A long Olympic story. Eleven thousand hours of images that will become films, short films, documentaries, emotions of this thirty-second Paris Olympics which will then be the perfect springboard to project the Games towards 2026, passing the baton to Milan Cortina. The next edition of «Sports & MOvies TV» organized by the FICTS – Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs which includes 130 Nations – in collaboration with the Lombardy Region and the Milan Foundation Cortina 2026 will be a true “Festival of Olympic images”. A special showcase dedicated to the Games with the projection of the best images of the Parisian Olympic Games towards «Milano Cortina 2026», with the spectacular performances of the athletes and the participation of national and international guests from the world of sport, cinema, television and journalism . The Festival, which this year too will be hosted in early November at Palazzo Lombardia, is a privileged meeting place for 10,000 operators and experts in the sector from all over the world including authors, media, global networks, production houses, majors, producers, radio, directors, actors, Olympic Committees and Sports Federations. «The Paris Olympic Games are an important opportunity for us at the Federation Internationale Cinema e Television Sportifs- he explains Franco Ascani, Italian member of the IOC and president of Ficts – We have planned meetings with the leaders of world sport as well as the meeting of the Federation’s Executive Technical Committee”. The Sport&Movies Festival will be a long journey into the history of Olympic sports which Ficts has already begun before the start of the Paris Olympics with a cycle of events and the project «Emotion of the Games on the screen – Passions olimpiques» in collaboration with the Italian Institute of culture and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Not only that. The Federation Internationale Cinema e Television is also present at the Olympic Collector House with the screening of the most exciting images of the Games and with a series of film productions on sport. «Telling a sporting achievement through images contributes to the diffusion of knowledge and knowledge – explains Ascani – The Olympic culture concretely contributes to the affirmation of the sporting ideal and its values. Sport as a “universal heritage” must be promoted and preserved as a tool for affirming human dignity.”