With Mauro Bucci (director of The Strong Man of Bureng), Gianluca Mangiasciutti and Ali Asgari (directors of My Name is Aseman)

With the director Elen Sylla Grollimund (Villa Madjo)

With the director Mamadou Dia

Conversation with Lav Diaz (director and President of the Feature Film Competition Jury) moderated by Paolo Bertolin, member of the selection committee of the Venice Film Festival.

With the director Tommaso Santambrogio and the protagonist Lav Diaz

(original version with Italian subs.)

In collaboration with Istituto Confucio of University of Milan and Far East Film Festival

With Paula Hernandez (director of A Ravaging Wind) and Giovanni C. Lorusso (director of Song of All Ends)

With Babak Jalali (director of Fremont) and Valeria Weerasinghe (director of In a Drop)

Closing Film in collaboration with Exit Media

With the director Adriano Valerio
In collaboration with Institut français Milano

With Awa Moctar Gueye (director of Dusk)

With the director Dibakar Das Roy

(original version with English subs.)

With Dibakar Das Roy (director of Dilli Dark), Astrid Rondero (director of Sujo), Awa Moctar Gueye (director of Dusk) and Qiu Yang (director of Some Rain Must Fall)

Special Family Screening in collaboration with YoungAbout Film Festival

With Daniele Caruso and Matteo Boscolo Gioachina (directors of Maieti), Niccolò Corti (regista di Non piangere), Pietro Falcone and Tessa Zofia Laporese (director and editor/co-screenwriter of Saudade), Michele Pennetta (director of Lonely), Adriano Valerio (director of Casablanca) and Gabriele Biasi (director of La linea del terminatore).

Speakers: Marie Gomis-Trezise, Osaru Obaseki, O'Plérou Grebet, Michael Yohanes.
Modertor: Maria Pia Bernardoni

With Ali Asgari and Gianluca Mangiasciutti (directors of My Name is Aseman), Mauro Bucci (director of The Strong Man of Bureng), Mamadou Dia (director of Demba) and Tommaso Santambrogio (director of Taxibol)

(original version with English subs.)

With the director Paula Hernández (El viento que arrasa)

With the director Astrid Rondero

With director Qiu Yang (Some Rain Must Fall)

With the artistic directors of FESCAAAL and MiWY, the two official juries, and Ali Asgari (director of Until Tomorrow and member of the Feature Film Competition Jury).

Online Q&A with Luck Razanajaona (director of Disco Afrika)