TSFF OF THE LITTLE ONES, SPECIAL SCREENING, WILD ROSES, AND QUEER VISIONS
Sunday morning is packed with events: at 11 a.m. the Lovato Bookstore hosts the presentation of the podcast “THE DISCOVERED HEART” with Carlotta De Sanctis, Marta Pacor, Valeria Testagrossa. The podcast Il Cuore scoperto, produced by Associazione Vanvera and available on all major listening platforms, is the Italian version of Victoire Tuaillon’s international series Le Coeur sur la table, produced by Binge Audio in 2021, first presented in Italy at the International magazine festival in Ferrara in October 2024.
Screenings begin at 11:00 a.m. at the Miela Theater Redoubt with the TSFF of the Little People and ANIMATED TALES FROM HUNGARY: GUSTAVUS AND OTHER WORLDS curated by National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive. The screening will be repeated at 12 noon.
Simultaneously in the Great Hall at the Miela Theater out-of-competition documentaries is presented WE ARE THE ERRORS THAT PERMIT YOUR INTELLIGENCE by Erika Rossi (I, 2024, col., 85′) The Academy of Madness, the theater company created in the spaces of the former Trieste Psychiatric Hospital by actor and director Claudio Misculin in the early 1970s, has traveled the world in numerous and acclaimed performances. For more than 40 years Claudio was the master, the leader, the guide of his “matt-actors,” madmen by trade and actors by vocation … After his sudden death in 2019, the creation of the new show is the challenge facing the matt-actors to carry on “the madness of theater and the theater of madness,” to which Claudio dedicated his entire existence.
At 4 p.m. at the Redoubt we have a special tribute screening of Monika Bulaj’s SONS OF NOAH (I, 2006, col., 95′). The camera moves among the villages of the High Caucasus, in northern Azerbaijan, inhabited by ancient tribes such as the mountain Jews. Monika Bulaj enters this world together with her 15-year-old son, and shares its existence and daily gestures, its magic and mysteries. The houses climb the mountain, in the vigils the men tell ever-changing stories, those people seem to belong together to the
earth and sky. Time is that of seasons, of moving with flocks, of the duration of light; but it is also that of festivals and propitiatory rites. An adventure of the gaze that is a search for and approach to the meaning of things. “
At 2:15 p.m. we have the appointment with INCinema – Inclusive Film Festival featuring Christian Filippi’s IL MIO COMPLEANNO (I, 2024, col., 90′), which features Riccardino, a boy almost 18 years old to be fulfilled in the foster home where he lives. For four years he has been separated from his mother, a woman with severe personality disorders̀. Despite the caring and attentive guidance of his educator, Riccardino decides to run away to join his mother and live with her. His illusion soon turns̀ into a bitter realitỳ and Riccardino must̀ make a difficult choice. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival as part of the Biennale College Cinema 2024 projects.
At 4:30 p.m., the Visioni Queer section is showing in the Great Hall at Miela AS I WAS LOOKING ABOVE, I COULD SEE MYSELF UNDERNEATH by Ilir Hasanaj (While I was looking up, I could see myself down, RSK, 2022, col., 62′). “This film tells the story of 7 LGBTQ+ people living in Kosovo, from different generations and social backgrounds. Using their real names, voices, and faces, Megi, Semi, Edon, Qerkica, Mustafa, Blendi, and Linda tell how they discovered they were queer and how they live in such a hostile environment … It is the first documentary in Kosovo to show the protagonists without obscuring their faces and changing their names … ” (I. Hasanaj)
At 6 p.m. we move to the BOBI BAZLEN room for (A) DISCOVERED PAPERS. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN RIGHTS, CULTURE AND QUEER CINEMA with Cathy La Torre, Margherita De Michiel, Giuseppe Gariazzo. “(A)carte scoperte” is proposed as a conversation with noted court-appointed lawyer and LGBTQIA+ rights activist Cathy La Torre; conceived ideally as a cultural “game,” it will feature film critic Giuseppe Gariazzo, curator of TSFF36’s Visioni queer review, and Margherita De Michiel, professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Trieste.
We return to Miela Theater where the entire evening is dedicated to Wild Roses: Serbia beginning at 6:00 p.m. with KADA JE ZAZVONIO TELEFON by Iva Radivojević (When the phone rang , SRB – USA, 2024, col., 73′) This story is built on a phone call received one Friday in the spring of 1992. The main character is an 11-year-old girl. Being the only person in the house, she is the one who answers the phone. The phone call brings news of a death. It is this call that seems to disintegrate the country and the child’s entire reality. Special mention in the “Filmmakers of the Present” section at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival.
At 7:30 p.m. we find the Wild Roses: Serbia section again with PEJZAŽI OTPORA by Marta Popivoda (Landscapes of Resistance, SRB – DE -F, 2021, col., 95′). Sonja is a 97-year-old former antifascist fighter who was one of the first female partisans in Yugoslavia and a member of the resistance in Auschwitz. Listening to Sonja’s stories, we travel through the landscapes of her revolutionary past as her memories intertwine with the director’s reflections on the resurgence of fascism in Europe today.
At 9:15 p.m. DRUGA STRANA SVEGA by Mila Turajlić (The Other Side of Everything, SRB – F – QA, 2017, col., 104′ closes the day of screenings. “The soul of the film is the conversations with my mother … It is a dialogue between mother and daughter, but at the same time between two adult people, each at a different stage of life” (M. Turajlić)
RESERVATIONS-ONLY EVENTS / ADDITIONAL EVENTS
WALKS
UNDAY, JANUARY 19TH, PIAZZA PONTEROSSO, at 11:00 AM, TALLERO DI MARIA TERESA
SERBIA IN TRIESTE: CLOSE AND DISTANT BALKANS curated by Marzia Arzon
Serbia in Trieste: from the 18th-Century mercantile community to a vital part of the modern city. The 1990s Balkan War marked the birth of a new and vibrant microcosm in Trieste, introducing fresh perspectives and a great deal of creativity. Men and women brought ideas, flavors, and the sadness of their past experiences, replicating their renewed traditions in a semi-unknown context. We will discover all of this through an urban itinerary made up of buildings, colors, and stories.
Cost 15€ | Reservation required: prenotazionitsff@gmail.com
TSFF36 of the LITTLE ONES
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 4:00 p.m., AACLAB
LABORATORY: BUILD YOUR ROOM OF WONDERS!
workshop for girls and children by La Collina Cooperative recommended for ages 6 to 12 years old
Join us to create your own darkroom: learn to build a little magical room where your stories come to life through light and shadows.
Duration: 60 minutes | Cost 10€ | Reservation required: 040 3476076 or prenotazionitsff@gmail.com
