Trieste Film Festival 2023

In a country where suicide is epidemic, the power of human connection becomes lifesaving.

An 18-year-old girl is killed in a bitter family feud in the Albanian highlands. Her christian father is pressured to break the vicious cycle of conflict.

A rebellious worker before retirement is committed to saving ITAS, the only collectively-owned factory left in Croatia.

Documentary filmmaker Jan Sikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in private film archives.

After her rawly authentic portrait of René (2008), Helena Třeštíková comes up with another testimony about the life of an incorrigible delinquent and a shrewd .

Portrait of a village on the Russian-Ukrainian border, where director Aleksey Lapin stages a casting call for a historical feature film set in his home town.

Elitza Gueorguieva films the making of the novel that her Belarusian alter-ego Aliona begins about her father, a maritime adventurer, who disappeared in 1995.

A road movie documentary through half-a-century of filmmaking by Želimir Žilnik.

A compilation documentary consisting of public access YouTube videos, in which ordinary Russian citizens address president Putin.

The film recounts the transition from heavy industry – which characterised production in the 19th and 20th centuries – to logistics managed by digital systems.