Son of the writer and politician Antonio Cederna and nephew of the writer and journalist Camilla Cederna, his paternal grandfather was Giulio Cederna, a founding member of AC Milan. He made his film debut as an actor in 1982 in Cercasi Gesù by Luigi Comencini. After a great deal of auteur cinema, he gained recognition in Fracchia contro Dracula (1985) by Neri Parenti, in the comic role of the hideous hunchbacked servant Boris. Among his best-known interpretations is that of the soldier Antonio Farina, madly in love with a prostitute, in the film Mediterraneo. Also directed by Gabriele Salvatores, he had previously played the role of one of the thirty-something friends in Marrakech Express. In 2003, he played Luigi Greco, one of those responsible for the death of Commissioner Corsi's father, in the TV series Distretto di Polizia 4. Alongside his cinematic and literary activity, he balances theatrical work with public reading performances, such as In cammino. Storie per sentirsi vivi e camminare a testa alta (2004), based on his book Il grande viaggio. In 2009, he appeared in the third season of the television series L’ispettore Coliandro (first episode: Sempre avanti), in which he plays the role of a drug dealer.
The Festival
What is NPF
Where the Mountain meets the City, where sound meets matter, music connects with movement, places speak through performing arts, and gestures become narratives.
Narrazioni Parallele Festival is the continuation of the Scenario Montagna experience, featuring performances never seen before and a synesthesia of the arts and expressive languages.
It is origin, arising from the history of places and settings, and it is originality projecting toward the future. They are stories that intertwine, art forms that blend without barriers, ready to experiment, yet embodying the elements of a nature to be protected.
“Parallel narratives” are not only those of the Mountain and the City, but also those between History and Future, between Person and Nature, in an unstable balance that vibrates like the rope walked by a tightrope walker.
NPF brings together musicians of classical background with musicians working with new technologies, new scenic languages, and new forms of contemporary dance that “break the fourth wall” by working with and alongside the audience.
It is a festival that is not only multidisciplinary but synesthetic, in the sense of integrating and experimenting with different types of impressions, languages, and performance codes. With artists who constantly put themselves on the line.
And so it is that these places—surprising in their being “other” compared to a “normal” stage—open up to a new, more vivid way of discovering them.
Key Figures
Benedetta Parisi
Benedetta Parisi is an Italian artist whose work spans theater, performance, and installation, with research focused on the active relationship with the audience and on space as a sensory device.
Les Farfadais
Les Farfadais is an international contemporary circus company and one of the most spectacular and recognizable names on the European scene. Often described as "creators of the unreal," they bring their imagination to life through extraordinary creative, engineering, and artisanal skills, drawing inspiration from the natural world, classical mythology, and the epic realms of fantasy and adventure cinema.
Raffaello Tullo
Raffaello Tullo is an actor, musician, and author, and one of the most original figures in contemporary Italian musical theater. As the founder and soul of the Rimbamband, he has developed an unmistakable stage language that blends musical virtuosity, surreal comedy, and physical theater.
