December 5, 7:00–9:00 PM, Centre Culturel Bruegel

What if the limits we believe are unbreakable are just illusions?

On the occasion of Disability Awareness Week, discover Lumi by Filippo Tolentino, a film celebrating creativity, the pursuit of dreams, and the strength of people with disabilities. Through Marcello’s journey, the film highlights the richness of differences and invites us to rethink how people with disabilities are represented.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Belgian filmmakers Georges Depraetere and Juliette Pardon, both living with disabilities, who will share their journeys and how they have brought their projects and dreams to life through cinema.

SYNOPSIS 

Lumi is an Italian word which indicates the outer lights as well as inner light. The movie investigates the body, head, and heart of Marcello, a young man mesmerized by light in many of his forms, a guy with unique desires and ambitions, who lives with a mental disability.

Despite many obstacles and failures, Marcello is putting all his effort in order to fulfill his dream: to create a workshop where he can build, along with his disabled friends, Italian traditional lighting systems called “lumi-narie”.

Made mainly of ordinary moment, work in the countryside, passion and obsession for religious festivals, the story of Marcello is an opportunity to go deeper into existential questions from a spiritual point of view. His material and symbolic journey towards light is the journey of all us, where the external differences turn out to be only an illusion in front of that same shining source where we all come from.

DETAILED PROGRAM

6:15 PM – Audience Welcome
7:00 PM – Film Screening
8:05 PM – Q&A with Georges Depraetere and Juliette Pardon

DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY

Filippo Tolentino, born in 1995, is a filmmaker who draws on his background in visual arts and law. Passionate about writing from a young age, he discovered the camera as a way to explore reality. He has exhibited his paintings across Italy, Europe, and Asia, and has been making films since he was 16. To date, he has directed four short films, a short documentary, and his first feature-length documentary, Lumi.

LOCATION

Centre Culturel Bruegel – Rue des Renards, 1F 1000 Brussels

Free admission, registration required by email at reservation@festivalmillenium.org

With the support of the City of Brussels