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Trieste and Cinema

Did you know that more than 200 films have been shot in Trieste? And that five international film festivals are held in the city? That in 1957 Tino Ranieri started the "oldest" Film History course in Italy here in Trieste?
The link between Trieste and the Cinema
I certainly didn't know and couldn't have imagined the great tradition that connects the capital of the Giulia region with film when I arrived in the city as a child, in 1979, with my parents who moved here for work. At around that time, while I was still in elementary school, the seventh art swept into my life and never left. Back then they were showing many Hollywood classics on television and I made sure that I never missed one. I was beginning to believe that film would be my career, even though I wasn't sure what direction I would take.

At that time, "dreaming of the cinema" inevitably meant moving to Rome. But, after finishing secondary school, for a combination of reasons that I can no longer clearly explain - circumstances, events, fears - I didn't go. What I could never have imagined is that it was possible to achieve the same goal here, in this border city that is far from everything, yet in the centre of Europe. Nevertheless…
My work involves writing about films and I can allow myself the luxury of doing it in Trieste, a city which has always been connected with film.
Beatrice Fiorentino

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