Cinema at La Statale

Launched on 12 October 2015, La Statale Cinema has taken up a new name since 2023, becoming UniMi Connect Cinema.This can’t-miss event is made up of four free-entry evenings, offering viewers a chance to watch, or re-watch, a selection of films that reflect different viewpoints to explore some of the core topics that have shaped our collective imagination. UNIMI Connect Cinema 2024 will focus on sentimental education, with four films which offer a sharp insight into the complexity of love and relationships.

In the historic Aula Magna on the Via Festa del Perdono campus, equipped with all technological amenities to ensure the best possible viewing experience, a series of images both delicate and poignant will alternate on the screen, recounting powerful and sometimes disorienting stories from our present and past.

The screenings have always been an opportunity for dialogue amongst a diverse and passionate audience, with a terrific turnout. From this year’s edition, a documentary from the archive Docucity – Documentare la città will be screened before each film, with the exception of the final evening, which will revolve around the awarding ceremony of the Ermanno Olmi Prize.

During Unimi Connect, this prize will be assigned not only to the best Master’s degree thesis on Italian cinema, but also to the most remarkable PhD thesis, which will be published by Milano University Press, the publishing house of the University of Milan.

Acting as glue – and main star – of the six evenings, the cinematic language in all its complexity becomes an excellent opportunity for exchange and sharing between “town and gown”, within the context of a film festival entirely organised by the University of Milan