BFFB 40 | April 9 - 18, 2027

Piccole Lingue DOC

The Bolzano Film Festival Bozen, in collaboration with the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and the Association La Fournaise, dedicates a special section to films on language minorities.

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.

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.

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BFFB 39 Piccole Lingue DOC

Piccole Lingue DOC, organised in collaboration with the Free University of Bolzano and the La Fournaise association, is the section that the BFFB dedicates to the theme of linguistic minorities; it accepts works of various genres – ranging from documentary forms to fiction and other hybrid forms – of any duration and origin. With Kleinsprachen DOC, we aim to build a bridge between South Tyrolean multilingualism and the numerous contexts in which languages other than those of the majority society are used today. Edited by Silvia Dal Negro, Daniele Ietri, Eleonora Mastropietro and Daniela Veronesi.

Pilije by Samira Fux
AUT 2026, 77 min. – Italian premiere
Som Doma by Luca-Els Mauritz, Lukas Mutschler
DEU 2024, 30 min. – International premiere
La Battaglia delle Spazzole (The battle oft he brushes) by Lorenzo Fabbro
ITA 2025, 20 min.
Deme ke pelê gozan benî zer(When the walnut leaves turn yellow) by Mehmet Ali Konar
TUR 2024, 91 min.
Capa De Honras, La Cuonta De L Garotico I L Bielho by Rui Falcão
PRT 2023, 20 min. – Italian premiere
El pütì pèrs (The lost child) by Paolo Baiguera
ITA 2025, 13 min.
Until the Orchid Blooms by Polen Ly
FRA/KHM 2024, 103 min.

Awards

The films selected for the Piccole Lingue DOC section can compete for the following awards:

– IDM Film & Music Commission Südtirol Award to the BEST EUREGIO FEATURE FILM, worth 2,000 euros;

– ZeLIG - Bolzano Film School Award, worth 1,000 euros;

– Special Prize “Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site”, worth 1,000 euros;

– IDM Film & Music Commission Südtirol Award to the BEST EUREGIO SHORT FILM, worth 1,000 euros.

Participation guidelines

To participate in the Piccole Lingue DOC section, the films:

– The films must never have been shown in public in any form in the Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano and must not have been distributed in commercial cinemas in Italy; priority will, however, be given to films that have never been shown in Italy.
– Films must have been completed after 1st January 2023.