The 2026 Lucca Film Festival will present the world premiere of the uncut version of *Tuttomondo*, a documentary produced by Andrea De Gioia for Interferenze—which changed its name to Young in 2001—and directed by Andrea Soldani. The screening will take place on Thursday, October 1, at 6:00 p.m. at the Vincenzo da Massa Carrara Auditorium in the San Micheletto Complex in Lucca, as part of the “Art and Music on the Big Screen” series.
The film chronicles the creation of *Tuttomondo*, created by Keith Haring in Pisa in 1989 and the last major permanent mural of his career. Following a private screening in 2025 in New York at The Center, the new version includes 70 drawings and digital animations created by Haring for the project and recovered in 2023 during the reconstruction of the original archives.
The story begins in the winter of 1987, in New York’s Greenwich Village, when Pontedera-based entrepreneurs Roberto and Piergiorgio Castellani—father and son—met Haring and proposed a large mural in Tuscany. Initially conceived for Florence, the project did not come to fruition. Pisa took up the proposal and identified the side wall of the convent of Sant’Antonio Abate, located in the city center, just a short walk from the train station. The prior, Father Luciano Masetti, agreed, allowing the artist’s urban style to engage with the wall of a church.
In June 1989, Haring arrived in Pisa and created *Tuttomondo* without compensation. Three young filmmakers from Pisa—Andrea De Gioia, Roberto Burchielli, and Andrea Soldani, founders of the then-newly formed Interference—followed him for four days with their camera, filming the creative process and his interactions with locals and onlookers. Hundreds of people watched him work, transforming the site into a collective happening.
The documentary was a collaborative effort with Haring, who had supported the project and was supposed to see the film. The artist’s death in February 1990 prevented him from doing so. The restoration of the archives has also made it possible to unearth the digital archive created by Haring for the audiovisual project. The new version features contributions from Adrian Wilson, curator of a major collection of digital works created at Paintbox in the 1980s by David Hockney, Larry Rivers, Jennifer Bartlett, and others.
The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Alessandro Romanini and co-organized with Lucia Maffei, featuring Massimo Marsili, president of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca; Paolo Bolpagni, director of the Fondazione Ragghianti Lucca; Andrea De Gioia, Andrea Soldani, and Piergiorgio Castellani, the key figure behind the event that brought Haring to Pisa. Admission is free, subject to reservation at luccafilmfestival.it.
“An artist who worked feverishly because he felt illness and death becoming ever more constant companions, eager—like Matisse in the Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence—to leave posterity an unforgettable message of unity and brotherhood in the Tuscany of the Renaissance masters and humanist culture,” notes Alessandro Romanini, curator of the festival. “Tuttomondo, in addition to being a call for equality and unity among human beings beyond all barriers of race, religion, and sexual orientation, bears witness to Keith Haring’s extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of his time.”
The festival has hosted or paid tribute to figures ranging from Oliver Stone to David Lynch, from Ethan Hawke and Susan Sarandon to Isabelle Huppert, from Rutger Hauer to George Romero, from Paolo Sorrentino to Willem Dafoe, from Chiara Mastroianni and Paul Schrader to Matthew Modine and Ruben Östlund, as well as Aleksandr Sokurov and Gaspar Noé, becoming a cultural landmark in Italy. The event is made possible thanks to the support of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, with Banca Generali Private Wealth Management (Paolo Tacchi) and Banca Pictet serving as the event’s main sponsors. With the participation of the Ministry of Culture—Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual Media, the City of Lucca, and Vivi Lucca Eventi, and with the collaboration of Lands of Giacomo Puccini and the North-West Tuscany Chamber of Commerce. The festival also receives support from the Region of Tuscany, Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Manifatture Digitali Cinema, Sofidel, Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Fondazione Giacomo Puccini, and the Puccini Museum —Birthplace, Farmacia Maffei, Unicoop Firenze, Audi Center Terigi, Tenuta del Buonamico, Martinelli Luce, Naturanda, Futuro3D—and is co-produced by Tecno Servizi, Ristorante Giglio, Palazzo Pfanner, Over The Real, Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Carrara Academy of Fine Arts, Augusto Passaglia High School of Art, Music, and Dance, N. Machiavelli Classical High School, ISIS Pertini, Associazione 50&PIÙ, and ACLI Lucca. We would also like to thank ANSA, Rai Toscana, Rai Radio 3, Movieplayer.it, Film4 Life, Festival Scope, A.C.S.I. (Association of Italian Sports Centers), the Italian Amateur Theater Federation (FITA), Trenitalia, FIC, UICC, Cinit, Ucca, Arci, Fedic, Corte Tripoli, Circolo del Cinema di Lucca, Cineforum Ezechiele 25:17, Cinema Centrale, Astra, and Moderno, University of Pisa, University of Florence, Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti Foundation, Pisa al Cinema, Cineteca Bologna, National Film Archive, Luigi Boccherini Music Institute, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Italy, Associazione Donne all’Ultimo Grido, SPAM! Network for Contemporary Arts, Lucca Comics & Games, Photolux Festival, Lucca Classica Music Festival.
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