Overview

• At a civic event at the Casa degli Autori, director Alberto Barbera pledged solidarity with Trentini’s family and said the festival will amplify the case.
• Barbera called the prolonged detention unacceptable, stressing that no specific accusation has been presented against Trentini.
• Trentini’s mother, Armanda Colusso, read a letter urging the Italian government to deliver concrete action to bring her son home.
• Family and organizers appealed to artists, journalists and the public to write, speak and spread the message to increase pressure for his release.
• Trentini has been held in Caracas since November 2024 and, according to his family, has managed only two brief calls and no one has been allowed to meet him.