It will take place in Rome from tomorrow and until the 2 April 2017 at the MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts, the seventh edition of The Spiraglio Filmfestival mental health, event of short and feature films, Russo and directed by Federico Franco Montini, respectively, for the scientific and artistic members. Organized by ASL Roma 1 - Department of Mental Health, ROME CAPITAL in collaboration with MAXXI, The festival was born with the aim of telling the world of mental health through pictures. The idea is to open, thanks to the cinema, a crack on the mind and to allow a mutual gaze, between public, authors, and people involved in a course of treatment or change. The films will be presented in the competition by the authors and the panorama of the works selected offers trips to discover unknown worlds, investigations of reported diseases, but also reflections on psychological distress, with players of all ages and environment. Numerous special events of the festival, projections for schools, meeting 'Laces - Family ties between inheritance and rebellion’, scheduled for Saturday 1 April at 21:00, a conversation on the topic parents and children with actress Maria Cristina Blu readings and interventions Domenico Starnone, novelist and screenwriter, author of "laces", Book also became a play; Gianni Amelio, director and author of the autobiographical book "Politeama"; Maurizio Balsamo, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Antonello D'Elia, family psychotherapist psychiatrist.
Among the films presented, documentary 'Pavilion 25 – The diary nurses in a self-managed department ', Massimiliano Carboni, with the narrative voice of Giorgio Tirabassi. A film that gives voice to nurses, the subjects in the shade in the movements in the 70 contested the mental hospital and tried to turn psychiatry. In the summer of 1975 a group of S nurses. Maria della Pieta in Rome, inspired by the thought of Franco Basaglia, decide to occupy and self-manage one of the halls of the asylum: the Pavilion 25. Then, another documentary, Crazy for football, by Wolfgang De Biasi, He tells the Italian premiere in football 5 participating in the World Cup for psychiatric patients, a Osaka, with Vincenzo Cantatore in athletic trainer robes. The Serbian director Tamara von Steiner therefore conducted Contraindication, a doc on the hospital Judicial Psychiatric Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, from 2015 in gradual disposal. Here they were locked psychiatric patients offenders with imprisonment extensions that could last for decades or, as it happened more often, till death. Other doc, Cristina – The tale of a disease, Silvia Chiodin, the story of Cristina Marcato, told in the book “Do not turn off the light. Journey to a psychosis”, in which the protagonist / author tells his own story and experience of illness and recovery. Other doc signed by a woman, Claudia Brignone, The disease is of desire, which tells the Ser.T, the service for drug addiction in the Fuorigrotta neighborhood of Naples, a short walk from the stadium San Paolo, where intersecting stories and provider and patient lives. Also 'The girls of Villa Biondi’ It is directed by female hand, to Melania Way, that accomplishes this doc with the material of Backstage of Paolo Virzi The Mad Joy, telling the participation in the shooting of seven non-actresses Women, six psychiatric patients ASL Pistoia and a young girl of Livorno with motor and cognitive deficits. The director Alessandra Balloni then tells, in 'Sigmund Freud Origins and Current of Psychoanalysis’ the revolutionary impact of Freud's thinking on the treatment of mental disorders.
Among the short films on the bill, 'Without eyes, hands and mouth ', Paul Budassi, Bianca's story, homeless girl, whose encounter with a psychologist in a community center will make them remember a bicycle accident that marked the life, It occurred when she was little and he had no memory. Then, 'The scent of the stars’ Francesco Felli, the story of Nino (Alessandro Haber), painter and poet, inspired by the figure of Nicola Fanizzi to his inability to live beyond the borders of Santa Maria della Pietà, the Asylum of Rome where he was hospitalized for nearly three decades. "He entered off", Nino is indeed aware of how the world has changed, of how he did not wait and how it has become more. Loneliness Nino meets that of a doctor of the asylum, Adriano (Giorgio Colangeli), He is thrown out by his wife and forced to live in a car in a parking lot. Other short-scheduled, ‘Salifornia’, Andrea Beluto, turned
Salerno, the story of a fishmonger Ciacianiello, that, exasperated by the constant crowds and duped by an unscrupulous entrepreneur, He wants to close the record store, meeting point of the neighborhood kids, adjacent to its pescheria. Frizzy, eccentric owner of the discs and store Fravaglio, Ciacianiello smaller brother, but more open-minded, They try to make it come to your senses…
The festival also involves schools with the projection, dedicated to high school students, tomorrow, Friday 31 March at 10:00 at the MAXXI Auditorium, the film Feather, Roan Johnson, attended by the director and leading man Luigi Fedele. The event is organized in collaboration with the Office of Public Engagement MAXXI, as well as the project again at the MAXXI: our point of view, that from 2009 It involves some people in the Department of Health District Mental ASL Roma 1. During Spiraglio The group will propose two moments of cultural mediation devoted to photographs by Letizia Battaglia. And on Saturday, April 1 pm 11.00 It will be screened, the presence of the director and out of competition, the feature film 'Portraits of Lives' Marco Bonfante, produced by ASL Roma 1, returning the experience of the artist Carol Pilars de Pilar in today's reading of the Santa Maria della Pietà and the Health and Wellness Park.
On the final evening of the festival, the jury – composed by Edoardo Albinati, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Valia Santella, Francesco Borgia and Daniela Pezzi – will award the prize "Fausto Antonucci" of 1.000 Euros to the best short film and the "Jorge Garcia Badaracco Prize - Maria Elisa Mitre" Foundation 1.000 € Best Feature. The festival, Furthermore, will deliver the Premio Lo Spiraglio - Roma Solidarity Foundation Onlus director Paolo Virzì, filmmaker who particularly sensitive and interested in the issues related to the world of mental health. Virzì sarà host a public meeting where revisit films and sequences that tell the psychic discomfort. In the past editions were honored Sergio Rubini, Sergio Castellitto, Carlo Verdone, Alba Rohrwacher, Marco Bellocchio and Giulio Manfredonia.