Saint Petersburg screens Italian-Swiss films

(AGI) Saint Petersburg, Oct 21 - An Italo-Swiss film festival opened in Saint Petersburg, featuring Italian and Swiss documentaries, shorts and feature films in Italian made in the Italian-speaking Canton of Ticino. The festival, organised by the Embassy of Switzerland in Russia and the Swiss Consulate General in Saint Petersburg, with Swiss TV RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera and the Italian Cultural Institute in Saint Petersburg, runs until Oct. 30 at the Rodina Theater. This year's festival covers a host of topics: adolescent-related problems, the discovery of one's own self, love and death and migration. Niccolo' Castelli's "Everybody Sometimes Falls" opened on Oct. 14, Silvio Soldini's "Bread & Tulips" was screened on Oct. 20 and on the 28 it will be the turn of "Appunti del passaggio" by Raphael Cuomo and Maria Iorio, and Michael Beltrami's "Quello che resta." Soldini's "The River Is Always Right", "The Woollen Butterfly" by Riccardo Bernasconi and Francesca Reverdito and EriK Bernasconi's "Sinestesia" will be shown on Oct. 30. (AGI). .