“Let’s change! Il clima sta cambiando. Parliamone”, the Public and Social Engagement – ​​Third Mission project of the Department of Engineering and Architecture at UniTS, has concluded. The effects of climate change are increasingly tangible in Trieste too. Negative impacts on terrestrial and marine ecosystems and extreme weather events such as flooding and heatwaves are causing increasingly significant damage to the local area, to infrastructure and facilities of public interest, to economic activities, and to health. From this perspective, sharing scientific knowledge on the ongoing transition and promoting awareness-raising initiatives and mobilizing governments and civil society is increasingly urgent.

On Friday, May 22, 2026, at 8:00 PM, the Ariston Cinema, located at Viale Romolo Gessi 14, Trieste, will screen the following film:

"Don't Let the Sun", Switzerland, Italy, 2025, 100 minutes, original version, Italian subtitles
by Jacqueline Zünd, starring Levan Gelbakhiani, Maria Pia Pepe, Agnese Claisse, Karidja Touré, and Cecilia Bertozzi

Jonah (28 years old) works for an agency that provides human relationships on demand: a paid service designed to fill emotional voids and shield people from disappointment—perfect in an era when intimacy is increasingly hard to reach. Extreme climate conditions have made it impossible to live in daylight: the Earth has warmed to the point where people are forced to live only at night. But while the external temperature has risen, the internal one – emotional and affective – has dropped to freezing. Jonah has no trouble slipping into other people’s roles, living lives that are not his own. He feels more at ease when he can be someone else. But a new assignment forces him out of the script: he must take on the role of father to Nika, a 9-year-old girl. Her melancholy and silence unsettle him. When Nika slowly begins to open up, something stirs within him too – something that has been buried for far too long. His control over a world made of fiction and perfectly regulated relationships begins to crumble. Their encounter ignites a light in the night– a light that illuminates Nika and overwhelms Jonah until it burns him.

The film - with free admission - is the debut feature of Swiss director Jacqueline Zünd. Presented at the Locarno Film Festival, it premiered in Trieste.

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