A work by Simone Massi is among the 12 projects funded by the 1st 2026 call of the IDM Film & Music Commission Südtirol: it is a film about the South Tyrolean politician and European intellectual, pacifist, and key figure of continental environmentalism, Alexander Langer, thirty years after his passing. Alessandro Ingaria is responsible for the treatment and direction, while Massi is the author of the animated sequences. The film is produced by the Bolzano-based company Abisso Studio. IDM has funded its pre-production, along with two other documentary projects. Ultima Irratio (working title), directed by South Tyrolean Martine De Biasi together with Katharina Burger, is a female-led reflection where the two directors (Martine De Biasi also wrote the treatment) recount firsthand what it means to form a family in Italy, where the government of Giorgia Meloni has deprived same-sex parents of rights over their children. An intimate journey, shot in Super 8, produced by the South Tyrolean company Albolina Film together with the Austrian Eutopiafilm. Also from South Tyrol are Jadel Andreetto and Armin Ferrari, who together wrote the treatment for Tovarišč Omega Jim (working title), directed by Ferrari and dedicated to Peter Kolosimo (1922–1984), a cult author of ancient astronaut theories, Wehrmacht deserter, partisan in Bohemia, the only Western journalist present at the birth of the GDR, radical popularizer, and a figure who has now disappeared from the literary scene. The production is by the Italian company Point Nemo.
Several projects supported in the production phase also come from South Tyrol: the South Tyrolean companies movie.mento and Albolina Film are joining forces for Joe der Film II (working title), a feature film directed by Thomas Hochkofler and written together with Robert Ausserer, both from South Tyrol.
Bolzano-based Formasette is behind Ultimo artigiano (working title), a documentary directed by Aurora Volcan and written by Gottardo Giatti. Matto Film is part of the co-production team (along with the Swiss Ventura Film and the German Glass Frog Films) for the documentary Voi come noi, written and directed by Lilian Sassanelli, a graduate of ZeLIG – School for Documentary, Television and New Media based in Bolzano. Through the observation of the relationship between two pairs of mothers and daughters—one of which involves the director herself and her mother, Marit Nissen—the documentary seeks to reveal the invisible legacy that binds women across generations. Filming in South Tyrol will primarily take place in Bolzano.
The documentary series Exit: E66 – Der Tod von Ulrike Reistenhofer und Carmen Wieser (working title), directed by Florian Kröppel, who wrote the treatment with Robert Buchschwenter, both from South Tyrol, reopens the cold case related to the murder of Ulrike Reistenhofer, the nineteen-year-old Austrian girl found killed near the South Tyrolean municipality of Chienes, along the E66. Alongside this murder, attention is also turned to that of Carmen Wieser—another young woman from the area—which occurred two years later. The production is by the Austrian LOOKS Vienna Media, which has chosen numerous locations across Bolzano, Chienes, San Candido, Brenner, and Fortezza to realize this project, which recounts ten years of investigations during which investigative methods and evidence changed, yet several questions remain open regarding the case.
Bolzano and Merano will be the set for Dor (working title), a feature film by Valeria Testagrossa, who wrote the screenplay together with Giulia Pietrozzini. A Vivo film, Young Films, and microFILM production. The protagonist is Gioia, an acclaimed but now elderly Italian pianist, who is suddenly ‘abandoned’ by her caregiver Ana, who has returned to Romania.
Jumoke (working title) is a feature film by German director and screenwriter Oliver Hardt, produced by the German companies Neopol Film, Kellner & Zapf, and Oma Inge Film, telling an extraordinary love story, while Miniatur Wunderland (working title) is a family film by Luxembourgish director and screenwriter Félix Koch, produced by the German companies LETTERBOX Filmproduktion, SevenPictures Film, DCM Film Distribution, Miniatur Wunderland, Studio Alba Productions, 307 Production, together with Studio Hamburg UK.
Both short films whose production was funded are from South Tyrol: developed within the framework of MASO, the training program dedicated to the development, production, and distribution of short films created by IDM Film & Music Commission Südtirol and Bolzano Film Festival Bozen, is Anita è un pesce (working title), written and directed by South Tyrolean Giulia Palaia. A dystopian journey featuring twenty-five-year-old Anita and her neighbor Olivia, set against the backdrop of an Adriatic coast emptying of seasonal tourism, with the sea eroding the coastline and strange amphibious creatures emerging from the Po Delta. It is produced by the South Tyrolean company Frabiatofilm.
Bestie Forever (working title) is instead a horror short written and directed by director Cecilia Bozza Wolf. The setting is 1966, in an Alpine village during carnival celebrations, when the ritual bonfire of a large fir tree turns into tragedy: a flaming branch breaks and strikes sixteen-year-old Bruna in the face as she tries to save her best friend of the same age, Pia. A story about the end of a friendship and about loneliness, produced by the South Tyrolean company Abisso Studio.
