With the release on Home Video (Cecchi Gori) of Gianfranco Pannone's documentary Mondo Za, it's a good time to rediscover Cesare Zavattini and his native "Bassa" near Reggio Emilia, with its artistic and political past. In Mondo Za Gianfranco Pannone re-evokes the filmmaker's boundless cultural legacy, further proof of the ways in which film can and must be a tool for understanding reality and its transformations.