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Competition 2026
PARIS FOX by Sofian Chouaib, 3’43’’, France 2025
Regional Premiere
In an urban wasteland on the outskirts of Paris, between wild nature and concrete, Swiper the fox finds food and shelter, raising the question of how long this fragile coexistence can last.
SONMAT, A RANTAN STORY by Emanuele Segre, Italy 2026, 10’
Italian Premiere
Through the Korean ritual of kimjang celebrated by a family in an Italian Alpine valley, Sonmat, a Rantan Story weaves together working the land and the narrative voice of Carol into an intimate inner journey about the indelible bond with one’s roots.
THE DRAGON, by Francesco Rubattu, Italy 2026, 14’39’’
Regional Premiere
Beneath today’s port of Chioggia, south of Venice, memories of the last sea dragon of the Adriatic make the lagoon tremble, while on the surface a summer of work and silence plays out over a sea that appears increasingly exhausted.
COMMON PEAR, by Gregor Božič, 15’, Slovenia 2025
In a not-too-distant future devastated by the climate crisis, a team of scientists analyzes archive footage of past farmers in an attempt to understand their connection to the land.
THE KEEP by Federico Conti, 17’08’’, Italy 2024
Regional Premiere
Sally Barnes is the last person in Ireland to smoke wild fish exclusively. Overwhelmed by the consequences of climate change and intensive fishing, her invaluable know-how risks disappearing forever.
THE FIRST SOUND by Andrea Mura, 19’, Italy 2026
On a mountain peak, a musician and instrument maker living with a degenerative disease transforms wood, iron, and pain into sound, seeking the secret voice of things through listening to nature and creative disobedience.
SUENA AHORA by Gabriele Licchelli, Francesco Lorusso, Andrea Settembrini, Italy-Cuba 2025, 20′
Regional Premiere
In the pitch-black of the Cuban apagón (blackout), amidst portable lamps and the re-emerging sounds of unspoiled nature, the daily lives and gestures of the inhabitants intertwine in an intimate, dreamlike experience where reality gives way to imagination.
CHIACCHIERIÀ by Andrea La Puca, Italy 2025, 20’
Regional Premiere
Chiacchierià is a documentary that tells the fragile border between legend and reality in Naples’ Rione Sanità, where the story of the Munaciello still lives in the voices of its residents. Through testimonies and folk lore, the film reflects on the contemporary need to explain every mystery, forgetting the value of doubt and imagination. A journey that invites us to listen to stories once again, even before trying to prove them.
ALTRIMENTI INVENTA by Meriam Jarboua, 23’05’’, Italy 2025
The documentary addresses the absence, in the collective visual imagination, of people who migrated to Italy from North African countries before the imposition of visas in the 1990s. Attempting different ways of “reacting” to and (re)constructing this absence—narrating stories without images—the film searches through, manipulates, and plays with materials from Italian archives, starting from the director’s own family history to reach and open up into a more collective dimension; unfolding through recorded conversations between me and my father, and then between other fathers and their daughters.
FROM THE MOUNTAIN WE SEE THE MOUNTAIN, by Julián García Long, 29’35’’, Belgium-Argentina 2025
Italian Premiere
In the Patagonian Andes scarred by colonization, the rebirth of an indigenous forest wounded by fire intertwines with conflicting accounts of the wildfire and the mysterious disappearance of a motorcyclist.
THE ANSWER IS OUT THERE by Anna de Manincor/ZimmerFrei, 42’, Italy 2025
Regional Premiere
Shot on 16 mm along the “green border” between Bulgaria and Turkey, Anna de Manincor’s road movie explores the concept of borders by dissolving artificial barriers into the natural landscape and weaving together the fluidity of the environment with personal stories.
WEN-JIN by Roy Tsai, Canada-Hong Kong, 46’34’’, 2025
Italian Premiere
Wen-jin (問津) is a performative documentary tracing the digital rebirth of the 1946 film by my grandfather, Tsai Wen-jin, shot in Singapore and long considered lost. The film was unknown to my family in Hong Kong, and its unexpected re-emergence from public archives sets off a personal journey into family history, bringing out divergent memories, inherited silences, and the evolving relationship between cinema, archives, and intergenerational bonds.
PESTIFERUS LUPUS by Ludovico Serra, Luca Jankovic, Francesco Cutello, 54’, Italy 2025
In a small, remote village in the Alps, Don Gaudenzio revives an ancient tradition: the exorcism mass against the wolf, an invocation once addressed to God to protect the people from the fury of nature. Two hundred years later, Pestiferus Lupus explores the consequences of the wolf’s return to Forno, one of the few mountain villages resisting depopulation. As the wilderness slowly reclaims the forest, shepherds gather to discuss and resist. In an Italy where the mountains seem forgotten, religion becomes the last stronghold against fear.
REMEMBER MY SONG by Jelena Bosanac, Tanja Brzakovic, 60’, Croatia-Serbia 2026
Italian Premiere
In the 1980s, the “Jablan” tavern, located in the Croatian village of Jugovo Polje, was a symbol of brotherhood and a gathering place for people of all backgrounds and nationalities, before the first shootout between Serbs and Croats marked the beginning of its end, transforming a place of love and lightheartedness into a stage of hatred and destruction narrated in the film by its protagonists.
WHAT REMAINS WHEN THE SEA MOVES by Gaetano Crivaro, Italy 2026, 66’
When summer ends in Sardinia, the mistral wind reshapes the coast: between the receding sea and the traces of mass tourism, a fragile coastal ecosystem emerges, suspended between land and water.
THE INHERITORS by Serge-Olivier Rondeau, 69’, Canada 2025
Italian Premiere
The Inheritors offers an intimate and moving observation of the daily life of a colony of Ring-billed Gulls nesting next to Canada’s largest landfill, following them across an entire breeding season through invasive tracking systems and falconry deterrence, in a sensory experience that invites us to reconsider the way we live and die on a planet devastated by mass consumption.
HAIR, PAPER, WATER by Nicolas Graux, Minh Quý Trương, 71’, Belgium-France 2025
An elderly Ruc woman, born in a cave, navigates everyday life and passes on her people’s language to her grandchildren.
A TU LADO, by Cristiano Regina, 80’, Italy-Spain-Cuba 2025
Through the daily routine of a boxing gym in Havana managed by a native of Bologna in memory of his Olympic champion partner, the story of young athletes and their coaches serves as a microcosm for a universal reflection on the resilience of the Cuban people.
DOM, by Massimiliano Battistella, 80’48’’, Bosnia Herzegovina 2025
Thirty years after the end of the Siege of Sarajevo, Mirela’s return to her homeland—having arrived in Italy as a child in 1992—turns into a deep journey of personal search among former classmates, a rediscovered mother, and her Bosnian roots.
UNA COSA VICINA, by Loris G. Nese, 90’, Italy 2025
Through cinema, the director investigates his family’s past to confront a violent and burdensome legacy, thereby rebuilding his own identity.
Out of competition
Special screenings in collaboration with Demetra Formazione
World Premiere
In the countryside around Vignola, Maria built her refuge. She and her land live in harmony, deeply united. Over time, unexpected encounters and new friendships have given rise to a hive of collaboration and mutual support.
World Premiere
Giorgio Erioli—poet, painter, and winemaker—prepares for his final grape harvest where he was born and raised. By his side is Federico, who found a lifeline in him and now finds himself helping Giorgio, leading him to a new plot of land to start anew together.
World Premiere
A journey inside the Certosa Cemetery of Bologna, where the immortal memory etched in stone intertwines with the everyday life of the people who inhabit and bring life to the place, creating a tapestry that celebrates life, art, and human endeavors.
