Two top cinema officials on Tuesday quit the culture ministry's cinema selection committee after a documentary on Giulio Regeni, an Italian student tortured to death in Egypt in 2016, was denied ministerial funding.
Paolo Mereghetti, perhaps Italy's best-known movie critic, and noted university cinema lecturer Massimo Galimberti did not specifically cite the failure to fund the documentary but said they no longer felt at home on the panel.
The documentary is titled 'Giulio Regeni, All The Evil In The World", a quote from Regeni's mother when she saw the violence visited on her son's body between January 25 and February 3 2026.
The documentary has received none of the 14 million euros up for allocation by the ministerial panel.
Four Egyptian security officers are on trial in absentia for Regeni's death.
