Sections

International Competition

Biografilm’s International Competition embodies the festival’s global core: a borderless look at the complexities of the present. Through extraordinary documentaries and films from around the world, the section explores the intersection between individual destinies and major collective challenges. These are films capable of transcending geographical and cultural barriers, confronting us with the other and offering new perspectives. An emotional cinematic journey to rediscover what makes us human.

Biografilm Italia

The very best of Italian productions and filmmakers from the past two years. Extraordinary stories that embrace and transcend borders, offering moving portraits, distinctive languages, and landscapes of both the soul and the present. All films in the Biografilm Italia section include subtitles for Deaf people provided by FIADDA Emilia-Romagna, and are marked in the program grid with the [CC] symbol.

Contemporary Lives

The section that reflects plurality through the most contemporary and universal themes presents twelve stories of urgency and transformation this year. Investigations into reality, twelve collective stories that help us understand and discover, listen and observe, between slowed heartbeats and magnifying lenses. The films in this section compete for the Manifesto Award, presented to the best film with social impact.

Biografilm Art & Music

The love and care expressed through art and culture are essential, profoundly central to a healthy society. For this reason, we invite you to embark on a journey through unique and unforgettable biographies: into music, cinema, theatre and architecture, literature and photography — ten stories that allow us to discover more about our history and our world.

Omaggio a Bonnie Timmermann

A visionary and tireless talent scout — from Kate Winslet to Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson — Bonnie Timmermann has consistently brought together the perfect cast, helping make films such as Trading Places and Carlito’s Way immortal. In the year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduces the Oscar for Best Casting, Biografilm pays tribute to the world’s most renowned casting director: a woman who has left an indelible mark on the history of cinema.

Omaggio a Kaouther Ben Hania

Kaouther Ben Hania’s cinema shakes consciences and asserts a mission of resistance and commitment through a gaze that masterfully merges ethics and aesthetics. Through works that question memory and the responsibility of seeing, Biografilm pays tribute to a unique and courageous filmmaker, an essential voice within the contemporary international cinematic landscape.

Special Events

Thirteen special screenings celebrating both past and present, passionately and devotedly connecting many souls that pass through this festival and help shape it.

Sguardi in Camera

Telling the story of Italy through fragments of life captured by amateur cameras can only become the most authentic, personal, and wonderfully collective self-portrait of History. A complex country, a unique and magical journey that Biografilm is proud to present in five episodes, the last two of which premiere as world premieres.