Tatuaggio / A Tattoo
Kamil Dobrosielski
PL, 2025-2026, col., 7’
v.o. spagnola / Spanish o.v.
Anteprima assoluta / World Premiere
In a tattoo studio in Medellín, Sandro, a non-binary artist and rapper, sits down to get a new tattoo. As the needle moves across their skin, Sandro recalls their past: the murder of their brother, the years of anger and violence that followed, and the moment of transformation that came in prison.
- Monday 19
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:30
Pelle contro pelle
Simon Schneckenburger
DE, 2025, col., 30’
v.o. inglese – tedesca – bosniaca /
English – German – Bosnian o.v.
In an industrial slaughterhouse in Germany, Jakob works as a security guard while Boris from Bosnia slaughters pigs. Amidst the cold brutality of their surroundings, the two men form a quiet, unspoken bond, united by a shared longing for freedom. Skin on Skin is the film director’s graduation film: shot in 16mm, it was selected for the Karlovy Vary FF and then for many other
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:00
Penisola / Peninsula
David Gašo
HR, 2025, col., 19’
v.o. croata / Croatian o.v.
Anteprima italiana / Italian Premiere
A weekend in the city park is meant for recreational activities. During a twenty-minute period, several men seek out a way to pass their time at a cruising spot located in the heart of a small peninsular grove. Peninsula premiered at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival, in the “Pardi di domani” section.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:00
Paoli De Luca
I, 2025, col., 19’
v.o. italiana / Italian o.v.
Marina, a year after she started her gender transition, spends a summer weekend at the house of her best friend, Camilla. Everyone tells Marina how beautiful she has become, but she doesn’t feel like that. Instead, she constantly compares her body to Camilla’s. Best Short Film at the latest Venice International Film Critics’ Week.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 18:15
Marius Gabriel Stancu
I, 2025, col., 14’
v.o. italiana – albanese / Italian – Albanian o.v.
Early 2000’s. Christian is a university student who is preparing his dissertation, while spending his holidays in the South of Italy. Here, he meets Erion, an Albanian origin boy, and the two begin dating secretly. Erion was selected at the Raindance FF in London and at the Rome Independent Film Festival, among the others.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:00
All’inferno con Ivo
Kristina Nikolova
BG, 2025, col., 80’
Bulgarian queer artist and songwriter Ivo Dimchev transforms personal and social hardship into provocative public and intimate spectacles, boldly exploring sexuality, identity, faith, and activism in a liberating celebration of queer visibility. In Hell with Ivo was screened, among others, at DOK.fest München and Sarajevo FF, where it was awarded the Special Jury Award.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 18:15
La grotta dell’orso / Bearcave
Stergios Dinopoulos,
Krysianna B. Papadakis
GR – UK, 2025, col., 132’
A mystical cave, a nettle pie and an unexpected betrayal spur a romantic adventure between two childhood friends. Bearcave premiered at the 2025 Giornate degli Autori, Venice and has been shortlisted at EFA 2026.
- Monday 19
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 20:00
L’attivista / The Activist
Romas Zabarauskas
LT, 2025, col., 94’
Anteprima italiana / Italian Premiere
A young man infiltrates a radical neo-Nazi group to find the killer of his LGBTQ+ activist boyfriend.
The Activist was presented at the Tallinn Black Nights FF in 2025, in the Baltic Film Competition.
- Saturday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:00
Senza fine
Wojciech Puś
PL – DE – F, 2024, col.,110’
Anteprima italiana / Italian Premiere
“We made it out to the other side. With Endless we are reclaiming the right to tell our own stories with our own voice and from the perspective of people who actually went through events shown in the film. We are the Monsters, who can finally speak for themselves”. (W. Puś) Premiere at New Horizons IFF in Poland and at Rotterdam in 2025.
- Monday 19
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:30
Noi siamo perfetti / We Are Perfect
Marek Kozakiewicz
PL, 2023, col., 62’
v.o. polacca / Polish o.v.
Anteprima italiana / Italian Premiere
In Poland, young LGBTQ+ people are auditioning for the role of a trans boy in one of Netflix’s feature films. They all want to become movie stars, but it soon turns out that much more serious challenges await them.
We Are Perfect is a universal story about people who are tired of being excluded and invisible.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:00
LES EVANGILES D’ANASYRMA
Gospel of Anasyrma
Elene Naveriani
CH, 2014, col., 29’
FATHER, BLESS US
Padre, ci benedica
Elene Naveriani
CH, 2013, COL., 9’
RED ANTS BITE
Le formiche rosse mordono
Elene Naveriani CH, 2019, col., 23’
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 16:00
Housekeeping for Beginners
Goran Stolevski
MK – PL – HR – SRB – RSK, 2023, col., 107’
Macedonian – Romani – Albanian o.v.
Despite never aspiring to be a mother, Dita finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family’s struggle to stay together. Housekeeping for Beginners, one of the projects selected at WEMW in 2021, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2023 in the Orizzonti section.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 20:00
Hovhannes Ishkhanyan AM – F, 2023, col., 105’ Armenian o.v. Italian Premiere
Carabina, a gay artist, transvestite and sex worker is married to Hasmik, a heterosexual lawyer defending the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. Having become parents, they are faced with a dilemma: will the child grow up or not in Armenia, where 93% of the population declares itself hostile to homosexuality?
The film premiered in competition at Dok Leipzig.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:00
Fil Ieropoulos
GR, 2024, col., 92’
Greek – English – Albanian – Russian o.v.
Ten drag performers find solace in each other as they rebel against their oppressive reality and those who control it. Avant-Drag!, second feature of Greek director Fil Ieropoulos, premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and won a special jury mention at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:00
Dane Komljen
DE-SRB, 2024, col., 62’
German – English – Finnish – Serbian o.v.
Italian Premiere
Mollies is a queer-feminist collective living at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz in Berlin for nearly a decade. The Garden Cadences documents their last summer there before being evicted. The Garden Cadences premiered at Cinéma du Reel and then was presented in many festivals worldwide, including Jeonju IFF, Karlovy Vary IFF, BelDocs and DOKLeipzig.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 23:45
Ilir Hasanaj
RSK, 2022, col., 62’
Albanian – English o.v.
Italian Premiere
As I Was Looking Above, I Could See Myself Underneath unveils intimate stories of LGBTQ+ persons from Kosovo, going through their unceasing search for a safe place that allows them to be.
The Film was presented at the festivals Dokufest in Prizren, Kosovo, Solothurner Filmtage in Switzerland, Queer Lisboa in Portugal,among others.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
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