Alessio Bozzer
I, 2025, col & b-n / b-w, 92’
Italian o.v.
World Premiere
Life and career, lights and shadows, successes and misfortunes of Angelo Cecchelin, the greatest comic actor Trieste has ever had. Who was Angelo Cecchelin? Rome had Petrolini, Naples had Totò. Trieste had Cecchelin. In 2017 the Trieste FF presented Alessio Bozzer’s documentary Trieste, Yugoslavia.
- Saturday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 18:15
Erika Rossi
I, 2024, col., 85’
Italian o.v.
For over 40 years Claudio Misculin has been the master of his “mad-actors” – madmen by profession and actors by vocation – in “Accademia della Follia”, the theatre company created in the spaces of the former psychiatric hospital of Trieste. The Trieste FF also presented previous documentaries of Erika Rossi.
- Sunday 19
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 11:00
Ado Hasanović
I-F, 2024, col., 93’
English – Bosnian o.v.
August, 1993. Bekir Hasanović exchanges a gold coin for the camera he will use to film everyday life in Srebrenica from then on. Ado, Bekir’s son, starts from these images and from the pages of the diaries kept by his father to reconstruct his image, together with his mother Fatima.
- Tuesday 21
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 10:30
Travis Wilkerson
USA, 2024, col & b-n / b-w, 84’
English – Croatian o.v.
Italian Premiere
Un detective frustrato cerca di risolvere una serie di omicidi a Spalato. Tra documentario e fiction, un omaggio al cinema dell’Onda Nera jugoslava e una riflessione sui fascismi di ieri e di oggi. L’Onda Nera è adesso. Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing è stato presentato in anteprima alla Berlinale nel 2024, nella sezione Encounters.
- Thursday 23
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 22:00
Mother and Daughter or The Night Is Never Complete
Lana Gogoberidze
GE-F, 2023, col & b-n / b-w, 89’
Georgian o.v.
Anteprima Italiana
The world-famous director Lana Gogoberidze, together with her daughter, film director and producer Salome Alexi, remembers her mother Nutsa, Georgia’s first woman filmmaker. A cinema legacy that revolves around being human in dark times: feminist, loving, critical of violence.
- Friday 24
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 14:00
Translating Ulysses
Aylin Kuryel, Firat Yücel
NL – TR, 2023, col. & b-w, 70’
Kurdish – Turkish – English – Dutch o.v.
Italian premiere
Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language. He flees Turkey and takes refuge at Anne Frank’s former house in Amsterdam, where he undertakes a literary mission considered to be impossible: translating James Joyce’s Ulyssesto Kurdish, an oppressed language in Turkey.
Tribute to James Joyce: James, Giacomo, Jakob, Yakub
- 2024
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 14:00
The Volta Cinema
Martin Turk
I – SLO, 2024, col. & b-w, 85’
Italian – Slovenian – English o.v.
World Premiere
In the Trieste of the beginning of the Twentieth century, four entrepreneurs decided to open Ireland’s first cinema, the Volta Cinema, guided by a then unknown teacher from Dublin: James Joyce. Today, two actors from Trieste, Danjiel Malalan and Nikla Petruška Panizon, bring to life the events and characters involved in this adventure.
Tribute to James Joyce: James, Giacomo, Jakob, Yakub
- 2024
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 11:00
All Men Become Brothers
Robert Kirchhoff
SK – CZ, 2023, col. & b-w, 116’
Slovak – Czech – Kyrgyz – Russian – English – Italian o.v.
Italian premiere
A documentary about Alexander Dubček, a visionary and a political superstar, in the times of the Iron Curtain and in the era of united Europe. The film premiered at the 2023 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Tribute to James Joyce: James, Giacomo, Jakob, Yakub
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 16:00
Nate Pommer, Eric Weinrib
USA, 2023, col., 99’
English o.v.
Italian premiere
Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story is an intimate portrait of Ukrainian immigrant Eugene Hütz’s rise to prominence with punk icons Gogol Bordello, and his defiant return to war-torn Ukraine. Executive produced by American actor of Ukrainian origin Liev Schreiber.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 20:00
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Anna Hints
EST- F- IS, 2023, col., 89’
Estonian – Seto – Võro o.v.
Italian premiere
Can a trip to the sauna change your soul? No story too shameful, no burden too heavy to carry when you share it with your sisterhood. Sundance winner,, Savvusanna Sõsarad is a deeply moving, intimate and breathtaking approach to issues of trauma, healing, and community. Best European Documentary at the EFA 2023.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 20:00
Anna Albertano
I, 2023, b-w, 32’
Italian o.v.
Names in the Wind, a documentary dedicated to the Shoah, is an insight into deportation and life in the concentration camps through the eyes and the testimonies of several camp survivors, including Edith Bruck.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 14:00
Ennio Guerrato
I, 2024, col., 74’
Italian o.v.
World Premiere
Odd rhythms, surprising music and a group of musician friends reveal an unconventional artist and composer: Alfredo Lacosegliaz. Lacosegliaz embraced the music of Eastern Europe well before it became fashionable. Among the interviews are those of Paolo Rumiz, Carlo Muscatello, Fabio Zoratti, Gabriele Centis and Moni Ovadia.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 11:00
77 years back
Dan Stroie, Alexandru Bodrug
RO, 2023, col., 38’
Romanian o.v.
World Premiere
After 77 years, Victor returns to the village where he was born. The documentary is a search for one’s origins but it is also a touching and heartfelt exploration of a grandson’s journey with his grand-father to uncover the truth about their family’s past as refugees from Bessarabia.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 14:00
Documentary out-of-competition
Erika Rossi
I, 2024, col & b-w, 58’
Italian v.o.
World Premiere
50 years ago the first social cooperative in the world was born: this is the story of how everything was possible in Franco Basaglia’s Trieste and of those who still make it possible today.
- 2024
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 16:00
