The CNC (National Short Film Centre) presents “Corti d’autore|3” (Experimental Short Films 3) at Cinema Massimo

The CNC (National Short Film Centre), supported by the National AIACE (Friends of Experimental Cinema) association and the National Museum of Cinema, presents Corti d'autore|3 at Cinema Massimo, Screen 3. The first half of the evening will focus on the Berlin-born film director Ernst Lubitsch, with a screening of two films and two short films: The Doll (Die Puppe, Germany, 1919, 70') and The Oyster Princess (Die Austernprinzessin, Germany, 1919, 59'), followed by the sequences The Clerk (5') and The prostitute (3'), directed by Lubitsch, and the film If I Had a Million (USA, 1932) where Lubitsch was one of the directors. The section entitled W L'ITALIA (Long live Italy), which focuses on the top award-winning Italian short films of recent years, will feature a screening of Notturno stenopeico by Carlo Michele Schirinzi (Italy, 2009, 8'), which won the Best Italian Short Film award at the recent Torino Film Festival. The screenings will be introduced by Gianni Volpi, film critic and historian.