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.
COMPETITION BFFB
Competition BFFB39
“The Competition BFFB39 is open to feature films, documentaries and hybrid films. It encompasses everything that is understood by filmmaking today: works that refuse to be pigeonholed. The twelve invited films – ten of which are Italian premieres – are productions and co-productions from countries in the Alpine region. The film productions of our time are a mobile universe. They bear witness to the necessity and curiosity to engage with the entire planet, as well as to the equally valid need to explore more familiar territories. Each of these diverse works has a strong, unique artistic profile. Whether they tell the story of a Viennese musician, families in Galicia or Portugal, a residential building in Cairo, Antarctica or other (almost) unknown regions is irrelevant. They will not leave you indifferent.”- Vincenzo Bugno
17 by Kosara Mitic
MKD/SRB/SVN 2025, 90 min. – Italian premiere
18 Buracos para o Paraíso(18 holes to paradise) by João Nuno Pinto
PRT/ITA/ARG 2025, 108 min. – Italian premiere
Dry Leaf by Alexandre Koberidze
DEU 2025, 186 min. – Italian premiere
Elon Musk Unveiled - The Tesla Experimentby Andreas Pichler
DEU 2025, 90 min. – Italian premiere
Etwas ganz Besonderesby Eva Trobisch
DEU 2025, 116 min. – Italian premiere
The Loneliest Man in Town by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
AUT 2026, 86 min. – Italian premiere
Melt by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
AUT 2025, 127 min. – Italian premiere
Romeríaby Carla Simón
ESP/DEU 2025, 110 min.
Safe Exit by Mohammed Hammad
EGY/LBY/TUN/QAT/DEU 2026, 113 min.
Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen by Julian Radlmaier
DEU 2025, 90 min. – Italian premiere
Tristan Forever by Tobias Nölle, Loran Bonnardot
CHE 2026, 90 min. – Italian premiere
White Snail by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
AUT 2025, 115 min.
Awards
The films selected for the Competition BFFB will compete for the following awards:
– Province of South Tyrol Award for the Best Film worth 5,000 euros;
– Special Jury Award South Tyrolean Sparkasse Bolzano Foundation of 3,000 euros;
– Trentino-Alto Adige Autonomous Region Award for Distribution Support of 10,000 euros;
– City of Bolzano Audience Award worth 2,000 euros;
– ZeLIG - Bolzano Film School Award worth 1,000 euros;
– Special Award “Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site” worth 1,000 euros.
Participation guidelines
To participate in the Competition BFFB, films:
– must be Italian, Austrian, German, Swiss or Slovenian productions or co-productions;
– must never have been presented in public in any form in the Trentino-Alto Adige region and must not have been distributed in commercial cinemas in Italy;
– must have a minimum duration of 60 minutes;
– must have been completed after 1 January of the year preceding the year in which the BFFB takes place.
Here you can find the complete Regulations.