by InTrieste
The celebrated Giornate degli Autori, a program born from the Venice International Film Festival, will arrive in Gorizia on Thursday, October 16, with the screening of Vainilla, directed by Mayra Hermosillo. The event marks the beginning of a new cycle of screenings at the Multisala Kinemax as part of Le Giornate della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, a regional initiative that brings Venice’s film selections to audiences across Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The program follows the International Critics’ Week and is made possible through a long-standing partnership between AGIS, ANEC, and FICE of the Triveneto region, in collaboration with the Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Government. This initiative allows local audiences to experience films presented at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, highlighting the region’s commitment to cultural accessibility and cinematic excellence.
Founded in 2004 by ANAC and 100autori and inspired by Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, Giornate degli Autori has become a creative space for independent and auteur cinema. Its curatorial approach favors films that explore themes of memory, identity, and human relationships. According to artistic director Gaia Furrer, the stories featured this year “pursue life, construction, and connection,” turning memory into a political act and love into a gesture of resistance.
The first screening in Gorizia, Vainilla (Mexico, 2025), is set in northern Mexico during the late 1980s and tells the story of a family of seven women—grandmothers, mothers, aunts, daughters, and a housekeeper—united in their effort to save their home from foreclosure. At the center of the story is Roberta, an eight-year-old girl whose clear, childlike perspective serves as the lens through which the director reinterprets her own family memories.
Hermosillo’s film, intimate and sensorial in tone, is both a coming-of-age story and a collective portrait of female solidarity. It explores fragility, resilience, and the messy beauty of life, with the family home as a metaphor for roots, identity, and belonging.
The Gorizia program continues on Thursday, October 30, with Memory (France/Netherlands, 2024) by Vladlena Sandu, a film that blends autobiography with political reflection to explore the intersections of identity, memory, and loss.
Admission to all screenings is free, subject to available seating.
The full program is available at www.agistriveneto.it and on Facebook at @agis.trevenezie.
For more information, contact:
Unione Interregionale Triveneta AGIS
Tel. +39 049 8750851
Email: agis3ve@agistriveneto.it
Website: www.agistriveneto.it
