05/05/2006

Twenty-five films for 25 countries. On May 9, in order to celebrate Europe Day, “joined in diversity", the UGC Cine Cité Cinemas with theatres in five large European cities – Brussels, Madrid, Paris, Rome and Strasbourg – will reserve their screens for the best of European cinema. The initiative, promoted by several Belgian cultural associations in partnership with French exhibition group UGC, received recognition from the EU’s MEDIA Programme for 2006 and expanded its activities for the first time to three other countries: Italy (in particular with Eurovisioni), France and Spain.

On May 9, in a single evening, films from 25 EU countries will be screened, most of the them premieres, from Malta and Cyprus to Latvia and Lithuania. The Lazio Region and the Province of Rome are among those to have pledged their sponsorship to the Italian initiative – promoted by UGC and Eurovisioni and presented this morning in Rome. Giulia Rodano, Cultural Councillor of the Lazio Region, said: "It is necessary for the EU to be experienced by its citizens, not only as a union of markets and a development of free trade. We must also construct an idea of a European identity. Seeing 25 films from 25 countries in one place renders this idea very well”.

In Italy, at the UGC Cine Cité Parco Leonardo di Fiumicino, there will be many films and international film industries to discover. Titles programmed for the multiplex’s various theatres include Mud ( Camur, Cyprus), Iceberg [+see also:
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film profile] (Belgium) and Etnika: In Search of Our Lost Voice (Malta).

For a complete program, please see: http://www.eurovisioni.org

(Translated from Italian)