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The Great War

In 2014 we will have the centenary of the First World War. During the Great War, Friuli Venezia Giulia was the scene of battles between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies that fought each for many months. The Isonzo and the Trieste Karst, the Julian Alps and the Pre-Alps, the Carnic Alps and the hills along…

Outside Day

Trieste, a city which is a bridge between Western Europe, South-Central and Eastern Europe, which blends the Mediterranean and Central European characters. The ideal stage to tell a variety of stories. The directors who come here for the first time are fascinated; those who already worked here, return. For large international productions it is the…

Commissioner Laurenti

Trieste, a place where literature permeates every corner of the city. Here, writers such as Italo Svevo, James Joyce, Umberto Saba, Virgilio Giotti, Scipio Slataper, Bobi (Roberto) Bazlen, Giani Stuparich, Carlo Stuparich, Silvio Benco lived and worked, attended the literary cafés and left their mark. Writers who breathed the atmosphere of multicultural Trieste (nineteenth-twentieth century), and…

Gli Ultimi

The film deals with the hard life of the peasant families in the Friuli in the 1930s, through the eyes of Checo, a young shepherd boy who is constantly mocked by his classmates who nickname him ‘scarecrow’, because of his appearance. An isolated, poor and depressed land, Friuli views its condition as a value, not…

A kiss

Based on the novel of the director Ivan Cotroneo, it tells the story of Lorenzo, Antonio and Blu. A film about adolescence, about first times, the pursuit of happiness, bullying and homophobia. On social mores and habits that prevent, especially the youngsters, from being happy. The director films between Udine, Cividale and Palmanova. The locations…