PLANET AFRICA inauguration, with the screening of an episode from the documentary Radici - L’altra faccia della migrazione by Davide Demichelis and Alessandro Rocca.

PLANET AFRICA, the natural evolution of the project A MUSEUM FOR AFRICA, is an event organised since 2010 by the National Cinema Museum. The new name of the project wishes to highlight a change within continuity, emerging from a careful reflection which recognises the extreme positivity and excellent level of the results obtained so far, also thanks to significant support from COP - Consorzio ONG Piemontesi and the social-health and migrant associations involved. This experience has therefore led to the conviction that this showcase should be open to the involvement of further organisations and should have innovative characteristics.

For the first date of PLANET AFRICA the National Cinema Museum, in collaboration with CISV – Comunità Impegno Servizio Volontariato, presents the screening of an episode of the documentary Radici - L’altra faccia della migrazione (Roots – The other side of migration) by Davide Demichelis and Alessandro Rocca: Burkina Faso - Fanta Tiemtoré (Italy 2013, 43’, col.) on Thursday 27 February 2014, at 6.00/8.30 p.m., in the Events Room at the “Mario Gromo” Library/Mediatheque. Piera Gioda (CISV) will be in conversation with the authors. Introduced by: Fabio Pezzetti Tonion (NCM).

The main aim of PLANET AFRICA is to place the African continent, with its strong issues but also the great positive and suggestive trends that are taking shape, at the CORE of careful reflection involving various subjects and to create a place TOGETHER where meetings between the two cultures may be made easier, protecting their mutual identities.