From 30 June to 6 July, Il Cinema Ritrovato continues in Piazza Maggiore and Cinema Modernissimo with a series of special guests and surprising films.

The screenings at Cinema Modernissimo are free for festival pass holders until 6 July, and at a cost of €3.50 per ticket for everyone else.
The programming in Cinema Modernissimo will continue until August 4th, at a cost of €3.50 for all spectators.

29 June
The curtain comes down on the festival!
The 39th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato has reached its end. The final day is packed with special events to bid adieu to the cinephilic public of the festival: Cinemalibero concludes its investigation into the peripheries of film production with Rih Es-Sed and São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima, two films that, in different ways, intertwine an individual’s existential unease with the social story of a country – Tunisia and Brazil respectively. It’s also farewell to the section dedicated to Isaak Babel and the city of Odesa – which closes with the intense Komissar – and to the retrospectives dedicated to Luigi Comencini and Katharine Hepburn. Our portrait of the Italian director reaches its epilogue with the double offering of Bambini in città and La finestra sul Luna Park, while our farewell offering to the most modern diva of Classical Hollywood is David Lean’s crepuscular Summertime. Finally, festivalgoers will have the opportunity to watch, or rewatch, some of the most interesting films from this year’s Recovered and Restored section, which will illuminate the city’s screens from morning to night. The evening schedule in particular hosts a number of unmissable appointments – including repeat screenings of Thief, Performance, Yi Yi and Duel in the Sun – culminating with The Zone of Interest in Piazza Maggiore, introduced by Jonathan Glazer.

From 30 June to 2 July
Brady Corbet in Bologna
The incredible success of The Brutalist, with its Silver Lion for Best Director and three Oscars, has established Brady Corbet’s reputation as a director capable of re-reading the present and the past from a new and original perspective. A consummate cinephile, who has also acted for majors directors such as Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier and Olivier Assayas, Corbet will be the protagonist of a series of key events this week: on Monday 30 June, he will be in Piazza Maggiore to introduce his disturbing debut film The Childhood of a Leader; on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 July, he will be at Cinema Modernissimo to introduce the 70mm screening of The Brutalist and for a lesson where he will get the opportunity to fully express his love of cinema.

30 June and 2 July
Jim Jarmusch introduces Only Lovers Left Alive in Piazza Maggiore
Following the Cinema Lesson of which he was the protagonist, Jim Jarmusch will once again meet the public of Bologna, in Piazza Maggiore on Wednesday 2 July, to introduce his Only Lovers Left Alive, a story about the “eternal” love between two vampires enveloped in the darkness of Detroit and the entrancing soundtrack composed by Jozef van Wissem and SQÜRL, the group Jarmusch is a member of. Also on Wednesday, Cinema Modernissimo will be screening Dead Man – celebrating its thirtieth birthday this year – a splendid existential black-and-white western starring Johnny Depp. However, on Monday 30 June, we will also have the chance to meet more outsiders from Jarmusch’s cinema, with the poetic Down by Law, the story of three outcasts played by John Lurie, Tom Waits and Roberto Benigni.

30 June and 1 July
Asghar Farhadi presents The Salesman and A Separation
Asghar Farhadi, one of the most highly-anticipated guests at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025 and already the protagonist of a Cinema Lesson this week, will meet the public on two more occasions: he will be in conversation with Gian Luca Farinelli to retrace the key stages of his career on Monday 30 June at MAST (free admission), following the screening of The Salesman, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2017. Then, on Tuesday 1 July, he will be in Piazza Maggiore to introduce A Separation, the 2011 film that brought him widespread international acclaim (winner of his first Oscar and the Golden Bear in Berlin) and breathed fresh life into Iranian cinema. Both of the events are being held in collaboration with the International Filmmaking Academy 2025, of which Asghar Farhadi is the Master Teacher.

5 July
Homage to Joshua Oppenheimer: The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
One of the most original and courageous filmmakers in contemporary cinema is coming to Bologna. We pay homage to Joshua Oppenheimer with the screening of his two celebrated documentaries about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, works that revolutionised the ways in which memory and violence can be depicted. In the former, in programme at Cinema Modernissimo, those responsible for the massacres perform grotesque and surreal re-enactments of their atrocities; in the latter (introduced by Oppenheimer in Piazza Maggiore), the gaze becomes more intimate and painful, following the journey of a man who courageously confronts his family’s executioners.

3, 4 and 6 July
Kubrick, Wilder and widescreen formats
Great directors and unforgettable films will continue to illuminate the afternoons at Cinema Modernissimo and the night skies above Piazza Maggiore. On Thursday 3 July, it is the turn of the directorial genius of Stanley Kubrick, with the interstellar (and spiritual) journey of the seminal 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barry Lyndon, whose legendary photography we will be able to enjoy to the full on the big screen of Piazza Maggiore. Instead, on Friday 4 July, the star of the show will be widescreen formats: on one hand, the Vistavision and dazzling Technicolor of Artists and Models, on the other, the CinemaScope that exalts the epic surrealism of The Saragossa Manuscript. Sunday 6 July concludes with two masterpieces from Billy Wilder, in majestic form in both the caustic comedy Some Like It Hot – aided and abetted by Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon – and the classic noir Sunset Boulevard, the cruellest and most mocking portrait of Hollywood and its legends.