For TALKS IN PROGRESS, presentation of the documentary Lino Micciché, mio padre. Una visione del mondo by Francesco Micciché.

New date for TALKS IN PROGRESS with an evening in the events room at the Library/Mediatheque dedicated to the life of Lino Miccichè, on Wednesday 13 November at 8.30 p.m. For the occasion, the documentary filmed by his son Francesco, titled Lino Micciché, mio padre. Una visione del mondo (Lino Micciché, my father. A vision of the world) will be presented to the public.

The life of Lino Micciché, an intellectual, film critic and historian, essayist and cultural events organiser, recounted from the special viewpoint of his son, filmmaker Francesco Micciché.

The documentary was presented successfully at the 70th Venice Film Festival in the Venezia Classici section, in collaboration with the Week of Critics and Venice Days. It won the Audience Award at the 17th Terra di Siena International Film Festival. It took part in the 37th International Film Festival in Sao Paulo, and will be in Competition at the 13th ReCine Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, to be held from 25 to 29 November.

“Making a film on one’s father is a real journey. Mine started when he was still alive and maybe it is not over yet. Almost ten years after his demise, I thought reflection was necessary about a life that gave so much and did so much for cinema. My father had a clear “vision of the world” in his mind, and he tried to make the world a better place to make it correspond to that vision. The questions posed by Lino Miccichè’s generation are not so different from ours in the end. The issue is that even if the answers to them are very clear, in the end, they have not been sufficient to change the world. And our ones?” (Francesco Micciché).

In conversation with the director, Giulia Carluccio, Peppino Ortoleva, Franco Prono (Turin University).

Introduced by Paola Bortolaso (National Cinema Museum).

Francesco Miccichè

Lino Micciché, mio padre. Una visione del mondo

(Lino Micciché, my father. A vision of the world)

(Italy 2013, 81’, col.)

With this account of Lino Miccichè’s intense life, the history of Italian cinema from the end of the 1950s to the 2000s is retraced also thanks to unpublished material supplied by Raiteche, the Archivio del Movimento Operaio and Raro Video-Minerva, and thanks to this journey, a reflection takes place on a generation of fathers and on what they have left to their children.

Admission free until full capacity is reached, subject to free registration at the Library/Mediatheque and showing an identity document.