September 9, 2015 – In 1975, Pasolini lost his life. It was the death of a great Italian poet, writer, intellectual and director. The Italian Cultural Institute in Guatemala City remembers him with a film festival entitled “Forty years without Pasolini,” scheduled every Friday at 6pm at the Institute. The first session, on September 11, is “Mamma Roma” starring Anna Magnani. This will be followed, on September 18, by the documentary “Appunti per un’Orestiade africana”, a work essential to the anthropology of image. On September 25, the Institute screens one of the genius’ masterpieces: “The Gospel According to St. Matthew.” All films are in Italian with subtitles in Spanish and will be introduced and commented on by the Guatemalan intelligentsia, such as Luis Aceituno, Javier Payeras and Rogelio Salazar.
