Day 2 - Saturday, June 7

It starts at 4 p.m. with De la guerre froide à la guerre verte (Green Is the New Red) at Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese, in the presence of director Anna Recalde Miranda and producer Ilaria Malagutti, who take us on a revealing journey into the dark heart of Latin America. The screening is in collaboration with Hot Corn, Asociacion Hispania and Biblioteca Cabral.

Screened at the same time, at 4 p.m., is the documentary Zlatan's Nose by Nils Toftenow, Mathias Rosberg and Olle Toftenow, who take us on a true-crime documentary experience of the robbery of the nose of footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic's statue at BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE | Pop Up Cinema Arlecchino.

At 4.30 p.m., at Cinema Lumière - Sala Mastroianni, Life After by Reid Davenport reveals the intricate web of moral dilemmas and economic interests surrounding assisted suicide. The screening is in collaboration with Disability Pride Bologna.

At 6.30 p.m., the documentary Dear Tomorrow by Kaspar Astrup Schröder, at the BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE | Pop Up Cinema Arlecchino, on the loneliness of people in Tokyo despite the fact that 38 million people live there.

At 6.45 p.m., at Cinema Lumière - Sala Mastroianni, Il castello indistruttibile in the presence of directors Danny Biancardi, Stefano La Rosa and Virginia Nardelli. The story of Angelo, Mery and Rosy, three 11-year-olds living in Danisinni, an isolated neighbourhood in Palermo, is a work forbidden to minors under the age of 14. The screening is in the original version with Italian and English subtitles and is part of the TEEN screenings, free of charge for people aged between 14 and 17.

At 7.15 p.m., at the Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese, we continue with the world premiere of Anomaly Detection by Giulia Ballone about the story of Maurizio Pierini, a physicist researcher at CERN in Geneva. Producers Matteo Benedetti and Simona Centi will be present.

The evening continues at 8 p.m. at Cinema Modernissimo with The End in the presence of director Joshua Oppenheimer, lead actor George McKay, producers Signe Byrge Sørensen, Flaminio Zadra and Tom Quinn, and Andrea Romeo of I Wonder Pictures. Joshua Oppenheimer's fiction film debut is set in a post-apocalyptic future, after environmental collapse has rendered the Earth uninhabitable. Mother (Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton), Father (Michael Shannon) and Son (George MacKay) are confined to a gilded bunker and struggle to maintain a sense of normality, until the arrival of a stranger disrupts their routine and brings a new possibility of authenticity. 

At 9 p.m., at the BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE | Pop Up Cinema Arlecchino, the documentary Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story by Sinéad O'Shea. Screening in collaboration with Settore Biblioteche e Welfare culturale del Comune di Bologna, Orlando Aps - Biblioteca delle donne and Lo Spazio Letterario.

At 9.15 p.m., at Cinema Lumière - Sala Mastroianni, Che verso fa il pesce spada? in the presence of director Giacomo Triglia.

At 9.30 p.m., at the Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese, Home Game in the presence of director Lidija Zelovic. The screening is in the original version with subtitles in Italian and English and is part of the TEEN screenings, free for people aged between 14 and 17. In addition, an introduction and Q&A by Rivista del Cinematografo will take place.

The day of screenings will conclude at 9.30 p.m. at the Cloister of the Complesso di Santa Cristina ‘della Fondazza’, Latina, Latina in the presence of director Adrian Duncan. The docu-fiction is a journey of discovery of the buildings of the Fascist era and reflects on the legacy that remains, between reality and fiction.

Saturday 7 June is not just about screenings: the 12th edition of Bio to B - Industry Days | Doc also begins. This year in a new and prestigious location, the Cinema Modernissimo, in the heart of Bologna. Two days dedicated to European documentary production and culture, with educational appointments, international meetings and new creative perspectives. In addition to the now consolidated Pitching Forum with 20 projects in development, the programme is enriched this year with innovative formats, such as Development Room, dedicated to documentaries still in an embryonic state, and Green Frames - Festival Sustainability Think Tank, aimed at reflecting on the ecological, social and economic impact of cultural events.

Also new this year is Biograbook. From 7 to 14 June, in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini, the cycle of seven meetings organised in collaboration with Marco Nardini of Otago Literary Agency, to present as many new publications. A true open-air cultural salon: a place for discussion, exchange and reflection, where the story of lives is interwoven between the pages of a book as well as between the images of a film. Because, in every form, Biografilm is and remains a celebration of the telling of lives.