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When the world pressed pause in 2020, an Italian cinema owner hit play – even for an audience of one. Amid Bologna's shuttered theaters, this everyday hero kept the projector running daily, clinging to the routine of film screenings as a quiet act of defiance against pandemic despair.
Photographer Andrea Savorani Neri captured this and other untold stories during Italy's lockdown. Stranded after a planned 15-day project turned into months, Neri documented frontline workers, artists, and ordinary residents rewriting resilience. "2020 became one of the most intense years of my career," he told Global Stringer.
From empty cinema seats to masked embraces, these snapshots reveal a universal truth: Hope thrives in the unlikeliest routines. As Neri looks ahead to post-pandemic storytelling, his work reminds us that ordinary moments – like a lone movie screening – can be extraordinary lifelines.
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One-Man Cinema: A Story of Hope in 2020’s Chaos 
Amid Bologna's shuttered theaters, this everyday hero kept the projector running daily, clinging to the routine of film screenings as a quiet act of defiance against pandemic despair.
Photographer Andrea Savorani Neri captured this and other untold stories during Italy's lockdown. Stranded after a planned 15-day project turned into months, Neri documented frontline workers, artists, and ordinary residents rewriting resilience. "2020 became one of the most intense years of my career," he told Global Stringer.
From empty cinema seats to masked embraces, these snapshots reveal a universal truth: Hope thrives in the unlikeliest routines. As Neri looks ahead to post-pandemic storytelling, his work reminds us that ordinary moments – like a lone movie screening – can be extraordinary lifelines.
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