9:00 am
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80 METERS UNDERGROUND, 1.8 BILLION YEARS BACK IN TIME
A visit to the bottom of the Cóvolo di Camposilvano. Guided by Simona Boseggia and equipped with helmets, participants descend up to 80 meters underground before coming back up to see the fossil remains at the Geo Paleontological Museum, dating back as far as 1.8 billion years. Hiking boots with grips are required. Start and end: GeoPaleontological Museum of Camposilvano. Length: 500 m. Elevation gain: 80 m. Duration: 2 hours. Difficulty: moderate.
9:30 am
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COLORING WITH PLANTS
Beetroot, spinach, coffee, turmeric, hibiscus, and walnut husk are just some of the ingredients used in this workshop to produce beautiful natural colors. Guided by Marta Sclavi, participants learn to extract colors from plants and use them like watercolors to create vibrant, expressive drawings, discovering that creativity knows no bounds!
10:00 am
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UN ANNO IN LESSINIA
A YEAR IN LESSINIA
Alberto Rizzi / 90 min / 2025 / Italy
A year of work by a film crew becomes an opportunity to portray a land through the eyes of cinema itself. This documentary is not merely a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sharksin Lessinia, but a journey into the region’s natural wonders, its traditions, ancient stone architecture, and the geo-paleontological heritage of Bolca, home to the famous fossilized sharks.
10:30 am
Paola Tacchella, Davide Sapienza, Giuseppe Saglio
THE PRISON AS A BORDER: STUMBLES, FORCED PAUSES, AND CHALLENGES OVERCOME
Inside the Montorio Prison, the MicroCosmo association’s “The Mountain Within” project has gathered writings and testimonies from individuals whose lives have crossed every imaginable border—only to find themselves behind bars. Incarceration itself becomes yet another dividing line from society. Participants who are currently or formerly detained join Paola Tacchella (MicroCosmo project coordinator), Davide Sapienza (writer, journalist, and translator), and psychiatrist Giuseppe Saglio to share their experiences.
12:00 pm
APERITIF WITH THE DIRECTORS
Learn about the day’s film programme and meet the filmmakers present at the Festival. At the end of the meeting there will be a tasting of products from small producers, with nonalcoholic cocktails and wines from Lessinia wineries. Organized by GAS (Social Purchasing Group) Lessinia.
3:30 pm
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IL CAMMINO
THE PATH
Giovanni Montagnana / 30 min / 2025 / European premiere / Italy
Davide e Cristian partono per un’escursione sulle tracce di Don Domenico Mercante, parroco ucciso, insieme con un soldato tedesco, negli ultimi giorni della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Dalle montagne veronesi a quelle trentine, da Giazza ad Ala, i due ragazzi seguono il tragitto percorso dal sacerdote quel giorno, mentre si indaga su fatti non privi di interrogativi e punti oscuri. “Il cammino” dei due ragazzi diventa così un rito.
AL DI LÀ DELLA PARETE
BEYOND THE WALL
Mattia Forni / 5 min / 2025 / European premiere / Italy
How much do we humans matter to nature? How much do we love the Earth that hosts us? The inner journey of a young man through memory. The breaking of the space-time barrier. A meeting of souls in the wind.
ELEGY OF ROOTS
Isabella Gorgoni Gufoni / 8 min / 2025 / European premiere / Italy
In Orsigna, the road ends—and so the soul begins to travel among the people who inhabit this place.
LASSÙ
UP THERE
Tommaso Calestani / 8 min / 2025 / European premiere / Italy
Up there, a young man searches for answers. He tries to write about a distant world that appears to him in dreams. From up there, it’s hard to come back down because he no longer understands what he feels, yet he needs to understand. Uncertainty holds him back—he’s still too immature to know his own voice, his own soul.
4:00 pm
Katia Tenti
AND THEY WILL CALL YOU A WITCH
With her novel E ti chiameranno strega (And They Will Call You a Witch, Neri Pozza, 2024, ITAS Mountain Book Prize 2025), Katia Tenti takes us to 16th-century South Tyrol, when a fierce with hunt condemned dozens of innocent women to torture and the stake. Through the research of a young anthropologist, Arianna Miele, the author unites past and present, bringing the reader tales of lives that have long been unjustly forgotten. The author converses with Beatrice Azzolina.
6:00 pm
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MUT
Giulio Squillacciotti / 18 min / 2024 / Italy
The film portrays a single day spent on a mountain pasture as an allegory for an entire summer season. In the Bergamasque dialect, mut means “mountain.” Up there, gestures have repeated in similar fashion for hundreds of years. We watch two boys carry them out: milking the cows, tending to livestock enclosures, but also glancing at their phones. The cyclical nature of life becomes a portrait of the bond between humans and animals, and of a family dynamic shaped by silences and affection, all immersed in nature.
TALIS MATER
Marco Rossitti / 70 min / 2025 / European premiere / Italy
In the highest inhabited settlement of the Val di Fassa, in the 1980s, a RAI (Italian National TV) crew documented the life of Liz. The footage from back then is now paired with scenes shot today in the same place, where her daughter Assunta, following her mother’s passing, has returned to live. By continuing deeply rooted habits and taking on the same old labors, Assunta honors her mother’s memory and reaffirms, while renewing it, a cultural and existential identity.
9:00 pm
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THE MOUNTAIN WON’T MOVE
Petra Seliškar / 96 min / 2025 / France, Macedonia, Slovenia
Zekir and Zarif tend the family’s flock — over 600 sheep guarded by enormous dogs — on a high mountain pasture in Macedonia. With them is their younger brother Zani, who looks after the cows. They spend the summer in a modest, cluttered hut, working, arguing, fighting, and playing. Zarif is thinking about a girl and feels the pull to leave the shepherd’s life behind.
11:00 pm
Balancing between folk with jazz undertones and the progpsychedelic atmospheres of the 1970s, Cafè Desordre formed in Verona in 2008. With three albums and two EPs already released, they are currently working on a fourth album, slated for 2025, featuring surreal stories and characters from a “timeless circus”—ironic and irreverent, somewhere between Gogol Bordello and Vinicio Capossela. The band features Andrea Felis (vocals, guitar), Matteo Del Passo (guitar, backing vocals), Michele Zanotti (sax), Enrico Perenzoni (bass), and Pietro Pizzoli (drums).
