mare/Fri., 29 – Sat., 30 August 2025
Flux Kinooo Night
A long night by the Isarco River dedicated to films
Where Isarco banks, via Trento
Time 8pm–8am
Upcoming
On Friday, August 29th, Lungomare presents Flux Kinooo Night, curated by Emanuele Vernillo, Georg Zeller, and Daniel Mazza. Starting at 8 pm and lasting 12 hours, the Flux Kinooo Night offers a selection of films that, from Italy to Asia, passing through Latin landscapes, brings to Bolzano the landscapes, beauty, and social and political contexts connected to the rivers.
The opening guest will be the director Angelo Loy with his twenty-year project on the Tevere river, while at dawn, Karin Nagakawa will close the programme with an evocative koto concert accompanying the breakfast.
Unique environments from the U.F.O. project.
Starting at 8 pm, enjoy a welcome snack by Crumb Collective, who will be present all night with their culinary project Good Night Food. For your comfort, we recommend bringing a sleeping bag, pillows, flashlights, and extra supplies.
Discover the full programme below.
Program produced in collaboration with FAS – Film Association South Tyrol. Headphone listening is planned (service provided upon submission of an ID). The audience is invited to prepare for the night with sleeping bags, pillows, flashlights, and supplies. In case of rain, the event will be postponed to a date to be determined.
9 pm
Nel tempo di Cesare by Angelo Loy
(Italy, 90′)
Following the meeting with the author.
The documentary tells a gripping and emotionally rich story that unfolds along the Tiber River starting from 1999, following the lives of two families of eel fishermen who have lived and worked for generations on an urban stretch of the river near the Grande Raccordo Anulare, in the southern area of Rome. On one side are Cesare and Alfredo, known as the “Rosci,” two brothers who embody the tradition and pride of a family deeply connected to ancient river customs. On the other side are their long-time rivals, Nando and Franco, called the “Ciccioni,” who live with their elderly mother, Sor Irene, a central figure who serves as the emotional and moral heart of the family. However, everything changes with the arrival of Anwar, a young migrant from Bangladesh, who is able to open the ancient flow of the river to contact with new cultures.
11 pm (Short film series)
Ligne Noire by Francesca Scalisi and Mark Olexa
(Switzerland, 2017, 10’)
A woman fishing in turbid waters, a suffering nature, the broken chant of the muezzin, all linked by a thin black line.
Becoming Alluvium by Thao Nguyễn Phan
(Vietnam, 2019, 16’, original version / sub. ita/eng)
Becoming Alluvium is structured around three chapters telling stories of destruction, reincarnation and renewal, centred around the ebb and flow of the Mekong River, which runs through Tibet, China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Water / Bodies – Tigre Delta by Roberto Niño Betancourt
(Argentina, 2023, 5’, original version. / sub. eng)
A contemplative exploration of the multiple scales of life in the fluvial ecosystem of Tigre in Argentina, where the Parana and La Plata rivers meet. Every drop of water contains complex universes in continuous transformation. As the river flows, its perpetual state of motion emphasises the harmonic relationship between the landscape, the different species that inhabit it, and their different points of view.
A Day on the Drina by Ines Tanović
(Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011, 17′, original version / sub. eng.)
A long summer day on the river Drina… This may sound like a serene picnic… And it would be, hadn’t the river retreated to its riverbed.
12 am
Angeschwemmt by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
(Austria, 1994, 86’, eng)
The world along the Danube is largely defined by two elements: the river itself and the often peculiar traits of the people who live along its banks. Here, one encounters a diverse cast of characters: Fishermen and cemetery keepers, Buddhist monks, allotment gardeners on Danube Island, stranded freighters, the homeless, and soldiers. They are all bound together by the great river, swimming against its current. This film tells their stories, portraying their faces and desires; through tranquil imagery, it reflects on the countless bodies buried in the Albern “Cemetery of the Nameless,” as well as the Romanian freighter, whose owner and his wife have been stranded on their tugboat in Vienna for nearly a year, unable to return home due to the Danube blockade in the former Yugoslavia.
2 am
El abrazo de la serpiente by Ciro Guerra
(Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina, 2015, 125’, original version / sub. ita)
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
4.30 pm
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces by Shengze Zhu
(China, 2021, 87’, original version / sub. eng)
A portrait of urban spaces along the Yangtze River in the city of Wuhan. An engaging communal stage on which people perform in various ways: some dancing, singing, swimming; some shoveling, welding,and hammering. An evolving landscape that is continuously sculpted by nature and dramatically altered by roaring machines and rising infrastructure. Where desires are planted. Where memories are buried. The lost place.
6.30 am
Improvisations 25-String Koto
At dawn for the final act, breakfast with a musical performance by Karin Nagakawa.
