On the occasion of its significant jubilee, its 20th birthday, the Free Zone Film Festival, together with the Belgrade Cultural Center Hall, is giving viewers a free screening of the film “There is always tomorrow” Paola Cortelezi.
The film recorded a record audience in Italy with 5.4 million tickets sold, leaving behind the big world hits “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”. It is currently fifth on the eternal list of the most watched Italian productions.
A free screening will be held 8. 11. at 7 p.m in the Hall of the Cultural Center of Belgrade.
You can apply for tickets by email or via our Instagram page.
One way is to send a message to karte.slobodnazona@gmail.com with your name, surname and phone number, emphasizing whether you want one or two tickets.
Another way is to follow the @slobodnazona profile on Instagram and, in private messageenter your information (name, surname, phone, email, number of tickets).
The list of ticket winners will be published on November 1 on the website slobodnazona.rs.
“There’s Always Tomorrow” Promo Trailer
Paola Cortelezi directed, wrote and played the main role in the film “There’s Still Tomorrow” (C’è anocora domani / There’s Still Tomorrow) about Delia, a housewife who, in post-war Rome, suffers verbal and physical abuse from her husband and father-in-law.
– As a child, I remember the stories of my grandmothers and great-grandmothers about the women in their neighborhood who were victims of abuse, regularly beaten by their husbands and relatives. I was shocked at how normal this tragic thing was and, even more, that women talked about it with a touch of irony and humor. That’s how we Romans are, even when we talk about the most tragic events, we tell them with a joke and a smile – says Paola.
The film is set in the past, but it is very contemporary, the author adds, because the roots of patriarchal culture are very deep. He relaunched the public discussion on domestic violence, femicide and women’s rights in Italy.
– After each screening, viewers approached me with their family stories about abuse, discrimination, unfair treatment. Everyone wanted to talk about it, they were just waiting for the right occasion. My film made it possible for them, it stimulated the conversation – points out the author.
Screenings were held in schools across the country, and one was also organized in the Italian Senate. The success of the film also spread to local politics, so the ruling right and the opposition left joined the debate.
– This film does not deal with politics, it deals with people who are horrified by the fact that in Italy every 72 hours one woman is killed as a victim of domestic violence. That statistic was and is valid for both right-wing and left-wing governments, and everyone is tired of hearing the same story. They want to do something to change that culture, to break that vicious circle of violence – says Kortlezi.
Paola Kortlezi is one of the most famous and beloved film and TV actresses in Italy. She played in romantic comedies, humorous series and dramas, and the films directed by her partner, Riccardo Milani, always deal, “below the surface”, with difficult topics such as social inequality, family violence and patriarchal culture. And “There’s Always Tomorrow” has elements of situation comedy and gags, even musical numbers, but the laughter is always in the service of a deeper social message.
– At the end of the film, you realize that it is a love story, but not a romantic love, but a mother’s love for her daughter. I wanted to tell it to my daughter, who is now 11 years old, and to all the children of her generation – says Kortlezi.
The jubilee 20th Free Zone will be held from November 6 to 11 in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš and Kragujevac. The audience will be presented with around 70 fiction and documentary productions from around the world.
The festival will be opened with a double Palme d’Or from this year’s Cannes – for a short and a feature film – “The Man Who Couldn’t Be Silent” Nebojša Slijepčević and Anora Sean Baker.
Tickets for opening at a price of 1200 dinars, they are on sale online through websites Tickets i eFinityas well as at the points of sale of these services.
Tickets for other projections they can also be purchased through the aforementioned services, as well as at the (online) box office of the cinema where they will be shown.
More information about the entire program and hourly rates can be found at official website of the festival.
And this year, part of the film program will be able to be seen by the audience in all of Serbia, because the platform will KinoKauch to host an online Free Zone.
The festival was supported by the MEDIA subprogram of the Creative Europe program, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, Reconstruction Women’s Fund, the City Administration for Culture of the City of Novi Sad, the Film Center of Serbia and the French Institute.
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