Napoli's Modernissimo Hosts Third Cinema Film Series 'Manifesti per un Cinema Libero'

From March 18 to May 7, 2025, the Multicinema Modernissimo in Naples presents 'Manifesti per un Cinema Libero', a film series dedicated to Third Cinema, a movement defined by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas in 1969 as a cinema of anti-imperialist struggle and cultural decolonization. Curated by Gina Annunziata, Armando Andria, and Cecilia Cenciarelli of the Cineteca di Bologna, the series features restored films from Syria, Senegal, Argentina, Iran, Mauritania, and Tunisia, produced between the 1960s and 1970s during liberation movements. The project is a collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, led by Martin Scorsese, focusing on preservation. The series includes Tewfik Saleh's 'Gli Ingannati' (1972), unseen for 40 years, whose only surviving positive copy was found in Bulgaria. The curators emphasize the importance of self-narration and direct audience engagement, citing Solanas and Getino's 'The Hour of the Furnaces' (1968) as an example of cinema that dissolves the boundary between screen and reality. The series aims to reclaim forgotten filmmakers and counter the standardization of taste and passive consumption.