From July 29 to August 5, 2025, Aquileia returns as a crossroads of old stories, contemporary reflections and civil passions with the 16th edition of the Film Festival. An agreement is now consolidated in the Italian and European cultural landscape, which welcomes an international review that focuses on the archaeological cinema, historical distribution and the story of the cultural heritage in the suggestive UNESCO Friulian site. Organized by the Aquileia Foundation in collaboration with VIVA Archeology and with the support of countless public and private institutions, the festival offers a selection of Italian and international documentaries, meetings with scientists, directors, journalists and intellectuals, out -ron -competition event events and special gifts. The admission is free, but with required reservations, and all projections are also accessible to people with visual and auditory disabilities thanks to subtitles and audio septions. A journey through the landscapes of archeology The festival opens on July 29, 2025 with the traces of the heritage. The reasons for archeology, a documentary signed by Eugaroli Veccholi for RAI Cultura that follows the difficult balance between industrial development and protection of heritage and tells emblematic stories from Sibari to Paestum, from Gravis to Basilicata. After this, a conversation with the historic Francesca Cenerini, specialist of the female state in ancient Rome, leads to questioning the public the role of women in the course of the centuries of the empire. The next day, July 30, 2025, is the turn of Luigi de Gregori. Saving the being, a discount that reconstructs the secret mission of the Great Roman librarian in 1936, charged with saving the most valuable manuscripts of Rome on the eve of the war. Following the lost world of hanging gardens, the British production of Duncan Bulling brings the viewer to Ninive, an old capital of the Assyrians destroyed by the Islamic State, in search of the origin of the first empire and one of the most fascinating myths in history: the hanging gardens of Babylon. The evening ends with the intervention of the archaeologist Luca Peyronel, an expert from the Near East -Antico. From Lebanon to Pompeii, who passes by San Casciano on Thursday 31 July 2025, the audience will be transported to Byblos, one of the oldest cities in the world, with secret Lebanon: the treasures of Byblos by Philippe Aracingi, who reveals the new archaeological discoveries along the Lebanese coast. The same evening will also be presented in Flesh and Bronze, which documents the latest excavation campaign in the sanctuary of San Casciano Dei Bagni, in Tuscany, told by directors Eugenio Farioli Veccholi and Brigida Gullo. The scientific director of the excavations, Jacopo Tabolli, will be the protagonist of the last conversation, which also tackles issues with regard to the law of cultural heritage and the economy of culture. On August 1, 2025, the evening of the masterpiece of Mann is: Alexander’s face. The restoration of Alessandro and Dario’s Mosaic, a documentary directed by Vanni Gandolfo that follows the complex intervention on the famous Pompeisian mosaic. The work, an important testimony of the iconography of Alexander the Great, is also the pretext to think about the use of artificial intelligence in historical reconstruction. The value of the memory between history and contempority between the out of competition events, to report the projection on 1 August 2025 of the Special Queen Viarum, made by RAI Cultura in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, dedicated to Via Appia, recently recognized as a UNESCO heritage heritage. To talk to the public, Corrado Augias will be one of the best -known writer and more popular in Italy, in a dialogue led by Piero Pruneti, director of Viva Araeology. Register at Marcho will be changed on 4 August 2025. The last flag, a documentary by Marco Fabbro about the events of the Friulian Lord Marcho da Moruzzo, the last standard carrier of the Patriarchate of Aquileia, defeated by the Republic of Venice. The film, produced by Arlef, is accompanied by a conversation with the director and representatives of the Regional Office for the Friulian language. Eventually, on 5 August 2025, on the occasion of the fifty years of the Pimpa, the tribute to Francesco Tullio Altan arrives with the documentary that I Altan and I do, directed by Stefano Consiglio. An ironic and in -depth journey to the life and work of the great designer, between Pimpa, Chipid and forty years of satire in the country. Altan, who has been living in Aquileia for decades, will be present for a dialogue with the writer Elena Comwn. An overview of the intersection between culture, citizenship and accessibility The Aquileia Film Festival is confirmed, also in this sixteenth edition, a meeting place between disciplines and languages, between memory and technology, between scientific community and general public. It is not a simple film festival, but a cultural laboratory in which history is confronted with the present, and in which the archaeological heritage becomes a tool to understand the contemporary world. The monumental location of Aquileia, with his basilica, his early Christian mosaics, the Roman streets and the necropolises, framed an event that interprets the past as a source to think the future. The selection of documentaries – including many Italian previews – shows a growing attention to the current geopolitical contexts, from the wars in the Near East to the destruction of the archaeological locations, but also for the challenge of preservation, improvement and communication of the heritage in a rapid transformation society. With special attention to inclusion, scientific quality and audiovisual story, the festival invites the audience to not only rediscover archeology as an excavation of the past, but as a lively story about our present.
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