Day 8 - Friday, June 13

At 7 p.m., at BIOGRAFILM HERA THEATRE | Pop Up Cinema Arlecchino, Enrico Baraldi's Dear Audience (73', 2025), a Bolognese story that intercepts international geopolitics. Yulia and Natalia are two actresses from Kyiv who have fled the war. Since their arrival in Bologna they have been busy trying to rebuild their lives. News breaks: theaters in Ukraine, which were closed due to the conflict, are reopening. So they decide to embark on a return journey to question their future. The director and protagonists Natalia Mykhalchuk and Yulia Mykhalchuk will be present.

In the same cinema, at 9:30 p.m., we find Sorry, Baby (103', 2025) by Eva Victor. The film, produced by Oscar-winning director Berry Jenkins and presented at the Sundance Film Festival, has been acclaimed by international critics for its ability to deal with difficult themes with delicacy and irony. Something terrible has happened to Agnes. But life goes on-perhaps for everyone but her. In this poignant debut, Eva Victor, director and lead actress, tells the story of a young woman trying to put the pieces back together after a trauma.

Another local story is told by Comrades (61', 2024), by Joanna Janikowska, scheduled for 9:30 p.m. at the Chiostro del Complesso di Santa Cristina “della Fondazza”. The time-lapse documentary is the story of three young communists in Bologna who join the party to fight capitalism and make sense of their lives. But amid demonstrations and struggles, generational clashes and personal crises, the dream begins to crumble. The director and leads Simone Gimona, Olivia del Bravo and Francesca Sparacino will be present.

At 9:15 p.m., Ewa - The Last Lesson (66', 2025) by Andrea Mura and Federico Savonitto will be presented at Cinema Lumière in Sala Scorsese. Ewa Benesz leaves Italy after decades of theatrical research to return to Lublin, Poland, the city she fled from in the 1980s. Her workshops come to an end, and with them a practice that can only be transmitted live, person to person, risks disappearing. Her life of art and sacrifice comes to a turning point. The filmmakers and protagonist Ewa Benesz will be present.

At 9:30 p.m., at Cinema Lumière in Sala Mastroianni we find another contemporary story with Democracy in America (91', 2025) by Giovanni Troilo. In the presence of the director, to whom Biografilm had dedicated the Vivi Biografilm section with Giovanni Troilo in the 2024 edition, the story of Marlena Cooper, the first black Democratic candidate in Gregg County, a Republican stronghold in East Texas, will be presented. The film follows her campaign and touches on issues such as racism, abortion, guns and, linking back to Alexis De Toqueville's Democracy in America, the pivotal role of religion.

At 6:45 p.m. again at Cinema Lumière in Sala Scorsese The Father, The Sons and The Holy Spirit (97', 2025) by Christian Sønderby Jepsen. A quirky, off-kilter story of two Danish brothers, Henrik and Christian, who become embroiled in a feud to secure the inheritance of their wealthy deceased grandfather. An epic and dynamic tale shot over 14 years; a film that reflects on power, money, generational conflicts and the relentless search for one's place in the world.

At 7 p.m. at Cinema Lumière in Sala Mastroianni, Radio Solaire - Radio Diffusion Rurale (70', 2025); yet another Bolognese story at the center of Federico Bacci and Francesco Eppesteingher's documentary. “Giving a voice to the voiceless”: this was the revolution of Giorgio Lolli, a former worker and trade unionist from Bologna, a self-taught technician of free radio. In the 40 years he has lived in Africa, he has built more than 500 radio stations from Togo to Mali, from Senegal to Burkina Faso: with his company Solaire, he is the first to install FM radios, using low-power and affordable transmitters, giving voice even to communities in the most isolated areas. In attendance will be the filmmakers, the main character Abdrahmane Cissoko, a student and collaborator of Lolli, and Andrea Borgnino, journalist and head of RaiPlaySound.

The penultimate Biograbook event will also be held on Friday 13. Biografilm's literary salon features author Alae Al Said presenting Il ragazzo con la kefiah arancione (Ponte alle Grazie). A story of resistance that spans the decades in a war-torn land. Biograbook is Biografilm's literary salon in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini, curated in collaboration with Marco Nardini of Otago Literary Agency.