The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image’s (MAMI) 14th Mumbai Film Festival, which kicked off yesterday, includes the biggest ever retrospective of Italian films. The segment will trace the history of Italian cinema and will include recent films as well as classics such as Maciste (1915) and Inferno (1911). Celebrated Italian film director and film academician Italo Spinelli is at the centre of this intitiative along with the Embassy of Italy in India. Excerpts from an interview:

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