We are pleased to announce the summer calendar of the Festival dei Popoli, which, thanks to a network of established collaborations in the area, will be held in various summer locations with a varied and comprehensive program of documentary films.

The programme

June 18 - APRITI CINEMA - Piazza de' Pitti, FI - 9:45 p.m.
Festival dei Popoli - Stories that happen on Earth

Real, by Adele Tulli (Italy/France 2024, 83') - original version with Italian subtitles
With the director in-person
An investigation of contemporary forms of collective rituality. The film exceeds the binary logic of the relationship between digital and reality, exploring the area where solitudes meet.

June 22 - LUMEN sustain.YOUR.ability - Via del Guarlone 25, FI - 9:30 p.m.

E tu come stai? by Filippo Maria Gori, Lorenzo Enrico Gori (Italy, 2022, 100’) -  original version Italian 
With the directors and the GKN collective in-persons
The report of one of the largest worker mobilizations in recent years in Europe: that of the GKN Collective.

June 25 - APRITI CINEMA - Piazza de’ Pitti, FI - 9:45 p.m.
Festival dei Popoli - Stories that happen on Earth

Fiore Mio, by Paolo Cognetti (Italy/Belgium, 2024, 80’) -  original version Italian with English subtitles
Writer Paolo Cognetti and his mountain, Monte Rosa. A high-altitude walk to discuss nature, endangered glaciers, loneliness, relationships, and life choices.

July 2 - APRITI CINEMA - Piazza de’ Pitti, Florence - 9:45 p.m.
Festival dei Popoli - Stories that happen on Earth

Cose che accadono sulla terra (Things that happen on Earth), Michele Cinque (Italy, Germany, 2024, 83’) -  original version Italian with English subtitles
A modern western in which a family of cowboys committed to ethical farming and fighting desertification resists wolves’ predatory assaults and financial hardships.
Best Italian Documentary Award at the 65th Festival dei Popoli.

July 9 - APRITI CINEMA - Piazza de' Pitti, FI - 9:45 p.m.
Festival dei Popoli - Stories that happen on Earth

Vista mare, by Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler (Austria/Italy, 2023, 80') -  original version Italian with English subtitles
A look inside the ‘engine room’ of mass tourism in the northern Adriatic, between Lignano, Jesolo and Riccione.

July 14 - ØFF CINEMA - Lago dei Cigni, FI - 9:45 p.m.

Stranger in My Own Skin, by Katia de Vidas (France, 2023, 93’)  original version Italian with English subtitles)
Rise, fall and resurrection of Peter Doherty, bohemian leader of the Libertines and Babyshambles, in a compelling, heart-to-heart portrait.

July 27 - LUMEN sustain.YOUR.ability - Via del Guarlone 25, FI - 9:30 p.m.

Se fate i bravi (If You're Good), by Stefano Collizzoli and Daniele Gaglianone (Belgium/Italy, 2022, 100 min.) -  original version Italian with English subtitles
Twenty years later, the events of Genoa 2001 still burn. The illusions and shattered dreams of an entire generation.

August 24 - LUMEN sustain.YOUR.ability - Via del Guarlone 25, Florence - 9:30 p.m.

One More Jump, by Manu Gerosa (Italy/Switzerland/Palestine, 2019, 83’)  original version with Italian subtitles
The discipline of parkour requires overcoming every obstacle with speed and elegance. Jehad and Abdallah are both very talented, but fate has divided them and they are separated by the Mediterranean. Jehad has remained in his native Gaza, while Abdallah trains in Florence. Despite living in such different contexts, both young men experience firsthand the different meanings of the word “resistance.” The dreams and hopes of youth are put to the test by the constraints of a world with limited freedom.

September 28 - LUMEN sustain.YOUR.ability - Via del Guarlone 25, FI - 9:30 p.m.

Portuali, by Perla Sardella (Italy, 2024, 81’) -  original version Italian 
A group of Genoa harbour’s workers discuss how difficult it is to interact with their union and reports the passage of boats carrying armaments and explosives bound to war zones.
“Il Cinemino” Award at the 65th Festival dei Popoli

Our partners

Apriti Cinema 2025  - Open-air cinema for the first time in Piazza de' Pitti, an initiative of the Estate Fiorentina organized by the Municipality of Florence - Piazza de' Pitti, Florence - Free admission

Lumen, sustain.YOUR.ability - Via del Guarlone 25, Florence - Admission with membership card

Øff cinema - Lago dei Cigni, Florence - Free admission