Lucio Dalla’s presence can be felt. Not only because around the corner is his former home in Via d’Azeglio. Cesare Cremonini is sitting at a table in a restaurant, bread and mortadella on the table (“I don’t understand how anyone can ignore this”) and a glass of lambrusco. The sensation is accentuated by a graffito on the portcullis in front of the restaurant depicting Lucio and Cesare. The Bologna (and Italy) of yesterday’s and today’s songs will also meet in the cinema. Cremonini makes his directorial debut with a film about the singer-songwriter who died in 2012, co-produced by Moreno Zani and Malcom Pagani’s Tenderstories and Filippo Valsecchi’s Papaya Records.

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