Vida Skerk
UK, 2025, col., 15’
v.o. inglese / English o.v.
Anteprima italiana / Italian Premiere
Eva and Lee park their car near a woodland and set out exploring. Still in the honeymoon phase of their relationship, they’ve come to the countryside for a romantic weekend away. But what at first seems like an amorous fantasy gradually evolves into something more sinister. Shot in 16 mm, Ether premiered at Cannes’ La Cinef in 2025
- Saturday 24
Politeama Rossetti
At 16:00
Too Much To Ask
Davide Del Degan
I, 2025, col., 14’
v.o. italiana – serbo-croata / Italian – Serbo-Croatian o.v.
Lena and her son want to lay a bouquet of flowers on the family grave, but the cemetery is divided by the border between Italy and Yugoslavia. Too Much to Ask is one of the 8 “Shorts without borders” made by European directors on the occasion of GO!2025 and selected by a jury chaired by Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 11:00
Due procuratori
Sergei Loznitsa
F – DE – NL – LV – RO – LT, 2025, col., 118’
v.o. russa / Russian o.v.
Anteprima italiana / Italian Premiere
USSR, 1937. A letter from an unjustly accused prisoner reaches young prosecutor Alexander Kornyev. Guided by integrity, Kornyev investigates the victims of the NKVD secret police, embarking on a dangerous odyssey to Moscow during the Stalinist purges. A rigorous, Kafkaesque portrayal of Stalinist bureaucracy and terror,
in competition at the latest Cannes Film Festival.
- Thursday 22
Politeama Rossetti
At 20:00
Mirrors No. 3
Christian Petzold
DE, 2025, col., 86’
v.o. tedesca / German o.v.
Anteprima italiana / Italian Premiere
After miraculously surviving a car accident, Laura is taken in by a mysterious family. An exploration of trauma, memory, myth, and identity by one of the most prominent German auteurs. After its premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes 2025, Mirrors No.3 was then selected for many international festivals, including New York and the BFI London.
- Friday 23
Politeama Rossetti
At 22:00
Estate breve
Nastia Korkia
DE – F – SRB, 2025, col., 101’
v.o. russa / Russian o.v.
Katya, 8 years old, spends the summer with her grandparents in the Russian countryside. Time stands still, adults remain silent, and a war in the background destroys lives. Meanwhile, kids are growing up and the clouds are flying. Short Summer had its world premiere at the Giornate degli Autori and won the 2025 Venice Award for a Debut Film.
- Wednesday 21
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
Nessuno vi farà del male
Dino Hodić
CH, 2025, col., 75’
v.o. bosniaca – italiana / Bosnian – Italian o.v.
Anteprima italiana / Italian Premiere
Thirty years after Srebrenica, a filmmaker who fled to Switzerland as a child embarks on an intimate journey to the roots of his identity through the story of Hasan, one of the few survivors. The documentary had its premiere at the latest Sarajevo Film Festival.
- Wednesday 21
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 16:00
Laguna
Šarūnas Bartas
LT – F, 2025, col., 102’
v.o. lituana – spagnola – inglese / Lithuanian – Spanish – English o.v.
On the Pacific coast of Mexico, in the land Ina Marija had chosen as her home before she died too soon, her father and her younger sister Una embark on a journey retracing her steps. The film premiered at the 2025 Giornate degli Autori, in Venice.
- Saturday 24
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
Il suono di una caduta / Sound of Falling
Masha Schilinski
DE, 2025, col., 149’
v.o. tedesca / German o.v.
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Jury Prize at Cannes and Germany’s nominee for the 2026 Oscars, in the Best International Feature Film category.
- Wednesday 21
Politeama Rossetti
At 22:00
Una ribellione silenziosa / Silent Rebellion
Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
CH – F – B, 2025, col., 96’
v.o. francese / French o.v.
15-year-old Emma – pregnant after a rape – defies her repressive rural Protestant community to carve a path of self-determination, transforming trauma into a catalyst for emancipation. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, in the “Venezia Spotlight” section.
- Wednesday 21
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 10:00
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.
- 2025
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.
- 2025
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.
- 2025
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.
- 2025
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.
- 2025
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.
- 2025
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.
- 2025
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
