Aslı Özge
DE – TR – F, 2024, col., 97’
Turkish o.v
Italian Premiere
Faruk, well over 90 years old, increasingly becomes the protagonist in the film his daughter is making about the impending demolition of his block of flats in Istanbul. A feature film about gentrification and a complex father-daughter relationship. Faruk had its premiere at the Berlinale, in the Panorama section, where it won the FIPRESCI Award.
- Tuesday 21
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
That’s it for today
Marko Đorđević
SRB – BiH, 2024, col., 105’
Serbian o.v.
Italian Premiere
he relationships between three siblings over the course of a summer, during which time seems suspended. The family seems to be the ideal healing place for any wound, especially for vulnerable people looking for a new start. That’s It for Today premiered at FEST Belgrade in 2024. It was then selected at the Mostra de Valencia in Spain and at the Zagreb festival.
- Thursday 23
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
April
Dea Kulumbegashvili
F – I – GE, 2024, col., 134′
Georgian v.o.
After a newborn dies during delivery, the morals and professionalism of an ob-gyn, Nina, come under scrutiny amid rumours that she performs illegal abortions for those in need.
April, coproduced by Luca Guadagnino, was presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2024, where it won the Special Jury Prize. In 2021 Kulumbegashvili’s debut film Beginning won the Best Film award at TSFF.
- Friday 24
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
Debora Vrizzi
I – F, 2022, col., 15’
Friulian o.v.
After a turbulence, astronaut Debora reawakens in a familiar domestic environment that she hardly recognizes because everything has undergone a metamorphosis. Here she meets two aliens, her Mother and Grandmother, who telepathically tell her about life, sexuality and motherhood.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
Cactusman
Olivér Rudolf
H, 2023, col., 47’
Hungarian o.v.
International Premiere
Tibor has been in love with Alíz from the first time she took her clothes to his laundry. It was a Tuesday, it was raining. Her wet hair stuck to her forehead. The man would rather never wash Alíz’s clothes, because they smell like lilacs.
Romantic and surreal melodrama in three acts.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
Mersiha Husagic
BIH – D – F, 2023, col. & b-w, 88’
English – Bosnian – German o.v.
Italian Premiere
What is left when the war is over? Cherry Juice traces this question through a wild and unpredictable night in Sarajevo when Selma, a young Bosnian screenwriter, shares an adventurous encounter with a German actor named Niklas. Cherry Juice premiered at the latest Sarajevo Film Festival.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
Sara Summa
D, 2023, col., 108’
French – German – Italian o.v.
Italian Premiere
Arthur and Diana are siblings. Together with Diana’s two-year-old son, they leave Berlin for Paris for a short trip for the required annual safety inspection of their rusty old Renault. But their journey will not be relaxed, the direction not Paris and whether the car will go along is all too questionable… World premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in 2023.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 14:00
