The festival will open on Thursday 23 November with the screening, in its world premiere in Naples, of “Il Cerchio” by Sophie Chiarello, a film that won the David di Donatello 2023 for Best Documentary, and a special mention from the jury for Alice nella Città at the 2022 Rome Film Festival: the documentary follows a group of children from first to fifth grade, exploring their world and their emotions through circle time in a classroom. Next up is the film “Dalva” by Emmanuelle Nicot, which won two awards at the Critics’ Week at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, best performance for Zelda Simpson and the Fipresci Award: a courageous first work in which the protagonist’s maturation process is overturned, in the protagonist’s search for the lightheartedness of being a child.

On November 24th it will be the turn of Veronique Jardine and her “L’employée du moi”, a scathing and impetuous Belgian comedy starring a cleaner, presented at the Tribeca Festival. The evening will close at 7:30 pm with the screening of “Six Weeks” by Hungarian Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, her debut feature film, a nuanced and non-judgmental portrait of a young woman who gives up her child for adoption.

Saturday afternoon will be dedicated to the very young documentary filmmaker Chiara Rigione who passed away this year with her two works “Domani, chissà, forse” and “Orfani del sonno”, while the evening will be the turn of German cinema with the film presented this year in Venice at the International Critics’ Week “Life is not a competition, but I’m winning” by Julia Fuhr Mann, which investigates the rules linked to gender in the world of competitive sport. “The festival has carried with it since its birth the concept of Europe, an ancient territory that regenerates itself in the connection between peoples and cultures. In this third edition – explains the artistic director Elisa Flaminia Inno – we have given a privileged space to questions of gender identity and to themes such as trauma, motherhood and sport”.