15th Week of the Italian Language in the World
Fifty-year-old, Sardinian-born Silvio – a lover of jazz music and karaoke shows – manages the “Stella d’Oro” boarding house. Built on the Swiss side of Lake Maggiore more than a hundred years ago, the place has been accommodating less and less tourists, and a few asylum seekers. But its days are numbered: it is threatened by a property restoration project for a new private housing estate. Its few remaining days depict the passing of life in a place of encounter for the stories and dreams of people coming from different locations and cultures.STELLA CIAO is the portrait of the last year and a half in the existence of a peculiar place, a unique slice of life as it was seized right before its destruction.
In Italian with English Subtitles
6.30 – 7.00 p.m. registration, light refreshments
7.00 – 7.15 p.m. introduction remarks, presentation of the director
7:15 – 8:15 p.m. screening of Stella Ciao
8:15 – 8:30 p.m. Q&A with Vito Robbiani
8:30 – 9:00 p.m. Networking, light refreshments, end
Free registration: tel: 3509 5025, email: winnie.kan@eda.admin.chVITO ROBBIANI
Born in 1972, Swiss and Italian nationality. After university held in Nice (France) in Communication Science and Information, started working as a journalist and then as a filmmaker. Through his production company, mediaTREE, has collaborated with several European networks, in particular: Swiss TV (RSI), Euronews, alphaTV-Greece, RTVslovenia, RAI. He teaches audiovisual techniques and documentary at the University of Applied Sciences in Lugano-Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a member of the central committee of the Swiss Federation of Journalists (impressum).