Cecilia Sala: the fire

Kateryna is 28 years old, has been a model, has friends scattered across Europe, and in early 2022 hopes that war will break out in Ukraine: “I am not so cowardly as to wish to live under Vladimir Putin’s blackmail for years, counting on the fact that the task of dealing with him will then fall to another generation instead of mine.”

Today Kateryna is a soldier. Assim is 23 years old, a student of aerospace engineering at Tehran University, and since the day Mahsa Amini died on September 16, 2022, he and his group have been writing Mahsa’s name in university bathrooms and train cars: “We didn’t know what we were starting.”

Nabila is a kick boxing champion, a lesbian, and a conservative adherent of the Islamic Republic, but like many religious women she considers the case of a girl stopped in a subway station for a botched headscarf and returned dead a few days later to her family.

Cecilia Sala was born in 1995 in Rome and has worked both in newsrooms and as a freelance journalist, covering mostly foreign affairs.

New Worlds Festival: a story of rebirth in the mountains

Born in 2012 from an idea of the cultural association Kosmoki and the Municipality of Valloriate, the New Worlds Festival is a unique event.

It is in fact a mountain film festival that takes place entirely in the mountains, in the MontagnaFutura Cultural District, consisting of the municipalities of Rittana, Valloriate, Roccasparvera and Moiola.

The challenge is ambitious: to create a major cultural event in a peripheral setting, capable of attracting visitors from all over Italy and breathing new life into an often forgotten mountainous area.

The festival features a selection of documentaries participating in the International Documentary Competition .

In addition to cinema, the festival also offers a rich program of events with important cultural and mountain personalities.

All with the aim of creating a dialogue between different forms of art and culture and exploring new worldviews.