Di là dal Fiume per il bicentenario di Carlo Collodi

From August 23 to September 14, 2026, the ninth edition of **DI LÀ DAL FIUME** (“Beyond the River”) will take place, under the artistic direction of Lorenzo Ciccarelli. The festival is produced by the cultural association Teatroinscatola ETS, an organization that does not receive any form of public or private funding.

Building on the bicentenary of the birth of Carlo Lorenzini (1826–2026), known throughout the world as Carlo Collodi, Teatroinscatola places the relationship between **Art and Childhood** at the heart of the ninth edition of the **DI LÀ DAL FIUME** festival. Eleven events will animate six venues with readings, screenings, concerts, installations, exhibitions, and guided tours.

The bond between Rome and children has its roots in the city’s founding legend: “the waters left high and dry the basket in which the children had been placed, and a she-wolf rushed toward their cries...” (Livy). Today, Rome offers a wide range of educational spaces, interactive museums, and theme parks designed specifically for children.

A defining feature of the Festival is its simultaneous involvement of several venues, including unusual places to discover or rediscover. The venues participating in the ninth edition of **DI LÀ DAL FIUME** are: the CAE at the former Testaccio Slaughterhouse; Teatro La Comunità in Trastevere; the Cinema Hall of Municipality VI in Tor Bella Monaca; La Casa dei Bimbi (the Municipal Library), located in the middle of a park in the Cinecittà Est district; the sixteenth-century Palazzo Rospigliosi in Zagarolo; and the Marcigliana Nature Reserve.

The festival opens with the cinema section at the CAE, the former Rome Slaughterhouse, thanks to the hospitality of Testaccio Estate and the City of the Other Economy. On August 23, the program features **The 400 Blows**, directed by François Truffaut (1959). Its protagonist is a twelve-year-old boy whose parents fail to understand his emotional needs and the anxieties associated with his approaching adolescence. On August 24, **The Kid**, directed by Charlie Chaplin (1921), will be screened. This 1921 silent-film masterpiece was written, directed, and performed by Charlie Chaplin. It was Chaplin’s first feature-length film and uniquely combines comedy and drama.

On August 25 and 26, with the support of the Japan Cultural Institute, the following films will be presented: **Good Morning**, directed by Yasujirō Ozu (1959), a Japanese comedy centered on two brothers who go on a silence strike in order to obtain a television (August 25 at 10:30 p.m.); and **My Neighbor Totoro**, directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1988) and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film tells the story of sisters Satsuki and Mei, who move to the countryside with their father to be close to their sick mother. There, they discover magical spirits, including the great guardian of the forest known as Totoro (August 26 at 9:00 p.m.).

On August 26 at 7:00 p.m., also at the CAE, there will be a children’s workshop led by **Per fare un gioco**, a Roman cultural association headed by set designer and artist Roberto Capone. The workshop will involve children in coloring large-scale animal installations.

The festival continues with a tribute to the masters of animated cinema Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini, who were nominated for an Academy Award twice. The tribute will first take place at the cinema hall of Municipality VI in Tor Bella Monaca from August 24 to 28, and then at La Casa dei Bimbi from September 4 to 14.

The Zagarolo Toy Museum will welcome the festival with a guided tour on August 30, inside the sixteenth-century Palazzo Rospigliosi. It is the largest toy museum in Italy and one of the largest in Europe.

September 3 will be dedicated to Carlo Collodi at the historic Roman independent theater La Comunità, founded in 1972 by Giancarlo Sepe, with the event **“Pinocchio: From Silent Cinema to Carmelo Bene.”** Composer Gabriel Maldonado will perform the live musical accompaniment to the 1911 film **Pinocchio**, directed by Giulio Antamoro—the first adaptation of *The Adventures of Pinocchio*. In this film, the character of Pinocchio is played by Ferdinand Guillaume, known as Polidor.

After the screening, there will be a meeting with Luisa Viglietti, costume designer for Carmelo Bene’s 1999 production **Pinocchio, ovvero Lo spettacolo della provvidenza** (*Pinocchio, or The Show of Providence*). Luisa Viglietti worked with Carmelo Bene for eight years. In her book *Cominciò che era finita* (*It Began When It Was Over*), published by Edizioni dell’Asino, the publishing house founded by Goffredo Fofi, she describes the years she spent with Carmelo Bene. The evening will conclude with Giorgia Gabriele, president of the Association Il Borgo di Pinocchio, based in Farnese—a village that hosted the filming of several scenes from the 1972 television serial directed by Luigi Comencini.

On September 11, an unmissable meeting with Raffaella Milano will take place at the CAE, the former Slaughterhouse. Milano is Director of Save the Children’s Italy–Europe Programs and the author of the book *I figli dei nemici. Eglantyne Jebb. Storia della rivoluzionaria che fondò Save the Children* (*The Children of Enemies: Eglantyne Jebb, the Story of the Revolutionary Who Founded Save the Children*), published by Rizzoli.

Save the Children Italy’s headquarters in Rome are located in Palazzo Cesarini Borgia, in Piazza San Francesco di Paola in the Monti district. Built in the fifteenth century, the complex served as the historic headquarters of the Central Institute for Restoration (ICR), founded by Cesare Brandi and Giulio Carlo Argan, from 1939 to 2010.

“I cannot have enemies under the age of seven”: with these words, George Bernard Shaw summed up his support for Eglantyne Jebb, to whom we owe the drafting of the first Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The meeting will include readings from the book by actress Paola Rinaldi, as well as a screening of photographs from Pino Bertelli’s series **“L’infanzia insanguinata”** (“Bloodied Childhood”). Pino Bertelli is a photographer, filmmaker, and writer whose work addresses issues of diversity, marginalization, welcome, migration, and freedom.

Also at the CAE, the former Slaughterhouse, on September 11 at 6:45 p.m., art historian Giuseppe Garrera will discuss his latest exhibition at Geneva’s Museum of Contemporary Art, **“Enfantillages et bizarreries: vertige d’une collection”** (“Childish Things and Oddities: The Vertigo of a Collection”). The exhibition features 180 miniature objects by artists including Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Bruno Munari.

How did this exhibition come about?

> “It concerns a particular aspect of my collection: my childhood obsession with recovering small artist-made objects, little toys, and gadgets belonging to the world of childhood. Gradually, I collected a trove of absurd things that can fit inside a box—somewhat like Duchamp’s famous *Boîte-en-valise* [Box in a Suitcase].”
> — Giuseppe Garrera

The festival will conclude on September 13 with a tour following the traces of the former orphanage in the Marcigliana Nature Reserve. The orphanage was built in 1933 within the Bufalotta Roman Agricultural Colony. The tour is made possible through the support of Ente Natura and will include the participation of architect Katia Longo. The former orphanage has also served as a film location, including for **The New Monsters** (1977), directed by Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, and Ettore Scola.

**DI LÀ DAL FIUME** is held under the patronage of the Presidency of Municipality I – Central Rome, the Presidency of Municipality VI, the Japan Cultural Institute, and the Carlo Collodi National Foundation, in collaboration with CAE and Testaccio Estate.

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# PROGRAM

## CINEMA

**August 23, 9:00 p.m.**
**The 400 Blows**
Directed by François Truffaut (1959)

CAE – City of the Other Economy
Largo Dino Frisullo, no street number

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## CINEMA

**August 24, 9:00 p.m.**
**The Kid**
Directed by Charlie Chaplin (1921)

CAE – City of the Other Economy
Largo Dino Frisullo, no street number

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## CINEMA

**August 24–28**
Cinema Hall, Municipality VI
Via Fernando Conti
5:00–8:00 p.m.

**September 4–14**
La Casa dei Bimbi
Via Libero Leonardi 153
During library opening hours

**Tribute to Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini**

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## CINEMA

**August 25, 10:30 p.m.**
**Good Morning**
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu (1959)

CAE – City of the Other Economy
Largo Dino Frisullo, no street number

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## WORKSHOPS

**August 26, 7:00 p.m.**
**Animal Cartoons**
Painting workshop for children, led by Per fare un gioco

CAE – City of the Other Economy
Largo Dino Frisullo, no street number

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## CINEMA

**August 26, 9:00 p.m.**
**My Neighbor Totoro**
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (1988)

CAE – City of the Other Economy
Largo Dino Frisullo, no street number

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## ART

**August 30, 10:30 a.m.**
**Toy Museum**
Guided museum tour; advance booking required

Palazzo Rospigliosi
Piazza dell’Indipendenza 6, Zagarolo

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## CINEMA

**September 3, 8:30 p.m.**
**Pinocchio: From Silent Cinema to Carmelo Bene**
Live music by Gabriel Maldonado

Followed by a meeting with Luisa Viglietti and Giorgia Gabriele

Teatro La Comunità
Via Zanazzo Giggi 1

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## BOOKS

**September 11, 6:00 p.m.**
**The Children of Enemies**

Meeting with Raffaella Milano
Save the Children Italy

Photographs by Pino Bertelli
(*Portraits of Bloodied Childhood*)

Readings by Paola Rinaldi

CAE – City of the Other Economy
Largo Dino Frisullo, no street number

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## ART

**September 11, 6:45 p.m.**
**Enfantillages et bizarreries: vertige d’une collection**

Meeting with Giuseppe Garrera

CAE – City of the Other Economy
Largo Dino Frisullo, no street number

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## ARCHITECTURE

**September 13, 11:00 a.m.**
**Marcigliana Nature Reserve**

Guided tour in collaboration with Ente Natura

Meeting with architect Katia Longo:
former Marcigliana orphanage

Advance booking required