About the organization：
The Animals·Nature·Futures Film Festival (ANFFF) is a nomadic annual event by International Nature Bond CIC (UK), dedicated to showcasing powerful stories about animals, nature, and the future. It creates a platform where creativity, dialogue, and innovation meet to inspire positive change.
About the event：
Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari (Italy, 208’) is a monumental work divided into three anti-narrative acts: Bestiaries, exploring cinema’s obsession with animals through found footage; Herbaria, observing the Botanical Garden of Padua; and Lapidaries, reflecting on stone as memory through industrial and poetic registers. Together, the trilogy refuses traditional storytelling, instead offering an encyclopaedic meditation on how humans perceive, classify, and coexist with the non-human. By renouncing plot, the directors allow nature’s infinite references — movements, growths, transformations — to unfold in their own rhythms. The result is a demanding yet rewarding cinematic experience: an immersive encyclopaedia that honours the “alien” presences of animals, plants, and stones, reminding us that they constitute the essential fabric of existence.
Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari
Documentary | 205 mins
Director: Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parent
Country: Italy
For more information：
https://www.anfff.org/shop/p/feature-screening-bestiari-erbari-lapidari
