THE FANTASTIC 5 - EPISODE 1 (2024)
Tuesday 10 March, 9.30 a.m.
Room SF301, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Gemelli 1
First episode of the series that follows a group of young athletes with disabilities struggling with personal and sporting challenges. The story, fresh and immediate, focuses on values such as commitment, friendship and personal growth, returning an inclusive and contemporary vision of sport. Riccardo Bramanti, a former Olympic coach who, after a difficult period and divorce, agrees to coach a group of talented but problematic young Paralympic athletes, with the aim of taking them to the European Championships, while trying to rebuild the relationship with his teenage daughters, facing personal and sporting challenges together with his new team.
Greetings
Luigi D'ALONZO, Vice Rector for Inclusion, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Patrizia RAPPAZZO, Artistic Director of Sguardi Altrove Women's International Film Festival
Speakers
Maurizio MOLINARI, Head of the European Parliament's (liaison) office in Milan
Caterina GOZZOLI, Scientific Coordinator of the Catholic Tablefor Sport
Livia CECAGALLINA, Paralympic athlete of the Italian Shooting Union
Linda CASALINI, Vice-President of the Italian Paralympic Committee of Lombardy and member of the National Council
Francesca CAVALLIN, Actress
5 NANOMOLES – A TRANS WOMAN'S OLYMPIC DREAM (2023)
Friday 20 March, 11.30 a.m.
Room SF209, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Largo Gemelli 1
Documentary that tells the sporting, human and identity journey of a transgender woman determined to pursue the Olympic dream. Between training, sacrifices and regulatory and cultural obstacles, the film returns a story of courage, self-determination and resistance to prejudice, offering an authentic look at the relationship between gender identity and competitive sport. Valentina is a transgender athlete with a visual impairment. In June 2021 she was the first transgender athlete to run with the Italian national team jersey in an international competition, at the European Paralympic Championships in Bydgoszcz in Poland. The film highlights his sporting dream and his battle against indifference and prejudice.
Greetings
Mariagrazia FANCHI, Director of ALMED, Università Cattolica
Patrizia RAPPAZZO, Artistic Director of Sguardi Altrove Women's International Film Festival
Speakers
Elisa MEREGHETTI, Director
Marco MENSA, Director
Claudio ARRIGONI, Journalist
Valentina PETRILLO, Paralympic athlete Italian Federation of Paralympic and Experimental Sports
THE BLUE AT THE TOP AND THE GOLD INSIDE (2025)
Tuesday 24 March, 9.30 a.m.
Room SF209, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Largo Gemelli 1
"The blue at the top and the gold inside" are the colors of the Ukrainian flag but they are also the thoughts, desires, expectations of Valeria, a Ukrainian girl who at the outbreak of war arrives in Italy with her mother and little brother, welcomed by a grandmother who has lived in Italy for twenty years. Valeria begins to attend a school in Milan, and immediately makes friends with her classmates, who help her with her homework. The only one she misses so much is her dad, a good hockey player, who runs a small butcher's business in Ukraine. He decided to stay in Ukraine, but not to go fighting. Valeria has a real adoration for him, and perhaps also to follow her father's example she begins to attend a rhythmic gymnastics course with Anca Goia, Romanian Olympic champion in the 90s. A beautiful friendship is born between teacher and student. In Italy, Valeria began to win gold medals and dream of becoming a good professional athlete.
Greetings
Mariagrazia FANCHI, Director of ALMED, Università Cattolica
Patrizia RAPPAZZO, Artistic Director of Sguardi Altrove Women's International Film Festival
Speakers
Paolo CARELLI, Catholic University
Federica SENEGHINI, Journalist Corriere della Sera
Pepi ROMAGNOLI, Director
Valeria, protagonist athlete (accompanied by her brother and grandmother)
