Morning screening
10:00 | Breath Work, Nina Sarnelle
2025 · colour · USA · En · 63’ · World premiere · In competition
An experimental opera exploring breath as resistance. Shot between oil refineries and one of the largest ports in the world, Breath Work was created by 13 untrained community members (ages 11–65) subject to the environmental racism of Long Beach, CA.
11:15 | Breath Held in the Breeze, Tao Hui
2023 · colour · CN · Cn/en · 4’ · European premiere · In competition
Two women from different eras and cultures, connected by the gentle presence of a breeze, share their innermost feelings about love: one through the ancient folk songs of an Intangible Cultural Heritage bearer, the other via an AI recreation of a celebrated writer’s soliloquy—revealing how, across time and space, their voices and stories intertwine.
11:20 | Break
11:40 | Insert Song, Kamil Dossar
2023 · colour · DK · En · 11’ · Swiss premiere · In competition
A stage unfolds and a love song is sung, displaced from its owner. Insert Song is a video essay meditating on music and semiotics in relation to love, and how love declarations are falling victim to the image.
12:30 | OPERA OMNIA, Valentin Noujaïm
2025 · colour · FR · En, Fr · 12’ · World premiere · In competition
The nocturnal epic of two young boys through the abandoned industrial spaces of Manchester, where forgotten souls come back to life.
12:15 | Talk with Valentin Noujaïm and Roísín Tapponi
Afternoon screening
15:00 | Introduction by Leonardo Bigazzi
15:05 | Knit’s Island, Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc’h
2023 · colour · FR · En, Fr/en · 94’
In the guise of avatars, a film crew enters an online video game. They come into contact with a community of players and meet their stories, fears, and aspirations.
16:40 | Break
15:45 | The Mechanics of Fluids, Gala Hernández López
2022 · colour · FR · Fr/en · 38’ · Swiss premiere
In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled “America is responsible for my death.” The Mechanics of Fluids is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift on the internet in search of his digital traces that ends up being an inner journey between two connected solitudes.
17:40 | Talk with Leonardo Bigazzi
Evening screenings
20:00 | With history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, Korakrit Arunanondchai
2017 · colour · BE · Nl/en · 25’
20:30 | Break
20:45 | Talk with Laura Sellies and the Artistic Director Stefano Rabolli Pansera
21:15 | Elia, Laura Sellies
2023 · colour · FR · Fr, En/en · 30’ · World premiere · In competition
Elia is a cellist. Severe tinnitus prevents her from playing. As she searches for its origin, new sounds begin to appear within her and around her.
21:45 | Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims, Arjuna Neuman, Denise Ferreira da Silva
2023 · colour · DE, AT · En, Es/en · 49’ · In competition
A speculative and poetic exploration of entanglements, the film, told from the perspective of the wind, takes us on a visual journey, exploring the many sites and histories of the Atacama desert.