Giuseppe Culicchia

Giuseppe Culicchia is the director of the «Radici» festival, the event dedicated to identity, memory and belonging organised every year in Turin by the Circolo dei Lettori Foundation.[1][2]

The Radici festival

Giuseppe Culicchia curates the fourth edition of «Radici», held in Turin between the Circolo dei Lettori, the Cinema Romano and the Army Officers' Club (Circolo Ufficiali dell'Esercito), and extending to Frossasco, in the Pinerolese area (around Pinerolo).[1] The edition opened on 12 November 2026 and closed on 15 November, as part of the Circolo dei Lettori Foundation's 2026-2027 season «Intelligenza naturale».[2] The festival received funding from the Piedmont Region, through its Immigration Department, and was presented at the Circolo dei Lettori together with the Piedmont Region's deputy president Maurizio Marrone.[2]

The 2026 programme

Guests at the fourth edition include, among others, Andrea Marcolongo, Novella Calligaris, Andreea Simionel, Marco Malvaldi, Filippo Santoni de Sio, Giovanni Orsina, Eleonora Marangoni, Hauke Ritz, Mario Andreose, Stenio Solinas and John Niven.[1] The programme also includes talks dedicated to comics, with Marco Steiner and Fabrizio Paladini, and to Piedmontese emigration, with events in Frossasco linked to the documentary «Oltre il Paraná» and the show «Merica!» by Paolo Tibaldi.[1] The closing day on 15 November includes talks with Emanuele Ertola, Gian Luigi Beccaria, Anna Katharina Fröhlich, Maura Gancitano and a video link with director Edgar Reitz, as well as an event dedicated to the character Corto Maltese with Igort and Marco Steiner.[1] At the Cinema Romano, midnight screenings return, with Stephen Frears' «My Beautiful Laundrette», Martin Scorsese's «Fuori orario» and Spike Lee's «Do The Right Thing».[1] The festival continues on 16 December with a talk with Marina Valensise, in conversation with Christian Greco.[1]

Timeline

  • — The fourth edition of the «Radici» festival, dedicated to identity, memory and belonging and curated by Giuseppe Culicchia, opens in Turin, running until 15 November at the Circolo dei Lettori and other venues in the city. → ANSA Piemonte Il Torinese

Sources

  1. Al via 'Radici' a Torino, quattro giorni tra memoria, identità e cultura — ANSA Piemonte, 11 November 2026
  2. Radici, il festival dell'identità coltivata, negata, ritrovata — Il Torinese, 12 November 2026

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