curated by CineAgenzia for Internazionale

The Palazzo delle Esposizioni is devoting its energy once again to a reflection on the major themes of contemporary reality in a series of documentaries, selected throughout the world, that Internazionale is presenting in Rome after their screening at the festival of journalism in Ferrara. Films that take years to put together do not appear to be the ideal vehicle for exploring today's world, yet this year more than ever before there emerged, from the over one hundred films viewed, a single dominant theme capable of imposing an almost monographical approach on our selection: the global populist and sectarian wave with which we are having to cope on a daily basis. Taking that theme up, however, would have conjured up a threatening and depressive mood to which we refused to yield, yet we did decide to include two crucial films, Alt-Right: Age of Rage on the new far Right in the United States and Eurotrump on the key role played by Dutch populist Geert Wilders on the European stage, which are sufficient between them to map out an axis that clearly illustrates other situations as well. On the opposite front, these films paradoxically share a certain similarity with the camaraderie, pigheadedness and cynicism of the radical Islamists whom Recruiting for Jihad shows us at work in Europe, proving that we are facing a political and cultural alarm bell which transcends ideologies. As always with Internazionale in Rome, however, it is when we cast our gaze a little further that we find cues for rereading the present: El país roto takes us on a journey to one of the world's most deeply troubled countries, Venezuela, while Kinshasa Makambo celebrates young people's courage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as they struggle for political change and for free elections, and Whispering Truth to Power allows us to get acquainted for the first time with fantastic magistrate Thuli Madonsela's work in South Africa. Finally, it has become something of a tradition in our retrospective to pay tribute to the best journalism, and on this occasion we do so with Under the Wire, a portrait of legendary reporter Marie Colvin who lost her life in the carnage in the Syrian city of Homs, and with an urgent film that raises both the bar and our gaze by asking us the crucial question: What is Democracy?

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Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Sala Cinema

Admission via steps in via Milano 9a, Rome

ADMISSION FREE WHILE PLACES LAST

Places will be assigned from one hour before the start of each screening.  Reservations may be made by PdE Card cardholders only.  There will no further admission once the event has started.