Screenings of International Competition of the 12th edition of the Mente Locale Festival – Visioni sul territorio. At the end of the screening, toast offered by Consorzio Vini Colli Bolognesi.

Scheduled screenings

From 3 p.m.

EARLY CAME THE STORIES by Jaume Carrió, 6’, Spain 2025
Italian preview
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.

ARCADIA AMERICA – Journey to the Deep South of the United States by Raffaele Manco, 102′, Italy-United States 2024
Regional preview
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.

From 5.15 p.m.

CI SEDEVAMO SUL TAPPO – Porto Rotondo il borgo inventato by Anna Testa, 60′, Italy 2024
Regional preview
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

From 6.30 p.m.

TORO by Rocco Di Mento, 91′, Germany-Italy 2025
Regional preview
“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.

DOMUS DE JANAS by Maria Vittoria Daquino, 8’05”, Italy 2024
Regional preview
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.

From 8.30 p.m.

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.

From 10 p.m.

UNTIL WE REST by Ghina Abboud, 60′, Qatar 2025
Italian preview
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.

Ticket price:
Free admission

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