The World according to Fellini
Looking to the past to illuminate the future
Federico Fellini is on the program of the thirty-third edition of the JCC, in the section Mediterranean Visions because of the high stature of this exceptional Italian filmmaker, so much so that his heritage remains an essential reference, not only in the Mediterranean, but in the whole world.
This program is part of the commemoration of the cinematographic birth of Fellini, as a screenwriter in 1942, in two early films; I cavalieri del deserto by Gino Talamo and Osvaldo Valentin and Avanti, c'è posto ... by Mario Bonnard.
It is also the consecration of a set of aesthetic and human values, as a vision of the world that, in many ways, intersects with that of the founding spirit of the Carthage Film Festival, the first film festival of its kind in Africa and the Arab world, and the sense of renewal that it inherits.
This return to Fellini's work will not only consist of programming some of the filmmaker's most important works so that young people can discover them, but also of shedding light on the Fellinian legacy through the eyes of current filmmakers who have either worked with him or been so marked by his work that they are trying to give it a new understanding.
The program of the World according to Fellini includes three films that stand out from his exceptional career: Eight and a Half (1963), Amarcord (1973) and The Voice of the Moon (1990) and three documentaries on his work that have never been shown on our screens: Fellini, Fine Mai by Eugenio Cappusio ( 2019), In the Footsteps of Fellini ( 2013) by Gérald Morin, Fellini e L'ombra ( 2021) by Catherine McGilvray and the animated short film La fellinnette ( 2020) by Fellini's niece, Franscesca Fabbri Fellini.
These filmmakers will be present at the screening of their films and will lead discussions with the public.
This program, carried out in partnership with the Italian Institute of Tunis, will be enhanced by an exhibition "Fellini, director of dreams" and by a piano concert that will give the musician Mario Mariani who reprises the most famous tunes of film music of the great Maestro.
