The 32nd Film Festival della Lessinia runs from 21 to 30 AugustAugust 17, 2026

The 32nd Film Festival della Lessinia runs from 21 to 30 August

The 32nd Film Festival della Lessinia runs from 21 to 30 August

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The thirty-second edition of the Film Festival della Lessinia will take place in Bosco Chiesanuova (VR) from 21 to 30 August 2026 and will present 83 films from more than 43 countries, including 27 Italian premieres.

Book presentations, workshops, excursions, exhibitions, concerts, performances and food and wine events: there will be 107 cultural events over the ten days of the Festival in Bosco Chiesanuova.

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INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION


ANDARIEGA / NOMAD SPIRIT / SPIRITO NOMADE
Raúl Soto Rodríguez / 95’ / Colombia / 2025
 
CHUN RI HAUN YOU / WHISPERS IN MAY / SUSSURRI DI MAGGIO
Dongnan Chen / 96’ / Hong Kong, South Korea, Netherlands / 2026
 
GOODBYE SISTERS / ARRIVEDERCI, SORELLE
Alexander Murphy / 90’ / France, Nepal / 2025
 
GÜNYÜZÜ / HEAR THE YELLOW / ASCOLTA IL GIALLO
Banu Sivaci / 105’ / Turkey / 2026
 
IL RAGAZZO DELLA DRINA / THE BOY FROM THE RIVER DRINA
Zijad Ibrahimovic / 73’ / Switzerland / 2025
 
LA VOIX DU TROUPEAU / THE ECHO OF THE HERD / LA VOCE DEL GREGGE
Matthias Joulaud, Lucien Roux / 79’ / France, Switzerland / 2026
 
NOUS SOMMES LES FRUITS DE LA FORÊT / WE ARE THE FRUITS OF THE FOREST / NOI SIAMO I FRUTTI DELLA FORESTA
Rithy Panh / 87’ / Cambodia, France / 2025
 
ONE WOMAN, ONE BRA / UNA DONNA, UN REGGISENO
Vincho Nchogu / 80’ / Kenya, Nigeria / 2025
 
RADĚJI ZEŠÍLET V DIVOČINĚ/ BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD / MEGLIO IMPAZZIRE NELLA NATURA SELVAGGIA
Miro Remo / 83’ / Czech Republic, Slovakia / 2025
 
SINIRSIZ HAYATLAR / LIFE BEYOND BORDERS / VITE ILLIMITATE
Haydar Demirtaş / 62’ / Turkey / 2026
 
SI VAS PARA CHILE / UNWELCOMED / SE VAI IN CILE
Sebastián González Méndez, Amílcar Infante / 70’ / Chile, Spain / 2025
 
ZEMESTAN E TOOLANI / THE LONG WINTER / IL LUNGO INVERNO
Hassan Jafari / 43’ / Iran / 2024
 
ZWEITLAND / A LAND WITHIN / SECONDA PATRIA
Michael Kofler / 112’ / Austria, Germany, Italy / 2025

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION


CHUURAA
Evgenia Arbugaeva / 18’ / United Kingdom / 2026
 
DI NOTTE / AT NIGHT
Anouk Chambaz / 8’ / Italy, Switzerland / 2025
 
FAČUK
Maida Srabović / 13’ / Croatia, Slovenia / 2025
 
INHERITED SILENCE / SILENZIO EREDITATO
Mariam Khatchvani / 15’ / Georgia / 2025
 
L’MINA
Randa Maroufi / 26’ / Morocco, France, Italy, Qatar / 2025
 
SHULKA
Raquel María Soaje, María Cecilia Casanova / 16’ / Argentina / 2026
 
TALES OF MINHO / RACCONTI DEL MINHO
Radek Ševčík, Petr Chromčák / 28’ / Portugal / 2025
 
TURISTI / TOURISTS
Mária Kralovič / 16’ / Czech Republic, France, Slovakia / 2026
 
VENCEJOS / APUS APUS / RONDONI
Manu Arzá, Álvar Alonso / 29’ / Spain / 2025
 

ITALIAN MOUNTAINS 


I CAMOSCI DEL GRAPPA – UNA STORIA DI ADATTAMENTO E RESILIENZA / THE CHAMOIS OF GRAPPA – A STORY OF ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE
Ivan Mazzon, Bruno Boz / 27’ / Italy / 2025
 
IL GRECO DI CALABRIA – LA LINGUA CHE LOTTA PER SOPRAVVIVERE AL TEMPO / CALABRIAN GREEK – ECHOES OF AN ANCIENT LANGUAGE
Lydia Gasparini / 29’ / Italy / 2025
 
IL PRIMO SUONO / THE FIRST SOUND
Andrea Mura / 19’ / Italy / 2026
 
IL TEMPO DELLA MONTAGNA. ARCHITETTURA ALPINA IN DIECI STORIE / MOUNTAIN TIME. ALPINE ARCHITECTURE IN TEN STORIES
Francesca Molteni, Davide Fois / 54’ / Italy / 2026
 
MEMORY IS AN ANIMAL, IT BARKS WITH MANY MOUTHS / LA MEMORIA È UN ANIMALE, ABBAIA CON MOLTE BOCCHE
Eva Giolo / 24’ / Belgium, Italy / 2025
 
PER SILENZIO E VENTO / THROUGH SILENCE AND WIND
Marco Zuin / 80’ / Italy / 2026
 
PESTIFERUS LUPUS / PESTIFEROUS WOLF
Luca Jankovic, Ludovico Serra / 54’ / Italy / 2025
 
QUELLO CHE RESTA / WHAT REMAINS
Marco D’Agostini / 50’ / Italy / 2026
 
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BELA KOPRENA / WHITE VEIL / VELO BIANCO
Žiga Ciber / 10’ / Ireland, Slovenia / 2025
 
BIIR GARDI / GUARDIAN OF THE WELL / IL GUARDIANO DEL POZZO
Bentley Brown, Tahir Ben Mahamat Zene / 6’ / Chad, USA / 2025
 
COEXISTENCIA, SUR LES TRACES DES PUMAS / COEXISTENCE: ON THE TRAIL OF THE PUMA / COESISTENZA, SULLE TRACCE DEI PUMA
Thomas Julienne / 59’ / France / 2025
 
FROST UTEN SNØ OG IS / FROST WITHOUT SNOW AND ICE / GELO SENZA NEVE E GHIACCIO
Asgeir Helgestad / 94’ / Norway / 2026
 
LA LEGGEREZZA SOMMERSA / THE SUBMERGED LIGHTNESS
Fulvio Mariani / 90’ / Switzerland / 2025
 
ANGUANE, LE VOCI DELL’ACQUA / ANGUANE, SONGLINES OF WATER
Giovanni Pellegrini / 71’ / Italy / 2026
 
PINGVIIN / PENGUIN / PINGUINO
Kaspar Jancis / 14’ / Estonia, France / 2026
 

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AMÉRICA
Javier Arias-Stella / 15’ / Peru / 2025
 
EIN NEUES ZUHAUSE FÜR FAMILIE ZIEGE / A NEW HOME FOR THE GOAT FAMILY / UNA NUOVA CASA PER LA FAMIGLIA DI CAPRETTE
Maria Steinmetz / 8’ / Germany / 2025
 
BOOKS ARE MADE OF TREES / I LIBRI SONO FATTI DI ALBERI
Julianna Jakubowska / 6’ / Denmark / 2025
 
CIAO SAMANTHA!
Lily-Rose Bonesso / 5’ / Belgium / 2026
 
DER HÄNGENDE STEIN / THE HANGING STONE / LA PIETRA SOSPESA
Ivetta Urozhaeva / 2’ / Germany, Russia / 2026
 
DESI OON / THE WOOL / LA LANA
Suresh Eriyat / 7’ / India / 2025
 
EX-TRACT
Marcel Barelli / 3’ / Switzerland / 2025
 
FIRST FLIGHT / PRIMO VOLO
Adrián Jaffé / 3’ / Germany / 2025
 
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS À DRAGONVILLE / ONCE UPON A TIME IN DRAGONVILLE / C’ERA UNA VOLTA A DRAGONVILLE
Marika Herz / 9’ / France, Switzerland / 2024
 
JAGGU AUR MAGAHARI / JAGGU AND MAGAHARI / JAGGU E MAGAHARI
Sudeep Sohni / 25’ / India / 2025
 
L’AIGLE ET LE ROITELET / THE EAGLE AND THE KINGLET / L’AQUILA E LO SCRICCIOLO
Paul Jadoul / 6’ / France, Belgium / 2024
 
LÁNGBOGÁR A ZSEBEMBEN / FIRE IN MY POCKET / IL FUOCO IN TASCA
Janka Feiner / 10’ / Hungary / 2026
 
LE PETIT ET LE GÉANT / THE LITTLE ONE AND THE GIANT / IL PICCOLETTO E IL GIGANTE
Isabela Costa / 9’ / France, Brazil / 2025
 
MOLE, MOLE! / LA TALPA E LA BAMBINA
Rui-Rung Su / 9’ / Taiwan / 2024
 
MOM / MAMMA
Camille de Vulpillieres / 13’ / Belgium / 2025
 
NACHTSCHWÄRMER / BATS & BUGS / INSETTI E PIPISTRELLI
Lena von Döhren / 11’ / Switzerland / 2026
 
O LÝKOŽROUTCE / WRITING HOME / UNA LETTERA VERSO CASA                 
Eva Matejovičová / 12’ / Czech Republic, Slovakia / 2024
 
PICCOLO PICCOLO
Marta Gennari / 9’ / France, Switzerland / 2025
 
PRESQU’ÎLES / PENINSULA / PENISOLE
Angèle Vergoni, Sarah Vanhoeck / 6’ / Belgium / 2025
 
TANZPARTNER / DANCE PARTNER / COMPAGNO DI BALLO
Elena Walf / 4’ / Germany / 2024
 
TAWNY OWL / ALLOCCO
Anastasiia Zhakulina / 8’ / Russia / 2025
 
THE LAST RANGER / L’ULTIMA RANGER
Cindy Lee / 28’ / USA, South Africa / 2024
 
THE SKY WAS CANDY / CIELO DI CARAMELLA
Anh Tú Nguyen / 3’ / Germany / 2025
 
TROUVÉ / FOUND! / TROVATA!
Juliette Baily / 5’ / France, Belgium / 2025
 
SHABLOVSKY TARANTASS / IL CALESSE DI SHABLOVSKY
Natalia Kharina, Oleg Veselov / 11’ / Russia / 2026
 
SPÎ / WHITE / WHITE
Navroz Shaban / 12’ / Iraq / 2026
 
SVĚT, VE KTERÉM ŽIJU / WORLD I LIVE IN / IL MONDO IN CUI VIVO
Ester Kasalová / 8’ / Czech Republic / 2024
 
VOLLES NEST / FULL NEST / NIDO PIENO
Elena Walf / 5’ / Germany / 2025
 

RETROSPECTIVE


ARBËRIA
Francesca Olivieri / 80’ / Italy / 2019
 
LE MERAVIGLIE / THE WONDERS
Alice Rohrwacher / 110’ / Italy, Switzerland, Germany / 2014
 
PICCOLO CORPO / SMALL BODY
Laura Samani / 89’ / Italy, France, Slovenia / 2021
 
VERMIGLIO / VERMIGLIO – THE MOUNTAIN BRIDE
Maura Delpero / 120’ / Italy, France, Belgium / 2024
 

SPECIAL EVENTS


DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX / OF GODS AND MEN / UOMINI DI DIO
Xavier Beauvois / 122’ / France / 2010
 
I CIMBRI / THE CIMBRI
Peter Schreiner / 116’ / Austria / 1991
 
LE FARFALLE DELLA GIUDECCA / THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE GIUDECCA
Rosa L. Galantino, Luigi G. Ceccarelli / 75’ / Italy / 2025
 
L’ITALIA DEI DIALETTI / ITALY OF DIALECTS
Virgilio Sabel / Italy / 1969
 

SPECIAL SCREENINGS


A SCUOLA DI MEMORIE / AT THE SCHOOL OF MEMORIES
Michele Sammarco with the middle school of Badia Calavena / 29’ / Italy / 2026
 
COME TUTTE LE MATTINE / LIKE EVERY MORNING
Piero Facci with the middle school of Bosco Chiesanuova / 7’ / Italy / 2026
 
CUORI CARCASSE ACCECANTI OSCURI DI SANGUE E PIETRA / HEARTS CARCASSES BLINDING DARK OF BLOOD AND STONE
Anna Forti / 17’ / Italy / 2026
 
DE ECHO LYMPHAE
Marcela Roset, Mattia Forni / 10’ / Italy / 2026
 
FILÒ
Solenn Le Marchand, Silvia Dal Piva with the primary school of Selva di Progno / 3’ / Italy / 2026

I RACCONTI DI SUPERNONNA / SUPERNONNA’S STORIES
Solenn Le Marchand, Silvia Dal Piva with the primary school of San Mauro di Saline / 3’ / Italy / 2026

LETTERA A REMIGIO / LETTER TO REMIGIO
Piero Facci with the middle school of Tregnago / 14’ / Italy / 2026
 
LINGUE DI RESISTENZA / LANGUAGES OF RESISTANCE
Beatrice Conte, Marina Pagano / 10’ / Italy / 2026
 
NOI SIAMO IL FUTURO / WE ARE THE FUTURE
Michele Sammarco with the middle school of Roveré Veronese / 19’ / Italy / 2026

SOLCHI / FURROWS
Zerinthia Zaffira Zorzi / 6’ / Italy / 2026

TICKETS AND PASSES


TICKETS FOR TEATRO VITTORIA
PASSES FOR TEATRO VITTORIA
TICKETS AND PASSES FOR THE MYMOVIES VIRTUAL CINEMA

Information Office (Museo Luxino – Bosco Chiesanuova)
From 1 to 19 August 2026
9:30 am – 12:30 pm (closed on Mondays)

Teatro Vittoria box office (Bosco Chiesanuova)
From 20 to 30 August 2026
9:30 am – 12:30 pm / 2:30 pm – 11:00 pm

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