Films

The Films

The thirty-second edition of the Lessinia Film Festival

will be held in Bosco Chiesanuova (VR) from 21 to 30 August 2026

and will feature around 80 films from more than 40 countries.

Literary presentations, workshops, excursions, exhibitions,

concerts, shows, food and wine offerings:

there will be more than 100 cultural events

in ten days of Festival in Bosco Chiesanuova.

At the school of memories film card

Special Events

A scuola di memorie

Michele Sammarco 

29' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

América film card

FFDL+

América

Javier Arias-Stella 

15' / 

Peru 

/ 2025

Nomad spirit film card

Competition

Andariega

Raùl Soto Rodríguez 

95' / 

Colombia 

/ 2026

Anguane, songlines of water film card

FFDL Green

Anguane, le voci dell'acqua

Giovanni Pellegrini 

70' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

At night film card

Competition

At night

Anouk Chambaz 

8' / 

Switzerland, 

Italy 

/ 2025

White Veil film card

FFDL Green

Bela Koprena

Žiga Ciber 

10' / 

Ireland, 

Slovenia 

/ 2025

Guardian of the Well film card

FFDL Green

Biir Gardi

Bentley Brown, 

Tahir Ben Mahamat Zene 

6' / 

Chad 

/ 2025

Books Are Made of Trees film card

FFDL+

Books Are Made of Trees

Julianna Jakubowska 

7' / 

Denmark 

/ 2025

Whispers in May film card

Competition

Chun ri huan you

Dongnan Chen 

96' / 

Hong Kong, 

South Korea, 

Netherlands 

/ 2026

Chuuraa film card

Competition

Chuuraa

Evgenia Arbugaeva 

18' / 

United Kingdom 

/ 2026

Ciao Samantha! film card

FFDL+

Ciao Samantha!

Lily-Rose Bonesso 

5' / 

Belgium 

/ 2026

Coexistence: on the trail of the puma film card

FFDL Green

Coexistencia, Sur les Traces des pumas

Thomas Julienne 

59' / 

France 

/ 2025

Hearts carcasses blinding dark of blood and stone film card

Special Events

Cuori carcasse accecanti oscuri di sangue e pietra

Anna Forti 

17' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

De echo lymphae film card

Special Events

De echo lymphae

Marcela Roset, 

Mattia Forni 

10' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

The hanging stone film card

FFDL+

Der hängende Stein

Ivetta Urozhaeva 

2' / 

Germany, 

Russia 

/ 2026

Of Gods and Men film card

Special Events

Des Hommes et des Dieux

Xavier Beauvois 

122' / 

France 

/ 2010

The wool film card

FFDL+

Desi Oon

Suresh Eriyat 

8' / 

India 

/ 2025

A new home for the Goat Family film card

FFDL+

Ein neues Zuhause für Familie Ziege

Maria Steinmetz 

7' / 

Germany 

/ 2025

Fačuk film card

Competition

Fačuk

Maida Srabović 

13' / 

Croatia, 

Slovenia 

/ 2025

Filò film card

Special Events

Filò

Solenn Le Marchand, 

Silvia Dal Piva 

3' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

First flight film card

FFDL+

First flight

Adrián Jaffé 

3' / 

Germany 

/ 2025

Frost without snow and ice film card

FFDL Green

Frost uten snø og is

Asgeir Helgestad 

94' / 

Norway 

/ 2026

Goodbye sisters film card

Competition

Goodbye sisters

Alexander Murphy 

90' / 

France, 

Nepal 

/ 2025

Hear the yellow film card

Competition

Günyüzü

Banu Sıvacı 

104' / 

Turkey 

/ 2026

Supernonna's stories film card

Special Events

I racconti di supernonna

Solenn Le Marchand, 

Silvia Dal Piva 

3' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

Once upon a time in dragonville film card

FFDL+

Il était une fois à dragonville

Marika Herz 

9' / 

Switzerland, 

France 

/ 2024

Calabrian Greek - Echoes of an Ancient Language film card

Italian Mountains

Il greco di Calabria - la lingua che lotta per sopravivere al tempo

Lydia Gasparini 

29' / 

Italy 

/ 2025

The boy from the river Drina film card

Competition

Il ragazzo della Drina

Zijad Ibrahimovic 

73' / 

Switzerland 

/ 2025

Inherited silence film card

Competition

Inherited silence

Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani 

15' / 

Georgia 

/ 2025

L'mina film card

Competition

L'mina

Randa Maroufi 

26' / 

United Arab Emirates, 

France, 

Italy, 

Morocco, 

Qatar 

/ 2025

Echo of the Herd film card

Competition

La voix du troupeau

Matthias Joulaud, 

Lucien Roux 

79' / 

Switzerland 

/ 2026

Fire in my pocket film card

FFDL+

Lángbogár a zsebemben

Janka Feiner 

10' / 

Hungary 

/ 2026

The butterflies of the Giudecca film card

Special Events

Le farfalle della Giudecca

Rosa L. Galantino Luigi G. Ceccarelli 

75' / 

Italy 

/ 2025

The wonders film card

Retrospective

Le meraviglie

Alice Rohrwacher 

110' / 

Switzerland, 

Germany, 

Italy 

/ 2014

The little one and the giant film card

FFDL+

Le petit et le géant

Isabela Costa 

9' / 

Brazil, 

France 

/ 2025

Languages of resistance film card

Special Events

Lingue di resistenza

Beatrice Conte, 

Marina Pagano 

10' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

The Eagle and the Kinglet film card

FFDL+

L’Aigle et le roitelet

Paul Jadoul 

6' / 

Belgium, 

France 

/ 2025

Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths film card

Italian Mountains

Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths

Eva Giolo 

24' / 

Belgium, 

Italy 

/ 2025

Mole, mole! film card

FFDL+

Mole, mole!

Rui-Rung Su 

9' / 

Taiwan 

/ 2024

Mom film card

FFDL+

Mom

Camille de Vulpillieres 

12' / 

Belgium 

/ 2025

Bats & Bugs film card

FFDL+

Nächtschwarmer

Lena von Döhren 

11' / 

Switzerland 

/ 2026

Noi siamo il futuro film card

Special Events

Noi siamo il futuro

Michele Sammarco 

19' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

We are the fruits of the forest film card

Competition

Nous sommes les fruits de la forêt

Rithy Panh 

87' / 

France, 

Cambodia 

/ 2025

Writing Home film card

FFDL+

O lýkožroutce

Eva Matejovičová 

12' / 

Czech Republic 

/ 2024

Pestiferous Wolf film card

Italian Mountains

Pestiferus Lupus

Luca Jankovic, 

Ludovico Serra 

54' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

Small body film card

Retrospective

Piccolo corpo

Laura Samani 

89' / 

France, 

Italy, 

Slovenia 

/ 2021

Piccolo piccolo film card

FFDL+

Piccolo piccolo

Marta Gennari 

9' / 

Switzerland, 

France 

/ 2025

Penguin film card

FFDL Green

Pingviin

Kaspar Jancis 

14' / 

Estonia 

/ 2026

Peninsula film card

FFDL+

Presqu’îles

Angèle Vergoni, 

Sarah Vanhoeck 

6' / 

Belgium 

/ 2025

Better go mad in the wild film card

Competition

Radeji zešílet v divočině

Miro Remo 

83' / 

Czech Republic, 

Slovakia 

/ 2025

Shablovsky Tarantass film card

FFDL+

Shablovsky Tarantass

Natalia Kharina, 

Oleg Veselov 

11' / 

Russia 

/ 2026

Shulka film card

Competition

Shulka

Raquel Maria Soaje, 

Maria Cecilia Casanova 

16' / 

Argentina 

/ 2026

Unwelcomed film card

Competition

Si Vas Para Chile

Sebastián González, 

Amílcar Infante 

70' / 

Chile 

/ 2025

White film card

FFDL+

Spî

Navroz Shaban 

12' / 

Iraq 

/ 2026

World I live In film card

FFDL+

Svět, ve kterém žiji

Ester Kasalová 

7' / 

Czech Republic 

/ 2024

Lıfe Beyond Borders film card

Competition

Sınırsız Hayatlar

Haydar Demirtas 

62' / 

Turkey 

/ 2026

Tales of Minho film card

Competition

Tales of Minho

Radek Ševčík, 

Petr Chromčák 

28' / 

Portugal 

/ 2025

Dance partner film card

FFDL+

Tanzpartner

Elena Walf 

5' / 

Germany, 

Croatia 

/ 2025

Tawny Owl film card

FFDL+

Tawny Owl

Anastasiia Zhakulina 

8' / 

Russia 

/ 2025

The last ranger film card

FFDL+

The last ranger

Cindy Lee 

28' / 

United States, 

South Africa 

/ 2024

The Sky Was Candy film card

FFDL+

The Sky Was Candy

Anh Tú Nguyen 

3' / 

Germany 

/ 2025

Found! film card

FFDL+

Trouvé

Juliette Baily 

5' / 

Belgium, 

France 

/ 2025

Tourists film card

Competition

Turisti

Mária Kralovič 

15' / 

Czech Republic, 

France, 

Slovakia 

/ 2026

Apus Apus film card

Competition

Vencejos

Manu Arzá, 

Álvar Alonso 

29' / 

Spain 

/ 2025

Vermiglio - The mountain bride film card

Retrospective

Vermiglio

Maura Delpero 

120' / 

Belgium, 

France, 

Italy 

/ 2024

Full Nest film card

FFDL+

Volles Nest

Elena Walf 

5' / 

Germany, 

Croatia 

/ 2025

The Long Winter film card

Competition

Zemestan e Toolani

Hassan Jafari 

43' / 

Iran 

/ 2025

The chamois of Grappa – A Story of Adaptation and Resilience film card

Italian Mountains

I camosci del grappa - Una storia di adattamento e resilienza

Ivan Mazzon, 

Bruno Boz 

27' / 

Italy 

/ 2025

One woman one bra film card

Competition

One woman one bra

Vincho Nchogu 

79' / 

Kenya, 

Nigeria 

/ 2025

A land within film card

Competition

Zweitland

Michael Kofler 

112' / 

Austria, 

Germany, 

Italy 

/ 2025

Jaggu and Magahari film card

FFDL+

Jaggu aur Magahari

Sudeep Sohni 

24' / 

India 

/ 2025

Mountain time. Alpine Architecture in Ten Stories film card

Italian Mountains

Il tempo della montagna. ArchitetturAlpinA in dieci storie

Francesca Molteni, 

Davide Fois 

54' / 

Italy 

/ 2026

The submerged lightness film card

FFDL Green

La leggerezza sommersa

Fulvio Mariani 

90' / 

Switzerland 

/ 2025

Ex-tract film card

FFDL+

Ex-tract

Marcel Barelli 

3' / 

Switzerland 

/ 2025