BFFB 38 |
April 4-13, 2025

The best auteur cinema produced or co-produced today in Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Slovenia: works of fiction, hybrids, documentary forms and/or animation with a commitment to quality and courage in contemporary cinema. The discovery of young talent will be accompanied by the presentation of the latest works of established directors. Particular attention will be given to hybrid forms, to ‘contaminated’ cinema, to cinema on geographical, political and formal borders, and to the cinema of minorities and the periphery.

Al mosta'mera (The Settlement), by Mohamed Rashad

EGY/FRA/DEU/QAT/SAU 2025, 94 min, Arabic – Südtirol Premiere

April, by Dea Kulumbegashvili

GEO 2024, 134 min, Georgian – Südtirol Premiere

Balentes, by Giovanni Columbu

ITA/DEU 2024, 70 min, Sardinian, Italian – Südtirol Premiere

Come la notte (Where The Night Stands Still), by Liryc Dela Cruz

ITA/PHL 2025, 75 min, Tagalog – Italian Premiere

Hanami, by Denise Fernandes

PRT/CHE/CPV 2024, 96 min, Portuguese, Creole, Pidgin – Südtirol Premiere

Kaj ti je deklica (LittleTrouble Girls), by Urška Djukic

SVN/ITA/HRV/SRB 2025, 97 min, Slovene – Italian Premiere

Opening Film

Mond (Moon), by Kurdwin Ayub

AUT 2024, 93 min, English, German, Arabic – Italian Premiere

My Boyfriend El Fascista, by Matthias Lintner

ITA 2025, 95 min, Italian, German, Spanish – World Premiere

Pfau (Peacock), di Bernhard Wenger

AUT/DEU 2024, 102 min, German – Südtirol Premiere

Riefenstahl, by Andres Veiel

DEU 2024, 115 min, German, English – Südtirol Premiere

Vetre, pricaj sa mnom (Wind, Talk to Me), by Stefan Djordjevic

SRB/SVN/HRV 2025, 100 min, Serbian – Italian Premiere

Viet and Nam, by Tru’o’ng Minh Quý

VNM/PHL/SGP/FRA/NLD/ITA/DEU/USA 2024, 129 min, Vietnamese, Jarai – Italian Premiere

Yunan, by Ameer Fakher Eldin

DEU/CAN/ITA 2025, 124 min, German, Arabic – Südtirol Premiere

Section dedicated to nonfiction, and the most diverse hybrid and documentary forms. As in the case of the Competition, attention will be paid to the more non-conformist films of great masters and new talents, but also to works that are more politically engaged and attentive to the contemporary topical issues of their society.

Bajo las banderas, el sol (Under the Flags, the Sun), by Juanjo Pereira

PRY/ARG/USA/FRA/DEU 2025, 90 min, Spanish – Italian Premiere

Dreaming Dogs, by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter

AUT/DEU 2024, 77 min, Russian – Italian Premiere

Khartoum, by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Brahim Snoopy, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox

GBR/SDN/DEU/QAT 2025, 80 min, Arabic – Südtirol Premiere

Unsere Zeit wird kommen, by Ivette Löcker

AUT 2025, 105 min, German, English, Mandinka – Italian Premiere

Personale, by Carmen Trocker

ITA/AUT 2024, 93 min, Italian, Russian, French, Romanian, Bambara – Südtirol Premiere

Special events, films that are in line with the festival’s philosophy but, for various reasons, cannot participate in the competitive sections. Fundamental titles of the season, productions of great importance for the area or simply films that intrigue us and have particularly impressed us.

Fiore mio, by Paolo Cognetti

ITA/BEL 2024, 80 min, Italian – Südtirol Premiere

Fiume o morte!, by Igor Bezinovic

HRV/ITA/SVN 2025, 112 min, Croatian, Italian – Südtirol Premiere

Green Line, by Sylvie Ballyot

FRA/LBN/QAT 2024, 150 min, Arabic, French – Italian Premiere

Dag Johan Haugerud – The Trilogy of Relationships:

Drømmer (Dreams)

NOR 2024, 110 min, Norwegian – Südtirol Premiere

Kjærlighet (Love)

NOR 2024, 119 min, Norwegian – Südtirol Premiere

Sex

NOR 2024, 125 min, Norwegian – Südtirol Premiere

And Miles to Go Before I Sleep, by Tsai Tsung-Lung

TWN 2022, 90 min, Mandarin, Vietnamese

Gaga, by Laha Mebow

TWN 2022, 112 min, Mandarin, Atayal, Taiwanese

Goodbye, Dragon Inn, by Tsai Ming-liang

TWN 2003, 81 min, Mandarin, Min Nan, Japanese

Mongrel, by Chiang Wei Liang

TWN/SGP/FRA 2024, 130 min, Mandarin, Thai

Old Fox, by Hsiao Ya-Chuan

JPN/TWN 2023, 112 min, Mandarin, Taiwanese

Days, by Tsai Ming-Liang

TWN 2020, 127 min, Mandarin

Stranger Eyes (Sguardi nascosti), by Yeo Siew Hua

SGP/TWN/FRA/USA 2024, 126 min, Mandarin, English – Südtirol Premiere

Barbara

DEU 2012, 105 min, German

Roter Himmel (Il cielo brucia)

DEU 2023, 102 min, German

Transit

DEU/FRA 2018, 101 min, German, French

Hors-saison (Le occasioni dell'amore), by Stéphane Brizé

FRA 2023, 115 min, French

Hungry Hearts, by Saverio Costanzo

ITA 2014, 105 min, English

Mi fanno male i capelli, by Roberta Torre

ITA 2023, 83 min, Italian

Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit

DEU/AUT 2019, 218 min, German

Cosmic Miniatures

DEU 2024, 94 min, without dialogue

Primitive Diversity

DEU 2025, 80 min, German – Italian Premiere

Ein Oktopus hat den Mond zerstört (An Octopus Destroyed The Moon), by Heidrun Holzfeind

DEU 2024, 90 min, German – International Premiere

Happyland, by Evi Romen

AUT 2024, 90 min, German – International Premiere

Mensch, Msch! (Being Msch), by Martin Telser

ITA 2024, 48 min, German, Italian – World Premiere

Worüber man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man reden, by Karl Prossliner

ITA 2025, 45 min, tedesco, Italian, Arabic – World Premiere

L'acqua verde, by Manuel Coser

ITA 2024, 15 min, without dialogue - Südtirol Premiere

Aura, by Stefania Accettulli

ITA 2024, 15 min, Italian - Südtirol Premiere

Choices & Changes, by Miriam Muraca

ITA 2024, 26 min, without dialogue - Südtirol Premiere

Corte, by Magdalena Mitterhofer

ITA 2024, 24 min, Italian, German, English

How (Not) To Film A Fascist Monument, by Lorenz Zenleser

ITA/AUT 2025, 9 min, English - World Premiere

Moving Mountains, by Andrea Costa

ITA 2024, 30 min, Italian, South Tyrolean dialect - World Premiere

Ich hab dich tanzen sehn (I Saw You Dancing), by Sarah Pech

AUT/DEU 2023, 19 min, Tyrolean dialect, French - Italian Premiere

No. 74 No Name, by Davide Grotta

ITA 2024, 30 min, German, South Tyrolean dialect, Italian, English, Yoruba - World Premiere

Nura, by Lorenz Klapfer

ITA 2024, 15 min, German - World Premiere

Pygmalia, by Jonathan Bugiel

ITA 2024, 18 min, Italian, English - World Premiere

Scosse (Shocks), by Caterina Ferrari

ITA 2024, 10 min, Italian - World Premiere

Un, due, tre...stella!, by Emanuele Gerosa

ITA 2024, 22 min, Italian - Südtirol Premiere

Karuara, la gente del río (Karuara, People of the River), by Miguel Araoz Cartagena, Stephanie Boyd

PER 2024, 78 min, Kukama – Italian Premiere

Gingerbread for her Dad, by Alina Mustafina

KAZ 2024, 76 min, Russian, Kazakh, Tatar – Südtirol Premiere

Els buits (Gaps), by Sofia Esteve, Isa Luengo, Marina Freixa Roca

ESP 2024, 20 min, Catalan

Island for rent, by Elio Turno Arthemalle, Tore Cubeddu

ITA 2024, 30 min, Sardinian - Südtirol Premiere

Knackered, by Django Pinter

GBR 2024, 8 min, Welsh - Italian Premiere

Memories of the Crossroad, by Monirsadat Jazaeri

DEU 2024, 10 min, Farsi - Italian Premiere

Disco Afrika: une histoire malgache (Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story), by Luck Razanajaona

FRA/MDG/DEU/MUS/ZAF/QAT, 2024, 81 min, Malagasy – Südtirol Premiere

Last Swim, by Sasha Nathwani

GBR 2024, 100 min, Farsi, English – Italian Premiere

Raíz (Through Rocks And Clouds), by Franco García Becerra

PER/CHL 2024, 84 min, Quechua, Spanish – Italian Premiere

Reinas, by Klaudia Reynicke

PER 2024, 104 min, Quechua, Spanish – Südtirol Premiere

Young Hearts, by Anthony Schatteman

BEL/NLD 2024, 97 min, Dutch, French – Italian Premiere

Aletsch Negative, by Laurence Bonvin

CHE 2019, 12 min, without dialogue

Casa Chica, by Lau Charles

MEX 2025, 26 min, Spanish

City of Poets, by Sara Rajaei

NED 2025, 23 min, English, Farsi

Ke wai hou dong (Extracurricular Activity), by Dean Wei, Xu Yidan

CHN 2024, 22 min, Mandarin

Futsu no seikatsu (Ordinary Life), by Yoriko Mizushiri

FRA/JPN 2024, 10 min, without dialogue

GEN_, by Gianluca Matarrese

FRA/ITA/CHE 2025, 104 min, Italian

Millennium Mambo, by Hou Hsiao-hsien

TWN 2001, 105 min, Mandarin, Japanese

Marianengraben (La Fossa delle Marianne), by Eileen Byrne

LUX/ITA/AUT 2024, 87 min, German, Italian – Italian Premiere

Juror #2, by Clint Eastwood

USA 2024, 114 min, English

Presunto culpable (Presumed Guilty), by Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith

MEX 2008, 87 min, Spanish

Prefestival

Space Form Time
A special evening characterised bythe fusion of technology and intermedia art. World premieres for instruments and electronics, audiovisual works and multi-channel electronic music in surround format combine to create a unique experience. The Ensemble for Electronic Music of the Claudio Monteverdi School of Music invites you to an exciting evening in which the artistic expressiveness unfolds in a rich and diverse repertoire of established and young authors.

Damian Dalla Torre Live in Concert

A solo set inspired by I Can Feel My Dreams (2024) featuring improvisations, field recordings, wind instruments and samples for an intimate sound journey.

Live Score

Carmen, by Ernst Lubitsch

DEU 1918, 80 min, tedesco

In the BFFB Live Soundtrack, Carmen (1918) will be set to live music. Mirko Pedrotti, Damian Dalla Torre and Steffi Narr will accompany the film with saxophone, guitar, vibraphone and electronics.