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Slow Food Stories, the film by Stefano Sardo



"The history of the man and the movement that revolutionized the gastronomy"
This is the story of a revolution.

A cultural revolution, which does not leave dead on the field, but also that, once set in motion, marks a point of no return.

This is the story of a slow revolution. Slow. As a snail.

A revolution has been going on for 25 years and still shows no signs of stopping.

It has a Commander in Chief, which is called Carlo Petrini, said Carlìn.

The inventor of Slow Food.

And he is the man who, in Italy, in 1986, founded the gastronomic association ArciGola, and three years later launched in Paris Slow Food, an international movement that began as a Resistance to fast food, that at the time was threatening the local cuisine all over the planet.

The idea is appreciated, the movement of the snail has followers worldwide. Starting from Bra, a town of 27 thousand people speaking almost exclusively Piedmontese dialect, Carlìn created out of nothing an international association that now has 85,000 members in 130 countries, and has a tremendous impact in the world of gastronomy and culture of our time.

His bet was powerful: free gastronomy from the cultural marginality in which is relegated and return to the centrality - economic, political, scientific, philosophical - food deserves.

The ambition revealed itself in all its greatness in the 2000s, when Petrini gives life its most visionary projects: Terra Madre, a forum of 5000 farmers from around the world gathered in Turin to give voice to agriculture that fights against depersonalized and impoverishing crops, and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, which gives dignity to the academic study of food.

Meanwhile, gastronomy - also thanks to him - developed: the chefs have become stars, TVs all over the world are full of cooking shows, publishing industry produces best-seller in bursts. Food is cool, the typical products - defended by the Slow Food Presidia project - are a status symbol ...

Thanks to a winning idea - Slow Food ? that as sometimes happens is the result of a not predictable story, far from being aligned.

Slow Food Story is the story of a group of friends who grew up in the outskirts among jokes, huge eatings and political passion. There is Petrini, of course. But there are also his best friends: Azio Citi and Giovanni Ravinale.
This is the story of their friendship. The joys, but also the sorrows.

A story of bullshits, restaurants, and exhumed peasant rites (such as "singing the eggs": at night, during Lent, the farms of the Langhe woke up the farmers with improvised music and red wine going on until dawn), of unmissable events (the club Tenco and the fair of San Fermin in Pamplona), of drunks and of travels, of bets, won or lost, but lived always with the same unsinkable, gruff, contagious country humor.

A rich and unique life, that of Carlìn, who even today ? he is a "European hero", according to Time, and a columnist on the most important Italian newspaper - is firmly anchored in his native small town, in spite of the global dimension and the international movement which he founded (and now in Bra there is a company of 200 employees).

A story that shows us how even the most important cultural adventures can arise from an amused and ironic approach to life.

And that, perhaps, deserves to be told.

from the website: SlowfoodStories

CINEMAS THAT WILL SCHEDULE SLOW FOOD STORY FROM 30 MAY:

ROME - Cinema Quattro Fontane (16.30-18.30-20.30-22.30)

MILAN - Cinema Apollo (unique event on 30th May at 19.30)
MILAN ? Cinema Centrale in program since 31st May (14.30-16.30-18.30-20.30-22.30)

GENOA - Cinema City (Thu 16.30-18.30-21.15 / Fri Sat 16.30-18.30-20.30-22.30 / Sun 16.30-18.30-20.30)

SAN REMO - Cinema Ariston in program on 30th and 31st May at 17.30 / from Sat 1st June
16.00-18.00-20.00-22.00

TURIN - Central Cinema (18.15-20.00-21.30)

UDINE ? Cinema Visionario in program 15.00-18.20-20.00 (on 31st May at 15.00-18.20-20.30)

BRA - Cinema Impero (Thu and Fri 20:20 to 22:30 / Sat 22:30 / Sun Mon Tue 20:20-22:30)

PISA - Cinema Lantieri in program for weekdays 19:30 and 21:30 / Sat Sun 18.30-20.30-22.30

TRIESTE - Cinema Giotto

CAGLIARI - Cinema Odissea (19:15-21:30 in program)

BOLOGNA - Cinema Lumiere from Fri 31st May at 22.00 / Sat 14.30-16.30-20.30 / Sun 18:00 to 22:30 / Mon 20:15 / Tue 17:00-20:15 / Wed and Thu 20:15

PORDENONE - Cinemazero (in program: 19:30 - 21:00 / Sun 15.00-19.30-21.00)

PESARO - Cinema Loreto (in program from Sat. 1st June at 21:00 / Sun 22:30 / Tue 21:00)

TRENTO - Cinema Astra

PERUGIA - Cinema Zenith (4th and 5th June 20:30 to 22:00)

PADUA - Cinema Porto Astra (Thu 17:50-22:25 / Fri 16.10-20.10-22.25 / Sat 20:10 -22:25 / Sun 17:45-22:25 Sat / Mon Tue Wed 17:50-20:00)