Eleven Tomorrows: Berlinale Meets Football
Eva Gemmer, Hannah Jandl, Killian Armando Friedrich, Sophie Mühe, Anna-Maria Dutoit, Justina Jürgensen, Hilarija Ločmele, Daniela Magnani Hüller, Marie Zrenner, Indira Geisel, Maximilian Bungarten
DE, 2024, col., 108’
German – Upper Sorbian – Ukrainian – Russian – Serbian o.v.
Italian premiere
Football is for everyone. All genders, all classes, all kinds of people. Eleven Tomorrows presents a short portrait of 11 amateur football clubs and shows what a strong platform football can be for young people. Friendship, loyalty, joy, togetherness.
- Saturday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 11:00
The Invasion
Sergei Loznitsa
NL – F – USA, 2024, col., 145′
v.o. Ukraine
Italian Premiere
10 years after Maidan, Sergei Loznitsa resumes his Ukrainian chronicles by documenting the country’s struggle against the Russian invasion. Shot over a 2-year period, the film portrays the life of the civilian population all over Ukraine, with lucidity and compassion. The film was presented in 2024 at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Special Screenings section.
- Tuesday 21
Politeama Rossetti
At 22:00
Carne Dimitris Nakos GR, 2024, col., 104′ v.o. Greek – Albanian Italian preview
In a tale rooted in ancient Greek tragedy, a patriarch must decide the fate of his son and the boy he raised, when a long- standing unneighbourly feud turns to murder.
Meat premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, and then it was in competition at the Thessaloniki IFF and at CinéMed, Montpellier.
- Wednesday 22
Politeama Rossetti
At 18:00
The New Year That Never Came
Bogdan Mureşanu
RO – SRB, 2024, col., 138’
Romanian o.v.
On the brink of revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amid protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceaușescu and the communist regime. The New Year That Never Came was awarded as Best Film in the Orizzonti section at the latest Venice Film Festival.
- Thursday 23
Politeama Rossetti
At 22:00
Slowly
Marija Kavtaradze
LT – ES – SE, 2023, col., 108′
v.o. Lithuanian-English
Italian Premiere
A dance teacher and a sign language interpreter meet and form a beautiful bond, but they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy. Winner of the Directing Award in the World Cinema – Dramatic section of Sundance Film Festival in 2023, the film is also the winner of the MIOB New Vision Award 2024.
- Friday 24
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 11:00
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Under the Volcano
Damian Kocur
PL, 2024, col., 105’
Ukrainian – Spanish – English – Russian – German – Wolof o.v.
A Ukrainian family of four on vacation in the Canary Islands become refugees overnight when Russia’s ongoing occupation of Ukraine turns into a full- scale invasion. The film has been selected as Poland’s official Oscar entry for Best International Feature. The film premiered at the Toronto IFF in 2024.
- Friday 24
Politeama Rossetti
At 16:30
My Late Summer
Danis Tanović
HR – BiH – RO – SLO – SRB, 2024, col., 98’
Croatian o.v.
Italian premiere
A young woman arrives on a Dalmatian island to settle a family inheritance issue. The search for inheritance becomes a quest for her own identity, as well as forgiveness. The film premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2024.
- Friday 24
Politeama Rossetti
At 18:30
Blaga’s Lessons
Stephan Komandarev
BG – D, 2023, col., 114
Blaga, a retired teacher, falls prey to a phone scam and she’s left robbed of her life savings. The once honest woman starts sacrificing all of her principles.
Best Film at the latest Karlovy Vary film festival,Blaga’s Lessons. , is the Bulgarian nominee for the Academy Awards.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
Cristi Puiu
R – MD – F, 2023, col., 160’
Romanian o.v.
Italian premiere
Four short moments in time that capture the wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of History. The new film by Cristi Puiu, the renowned author of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Sieranevada and Malmkrog, one of the leading personalities of the “Romanian Nouvelle Vague” and a regular guest at the Trieste FF.MMXXwas presented at the Transilvania FF, San Sebastian and Warsaw.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 16:00
Explanation for Everything
Gábor Reisz
H – SK, 2023, col., 152’
Hungarian o.v.
The tensions of a polarised society come to the surface when high school student Abel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal. Executive producer Kornél Mundruczó, Orizzonti Award for Best Film at the last Venice Film Festival.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 22:00
Excursion
Una Gunjak
BIH – HR – SRB – F – N – Q, 2023, col., 94’
Bosnian o.v.
In Sarajevo, a teenager seeking validation claims that she had sex for the first time during a game of “truth or dare” among students. Trapped in her own lie, she invents a pregnancy and becomes the centre of a controversy that spirals out of control. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and received a special mention in the “Cineasti del presente” competition.
*Recommended for high school students.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 10:00
Phantom Youth
Luàna Bajrami
RKS – F, 2023, col., 94’
Albanian o.v.
Kosovo, 2007. Kosovo, 2007. Zoe and Volta leave their remote village to enter Pristina University. Amidst social and political tensions, the two young women discover a country in turmoil. By the French-Kosovar actress and director Luàna Bajrami, Phantom Youthpremiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti Extra section.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 22:00
