Competition 2025

EARLY CAME THE STORIES by Jaume Carrió, 6’, Spain 2025
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Recent natural disasters have had an emotional impact on filmmaker Jaume Carrió, who reflects on loss in this essay that analyzes society’s way of capturing memories.

DOMUS DE JANAS by Maria Vittoria Daquino, 8’05”, Italy 2024
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Recent natural disasters have had an emotional impact on filmmaker Jaume Carrió, who reflects on loss in this essay that analyzes society’s way of capturing memories.

MEANWHILE, I’M HERE by Gastón Calivari, 14’25”, Argentina 2024
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Norma is a fisherwoman who lives on the islands of Entre Ríos, Argentina. At 55 years old, she still doesn’t know what her vocation is, although her true wish is to be an actress. In the meantime, she dedicates herself to fishing.

THROUGH THE ROOTS by Maria Ponomariova, 15’12”, Netherlands 2024
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“Through the roots” is a dance short film by choreographer Daria Titova and director Maria Ponomariova. Inspired by Daria’s grandfather and the rural land of Sokur, Russia, it blends movement, nature, and memory to reflect on identity, heritage, and belonging, inviting viewers to reconnect with their own roots.”

ASPIS by Antonio Romagnoli, 15′, Italy 2025
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In the midst of unspoiled nature, free from any human trace, a viper awakens from hibernation. As every year, it resumes its life cycle without remembering the previous one. But something changes, and a new awareness emerges.

RIGO by Juan Hendel, 14’, Spain 2025
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Rigoberto is a middle-aged Mexican who divides his time between carving animals in wood and slaughtering pigs. Each new day, he lives in between creation and destruction, art and work, life and death.

APPUNTI PER UNA STORIA SARDA by Daniele Maggioni, 15’38”, Italy 2024
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The film tells a past that returns and presents the secrets of a family involved in a case of kidnapping in Sardinia, using only images shot over the years by the director in Sardinia and belonging to his private audiovisual archive, seeking assonances with the story told in voice over

GOOD SITUATION by Andrea Pecci, Alberto Magnani, 36’44”, Italy 2024
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In a remote Cambodian village, what makes a situation “beautiful”? Horng and Kimi, a couple and local tourist guides, take us on a journey to discover the Kachok minority between daily life and ancient rituals.

UNTIL WE REST by Ghina Abboud, 60′, Qatar 2025
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This is the Englilsh one: Enad, a 60-year-old Syrian refugee in Lebanon, defies fate by searching for land to bury his people in the Bekaa. With him is Sobhie, a Lebanese sheikh’s daughter, who once opened her son’s grave to bury a Syrian child. As Enad honors the dead, his children risk their lives trying to escape by sea.

CI SEDEVAMO SUL TAPPO – Porto Rotondo il borgo inventato by Anna Testa, 60′, Italy 2024
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In the 1960s, the brothers Nicolò and Luigino Donà Dalle Rose discovered the bay of Poltu Ridundu in Sardinia, bought land from local families, and transformed it into the future tourist destination Porto Rotondo. Collaborating with artists and architects, they created a village inspired by the Greek polis

DEAR AUDIENCE by Enrico Baraldi, 73′, Italy-Ukraine 2025

Yulia and Natalia are two actresses from Kyiv who have escaped the war. Since their arrival in Bologna they have been struggling trying to rebuild their lives. News breaks: the theatres, closed due to the conflict, are reopening. This makes them decide to embark on a return journey to question their future.

RADIO SOLAIRE by Federico Bacci, Francesco Eppesteingher, 75′, Italy 2025

Giorgio Lolli, from Bologna, a revolutionary of radio waves, gave life to over 500 radio stations in Africa over forty years. “Radio Solaire” tells his story and that of the communities that, thanks to his radios, found a voice, identity, and freedom.

ABELE by Fabian Volti, 77′, Italy 2025
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In a world dominated by chaos, Abel appears in the eyes of shepherd men who survive on the borders of the wandering pastures between Sardinia and Palestine, silent witnesses to everyday life in conflict.

FLOTACIJA by Eluned Zoe Aiano, Alesandra Tatić, 77′, Serbia 2023
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In Eastern Serbia, in a town with a dual identity divided between magic and industry, a family whose destiny is extrinsically linked with both does their best to ensure the survival of their traditions and their future generations. Lifelong miner Dragan Markovic is the last in a line of dragon hunters, while his sister Desa is the widow of the union leader who is trying to continue his legacy by fighting for the rights of fellow mine-worker families.

TIAN – Generation Farmfluencer by Meike Hollnaicher, Tom Schäfer, 80’, Italy 2024
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An activist designer with farming roots and a trained chef wrestle with the growing disconnection from food and soil. Through their online platform they meet a new wave of bold, inspiring farmers reshaping traditions and uncovering the transformative power of community. TIAN (from the German “to act”) explores the various facets of agriculture, celebrating the critical role of modern farmers and their efforts to shape a sustainable future.

TORO by Rocco Di Mento, 91′, Germany-Italy 2025
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“Toro” is the tragicomic odyssey of Rocco and Angelo, two friends who are trying to navigate the challenges of adulthood as they approach their forties, all while grappling with the difficulties faced by a new generation of men.

ARCADIA AMERICA – Journey to the Deep South of the United States by Raffaele Manco, 102′, Italy-United States 2024
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A journey into the Deep South of the United States of America, meeting people, stories, and places marked by the country’s history. A reflection on the beginning and the end of the great American dream.

WE ARE INSIDE by Farah Kassem, 180′, Denmark/Lebanon/Qatar 2024
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After more than a decade, Farah returns to her hometown Tripoli in Lebanon to live with her widowed aging father, Mustapha.
It’s her last chance to be part of her father’s world though it must be through the only language he understands: poetry.

MYCELIUM by Marina Fastoso, 32’48”, Italy 2025
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The documentary is part of the artistic outputs of the “Mycelium” residency. Inspired by the legends, stories, and atmosphere of the host village of Roccamonfina, the involved artists experimented with a spontaneous and unprecedented form of building and interpreting the relationship between art, place, community, and nature.