“What is independent cinema? It’s made of works capable of making us forget how, where and why they were born, then capable of making us wonder.”
– Enrico Ghezzi

The Bellaria Film Festival is the home of Italian independent cinema, a special home, by the sea: since 1983 a reference point for new and courageous experiments in film language.

The 42nd of the Festival is ready to welcome you!

The future is an ancient sea. And what will remain of our time? A question that returns at a historically and socially critical time. This is what the protagonists of BFF42 – among others Bruno Dumont and Alice Rohrwacher – try to answer with their “restless” films.