The spice: the cinema season inaugurated at the Ligurian regional media library "Sergio Fregoso".

The spice: the cinema season inaugurated at the Ligurian regional media library "Sergio Fregoso".

The 2023/2024 film season opens at the former Odeon cinema hall of the Ligurian Regional Media Library “Sergio Fregoso” Thursday 26 October at 20.30 pm with the film “The Last Moon of September”which will be followed by the cinema program on a weekly basis.
“After the national preview of Claudio Bisio's film “The Last Time We Were Children” the film program opens with another season full of interesting proposals – declares the Mayor Pierluigi Peracchini – the Media Library is increasingly becoming an important point of reference for cultural activities and initiatives of knowledge and dissemination aimed at every age group, as well as our Libraries and our Museums which offer activities throughout the year which, by enhancing the cultural heritage of La Spezia, also become a real place for aggregation and socialising."

The opening scene of the film The Last Moon of September is already worth the ticket: a boy standing precariously on the back of a horse with a mobile phone, placed on top of a long stick, is looking for an unlikely field to make calls. And this in the nothingness of the Mongolian steppe. It is the wonderful incipit of the film directed by director and actor Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam, already in the Marco Polo series on Netflix. The film takes us to contemporary Mongolia, but we could be in medieval Mongolia, and exactly in the remote province of Hėntij, where the population density is 0,95 inhabitants per kilometre. Adapted from the short novel Tuntuulei by T. Bum-Erden, the film presented by Mongolia in the Oscar race, The Last Moon of September takes the viewer to a land rarely represented on the big screen, Mongolia, rich in humanity, traditions and culture . In the remote province of Hėntij, Tuntuulei, a 10-year-old boy, will find in Tulgaa, having just returned to the steppe after years spent in the city, the father figure he has missed so much. With the awareness that there is little time available, since the last Moon of September, which in Mongolian culture means for many the return to the city before winter, is about to arrive, the two protagonists will help each other to try to heal from their respective emotional wounds, giving life to a unique and indissoluble bond that will change their lives forever. A film that knows how to speak to everyone with a rare delicacy. A touching story set in an enchanting land. Absolutely not to be missed.

Film times scheduled from October 25th to November 1st

Wednesday 25 October
15.15 PM; 17.15pm; 21.00pm THE LAST TIME WE WERE CHILDREN
Thursday 26 October
20.30 PM THE LAST MOON OF SEPTEMBER
Friday 27 October
17.30 PM; 21.00pm THE LAST MOON OF SEPTEMBER
Saturday October 28
15.00 PM; 17.00 pm; 19.00 pm; 21.00pm THE LAST MOON OF SEPTEMBER
Sunday October 29
15.00 PM THE LAST MOON OF SEPTEMBER
20.30 PM THE LAST MOON OF SEPTEMBER
Monday 30 October
REST
Tuesday 31 October
15.00 PM; 17.15pm; 21.00pm THERE'S STILL TOMORROW
Wednesday 1st November
15.00 PM; 17.15pm; 21.00pm THERE'S STILL TOMORROW
Synopsis of films currently scheduled
THE LAST TIME WE WERE CHILDREN THE LAST TIME WE WERE CHILDREN – based on the novel by Fabio Bartolomei, Claudio Bisio's directorial debut belongs to the category of those that cannot be forgotten. We are in the summer of 1943, four children, who despite the hard times they are experiencing, maintain their desire to discover the world by playing in the street. They are very different from each other, but they don't know it yet. Italo is the son of a rich Federal, Cosimo's father fights in exile, Vanda is an orphan and Riccardo is the son of a wealthy Jewish family. Their games, which simulate war in a completely innocent way, lead them to make a "spitting pact" that makes them inseparable. A story of light-heartedness and the desire for freedom seen through the eyes of kids who, guided by the recklessness of childhood, don't give up even when faced with one of the darkest pages in world history.
THE LAST MOON OF SEPTEMBER. «I wanted this film to be a love letter to the Mongolian cultural heritage» and the ambition could not have been better satisfied: one leaves as if bewitched by the vision of this film, moved by the story it tells but above all fascinated by a world so far away and mysterious. Like the protagonist (played by the debut director), the spectator is also invited to take a journey: transplanted to the city for years, Tulgaa is called to the bedside of his father, who has remained living in the very remote hills of Mongolia, and decides to stay there after the death of the parent to complete the mowing of the fields

THERE'S STILL TOMORROW. From the Rome Film Festival, Paola Cortellesi's long-awaited directorial debut is one of those films that surprise, entertain, move and make you reflect. It is signed by Paola Cortellesi, in her first directorial, determined to sign a tribute to the women of yesterday and today, starting from the invisible ones, to show how women have made history in spite of themselves. Recalling the historical turning point of women's right to vote and telling it firsthand, as a director but also as an actress, in the role of a woman victim of domestic violence, she chooses the black and white of the great national popular cinema which has set a precedent throughout the world to tell the its great little story

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