Ennesimo Film Festival renews its partnership with festivalfilosofia,
now in its ninth year!
Join us on Friday, September 19, at 9:00 PM at the Auditorium Bertoli in Sassuolo for Non è l'Ennesimo festivalfilosofia.
A special selection of short films presented by Ennesimo Film Festival will offer a unique cinematic interpretation of this year's theme: CHAOS.
The unexpected redefines the boundaries of reality, compelling human beings to redraw their inner geography. Auteurs of short cinema have long executed this generative movement: introducing unsettling elements, disrupting everyday linearity, shattering the viewer's certainties, and leaving them transformed—enriched by a new emotional disarray. Where order leans toward stasis, cinematic narrative unlocks its vital force precisely within chaos.
This selection offers a journey through six international short films, bound by the intrusion of the unpredictable into human experience. From the sudden arrival of the unusual in daily routine to the joyous disarray of carnival, from political tensions to chance encounters that reshape life trajectories, the featured films open visionary portals into lives on the edge—demonstrating how cinema acts as a thread weaving through the world’s disorder to help us decipher it.
DURING THE EVENING, THE ENNESIMO festivalfilosofia 2026 AWARD AND THE AUDIENCE MENTION WILL BE PRESENTED.
THE JURY
Rocco Ronchi
Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of L'Aquila and lecturer at the Institute for Research in Applied Psychoanalysis (IRPA). He focuses on the major problems of contemporary metaphysics, investigating how the concepts of experience, event, becoming, and transformation allow for a critical rethinking of reality, beyond traditional oppositions between subject and world, being and change, necessity and contingency.
Valeria Cristofaro
Lecturer in Audiovisual Studies at the "A. Venturi" Institute in Modena, with an advanced degree in Performing Arts and Multimedia Production. She develops and coordinates educational projects focused on film literacy, visual media, and production, exploring the pedagogical power of cinema while fostering cultural creation in synergy with local communities.
Massimo Po
Visual artist, graphic designer, and Deputy Mayor for Culture in Nonantola. Trained in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and the École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, he combines graphic design and painting with dedicated cultural management and community-based art workshops.
EXPLORE THE FILMS IN COMPETITION
Fantas by Halima Elkhatabi | ITALIAN PREMIERE
Lost&Found by Wiktoria Kwoka | ITALIAN PREMIERE
Missing Ticket by Kelvin Janssen & Elisa De Kuysscher | FOREIGN PREMIERE
Samba Infinito by Leonardo Martinelli
Winter in March by Natalia Mirzoyan
Wolfie by Philippe Kastner