CLOSING BAFF 25 | FIUME O MORTE!

As the curtain falls on this year’s edition...

𝟏𝟔/𝟏𝟏 - 𝟏𝟖:𝟎𝟎 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 - FIUME O MORTE!

Igor Bezinović / 2025 / 112' / IT st-ot FR

𝐀 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐢𝐣𝐞𝐤𝐚 𝐫𝐞-𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦.

In Fiume o morte!, director Igor Bezinović brings together three hundred locals to re-stage the surreal 1919 occupation of Rijeka by poet-warrior Gabriele D’Annunzio. This re-enactement, both punk and playful, becomes a political act. Through a feverish mix of archives, performances, and testimonies, the film playfully and sharply dismantles the machinery of nationalist propaganda, exposing the toxic legacies of fascism. D’Annunzio appears as a grotesque — yet visionary — prototype of the authoritarian clown, foreshadowing many others we need not name.

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