Special Screenings
Roberto Rossellini – Living Without A Script
Roberto Rossellini, più di una vita / Ilaria De Laurentiis, Andrea Paolo Massara, Raffaele Brunetti / Italy, Latvia / 2025 / 87′
In the mid-1950s, Roberto Rossellini, master of Neorealism, went through a professional and personal crisis. After the decline of his last films and his failed marriage to Ingrid Bergman, he decided to change his life, even going so far as to make a will in 1956. He accepted Indian Prime Minister Nehru’s proposal to film a documentary, a choice that would mark his rebirth. The film explores this lesser-known chapter, showing a free, curious man, averse to dogma and traditional cinema, who decides to turn to new formats such as television to communicate knowledge.
Editing Ilaria de Laurentiis
Music Mattia Leonardi, Ruggero Catania
Produced by Raffaele Brunetti
Produced by Raffaele Brunetti B&B Film, Rai Cinema, ZDF/Arte, VFS Films
Co-producer Uldis Cekulis
with Sergio Castellitto, Kasia Smutniak, Isabella Rossellini, Tinto Brass, Vinicio Marchioni, Pierluigi Gigante, Bertrand Chaumeton, Jean Herman, Silvia D’Amico, Beppe Cino (voices).
INTRASTEVERE CINEMA – Room 2, May 29, 7:30 p.m.
Q&A with the authors
Ilaria De Laurentiis
She has devoted her entire career to film editing. She graduated from the CSC in 1987 and worked mainly in documentary filmmaking, gaining international recognition. In 2003 she founded the production company B&B Film.
Andrea Paolo Massara
Born in Switzerland in 1985, he is involved in film and nature. He is an environmental guide and screenwriter. Among documentaries, he wrote Alessandro Rossellini’s The Rossellinis (2020), nominated for a David di Donatello.
Raphael Brunetti
Documentary director and author, producer and founder of B&B Film. As an author and producer he has traversed the world of documentary filmmaking in all its forms, In 2005 he conceived the Italian Doc Screenings, the showcase of Italian documentary filmmaking.