Continues at Cinema Greenwich of Cagliari in via Sassari 65/67 the exhibition curated by Antonello Zanda “RIGHTS AND TRIALS IN CINEMA“, i.e. two weekly appointments with the screening of art films, meetings with experts and in-room debates on the topic of justice.
Next date of the event is Monday 28 October at 6.30 pm with the event “Self-determination at the end of life”, meeting with the lawyer Monica Murgia of the Luca Coscioni Association and Dr. Silvana Congiu, also a lawyer. The film will then be screened “55 STEPS” by Bille August. At the center of the work is Eleanor Riese, a woman defined as suffering from mental illness and forced to suffer a series of violence in the institution where she is imprisoned. One day he picks up the phone and manages to call the lawyer Colette Hughes, who chooses to carry forward the cause on behalf of all the patients, so that no drug or therapy is administered against the patient’s will. A legal movie with the communicative power of a story of female warriors.
Second appointment of the week Thursday 31 October, again at 6.30 pm with the winning film of the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival “NEVER RARELY ALWAYS SOMETIMES” by Eliza Hittman. Autumn is 17 years old, lives in Pennsylvania with her mother and sisters, and is pregnant. According to the laws of her state, she needs the permission of an adult to have an abortion and, not wanting to reveal her state to anyone, she decides to go to New York, where she can instead carry out the operation anonymously. Her only ally is her cousin Skylar, with whom she shares a part-time job as a cashier in a supermarket. With her he will embark towards the metropolis and over the course of three days and two nights he will face the traumatic – yet conscious – event that will mark his adolescence.
The film will be presented by Elisabetta Randaccio.
Entrance to all events is free and free
The event, promoted by the Cinema Greenwich of Cagliari – Progetto Settima Arte, is organized under the auspices of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Department of Education, Cultural Heritage, Information, Entertainment and Sport and makes use of the collaboration of the Humanitarian Society – Cineteca Sarda of Cagliari, of the Cagliaritan cell of the Luca Coscioni Association and of the Gramsci Association of Cagliari.
