The collaboration between the Trieste Film Festival, for 30 years the rendezvous with Eastern European cinema, and the National Association of Film Critics and Journalists is renewed and continued: as usual, the titles will be awarded on the opening night at the Politeama Rossetti, Jan. 20
The winning films for 2025 by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI), which will be honored as part of the 37th Trieste Film Festival, have been announced: the award for Best Film of the Critics goes to Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” while the Best Italian Film is Francesco Sossai’s “The Cities of Plain.” The films will be awarded at the Politeama Rossetti on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 20.
The collaboration between the Trieste Film Festival and the Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani (SNCCI) continues and is renewed, which returns at the beginning of the new year to the stage of the famous festival, an Italian appointment with Eastern European cinema for more than 30 years, to nominate the best titles released in theaters in the previous year.
Film of the Critics 2025 is Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” in theaters since last September, the latest work by the celebrated U.S. director, based on the novel “Vineland” by Thomas Pynchon, with performers including Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor, and a soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood (guitar in Radiohead). The film received nine nominations at the upcoming Golden Globes. Voting was the committee in charge of reporting the Critics’ Choice Films (24 this year), composed of Pedro Armocida, Paola Casella, Massimo Causo, Adriano De Grandis, Francesco Di Pace, Ilaria Feole, Fabio Ferzetti, Beatrice Fiorentino, Federico Gironi, Roberto Manassero, Raffaele Meale, Paolo Mereghetti, Anna Maria Pasetti, Cristiana Paternò, and Aldo Spiniello.
Italian Film 2025 is “Le città di pianura” by Francesco Sossai, the most voted in the referendum promoted by the Syndicate among all its members. Premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2025 in the Un Certain Regard section in May, the film has been distributed in Italian cinemas since last September. In the cast Filippo Scotti, Sergio Romano and Pierpaolo Capovilla are the protagonists of the road movie that winds along the endless Venetian plain, in search of the so-called “last nightcap.”
