Words like bridges. To cross the thresholds without violating them. To live as common space every frontier “: this is the backbone of Taobuk 2025, the festival just ended in Taormina after six intense days marked by over 80 events with more than 200 international guests from 30 countries. A festival “which has crossed the theme of boundaries to reaffirm how indispensable – is possible – mutual respect”, said the president and artistic director Antonella Ferrarawhich announced the dates of the next edition, the number 16: from 18 to 22 June 2026.
The Rosa dei Premiati, who spoke at the Taobuk Gala which will be broadcast on Raiuno tonight at 11.15 pm and which was conducted by Ferrara and by by Massimiliano Ossiniwith the soundtrack entrusted also this year to the Orchestra of the Massimo Bellini Theater in Catania, led by the superintendent Giovanni Cultrera di Montesanomusic co -producer of the evening. On the podium the conductor Gianna Fratta. The Taobuk Award for Literary Excellence was delivered to PEter Cameron, Amélie Nothomb, Zadie Smith and Susanna Tamaro. For the visual arts to the Chinese artist in the Weiwei. For the cinema to the actress and activist Whoopi Goldberg, in Monica Guerritore and Pierfrancesco Favino; For the music to the soprano Jessica Pratt, to the pianist Ramin Bahrami and to the singer -songwriter Paola Turci; For dance at the first dancer of the Paris Opéra Andrea Sarri and the National Coreographic Center / Aterballetto Compagnia.
Javier Cercas, Gioconda Belli, Yasmina Khadra and many other great authors and authors have offered narratives capable of crossing the geographical, cultural and individual barriers. Among the most intense moments, the celebration of the 70 years of the Messina and Taormina Conference, with the presence of 36 foreign ministers and a reflection on a Mediterranean returned to the center of the great Global issuesand the first edition of the wizard witch award, awarded to Anna Foa for “The suicide of Israel” (Laterza) and, in its international version, to Anne Applebaum, turning on a necessary debate on critical thinking as a compass to orient themselves in our time.
«Thanks – concluded Ferrara – to the guests who brought visions, rigor, passion. Thanks to the curators, to moderators, the scientific committee, for the generous intelligence with which they traced the path. And thanks, above all, to the public: careful, participant, curious. Finally, thanks to the institutions, to the partners, to the civil and artistic community: we leave from this edition screened already ahead. Because each border, if crossed together, can become a new beginning ».
