The popular Italian cuisine, loved and imitated around the world, is slowly fading, but many are trying to save it. Presented at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, I Villani is a documentary by Daniele De Michele, which follows the lives of four individuals discussing agriculture, fishing, farming, cheese-making and family cooking by recounting thir daily struggle when trying to adopt the same culinary and cultural model worldwide.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring director, chef and “food activist” Daniele De Michele, aka Don Pasta, and award-winning cookbook author Joan Nathan. The conversation will focus on themes such as cooking as a living heritage and weather the sharing of information between one generation and the next still exists and can survive in modern society.

Director: Daniele De Michele
Italy, 2018, 76 min
Documentary in Italian with English Subtitles

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