FESTIVALS & SERIES, SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Cinema Made in Italy
Il signore delle formiche
134 mins
in Italian with EN subs
ITA | 2022 | dir. Gianni Amelio, with Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Sara Serraiocco, Jacopo Relucenti, Leonardo Maltese
Gianni Amelio’s The Lord of the Ants is a biopic of Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti, who was jailed in 1968 due to a Fascist-era anti-gay law. Braibanti was convicted after a complaint from his partner’s father, who later forced his son to be treated with electroconvulsive therapy in an ill-conceived attempt to rid him of his homosexuality. The Fascist-era law that punished Braibanti, which made it a crime to lead innocent or unwary people “morally” astray, was repealed in 1981.
The sceening will be followed by a Q&A with actor Luigi Lo Cascio