Following its second call of 2025, the IDM Film Commission Südtirol is backing 10 new projects, 5 of which hail from Italy, 3 from Germany, 1 from Poland and 1 from Nepal, in co-production with Switzerland, France, Spain, Austria and Albania. The making of these movies will involve South Tyrolean professionals and service providers both in the filming phase and in post-production. One particular development picked up upon by IDM this year is the rise of animated short film projects, a trend which is having a positive effect on the region: 26 days are due to be spent working in the South Tyrol for short films alone.

Many of the supported films revolve around female protagonists, some of whose stories are told by women. The funded projects in the production phase (whose titles are all provisional) include Tania by German director and screenwriter Elmar Fischer, who penned the story with Thomas Brussig and Jörg Tensing. The film follows the personal and political conflicts of a young woman called Tamara Bunke, who’s the daughter of exiled Jews in Argentina and who, in 1961, discovers a passion for the political aims of the revolutionary, Che Guevara. Produced by Germany’s near future films with Spain’s Sur-Film, the movie will be partly shot in the South Tyrol region.

Schattenberge is a documentary film written and directed by Bolzano-based Veronika Kaserer and produced by Germany’s Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion. In the autumn of 2025, two young mountaineers take on an extraordinary challenge: the first ever attempt to scale a 7,000-metre peak which has never been explored in northern Pakistan, in unpredictable meteorological conditions.

South Tyrolean director Nancy Camaldo has opted for the mystery horror genre for her movie Wolf. Part of this story produced by Monaco-based Elfenholz Film will be set in South Tyrol, initially in a small mountain village whose inhabitants’ lives are shaken by a strange event: a wolf killing a rare white deer.

One of the projects supported in the pre-production phase is Me, You, and Gods by Francesca Scalisi - who wrote the treatment for this project in league with Chiara Cremaschi - heralding the director’s fiction feature film debut, having previously earned international acclaim for documentaries such as Valentina and the Muosters [+lire aussi :
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König der Wölfe, meanwhile, is a biopic by South Tyrolean director and producer Thomas Perathoner about a poacher who lays down his rifle in favour of photography. The film is backed by Moviemento di Bolzano together with Vienna’s Orbrock Filmproduktion.

The short films selected for support include Ciao, ciao aus Tokio, written and directed by South Tyrolean Martin Telser; I’m Not Nearly Cool Yet, written and directed by Anastazja Naumenko and developed during the first edition of MASO, the Short Film Training Programme devised by the IDM Film Commission Südtirol, and produced by Blurred (Poland); A School Day, an animated short written and directed by Roberto Romano (Fantasmagorie Studio, Italy); Questo corpo, written and directed by Martina Melilli (Jump Cut and Careof, Italy), and The Freezer, written and directed by Suraj Paudel, which is another project developed within the first edition of MASO (Underground Talkies, Nepal).