Casa del cinema, Cinema cultural center in Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy.
Casa del Cinema is a cultural center and documentation center housed in a historic building inside Villa Borghese park in Rome, with several indoor screening rooms and a film library. It also has an outdoor theater on the grounds, surrounded by pine trees, used for open-air screenings.
The building that houses the center was part of Villa Borghese for a long time before being converted for cultural use in the early 2000s. It opened as a dedicated film venue in 2004, the first of its kind in Rome.
The Casa del Cinema brings together filmmakers and audiences for talks and screenings that feel more like conversations than formal events. It is a place where cinema is treated as a living art rather than a finished product.
The center sits at the edge of Villa Borghese park and can be reached on foot from several parts of central Rome or by public transport. The program changes regularly, so it is worth checking what is on before making the trip.
The outdoor theater screens films in their original language with subtitles during summer, which is unusual in a city where most films are dubbed into Italian. For visitors who do not speak Italian, this makes the summer program particularly appealing.
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