Today the Q&As WITH DIRECTORS AND FESTIVAL GUESTS continue to be held at the ANTICO CAFF\u00c8 SAN MARCO starting at 11:00, this time with Sergei Loznitsa (director of Two Prosecutors), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (director of Elena\u2019s Shift), Maciej Sobieszcza\u0144ski (director of Brother), Raisa R\u0103zmeri\u021b\u0103 (director of Electing Ms Santa), Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel (director of The Kartli Kingdom) and Ruben Ghazaryan (director of Outliving S<\/p>\n\n
The screenings start at the same time at the Cinema Ambasciatori with the third program of the retrospective (runtime 58\u2019) \u201cThe Second Shift: Women Comrades at Work\u201d curated by cinema critic C\u0103lin Boto. This section brings back to the big screen images, stories and portraits of women at work, starting from the moment when the film industry itself began to document labor: the early communist-era films set in factories, among male and female workers.
Still at 14:00, but this time at the Rossetti, the national debut of RENOVACIJA\/ Renovation by Gabriel\u0117 Urbonait\u0117 (LT \u2013 LV, 2025, col., 90\u2019) for the Feature Film competition.<\/p>\n\n
Ilona e Matas, una coppia sulla trentina, si trasferiscono in un appartamento all\u2019apparenza perfetto. La ristrutturazione del palazzo, per\u00f2, mette a nudo non solo le crepe dell\u2019edificio, ma anche quelle della loro relazione. Renovacija, girato in 16mm, \u00e8 stato presentato in anteprima a Karlovy Vary, e poi a Sarajevo e a Tallinn. At 16:00, more Short Films in Competition: the Italian premiere of INDEX by Radu Muntean (RO, 2025, col., 29\u2019); I ERIMOS\/ Desert, She by Ioanna Digenaki (GR, 2025, col., 14\u2019); STIINA by Elisabeth Ku\u017eovnik (EST, 2025, col., 15\u2019); NEDOSTUPNI\/ Unavailable by Kyrylo Zemlyanyi (UA \u2013 F \u2013 B \u2013 BG \u2013 NL, 2025, col., 20\u2019) and the world premiere of TEMNO BRDO\/ The Dark Hill by Vanja Milo\u0161 Jovanovi\u0107 (SLO, 2025, col., 15\u2019).<\/p>\n\n At the Cinema Ambasciatori at 16:00, the Documentary Competition, with the Italian debut of ACTIVE VOCABULARY by Yulia Lokshina (DE, 2025, col., 82\u2019). <\/strong>A Russian teacher, reported by a student for criticizing the war in Ukraine, flees to Berlin. In a German school she stages her case, investigating political coercion, betrayal, and resistance. Active Vocabulary premiered at DOK Leipzig, winning Best Film in the German Documentary competition. For TSFF BOOKS, at 17:00 at the Libreria Lovat, the presentation of the graphic novel C\u2019ERA UNA VOLTA L\u2019EST (Tunu\u00e9) by Boban Pesov, in conversation with Alen \u0110oki\u0107 (Doppelg\u00e4nger). A couple in crisis sets off on a journey to North Macedonia after receiving news of the protagonist\u2019s mother falling ill. Along the way, they confront tensions and memories, interspersed with flashbacks from his family\u2019s past: from his father\u2019s escape during the war in Yugoslavia to the childhood years spent with his mother and brother. Blending irony and drama, Once Upon a Time in the East explores the strength of family bonds and the confrontation with loss, moving back and forth in a bittersweet rhythm between past and present. At 18:00 at the Cinema Ambasciatori, ABELE by Fabian Volti (I, 2025, col. & b-n \/ b-w, 77\u2019) for the Corso Salani Award category. In a world dominated by chaos, Abel appears in the gazes of shepherds surviving on the borders of the wandering pastures between Sardinia and Palestine, silent witnesses of conflicting daily lives. Fabian Volti, filmmaker and photographer, works on audiovisual projects, visual research and documentary cinema. Abel, his debut feature-length, was selected at the IDFA in Amsterdam. At the same time at the Politeama Rossetti for the Feature Film Competition, the Italian debut of SORELLA DI CLAUSURA by Ivana Mladenovi\u0107 (RO \u2013 SRB \u2013 I \u2013 E, 2025, col., 107\u2019). Stela falls in love with a musician seen on TV and tries to meet him with the help of Vera, a starlet who promises to save her from poverty by bringing her to Bucharest for her erotic goods business. Premiered at Locarno 2025, Sorella di clausura (Cloistered Sister) won the Best Director award at the Sarajevo Film Festival. <\/p>\n\n At 20.00, still for the Feature Film Competition, MAMA by Or Sinai (IL \u2013 PL \u2013 I, 2025, col., 91\u2019), also a national debut. After many years away from home, Mila is forced to temporarily leave her job \u2013 and her secret romance \u2013 to return to her family in a Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined. Mama premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was then screened at many international festivals, including Toronto, Gdynia, Warsaw and Tallinn. <\/p>\n\n At the same time, the Cinema Ambasciatori will screen WELDED TOGETHER by Anastasija Miro\u0161ni\u010denko (F \u2013 B, 2025, col., 96\u2019), as part of the Documentaries in Competiton. Katya works as a welder, facing daily hardships and an inner battle to piece together her past. She tries to protect her little sister from a tragic fate, hoping for a better future for both of them. Welded Together won the Grand Jury Prize at Sheffield DocFest 2025 and was selected also at Dok Leipzig and IDFA. <\/p>\n\n At 22:00, for the same category, another Italian premiere, ATAMEKEN\/ We Live Here by <\/em>Zhanana Kurmasheva (KZ, 2025, col., 80\u2019). In the desolate Kazakh steppe, at a former Soviet nuclear test site, three generations confront the worrying effects of the past, as they fight for survival and hope in a world on the brink of destruction. Atameken, Zhanana Kurmasheva\u2019s debut feature, premiered at CPH:DOX 2025. <\/p>\n\n At the Rossetti at 22:00, the Out of Competition national premiere of MIROIRS NO.3\/Mirrors no. 3 by Christian Petzold (DE, 2025, col., 86\u2019) will be screened. SAfter 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\u2019 Fortnight in Cannes 2025, Mirrors No.3 was then selected for many international festivals, including New York and the BFI London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today the Q&As WITH DIRECTORS AND FESTIVAL GUESTS continue to be held at the ANTICO CAFF\u00c8 SAN MARCO starting at 11:00, this time with Sergei Loznitsa (director of Two Prosecutors), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (director of Elena\u2019s Shift), Maciej Sobieszcza\u0144ski (director of Brother), Raisa R\u0103zmeri\u021b\u0103 (director of Electing Ms Santa), Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel (director of The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n