Slow food on film

Food and critical awareness

Food, filtered by the cinema screen, is capable of expressing the most fundamental elements of our contemporary human experience. Promoted by the international Slow Food movement in close collaboration with the Cineteca, since 2008 the Slow Food on Film festival has found a permanent home in Bologna, with the aim of encouraging a new critical awareness within food culture.

From economics to ecology: a broad spectrum of significance

The table is set for a feast of features, shorts, documentaries and television shows – the whole range of visual narrative media able to develop a discourse on food in all its multiple cultural implications. The themes dealt with are fascinating and deeply significant, ranging from emotional, identity-forming links with a specific place to individual drives bordering on perversion, via all the environmental, economic and social impacts of food production.

Memory and the universal value of diversity

On the one hand, the condemnation of the absurdities of our current food production and distribution system. On the other, the preservation of the diversity of gastronomic memories, the heritage of traditional farming practices and all the material culture that deserves to be rescued before it disappears forever. Slow Food on Film brings us stories that not only pass on knowledge linked to the land but also let us rediscover the universal value of diversity that food culture contains.

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