Trieste Film Festival
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Trieste Film Festival 2026 announces full list of winners
The 37th Trieste Film Festival has announced its full list of award winners following the closing ceremony on 24 January. In the main feature-film competition, the festival’s top prize, the Trieste Award for Best Feature Film, went to Fantasy by Slovenian director Kukla (Slovenia/North Macedonia, 2025). The jury cited the film’s blend of imagination and…
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Active Vocabulary
PROPAGANDA: A Russian teacher flees to Berlin after questioning the war. Her story exposes ritualised school propaganda, then throws an uncomfortable mirror at Western «neutrality» and the new glamour of military service.
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Outliving Shakespeare
AGEING: In a remote Armenian retirement home, the clocks are no longer standing still.
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«It’s not about building a slogan or a topic. It’s about building trust between the films.»
TRIESTE FF: The Trieste Film Festival is Italy’s key window onto Central and Eastern European cinema, and its 2026 documentary competition arrives as ten Italian premieres shaped by war, migration, labour, and the afterlives of institutions.
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Forget Me Not
MEMORY: Visual essays that probe memory and denial, arguing that oblivion may comfort the vulnerable but doesn’t avert violence.
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«Wild Roses» brings Slovenian women’s cinema to the 37th Trieste Film Festival
The Trieste Film Festival, Italy’s long-running showcase for cinema from Central and Eastern Europe, will return for its 37th edition from 16–24 January 2026, with film screenings, documentaries, shorts, masterclasses and talks across the city. This year’s «Wild Roses» programme, the festival’s annual focus on women filmmakers from the region, will spotlight Slovenian directors. Curated…
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Trieste announces opening/closing films for 2026 festival
The 37th Trieste Film Festival, billed by organizers as Italy’s leading showcase for Central and Eastern European cinema, will run from January 16–24, 2026, with a double opening led by new films from Agnieszka Holland and Kirill Serebrennikov, and a closing-night screening of Ildikó Enyedi’s latest feature. The festival will open on January 16 with…
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The Kartli Kingdom
GEORGIA: Three generations endure postwar exile in a fractured building above Tbilisi.
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In the Penal Colony
PRISON: Sardinia’s last penal colonies merge inmates, workers, animals, machines, and wind into a lyrical collective cry for freedom.