10:30 am
Book
PICCOLO MONDO ANTICO
OLD-FASHIONED WORLD
Mario Soldati / 106 min / 1941 / Italy
During the period of the Risorgimento, in Valsolda, Franco, a young man of noble origins, decides to marry Luisa, the daughter of a humble worker, defying the will of his grandmother, the rigid Austrian Marquise Maironi. Ombretta is born from the union. Amidst the marquise's revenge and remorse, the little girl disappears, making the family balance even more unstable.
3:30 pm
Book
FRATERNITATE
BROTHERNESS
David Power / 8 min / 2021 / Italian premiere / Germany, Italy, Romania
Two brothers on vacation pass the time with dives and little mischievous acts on the edge of the grown-ups' campsite. It seems that their games are carefree, but unfortunately their mother is ill, and their games are interspersed with moments of concern and mutual consolation, during which their fraternal bond appears deep and true.
CHAMPIONSHEEP
Jakub  Dolny / 2 min / 2022 / Italian premiere / Poland
A raucous audience has gathered around an arena and anxiously awaits the start of the race. However, the runners are not agile greyhounds, but idle sheep. An ironic and demented story is born from a play on words, which shows the absurdity of this entertainment for men, to the detriment of the animals.
JMENUJI SE EDGAR A MÁM KRÁVU
MY NAME IS EDGAR AND I HAVE A COW
Filip Diviak / 8 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Czech Republic, Slovakia
Edgar is an ordinary middle-aged man who loves to eat meat. One day, while he is visiting a farm, he witnesses the birth of a calf. To save it from a macabre end, he decides to adopt the little animal and thoroughly upends his routine, replacing it with a simpler and happier life.
CHIMBORAZO
Keila Cepeda Satán / 7 min / 2022 / Spain
The true story of Baltazar Ushca, the last ice merchant who lives and works on the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador. His ancestors lived for centuries thanks to the ice trade, but with the advent of modernization, industrial ice has made his work useless: this small world of yore is disappearing, like the glacier.
SHIRAMPARI, HERENCIAS DEL RÍO
SHIRAMPARI: LEGACIES OF THE RIVER
Lucía Flórez / 15 min / 2022 / Italian premiere / Peru, Spain, United States
In the heart of the Amazon forest, a boy of the Ashéninka ethnic group is growing up. To prove he's ready for adult life, he'll have to catch a huge catfish using only a hook and his own skill.
GARISANI
Jin Woo / 8 min / 2022 / Korea, Republic of
The word "garisani" in Korean means the perception to judge things. In this imaginative and colourful short inspired by Korean mythology and punctuated by traditional music, a newborn deity rebels against their destiny and escapes the control of the creator-gods to explore the world in their own way, without constraints.
6:00 pm
Book Virtual theater
DOMUS DE JANAS
Myriam Raccah / 69 min / 2023 / Belgium, Italy
In Oliena, in the Sardinian hinterland, the drought emergency reaches its apex, while the director goes in search of the ancient local legends, evoked by music, the expanses of olive trees, and the fires of San Giovanni. Old women pray, a painter dedicates herself to her work, young people practice traditional songs and a shepherd fights against the fire. Only the storm will calm the flames.
CREATURAS
CHILDREN
Stefano Cau / 27 min / 2021 / European premiere / Italy
After school, three children take their bikes to the mountains above their village in Sardinia. They play war against imaginary enemies or explore the surrounding nature and its small insects. Their attention lingers on different situations with equal intensity, and then abandons them just as easily. Their game is authentic, free, and knows no distinctions.
9:00 pm
Book Virtual theater
MSHVENIERI ELENE
BEAUTIFUL HELEN
George Ovashvili / 92 min / 2022 / Georgia
After a period of study abroad, Helen returns to Tbilisi and struggles to reconnect with the part of herself that she has cultivated over the years. She is twenty-five when she meets Gabo, a middle-aged director in the midst of an existential crisis. The two embark on a journey in which they grow closer intellectually, hoping to derive new stimuli from their long conversations about the meaning of life and storytelling.