A Celebration of Life Stories in Bologna
Biografilm 2025
From 6 to 16 June, Bologna hosts the 21st Biografilm Festival. This year's edition features over 20 Italian documentaries, highlighting the resilience of national cinema amid funding challenges. The festival's industry section, Bio to B – Industry Days, returns on 7–9 June, spotlighting European documentary projects with a focus on gender balance and eco-conscious production.
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Biografilm 2025 showcases Europe’s documentary future and Emilia-Romagna’s creative strength
Films
Flophouse America
Director: Monica Strømdahl
Inside one motel room an intimate portrait of American poverty unfolds.
Letters From Wolf Street
Director: Arjun Talwar
When immigrants are the scapegoats for all of Europe's ills and the far right is resurgent, Arjun Talwar's poetic glimpse into the experience of life as a foreigner in Poland is a potent antidote to hatred.
Mr Nobody Against Putin
Director: David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin
How a small-town teaching assistant became an unlikely whistleblower on the grim reality of wartime propaganda.
The Guest
Director: Zvika Gregory Portnoy, Zuzanna Solakiewicz
The frontier between Belarus and Poland is a death camp.
The Mountain Won’t Move
Director: Petra Seliškar
The poetic rhythms of shepherding life in North Macedonia amidst breathtaking mountain landscapes and modern encroachments.
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