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SUI SENTIERI
ON THE TRAILS
Michele Trentini, Andrea Colbacchini / 59 min / 2025 / Italy
On foot, at a donkey’s pace, or hurtling downhill on a mountain bike—just a short distance from those practicing “barefooting” or “forest bathing”—the film juxtaposes and reflects on the different ways people experience the mountains, and on the risk of turning them into a theme park, forgetting that we are not alone on the trails.
MOVING MOUNTAINS
Andrea Costa / 29 min / 2025 / Italy
The hutof Rita, a South Tyrol farmer, becomes a new home for Moussa, a young man who arrived in Italy from Guinea-Bissau. Through the daily rhythms of work and faith, the two search together for a new balance in life. A shared need for family brings them close. But for Moussa, there is also a strong desire to spend time with friends from his homeland, so as not to lose touch with his roots.
3:30 pm
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SILENT OBSERVERS
Eliza Petkova / 96 min / 2024 / Italian premiere / Bulgaria, Germany
Time seems suspended in a remote mountain village in Bulgaria. Its inhabitants are six animals and a few elderly women. The camera lingers on the animals’ muzzles, eyes, noses, and paws, while the humans—living symbiotically with them—are shown mostly from behind or in profile. The atmosphere is steeped in superstition: the cat is believed to be a vampire, the donkey bewitched, and the dog a chicken thief.
6:00 pm
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U VETRA NET HVOSTA
WIND HAS NO TAIL
Ivan Vlasov, Nikita Stashkevich / 60 min / 2024 / Italian premiere / Russian Federation
Nika is one of three sisters in a reindeer herding family from the Yamal Peninsula, deep in Siberia. Their life is marked by the customs of nomadic peoples and the long fairy tales told by their mother and grandmother. But the time to go to school is approaching. A teacher prepares the girls for the moment when a helicopter will separate them from their yurts on the icy tundra to take them to the classrooms of a boarding school.
PREKID VATRE
CEASEFIRE
Jakob Krese / 30 min / 2025 / Italian premiere / Germany, Italy, Slovenia
Hazira, a survivor of the Srebrenica massacre, has lived for thirty years in the Ježevac refugee camp near Tuzla, in the Serb-controlled part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Worn down by smoke and exhaustion, surrounded by aimless youths and resigned elders, she spends her days in constant motion—perhaps to escape her memories and the fear that it all might happen again.
9:00 pm
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LA STRADA DI PODESTARIA
THE ROAD TO PODESTARIA
Giorgio Oppici, Aldo Ottaviani / 18 min / 2025 / European premiere / Italy
In 1915, the Triestine writer Carlo Stuparich was assigned as an officer to oversee the construction of the military road of Podestaria. From up there, he wrote many letters to his brother Giani. After Carlo’s death, Giani returned to that place, like a pilgrim, and wrote the short story La strada di Podestaria. Through his words, the film commemorates the Stuparich brothers and paints a portrait of the high pastures, celebrating the beauty of Lessinia.
ANNGEERDARDARDOR
THE THIEF
Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken / 20 min / 2025 / Denmark, Germany
Kaali’s dog has gone missing, and the young boy is heartbroken. He suspects it’s been stolen and, together with a friend, searches desperately through the streets of Tasiilaq, in eastern Greenland. The adults have no time to help, and his peers mock him. When he finally finds his beloved dog in the yard of another house and manages to free it and take it away, Kaali will discover that the bitter truth is something else entirely.
THE MEN'S LAND
Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani / 15 min / 2024 / Italian premiere / Georgia
A young woman wants to claim her family’s property in Ushguli, a village in Upper Svaneti, Georgia. But tradition dictates that only male children can inherit and that, in the absence of a son, the estate passes to the nearest male relative. Aspiring to become a singer, the young woman fights for what she believes is rightfully hers, challenging rules and customs she finds discriminatory and demeaning.
SAARVOCADO
Víctor Orozco Ramírez / 8 min / 2025 / Germany, Mexico
In the darkness of a nighttime walk through the Saarland forest, the director stumbles upon a war bunker along the fortified Siegfried Line. Just as in war, it’s hard to distinguish fact from fiction, imagination from reality, and here, images and sounds create an uncanny effect. The landscape evokes a post-war world where despite everything, trees will continue growing, at least until the next war.
SILVESTERCHLÄUSEN
Andrew Norman Wilson / 12 min / 2025 / Italian premiere / Switzerland, United States
In Appenzell Innerrhoden, the smallest canton in Switzerland, twice a year (on December 31st and January 13th), the Silvesterchläusen appear—figures from a folk tradition more than five hundred years old. Wearing elaborate headdresses, costumes made of velvet or branches, bark, and moss, with either friendly or frightening masks, noisy cowbells, and the singing of Jodel, they perform rituals whose meanings remain largely unknown.
