Giulio Squillacciotti presents MUT (2025) – mountain in the dialect of Bergamo – a film that portrays a day in the highlands, an allegory for a centuries-old summer tradition of life across mountain pastures. Through the eyes of two young herders and their parents, the cyclical rhythm of life becomes a universal testament to the enduring bond between humans and animals, revealing a kinship molded by gestures, silences, and affection, deeply embedded within the surrounding natural world.

The event will take place at the Cinema Hall.
Free admission until capacity is reached.

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GIULIO SQUILLACCIOTTI (Rome, 1982) is an artist and award winning film and documentary director. He lives and works in Milan. After an education in Medieval Art History and Humanities in Rome and Barcelona, he studied Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Architecture in Venice. He was Fellow Resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht where he developed  What Has Left Since We Left, a speculative project comprising a film and a book on the dystopian end of Europe and the loss of a shared fictional identity. He was one of the artists of the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th Architecture Venice Biennale. He recently received the MIC Italian Ministry of Culture Cinema Fund, the MEDIA Creative Europe and Screen Ireland funds to develop a feature film set in Ireland during the 2009 economic recession co-produced by Italy, Ireland and Poland. His research investigates the construction of allegorical narratives and the transformation of traditions through film, documentary, text, theatre, and scenography. His work has been exhibited and screened in numerous international contexts – including MUBI, the Centre Pompidou, the Palais de Tokyo, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Hammer Museum, and the Venice Biennale – and in Italy at MAXXI, Triennale, PAC, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and GAMeC.