DAY 7 | Thursday, 16 april

DENTRO PAESAGGI DI LUCE(11 min.)

Landscapes of light draw a boy to nature—and to a nearby steel mill. Do they enchant or unsettle him? Awake, he dreams of immersing himself in the landscape and becoming one with it.

Produced as part of the "Traces of Time" artistic residency: the landscape of Friuli Venezia Giulia in the film memories of its protagonists.

At the presence of director Michele Trentini

MAIS IN FESTA! RITUALI PER LA DECOLONIZAZZIONE AGRICOLA(19 min.)

How can we decolonize corn? In Trentino, farmers save ancient seeds and defend food sovereignty. Rituals of planting and sharing meals reconnect us with food and sustainability.

At the presence of director Elda Isavelina Ortiz Rivas

TUIFL(7 min.)

A mother enters the forest to find her son, fully aware that skinwalkers haunt the land.

At the presence of director Adina Barth

WOLKENFABRIK(30 min.)

Wolkenfabrik explores skies over the Rhineland coal region, where polluted clouds rise. Residents share views on life, home, and threats amid a changing climate.

At the presence of director Hannes Lang

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.

At the presence of director Daniela Magnani Hüller

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Ulrike Ottinger | Ehrenpreis für eine herausragende Filmkarriere BFFB 2026

Paris, West-Berlin, Vampire & mehr. Das Leben als Gesamtkunstwerk

Mit: Ulrike Ottinger

Moderation: Vincenzo Bugno

A dialogue on memory, restitution, and colonial responsibility: artist Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige discovers ancestral remains and artifacts of the Wanniyala-Aetto in a Swiss museum. Together with the community’s chief, Deneth pursues their repatriation after colonial removal.

At the presence of director Gregor Braendli

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In a dense stream of acoustic and visual archive material, linked with his own artistic and cinematic works, Ottinger brings Saint- Germain-des-Prés and the Latin Quarter back to life. ‘I followed in the footsteps of my heroes and heroines,’ says Ottinger, ‘and wherever I found them, they will appear in this film.’

At the presence of director Ulrike Ottinger

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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.

At the presence of director Alexandre Koberidze

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A psychological thriller following Samaan, a young security guard whose parents were killed by religious violence in the Arab region. Now in his early twenties, he and his peers struggle with the inherited trauma of a generation shaped by loss and violence.

In the presence of director Mohammed Hammad.

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The trio comprising Marco Colonna, Esmeralda Sella and Francesco Cigana presents an original live musical accompaniment for the silent film ’A Santanotte (Italy, 1922) by cinema pioneer Elvira Notari. The project has been created specifically for this occasion: an open, site-specific score that engages with the film’s imagery and the tradition of the film concert.

Marco Colonna

A clarinettist and improviser active in contemporary music, jazz and experimental music, he brings an extended timbral language and a strong narrative element to his performances.

Esmeralda Sella

A pianist and sound researcher, she works with instruments, objects and acoustic materials, exploring sound as a physical and spatial phenomenon.

Francesco Cigana

A percussionist and composer active in improvisation, sound practices and interdisciplinary projects, he develops musical devices that intertwine rhythm, materiality and collective listening.

Event organised in collaboration with the Südtirol JazzFestival Alto Adige.

SYNOPSIS

Nanninella, a waitress in a café, supports her father Giuseppone with her wages. He is a drunkard who mistreats her and takes advantage of her kindness. Courted by Tore, the young woman would like to become engaged to him,
but her father prefers to promise her in marriage to Carluccio...

Screening organised in collaboration with the Cineteca Nazionale. The restoration was carried out in 2008
by CSC–Cineteca Nazionale, George Eastman House, and Associazione Orlando at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna, as part of the project Non solo dive. Women Pioneers of Italian Cinema.

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Protests in art and the art of protest. The power of (audio)visuality in knowledge creation through direct co-creation practices, lecture followed by a screening of the documentary by Joanna Janikowska, director of “Comrades” (2024, Italy, Poland, 61 mins)

Karina Gaibulina (UNIBZ), Diana Kudaibergenova (University College London).