The closing ceremony of the 28th Religion Today Film Festival took place on September 24, 2025, in Trento, Italy. This year’s festival was focused on the relationship between sports, human rights, and inclusion. Award-winning films came from Gaza, France, India, the United States, Israel, and Germany. “The future of the Festival,” stated Artistic Director Andrea Morghen, “lies in education and in the new generations.”
The 2025 theme, When Sport Meets the Game – Free Voices between Sport, Rights, and Belonging, confirmed the festival’s ability to bring together diverse worlds and cultures. This year’s festival showed “extraordinary numbers,” Morghen enthusiastically declared, “with 72 films from 42 countries, 23 premieres (including 3 world and 10 European premieres), and over 3,000 students involved through morning screenings and masterclasses. The future of the Festival lies in engaging with younger generations, in training and education.”
The theme made it possible to intertwine the language of sports with that of cinema, thanks in part to the collaboration with Sportfund, a nonprofit foundation promoting access to sports, and the Italian Paralympic Committee (Trento), both of which helped bring the values of inclusion and integration to the forefront of conversation at the Festival.