07/10
on Monday: Movie Series
"Amarcord" by Federico Fellini, 1973, 127 mins, starring Magalì Noel and Bruno Zanin, Italian with English subtitles.
Synopsis: Carnevalesque, sad and funny stories involving the family of an adolescent son of a Socialist in provincial Italy during Fascism (set in Rimini, Romagna, 1920’s-30’s). Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film in 1975.
09/10
on Wednesday afternoon: VIU Special Screening of the movie "Sacro GRA" at Giorgione Cinema at 5.15 pm (in Italian with English subtitles)
Prof. Marazzi will introduce the movie "Sacro GRA" which is the 2013 winner of the Golden Lion for the Best Film.
The Director Gianfranco Rosi has decided to tell the tale of a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome’s giant ring road—the Grande Raccordo Anulare, or GRA—to discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil. Elusive characters and fleeting apparitions emerge from the background of the winding zone: a nobleman from the Piemonte region and his college student daughter sharing a one-room efficiency in a modern apartment building along the GRA; a botanist making audio recordings of the interiors of palm trees to detect and then poison the insects that are devouring them like a plague; a modern day cigar-smoking prince doing gymnastics on the roof of his castle, surrounded by the sea of new apartment buildings proliferating around him; a paramedic in an ambulance eternally on duty treating car accident victims along the vast road; and an eel fisherman living on a houseboat beneath an overpass along the Tiber River. Far from the iconic sites of Rome, the GRA is a repository of stories of those at the edges of the everexpanding universe of the capital city.
11/10
on Friday morning: Food, Water and Globalization
9.00 am – 1.00pm, Room 1G
In the framework of the events organized for the FAO World Food Day Venice International University organizes a workshop on Food and Water on October 11, 2013.
The workshop, held in the framework of the events organized for the FAO World Food Day, is aimed at introducing international students at VIU and Ca' Foscari to one of the key issues of globalisation and sustainable development: food safety and security with a special focus on the relationship with water.
This initiative is organized in collaboration with University Ca' Foscari, the Ca' Foscari International College and the network of Italian universities for cooperation and development, launched in 2008 by the Cooperation Division at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.