mm - b/w - 92’ - o.v. Italian
An account of the coming of age of Arturo, who has grown up in the solitude of the unchanging landscapes of the island of Procida, overshadowed by the jail there. His relationship with his father, whose life is mysteriously bound up with one of the prison inmates, makes life difficult for the boy, who is drawn to his gentle and sensitive stepmother. An elegant cinematic transposition of the Elsa Morante 1957 classic. TUESDAY, APRIL 15th – CINEMA FORUM BELLINZONA - 18:30 DIE ANDERE HEIMAT – CHRONIK EINER SEHNSUCHT by Edgar Reitz Germany/France, 2013 - b/w - 230' - o.v. German - subt. Italian Introduced by the director Edgar Reitz
In collaboration with Circolo del cinema Bellinzona
In the late 19th century, in the imaginary village of Schabbach in the Hunsrück region, two brothers of very different character face a national economic crisis that is forcing many Germans to emigrate. A keen reader, Jakob longs to travel to the distant lands he knows only from books; Gustav has the kind of no-nonsense approach that can put into practice the projects his brother has only dreamed of. A magnificent, vibrant masterpiece. | 
