In anticipation of the 7th edition of Job Film Days (October 6 -11, 2026), Turin prepares to welcome the festival with the cover image created by illustrator Michele Peroncini . Michele Peroncini ‘s artwork is a programmatic manifesto: using cinema lenses, his aim focuses directly on productive reality and on labor rights . Framing the city of Turin through worn-out working gloves highlighting the willingness of the event to put people in the spotlight, their fatigues and their stories, transforming the work into the protagonist and privileged spectator of cinematic culture.  Michele Peroncini lives and works in La Spezia. I moti celesti, his first comic, was published by Coconino press in 2024. Following immediate appreciation by both critics and readers for his great talent, the French publisher Sarbacane released his work in 2025. He’s renown as one of the most promising voices of the Italian comic scene, he collaborates as illustrator and comic book artist for various magazines and publishers. The collaboration between film days and Michele Peroncini was born thanks to Leonardo Guardigli, Coconino press‘ art director who’s been festival image guide coordinator for several years.

On occasion of World Refugee Day, Gruppo Abele, Associazione Mosaico-Azioni per i rifugiati and Job Film Days are organizing the screening of the movie “ Nyumba “ by Francesco del Grosso (Italy, 2025, 83′). The event will take place on June 16th , at 8.30 P.M. , at Gruppo Abele ‘s offices in Corso Trapani 91 b in Turin.  Already presented at Job Film Days’ sixth edition in October 2025, Nyumba is a physical and emotional immersive experience, a total and all-encompassing travel journal, in the lives of five people forced to flee from their countries and put the past behind to be reborn elsewhere. In Steccato di Cutro, Calabria, in the night between February 25 th and 26 th , 2023, a caique boat departed from Turkey ran aground and shipwrecked, causing an onslaught of immigrants. On that beach, five young African men tell their stories, they arrived in Calabria from Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and chose to stay, finding their new home (in Swahili “nyumba” means “home”). The evening will feature Lucia Bianco , Gruppo Abele vice president, Berthin Nzosa , Mosaico – Azione per i rifugiati director, Paola Bottero , movie’s screenwriter, Annalisa Lantermo , Job […]

For the seventh edition of the Job Film Days Festival (October 6?11, 2026), the call for entries is now open on the FilmFreeway platform (www.filmfreeway.com) for the ?Job for the Future 2026? Film Award, organized in collaboration with the Turin Chamber of Commerce, reserved for short films produced in the European Union and directed by filmmakers under the age of 40. Awards will be given to the best short films (fiction, documentary, animation, journalistic video reports, and mobile journalism works) that address emerging jobs and the challenges of contemporary work, including technological change, environmental transition, and transformations in society and lifestyle choices. The deadline for submitting entries is July 15th, 2026. Download the “Job for the Future 2026” call for entries here.

Job Film Days will once again take part in the Turin International Book Fair this year with two events organized in collaboration with Inail Piemonte and the Turin Order of Labor Consultants , on Sunday, May 17th, 2026 .  At 3.30 P.M., at the INPS-INAIL Space (Stand X118, Oval Pavillion), there will be an encounter with Paola Fassone, Inail Piemonte, and Job Film Days contributors Stefania Collina, freelance journalist, and Giuseppe Gariazzo, cinema critic, on the theme “How can cinema portray labour and workplace accidents, and communicate the value of prevention“. The international award for long-feature films will also be discussed, supported by Inail Piemonte, which each year presents a quality selection of work cinema’s new trends. At 5:00 PM , at the Spazio Consulenti del Lavoro in the Oval Outdoor Area , Piazzale 3, PZ3 01, a meeting will be held on the experience and outlook of the Job Film Days scriptwriting workshop “ Dall’idea al soggetto ” (From Idea to Scriptment), which reaches its fifth edition in 2026. Speakers at the meeting will include Stefania Collina, Matteo Bellizzi, director and workshop tutor, Giacomo Mosca (winner of the 2025 writing workshop best scriptment award), Riccardo Berca and Rocco Zaupa, […]

The writing workshop “From idea to Scriptment” returns this year with the fifth editionof Job Film Days: an encounter with writing for cinema on labor themes organized by Job Film Days ETS in collaboration with Associazione Videocommunity. Three days of encounters and debates in Turin (May 9 th, May 30th, June 13th ), during which film industry experts and representatives from labour organizations will direct the participants in the writing process of a scriptment to send at the Job Film Days’ Festival Contests section, within August 31 st .  During the Festival, awards will be presented to the best screenplays and story treatments, made possible by the support of the Turin Order of Labor Consultants and Aurora Penne. Registration and participation are free of charge. Applications must be submitted by April 24, 2026 . Download the call for applications  and the full program . You can submit your application by filling out the online FORM .

On the night of March 15th and 16th, the 2026 Academy Awards were presented, and the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature went to David Borenstein‘s Mr. Nobody Against Putin . Last October, the film won the Best Feature Film Award in the “Lavoro 2025” JFD-INAIL Piemonte competition at the 6th edition of the Job Film Days festival (September 30 – October 5, 2025). Produced using secretly-recorded footage with a great risk for personal safety, the film won over the festival jury with the strength of its story and its ability to face themes of major social importance with clarity and courage.  Job Film Days expresses great satisfaction with this achievement, which once again testifies the festival?s role as a space of discovery and valorization of high-profile cinematic works capable of stimulating debate and reflection on themes such as work and rights, offering a profound insight  into contemporary reality.