From June 1rst to August 30th Eye Filmmuseum is proud to present a major solo exhibition of work by Chantal Akerman. In 1995, the Belgian filmmaker created a large spatial installation on 24 monitors based on D’Est, a film she originally made as a documentary. This was only the start of her second career in the world of visual art.

The exhibition hosted by EYE Filmmuseum features eight of Akerman’s film installations. They include among others the previously mentioned D’Est,  Woman Sitting after a Killing (2001), Tombée de nuit sur Shangai (2007-2008) and her final work NOW (2015).

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Thanks to the effort and the support from Comune di Bologna, three dreams are slowly becoming reality.

The new construction site in the area of the ex-parking lot Giuriolo will bring to life a new complex dedicated to film heritage and to the city of Bologna’s cultural heritage, something unprecedented in the world, thanks to the transformation of the spaces in the new headquarter. The new complex will host the film archive of Cineteca di Bologna (with more than eighty thousand titles and collections of immeasurable value) and the restoration laboratory L’immagine Ritrovata, considered to be a global reference point. There will new spaces open to the public and an area for open-air screenings.  This renovation fits into a project of redevelopment of the Bologna’s outskirts promoted by Piano Periferie per la città di Bologna.

Thanks to the institutional support from Comune di Bologna and Regione Emilia-Romagna Sotto le stelle del Cinema and Il Cinema Ritrovato will be able to return this year.
For the open-air screenings in Piazza Maggiore, Cineteca di Bologna is working on different hypothesis to make sure the screenings are hosted in the safest environment, suggesting a maximum number of one thousand spectators per screening. The program will be similar in length to the past years with more than 50 evenings, from July 4^th to September 1^st.

The XXXIV edition of Cinema Ritrovato will take place from the 25^th to the 31^st of August as an ideal peak of Sotto le Stelle del Cinema. The team of festival curators (Gian Luca Farinelli, Cecilia Cenciarelli, Mariann Lewinsky, Ehsan Khoshbakht) and the international scientific committee have been working for months to ensure a special and partly redesigned Cinema Ritrovato edition.

The current health crisis has led the organizers of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival/Giornate del Cinema Muto to shift the 2020 programme selected by director Jay Weissberg to 2021. For 2020 to organize 8 days of thematic screenings and events, between the 3rd and the 10th of October, the world’s leading film archives have been chosen as the Festival’s co-producers, offering them the opportunity to present some of their treasures online to the Giornate’s audience during the established dates.

With the aim of making the archives the actual protagonists, the Festival is working with a number of major international film archives including the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., Lobster Films in Paris, Det Danske Filminstitut in Copenhagen, the China Film Archive in Beijing, EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Film Archive of Japan in Tokyo, together with the Cineteca del Friuli, co-founder with Cinemazero of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.

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The festival “Il cinema svizzero contemporaneo – I film che non ti aspetti” is an online film festival dedicated to the contemporary Swiss cinema. It is organised by Cineteca di Milano with the support of the Swiss general consulate in Milan, with the collaboration of Cinema Svizzero from Venezia and with the contribution of the Swiss Institute.

The week between May 13 and 21 will see the premiere of 20 films between documentaries and feature length movies, an homage to the Swiss director Lionel Baier, an homage to the Swiss photographer René Burri and live conversations with directors.

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