Turin will host the first edition of Wake Up Europe! Festival, an international event entirely dedicated to the great challenges of our time, to reflect with the help of great documentary films on the questions those challenges raise and how the European Union and Europeans as a whole could and should respond to them.

The programme presents a “selection for reflection” at the Cinema Massimo, being 10 excellent documentaries, 5 presented for the first time in Italy, all chosen for their ability to inspire a debate on the fundamental issues of our common European space. They address challenges such as climate change, the dangers of ubiquitous technology, capitalism without rules, the crisis of democracy, gender equality, war at the gates of Europe, religious fundamentalisms, migratory phenomena and integration policies. The biggest priority in our selection has been to present ten films with a very high quality. So in the Wake Up Europe programme you will see films with amazing stories, meet charismatic characters and see great visual journeys.