For Remembrance Day, we are organizing a film screening to raise awareness of these tragic events among students at all levels of education, with the aim of preserving and renewing the memory of the tragedy suffered by Italians and all the victims of the foibe, the exodus of Istrians, the people of Fiume and Dalmatia following World War II, and the more complex events surrounding the eastern border. Schools are participating through the Provincial Education Office of Abruzzo. The film program is curated by Martina Orlando, a film professor and restorer.

film festival and will be available via STREAMING on our YouTube channel. Here are the featured films:

Elementary Schools: THE SOLDIERS OF FANTABOSCO

The Melevisione episode “The Soldiers of Fantabosco” (Season 3, aired in 2000) is a valuable and sensitive example of how to explain war to children, using the language of fairy tales to address a complex and painful topic

Middle Schools *The Girl with the Suitcase* by Gianluca Mazzella (Italy, 2024)

Spring 1945. A night of celebration marking the end of the war turns into the beginning of a tragedy for little Egea Haffner: men in uniform take her father away and throw him into a foiba. This is only the beginning: shortly afterward, Egea will be forced to leave her homeland with just a suitcase and face an uncertain future.

High Schools *IL CUORE NEL POZZO* (Italy, 2005)

Istria, 1943. Tito’s partisans are marching toward Trieste to seize Venezia Giulia, Dalmatia, and Istria. Novak, one of the partisans, is searching for his son Carlo, the result of an assault on Giulia, an Italian girl. Giulia has hidden Carlo in Don Bruno’s orphanage.