I MASTRI (Italy, 2025, 63′)

Friday, October 3rd, at 6:30 p.m.; Cinema Romano, Screen 1, Galleria Subalpina, Piazza Castello, 9

Event in collaboration with CNA Torino

On Friday, October 3rd, at 6:30 p.m., in Room 1 of Cinema Romano, Job Film Days and CNA Torino present, together with director Daniele De Michele , the movie I Mastri (Italy, 2025). Director, writer, performer, gastronomy enthusiast, and considered by the New York Times to be one of the most inventive food activists, Daniele De Michele, aka DonPasta, closely follows six Italian masters in this documentary, bearing witness to their tenacity and pride in defending the eternity of their knowledge and the beauty of tradition.

The movie will be presented by the director, followed by a Q&A session. Speakers: Vitaliano Alessio Stefanoni (Head of Communications, CNA Turin), Stefania Battezzati (percussion instrument manufacturer in Turin), Michele Miele (marble worker in Lanzo Torinese), Pier Teppa (blacksmith in Ceres), Roberto Perino (ceramist in Castellamonte), Francesco Piloni (luthier in Turin).

Admission method : you can access the event by purchasing tickets online or at the Cinema Romano box office.

Internazional title: I mastri
Original title: I mastri
Director: Daniele De Michele (DonPasta)
Screenplay: Daniele De Michele (DonPasta)
Photography: Mario Bucci
Editing: Paolo Turla
Production: Colibrì Film, Audioimage

Six artisans craft handmade products starting from raw materials: soil, wood, glass, stone. They change these materials and shape them through the power of natural elements: water, fire, air. Two alabaster artisans from Volterra, a young luthier from Naples, a Senegalese boy learning to master glassmaking in Murano and a shipwright from Venice. Working brings them to observe the way the world is changing, with workshops closures, mass production and the end of passing knowledge. Everything sums up to a fleeting and symbolic work created with pruned wood in the small town of Novoli, in Salento, every year for centuries. A metaphor of the myth of Sisyphus, and the boulder that, in spite of everything, gets rolled up the hill.

Daniele De Michele (Galatina, 1974), known as DonPasta, is a writer, artist and performer whose work revolves around the theme of food. He created the documentaries I villani (presented at the Venice Film Festival), Naviganti / Seafarers (Giornate degli Autori di Venezia, formerly Venice Days), Des géants dans ma cité, Royal de Luxe à Bellevue (episode from 2024, from the TV series La ligne bleue for France Télévision). He curated the web series Le nonne d’Italia in cucina for Treccani and Corriere della Sera. Among his many publications: Artusi Remix (2014) and Il pranzo della domenica (2024).

Filmography (selection): I villani (doc, 2018), Naviganti/Seafarers (doc, 2021), I mastri (doc, 2025).