Creator of short films “Daniel Schinasi – L’Exode d’un Juif Italien d’Alexandrie” (2014), “Hommage à Elio Toaff” (2016).
Screening dates and locations of
“Daniel Schinasi – L’Exode d’un Juif Italien d’Alexandrie”:
Previous screenings:
- Aug 2021 Palazzo Bagitto, Livorno
- June 2019 Cinémathèquede Nice, Nice
- Nov 2017 Italian Institute of Culture, Belgrade
- April 2017 Italian Institute, Nice
- Sept-Nov 2016 Centro Sefarad Israel, Madrid
- April 2016 Comune Vecchio, Cecina
- Nov 2015 Maison de l´Italie, Cite Internationale, Paris
- May 2015 Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Vienna
In the press about my short film about Daniel Schinasi:
“Effetto Venezia hosts the presentation of the film about Daniel Schinasi, “The Exodus of an Italian Jew from Alexandria,” by Rotterdam-based director and documentary filmmaker Ulrike Hahn, tomorrow, Sunday, August 8. “In life, we should not hesitate to do what we love,” artist Daniel Schinasi tells us. He truly followed his own principle: he became a devoted and renowned painter and sculptor. In this film, he recounts his extraordinary artistic life in motion. From his experience of the 1956 Suez Crisis in Egypt, during which he was forced to leave his native country for Italy, the homeland of his ancestors; to the moment he founded the Neofuturism movement—an anti-war movement for peace and reconciliation; to the final years of his artistic work in Tuscany and Nice. Without ever losing sight of what he loved to do: creating art and advocating for positive social change. A great opportunity to get to know Schinasi through the eyes of Ulrike Hahn.” (translation, Il Tirreno, 2021)
Il Tirreno. “La Vita Di Schinasi Pittore E Sognatore Nel Film Girato Da Ulrike Hahn [The Life of Schinasi, Painter and Dreamer, in the Film Directed by Ulrike Hahn] .” Il Tirreno, 7 Aug. 2021, www.iltirreno.it/tempo-libero/2021/08/07/news/la-vita-di-schinasi-pittore-e-sognatore-nel-film-girato-da-ulrike-hahn-1.40579413#google_vignette. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
Conti, Viola. “Daniel Schinasi Inaugura La Personale Di Pittura a Nizza [Daniel Schinasi Opens His Solo Painting Exhibition in Nice].” La Nazione, 5 Dec. 2016, www.lanazione.it/livorno/cronaca/daniel-schinasi-1.2732506. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
Centro Sefarad Israel. “Agenda: L’Exode d’Un Juif Italien d’Alexandrie [the Exodus of an Italian Jew from Alexandria].” Sefarad Israel Es, 2016.
Il Tirreno. “Al Comune Vecchio I Valori Umani Di Daniel Schinasi [at the Old Town Hall, the Human Values of Daniel Schinasi].” Il Tirreno, 24 Apr. 2016, www.iltirreno.it/cecina/cronaca/2016/04/24/news/al-comune-vecchio-i-valori-umani-di-daniel-schinasi-1.13357203. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
Il Tirreno. “Schinasi E Il Neofuturismo Mostra al Comune Vecchio [Schinasi and Neo-Futurism Exhibition at the Old Town Hall].” Il Tirreno, 21 Apr. 2016, www.iltirreno.it/ultimora-adnkronos/2026/02/06/news/pd-la-linea-e-una-schlein-e-il-fantasma-del-leader-forte-a-sinistra-da-craxi-a-renzi-1.100828155. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
La Nazione. “Daniel Schinasi a Parigi Testimone Di Libertà [Daniel Schinasi in Paris, a Witness to Freedom].” La Nazione, 23 Nov. 2015. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
Federica Lessi. “La Libertà Di Schinasi [The Freedom of Schinasi].” Il Tirreno, 27 Nov. 2015, www.iltirreno.it/cecina/cronaca/2015/11/27/news/la-liberta-di-schinasi-1.12518671. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
A short story about the short film
In the summer of 2014 I started the creative collaboration with artist Daniel Schinasi. He created art to document society and to advocate for a better world. I soon realised that it was his personal and professional path that also needed documentation: He had to flee his country of birth due to political turmoil, and never lost sight of his passion for art and his desire for positive social change. In the short film “L’Exode d’un Juif Italien d’Alexandrie” Daniel Schinasi and I are tracing his moving life, from the moment he had to leave Alexandria to when he set up his first art studio to his major exhibitions.
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