Festival Mix Milano 2020: Love Together Edition Goes Hybrid

The 2020 edition of Festival Mix Milano, titled Love Together, will take place from September 17 to 20 at Piccolo Teatro and online via Mymovies, adopting a hybrid format. Directed by Paolo Armelli, Andrea Ferrari, and Debora Guma, the festival features three sections—feature films, documentaries, and short films—with 48 competing titles from around the world, including several premieres. Themes include LGBTQ+ rights, diversity, ecology, and migration. The international jury for feature films is chaired by critic and former Torino Film Festival director Emanuela Martini, with members journalist Paola Jacobbi, Berlinale consultant and Teddy Awards founder Wieland Speck, Zinegoak Bilbao programmer Pau Guillén, and filmmaker Cristian Ceresoli. Notable films include Patricia Vidal Delgado's debut "La Leyenda Negra," a coming-of-age story about a Salvadoran immigrant in Los Angeles under Trump-era immigration laws, which premiered at Sundance 2020. Also screening is Levan Akin's "And Then We Danced," a Swedish-Georgian film that debuted at Cannes' Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and faced censorship and protests; it was Sweden's Oscar entry for 2020. A special out-of-competition section, I talenti delle donne, focuses on women's contributions as part of Milan's 2020 cultural program.