IVIPRO DAYS 2025

Trieste, Italy | October 30-November 1 2025

The 2025 edition of IVIPRO DAYS, the international event dedicated to exploring video games as a resource for narrating real places and cultural heritage, is approaching. The event will take place in Trieste, Italy, from October 30 to November 1.

For the fourth time, IVIPRO DAYS will return to the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, once again hosted by the prestigious Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, Italy’s leading celebration of science fiction. As in previous years, the in-person programme will be preceded by a series of online previews, streamed live on the IVIPRO Association’s Facebook and YouTube channels from mid to late October, providing the audience a taste of what to expect in Trieste.

Please note that all online previews will be in English, except the first one on October 14. The sessions on October 30 and on the morning of October 31 will also be in English.

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The 2025 edition will be more ambitious than ever, expanding to three days of talks and panels and six online previews featuring international guests. A special focus will be dedicated to Eastern Europe’s production and markets, with Thursday, October 30, organized in collaboration with the Fantastic Film Forum. This opening day will be geared towards video game and audiovisual professionals, providing valuable networking opportunities and fostering new connections between business and culture.

The programme will span a wide range of topics: from reimagining reality through play to the transformative potential of video games in representing different cultures; from India’s fast-growing gaming industry to creators who have embraced new media, confronted personal trauma, or explored the complexities of the female body. Artistic journeys through characters and virtual environments, strategic paths toward sainthood, dystopian revolutions, and new manifestos for game development will also feature. Italian indie productions will be highlighted as well – touching on cuisine, folklore, chess, and soulslike games – along with a dialogue on applied games set in the regions of Friuli Venezia Giulia and Basilicata.
During the festival, the winners of the IVIPRO Award 2025 for the best university theses on video games will be announced. Audiences will also have the chance to engage in a public conversation with filmmaker Gabriele Mainetti (They Call Me Jeeg, Freaks Out, The Forbidden City) about his relationship with video games and his perspective on the contemporary gaming landscape.

Event promoted by IVIPRO Association and Trieste Science+Fiction Festival.

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