From November 27-30, the Giornate del Cinema Italiano, a well-established event organized by the Italian Embassy and dedicated to the promotion of contemporary Italian cinematography, will return to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The initiative will involve four cities: Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Tuzla and Zenica, in collaboration with Kino Meeting Point, Cineplexx Palas, CineStar Cinema and Restoran Tapas.
The 2025 edition will offer audiences a selection of titles capable of narrating the vitality and variety of current Italian cinema. Among them, screened on Nov. 27 in Sarajevo, is the film “Gloria!”, an intense and original story that sensitively explores themes of emancipation and creativity; “Palazzina Laf,” screened in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Zenica on Nov. 28 and in Tuzla on Nov. 30, which deals with social issues related to work with irony and depth; and “Moments of Negligible Happiness,” a light and philosophical tale about the small moments that make everyday life precious (screened in Zenica on Nov. 30). As a tribute to the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide that falls this year, special attention will also be paid to the film “My Father’s Diaries” by Bosnian director Ado Hasanović, a resident of Rome, former director of the Silver Frame Film Festival in Srebrenica and curator of the Euro Balkan Film Festival in Rome, who will be in theaters on Nov. 29 in Sarajevo to meet with viewers and talk with the audience after the screening.
The last edition of the prestigious annual “Sarajevo Film Festival” last summer, with the presence of director Paolo Sorrentino and the review dedicated to him, confirmed to us the great interest of the local audience in our cinema: a new confirmation of the genuine curiosity for Italy, its landscapes, lifestyle, language and Italian traditions, also by virtue of a traditional familiarity that many people here have with our country – stressed Amb. Castellani – In this sense, the “Days of Italian Cinema” will also offer a space for dialogue on issues of common interest, strengthening the historic cultural bridge between Italy and Bosnia and Herzegovina through the universal language of cinema.
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