The work of director Franco Jannuzzi, present at the screening, will be visible starting at 7.45pm on Wednesday 26 June. Inspired by true stories written and read on stage by the psychiatrist Angelo Righetti, it will help you learn about recent Italian history: from the years of lead to the cultural revolution that led to the promulgation of the Basaglia law, to the profound human crisis of judicial psychiatric hospitals (OPG).
The new paths for psychiatric patients.
The film shows how Ezio, in the fiction Ennio (Salvatore Arena), and the other people interned in the OPG find a possibility of communication with Lucio (Davide Coco), the psychiatrist who embodies the will to seek new paths, because humanity, if authentic, it can transcend any difference, any border and any distance. A common and lasting project of liberated life becomes possible only when other, warm, inclusive, generative economic-social projects are built, which fight the mafias and which choose the most excluded people as cornerstones.
It happened at the judicial psychiatric hospital of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Messina) with a community welfare program.
With the feature film “Pimpernel” refers to the community welfare program, “Light is freedom”, an application that allowed sixty people to be freed from the Messina hospital in just two years, including Ezio Rossi himself, through personalized projects to expand individual freedoms. Many former internees participated in various capacities in the making of the film.
Promoting the event are the Municipality of Modica, the Mental Health Department of the ASP of Ragusa, the diocesan Caritas and the associations involved in the field such as Anfass, Piccoli Fratelli, Villaggio del Magnificat and Casa don Puglisi. The intention is to start a reflection on the topic of mental health and attention to all the inclusive forms that allow people dignity and make our community grow as more just and fraternal. The event is also part of the feast of St. Peter which thus becomes concrete attention to that gaze that makes one stand up again suggested by the statue of the Apostle who heals the paralytic.
