Péter Kerekes
I – SK – CZ – AT – HR, 2024, col., 99’
Italian – Friulian o.v.
Luciana, an astrologer from Naples, knows a method to make her clients’ wishes come true: all they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a specific destination. Whether it’s Taipei, Beirut, or a nearby village, the protagonists will go through unexpected transformations to help them discover what they truly desire. The new film by Kerekes was partly shot in the FVG region. Wishing on a Star premiered at the Venice FF in 2024, in the “Orizzonti” section.
- Thursday 16
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 21:30
Péter Kerekes
I – SK – CZ – AT – HR, 2024, col., 99’
Italian – Friulian o.v.
Luciana, an astrologer from Naples, knows a method to make her clients’ wishes come true: all they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a specific destination. Whether it’s Taipei, Beirut, or a nearby village, the protagonists will go through unexpected transformations to help them discover what they truly desire. The new film by Kerekes was partly shot in the FVG region.
Wishing on a Star premiered at the Venice FF in 2024, in the “Orizzonti” section.
- Thursday 16
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 19:30
1961-1973, 52’
by National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive
Ticket 6€ (Schools’ Matinees – with limited seats )
In Hungary’s first animated science fiction series, Peter, a curious city boy, explores utopian technologies created by the bizarre Professor Leo. With Kati, his little sister, and Félix, the dog, he goes on extraordinary adventures, such as driving a ladybug car or flying through space in a polka-dot balloon.
- Friday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 10:30
Giovanni Vitrotti
I, 1921, col., 26’
silent film, Italian and English intertitles
in collaboration with La Cineteca del Friuli
Piano Accompaniment: Andrej Goričar
Unable to find an honest job, Perl, a young girl, is forced by a group of criminals to commit small-time thefts. She finally decides to redeem herself by denouncing the criminals. Made in 1921, it is the oldest fiction film shot in Trieste that can be seen.
- Monday 20
Politeama Rossetti
At 20:00
Dying
Matthias Glasner
DE, 2024, col., 180’
German o.v.
Italian premiere
Dying follows the individual members of the Lunies family. As Death finally turns up on the doorstep, the estranged family members finally will meet again. A tragicomedy about illness, love, dysfunctional relationships, confused parenting and the great themes of existence.
The film premiered at the Berlinale in 2024, winning the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. It also won Best Picture at the 2024 German Film Awards.
- Monday 20
Politeama Rossetti
At 20:00
IN PATRIA NOSTRA
MULTAE SILVAE SUNT
- Thursday 23
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 11:00
Eight Postcards From Utopia
Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz
RO, 2024, col. & b-n / b-w, 71’
Romanian o.v.
Documentario realizzato con materiale d’archivio, che assembla annunci pubblicitari della Romania post-socialista in una narrazione sulla vita, l’amore, la morte, la fragilità umana, la natura, il soprannaturale e la transizione storica. Il film è stato presentato in molti festival internazionali fra cui Locarno, DocLisboa, Viennale, Jihlava e IDFA.
- Thursday 23
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 14:00
Radu Jude
RO, 2024, col., 62′
v. o. without dialogue
Italian preview
A fallen flower returning to the branch? It was a butterfly. (Moritake).
A tribute to Andy Warhol and his Sleep, Radu Jude’s ‘desktop documentary’ premiered out of competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2024. The Trieste FF has presented almost all of its films over the years.
- Thursday 23
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 14:00
Levan Akin
SE – DK – F – TR – GE, 2024, col., 106’
Georgian – Turkish – English o.v.
Italian premiere
Lia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. She joins forces with young Achi, yearning for change. Her search takes the unlikely duo to the urban, labyrinthine Istanbul where they meet Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever. After its premiere in the ‘Panorama’ section of Berlinale, Crossing was presented in the official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival.
- Friday 24
Politeama Rossetti
At 20:30
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude
RO – L – F – HR, 2023, col. & b-n, 163’
Romanian – English – German o.v
Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a ‘safety at work video’ commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts. Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival, the film is the Romanian candidate for the 2024 Academy Awards.
- 2024
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 21:00
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer
USA – UK – PL, 2023, col., 106’
German – Polish o.v.
Rudolf Höss and his family live out their bourgeois tranquillity on an estate outside the city. Next to them, separated only by a wall, is the Auschwitz concentration camp, of which Rudolf is the director. Grand Prix at the latest Cannes Film Festival, three Golden Globes nominations, Best Sound at the European Film Awards, The Zone of Interest is this year’s Oscar-competing entry from the UK.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 20:00
Green Border
Agnieszka Holland
PL – F – CZ – B, 2023, b-w, 152’
Polish – Arabic – English – French o.v.
A Syrian refugee family, a lonely English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guard meet on the Polish-Belarusian border. Agnieszka Holland’s poignant new feature Green Border opens our eyes, speaks to the heart, and challenges us to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day. Special Jury Prize at the latest Venice Film Festival.
- 2024
Politeama Rossetti
At 20:00
The Red Colored Grey Truck
Srđan Koljević
SRB – MNE – SLO – D, 2004, col., 95’
Serbian o.v.
Un road movie fuori dagli schemi che racconta di un daltonico ladro di camion bosniaco che si innamora di una ragazza di Belgrado in fuga che cerca di scappare da un paese sull’orlo della guerra. Film di debutto dello scomparso Srđan Koljević, presentato in concorso
al TSFF nel 2005, ha ricevuto nel 2004 il premio FIPRESCI al Festival di Varsavia e il Premio del pubblico al festival di Mannheim in Germania.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 11:00
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude
RO – L – F – HR, 2023, col. & b-n, 163’
Romanian – English – German o.v
Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a ‘safety at work video’ commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts. Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival, the film is the Romanian candidate for the 2024 Academy Awards.
- 2024
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 18:00
Beautiful Beings
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
IS – DK – S – NL – CZ, 2022, col., 123’
Icelandic o.v..
When a teenage boy adopts a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders, he begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions. Beautiful Beings premiered at Berlinale in 2022 and then was successfully presented at many international festivals including Karlovy Vary, Thessaloniki and Tallinn. MIOB New Vision Award 2023.
*Recommended for high school students.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 10:00
