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LA MURAILLE
THE OTHER WORLD
Callisto McNulty / 65 min / 2025 / Italian premiere / France, Switzerland
In Campell, in the mountains of southeastern Spain, a great wall separates two worlds: that of the healthy and that of the sick. The Fontilles sanatorium was built in 1905 to house people suffering from leprosy. The wall surrounding it was meant to prevent the sick from escaping and to keep them from coming into contact with the outside world. Today, patients and staff at the still-functioning sanatorium describe it as both a prison and a place of refuge.
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.
2:00 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.
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. 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.
VIENTRE DE LUNA
MOON BELLY
Liliana K'an / 30 min / 2024 / Italian premiere / Mexico
In a small village on the Chiapas highlands in Mexico, a young Tzotzil girl is about to give birth for the first time. By showing her fears and struggles, the film explores the theme of motherhood through the memories of women who have experienced it before her and reveals how this experience is lived within her indigenous community.
3:30 pm
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MAR DE MOLADA
Marco Segato / 78 min / 2025 / Italy
Mar de Molada is the title of the show staged by Marco Paolini in the autumn of 2024. Weaving together storytelling, science, and poetry, the artist aimed to raise awareness around the sustainable management of water resources. The documentary follows the creative process behind the show and highlights the deep connection between theater, civic consciousness, and the land of the Veneto that has always been at the heart of Paolini’s work.
6:00 pm
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THE ICE BUILDERS
Francesco Clerici, Tommaso Barbaro / 15 min / 2024 / India, Italy
Life in the remote Zanskar Valley in Ladakh is closely tied to the presence of glaciers, which provide the water necessary for cultivating the fields. Global warming, which is also causing the ice tongues to retreat even at these altitudes, poses serious challenges to local communities. To adapt, they have revived an ancient tradition: building ice stupas—frozen towers designed to conserve precious water.
MY SWEET LAND
Sareen Hairabedian / 86 min / 2025 / France, Ireland, Jordan, United States
Eleven-year-old Vrej dreams of becoming a dentist. He grew up and lives in Artsakh, a region of Nagorno-Karabakh. When yet another war breaks out in this mountainous region of the post-Soviet Caucasus, Vrej is forced to flee with his family. In exile, he waits, in vain, for victory. Upon returning to his village, like his peers he must prepare for a future as a soldier: a fate that seems inevitable, as if already written.
9:00 pm
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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.
LA ROUTE
HIMALAYAN ROAD: A NEW FRONTIER
Marianne Chaud / 85 min / 2025 / European premiere / France
A new road in the Zanskar Valley will soon connect one of the most inaccessible regions on the planet to the rest of the world. Locals have sold their land and herds to become laborers. Smiling women work on the construction sites, children play, unaware of the transformation that will soon disrupt their homeland. With the arrival of the road, what will become of the delicate balance that has endured for millennia in this remote corner of Ladakh, in the heart of the Himalayas?
