The Film Festival in Rome to the Twins in the room Medicinema. For patients and their families are projected "Therapy couple "and" Mazinger Z Infinity "

For the first time the film festival arrives at the Capital Hospital with two of the official program of the films screened 31 October and 3 November for the adult and pediatric patients. The hospital opens more and more to the territory.

The Medicinema movie theater at the University Hospital A. Gemini opens the doors for the first time at the Rome Film Festival with two films in the official program reserved for patients and family members of hospitalized people.

It starts Tuesday 31 October, at 16.00 with romantic comedy "Couples Therapy", Alessio Maria Federici, with Pietro Sermonti, Ambra Angiolini and Sergio Rubini. While Friday 3 November, always to 16.00, It will be screened Mazinger Z Infinity, highly anticipated animated film by Japanese director Junji Shimizu - which will be at the Film Festival world premiere - especially dedicated to pediatric patients and their families.

It takes shape the new extraordinary collaboration, that the issue 2017 the Film Festival has started with Foundation University Hospital A. Gemini and Medicinema Italy Onlus for hospital patients who took part with two screenings of selected films in the official program of the festival and chosen carefully to a very special audience, ie hospital patients.

From April 2016 There is no real movie theater inside the Policlinico A. Gemini, full operation in September of that year with a two-week schedule, on Tuesday for all patients and Thursdays dedicated to pediatric wards. The programming of contemporary films to that of "normal" town halls – thanks to the great cooperation with all production companies and film distribution – It is directed to the sick and their families and carers: an innovative nursing tool that accompanies traditional therapies and aims to offer patients a "pause" effect and relief of a feeling of normalcy.

The method and program management, on a national basis and in development, He is held by Medicinema Italy Onlus, which promoted the same time a scientific research project coordinated by the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in collaboration with hospitals in other cities where it is already present Medicinema.

"It's really nice, I would say natural and 'inevitable' the combination of Medicinema project and Gemini with the Rome Film Festival with the screening of two films in the official program in our cinema, promoted and carried out for patients of the Policlinico – says Managing Director of the Foundation University Hospital A. Gemini, Enrico Zampedri -. After the appreciation and approval of the Minister Dario Franceschini at the Film Festival in Venice, we are pleased with this new recognition to our project of making films in the hospital for the sick: for that we thank the Film Festival from artistic director Antonio Monda.

Also this our participation is evidence of a hospital that opens more and more to the territory, including the patients at the Gemelli, adult and pediatric, in an important social and cultural event, increasingly popular, of our city. It is another piece of that mosaic of humanization of hospital care that continually pursue ".

The artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, Antonio Monda, he has declared: "Besides the usual locations of MAXXI and the House of Cinema, The Festival will extend the city even more than last year, with screenings and events in unusual places such as the libraries and the Policlinico Gemelli. "

"We are very proud to participate in this project and to be able to share this wonderful opportunity with patients and their family - said Fulvia Salvi, President Medicinema Italy Onlus -. The experience of cinema as nursing and relief vehicle, we practiced for hospitalized patients, It has already demonstrated the value of the instrument as a support of psycho-physical improvement of the patient. I really thank all the organizers of the Film Festival, which every year involve an entire city, but this year they will give to those who now is in hospital, the opportunity to participate anyway ''.