At Amarcort 2025, young filmmakers meet the Fellini Festival, building an ideal bridge between the Maestro’s imagination and the gaze of new generations.
On Saturday 29 November, at 2:30 p.m., at the Cineteca di Rimini, the Amarcort Film Festival will host a special selection from the Fellini Festival, a project born under the artistic direction of Raffaele Simongini within the classrooms of RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts, and developed thanks to the collaboration with Poliarte Ancona and LABA Florence. This encounter is made possible through the interest and support of the Fellini Museum.
At the heart of the programme is TORNA RESTA, a medium-length film composed of four episodes directed by emerging young talents who reinterpret the Fellinian world with different sensitivities:
Il funerale di Fellini by Mino Capuano
Amico di città laggiù by Tommaso Banti and Marco Di Filippo
Mnemofume by Ludovico Bosica
Chicken Carnival by Alain Parroni.
Stories that drift between memory, invention, and vision, like an album of dreams in motion.
Alongside them are two animated works – Quattro e un quarto by Laura Ettori and Orrendi scarabocchi by Pietro Ciccotti – which transform Fellini’s imagery into elastic, soft, and surprising forms. And, as a special screening, Omaggio a F. by Daniele Ciprì: not a debut film, but a small magic lantern that lights the way for younger artists, reminding us that Fellini remains a living territory yet to be explored.
The Fellinian programme of Amarcort 2025 unfolds across several days and events.
On Wednesday 26, at 6 p.m., at the Cineteca di Rimini, poet and scholar Rosita Copioli will lead a masterclass inspired by the unpublished Fellini materials she has curated: from concepts for television spots promoting reading to the treatment of L’Olimpo. It is an opportunity to explore—starting from her book Gli occhi di Fellini and her curatorial work—the lesser-known territories of the director’s imagination.
On Thursday 27, at 3 p.m., again at the Cineteca, it will be the turn of the masterclass by Gérald Morin, Fellini’s collaborator in the 1970s and founder of the Fondazione Fellini in Sion, who will receive the first of this year’s two “A Fellinian in the World” awards. The second award will be presented to writer Andrea De Carlo, assistant director on the set of And the Ship Sails On and director of the documentary Le facce di Fellini, shot during that very production. He will be interviewed on Friday 28, at 9 p.m., at the Cineteca, by Nicola Bassano, former head of the Fellini Archive of the Cineteca del Comune di Rimini.
By hosting this selection and these encounters, the Amarcort Film Festival renews its commitment to preserving and revitalising the Fellinian legacy: with the international award “A Fellinian in the World” and with training activities and workshops that invite young people to experience cinema as a place of invention, freedom, and wonder.
A meeting—between Amarcort, the Fellini Festival, and the Fellini Museum—that does not look only to the past but sparks new energy in the present: a path fully aligned with the mission and work of the museum, dedicated to keeping alive the dialogue between the city, new generations, and the cinematic heritage of the Maestro.
The complete programme of the festival is available at Amarcort website.
