Climate on screen
Under the stars of Savona, within the ancient walls of the Priamar Fortress, summer 2025 lights up with images and words about climate, the sea, and the future. “Cinema in Fortezza”, the film series curated by Nuovofilmstudio, presents this year a special cycle dedicated to climate change: “Climate on Screen”, organized in collaboration with CIMA Research Foundation. Three evenings, three outstanding guests – sailor Giovanni Soldini, journalist Ferdinando Cotugno, and explorer Alex Bellini – to unite emotion and knowledge, telling stories of climate and its impacts through experiences and conversations between science and society.
“Climate on Screen” is an opportunity to bring scientific research closer to the community, promoting awareness and sustainable action. Through dialogue with experts and key figures, CIMA Research Foundation fosters a conversation between emotion and understanding, offering a shared and forward-looking vision, especially for younger generations. This commitment is part of a broader initiative to transform the Priamar Fortress into a Citadel of Climate Change, a dynamic hub where technical expertise, education, culture, and local engagement converge to address global environmental challenges.
Sailing the Seven Seas: Giovanni Soldini and the Science of Change
What does it mean to cross oceans today, when every wave tells of change, every current carries a sign? For Giovanni Soldini, the sea is not just challenge and discovery: it’s a moving observatory, an open diary of our time.
On July 25 at 9:30 PM, the first event of “Climate on Screen” features a dialogue between Soldini, oceanographer Annalisa Bracco, and geophysicist Antonello Provenzale, Program Director at Fondazione CIMA. Starting from observations gathered during a recent circumnavigation of the globe—over 44,000 nautical miles—they’ll share a compelling narrative about how climate change is transforming the planet’s waters. An evening intertwining adventure and science, inviting reflection on the urgency of changing course before the maps of the future become unrecognizable.
Admission is free.
Return Time: Memory and Climate with Ferdinando Cotugno
Some stories get caught in places, in bodies, in seasons. Stories that hide in the folds of an overly hot summer, or in memories of a vanished landscape. Climate change isn’t just an emergency: it’s a fracture in memory, a voice that forces us to look back and confront what we’ve forgotten—or chosen to ignore.
On July 27 at 7:30 PM, a special aperitif opens the evening with writer and journalist Ferdinando Cotugno, author of Return Time. A Story of Climate and Ghosts. Alongside climatologist Elisa Palazzi and Luca Ferraris, president of CIMA Research Foundation, Cotugno explores the deep link between climate crisis and both personal and collective memory. A dialogue intertwining data and emotions, memories and future scenarios, giving voice to the “ghosts” that climate change compels us to face.
Following this, at 9:30 PM, the screening of Flow by Gints Zilbalodis: an animated film about a journey through dazzling landscapes and unexpected dangers, where unity becomes the true strength.
Tickets for the screening available here.
Beyond the Limits: Alex Bellini and the Challenge of Change
Some landscapes speak softly but say everything. No words are needed to read the fractures that run through them, nor instruments to feel the void left by time and a changing climate. Just observing, in silence, is enough to understand that the world is no longer the same. Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier is one of these: a retreating giant, a silent witness to change. Returning to it after years means confronting absence—what was and is no longer. It means facing limits, not just physical but inner ones: how far can we push ourselves? What are we willing to change?
On July 29 at 9:30 PM, explorer Alex Bellini—known for his extreme expeditions to raise awareness on climate change—will engage in conversation with climatologist Edoardo Cremonese and Luca Ferraris on the meaning of limits, both as obstacles and as resources. Drawing from his two expeditions to Vatnajökull in 2017 and 2025, Bellini brings to the screen and the discussion a direct confrontation with the consequences of the climate crisis.
The evening continues with the screening of Beyond, the documentary recounting this adventure, its scientific implications, and the questions it leaves us with.
Tickets for the screening available here.
More information and the full program of “Cinema in Fortezza 2025” are available here.
