We have received and are publishing ‘There is no Italy without Cinema’, an open letter promoted by the Authors’ Coordination (100autori, ACMF, AIDAC, AIR3, ANAC, WGI)
Fewer resources for Italian creativity, more money for foreign productions. It seems incredible but it is true: while the resources of the Cinema and Audiovisual Fund are being cut by 90 million, the tax credit quota dedicated to foreign films shot in Italy is rising from 40 to 100 million.
The Government has decided to double the spending to attract foreign productions, and to decrease by two-thirds the funds provided by the Ministry of Culture for the financing of writing, development, production, and distribution of Italian audiovisual projects of particular artistic quality, documentaries, and animated works.
This is what has been established by the new “Ministerial Decree for the allocation of resources from the Fund for the development of investments in cinema and the audiovisual sector,” reduced from 696 million euros in 2025 to 606 million in 2026.
This is how our cinema is being killed.
We — screenwriters, directors, actors, composers, and adapters — are firmly opposed to this unfair choice, which concerns us particularly because it comes at a time when a new system law is also being discussed, which will determine the fate of Italian cinema for the coming decades.
We strongly demand that this reform must have Italian creativity at its center, as an expression of the commitment of thousands of workers in the sector.
Because there is no Italy without Cinema.
Matteo Alberti, Francesco Amato, Gianni Amelio, Marco Amenta, Elisa Amoruso, Furio Andreotti, Edy Angelillo, Francesca Archibugi, Luca Argentero, Artisti 7607, Enrico Audenino, Gianni Aureli, Pupi Avati, Silvia Bacinelli, Mariangela Barbanente, Ugo Barbara, Marco Bardella, Marco Bellocchio, Franco Bernini, Fabrizio Berruti, Toni Biocca, Stefano Bises, Claudio Bisio, Paolo Borraccetti, Francesco Bruni, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Massimiliano Bruno, Raffaele Buranelli, Leopoldo Caggiano, Cosimo Calamini, Mimmo Calopresti, Giovanni Caloro, Massimiliano Camaiti, Simone Cannata, Vinicio Canton, Marina Cappi, Enrico Caria, Carla Casalini, Antonio Castaldo, Pasquale Catalano, Adriano Chiarelli, Sophie Chiarello, Anne-Riitta Ciccone, Marco Colombo, Cristina Comencini, Francesca Comencini, Pappi Corsicato, Marco Cortesi, Francesco Costabile, Saverio Costanzo, Ivan Cotroneo, Alessio Cremonini, Maddalena Crippa, Lorenzo d ’Amico de Carvalho, Marco D’Amore, Marina D’Aversa, Ciro D’Emilio, Marco Danieli, Edoardo De Angelis, Franca De Angelis, Ciro De Caro, Antonietta De Lillo, Aldo De Scalzi, Andrea De Sica, Maura Delpero, Donatella Diamanti, Luigi Di Fiore, Emanuele Di Stefano, Giacomo Durzi, Franco Eco, Giovanni Esposito, Alessandro Fabbri, Antonio Falduto, Leonardo Fasoli, Antonella Fattori, Margherita Ferri, Lisa Festa, Donatella Finocchiaro, Peppe Fiore, Fabrizio Fornaci, Domenico Fortunato, Giuliana Gamba, Daniela Gambaro, Matteo Garrone, Beppe Gaudino, Paolo Gaudio, Alberto Gelpi, Paolo Genovese, Carmen Giardina, Claudio Giovannesi, Matteo Oscar Giuggioli, Giorgio Glaviano, Valeria Golino, Fabio Grassadonia, Filippo Gravino, Maria Iovine, Guido Iuculano, Fiamma Izzo, Rossella Izzo, Simona Izzo, Valerio Jalongo, Roan Johnson, Davide Lantieri, Antonio Lauro, Doriana Leondeff, Antonio Leotti, Antonia Liskova, Vito Lo Re, Silvia Longo, Fabrizio Lopresti, Daniele Luchetti, Luca Lucini, Stefano Mainetti, Davide Marengo, Umberto Marino, Massimo Martella, Marcello Mazzarella, Daniele Mencarelli, Valerio Mieli, Alessandro Molinari, Enzo Monteleone, Gabriel Montesi, Laura Morante, Nanni Moretti, Gabriele Muccino, Enza Negroni, Ginevra Nervi, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Maurizio Nichetti, Bruno Oliviero, Nico Onorato, Gianfranco Pannone, Filippo Pascuzzi, Angelo Pasquini, Daniele Pecci, Marco Pellegatta, Lucio Pellegrini, Michele Pellegrini, Sandro Petraglia, Alessia Petta, Marco Pettenello, Antonio Piazza, Marco Armando Piccinini, Pierpaolo Piciarelli, Susanna Piferi, Nicola Piovani, Emanuela Piovano, Pivio, Marco Pontecorvo, Karin Proia, Nicola Prosatore, Marco Simon Puccioni, Santi Pulvirenti, Costanza Quatriglio, Carlo Quinto, RAAI – Italian Actors and Actresses Register, Francesca Romana Raffi, Monica Rametta, Ludovica Rampoldi, Paola Randi, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Fabio Rao, Maddalena Ravagli, Beatrice Ravaglioli, Nicola Ravera Rafele, Marco Risi, Viola Rispoli, Giulio Rizzo, Alba Rohrwacher, Samuele Romano, Alessandro Rossellini, Alessandro Rossetti, Alessandro Rossi, Sergio Rubini, Laura Samani, Valia Santella, Stefano Sardo, Massimo Sbaraccani, Greta Scarano, Michele Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Francesco Scianna, Luca Scivoletto, Andrea Segre, Davide Serino, Pietro Sermonti, Silvio Soldini, Paolo Sorrentino, Marina Spada, Paolo Strippoli, Gianluca Tavarelli, Giuliano Taviani, Marco Testoni, Filippo Timi, Ricky Tognazzi, Lorenzo Tomio, Giuseppe Tornatore, Massimo Torre, Francesca Tozzi, Thomas Trabacchi, Andrea Traina, Alessandro Trigona, Jasmine Trinca, Armando Trivellini, Alice Urciolo, Francesco Vairano, Antonino Valvo, Andrea Venier, Giovanni Veronesi, Daniele Vicari, Margherita Vicario, Paolo Virzì, Monica Zapelli.
