Trento Film Festival: Screenings, Tickets and Venues

By The Travel Fieldbook October 4, 2026 October 7, 2026

Director Manuel von Stürler at the 2013 Trento Film Festival. (Niccolò Caranti · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Edited)

Trento Film Festival brings mountain stories to the cinema, from climbing and exploration to the lives of people in mountain regions. You can build a visit around a handful of films, spend longer following the competition, or pair a screening with book browsing at MontagnaLibri in Piazza Duomo.

Choose films by their subject and subtitle languages, not just their time slot. Cinema tickets, festival passes and reservations for cultural events work differently, so decide which appointments matter most before arranging your stay in Trento.

Festival dates and programme

When: Late April to early May; dates set annually by the organiser
Duration: Usually about 10 days
Free activities: Events and activities unless marked otherwise; some require reservations
Paid participation: Cinema screenings and marked paid events
Cinema sales: Around two weeks before opening

The programme explores mountains through adventure, environment and the cultures of mountain regions. Mountaineering is central, but you need not be a climber to find films about changing landscapes, communities or exploration that interest you.

The full programme usually appears in April, shortly before the festival. Use the official festival website, trentofestival.it, to choose sessions in the online programme or browse its downloadable PDF. Individual listings connect the film or event to its venue and admission arrangements.

Read both “Language” and “Subtitles” on each film’s programme page. The first identifies the spoken language, while the second gives the available subtitle languages. A film’s country of origin alone will not tell you whether you can follow it, and an English-language website does not mean every screening has English subtitles.

Film screenings and MontagnaLibri

Cinema screenings and MontagnaLibri offer complementary ways into the festival: watch a mountain story unfold, then explore the publications behind another subject that catches your attention. Give yourself room for both rather than filling every gap with another appointment.

Multisala Modena and Supercinema Vittoria

ALP&ISM, mountaineering and adventure: for climbing and expedition stories.
ANTEPRIME, previews: narrative cinema set in mountains and extreme environments.
CONCORSO, competition: feature-length and short films competing for the Genziane awards.
DESTINAZIONE…, destination: films exploring a featured country or territory.
ORIZZONTI VICINI, nearby horizons: Trentino–South Tyrol filmmakers, productions and stories.
PROIEZIONI SPECIALI, special screenings: tributes, restorations and event screenings, from silent films to contemporary experimentation.
TERRE ALTE, highlands: documentaries about mountain communities, traditions and changing landscapes.
T4FUTURE, for future generations: animated films for young audiences.

These strands let you choose by interest rather than treating every mountain film as an expedition account. Mix adventure with a community documentary for a broader view of mountain life. Short films also sit alongside feature-length work in the competition, so look at the actual session before choosing.

Multisala Modena hosts festival screenings across several auditoriums. Pay attention to the auditorium on your session details as well as the cinema name: reaching the building is only the first part of finding your screening.

Name: Multisala Modena
Location: Viale S. Francesco d’Assisi 6, Trento Maps
Site: cineworldtrento.it
Hours: 16:00–00:00
Essential fact: A multiscreen cinema in Trento.

Supercinema Vittoria is the other recurring main cinema venue, hosting scheduled festival films. Choose between it and Modena by the film and session you want, rather than assuming the same programme runs at both.

Name: Supercinema Vittoria
Location: Via Gianantonio Manci 72, Trento Maps
Site: cineworldtrento.it
Hours: Mon–Fri 17:00–23:00; Sat–Sun 17:00–00:00
Essential fact: A cinema in Trento.

An individual cinema ticket covers one scheduled screening, for the selected film on your chosen date and time. Settle that choice before purchasing, because a title appearing elsewhere in the programme is a separate appointment.

MontagnaLibri in Piazza Duomo

MontagnaLibri, the mountain-book showcase, usually occupies Piazza Duomo. You can browse and consult mountain-themed publications without paying admission, making it an easy companion to a cinema visit. Author meetings and literary appointments add opportunities to explore a subject beyond the screen.

Name: Piazza Duomo
Location: Piazza del Duomo, Trento Maps
Essential fact: The cathedral square in Trento’s historic centre.

The showcase normally opens daily across the festival, with 12:00–21:00 on its own opening day and 10:00–21:00 on subsequent days. Its opening day can precede the film festival’s opening, so distinguish the book showcase’s start from the cinema programme.

Fit browsing around a chosen screening rather than rushing through the displays on the way to a film. A literary appointment is a separate event: give it its own place in your day, while leaving the browsing itself open-ended.

Cinema tickets and event reservations

An individual cinema ticket costs €7 at full price or €5 with a reduction, while the Whole Festival cinema pass costs €60. Separately ticketed cultural appointments cost €8–€15, depending on the event and reduction. The cinema pass covers all festival films at Modena and Vittoria, not separately ticketed cultural events.

A pass does not assign you a seat automatically. Obtain a separate screening ticket online or at the box office to receive your seat allocation. Pass holders can obtain tickets only for the current day and the following day, with one ticket per time slot. Choose a pass for repeated cinema visits, not as a way to reserve an entire festival’s seats in advance.

Buy individual cinema tickets through the film’s festival page or the Cineworld Trento online box office at cineworldtrento.it. Both require free registration. Select your priority sessions before committing to an overnight stay.

For non-cinema reservations, open the event page on the festival website, select “Book” and complete the form. The confirmation email contains a PDF ticket to show at the entrance. Booking remains available until the event starts. Paid-event pages give their purchase arrangements, so treat each cultural appointment separately from your cinema admission.

Venue access and getting around

Leave a gap between sessions to change venues and eat. Modena, Vittoria and Piazza Duomo are separate stops, so back-to-back appointments can leave little room to enjoy the book showcase or a meal.

On the festival website, “Info and services” → “Festival venues” lists venue addresses. The edition’s “Accessibility” section gives venue-specific access details: use it when choosing appointments, rather than assuming all screening spaces have the same arrangements.

The organiser recommends urban and suburban public transport, and public mobility is included with the Trentino Guest Card. For out-of-town events, use the transport arrangements attached to the relevant programme listing, because any bus or shuttle arrangement belongs to that appointment.

Sources & fact-checking

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