From January 26th at the Cinema Rouge et Noir in Palermo.
NON CI STO is an international festival of real-life cinema curated by ZaLab and the Fondazione Studio Rizoma, exploring stories of everyday resistance, intimate and collective disobedience, and minimal gestures capable of opening cracks in the present.
Five Mondays, five films, five perspectives that reject inertia and question the world from the margins: from work to migration, from identity to memory, from personal struggles to social transformations.
A cinema that doesn’t simply recount reality, but questions it, taking a stand. Each screening is accompanied by a meeting with the filmmakers, either in person or remotely, to extend the film beyond the screen and transform viewing into a shared space for reflection and discussion.
Before each feature film, a short film made during the Laguna Film Lab residency will be screened, a research and experimentation laboratory that connects territories, practices, and communities.
NON CI STO is an invitation to stop, look, listen. And together, to imagine other possibilities.
📍 Cinema Rouge et Noir – Palermo
🗓 Every Monday, from January 26th to February 23rd
🕖 7:00 PM
🎟 Admission €6, tickets available on the Zalab website and at the cinema.
PROGRAM
The films series are five feature films, one for each Monday:
January 26
MOTHERLODE – by Matteo Tortone
Peru, Italy, France · 85′
February 2
THE ROLLE, THE LIGE, THE FIGHT – by Elettra Bisogno, Hazem Alqaddi
Belgium, Palestine, Italy · 85′
February 9
ITALY SYNDROME – by Ettore Mengozzi
Romania, Italy · 65′
February 16
THE BIRDS OF MOUNT QAF – by Firouzeh Khosrovani, Morteza Ahmadvand
Iran, Italy, Norway · 80′
February 23
THE INDESTRUCTIBLE CASTLE – by Danny Biancardi, Stefano La Rosa, Virginia Nardelli
Italy, France · 71′
Before the film, a screening of one of the short films made in Chioggia during the Laguna Film Lab artistic residency
- Centro Permanent Gravity by Liliya Timirzyanova (12′)
- Rough Cut by Sebastien Willem (10′)
- Robertino by Ludovico Polignano (11′)
- Er Draa by Francesco Rubattu (9′)
- The Blue Years by Jacopo De Falco (10′)
Reservations are recommended on the Cinema Rouge et Noir website