Tatti Tonni: “Unexpectedly, we really made it!”Spoleto is alive. The first edition of the Free Wor(l)d Festival for the Freedom of Expression ended yesterday, Sunday 20 October. The three-day offered a thick programme that was participated by the city with enthusiasm and interest. Among the attendees, pleasently surprised, also cmayor Umberto De Augustinis and deputy councillor for school Beatrice Montioni.

The programme included a photographic exhibition “Saudade” Maura Coltorti’s art exhibition “Visionarie”, experiential laboratories and the film projection “A mano disarmata”. The film, based on the story by Repubblica journalist Federica Angeli, served as a prelude and magnifying glass for the conference that on Saturday morning would open a series of in-depth analyses, moderated by the girls who have attended or will attend the “Walter Tobagi” preparatory journalism course. At the Archivio di Stato the curtain was raised in front of the schools and numerous journalists, who rushed to talk about freedom of information, of colleagues forced under protection, of censorship, of the weight that complaints have against that “information as a common good” more often denied by the law itself, which allows this kind of intimidation and which should therefore be modified as many associations have long been asking Parliament to do. 

The second conference was about the environment and the mafias with Francesco de Augustinis and Elisabetta Proietti. An interesting documentary film was presented, on the confiscated assets in Umbria, aas well as the book “Tuttofumo” by and with Eugenio Raspi, moderated by Federico Saligni and Federico Petrignani. The third conference, on Saturday evening, focused on civil disobedience and on that “romanticism of violence” that makes journalism a wrong narrative, the cases in which the media amplify the stereotypes and with their words, contrary to the Manifesto of Venice, the dignity of the victim of feminicide is doubly offended, with Matteo Papini and Samuele Miraggio moderating. 

The ambition to enrich the public debate and to launch viewers different opinions to think about, was largely confirmed by the attendees’ profused interest in the various spaces.

With Saturday’s music offered by the “Girolamo Fantini” Brass Quintet, the day began with a reflection on the rights, duties and freedoms starting from Simone Veil at the Caffè Filosofico, and then continuing in the afternoon with a big party curated by the Romanian community: the music that unites people and that made the idea of the Festival even more inclusive.

The Festival closed with the meticulously detailed chronicle of the life and death of Marilyn Monroe, by and with Marina Antonini, and with the multimedia conference by Antonella C. Manni dedicated to the Visionary canvases and women.
The distorted narrative is perceived by young people as declining, the Festival created by the freelance journalist Valentina Tatti Tonni and coordinated with citizens and 15 associations, a cultural center and a bookshop, wanted to provide an option for the future, in the possibility of redemption.
“At the press conference – said Tatti Tonni in the closing speech – I quoted a sentence that I care a lot about, that is that people are important. I believe that in this Festival we have shown it.”

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