Discover the highlights in tomorrow’s programme!

Cinema Modernissimo – 7pm
In conversation with Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch, one of the leading names of American independent cinema, will be the protagonist of a Cinema Lesson at Cinema Modernissimo. The director, screenwriter and musician with an unmistakable style will talk about his cinema in conversation with Gian Luca Farinelli. Our tribute to Jarmusch will continue on Monday 30 and Tuesday 2 June with the screenings of Down By Law and Dead Man at Cinema Modernissimo and of Only Lovers Left Alive in Piazza Maggiore – the latter will be introduced by Jim Jarmusch himself.

Cinema Jolly – 9am and 6.45pm | Cinema Arlecchino – 4.20pm
Mikio Naruse: before, during and after the war
The section dedicated to the lesser explored part of Mikio Naruse’s career – the years leading up to the Second World War – draws to a close with two emblematic works: if Tsuma yo bara no youni is a bittersweet comedy about a young office worker’s attempts to reunite her lonely mother with her unfaithful father, the surprisingly sunny and upbeat tone of Magokoro – the story of a friendship between two teenage girls and the discovery of a secret from their past – probably reflects the increasingly tight censorship in a Japan engaged in a large-scale war with China. The progressive gloom and rigorous style of post-war Naruse are evident in the restored masterpiece Ukigumo, a romantic melodrama about unrequited love. In the background, the sense of bewilderment experienced by an entire generation that had lost not only a war but also its place in a rapidly changing social order.

Cinema Jolly – 12 noon and 9pm
Cinemalibero: Uirá and Al Ôrs
As always, the Cinemalibero section takes us to unexplored territories with two unmissable appointments. A history of repression is brought to the screen with great precision by Gustavo Dahl in Uirá, offspring of the post-68 Brazilian Cinema Novo, which views the indigenous population as a political subject to be listened to rather than “civilised” and their natural habitat as a mythical space. Al Ôrs by the Nouveau Théâtre – the pinnacle of Tunisian cinema – plunges us into the tragicomic world of petits-bourgeois newlyweds, shattered and defeated.

Recovered and Restored
Canonised masterpieces from the history of cinema and rediscovered little gems alternate, as always, in our Recovered and Restored offering of the day. The former rightly includes two films that redefined the use of colour: the dazzling caramelised Technicolor of Artists and Models (at the centre of a meeting on restoration at the AuditoriumDAMSLab), the fourteenth collaboration of the award-winning duo Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin, and the chromatic and luminous perfection of Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. Among the other pearls of the day, don’t miss the surprising Winter Kept Us Warm, directed by David Secter, the first gay-themed Canadian film, Daddy, a liberating film about the patriarchy and Nikki de Saint Phalle’s directorial debut (introduced by her granddaughter Arielle), and the precious programme of shorts from 1905 belonging to the Goldstaub-Fund, with live musical accompaniment from Daniele Furlati on piano.

Piazza Maggiore – 9.45pm
Stačka cineconcert in Piazza Maggiore
One of the most important films in cinema history is celebrating its one-hundredth birthday this year. Sergei Eisenstein’s directorial debut and the first act of the so-called “revolutionary trilogy” – together with Battleship Potemkin (also at the festival) and October – in Stačka (Strike) the Soviet director, supported by the brilliant director of photography Eduard Tissé, completely rejects traditional narrative structure, employing discontinuities, incongruities, intentionally disorienting camera angles and “montages of attractions” at will. The screening in Piazza Maggiore will be accompanied by a live musical score performed by Laura Agnusdei, Jacopo Battaglia, Luca Cavina, Giuseppe Franchellucci, Ramon Moro, Stefano Pilia and Paolo Spaccamonti.

Piazzetta Pasolini – 7pm
Not just books… under the stars
The final appointment of Not just books… under the stars is closely linked to one of the main themes of this year’s Cinemalibero section. Labanta! Ex colonie portoghesi e cinema italiano (Effegi, 2024), curated by Andrea Gelardi, Luca Peretti and Paola Scarnati, is an investigation into the relationship between Italian cinema and the struggle for independence of Portugal’s African colonies, with numerous contributions about documentaries and narrative films produced in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s, illustrated by previously unpublished photographs. Cecilia Cenciarelli will be in conversation with Paola Scarnati, Luca Peretti and Sana Na N’Hada, the Guinean director who brought his O regreso de Amílcar Cabral to Il Cinema Ritrovato.

Sala Scorsese – 9.15am, 2.15pm and 4pm | Cinema Jolly – 10.45am e 4pm
The Willi Forst and Lewis Milestone sections and the homage to Nordic noir come to a close
The final hurrah of some of the sections that have animated this 39th edition of the festival. Our homage to Willi Forst concludes with a repeat screening of Maskerade, considered the Austrian director’s masterpiece, and Allotria, which draws inspiration from American screwball comedies. The curtain also closes on the section dedicated to Lewis Milestone with repeat screenings of two of his greatest works, Arc of Triumph and A Walk in the Sun, lucid reflections on the absurdity of war and its catastrophic consequences. Then back to Europe, and into the shadows of Scandinavia, for a farewell to Norden Noir: American crime films and Hitchcockian suspense intertwine on the menacing streets of Oslo in På slaget åtte.