On 28 September the Farnesina is celebrating the International Day for Universal Access to Information.
‘Nella stanza delle lettere’, the short film dedicated to freedom of the press
Categories: Culture and creativity -Cinema and Audio-visual
The International Day for Universal Access to Information, celebrated today, 28 September, is promoted by the Farnesina through the presentation of the short film ‘Nella stanza delle lettere’, a new addition to the DirittiLab project in collaboration with IULM University of Milan.
The film, dedicated to freedom of the press, depicts a supposed journalist sitting at his desk and trying to mechanically copy letters that are continuously imposed on him, until, as if it were an epiphany, he discovers that he has the power to make a difference.
Diritti Lab is an IULMovie LAB production by students in the second year of their Master’s Degree Course in Television, Cinema and New Media at IULM University of Milan under the artistic supervision of Giuseppe Carrieri, and each film represents a different directing experiment. The thirteen short films, each dedicated to a specific human right, will be published between February 2022 and January 2023. After ‘La stanza delle lettere’, IULM Productions has other short films in the works, which are dedicated to death penalty, religion and identity, future and adventure.
Diritti Lab is a cultural diplomacy initiative that aims to stimulate the international public to reflect on themes relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms; it is part of the activities undertaken in Italy in defence of these rights within a bilateral and multilateral framework, which constitutes the cornerstone of Italian foreign policy.
Previously, for Holocaust Memorial Day 2022, the Farnesina promoted the distribution of the short film ‘Non ho sentito gridare nessuno’ (I didn’t hear anybody scream) by director Giuseppe Carrieri, which was produced in collaboration with the IULMovie Lab of the IULM University in Milan. The protagonist of the video is the partisan and survivor of the Nazi concentration camps Riccardo Goruppi, a witness to the atrocities at Dachau. In the short film, Goruppi, who died last April at the age of 94, has a conversation with students at the “Simon Gregorčič” state middle school of Dolina (Trieste), handing down his testimony to future generations. ‘Non ho sentito gridare nessuno’ was the pilot episode of Diritti Lab, which is now going live this March.
Subsequently, for Women’s Rights Day on 8 March 2022, the short film entitled M A N I F E S T O was launched as a reflection inspired by the poem ‘Attorno a questo mio corpo’ (Around this body of mine) by Amelia Rosselli.
