“Oltreconfine Festival” – Meeting with Francesca Fialdini
Wednesday 17 April 2024
As part of the “Oltreconfine festival” event, on Wednesday 17 April 2024 at 9.00 pm, the Cinema Iride in Costa Volpino will host a meeting with Francesca Fialdini.
Francesca Fialdini has worked at Rai since 2005 as a presenter and author, dedicating herself with particular attention to current topics that focus on women and young people: for five editions she has hosted Fame d’amore on RaiTre, an award-winning program dedicated to the story of eating disorders and other expressions of youth distress. In the volume In the rabbit hole, when the fight with food becomes an obsession (RaiLibri) Fialdini recounts six intimate, open-hearted encounters with people suffering from eating disorders: six delicate and powerful conversations in which words acquire a central value to reflect the hidden reasons of a pain that transfigures the body but begins who knows where. Martha, Benedetta, Marco, Giulia and Anna invite us to look at what’s inside the hole they fell into while chasing a myth, an ideal of perfection, a need for love, visibility. Just as Alice chased the white rabbit, so each of them tenaciously chased a desire, without realizing that the blind race was sucking them into a vortex of obsessions, into a hole without light. The intent of this book is to bring anyone a reflection on the use of words when we talk about anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and other variations of eating disorders, aware that words create our relationships, they propose an image of us themselves and give shape – like a game of mirrors – to our deepest anxieties and fears.
Mario Manca moderates the meeting.
Text taken from the event page.
Free entry while places last