Screenings

1) Brutal Heat by Albert Hospodarsky (Brutální vedro, Czechia/Slovakia, 2023, 75’) ITALIAN PREMIERE

2) Divinity by Eddie Alcazar (US, 2023, 88')

3) Embryo Larva Butterfly by Kyros Papavassiliou (Cyprus/Greece 2023, 91’) ITALIAN PREMIERE

4) The Great Glitch by Søren Peter Langkjær Bojsen (Det store glitch/Paradisets børn, Denmark, 2023, 97’) ITALIAN PREMIERE

5) Immersion by Takashi Shimizu (Kikaijima, Japan, 2023, 109’) ITALIANA PREMIERE

6) Mami Wata by C.J. "Fiery" Obasi (Nigeria, 2023, 107’)

7) Nightsiren by Tereza Nvotová (Svetlonoc, Slovakia, 2022, 106’)

8) Polaris by Kirsten Carhew (Canada, 2022, 89’) ITALIAN PREMIERE 

9) Seeing What You See by Mátyás Szabó (Látom, amit látsz, Hungary, 2023, 103’) ITALIANA PREMIERE

10) Tobacco Farms by Rocio Mesa (Secaderos, Spain, 2022, 98’)

Curated by Riccardo Caccia and Rocco Moccagatta, professors of History of Cinema at IULM University.

This edition's retrospective aims at reasoning on the idea of remake in science fiction. We present the four variations of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a classic science fiction film of the Cold War era, revisited in the following decades by very different authors. What emerges is a catalogue of the evolution of fears and tensions in Western societies over the last half-century.

1) Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Don Siegel (US, 1956, 80')

2) Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Philip Kaufman (US, 1978, 115')

3) Body Snatchers by Abel Ferrara (US, 1993, 87')

4) The Invasion by Oliver Hirschbiegel (US, 2007, 99')

1) Accelerate or Die! (You Get the Dystopia You Deserve) by Mike Christie (UK, 2023, 61’ - documentary) INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

2) Wind Princess by Chris Tex (Brazil, 2023, 15’ – short inspired by Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki) EUROPEAN PREMIERE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – curated by Pietro Lafiandra
1) Another Life by Giovanni Abitante (Italy, 2023, 4’)
2) Cold Moon in Deep Water by Contaminazioni/Underdog (Italy, 2023, 5’)
3) Come pietre by Anacardi Produzioni/Garbo (Italy, 2023, 4’)
4) Heaven by Kai Tattersall (US, 2023, 18’)
5) Love Hurts by Gianluigi Perrone (China, 2023, 3’)
6) The Mass by Matt Mayle (US, 2023, 4’)
7) Of Youth by Francisco Gas (Spain, 2023, 5’)
8) Worms Ate My Flesh by Broad Oak (Germany, 2021, 5’)

MACHINIMA – curated by Riccardo Retez
1) Cheatimerism by Luca Miranda (Italy, 2020, 15')
2) Crowdsourcing by Benjamin Hall (UK, 2021, 7')
3) The Edge of the World by Natalie Maximova (Russia, 2023, 9')
4) NA-TE by Paolo Santagostino (Italy, 2021, 8')
5) Radicalization Pipeline by Theo Triantafyllidis (Greece, 2021, 15')
6) Solastalgia by Lena Wendisch (Germany, 2021, 13')

1) Aurora 2068 by Gustavo S.D. Brandão e Javier A. Contreras (Brazil, 2022, 14') ITALIAN PREMIERE

2) Doom by Rita Casdia (Italy, 2022, 3') ITALIAN PREMIERE

3) Electra by Daria Kashcheeva (Czechia/France/Slovakia, 2023, 27')

4) The End of Love by Yanwenjun Liu (China, 2023, 21') ITALIAN PREMIERE

5) Hamelin 77 by Javier Ideami (Spain, 2023, 17') ITALIAN PREMIERE

6) Heartbeat by Gvozden Ilić (Srce, Serbia/Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2023, 16') ITALIAN PREMIERE

7) Hooba by Sem Assink (Hoeba, Netherland, 2023, 2')

8) Infinity by John Araque e Frank Vera Gimenez (Spain, 2023, 5') ITALIAN PREMIERE

9) Innermost by Maing Caochong (Wu er, China, 2022, 15') ITALIAN PREMIERE

10) Iris by Francis Tamburin (UK, 2023, 14') ITALIAN PREMIERE

11) Jeanne Dinde by Pauline Ouvrard (France, 2023, 23') ITALIAN PREMIERE

12) A Kind of Testament by Stephen Vuillemin (France, 2023, 16')

13) Our Love Is Immortal by Ender Yildizhan (Aşkımız Ölümsüzdür, Turkey, 2023, 4') ITALIAN PREMIERE

14) Overclocking by Alexander Vikulov (Russia, 2023, 7') ITALIAN PREMIERE

15) Primordial Emesis by Tiziana Napoli e Chiara Covello (Emesi primordiale, Italy, 2023, 3')

16) Record. Play. Stop. by Neeraj Bhattacharjee (India, 2023, 7') ITALIAN PREMIERE

17) Roh by Ryan Ardyansyah (Indonesia, 2023, 10') ITALIAN PREMIERE

18) Skinny World by Huaxu Yang (Gu shi, China, 2023, 4') ITALIAN PREMIERE

19) Stump by Silva Kuusniemi (Kanto, Finland, 2023, 18') ITALIAN PREMIERE

20) Villain by Sparky Tehnsuko (UK, 2023, 10') ITALIAN PREMIERE

FULL FEATURES JURY

Cristina Resa: she was dedicated to the study of ancient stories and mythologies in her previous life, while today she is obsessed with contemporary ones. She works in the editorial field, writes about films, TV series and video games on IGN Italy and is one of the voices of Incompetenti Podcast. You can sometimes find her on the feminist newsletter Ghinea and around the web talking about representation, horror and chasing myths.

Simone Scafidi: he has directed seven feature films, including Gli arcangeli (2004), Eva Braun (2014), Zanetti Story (2015, co-directed with Carlo A. Sigon) - a film that reached number one at the Italian box office -, Fulci For Fake (2019) and Dario Argento Panico (2023). The latter two were presented in the official selection at the 76th and 80th Venice Film Festival respectively. He is the author of manuals and essays on cinema, he teaches filmmaking at the Civica Scuola di Cinema in Milan.

Antonio Serra: he met Michele Medda and Bepi Vigna in 1982. The three of them wrote some stories for Martin Mystère and then wrote scripts for the Detective of Impossibile and Dylan Dog. After working as a group on the Nathan Never project (1991), they devoted themselves separately to the scriptwriting of the individual stories. For many years he was the editorial editor of the titles linked to Special Agent Alfa. In 2001 he wrote the science-fiction Gregory Hunter and in 2009, with illustrator Gianmauro Cozzi, he created Greystorm. In 2019 he is executive producer of Odessa.

SHORT FEATURE JURY

Chiara Grizzaffi (coordinator of the jury): she was a research fellow at IULM University in Milan and currently teaches at the University of Bergamo. Her monograph I film attraverso i film. Dal "testo introvabile" ai video essay (lit. Films through films. From 'unobtainable text' to video essays) was published by Mimesis in 2017. Together with Rocco Moccagatta, he edited the volume Mino Guerrini. Storia e opere di un arcitaliano (2022). She is co-editor of [in]Transition and associate editor of Cinergie.

Together with students from the master's degree course in Television, Cinema and New Media at IULM University: Matteo Gamannossi, Edoardo Iervasi, Francesca Iervini, Alessandro Leone, Greta Maman, Cinzia Nava, Feliciana Rosa, Giulia Siciliano, Nicoletta Staltari Montalto.