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.
