Verona International Film Festival

Verona International Film Festival

A film festival focussing on the complexity of human relationships set in Shakespeare's city of love Verona, Italy. Does it get any better than this?
The Verona International Film Festival presents films which revolve around relationships in their different forms whether spiritual, physical, interpersonal, familial, and humanitarian and can even touch upon relationships between nations and political parties. Films can tackle the complexity, ever-changing dynamics, adversity, and multi-faceted aspects pertaining to these different types of relationships.

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Verona International Film Festival
  • Ice Breath (Romania) by Leonard Alecu

    Between 2015 and 2024, Leonard Alecu filmed the melting icebergs off Greenland's East coast. Sailing dangerously close to icebergs, Alecu handled his camera to record the ice masses yielding to the ruthless ocean. Filmed in black and white, Ice Breath is a cinematic poem whose only elusive actor ...

  • CU: Farewell (Ukraine) by Anar Azimov

    The protagonist recalls her past while her daughter is going to leave her forever. Years ago, the protagonist came from a province to a big city to get rid of poverty. Marriage to a gangster didn’t make her happy. She fell in love with her husband’s accomplice and soon got pregnant. Murder seems...

  • Happy Birth Day (Korea, Republic of) by SANG CHEON JANG

    On Hyun-mi's birthday, Soon-young is asked for a Flower and everyone receives an obituary of Ji-yeon by text.
    Running time: 00:33:42

  • Iris (Canada) by Gabriela de Andrade

    Ever since Iris, a French-Congolese woman, left Montreal, she has nurtured her relationship with Gabriela through voice messages. In this film, her voice gives hints of a return that exists only through Gabriela's eyes. The film is a kind of affective cartography of their interposed exchanges, Ir...

  • Nook with a View (United Kingdom) by Eduarda Vieira

    While stuck at home, an architect decides to spend his time crafting intricate illustrations. In this short documentary, he reflects on his phase of unprecedented creativity against a backdrop of toilet roll shortages, social distancing, remote working, and other challenges caused by the COVID-19...

  • Traveling Flower (Poland) by Alina Dzmitrovich

    Two-year-old Sappie has a childhood with no map, growing up in places where most people fear to go—following her parents, Ben and Eilidh, who work as guides in the planet’s most remote and unusual corners.
    Running time: 00:15:09

  • Sio Roho Yangu - Not My Soul (United States) by Joe LoBianco

    In 1807, a young slave is condemned to a sweltering hot box for her defiance, facing torment and uncertainty. Trapped in the oppressive heat, she struggles to survive, oscillating between fleeting hope and crushing despair. She draws strength from distant memories and spirituals. As her spirit is...

  • Hairy Dreams (Canada) by Lina Cruz

    ***FIFA42 - Festival International de Films d'art
    Hairy Dreams is inspired by Lina Cruz's fascination for dreams, altered states, homelessness and what she finds they paradoxically have in common: access to an immense sense of freedom. Hairy Dreams evokes the interior world of a lonesome yet non...

  • Hands (Portugal) by Filipe Piteira

    Hands are the connection and the path between the body and soul. The mode of search and self-knowledge, which is intuitive and sensorial, with them, discovering and transcending themselves. It is the receptive and restless mind that transforms hands into instruments of grace.
    Running time: 00:07:00