Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino
International Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino





10° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino - April 13 - 19, 2026

24th International Festival Signs of the Night - Italy

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ITALY COMPETITION

#1


 
Sala del Maniscalco
Urbino
Saturday April 18, 2026
20 h

Genesis

Giuseppe Eugenio Morina
Italy / 2025 / 0:08:37

In a near future, an artificial being awakens with no memory or identity, in an unfamiliar place. As it follows fragmented clues, it uncovers the remnants of a failed experiment on the origins of life. But behind every sealed door lies a deeper truth: humanity’s attempt to replace God may have given birth to something irreversible.


 

 

The Silence of Pomegranates

Il Silenzio dei Melograni
Clara Baj
Italy, France / 2025 / 0:09:20

In a coastal town in Calabria, southern Italy, a woman who prefers to remain anonymous breaks the silence surrounding the issue of abortion in the region. Denouncing the abuses of medical institutions through a poetic and experimental lens, Il silenzio dei melograni is a creative short documentary that attempts to highlight the privileges and inequalities women face in accessing their own reproductive rights

 

 

Humanity

Adalberto Lombardo
Italy / 2024 / 0:13:00

The short film recounts the most serious tragedy in the central Mediterranean, in which over a hundred people lost their lives. A real event, almost removed from the collective imagination, which we wanted to reconstruct through a symbolic, intimate and suspended language. Humanity does not show, it evokes. It focuses on absence, on waiting, on the voices of those who have not been heard. A small film to remember, to question, to restore dignity.

EUROPE PREMIERE


 

 

Aura

Stefania Accettulli
Italy / 2024 / 0:15:00

Aura, a judoka who refuses any kind of emotional connection, tries to teach the art of judo to Miriam, a girl traumatized with haphephobia and afraid of being touched.




 


Update

Luca Violante
Italy / 2025 / 0:15:00

Year 2039. The jobs of the twenty-first century no longer exist. UPDATE, a revolutionary AI, has replaced the entire human workforce, giving people back the time they have always wished for — time to do whatever they want. And yet, for many, that time feels empty. Without a role in society, people feel lost. To solve this growing existential crisis, ADAPTiQ™, the company behind UPDATE, launched the Career Recovery Program: a promise of reintegration for those who want to return to work, feel useful again, and find a renewed sense of purpose. Among them is Mark Erwin, a seasoned expert in his field, who agrees to join the program. But what Mark discovers inside ADAPTiQ™ is something no one was meant to know. A secret that could upend not only his future — but the very idea of humanity.

   

Comizi D'Odio

Talking Hate
Antonietta Elia
Italy / 2025 / 0:20:00

"Comizi d’odio" is an essay film, a stream of consciousness composed of images, voices, and silences. Through a sensory drift, it probes the anatomy of antagonism and the emotional architecture of hatred—not to condemn, but to understand its potential: is conflict merely divisive, or can it carry the seed of awakening? In the dark, we listen. Memory, rupture, and contradiction surface like fragments. Until, at the end of the spiral, a return: children, a park, the echo of a beginning.