The Bolzano Film Festival Bozen, in collaboration with the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and the Association La Fournaise, dedicates a special section to films on language minorities.
The Piccole Lingue DOC section brings together works (documentary/fiction/hybrid films) of any length that deal with issues related to linguistic minorities, i.e. populations that speak a language different from that of the surrounding majority.
These will be works in which minority languages are present and spoken, and/or tell stories that highlight territorial, social and cultural issues associated with minority language communities.
The section, devised by linguists Silvia Dal Negro and Daniela Veronesi (Free University of Bolzano) and by documentary filmmakers and geographers Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro (Associazione La Fournaise), will be curated by them together with Vincenzo Bugno, the festival’s artistic director.