For Young Adults

 Il cinema della realtà (Views on reality. The cinema of reality) is a film festival organised by The Human Safety Net dedicated to cinema that generates impact, offering food for thought and creating awareness, empathy and shared responsibility around the themes of social inclusion. Cinema that does not merely represent, but raises questions, invites the sharing of perspectives and restores dignity to stories. The festival is curated by Francesco della Puppa, professor of Sociology at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, who explains the meaning of the project: "Looking at reality today is already a revolutionary act. With this festival, we want to build, vision after vision, a community that observes, questions and feels. An invitation to live in the present with attention, to rediscover the responsibility of seeing and the power of listening." The festival presents works that come from the grassroots, often together with the protagonists themselves. It is not a cinema that watches from afar, but one that is close, participatory and shared. The films chosen do not pursue objectivity, but complexity: they highlight margins, invisible everyday life, conflicts and collective transformations. They recount the present through ordinary lives, global conflicts and shared intimacies. The works touch on some of the central issues of our time: migration, poverty, rights, work, memory, families, territories. They narrate personal stories that become universal, individual experiences that lead to processes of identification and collective reflection. There are no easy answers, but questions that help us to better understand the reality we live in. After each screening, there is an opportunity for dialogue with directors, authors, protagonists, scholars, experts, critics, social workers, but above all with the audience. The debate is an integral part of the experience: a moment to build new perspectives on the present together, to understand how cinema can become a tool for participation, care and restitution.

INVOLVED! ReadingLab is a reading workshop curated by Baba Jaga and A2030 Social Innovation Designers, which consists of various meetings with authors and works, to empower human potential as a lever for change: ideas that become actions, communities that become laboratories for the future, imagination that translates into resilience, inclusion and real social impact. Many works were presented. Among others, “Transcultural Assessment: Setting, Artefacts and Working Models”, as part of the “Dritti sui Diritti” (Straight to Rights) programme promoted by the City of Venice, with Nives Martini, Micaela Barbuzzi and Katiuscia Melato, co-authors of the book, and “Unus Mundus” by Giancarlo Vianello, which invites us to look at the world as a single, connected whole, where everything that exists, whether visible or invisible, is part of the same reality.

Personal and collective futures is a series of three workshop sessions with futurist Mario Cusmai, dedicated to university students and young changemakers, designed to train the value of perspective: the ability to look at the big picture without losing sight of the details, to move between the past, present and future to imagine new possibilities. Through experiential activities – from debates to critical viewing of clips and texts, to scenario games and co-creation dynamics – participants explore two complementary variants: personal futures – a journey that reduces the anxiety of change by looking to the past, projects young people into alternative visions of the future and brings them back to the present better prepared to make choices – and collective futures through group activities that generate alternative scenarios and invite participants to imagine the future of their communities and their role within them. The aim is to open our eyes, break the temporal continuity that makes us think that “tomorrow will be like yesterday” and instead create a space for new, creative and transformative thoughts.