Edition 2026

Docs&Honor

The March on Rome

Through little-seen archive and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. Both essay film and historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the present, holding a mirror to a political landscape of a creeping far right and media manipulation.

Theme:

History

Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish filmmaker and writer based in Edinburgh. His body of work, consisting of 25 feature-length films and six books, explores visual culture, cities, politics, walking… His 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey won a Peabody Award and the Stanley Kubrick Award, while A Story of Children and Film premiered at Cannes. With I Am Belfast, he created a lyrical essay film about his hometown. His fiction debut was Stockholm, My Love, a musical starring and featuring the music of Neneh Cherry. His most recent book is the non-fiction essay The Story of Looking.

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Technical details

Year:

2022

Credits

Director
Mark Cousins
Scenario
Mark Cousins
Scenario
Tommaso Renzoni
Scenario
Tony Saccucci
Cast
Donald Trump
Cast
Alba Rohrwacher
Cast
Benito Mussolini

Screening times

Sun 10/05/2026
21:00
Filmoteca | Sala Chomón

Awards