Day 4 - Monday, June 9

At 9 p.m. will be screened at BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE | Pop Up Cinema Arlecchino Kontinental '25 (109', 2025) by Radu Jude. Idiosyncratic, irreverent, the brilliant Romanian director of Don't Expect Too Much from the End of the World will receive the Celebration of Lives Award 2025, the prize Biografilm reserves each year for storytellers whose works and lives have left a profound mark on the contemporary. The film is the story set in Romania of a homeless man who commits suicide after being kicked out of his shelter and that of Orsolya, the officer in charge who tries to assuage her own guilt. Between drama and surreal irony, it tackles complex issues such as the housing crisis, the post-socialist economy, nationalism and the role of language in defining social hierarchies.

At 6:30 p.m. another example of political cinema with Critical Zone (Buonanotte a Teheran) (99', 2023) by Ali Ahmadzadeh, also at BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE | Pop Up Cinema Arelcchino, with the director present. Winner of the Golden Leopard at the 76th Locarno Film Festival, Ali Ahmadzadeh's feature film is a real-time chronicle, shot in “clandestine” mode without permission from the authorities, showing a hidden humanity and the signs of an uprising ready to break out. We see a drug dealer wandering the streets of Tehran at night and providing relief to the lost, with whom he shares darkness, suffering and a spirit of rebellion that becomes collective.

With Livio Garzanti. Il gran viziato. La morale nascosta di un editore formidabile (74', 2024) by Giacomo Gatti, scheduled at 9:30 p.m. at the Chiostro del Complesso di Santa Cristina “della Fondazza”, an evocative location of the festival, Biografilm proposes the biography of the publisher Livio Garzanti, a difficult and humoral man, a brilliant and highly cultured publisher. Toni Servillo recounts the two universes, the editorial and the private, that intersect in the choices and ideas of an intellectual who hated rhetoric and cultural snobbery, always preferring surprise, provocation, truth even if stinging. The director and Andrea Babbi, president of the Garzanti Foundation in Forlì, will be present.

Also on the program are Letters from Wolf Street (97', 2025) by Arjun Talwar at Cinema Lumière in Sala Mastroianni at 6:30 p.m. in the presence of the director and editor and co-writer Bigna Tomschin; Flophouse America (80', 2025) by Monica Strømdahl at Cinema Lumière in Sala Scorsese at 7:15 p.m.; A luci spente (72', 2025) by Mattia Epifani at Cinema Lumière in Sala Mastroianni at 9:15 pm in the presence of the director; Balomanía (93', 2024) by Sissel Morell Dargis at Cinema Lumière in Sala Scorsese at 9:30 p.m. in the presence of the director, screening in collaboration with Biblioteca Amílcar Cabral.