DAY 6 | Wednesday,
15 april

STAGED READING

Come and experience a special reading at the Bolzano Film Festival Bozen – BFFB: six writers will present excerpts from their screenplays, developed during the Scriptum screenwriting course led by Robert Buchschwenter (Vienna). Between August 2025 and April 2026, they developed their film ideas into synopses, treatments and finished screenplays. The dialogues and script excerpts will be performed by various actors and actresses.

The script reading on 15 April 2026 at 11:00 am at the Capitol Bozen (Club 3) is aimed at all producers, filmmakers and interested parties, and offers a unique insight into the process of creating a film.

Authors: Arer Daniel, Duregger Karin, Jennessen Susanne, Klapfer Lorenz/Kerschbaumer Aaron, Sinn Lorenz, Vasarin Alessio

Actors and actresses: Dania Carlotta, Kaser Miriam, Mahlknecht Daniel, Menz Helm, Rafolt Anna Kristina, Spindler Robert, Tetter Sonja, Tontaro Martina, Zingerle Lukas

Organisation and educational coordination: Tanja Schweigl and Martine De Biasi.

Scriptum is an initiative of k.art, da Palmer Film sowie der IDM Film & Music Commission Südtirol und dem Amt für Film und Medien.

The history of graffiti in South Tyrol sparks an in-depth exploration of writing and urban art. Through interviews with artists, historians, archivists, and gallerists, Urban Traces journeys into a complex art form, closely linked to contemporary society and its challenges.

In the presence of director Armin Ferrari

Info & Tickets.

Nino and Irakli’s daughter Lisa vanishes after leaving a letter asking not to be found. Irakli, unable to let go, teams up with her friend Levani to trace her journey across Georgia’s villages and football fields. As clues unfold, hope flickers amid mystery and the unknown.

In the presence of actor David Koberidze.

Info & Tickets.

Meet, Pitch & Connect

Women and Gender-Diverse Filmmakers

An informal speed meeting for filmmakers and students to share projects, exchange ideas, and build new connections.

Organized by FAS – Film Frauen Roundtable & Female Views

Moderation: Nela Märki, Martine De Biasi

A Belarusian model chasing a career in China meets a mysterious morgue worker. Their encounter challenges her ideas of beauty, the body, and mortality. A fragile love story of two outsiders who upend each other’s worlds and discover they are not alone.

At the presence of directors Elsa Kremser und Levin Peter

Info & Tickets.

Aida leaves Piero for wealthy Marcello, who woos her with promises then abandons her in a garage with her suitcase. When she seeks him out, he sends his 16-year-old brother Lorenzo. Feeling sorry for her, Lorenzo takes her to a boarding house and meets her in secret, giving money and affection. The family discovers them, and a priest orders Aida to leave the boy and the town.

Info & Tickets.

Marina, an 18-year old orphan, travels to Galicia (Spain) to meet her paternal grandparents and get their signatures which she needs to secure a scholarship. Amid unfamiliar relatives, old emotions, delicate moments, and hidden wounds re-surface, as she pieces together fragmented memories of the parents she barely knew.

Info & Tickets.

Snow and ice as far as the eye can see. Melt depicts the people who live in this world and the slow melting of the glaciers. Nikolaus Geyrhalter travels from the Alps to Antarctica, observing the landscapes and their inhabitants, documenting climate change in both work and everyday life.

Online Q&A with director Nikolaus Geyrhalter.

Info & Tickets.

In 2007, Fred moves from Sweden to Trieste with her father. The only girl in an all-male senior class, she draws the attention of three close friends. As desires clash and friendships are tested, Fred struggles to belong—and discovers that acceptance has its price.

In the presence of screenwriter Elisa Dondi and actors Pietro Giustolisi and Samuel Volturno.

Info & Tickets.

A film like a house full of long-locked rooms. Daniela Magnani Hüller opens them: dolls, butterflies, light against the silence. Fourteen years after surviving an attempted femicide by a classmate, her autobiographical debut searches for memories, responsibility and the reasons for the failure of school, justice and society.

In the presence of director Daniela Magnani Hüller

Info & Tickets.

A family gathers in southern Portugal to debate what to do with Dad’s house. Affection quickly turns to conflict as a wildfire destroys the region. 18 Holes to Paradise explores family, society, and the flames - literal and metaphorical - of greed, progress, and human fragility.

In the presence of director João Nuno Pinto

Info & Tickets.

Screening of the movie Space in Spotlight (2024, Germany,30 mins)

Followed by discussion with the film maker

Yannik Noah Layer (Universität Freiburg, Germany)

Cinema and psychoanalysis from Bergman to Kubrick

Marcello Barison (UNIBZ)