MIRfestival 2026

MIR 2025 programme was created, like the previous ones, with deep concern for the dark and turbulent times we are living through as well as for the role that we, as citizens, can play at this juncture. Our societies are being torn apart, yet we are still searching for ways to act collectively, to dream of a shared future and to fight for it. Our fragmented reality leads us to believe that each one of us accepts what is happening as the new normal.ity But is that really true? MIR's programme as a whole, and the projects it hosts as autonomous works, are a battle cry in a never-ending struggle. The programme was created and will be woven every day with an eye on both the East and the West, on the citizens who are already rising up in countries close to us, on the peoples living in fear of war and annihilation a little further afield, on the peoples torn apart by authoritarian regimes and civil wars, on those struggling to breathe in suffocating conditions, on those fighting for their lives every day, on citizens who struggle to make ends meet but keep fighting, and on all those who strive to build a sense of community, to stand tall and to articulate a meaningful message.