Davide Abbatescianni

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- The Swiss festival's industry sidebar will bring together film professionals for a week of project showcases, training, market-focused debates and networking opportunities

- Sunniva Eir Tangvik Kveum's assured feature film debut turns adolescent loneliness and eco-fascist recruitment into a taut, highly contemporary thriller

- Mohanad Yaqubi transforms an unanswered invitation from the late Jocelyne Saab into an intergenerational dialogue about cinema, revolution and memory

- Wero Rodowicz's six-part show follows Olympic beach-volleyball players Anouk and Zoé Vergé-Dépré as the former rivals combine family ties and sporting ambition

- The Danish-Norwegian-Swedish drama will compete in the New Directors sidebar, with TrustNordisk boarding international sales ahead of its festival launch

- Kamila Serwicka's debut documentary chronicles five women breaking a cycle of domestic abuse and reclaiming control over their lives

- One year on from our first meeting, the professional explains how the Innovation Hub turns creativity and youth participation into concrete pathways into the audiovisual industry

- Produced with Faros Film and supported by the Giorgio Armani fashion house, the international biographical project will draw on the company's archives, creations and landmark locations

- Marco Santi's sophomore feature, starring Edoardo Pesce and Carlotta Gamba, will open the sidebar as a special event Carlotta Gamba in The Great Giaffa