Axis IV · Film series · 2026
when cinema makes us dream
An open-air film series in Piazza Palmento, in the old town of Belvedere Marittimo. Each screening is followed by a conversation with scholars and guests: the film becomes an occasion to reflect on medicine and fragility, artificial intelligence and responsibility, the history and memory of the South of Italy.
Organised by l'IsCaPI within the Pitagora Mundus Programme · Artistic director: Corrado La Fauci · Under the patronage of the Municipality of Belvedere Marittimo · Free admission.
The Programme's parameters
The beauty of Risvegli is cinema under the stars, in the village square. The utopia is a community that uses film to think together: medicine and fragility, artificial intelligence and responsibility, the history of the South. Happiness is the conversation that follows the screening, when the audience stays on to talk rather than drifting away.
The 2026 programme
Thursday 25 June 2026 · 9.30 pm
by Vincent Ward (1998), starring Robin Williams
A visionary journey through love, death and transcendence, evoking the imagery of the Divine Comedy and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Followed by a conversation on the film and its themes.
Thursday 23 July 2026 · 9.30 pm
by Penny Marshall, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
The film that gives the series its name: the true story of a doctor who, in 1969, brings back to life patients who had spent decades in a catatonic state, and of the limits that care encounters. Four ideas guide the evening: medicine that heals, fragility that teaches, hope that kindles, dignity that unites.
Thursday 17 September 2026 · 9 pm
by John Badham, starring Matthew Broderick
Artificial intelligence, automated decision-making and human responsibility: what scenarios lie ahead for our future? After the film, a conversation with Prof. Walter Nocito of the University of Calabria.
Thursday 1 October 2026 · 9 pm
by Pasquale Squitieri
The Risorgimento, the Southern Question and new readings of brigandage. Followed by a discussion on the memory of the South with Edoardo Vitale, magistrate and president of Sud è Civiltà.
To dream is not to escape, but to become aware.