Il Cinema in Piazza

Piccolo America is back to bring light and life to the Roman summer nights with “Il Cinema in Piazza”, Rome’s largest outdoor retrospective film festival. The 2023 edition will take place in Trastevere, Tor Sapienza and Monte Ciocci, three locations of the city that span from the center to the suburbs. The admission is free entry and no booking is required. We are pleased to bring cinema again this year in two parks that are so important to our city, the Cervelletta and Monte Ciocci Park, sure that we will once again be able to contribute to enhance the places where nature is the protagonist and the biodiversity is preserved.

There will be three screens with 8000 square meters of stalls surface, which will host film screenings, debates with directors, actors, screenwriters and film industry professionals, as well as retrospectives, great classics of national and international heritage, and films for children. Many international guests will come from all over the world to meet our crowd. This dialogue will make them feel all the warm affection and passion for cinema!

“From the outskirts we started and this is where we come back to. The ones born and raised there, as most of us, know it already. We know what it means to grind kilometers on public transportation to reach a bookstore, a cinema, a theater, a museum, or even just a place for meeting up in the evening with friends.

And we know what it means to feel tight in such a large and populated district, yet so poor in sociality and culture. Thus, we too have decided to roll up our sleeves and try to replace the void and silence with dynamic participation. The experience of the past few years revealed that cultural and social planning does not stop at the organization and planning of an outdoor cinema, but it is able to represent and promote growth, even economic, of all the activities in the neighbourhood.

We want this project to give life to places where different ideas of living the city and new cultural expressions can find a home, where we can raise questions that allow us to build new perspectives, where we can discuss and reflect on the future of our city, the role of the cinema theatres and the cinematographic endeavour, of social, cultural and youth policies, of integration and inclusion, of the fight against crime, of the suburbs inside and on the margins of the cities.

This is our idea of cultural and social participation, able to promote reflection on the role of culture itself in the process of educational, forming and working growth of young people, based on participatory planning, attentive to the needs of all, on a “learning by doing“ process, whose fruits shall grow over time”.