To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Franco Basaglia’s birth, his direct pupils and the generations immediately following tell us how the psychiatrist elaborated his revolutionary theories on mental health, placing the person and their discomfort at the centre and demolishing asylum institutions. Stock footage and first-hand accounts confront us with the abomination of asylum segregation and the truly curative practice developed by Basaglia. What about today? Has Law 180, which was named after him, been fully implemented? What is the practice in the treatment of people suffering from mental disorders? How does the national health service deal with mental health? A film that does not give answers, but raises the debate on one of the most pressing and forgotten issues of our present.

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In case of bad weather, the screening will be held in Sala Sociale of SOMSI in Cividale del Friuli

A contemporary fairy tale that to the rhythm of music celebrates the strength and beauty of multiculturalism. Kamla recently moved with her parents into a run-down building on the outskirts of Trieste, where other immigrant families and an old professor who hates everyone live. When the eviction letter arrives, determined not to leave their homes, the men react angrily to the outlawed landlord’s threats, while the women unite to save the fate of their families, amid laughter, tears and misunderstandings. Meanwhile, Professor Leone and little Kamla, against her father’s wishes, become friends, while their mother Shanti soon reveals her talent for dancing like a Bollywood star. With the help of an Italian friend, the project of a dance school is born and in the neighbourhood people are already talking about the Babylon Sisters.

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In case of bad weather, the screening will be held in Sala Sociale of SOMSI in Cividale del Friuli

Worker, soldier, militant, prisoner, conspirator, bomber, exile. This and much more was Umberto Tommasini (1896-1980), an anarchist blacksmith who crossed the 20th century driven by a contagious human approach to life. A documentary that, telling the life of a simple militant blacksmith, also tells the story of his hometown, Trieste, and the great events that shook Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Between archive images, interviews and original animations, the documentary portrays the life of a man marked by intense humanitarianism and a constant sense of irony. A man who chose, without second thoughts, to devote his life to political struggle and paid the price for this choice directly on his own skin.

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In case of bad weather, the screening will be held in Sala Sociale of SOMSI in Cividale del Friuli