Strange Days – Where is the border?

Approdi Festival 2025: between theatre, cinema and science. Events, performances and talks at the crossroads of art, technology and the future.

All paradoxes of the contemporary world that lead us to investigate the boundary between past and future, between art and science, between human and machine.

Lorenzo Acquaviva artistic director.

PROGRAM INFO | All information about participating in the events is published on the website approdifestival.it

TICKETS | Galleria Rossoni, Corso Italia 9, Trieste, or online at biglietteria.ticketpoint-trieste.it.

*Reduced: reserved for under 26s and over 65s.

People with disabilities and children up to 10 years old: free admission

ALL EVENTS ARE IN ITALIAN

August 28, 9:00 p.m., Trieste, Lutheran Evangelical Church, Largo Odorico Panfili 1

€10 full price €8 reduced price METROPOLIS LIVE SOUNDTRACK OF THE 1927 FILM METROPOLIS.

The cult masterpiece by Austrian director Fritz Lang, the forefather of sci-fi films, which explores the relationship between ante litteram technology, industrial exploitation and the relationship between man and machine.

With Roberto Borin, Christopher Scherlich, Francesco Gulic, Ivan Rongione, Maria Iaiza.

Followed by an Agorà aperitif.

August 30th 9:00 PM Gorizia Kulturni Dom Via Italico Brass 20

€10 full price €8 reduced price

Show in Italian TRASH TEST THEATRICAL SHOW | THEATRICAL SHOW A happening where the AI ​​is asked to produce excerpts of scenes, dialogues and ever-new plots.

A face-off between artificial intelligence and natural comedic talent.

By and with Andrea Cosentino. The evening opens with a performance by the artists of the Chiamata alle Arti di Approdi and closes with the Agorà aperitif.

September 6 and 7, 9:00 p.m., Nova Gorica, Transalpine Square, European Square, Trg Evrope

Free admission to LIBRA, a site-specific, multimedia theatre performance with video mapping | In a technocratic society, where the sky is now obscured by the satellites of a multinational telecommunications company, a strange pandemic of serial shopping is spreading.

Virgil, a simple employee, will uncover a tragic and terrifying plot. A show that blends theater, cinema, and advanced digital technology.

Starring Lorenzo Acquaviva and Lucrezia Fantini. Story by Roberto Trotta. Written and directed by Gigi Funcis.

September 8th 5:30 pm Nova Gorica X Center Delpinova ulica 20

Free admission CONFERENCE IN ITA|SLO|ENG STRANGE DAYS CONFERENCE | HUMANITY OF THE FUTURE AT THE BORDER OF ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY The 21st century is proving to be an era of rapid and epochal changes: climatic, social, artistic, technological and scientific.

The panel explores this new dimension of humanity.

Speakers: Roberto Trotta, professor of theoretical physics at SISSA in Trieste and AstroML group leader. Gabrijela Zaharijas, professor at the University of Nova Gorica, Department of Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Peter Purg, associate professor of New Media at the Academy of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Diletta Huyskes, researcher on the ethics of technology and the impact of artificial intelligence at the University of Milan, co-CEO of Immanence