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At the Ala di Isotta of Castel Sismondo the shots of photographer Fernando Borrello and the art installation by Marco Nereo Rotelli TO BE A NORMAL STAR

The face radiating light of David Bowie, Mick Jagger‘s grimaces, the irreverent energy of Madonna and Taylor Swift, Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen, Chet Baker and Miles Davis, Michael Jackson and B.B. King, and many others including the Italians Andrea Bocelli, Zucchero, Vasco Rossi, Pino Daniele and Giorgia.

International icons, great stars portrayed in the shots of photographer Fernando Borrello, during the 30 years spent alongside David Zard, the most famous Italian manager of all time, will inhabit the spaces of the Ala di Isotta of Castel Sismondo, in Rimini, from Thursday 8 August to 29 September, thanks to the new exhibition Superstars – Music Icons on Exhibition, produced and organised by Blu&Blu Network srl, in collaboration with Sandro Di Martino – PROMARGROUP, who also worked alongside David Zard as Vinyl DJ for over 16 years, with the support of PRIMAFILA MAGAZINE and sponsored by the Municipality of Rimini.

After the success of Queen Unseen – set up last year in the same space of the Rimini fortress that houses the Fellini Museum in its main body – a new exhibition will bring to life unique moments in the history of international music, 30 years of concerts in every corner of the globe. A three hundred and sixty degree journey through the history of rock, pop, jazz and soul music.

Superstars – Music Icons on Exhibition will be open every day except Mondays from 16.00 to 22.00.

More than eighty photographs by Fernando Borrello will be on display. During his career, he has also been a contributor to important newspapers and prestigious record companies such as RCA, EMI and Virgin, and a set photographer in the world of cinema and television, where he had the opportunity to work alongside Renzo Arbore.

Special Guest at SUPERSTARS will be Marco Nereo Rotelli, the internationally recognised ‘Artist of Light’ for his spectacular light installations in the capitals of the world. The Venetian artist, protagonist in 10 editions of the Venice Biennale, in museums and galleries all over the world and in centres such as the Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Paris, will present the unprecedented “TO BE A NORMAL STAR”, an itinerary of 7 works dedicated to MADONNA, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, LOU REED, FREDDIE MERCURY, DAVID BOWIE, MICK JAGGER and TAYLOR SWIFT with a surprising result that exalts his stylistic signature in which the word becomes a dimension of identity. Word that also in the Rimini exhibition becomes the unity of all.
For info and online ticket purchase: fernandoborrellophoto.com

Fellini Museum – Fulgor Palace
1st and 2nd floors
Piazzetta San Martino, Rimini

Admission to the exhibition is included in the museum entrance fee:
Ticket 2 venues 10 euros full, 8 euros reduced, 5 euros special convention price.
Ticket Palazzo del Fulgor venue 2 euros for all

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From Wednesday 26 June to Friday 30 August, evening openings every Wednesday and Friday from 9pm to 11pm.
Reservation recommended for groups.

Every Wednesday at 9.30 p.m. a guided tour of Castel Sismondo at the special price of 8 euro.

Two meetings to present two books on cinema, as part of Libri da queste parti special edition for May of books.

Friday 24 May, 5 p.m. – admission free
Federica Fioroni presents
Melancholy without remedy
Life and cinema of Valerio Zurlini
by Federica Fioroni (Mimesis, 2024)
together with the author will be Marco Bertozzi, author of the preface

Tuesday 28 May at 5 p.m. – free entrance
Michele Sancisi presents
100% Walter Chiari. Biography of an Irregular Genius
by Simone Annichiarico and Michele Sancisi (Baldini+Castoldi 2024)

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Italo Calvino spoke of a ‘Masina zone’ in Fellini’s cinema, referring to that dimension of the director’s imagination that most recalls the circus and its figures. Of those figures, Masina was the most inspired and gifted interpreter: she possessed their lightness, vitality, grace and candour.

With La strada, in 1957, Fellini won the first of his five Oscars and at only 37 years of age she entered the Olympus of the greats of cinema, but it was Giulietta Masina with her interpretation of Gelsomina who conquered and moved audiences all over the world.
Charlie Chaplin recognised her affinity with his Tramp, and among the spectators in those distant 1950s was a young Argentinean named Mario Bergoglio who, decades later and having become Pope in the meantime, would remember that character whose gaze “knows how to capture in winter what is already spring“.
Only one year goes by and Fellini wins his second Oscar with Le notti di Cabiria. Again Giulietta Masina as the protagonist, perhaps in the role she most loved and in which she perhaps most recognised herself. To her, whom Fellini often portrays in Libro dei Sogni with the features of a fairy, the Fellini Museum dedicates a photographic exhibition.

Seventy years after La strada and just a few weeks after the thirtieth anniversary of her death, from Thursday 22nd February, the anniversary of her birth, until Monday 2nd April, 34 photos from the Penzo and Reporters Associati / Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna archives will be on show on the second and third floors of the Palazzo del Fulgor. These 34 photos come from the sets of the seven Fellini films in which Masina starred: in addition to the two films already mentioned, there are also Luci del varietà, Lo sceicco bianco, Il bidone, Giulietta degli spiriti and Ginger and Fred.

On the occasion of the inauguration, Thursday 22nd February from 4 pm, admission is free to Fulgor Palace.

On Friday 23 February at the Cineteca of Rimini at 5 p.m., there will be the presentation of the book

Amarcord raccontato dalla stampa dell’epoca (Edizioni Sabinae, 2023)
edited by Giuseppe Ricci in dialogue with Davide Bagnaresi.

As Gianfranco Angelucci writes in the introductory text:
“A surprising read to trace much of the emotions that the film never ceases to reserve for us half a century after its appearance. A collection of newspaper cuttings gathered by Giuseppe Ricci, a specialist in the genre, capable of rendering even a press review a narrative.”

Free entry

From 2 February to 1 April 2024, on the first floor of the Palazzo del Fulgor, a selection of 30 drawings from the collection of Liliana Betti: Italian writer, scriptwriter and director, friend and collaborator of Federico Fellini
The Liliana Betti Fund comprises 109 autograph drawings and 7 postcards recently acquired by the Ministry of Culture and entrusted to the Fellini Museum for safekeeping and preservation.
Most of the drawings are sketches that were probably made on the set, in the breaks between takes, with comic strips and playful inscriptions that express sympathy, confidence, affection and esteem and offer an insight not only into the world of Fellini’s private affections, but also into the enormous importance that drawing had in his creative process.

Also in 2024, the days dedicated to cinema and its industry return to Rimini. From 2 to 5 May, the city will come alive with the events of the 6th edition of La Settima Arte Cinema e Industria, the event organised by Confindustria Romagna and the University of Bologna – Department of Arts, in collaboration with the Municipality of Rimini, which offers the opportunity to learn and explore
how films and audiovisual productions are born and created.

The project highlights two fundamental themes: “Making Cinema”, representing the film industry with all its human, economic, intellectual and professional resources, and the “Cultural Revolution”, understood as the creative expression capable of breaking the mould of the present.

Each edition of the project sees the interweaving of these two strands in the programme of the days, which includes the Cinema and Industry Award, chaired by the famous director Pupi Avati, screenings, previews, conferences, masterclasses, exhibitions and book presentations with authors. The meetings are free and open to all citizens, with a view to a close relationship with the territory.

In a year that sees the candidature of Rimini-Romagna as Capital of Culture 2026, the event stands as a significant moment to promote and disseminate the values of the film industry.

“La Settima Arte – Cinema and Industry” is the cinema festival of Rimini and Romagna, an event that unites industry and cinema, businesses, universities and institutions.

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In a preview for the city, director Anselma Dell’Olio presents Enigma Rol (Italy, 2023)

After Fellini degli spiriti, which investigates the relationship between the filmmaker and the spiritual and supernatural dimension, Anselma Dell’Olio’s new documentary is dedicated to the controversial, elegant and mysterious figure of the psychic Gustavo Rol, a friend of Federico Fellini and Franco Zeffirelli, considered a spiritual master by the likes of Charles De Gaulle, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy and Giorgio Strehler.

“What Rol can do is scary. The spectator feels the sensation of a man sinking into a sea abyss without a diving suit,’ wrote Dino Buzzati quoting a phrase by Fellini.

The meeting will be led by Donato Piegari, a Rimini psychologist.

Monday 29 January at the Fulgor Cinema (Sala Federico)
at 9 p.m.
Entry 5 euro

On this occasion, on Tuesday 30 January the Cinemino will be screening Fellini degli spiriti at 4.00 p.m.

An unprecedented historical event, the Shoah occupies a prominent place in contemporary collective memory. Comics and graphic novels have also tackled the subject, not without caution, mistakes and hesitations, sometimes with brilliance.
Since when, and how, have comic book and graphic novel authors taken up the subject?
How did censorship intervene on some publications during the Second World War?
How are testimonies transmitted?
How do stories develop according to the political, social and aesthetic references of our time, while certain forms of anti-Semitism persist?

The exhibition attempts to answer these questions by analysing various works published from the 1930s to the present day in different countries, in particular the United States, Japan, France, Belgium and Italy.
Among the many works on display are some cult favourites such as Captain America and Mickey Mouse, the fascist magazine il Balilla, the History of the 3 Adolfs by the Japanese Osamu Tezuka, the adventures of the Belgian bellboy Spirou, the disruptive Maus by Art Spiegelman, but also various lesser-known publications, often produced together with the last witnesses.

Entrance is free, for groups of more than 10 people and for classes booking is compulsory, with a guided tour organised by the Istituto per la storia della Resistenza e dell’Età contemporanea della provincia di Rimini.

Scientific curators: Didier Pasamonik and Joël Kotek
Curatorship: Marie-Edith Agostini
Coordination: Caroline François
Italian version edited by Laura Fontana and Bruna Lo Biundo

Once again this year for the Christmas holidays, the Fellini Museum is dedicating a special event to the little ones: THE FEDERICO CIRCUS: fantastic pictures between dream and reality, a visit to the Fellini Museum with a creative workshop for children aged 6 to 10.

The guided tour is an invitation to discover the fantastic world of Fellini.
The children will be accompanied on a tour of the museum through storytelling and play with a “treasure hunt” to collect the images that will later give rise to the creation of the “fantastic picture“.
The workshop is intended to offer children a moment of play and socialisation where each child will express his or her creative potential and uniqueness, thus becoming the star director of his or her own fantasy world.

Each child will receive a gift of a copy of the book Gelsomina e il tamburo magico (Gelsomina and the Magic Drum), inspired by Federico Fellini’s film La strada and realised by the children of the “D. Alighieri”, “E. Fermi” and “A. Marvelli” schools as part of the CEET (Culture, Education, Empowerment, Territory) Network project, supported by the Fund for the fight against juvenile educational poverty and promoted by the Associazione Arcobaleno ODV and Arci Romagna Cesena Rimini APS, in a network with the Municipality of Rimini.
Participation is free for a maximum of 15 children per group.
Adults can leave the children with the guides or, if they wish, visit the museum with a reduced ticket of 5 euro.
Mandatory booking by writing to museofellini@comune.rimini.it, indicating
– name and surname of the child
– age
– a parent’s telephone number.
The beautiful poster was created from a watercolour by Ambara Chiara Zuccali with graphics by Jyoti Leila Sadegholvaad

Two rounds available:
29 DECEMBER
morning 10.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
afternoon 4.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.

The exhibition Fellini/Trubbiani – E la nave va (1983-2023), promoted by the Fellini Museum in Rimini, is an opportunity to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of one of Federico Fellini’s greatest films, while telling the story of a truly extraordinary encounter, that between the director and sculptor Valeriano Trubbiani.

Fellini, fascinated by Trubbiani’s works ever since he saw them for the first time at the 1972 Venice Biennale (which also left a mark on Nobel Prize-winning writer José Saramago, as we read in the long, intense passage on Trubbiani in his Manuale di pittura e calligrafia), finally found the right combination to involve the artist in a series of scenic solutions for the 1983 film. Trubbiani was commissioned to deal with three things: the gash on the hull of the liner Gloria N., the sick rhinoceros and the Austro-Hungarian battleship.

The exhibition will present a significant selection of Trubbiani’s sketches and drawings, as well as a rich series of photographs, those of the visit that Fellini made to his atelier in Candia di Ancona in 1982 and those of the actual work carried out at Cinecittà, also documented by ten original drawings by the director, a sort of guide-notes for the sculptor.

In 1973 Amarcord was released in Italian cinemas.
To celebrate its 50th birthday, in addition to the screening of the film, two books will be presented.

On Monday 11 December at the Fulgor Cinema at 9 p.m., two books dedicated to Amarcord will be presented, fresh off the presses: in the first, Nicola Bassano retraces the history of the birth of Fellini’s masterpiece, analysing its main themes and recounting, through anecdotes and curiosities, the parable that led it to win the Oscar for best foreign film; in the second, the authors compile a veritable dictionary that goes from A for Amarcord to Z for Zeus, passing through Biscein, Fulgor, Gradisca, Nonno and Rex.

The event will be attended by authors Nicola Bassano, Davide Bagnaresi and Gianfranco Miro Gori.

Amarcord Story
by Nicola Bassano (Aliberti, 2023)
Amarcord from A to Z
by Davide Bagnaresi and Gianfranco Miro Gori (Edizioni Sabinae, 2023)

followed by the screening of
AMARCORD by Federico Fellini (Italy 2023, 123′)

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the release of La strada (1954), FM – Fellini Museum Rimini and the Department of the Arts – University of Bologna in collaboration with Cineteca Comunale di Rimini, La Settima Arte – Cinema and Industry, CFC (Culture, Fashion, Communication International Research Centre) are organising a study day in Rimini on 2 and 3 May 2024.
La strada has a special place in Fellini’s filmography both for its international success (with the first of Fellini’s five Oscars) and for the unique characteristics of its structure, narrative and representation of Italy. For this reason, the curators consider a retrospective study of Fellini’s masterpiece more than topical, even in the context of a critical literature that is now so rich. And they propose to offer a series of in-depth studies capable of soliciting Fellini studies in the most fruitful directions that have emerged in recent years, starting from the new Fellini research strands.

A special call therefore for researchers, professors and film scholars, who are invited to send in their proposals by 31 January.

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The most immediate expression of Federico Fellini’s extraordinary imagination has always been drawing, both during the preparation of films and in those more intimate, carefree and therefore joyful moments when, having drained himself of all creative energies, he would dive into the more relaxing and liberating ones that drawing suggested to him.
It was a special time when he became a child again.
Playing with felt-tip pens, he would put all his fantasies, anxieties, memories, fears, desires, imaginations and dreams on a sheet of paper.
In fact, behind each of his drawings, behind each character, there was a story, a small script, a mysterious interweaving of reality and fantasy, a paradoxical plot.
Once the drawing was finished and perfected, and after he had finished putting the finishing touches on the stroke and the colour, if everything had turned out exactly as he wanted it, he would give it away with a smirk of complicity.
If not, he would tear it up.

Thus was born this collection of forty drawings that are part of the collection of Daniela Barbiani, Federico Fellini’s niece and his assistant director in the last four films from E la Nave va to La Voce della Luna.
The drawings exhibited here for the first time as a national preview on the initiative of the Fellini Museum and the Cineteca of the Municipality of Rimini, have previously been at the Guggenheim in NY, the Cannes Film Festival, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, the Renault Foundation in Paris and the Puskin Museum in Moscow.

In the year of Fellini’s many anniversaries, Rimini, with the Fellini Museum and the Amarcort Film Festival, also celebrates the centenary of Disney, founded on 16 October 1923.

An event organised by Amarcort Film Festival with the Fellini Museum presents a work for each year: a selection of original sketches, paintings and cels from private collections, used to create the famous Disney shorts from the 1920s to the present day.

The gallery also includes the first historical Mickey Mouse short, Steamboat Willie, from 1928.

Also dedicated to the Disney centenary is the special event scheduled at the Teatro degli Atti on the evening of 17 November: “Disney 100 – A Century of Masterpieces of Animated Short Films” with expert Federico Fiecconi who, starting from the artwork on show at the Fellini Museum, will present on screen some of the cornerstones of the endless filmography of the magic Californian studio, recounting the behind the scenes of the extraordinary journey of Disney’s creativity.

On the centenary of Disney and 32 years after the first publication of “Mickey Mouse Presents La Strada“, the Fellini Museum and Amarcort Film Festival celebrate the meeting between Federico Fellini and one of the world’s greatest Disney artists, Giorgio Cavazzano, with an exhibition at the Palazzo del Fulgor.

Thirty-two years after its first publication, Mickey Mouse presents La Strada returns to bookshops and comic book stores in a special Limited De Luxe hardback edition with new colours published by Panini Comics. In those now famous plates, with a leap of imagination we also find the meeting between Walt Disney himself and Federico Fellini, which really took place in 1956 when Fellini and Masina were in California for the awarding of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film to La Strada.

Perfect, then, the occasion to renew this union in the city of the genius of cinema, renewing Federico Fellini’s encounter with the work of the magician from Burbank.

The magical encounter between one of the most famous “modern Disney” cartoonists working today, Giorgio Cavazzano, and Federico Fellini, took place on the occasion of the production of the comic strip version of the 1954 film La Strada. The now famous Great Disney Parody Mickey Mouse Presents La Strada, drawn by Cavazzano and scripted by Massimo Marconi, was published in issue 1866 of “Topolino” in September 1991.

Fellini at the time not only gave permission to be portrayed in the story, but also sent his own autograph thank-you drawing to the editorial staff of “Topolino“.

Giorgio Cavazzano was awarded the prize “Un Felliniano nel mondo” (A Felliniano in the world) this year during the Amarcort Film Festival.

On show are shots taken by Peter Hince, the band’s historic road crew and Freddie Mercury’s personal assistant.

The exhibition reveals some previously unseen and unknown sides of the iconic band that made rock history, told through the ‘photographic’ eye of someone who knew them for real, living in symbiosis with them for over 10 years.

Hince began taking photographs of Queen in 1976, when they had already reached the peak of their worldwide success, continuing until 1986, with an interlude of a further two years in which he would only portray Mercury. During his years with Queen, Peter cultivated a passion for photography, taking intimate and candid photos of the band in the recording studio, during the filming of video clips, tour rehearsals and, on rare occasions, even during live shows. He also takes some portraits of the band, which have become iconic.

But in addition to Hince’s images, “QUEEN UNSEEN – Peter Hince” also exhibits the rich personal collection of memorabilia, clothing, accessories, musical instruments, records and documents, all strictly original, of Niccolò Chimenti, one of Europe’s biggest collectors of the Queen universe, including the microphone stand used by Freddie Mercury in his last concert, an autographed guitar by Brian May, an autographed cymbal and drum sticks by Roger Taylor, Freddie’s legendary braces, one of the costumes used for the Radio Gaga video, and much more.

The exhibition is completed by the projection of videos, most of them extremely rare and now unavailable even on the web.

The Riviera revisited twenty years later in the photographs of the Rimini reporter, an exhibition and two venues in Rimini and Savignano sul Rubicone

Curated by Mario Beltrambini and Jana Liskova.

“Rimini Revisited” takes the form of a critical reinterpretation of the original project of the “Rimini” exhibition, which the reporter dedicated to his city and which was staged posthumously in 2003.

In the light of the in-depth study of the archive and in particular the discovery of the original mock-up, drawn up by Marco Pesaresi, of the book that was created at the same time as the exhibition and published in 2003, which was therefore also posthumous, the revisited traces and reconstructs the continuous, tormented and obsessive research that led Marco Pesaresi to select, from the thousands of shots taken, the 73 photos exhibited and published then.

Today, after 20 years, new images are added and exhibited (the exhibition consists of 173 photographs in total), thanks to the considerable wealth of documents that the author left behind, contents that Marco Pesaresi repeatedly recounted and described in his texts and diaries. The result is a great fresco on “Romagnolità”, represented by the combination of culture, traditions and landscapes that characterise the Romagna Riviera. This adds a new chapter to the great story in images that Marco Pesaresi has built around the atmospheres, people, excesses and originality of his land and his city, one of the most visited areas in Europe.