(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 20 – The Embassy of Italy in Brasilia will be present at the first edition of CINE BIKE, the International Film and Urban Mobility Festival, scheduled until July 31 at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center in the Brazilian capital. The event aims to encourage more sustainable habits and promote the bicycle as a means of transport of excellence. An approach that reflects the issues dear to the Italian Embassy, which has long been committed to optimizing and promoting green practices and environmental protection.
During the days of the festival, whose slogan is “Think global, act locally”, there will be free film screenings, virtual exhibitions, workshops, debates, bike tours and various educational activities. Italy will be present, in particular, with two films: “Thieves of bicycles” by Vittorio de Sica (1948), which will be screened on Friday 22 July, and “My Italian secret” by Oren Jacoby (2014), scheduled for Saturday 23 July. De Sica’s film is a cult of Italian neorealism, one of the first feature films to win the Oscar for best foreign film. While “My Italian Secret” tells the story of the cyclist Gino Bartali who together with other Italians worked secretly to save Jews and fugitives from the Nazis during the Second World War. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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