Feb. 1 – Slow Food will be present at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, in the section “Kulinarisches Kino” – dedicated to cinema and environment now in its 7th edition, In this category, two Italian documentaries by Francesco Amato and Stefano Scaragia, “Couscous Island” and “Slow Food Story” respectively, will be screened.
“Couscous Island” tells the story of the women of the island of Fadiouth, in Senegal, producing millet couscous, a traditional dish that became Slow Food Presidium. Couscous is an expression of an ecosystem and traditional knowledge that needs to be saved. Slow Food produces the documentary in collaboration with the European BODA project 4Cities4Dev. The second documentary, “Slow Food Story,”
narrates the emergence and spread of the movement through the biography of its founder and president, Carlo Petrini, and the group of friends and colleagues who accompanied him in this long adventure.
The documentary, produced by Indigo Film and Tico Film, focuses on the history of the organization and the extraordinary impact it has had in the world of gastronomy and culture of our time. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, February 12th from 19:30 to 22:30 at the Martin Gropius Kino.