The Cultural Association CinemAmbulante is the sister organisation of La Guarimba and its operational arm for residency programmes.
La Guarimba and CinemAmbulante share the same team, the same spaces in Amantea and the same values. While La Guarimba runs the International Film Festival and our year-round community projects, CinemAmbulante is dedicated to our international residencies, Kino Guarimba and La Guarimba Music Camp. Having a structure focused entirely on residencies allows us to design them with more care, build lasting partnerships and bring more artists from all over the world to Calabria.
All our training activities, for adults and children, are based on the theories of Cooperative Learning and Montessori Education.
OUR HISTORY
CinemAmbulante: Storie di Integrazione is a multicultural and multidisciplinary project that takes place in Calabria.
In 2016, the General Directory for Entertainment promoted the MigrArti call with the aim of contributing to the enhancement and the promotion of the cultures of origin of the immigrant communities permanently resident in Italy, developing mutual knowledge, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion.
CinemAmbulante was thus created to promote Calabrian values such as the importance of the community and traditions through multicultural concerts and social lunches between invited directors, organizational team and local population of Italian and foreign origin.
The project was conceived by Giulio Vita, founder of La Guarimba, who wanted to give life to a new organization, thus creating the CinemAmbulante Cultural Association to work on the territory to spread quality cinematographic and musical works that represent the voices of countries and cultures that are facing problems of inclusion and social integration, starting with second generation Italians.
In 2018, the project included a film residency called Kino Guarimba, an international film training program in the form of a twelve-day artistic residency in Calabria, the wildest region of Italy.
In 2022, CinemAmbulante won the call for Cinema e Immagini Per la Scuola “Progetti di rilevanza territoriale”. The project proposed involved six middle schools located in the five provinces of Calabria, speaking about the environment and its respect through the innovativeness of the cinematic language. In particular, we wanted to involve inland locations that are often ignored in the process of cultural development of our territory.
Since 2022, the Association curated the film programs in Il Terrenito space in Amantea, screening retrospectives dedicated to Godard, Fritz Lang, Satoshi Kon, Iranian cinema, African-American cinema and children’s films. In 2023 and 2024, the program was supported by the call for the support of festivals and reviews promoted by the Calabria Film Commission.
In 2024, the residency programme grew with La Guarimba Music Camp, a three-week residency for emerging musicians and composers, launched thanks to Culture Moves Europe and later supported by the Embassy of Ireland and the Embassy of the Netherlands.
