We are pleased to announce our participation in the fourth edition of the Pistoia Docufilm Festival, an event that celebrates documentary filmmaking and this year explores the theme of borders.

Organized by the Istituto Storico per la Resistenza e dell'Età contemporanea in Provincia di Pistoia (ISRPT), the festival will be held on the first three Mondays of July at the Arena Cinema in Porta al Borgo, Pistoia, with free admission at 9:30 p.m.

On July 1, the festival will open with the screening of Gertrud Pinkus's "The Value of a Woman is Her Silence" (Germany, 1980, 85'), a docufilm, part of the Diamonds Are Forever series curated by Alina Marazzi for the 63rd Festival dei Popoli, which recounts the lives of Italian immigrant women in the Frankfurt suburbs in the 1970s. Through the words of the director and historian Anna Badino, the evening will offer a profound reflection on the phenomenon of Italian migration to Northern Europe in the postwar period. The documentary,

Alberto Lastrucci, head of the archives of the Festival dei Popoli, expressed the value of this collaboration: "We have found in the Pistoia Docufilm Festival the ideal context in which to propose the fruit of our research in the field of documentaries on historical and social subjects to an audience that, with each new edition, proves to be numerous, participatory and extremely receptive to the proposed themes."

The Festival dei Popoli, together with other Italian documentary entities such as the Italian Oral History Association and the Audiovisual Archive of the Workers' and Democratic Movement in Rome, contributes to the success of this event. This year, the collaboration extends to the European level by involving the Cineteca and the Berlin Film Museum.

The project is realized with the support of the Culture 2023 call for proposals of Fondazione Caript. We look forward to seeing you in large numbers for this important opportunity for reflection and discovery.