Day 6 - Wednesday, June 11

It begins at 7 p.m. at Cinema Lumière Sala Mastroianni with Mireille e Antonio. À bout de petit souffle (53', 2025) by Flaminia Cardini and Simone Pierini. In the documentary Mireille Delmas-Marty, a visionary French jurist, and Antonio Benincà, an Italian artist full of passion, join forces and create a compass of possibilities to orient us in the chaos of the world. A deep friendship is born between them, nurtured by their shared love of freedom. The screening, in collaboration with Alliance Française, will be attended by the filmmakers.

Also at 7 p.m., at BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE | Pop Up Cinema Arlecchino, Aïcha (Una sconosciuta a Tunisi) (123', 2024), by Mehdi Barsaoui, will be screened. Aya, almost 30, survives a car accident, everyone thinks she is dead, she escapes to Tunis and starts a new life, finally free and invisible. But when she witnesses police abuse, she risks being caught. A Pirandellian story of escape, courage and rebirth. A race to freedom in a world that does not forgive error, distributed in Italy by I Wonder Pictures.

Again at Cinema Lumière, at 9:15 p.m., The Last Ambassador (79', 2025) by Natalie Halla. “Peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice.” This is the motto of Manizha Bakhtari, Afghan ambassador to Vienna who, following the Taliban takeover, finds herself representing a country without an internationally recognized government
internationally. Despite her financial and logistical isolation, Bakhtari defies the regime and continues to fight for the rights of Afghan women and girls. The director will be present at the screening, in collaboration with Orlando Aps - Women's Library.

At 9:15 p.m., in collaboration with Biografilm, the TopDoc event at the Pop Up Cinema Jolly, dedicated to great international documentaries, takes us into the future with 2073 - Last Call (85', 2024) by Asif Kapadia, Oscar-winning director for the documentary Amy about the life of Amy Winehouse, who will be in the audience. The science fiction documentary is a disturbing vision of the future set in a dystopian New San Francisco in the year 2073. The world is controlled by ultraliberals, dictators and technogeeks. Through a mixture of archival footage and narrative fiction that straddles genres, Asif Kapadia reminds us of the terrifying dangers that lie ahead: the decline of democracy, the rise of neo-fascism, climate disaster, and the spread of surveillance systems. This is not science fiction. It is the world we live in.

Also on Wednesday's schedule are Nikoline Skotte's Fantastic Family (83', 2025) at Cinema Lumière in Sala Scorsese at 6:45 p.m. (screening in collaboration with Casa delle donne per non subire violenza), Joanna Ratajczak's Trust Me (89', 2024) at Cinema Lumière in Sala Mastroianni at 9 p.m., Karin Junger's Free Space  (66', 2024) at BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE | Pop Up Cinema Arlecchino at 9:30 p.m., also at 9:30 p.m., at the  Chiostro del Complesso di Santa Cristina “della Fondazza”, Petra Seliškar's The Mountain Won't Move (91, 2025), to be preceded by wine tasting and talk by FIVI.