The Bolzano Film Festival Bozen - BFFB, organized by the FILMCLUB Bolzano, is preparing for its 39th edition, scheduled to take place from 10 to 19 April 2026.
The Festival, in collaboration with the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and the Association La Fournaise, dedicates a special section to films on language minorities for the fifth consecutive year.
The Piccole Lingue DOC section brings together works (documentary/fiction/hybrid films) of any length that deal with issues related to linguistic minorities, i.e. populations that speak a language different from that of the surrounding majority.
These will be works in which minority languages are present and spoken, and/or tell stories that highlight territorial, social and cultural issues associated with minority language communities.
We expect film proposals from every region of the world!
The selected films will be screened out of competition during the Festival days.
The section, devised by linguists Silvia Dal Negro and Daniela Veronesi (Free University of Bolzano) and by documentary filmmakers and geographers Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro (Associazione La Fournaise), will be curated by them together with Vincenzo Bugno, the festival's artistic director.
The works selected for Piccole Lingue DOC will be screened out of competition during the Festival in Bolzano, but may be eligible for the cross-category awards “UNESCO World Heritage Dolomites”, “Euregio Young Jury,” “ZeLIG Award” and “IDM Film & Music Commission Award.”