Film in competition
Io e il Secco
Denni is a 10-year-old kid on a mission: to save his mother from his father’s violence. He knows he cannot do it alone. He decides to ask for help from someone who kills people for a living: a super-killer. The first screening of the film will take place at the
Handling the Undead
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken. Three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones return to them. Who are they and what do they want?
After The Long Rains
11 years old Aisha is given a school assignment to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. She soon realizes that everyone she knows is continuing the professions of their parents, but she has bigger dreams. She wants to go to Europe and become an actress.
Solitude
An elderly farmer moves to the city for the first time and connects with a very young neighbor. Solitude is the brilliant and heartwarming story of an unusual friendship, in the middle of the Icelandic countryside.
Electric Fields
Six episodes tell the stories of a series of lonely characters who have resigned themselves to an everyday life burdened by unfulfilled dreams. Suddenly, inexplicable changes happen and people wake up from their slumber.
Black Dog
Two teenage boys from very different London backgrounds embark on a road trip together, headed to the North. As they begin to open up about their pasts, they find out they have much more in common than they thought.
In Camera
Aden is a young actor engaged in a cycle of nightmarish auditions, where he plays the part of dead bodies and faces several awkward situations. After receiving multiple rejections, he takes it upon himself to find a new part to play.
The Quiet Maid
A young Colombian maid works tirelessly in a luxurious Spanish villa in Costa Brava, where a wealthy family of art dealers spends their lush summer vacations. She keeps quiet and discreet, until she realizes how to pursue her own ways of enjoying the summer.
What Doesn’t Float
Seven stories, one city: New York. A dark, yet comedic anthology of exhausted, picturesque characters. When the daily grind of urban life is suspended by an unforeseen conflict, each of them must make a tough decision.
I Don’t Know Who You Are
After being sexually assaulted by a stranger, Benjamin, a gay musician, spends his weekend trying to earn enough money to afford a preventative treatment against HIV.
We Have Never Been Modern
1937. In a small Slovak town aspiring to become a modern metropolis, Helena finds the lifeless body of an infant. As the only woman in a male-dominated environment, she deals with a mystery that no one seems to want to solve.
Documentaries in competition
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Terra a Perdere
Sardinia is a land of marvelous coastlines, breathtaking landscapes, and military bases. Less known than the white beaches that wink at us from advertising flyers, the polygons poison the island’s land and life.
Grasshopper Republic
Deep in the forests of Uganda, millions of grasshoppers gather to mate in devastating swarms. A group of young men install a strange contraption at the edges of cultivated fields to harvest the delicacy most prized by city dwellers.
40 Below: The Toughest Race in the World
Leah, a junk food-eating scientist, and Bill, a seasoned marathoner, just can’t seem to finish the toughest endurance race in the world. They have 60 hours to run, bike, or ski in the coldest place in America. What can we learn from them about life, love, and happiness?
The Giants
The fates of trees and humans intertwine in this poetic portrait of conservationist Bob Brown and the Australian forest. The extraordinary life cycle of Australia’s giant trees is brought to the screen with stunning cinematography and immersive animated forest landscapes.
Orca – Black & White Gold
A gripping exposure of the illegal trade of wild orcas, fueled by U.S.-based practices. Unprecedented perspectives and information by activists, trainers, and journalists reveal the shocking truth of the hidden interests behind this endangered species.
We Are Guardians
A moving portrait of a diverse group of natives striving to save what remains of the Brazilian Amazon. A closer look at the economic drivers that fuel large-scale environmental destruction and the corruption behind them.
System Change
200 occupiers unite against 2.000 police officers to save an ancient forest in the middle of Germany that is supposed to make way for a highway. The political and legal struggle against this construction has been going on for 40 years. However, the state decided to enforce it against any
Common Ground
The radical and uplifting story of the pioneers of the regenerative movement who are giving up the hegemony of modern agricultural giants while trying to bring soil health across the continent and our ecosystems back to life. Featuring interviews with: Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Woody Harrelson, Ian Somerhalder, Rosario Dawson.
Downwind
A journey through the nuclear tests that took place in Mercury, Nevada, where 928 nuclear weapons between 1951 and 1992. It features members of the Shoshone nation and people who were affected by the radioactive fallout from those tests.
Earthbound: Nzambi Matee
In the midst of a catastrophic plastic waste crisis in her hometown, Nairobi, Nzambi Matee risks everything for a pioneering project that turns plastic waste into sustainable paving bricks.
Out of competition
Food for Profit
In this investigative documentary with a cinematic approach, Giulia Innocenzi
Mogwai – If The Stars Had A Sound
25 years of the cult Scottish band Mogwai, from Mogwai
Orizzonte Azzurro: winter journey in the five lands
The territory of the Cinque Terre, in the Eastern part
Posidonia Oceanica – A Hope for the Mediterranean
Posidonia Oceanica is an extremely important underwater plant, with roots
Antonioni Day
In collaboration with
Zabriskie Point
At a time of chronic civil unrest in late 1960s America, an idealistic young man and an anthropology student, cross paths in Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, California. A dune after the other, they discover love, time, space, sexual liberation, and their own souls. The film screening is part of the
Blow Up
Thomas is a fashion photographer bored with the albeit glamorous models he has to deal with in his work and personal life. He reacts by deciding to create a photobook that is intended to be a study of life in London in all its facets. Things change after he takes
RIFF SHORTS
Heritage
A strained relationship between mother and daughter explodes during lunch. Between a painful glance and an outburst, we explore the silent complexities of their relationship across three generations of women.
The End of The World at 21
A 21-year-old girl reconciles her family’s principles with the collective angst of the digital age. Through her eyes, all the generational gaps toward mental health emerge, both in the attitudes and in the culture.
Unique Body
In a dystopian future, all women have become extinct. Society has become a grim theater of male hunters, where even the memory of past femicides is severely punished.
Vial
Poppy is a 27-year-old world-famous model who is replaced by a younger girl for a new job. Feeling the weight of advancing age in her professional environment, she turns to an alchemist to solve her unexpected problem.
The Man Who Photographed the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Tommaso is a world-recognized photographer. One night he ends up photographing a woman who will strike him more than any other: the most beautiful woman in the world.
I Am What You Imagine
Un’esplorazione sensuale dell’inspiegabile e un viaggio del cuore e della mente attraverso musica e immagini espressionistiche, accompagnato dai talenti vocali di Ruby Modine e del collaboratore di lunga data Kubrick Leon Vitali nella sua ultima esibizione.
Juggernaut
In a Medieval fantasy setting, an intrepid warrior makes a hard choice: to undertake a painful and grueling journey to get back everything he has lost.
Marry Mary
On a journey to the most remote corners of her mind, Mary confronts her repressed desires and the path she must take to achieve wholeness and liberation. Will she seize the opportunity to discover herself?
Anna
Pino is a fisherman who lives with his dog Anna. His days are marked by a series of repeated daily gestures. Everything or nothing will change when a singular silhouette stands out on the horizon.
Pure Breeds
Pino is a fisherman who lives with his dog Anna. His days are marked by a series of repeated daily gestures. Everything or nothing will change when a singular silhouette stands out on the horizon.
Resurrektor
Two sisters separated by tragedy. A grieving husband, haunted and devastated, searching for answers. An innocent victim caught in despair. The human drama of loss and what one can undergo to bring their loved ones back.
The Fuse
A garbage man struggling to make a living in the Bronx’s concrete arena is suddenly fired and fears becoming homeless. At the moment of his final farewell, a blown fuse causes him to wander through the night in search of his destiny.
