{"id":55040,"date":"2025-10-30T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/?p=55040"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:21:18","slug":"tsff-25-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/en\/tsff-25-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"TS+FF 25 – Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another day of unmissable events and screenings is in store on <\/span>Thursday, October 30<\/b> at the 25th Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, which runs through Sunday, November 2. The program begins <\/span>at 11:00 a.m. at Miela <\/b>with<\/span> \u201cCaptured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys\u201d<\/i><\/b> by Chris Collier, <\/b>a documentary exploring the life and legacy of the United Kingdom\u2019s most iconic horror illustrator, creator of posters for cult films such as <\/span>The House<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Nightmare \u2013 From the Depths of the Night<\/span><\/i> for their UK theatrical releases, as well as the poster for the 2022 Trieste Science+Fiction festival. <\/span>At 3:00 p.m.<\/b> at the Rossetti, the<\/span>international premiere<\/b> will take place in the presence of the co-screenwriter of<\/span> \u201cFalsehood\u201d <\/i><\/b>Ethan Hickey (Canada, 2025), <\/b>set in a dystopian future where humanity\u2019s memories are government-controlled products, when an ancient memory\u2014the answer to the question \u201cWhere do we come from?\u201d\u2014is stolen for political purposes. <\/span>\n\nAt<\/span> 3:30 p.m.<\/b> the program continues at the <\/span>Teatro Miela<\/b> with Italian short films from <\/span>Spazio Corto<\/b>, while <\/span>at<\/b> 5:30 p.m. <\/b>at the<\/span> Politeama Rossetti<\/b>, \u201cBureau 749\u201d<\/i><\/b> by Chuan Lu (China, 2024)<\/b><span style="font-weight: 400;" will be presented out of competition and as an<\/span>Italian premiere<\/b> \u201cBureau 749\u201d<\/i><\/b>\u2014a science fiction epic that prompts deep reflection through the story of Shan, a young man who, a victim of discrimination due to his physical anomaly, joins the mysterious Bureau 749 to defeat<\/b> a science-fiction epic that prompts deep reflection through the story of Shan, a young man who, a victim of discrimination due to his physical anomaly, joins the mysterious Bureau 749 to defeat a horde of giant alien monsters. Also at <\/span>Rossetti <\/b>at <\/span>8:00 p.m. <\/b>will be the <\/span>Italian premiere <\/b>of <\/span>\u201c Egghead Republic\u201d<\/i><\/b> by Pella K\u00e5german and Hugo Lilja (Sweden, 2025)<\/b>, previous winners of the Asteroide Award at the 2019 Trieste Science+Fiction Festival for <\/span>\u201c Aniara\u201d<\/span><\/i>, who present a new dystopian satire in which the Cold War never ended and a journalist must report from an area contaminated by an atomic bomb. <\/span>\t\t\t\n\nThe evening continues at <\/span>Rossetti at 10:00 p.m. <\/b>with the <\/span>Italian premiere<\/b> of <\/span> \u201c Junk World\u201d<\/i><\/b> by Takahide Hori (Japan, 2025)<\/b>, the spiritual sequel to the stop-motion film<\/span> \u201cJunk Head\u201d<\/span><\/i>, in which a fragile alliance between humans and a workforce of emancipated clones is threatened by a group of terrorists from a sadomasochistic cult that disrupts an expedition in search of a mysterious anomaly. At <\/span>10:30 p.m. <\/b>at the <\/span>Teatro Miela<\/b>, the Italian premiere<\/b>\u2014out of competition\u2014of <\/span>\u201c OBEX\u201d<\/i><\/b> by Albert Birney (United States, 2025),<\/b> a film inspired by <\/span>\u201c Eraserhead\u201d<\/span><\/i> and imbued with a retro sci-fi aesthetic that evokes the nostalgic aura of early video games, creating an evocative journey into the dawn of the computer age. The final screening on Thursday, October 30, again at <\/span>Miela <\/b>will be<\/span> the Italian premiere<\/b> at <\/span>12:30 a.m. <\/b>of<\/span> \u201cTouch Me\u201d <\/i><\/b>by Addison Heimann (USA, 2025), <\/b>a gory sci-fi comedy in which two dysfunctional slackers find themselves caught in a love triangle with a narcissistic alien\u2014a tale of addiction, violence, intoxication, and tentacles.<\/span>\n\nThursday, October 30<\/b> at <\/span>5:00 p.m. <\/b>the second day of Mondofuturo events kicks off with the talk <\/span>\u201c The Future of the City \u2013 How to Design Urban Spaces to Address the Climate Crisis\u201d<\/i><\/b> curated by landscape architect Eleonora Ceschin, who will transport us <\/span> into the cities of the future: The climate crisis is posing new challenges for livability, inclusion, and social justice in urban spaces, and\u2014amid rising sea levels and heat islands\u2014we\u2019ll explore vertical cities, floating cities, and cities built under geodesic domes. <\/span>At <\/span>6:00 p.m.<\/b>, this will be followed by the talk <\/span>\u201cTrue Italians. Evolutionary and Genetic History of Our Country\u201d<\/i><\/b> during which Giacomo Moro Mauretto <\/span>will take us on a journey spanning millions of years to remind us\u2014by weaving together genetics, archaeology, paleoanthropology, biology, and botany\u2014that there is no such thing as a \u201ctrue Italian\u201d and that our roots are a tapestry of migrations and intermingling. <\/span>The Mondofuturo 2025 series of events will conclude at <\/span>7:00 p.m. <\/b>still on October 30<\/span> the contemporary master of science fiction,<\/span> Ted Chiang <\/b>\u2013 named by <\/span>Time Magazine<\/span><\/i> among the 100 most influential people in the field of AI<\/b> \u2013 who<\/span> will lead a discussion titled <\/span>\u201cArtificial Futures \u2013 A Conversation on<\/i><\/b>AI\u201d <\/b>with journalist Matteo Bordone: <\/span>Will artificial intelligence shape new ways of being creative, new ways of being intelligent, and new ways of being human? <\/span>Also on Thursday, October 30, as part of Mondofuturo at <\/span>8:00 p.m. <\/b>at <\/span>Miela <\/b>, there will be a screening of the documentary <\/span>\u201cOrwell 2+2=5\u201d <\/i><\/b>by Raoul Peck, <\/b>a reflection on the authoritarian drift of contemporary society based on the novel \u201c<\/span>1984<\/span><\/i>\u201d and the diary of its author, George Orwell, directed by the filmmaker behind \u201c<\/span>I Am Not Your Negro\u201d <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>\u201c The Young Karl Marx\u201d <\/span><\/i>and produced by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker<\/span>\u00a9<\/span> Alex Gibney (<\/span>\u201cTaxi to the Dark Side\u201d<\/span><\/i>).<\/span>\n\nThursday, October 30<\/b> the final day of events for the new series <\/span>Things to Come<\/span><\/i>: The day begins at 11:00 a.m. with \u201c<\/span>Images from the Future: The Relationship Between Cinema and Technology<\/i><\/b>,\u201d in which futurist Wenzel Mehnert will explain how science fiction cinema manages to give visual form to technologies that do not yet exist. At <\/span>12:00 p.m.<\/b> Isabella Hermann will discuss a new form of science fiction storytelling: \u201c<\/span>Anti-dystopias\u201d<\/i><\/b>. In a present dominated by climate catastrophes and malevolent artificial intelligence, anti-dystopias present us with imperfect but desirable futures that may prove to be an excellent remedy for contemporary pessimism. At <\/span>4:00 p.m. <\/b>Beatrice Petrella, author of the essay <\/span>Still Online<\/span><\/i>, will explore the changes in our relationship with death, amid digital traces and virtual avatars: \u201c<\/span>Thanatos: Mourning in the Digital Age\u201d<\/i><\/b>. To conclude the <\/span>Thing to Come <\/span><\/i>program at <\/span>5:45 p.m.<\/b> at the <\/span>Teatro Miela<\/b>, there will be a screening of Peter Watkins\u2019 masterpiece, \u201c<\/span>The War Game<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/b>, a BBC docudrama released in 1965, followed by a discussion between Pierluigi Masai and Wenzel Mehnert.<\/span>\n\n<\/span>BookInvaders<\/b> is back\u2014the series of science fiction-themed events organized by the festival in collaboration with the local writers\u2019 collective FantaTrieste, featuring national and international guests. The four-day program, <\/span>running from Thursday, October 30, to Sunday, November 2<\/b>, is packed with conferences on topics related to fantasy literature and presentations of books and comics in the genre. Also kicking off is <\/span>IVIPRO DAYS<\/b>, the international event dedicated to <\/span>video games<\/b> as a medium for showcasing the local area and cultural heritage, which is making its fourth appearance at the science fiction festival <\/span>from Thursday, October 30, through Saturday, November 1<\/b> at the <\/span>Sci-Fi Dome <\/b>in Piazza della Borsa with numerous events and guests from around the world.<\/span>\n\nAlso <\/span>on Thursday, October 30<\/b> starting at 6:00 p.m.<\/b> the program includes a walking tour with film journalist Elisa Grando to discover how Trieste was transformed into postwar New York in the film<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Napoli \u2013 New York\u201d<\/i><\/b> by Gabriele Salvatores<\/b>. Through real images and locations, we\u2019ll explore the film\u2019s shooting locations and the magic of cinema that reinvents the city. Also <\/span>on Thursday, October 30 <\/b>at 7:00 p.m. at the Teatro Miela (Ridottino space) <\/b>the <\/span> performance by and starring Laura Bussani and Omar Giorgio Makhloufi will take place, presenting a reinterpretation of the Frankenstein myth to reflect on the environment, power, and the fragility of life. <\/span>At 9:00 p.m.<\/b> at the Sci-Fi Dome, <\/span>\u201c <\/i><\/b>The Worst Books of Our Lives \u2013 Auroro Borealo Reads Bad Books\u201d<\/i><\/b>,<\/b> the new show by performer and singer-songwriter Auroro Borealo, who will present a live performance where bad books become cult classics. <\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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