From the Classroom to the Screen

Saturday, 15 November 2025 – 4:00 p.m. | Educational Rooms of the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation | Free admission

Screening of the documentaries by Luca Verdone’s students, followed by Franco Zeffirelli’s Per Firenze

 

An afternoon dedicated to documentary cinema and to the cultural legacy of Franco Zeffirelli: on Saturday, 15 November, at 4:00 p.m., the Educational Rooms of the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation will host the final screening of the course “How to Make a Documentary”, led by film director and documentarian Luca Verdone.

 

This event marks the conclusion of an intense and inspiring learning journey, held over four sessions between October and November, during which six young students explored the techniques and expressive power of documentary filmmaking.
During the event, the six short films created by the participants—each approximately ten minutes long—will be screened, the result of a collective process of observation, research, and storytelling.

 

The filmmakers are:
Paolo Albanese, Riccardo Boiteux, Rebecca Cogher Camilla,  ,Lehmann Lukas Murat, Elena Elisabetta D’Anna Olivares, Gianni Resini.
(Film titles will be announced shortly.)

 

The works will be introduced by Luca Verdone, who guided the development of each project, and by Maria Alberti, Head of Educational Programs at the Zeffirelli Foundation, who will highlight the educational aims of the course and the documentary’s role as a medium for knowledge and storytelling.

 

Following the students’ screenings, the Foundation will present Per Firenze (For Florence), the documentary Franco Zeffirelli made in 1966 during the days of the Florence flood.

 

Through this screening, the Foundation reaffirms its commitment to passing on to new generations the artistic and civic legacy of the Maestro, celebrating the power of cinema as a language capable of educating, moving, and connecting people.

 

 

• aturday, 15 novembre 2025 – 4:00 pm
• Educational Rooms of the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation, Piazza San Firenze 5, Firenze
• Free admission