For the second edition of Works in Short, the short film competition addressed to young authors on the territory organised by the National Cinema Museum Association and the Riccardo Braghin Association, final evening with the screening of the short films in competition and awards to the winners on Monday 27 May 2013 at 8.45 p.m., on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo. Admission free.

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The National Cinema Museum, in collaboration with the Piedmont NGOs Consortium health cooperation platform, presents its new rendez-vous for A MUSEUM FOR AFRICA, illustrating the first results of a research, led by the Tavolo Pediatria e Intercultura del Centro Interculturale (Paediatrics and Intercultural Centre Platform) of the City of Turin, on the theme of nutrition and weaning in an intercultural ambit at Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo, Saturday 25 May 2013, at 9.30 a.m.

The round-table will feature Umberto Salvi, President of the Piedmont NGOs Consortium, Anna Ferrero from the Intercultural Centre, Paediatrician Cristina Mirabelli, with experience with the CUAMM in Ethiopia and Kassida Khairallah, President of AMMI-Multiethnic Cultural Mediators Association.

The debate will be followed by a free screening of the film Bébé(s), by French director Thomas Balmès (France, 2010, 75').

INFO: CCM - Medical Collaboration Committee, Via Ciriè 32/E, Turin, www.ccm-italia.org, Tel: +39.011.6602793

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The National Cinema Museum presents the short showcase TOO LATE / TOO SOON. The latest films by Hong Sang-soo, from Friday 24 to Tuesday 28 May 2013, on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo. The tribute to this great contemporary Korean director will be inaugurated Friday 24 May at 8.30 p.m. with the screening of The Day He Arrives introduced for the occasion by Dario Tomasi. Admission: 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.

A tribute to Hong Sang-soo organised by the C.E.C. of Udine with the screening of his latest three films, unreleased in Italy, for the occasion of the release of his latest feature film In Another Country, distributed by Tucker Film. A “Rohmerian” filmmaker par excellence, he constructs his stories ordered into narrative streams in which the surreal element merges dreams with reality. His films are a tribute to cinema each time and exalt fortuity: “Fortuitous things happen without reason in our lives but we select a few to form a pattern of thought  that makes up what we call reason”.

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The National Cinema Museum, in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Politics, Society of Turin University, presents a new date for A MUSEUM FOR AFRICA, where the recently published dossier Young people in Africa. Anthropological perspectives (Afriche e Orienti, year XIV, n.3-4, 2012), will be presented to the public at the Library/Mediatheque, Wednesday 22 May 2013, at 8.30 p.m.

The authors of some contributions in the dossier, Ilaria Buscaglia, Carlo Cappello, Javier González Díez, Alessandro Gusman and Cristiano Lanzano will be in conversation on it; the debate will be moderated by prof. Cecilia Pennacini of Turin University.

With 70% of its population below 30 years of age, Africa is the youngest continent on the planet: this data is pivotal both in conflict situations and in political and economic crises, as well as in change and innovation dynamics crossing the continent north and south of the Sahara. The dossier authors essay to analyse youth conditions in Africa, by means of ethnographic research on case studies in different countries in the continent, from Gabon to Rwanda, from Uganda to Senegal.

The debate will be followed by the film screening of Munyurangabo by director Lee Isaac Chung (USA-Rwanda, 2007, 97’). Considered the first fiction film shot entirely in the kinyarwanda language, the film tells of the journey of two adolescent friends from the capital Kigali to their respective villages of origin in rural Rwanda, where the memory of the losses experienced during the genocide and the lasting ethnic juxtapositions will take toll on their friendship.

A MUSEUM FOR AFRICA is a project by the National Cinema Museum which has been organised for its third consecutive year, in collaboration with diverse bodies and associations operating in the international cooperation sector and in intercultural mediation. The showcase dates – meetings with directors, screenings and book presentations – alternate between the Cinema Massimo and the “Mario Gromo” Library/Mediatheque with a monthly rhythm and are ongoing until May 2013 (month in which the international day for Africa is celebrated). This network of initiatives wishes to stimulate the public’s feeling and interest for the dramatically topical themes of African issues. The programme also includes workshops for adults and three morning screenings for Turin high-school students with some of the films from its programme.

Admission free till full seating capacity is reached, subject to free membership registration at the Library/Mediatheque and exhibiting an ID card.

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