Giovanna Taviani On the Rochester Institute of Technology Campus Nov. 10 and 11

Conducting master classes for students studying Italian, anthropology and film in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts and the School of Film and Animation in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, the daughter of Vittorio and niece of Paolo Taviani  will visit Rochester NY.

Vittorio and Paolo are famed filmmakers who have won multiple Golden Globes and were nominated for an Academy Award and their most recent “Caesar Must Die,” about inmates in a Italian prison staging the same name Shakespeare play, will be shown at 7:15 p.m. Nov. 10 in RIT’s Webb Auditorium.
Admission is free and open to the public, and a reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. with Italian food and desserts. Giovanna’s film Ritorni will be shown for the RIT community with English subtitles at 7 p.m. Nov. 11 in RIT’s University Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public, and a reception will be held at 6 p.m. with Italian food and desserts.
Ritorni
Ritorni

Ritorni will be shown with English subtitles at 7 p.m. Nov. 11 in RIT’s University Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public, and a reception will be held at 6 p.m. with Italian food and desserts.

Ritorni is a documentary about the people of the Maghreb region of northern Africa living in Europe who return to their lands during the summer, an exodus in the opposite direction that thousands of refugees make each year from the African coast.

In the documentary, writers are interviewed, members of the Arabic community are engaged and conversations about the aftermath of 9/11 are had.

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