Umani, macchine e il futuro del lavoro

Wednesday 7 October, 5 p.m., Cinema Massimo, Screen 3, Via Giuseppe Verdi, 18

In collaboration with Ires Piemonte.

On Wednesday 7 October at 5 p.m. at Cinema Massimo, Screen 3, Job Film Days, in collaboration with Ires Piemonte, presents the short films Welcome to Set by Cyan Bae (Netherlands, 2026, 15′), No Mean City by Ross McClean (United Kingdom, United States, 2025, 14′) and We Were Here by Pranav Bhasin (India, 2026, 11′).

Among the major transformations of our time, artificial intelligence technologies are also reshaping work: new opportunities, new risks and new questions. Taking this selection of short films as a starting point, experts discuss AI’s impact on organisations and employment, with a view to its human-centred application.

Followed by a discussion with Alessandro Ciro Sciretti (President, IRES Piemonte), Francesco Ronchi (President and Chief Technology Officer, Synesthesia), Gregorio Buzzelli (Politecnico di Torino). Moderated by Giorgio Vernoni (researcher, IRES Piemonte).

Admission: free.

Welcome to set (Netherlands, 2026, 15′)

Italian subtitles

International title: Welcome to Set
Original title: Welcome to Set 
Director, Screenplay, graphic design: Cyan Bae
Photography: Cristina Lavosi, Hattie Wade
Music, edit: Sergio González Cuervo
Color grading: Mayis Rukel
Cast: Inés Dominguez del Corral, Ildiko Flipse, Charlotte Willerscheidt, Almas Mahmood, Hyewon Jeong, Yaxin Xu, Sara Amzian
Production: Francesco Ragazzi (Operational Images), Cyan Bae (Pingping Productions)
Distribution: Cyan Bae (Pingping Productions)

Emotional AI is the new frontier of artificial intelligence: a type of technology designed to analyze and interpret human emotional signals. But how to recreate the identification of emotions in a lab? Behind this process, used for new surveillance technologies, there’s a dreadful reality: the most authentic human feelings can escape to the datasets used to train algorithmic lie detectors. 

Cyan Bae. Born in 1993 in South Korea, Cyan Bae lives in Rotterdam, where she works as a visual artist and researcher focusing on contemporary socio-technical systems and on socio-political implications of algorithmic technology. Her movies have been presented in important festivals such as Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and Jeonju IFF. As a cofounder of cinema collective and curatorial platform First Cut, Cyan organizes and curates screening programs focused on independent, radical and experimental movies. 

Mean city (United Kingdom, United States, 2025, 14′)

Italian subtitles

International title: No Mean City
Original title: No Mean City
Director: Ross McClean
Photography: Ronnie McQuillan
Edit: Ross McClean, Phil Harrison
Sound: Tamás Varga, Stevie Lennox
Color correction: Karol Cybulski
Cast: Padraig Bradley, Seamus McEldowney, Packie Convery, Jom Conway
Production: Conal Clapper, Heidi Fleisher, Mike Paterson (Sandbox Elemental)
Distribution: Heidi Fleisher

Two workers and an apprentice cross Belfast during the night. Their assignment is to adjust the city’s street lighting to the new standards, substituting the old orange sodium lamps with white high-brightness LED lights. As the night wears on, Belfast faces the change under a new light, illuminating fading traditions and the relentless march of progress. 

Ross McClean. Born in Belfast in 1991, Ross McClean studied creative documentary direction in Canada, Hungary, Portugal and Belgium, graduating at the European master course DocNomad. Back in Ireland, he starts to teach at the Queen’s University and produces artworks dedicated to his homeland. His movies have been selected to many festivals such as DOK Leipzig, IDFA, Hot Docs and Clermont-Ferrand, True/False and Sheffield DocFest, Visions du Réel and Cork. In 2026, he made his director’s debut with his long feature film Magilligan, supported by DocSociety and Arte.

Filmography: Hydebank (sf, doc., 2019), Echo (sf, doc., 2023), No Mean City (sf, doc., 2025), Magilligan (doc., 2026).

We were here (India, 2026, 11′)

Italian subtitles

Italian premiere

International title: We Were Here
Original title: We Were Here
Directed, screenplay: Pranav Bhasin
Photography: Rajiv Malu
Editing: Pralay Valanju
Music: Yash Sahai
Sound: Utsav Mistry
Visual effects: Animesh Verma
Starring: Satish Kashyap, Devendra Dodke, Arindol Bagchi
Production: Yash Gonsai (Sunshine Motion Pictures)
Distribution: Premium Films

In a sleepy Indian town, three retirees are convinced that machines are replacing human beings. In protest, they declare war on technology by taking the place of household appliances. However, their convictions are challenged when the son of one of them is hired by a company that processes data for artificial intelligence development. What exactly happens when the future arrives out of the blue, without any warning? 

Pranav Bhasin. Born in 1997, Pranav Bhasin is a Mumbai-based director and screenwriter. A self-taught filmmaker, he makes comedy sketches and videos for YouTube. He went on to write and direct the series “The Insiders* and *Cabin Fever”, as well as numerous commercials. An alumnus of the Zurich Film Festival Academy and Vanishing Angle’s Short-to-Feature Lab (led by Jim Cummings), he saw his short film “Taylor’s Version” (2023) selected for SXSW and featured on Vimeo as a Staff Pick and Short of the Week. “We Were Here” – which counts Andrew Scott among its executive producers – won the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand and the Audience Award at SXSW.

Filmography: Wolf of Chawl Street (sf, 2017), New Year’s Eve (sf, 2018), Taylor’s Version (sf, 2023), We Were Here (sf, 2026).