Altreconomia celebrates its first 25 years and continues its work to contribute to the construction of a fair, sustainable and supportive economy

MILANO – From 10 to 12 October 2024 Altreconomia celebrates 25 years. The celebration will take place in the Niguarda district, where the periodical is based – directed by Duccio Facchini – and where we will celebrate together with many different partner among which: Cineteca di Milano, Teatro della Cooperativa, ANPI Niguarda, Restarters Milano, Artis social ice cream bar.

Thursday 10 October, 6pm. “The road to the mountains” by Micol Roubini. Screening and meeting with the director. Nicola Villa participates, Altreconomia. Introduced by Matteo Pavesi, director of Cineteca Milano. The road to the mountains is the search for a house, that of the director’s grandfather, depicted in a photograph from 1919. A collective mystery set today in a remote village in Western Ukraine where an inaccessible area is kept under surveillance by soldiers and armed guards. Apparently, for no reason.

Also Thursday, but at 9pm. “Dark Waters” by Todd Haynes. Screening in the original language with Italian subtitles and meeting with Giuseppe Ungherese, head of Greenpeace Italia’s pollution campaign and author of “PFAS” (Altreconomia) and, remotely from the United States, the American lawyer Robert Bilott. Nicola Villa participates. Dark Waters is a 2019 film directed by Todd Haynes starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper and Bill Pullman. The film chronicles Robert Bilott’s case against the chemical manufacturing company DuPont.

Friday 11 October, 3pm. “My name is Adil”, by Adil Azzab, Andrea Pellizzer, Magda Rezene. Screening and meeting with Roberta Villa, Imagine Factorye, remotely from Morocco Adil Azzab. Nicola Villa and Emanuela Sias, Altreconomia participate. Independent film made in 2016 by Imagine Factory thanks to crowdfunding. It tells of a journey of migration and discovery through the eyes of the very young protagonist: the thirteen-year-old shepherd Adil, who leaves his village in Morocco to join his father in Milan.

Always Friday but at 5pm “Agape”, by Velania Mesay and Tomi Mellina Bares. Screening and meeting with the directors and Duccio Facchini, director of Altreconomia and Nicola Villa. The documentary by directors Velania A. Mesay and Tomi Mellina Bares collects the testimonies of migrants stuck for years in Lesbos and Cyprus. A story that explores love as a form of resistance, going beyond the narratives of pain and trauma linked to migration.