Piero Pelù, rock and roll, says: "Civil rights? We've gone back a hundred years, to the days of fascism."

"On civil rights, we find ourselves in an era similar to a hundred years ago, when fascism rose to power in Italy," says Piero Pelù . "A hundred years ago, fascism was growing unchecked, and today it is reborn and growing again." We are at the presentation of "Piero Pelù. Rumore dentro ," the film that Francesco Fei dedicated to the Tuscan artist, and which Piero Pelù himself will present on Monday, November 10, at 8:30 pm, at the Cinema Fiamma in Florence.

Pelù – who will be speaking to the audience after the screening at the Fiamma Cinema on Monday – is also continuing his commitment to Palestine . “Today, the fake news of Trump-led peace is winning the day in the mainstream media. But it's a deception, a hypocrisy. I continue to do what I can, and what I think is right, to keep the spotlight on Palestine , and above all to keep aid flowing. In December, I'll be participating in Music for Peace in Genoa, to raise food for Palestine. And on June 20, we'll be doing SOS Palestine 2 at the Visarno racecourse in Florence. Because the devastation of a people doesn't end with the snap of a finger. Not even if Netanyahu were arrested, right now, at this very moment.”

The film about Piero Pelù

Piero Pelù and director Francesco Fei preview the Compagnia Cinema at the Festival dei Popoli (Photo by Tania Bucci/New Press Photo)

The film that Piero Pelù tells is, he himself says, "neither a documentary nor a biopic." It is, he says, a journey. An internal and physical journey. An internal journey, made to put behind him the accident that has affected his life and career in recent years. "During a recording session, a Larsen effect started in my headphones, a whistling sound that caused me permanent damage, tinnitus, a ringing in the ears that has never left me," says Piero. "I suffered permanent hearing damage, I thought I would never be able to go on stage again, I went through a period of depression . Then, with special precautions, safety headphones and appropriate frequency cuts, I managed to return to the stage." Next year he will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of Litfiba's second album, "17 Re," with twenty live dates.

But the film is also a journey among the resistance fighters, among the "others" compared to the mainstream narrative. An encounter with the GKN employees, the workers who were victims of a collective layoff, who have been fighting since 2021. Or with the people who, in Camargue , flock to venerate Saint Sara. The "black" saint, dear to the Roma and Sinti, to those who are different, to the marginalized . "As a layperson, I have a profound respect for this figure, the saint of all those who are left aside, all the 'others' in the universe." The film "Piero Pelù. Rumore dentro" will be in theaters, as a special event, on November 10, 11, and 12.

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