Pier Vittorio Tondelli
The Arcigay Ivrea “Ottavio Mai” club and the Rossetorri cooperative have for the fifth time undertaken the daring adventure of putting together a gay-lesbian themed event, but always aimed at even to a heterosexual audience that one wants to confront with sexuality in general and homosexuality specifically.
Here is the detailed program of the festival, which includes a film screening in the ABCinema hall and three literary presentations (in collaboration with LA LIBRERIA Cossavella) in the Sala Cupola, also in the La Serra Congress Center at Corso Botta 30 in Ivrea.
Thursday, April 14 — ABCinema d'essai — 9:15 PM (Single ticket €4.50)
KINSEY
(USA/Germany, 2004, 118')
Directed by: Bill Condon
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris 'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt
The film will be preceded by the presentation of the 20th edition of the International Film Festival with Homosexual Themes which will take place in Turin, Teatro Nuovo, from 21 to 28 April.
Director Giovanni Minerba intervenes.
Tuesday, April 19 — Cupola Hall (La Serra Conference Center) — 9:15 PM (Free admission)
TONDELLIANA
Presentation of the volumes of the "Tondelliana" project conceived and created by the Transeuropa publishing house for the anniversary of its first 25 years of activity.
Writer Mirko Romano intervenes
hosted by Andrea Demarchi
During the evening, excerpts from the film will be presented ""Spetters"" by Paul Verhoeven (1979) whose dialogues were edited, in the Italian edition, by Pier Vittorio Tondelli.
Thursday, May 5 — Cupola Hall (La Serra Conference Center) — 9:15 p.m. (Free admission)
Book presentation
THE REASONS FOR A SILENCE
The persecution of homosexuals during fascism and Nazism
(ed. Ombre Corte)
Franco Goretti, historian and co-author of the book, will speak.
The evening will be introduced by the monologue “The Ideology of Scoundrels” by Antonio Cassarà, played by Sax Nicosia: the deportation narrated through the adventures of a child convinced he had voluntarily gone to work in Nazi Germany.
Produced by: "Post Quem, Culture and Participatory Memory", the association that manages the project "The Train of Memory and Human Rights"“
During the evening, excerpts from the documentary will be presented PARAGRAPH 175 by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Golden Bear for Best Documentary, Berlin 2000 – Best Documentary, Sundance 2000)
Thursday, May 12 — Cupola Hall (La Serra Conference Center) — 9:15 PM (Free admission)
Book presentation
DIFFERENT CHILDREN new generation
(ed. Sonda)
by Paola and Giovanni Dal'Orto
edited by Stefano Bolognini and Alessandro Galvani
Speakers:
Stefano Bolognini, editor of the book
Laura Manfredi, president of AGEDO (Association of Parents of Homosexuals) Piedmont
Andrea Benedino, Councilor for Education and the Right to Education, Municipality of Ivrea