The splendid "European Fairy Tales" series of animated films made in the 1970s and based on folklore tales and stories from various European nations, from Italy to France, from Belgium to Hungary, from Switzerland to England. The shorts in rotation take their cue from Carnival: fifteen short animated films resulting from international co-productions, each of which tells a fairy tale belonging to the folk tradition of a European country.

A documentary series venturing inside the cinema of one of the most beloved directors of all time: Woody Allen. An exciting journey into the films, background and creative process of an authentic icon of world cinema and culture.

Another book presentation + signing is coming up!
Fannie Heather will present her latest novel Violent Life (Magazzini Salani) together with Cami Blue!

Admission is free. No passes will be required for the signing session—there will be a single line for all participants.

The Book

WHEN A REPORTER IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH MEETS A SERIAL KILLER DETERMINED TO HIDE IT, PASSION CAN BECOME THE ULTIMATE CONDEMNATION.

Nadine is twenty-three years old and has a dream: becoming a reporter. An internship at the Hollow Fey Magazine, the city’s most prestigious newspaper, finally seems to open the door to the future she’s always wanted. But when she’s asked to write an article about Armon Windblack—the notorious serial killer sentenced to death whose crimes shook the entire country—she realizes her task will be anything but simple.

Armon is nothing like she imagined. Nor like everyone describes him. Behind the mask of a monster hides not only a dangerous man, but also someone enigmatic, charismatic, and disturbingly intelligent. And the more Nadine digs into his story, the more she finds herself trapped in a web of lies, secrets, and untold truths.

Torn between a boyfriend who grows ever more distant, unable to understand the darkness she’s slipping into, and a man who can read her soul more than she would like, Nadine must face a series of unsettling questions: How much are you willing to sacrifice for the truth? And how much can you lose when you start to desire what you should fear the most?

Driven by a dangerous attraction and choices that defy all logic, Nadine will discover that the truth, at times, is a deadly trap. And to tell it, one must first live it—on their own skin. Even at the cost of being lost.

The Author

Fannie Heather is the pen name of a young Italian writer who first debuted on Wattpad before arriving in bookstores, winning the affection of a solid community of readers. While writing, she enjoys listening to the sound of rain through her headphones. Violent Life is her first novel published by Magazzini Salani.

When one of the greatest British actors and directors meets the queen of detective stories. In recent years Kenneth Branagh has begun adapting Agatha Christie's most famous novels for the cinema, impersonating with originality and sophistication the most famous of her characters: Hercule Poirot. Giunti Odeon offers the first two films of this ‘series’.

One of the key features of illustration is its ability to tell stories and spark ideas through images.

With Sara Masiani, illustrator and graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, we will explore the creative process and what it means to communicate through images.
With Sabrina Patanè, naturopath and tarot reader, we will instead delve into one of the most controversial and well-known forms of imagery: the tarot.

Touching on its origins and the various iconographic meanings, the event will conclude with the presentation of the upcoming course on the Major Arcana, starting in October.

At Giunti Odeon a selection of American classics from the 1980s! Colourful, crazy, experimental, joyful and dark at the same time: the films of that decade are the kaleidoscope of a renewed and euphoric society, but not without its shadows. Here then are the films of masters such as Robert Zemeckis, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, Martin Scorsese and many other cult films to see and see again!

At GO, the presentation of ConTatto - Io, il buio e la fisioterapia by Paolo Boccia (Le Lettere).
In conversation with the author will be Lady Radio journalist Eva Edili, Professor Mariella Zoppi, and psychologist and psychotherapist Dr. Piero Pirro.

The book:
After the success of his autobiography Dal mio punto di vista, Paolo Boccia returns with his new book, in which he recounts—without filters—his journey as a physiotherapist, from his beginnings at the CTO Hospital in Florence to today. His narrative draws on more than thirty years of professional experience. But don’t expect this book to present physiotherapy merely as a profession: the relationship with the patient is never reduced to simply resolving a specific and punctual physical problem, although that is important. Instead, it is part of a broader healing process in which body and mind form a single whole. The relationship Paolo builds with his patients is based on two key elements: listening and energy. Listening means trying to understand the issues, the tensions, the deeper causes from which physical discomfort often arises. Energy, on the other hand, is transmitted, received, produced: a virtuous cycle that accompanies rehabilitation, helps to restore confidence in one’s own abilities, and leads to recovery. Through anecdotes, people, and unique situations, Paolo— with his ironic and direct style—reveals the most profound and human side of his work as a physiotherapist.

The author:
Paolo Boccia (1968) was born to parents from southern Italy and lives in Florence. In 1984, an accident caused him to lose his sight. He earned his degree in physiotherapy and, since 1990, has worked at the CTO Hospital in Florence. He pursues his passions with enthusiasm: cars, animals—especially dogs—and traveling, which allows him to discover the traditions, flavors, and scents of the world. Above all, however, there is music: he began very young as a radio speaker, and in 1991 he founded the management agency Master Star.

Giunti Odeon celebrates female cinema, proposing three cult films, one from the past and two from the present, with women as the absolute protagonists. Tenacious and passionate, torn between difficult choices and passionate loves, those told in these two films are the women who stop at nothing and who are not afraid to face the pitfalls of life, without giving up their own identity.

At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with the great Disney and Pixar classics! To see and see again the great animated films that over many years have enchanted generations of viewers, young and old!

A selection of extremely rare films of extraordinary historical value on the life of cities and landscapes in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century, made by early cinematographers and restored for the occasion.

Francesco Carofiglio will join us to present his latest book Tutto il mio folle amore (Garzanti), together with Nicoletta Verna.

The book:
July 1943, Bari. A peaceful march of students celebrating the fall of the Fascist regime clashes with a line of soldiers and militia. Gunshots tear through the scorching air, cutting down dozens of young lives marching for freedom. Alessandro Latorre, seventeen years old, stands powerless before this brutal violence—an event that will forever mark his generation. For him, as for many others, that summer is when innocence ends. Italo Acquaviva, known as Lallo, is Ale’s “twin cousin,” born the same day of the same year. They are opposites yet inseparable. Lallo is a rebel, a sports champion, a rising star of the city’s rowing club; Ale, politically engaged, excels at his classical high school studies and plays in the Jazz Boys, a small underground band.

In September, after the armistice, a group of young intellectuals takes over the Radio Bari station. In no time, what was once a tool of Fascist propaganda becomes the most important voice of the resistance in Europe. It is in those radio studios that Alessandro meets Carolina Fitzgerald, an Italian-Irish girl who fled Rome with her family after the bombing. Carolina is brilliant, witty, stunningly beautiful, and a gifted singer. The lives of these young people, teetering on the edge of a collapsing world, are about to change forever.

Francesco Carofiglio offers us a sweeping story of courage, friendship, and love, in which the dreams of adolescence intertwine with the harsh reality of a wounded Italy. Against the backdrop of events shaping the course of the world conflict, Alessandro, Lallo, and Carolina cross the threshold into adulthood, never to look back. From the microphones of Radio Bari rise the notes of a new music. A voice of hope emerges—the voice of those who refuse to give up and have chosen to fight. The resistance belongs to everyone.

The author:
An architect, director, and illustrator, Francesco Carofiglio has worked for many years as an actor and playwright. He writes screenplays and scripts for film and television. In addition to L’estate del cane nero (Marsilio, 2008, four editions), he published the novel With or Without You (BUR, 2005) and, with his brother Gianrico, the graphic novel Cacciatori nelle tenebre (Rizzoli, 2007). His more recent novels include Wok (Piemme, 2014), La casa nel bosco(Rizzoli, 2014), Voglio vivere una volta sola (Piemme, 2014), Una specie di felicità (Piemme, 2017), Il maestro(Piemme, 2017), the children’s book Jonas e il mondo nero (Piemme, 2018), L’estate dell’incanto (Piemme, 2019), and Prometto che ti darò il mondo (Piemme, 2021). With Feltrinelli he published Cattivi. Mister H. (2022) and Cattivi. Lady M (2023). In 2024, Garzanti released La stagione bella.

At Giunti Odeon a rich selection of films and documentaries on painting, visual arts and comics in the 20th century. This is a selection of very rare titles (with many experimental and artist films) - from the Cineteca di Bologna archive - dedicated to the life and works of Alberto Burri, Umberto Boccioni, Primo Conti, Giorgio De Chirico, Antoni Gaudì, Alberto Grifi, Hugo Pratt, Gino Rossi and many others.

On the GO stage, Valerio Mieli presents his latest book Scelgo tutto (La nave di Teseo) alongside Marco Luceri.

The book:
One boy, two possible lives told in parallel. In one, he stays where he grew up; in the other, he leaves in search of freedom. Cosimo is at the age when major decisions about the future must be made—even if he would gladly avoid making them. One evening, a woman invites him to turn his life around, and two worlds suddenly open before him. On one side: adventure, art, an extreme life. On the other: the building of love and family. Ambitions, sorrows, regrets, and laughter will shape Cosimo, until both lives are crossed by a decisive encounter, and by a question: is there only one right path to happiness?

The author:
Valerio Mieli is an Italian director, screenwriter, and writer. He won the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento in 2009 for his debut film Dieci inverni — released the same year as the novel of the same name —and the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori in 2018 for the film Ricordi?, starring Luca Marinelli.

An extraordinary journey through the myths, masterpieces and legends of Hollywood cinema. From Keaton to Kubrick, from Welles to Coppola and Scorsese, at Giunti Odeon a series of documentaries, rich in footage and testimonials, on a century and more of American cinema: a compelling account of the greatest and most dazzling industry of dreams.

Hugo Racca will present his new book La ragazza del motorino arancione (Giunti) on the GO stage, together with Elena Alibrandi, Horacio Pagani, Diego Loreggian, and Francesca Carol Rolla. The event will be moderated by journalist Eva Edili.

The book:

Casilda, Argentina, 2010. Alejandro Guardiola is a wealthy businessman, widower, and profoundly unhappy. María Soledad Ordóñez—known to everyone as Lara—is a street girl: she tells people her job is cleaning, but in reality she prostitutes herself under the protection of a drug trafficker. Alejandro is impotent, Lara is incapable of love. They lead two seemingly incompatible lives: different friends, different circles—he needs love, she needs money. Yet, on a spring evening, when Alejandro meets that dark-haired girl of few words riding her orange Vespa, nothing will ever be the same. Her gentle manners, soft voice, and restless gaze—often distracted by the messages lighting up her phone—captivate him from the very first moment. Within just a few months, he will find himself entangled in the shady underworld of a Casilda he had never known, and in the middle of an international investigation. A short but intense novel about love and all its shades.

The author:

Hugo Racca is a successful entrepreneur from Casilda, Argentina. He is the author of Pagani, the Story of a Dream(Arteimmagine, 2010). The Girl with the Orange Scooter is his narrative debut.

Massimo Carlotto will join us for the book signing of his latest novel A esequie avvenute (Einaudi). The author will also stay with us to introduce the 9:00 PM screening of Inherent Vice, one of the most celebrated films by director Paul Thomas Anderson, who in these very days returns to theaters with One Battle After Another (showing at Giunti Odeon starting September 25).

The Book:

Loris Pozza is the classic criminal skilled in “tricks of the trade”: scams, fake invoices, money funneled into the underground Chinese bank. When his Moldovan lover is kidnapped, the task of delivering the ransom falls to Marco Buratti, unlicensed investigator, and his partners Max the Memory and Beniamino Rossini. But something goes wrong, and despite the payment of one million euros, the woman is not released. The Alligator thus begins an unauthorized investigation to ensure the victim gets justice, despite those who would rather hush everything up. Meanwhile, Rossini—who occasionally abandons his old bandit’s trade to save women in need—rescues a young Ukrainian exploited by her country’s mafia. This time, however, the reprisal is brutal. A showdown from which no one will emerge unscathed, and which will take the Alligator further than he has ever gone before.

For the Alligator’s return, Massimo Carlotto writes his most painful noir yet. He plays his most melancholic and surprising blues.

"We had chosen a life very different from others, from those of regular people. And when your heart is an outlaw’s, you can’t expect it to beat to another rhythm."

The Author:

Massimo Carlotto was born in Padua in 1956. Discovered by writer and critic Grazia Cherchi, he debuted in 1995 with the novel Il fuggiasco, published by Edizioni E/O and winner of the Premio del Giovedì 1996. For the same publisher he wrote Arrivederci amore, ciao (second place at the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France 2003, finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in its English version published by Europa Editions in 2006), La verità dell’Alligatore, Il mistero di Mangiabarche, Le irregolari, Nessuna cortesia all’uscita (Premio Dessì 1999 and special mention at Premio Scerbanenco 1999), Il corriere colombiano, Il maestro di nodi (Premio Scerbanenco 2003), Niente, più niente al mondo(Premio Girulà 2008), L’oscura immensità della morte, Nordest with Marco Videtta (Premio Selezione Bancarella 2006), La terra della mia anima (Premio Grinzane Noir 2007), Cristiani di Allah (2008), Perdas de Fogu with Mama Sabot (Premio Noir Ecologista Jean-Claude Izzo 2009), L’amore del bandito (2010), Alla fine di un giorno noioso(2011), Il mondo non mi deve nulla (2014), the tale La via del pepe, illustrated by Alessandro Sanna (2014), La banda degli amanti (2015), Per tutto l'oro del mondo (2016), and Blues per cuori fuorilegge e vecchie puttane (2017).
For Edizioni E/O he also curates the Sabot/age collection.
For Einaudi Stile Libero he has published Mi fido di te (with Francesco Abate), Respiro corto, Cocaina (with Gianrico Carofiglio and Giancarlo De Cataldo), and with Marco Videtta, the four novels of the Le Vendicatrici cycle (Ksenia, Eva, Sara, and Luz). In 2024, Trudy was released.
For Rizzoli he published Il Turista (2016) and E verrà un altro inverno (2021); for Feltrinelli Ballata per un traditore(2020) and Refrain (with Pasquale Ruju and David Ferracci, 2021); and for Mondadori Il Francese (2022).

His books have been translated into many languages, and he has won numerous awards in Italy and abroad. Massimo Carlotto is also a playwright, screenwriter, and contributor to newspapers, magazines, and musical projects.

Giunti Odeon pays tribute to one of the most important directors of contemporary cinema, James Cameron, with his most famous film: an absolute masterpiece that marked the imagination, moving and enamouring several generations.

At Giunti Odeon, three great classics of American cinema from the 1970s will immerse you once again in the psychedelic and futuristic atmospheres of a decade that forever marked the imagination of cinema, music, visual culture and fashion.

Giunti Odeon pays tribute to the dark universe of Tim Burton, one of the creative geniuses of world cinema and one of the most versatile and fascinating artists of our time, thanks to his ability to shape a unique and unmistakable poetic universe. We celebrate the great American director and artist with a selection of his most famous films, all in original version with Italian subtitles.

At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with all the great Disney and Pixar classics! To see and see again the great animated films that over many years have enchanted generations of viewers, young and old!

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 1: A visual revelation

Pasolini's first contact with the world of cinema came in the mid-1950s, when the writer and poet began working as a screenwriter. From there, it was a short step to directing, partly because Pasolini wanted to redefine his role as an intellectual and engage with a language, that of cinema, which was still unknown to him. The making of his first film, Accattone (1961), drawing on the neorealist tradition, allowed him to show the world of the Roman underclass in its twilight years. His visual and cultural sources are already evident in the film: Dante, Giotto, Masaccio, Bach.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 2: The “written language of reality”
After his debut film, Pasolini began to reflect on cinema from a theoretical point of view, defining cinematic language as “the written language of reality” and reasoning allegorically about some of its forms, such as editing, sequence shots, indirect free subjectivity and image-time. These ideas are clearly visible in the two films Mamma Roma (1962) and La ricotta (1963), combined with his ongoing poetic exploration of the underprivileged.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 3: The City of God

The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) represents Pasolini's first film-world, summarising his poetics and style in the first half of the 1960s, as well as the aesthetic and moral form of his idea of cinema. A film in the form of a sacred magmatic representation, where Marxism, Christianity and humanism give shape to a Gospel devoid of rhetoric, with an anarchic Christ above reason, in a South where the signs of the sacredness of life can still be glimpsed.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 4: Utopias and disillusions

For Pasolini, the second half of the 1960s represented the decline of utopia in a country that the director saw as increasingly doomed to self-destruction. These were years of progressive and melancholic disillusionment: with Uccellacci e uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows, 1965), La Terra vista dalla Luna (The Earth Seen from the Moon, 1966) and Che cosa sono le nuvole? (1967), Pasolini explored the form of satirical allegory, while Teorema (1968) was the film that marked Pasolini's conscious intellectual isolation and definitive condemnation of the Italian bourgeoisie.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 5: In search of the lost myth

In the last part of his career, Pasolini confronted one of the strongest cultural roots of his artistic and intellectual journey: Greek myth. First in Oedipus Rex (1969) and then in Medea (1970), Pasolini showed a strength and richness still available to man today, myth being the dark and vital core of lived experience. This theme continued in the three films of the “trilogy of life”, only to be interrupted in his last film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).