A European premiere of "Gli indesiderati d’Europa" by Fabrizio Ferraro, concurrently with the Catalunya Filmotheque in Barcelona and the Cinematheque in Lisbon. Actress Marta Reggio and producer Marcello Fagiani will be present at the cinema.

Following its recent world premiere at the IFFR – International Rotterdam Film Festival on 26 January, Fabrizio Ferraro’s new film Gli indesiderati d’Europa (Les Unwanted De Europa), will be presented to the public at a European premiere, before its regular distribution (which will take place starting on 25 April).

This exceptional premiere will be held at the Cinema Massimo on 5 April at 8.30 p.m., with actress Marta Reggio and producer Marcello Fagiani attending, and concurrently in some of the most important European film archives and cultural institutions: at the Catalunya Filmotheque in Barcelona where actors Pau Riba, Vicenç Altaió, Catarina Wallenstein and Bruno Duchêne will greet the audience at the cinema, and at the Lisbon Cinematheque where director Fabrizio Ferraro and actor Euplemio Macrì will be introduced.

Admission 7.50/5.00 euro.

A wholly European film, spoken in four languages with Italian, Spanish, French and German actors and cast, “Gli Indesiderati d'Europa” will be screened at prestigious European film institutions, united within a common event for the first time.

Subsequent dates are foreseen at the Ljubljana Cinematheque (May) and at the Wolksbuhne Theatre in Berlin (June).

Fabrizio Ferraro

Gli indesiderati d’Europa (Les Unwanted De Europa)

(Italy/Spain 2017, 100’, DCP, col., o.v. it.s/t)

This film links the “retirada”, in a poetic key, of the republican Spanish army escaping from Franco in 1939 and the opposite journey along the very same path, carried out the next year by Walter Benjamin escaping from Nazism. A two-way movement, echoing similar movements taking place in current Europe. Shot on the border between Spain and France, in the towns of Portbou, La Vajol, Banyuls-sur mer, Port-vendres, Barcelona, Rome and Paris.