Today, the institutional preview of the exhibition "ROME AND THE INVENTION OF CINEMA. From the origins to auteur cinema, 1905–1960" took place at Castel Sant'Angelo, inaugurated by the Acting Director of the Pantheon and Castel Sant'Angelo - National Museums Directorate of the city of Rome, Luca Mercuri, and illustrated by the curator Gian Luca Farinelli, in the presence of the President of the VII Culture, Science and Education Commission of the Chamber of Deputies Federico Mollicone. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 15, 2025, to January 18, 2026.

It was September 20, 1905, when, in front of Porta Pia, the screening of "The Capture of Rome" inaugurated the history of Italian cinema: on that symbolic evening, a new, popular, and national art was born, with Rome as the protagonist and, at the same time, the backdrop of modernity. The exhibition "ROME AND THE INVENTION OF CINEMA. From the origins to auteur cinema, 1905–1960," set up at Castel Sant'Angelo and produced by the Pantheon and Castel Sant'Angelo - National Museums Directorate of the city of Rome, an institute of the Ministry of Culture directed on an interim basis by Luca Mercuri, together with the Cineteca di Bologna, directed by Gian Luca Farinelli, curator of the exhibition project, will tell this indissoluble bond between the eternal city and the seventh art.

The exhibition is realized in collaboration with the Rome Film Festival, the Experimental Cinematography Center Foundation, and the Luce Cinecittà Archive.