BFF OPEN AIR COMING SOON
From July 10 to August 10 in Bellaria Igea Marina, BFF OPEN AIR turns on the projector in the open air, in the Apollo Arena, the beautiful courtyard of the Apollo Cinema, just a stone’s throw from the beach — the first screening venue open to the public in Bellaria in 1925.
BFF OPEN AIR brings contemporary cinema to the cinema of the past, to create an out-of-time atmosphere. 12 screenings to chronicle a year of emerging Italian cinema, art-house cinema and international blockbusters, to enjoy all the nuances of cinema.
PROGRAMME
10.07 | 21:30
Gloria! — Margherita Vicario
12.07 | 21:30
Perfect Days — Wim Wenders
13.07 | 21:30
Challengers — Luca Guadagnino
17.07 | 21:30
Gli oceani sono i veri continenti — Tommaso Santambrogio
19.07 | 21:30
May December — Todd Haynes
20.07 | 21:30
Il regno del pianeta delle scimmie — Wes Ball
31.07 | 21:30
Quell’estate con Irène — Carlo Sironi
02.08 | 21:00
Past Lives — Celine Song
03.08 | 21:00
Civil War — Alex Garland
07.08 | 21:00
La bella estate — Laura Luchetti
09.08 | 21:00
E la festa continua! — Robert Guédiguian
10.08 | 21:00
Furiosa — George Miller
Single ticket: 5€
Max 50 seats
L’Empire by Brun Dumont
Starting June 13, Bruno Dumont’s L’Empire is in theaters, distributed by AcademyTwo.
Landing from space in Italian theaters is the opening film of BFF42, presented as an Italian premiere, and already winner of the Silver Bear – Jury Prize at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
An eccentric and deep movie, in search of human dynamics between the opposite poles of a binary logic: the countryside, the space; the ancient, the contemporary; the good, the evil.
Behind the appearance of the mundane daily life of a fishing village on the Opal Coast, the epic parallel life of knights from interplanetary kingdoms emerges. Rival clans are engaged in a fierce and bloody battle following the announcement of the birth of Margat, the resurrected, purple and lurid Prince, the Beast of the End of Times, who is here on the Coast, the son of a young couple already separated, as is usual in a working-class neighborhood.
A film to laugh, but also to reflect, directed by a surprising authorial gaze.
Dumont offers a cinema capable of splitting all critical judgment through a look at the world that captures it “as it is” (to quote his words during the masterclass at BFF42). His vision is structural, privileging the relationship between bodies and spaces, and in his films he has used it to narrate the banality of evil and the mystery of reality through everyday life; as well as love as hope and as joy, violence and isolation, sex and death, guilt and mysticism.
With L’Empire, we witness the comic reversal of these themes, in the wake of the more recent outcomes of his artistic journey. Dumont seeks a form of sincere tenderness, of that “soft light” latent in every human being in the void of contemporaneity.
En passant, if after being at the cinema you feel like delving deeper, on Friday 14 at 01:30 a.m., on Rai3, at Fuori Orario – cose (mai) viste, you can watch in TV premiere the Talk on Cinema given by Bruno Dumont during BFF42. If you miss it, no problem, you can catch it later on RaiPlay, in the Fuori Orario strip, along with his films Coincoin et les z’inhumains and Jeannette.
BFF OPEN AIR
BFF OPEN AIR, screenings in the open air, starts on July 3.
We will experience them in the garden of the Apollo Cinema, a step away from the beach, in Bellaria Igea Marina — the first screening venue open to the public in Bellaria, active since 1925.
BFF OPEN AIR brings contemporary cinema to the cinema of the past, to enjoy an atmosphere out of time.
We will soon unveil the program, designed to tell the story of today’s multifaceted and dynamic cinema.
The winners | BFF42
The 42nd edition of Bellaria Film Festival ended last night! Five days of screenings, masterclasses, talks, and much much more… Moments shared and dedicated to film independence. We thank all our viewers of this special edition, without you this festival would not be the same.
Here are the winners:
CASA ROSSA AWARD
Best Italian film
Gli oceani sono i veri continenti by Tommaso Santambrogio
awarded by the giuria giovani
For the poetry that fills and permeates the images, creating spaces and silences that become spaces of thought, for the strength and sacredness of the shots, of the light that animates them, the skill of taking in and restoring reality, for the productive commitment and independent spirit, a contemplative cinema that knows how to take its own time, a collective, non-hierarchical work that can be a point of reference for new ways of filmmaking, for the ability to narrate something seemingly distant, but in fact profoundly universal, because oceans are the true continents.
Special mention for Simone Bozzelli
awarded by the giuria giovani
The Young Jury decided to award a special mention this year. We would like to thank Simone Bozzelli because he succeeds in representing sensitivities and issues common to us, not only through his films but also on the exterior by making his voice heard within a system that does not evolve.
CASA ROSSA INTERNAZIONALE PRIZE
Best international film
On the Go by Maria Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro
awarded by the jury composed of Federica Illuminati, Tommaso Colliva and Chiara Malta
By unanimous decision “On the Go” wins the Casa Rossa Internazionale prize. A modern punk story, at times unrefined, a film that brings into discourse current themes from original and subversive perspectives.
Special mention
Animal by Sofia Exarchou
awarded by the jury composed of Federica Illuminati, Tommaso Colliva and Chiara Malta
Special Mention goes to the director Sofia Exarchou for having made a film that ticks all the boxes, for its delicate observation and poetic expression of daily life.
SNCCI critic prize
Spirit of Ecstasy by Héléna Klotz
awarded by the jury composed of Joana Fresu de Azevedo, Giuseppe Ghigi, Alessandro Amato
For the film’s stylistic and narrative maturity, the representation of two distant but complimentary worlds. For its ability to connect two multilayered characters who are never reduced to stereotypes.
GABBIANO COMPETITION
Best film
Ludendo docet by Luca Ferri
awarded by the jury consisting of Alessandro Comodin, Carla Vulpiani, Roberto Cavallini
Semmai un pupazzo, in divenire nella sua analisi elegiaca, criticasse la ragion autoptica perché il vino rivela? Il film si rivela nella tensione tra campi regolamentari, dirige e rompe le regole del ping pong, per un pubblico esigente. Che belli i peli pubici, che si trasformano, si raddoppiano e poi si moltiplicano. Cadendo.
Best film for cinematic innovation
Horkos by Marta Anatra
awarded by the jury consisting of Alessandro Comodin, Carla Vulpiani, Roberto Cavallini
The film is a melancholy drift, poetry of a wounded landscape: a heartbreaking portrait of a community struggling between the inescapable blackmail of progress and the nature that endures in spite of it all.
OXILIA 10 PRIZE — in collaboration with Cinema Beltrade in Milan
Horkos by Marta Anatra
For the exploration of landscape as an ethnographic and aesthetic medium in a story of Sardinian and at once Italian and universal struggle, through an original and searching gaze, like a small flower that endures.
Impressio in urbe #3 – Brescia by Giuseppe Spina and Giulia Mazzone
For the technique and style with which they make us discover a more hidden face of Brescia, its oldest part. Frame after frame, the city is revealed and dissolved, time expands and speeds up giving us a kaleidoscopic journey through time and urban space.
MYMOVIES PRIZE
Audience Award to Mycelia by Alessandra Stefani
THREE-MINUTE SHORTS PRIZE
Best green film
Something We Forget to Remember by Valentina Manzoni
Awarded by the jury consisting of Ilaria Malagutti, Francesca Mazzoleni, Davide Vizzini, Matteo Maranzana, Monica Piscaglia.
Through a careful, scientific yet poetic study, the director creates a layered dialogue between past and future by questioning the deep meaning of image creation, from cyanotype to artificial intelligence. More than giving answers it poses questions, in search of what is still natural in the technique.
Best direction
30 anni in 3 minuti by Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
Awarded by the jury consisting of Ilaria Malagutti, Francesca Mazzoleni, Davide Vizzini, Matteo Maranzana, Monica Piscaglia.
Through careful and essential direction, the filmmakers evoke the environmental and human effects of the war over time, thanks to a narrative construction that is revealed only at the finale.
(in)emergenza | The winners!
BFF (in)emergenza, in collaboration with Cinecittà, is a program set up to support the filmmakers of tomorrow; a place to shine a spotlight on young talents in the early stage of their careers.
Eight selected projects were offered tutoring by three mentors Francesco Giai Via, Dario Zonta, and Aline Hervé, an opportunity to pitch in front of a group of industry professionals (producers, commissioners, and sales agents) during the Bellaria Film Festival, and concrete help in finalising the film, thanks to cash prizes and post-production support.
The jury, composed of the three mentors Francesco Giai Via, Dario Zonta, Aline Hervé and Maura Cosenza and Emanuela Zaccherini, chosen by Cinecittà, decided on the following awards:
• Cash prize worth €6,000: Sulla frontiera serba by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini
• Audio-video post-production prize offered by Cinecittà: Sulla frontiera serba by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini
• Video post-production prize offered by Cineport of Emilia-Romagna:La casa delle storie by Rosa Maietta, produced by Lorenzo Cioffi (Ladoc)
• Prize for synchronisation license for movie soundtrack use All Media/Mondo with unlimited tracks offered by Flippermusic: White Lies by Alba Zari, produced by Manuela Buono (Slinghshot Films)
• Consulting prize on editing and colour correction offered by Dimmer Academy:No trespassing by Alessandro Aniballi, Valerio D’Angelo, Martina Ghezzi and Daria Pomponio, produced by Alessandro Gagliardo for Matango srl
• Prize of €2,000 for the best Green-related film offered by sponsor Futuristika Green: Gli ultimiby Michele Sammarco, produced by Saverio Cappiello, Marco Gernone and Nicolò Accentura (Intervallo Film)
Qualcosa di nuovo in TV: Antonia and Supersex
Bellaria Film Festival opens up to TV series through the female gaze coming from the cinema of reality. The Festival will host a conversation between Chiara Martegiani – author and main performer of the series Antonia, and Chiara Malta, director of the series – active since 2008 with films such as the documentary Armando e la politica, Simple Women, and the animated film Linda e il pollo – Francesca Mazzoleni – director of several episodes of Supersex, the Netflix series on the life of Rocco Siffredi, and already active in directing since 2018 with Succede, and later with the documentary Punta Sacra – and Saul Nanni, new talent of Italian cinema and protagonist of the series Supersex.
Saturday, May 11 at 6:30 pm
BFF Salottino – Montemaggi Designer
Jury | Gabbiano Competition
Meet the jury of the Gabbiano competition: Alessandro Comodin, author and director; Carla Vulpiani, programmer and distributor; and Roberto Cavallini, producer.
They will be in charge of the Gabbiano section, awarding the Best Film Award and the Film Innovation Award.
Alessandro Comodin is an Italian director who studied filmmaking in Belgium. He lives in Paris but likes to shoot his films in the region where he grew up, Friuli, in the countryside and among the trees. He has written and directed three films for the cinema, but has never been able to define whether they are fiction or documentary films.
Carla Vulpiani lives between Ireland and Italy. After graduating with a degree in Cultural Heritage and a diploma in Documentary Practice in Milan, she began her career as a Festival Programmer and then co-artistic director at the Milano Film Festival. Dedicated to short films and animation of any length, she works as Production Manager for Animation Studio and Maps and Plans in Dublin, is Head of Animation Division at MIA Market & CoProduction Forum (Rome) and co-founder of Varicoloured Holistic Film Agency, a distribution company exclusively dedicated to short films. Since 2021, she has held the position of Short Film Advisor for the Venice International Film Festival – Orizzonti Corti.
Roberto Cavallini studied History of Art at Cà Foscari University in Venice then earned a PhD in Visual Cultures in 2010 with a thesis on Pier Paolo Pasolini (Goldsmiths, University of London) and from 2012 to 2016 he was Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies at Yasar University (Izmir, Turkey). Since 2021, he has been an expert trainer at MIUR for the National Plan Cinema and Images for School. Founder and producer of the independent production company Altrove Films (2017-2022) with which he has produced documentaries such as Malditos, Hoa, L’incorreggibile, To Us the World Remains – On the Paths of the Wu Ming Foundation, since 2020 he has been working as a producer at Albolina Film (Bolzano), where he is in charge of developing and producing fiction films, documentaries and co-productions for the international market. Roberto is an EAVE graduate, Rotterdam Producer Lab fellow 2023, and named European Emerging Producer 2020 (Jihlava IDFF) and has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2021.
Jury | Casa Rossa International
The jury of the Casa Rossa International competition:
Chiara Malta, director; Federica Illuminati, film agent and producer; and Tommaso Colliva, musician (Calibro 35) and record producer.
Chiara Malta has directed several short films presented and awarded in numerous international festivals. After the documentary Armando e la politica for La Lucarne Arte/ZDF, she became resident artist at Villa Medici. Her first feature film, Simple Women with Jasmine Trinca and Elina Löwensohn, opened the Discovery section of the Toronto Film Festival in 2019. Linda e il pollo, her first animated feature film, won the Cristal at Annecy and was nominated for the EFA’s five-year run, and received the Cesar 2024 for best animated film. In France she regularly directs episodes of the series Un si grand soleil for France TV. In Italy she directed the first season of the series Antonia, produced by Grøenlandia and Fidelio for Amazon Prime.
After graduation, Federica Illuminati began her career at MTV Europe, later moving to Rome to collaborate with Marco Bellocchio. She then worked with several film productions, collaborating with professionals such as casting director Francesco Vedovati, director Gabriele Muccino and producer Pietro Valsecchi. Later, she worked as a film agent, first at Officine Artistiche and then founding her own agency, Atelier Illuminati, in 2019. She has been a member of L.A.R.A., an association that has brought together the main representation agencies in the Italian film industry for nearly 30 years. In 2003 she founded Produzioni Illuminati, with which she has produced films, documentaries and fashion movies. She has experience in film scouting for over a century.
Tommaso Colliva is an Italian record producer, a multiple Grammy Award nominee and winner. Records produced by him have won the most prestigious awards in music including David di Donatello, Targa Tenco, Nastri D’Argento and many others. The song Fai Rumore (Diodato) produced by him won the 70th Sanremo Festival. He is the creator and founder of Calibro 35, the band sampled by Dr.Dre and JayZ. With Calibro 35 he has recorded and produced albums distributed worldwide, as well as numerous soundtracks including that of the TV series Blanca.
They have the burden and honor of decreeing the first winning film of the new Bellaria Film Festival competition.
Change of program for Alice Rohrwacher’s masterclass
Alice Rohrwacher’s masterclass Vedere l’invisibile has been moved to Wednesday, 08.05 5 p.m. at Palazzo del Turismo. The masterclass is free of charge and open to all.
We would like to take this opportunity to remind you that the director will receive the FilmIdee Award.
In addition, we will host Simona Pampallona’s photo exhibition Tra le rovine la luce — stills from the film La Chimera. The photos chronicle the filming of the movie, giving us a perspective on the light of cinema and art among the ruins of contemporaneity.
The exhibition will be opened on Wednesday, 08.05 at 6:30 p.m., at Palazzo del Turismo immediately after the masterclass. The exhibition can be visited free of charge during all days of the Festival.
Finally, La Chimera will be screened in the BFF FOR SCHOOL section on 09.05 at 10:00 a.m. to bring great contemporary cinema to the attention of future audiences. The event is also open to the public with accreditation or ticket, but priority will be given to male and female students from schools invited to attend.
L’Empire by Bruno Dumont
Each year Bellaria Film Festival opens with an evening in the name of great cinema on an international level, featuring the most significant film of the edition. Opening the 42nd Bellaria Film Festival is L’Empire by Bruno Dumont, winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
National premiere in the presence of the director!
Overview
Behind the appearance of the mundane daily life of a fishing village on the Opal Coast, the epic parallel lives of the knights of the interplanetary kingdoms emerge. Rival clans are engaged in a fierce and bloody battle following the announcement of the birth of Margat, the resurrected Prince, purple and lurid, the Beast of the End of Times, who is here on the Coast, the son of a young couple already separated, as is usual in a working-class neighbourhood….
Bruno Dumont will take a masterclass on his cinema. The masterclass is open to all and will be delivered in French, with simultaneous translation in Italian.
Born in 1958 in Bailleul in Flanders, he is one of the most austere and provocative filmmakers on the French film scene. A forerunner of “new mystical cinema,” capable of smashing all critical judgments with his gaze on the world, privileging the relationship between bodies and spaces, in his films he has recounted the banality of evil and the mystery of reality through everyday life, love as hope and as joy, violence and isolation, sex and death, guilt and mysticism. Themes then reversed with comic verve in the more recent outcomes of his artistic journey, in search of a form of sincere tenderness, of that “soft light” latent in every human being in the void of contemporaneity.
BFF Industry is here!
BFF Industry is born, a new programming space in which all festival activities aimed at industry professionals will converge. BFF Industry will be an opportunity to reflect on the new “independent” cinema and dedicate to its protagonists and interlocutors a series of talks, round tables and moments of confrontation that have always been supported by interlocutors such as the Emilia Romagna Film Commission and CNA Emilia Romagna and since the last edition the fundamental collaboration of Cinecittà.
“[…] Working on an Industry program in a context like Bellaria is an extraordinary opportunity to gather around the festival today those who in various capacities work in our industry to create opportunities within which new talents can emerge and develop. The goal is to make BFF Industry a plural and horizontal space, where we can build together not one but multiple compasses, as many as may be necessary to orient ourselves in the different paths to take between creativity, industry and the public.” — Francesco Giai Via, Head of BFF Industry
BFF Industry continues its collaboration with Cinecittà, thanks to which it structured (in)emergenza, a support program for Italian independent cinema in its second edition: a professional path accompanied by exceptional tutors dedicated to young directors and producers who will receive support to close their first films (thanks to cash prizes and post-production).
Eight selected projects, which will be offered tutoring by three mentors Francesco Giai Via, Dario Zonta, Aline Hervé, a pitch session in front of a group of industry professionals (producers, commissioners and sales agents) during the Bellaria Film Festival, and concrete help with finalization, thanks to cash prizes and post-production support.
The program is enriched by the development workshop Itineranze DOC, now in its third edition, is the first project in Italy to network six national festivals to train and support creatively and productively first-time feature film directors. A six-stage journey, from May to November 2024, to be experienced in the heart of the festivals, accompanying participants along the main stages of approaching the making of their work: from writing to preparing the pitch, from clarifying artistic choices to finding producers and sources of financing.
The Bellaria Film Festival is the first stage of this journey, within which the six selected projects will be presented in a public meeting with participants at the festival’s Industry days. The other five festivals involved are: IsReal (Nuoro), Sole Luna Doc Festival (Palermo), PerSo – Perugia Film Festival, FrontDoc (Aosta), Festival dei Popoli (Firenze).
The days, which will include a series of talks whose program will be announced soon, will end with a party for the tenth anniversary of the Regional Fund linked to the Cinema Law, organized by the Emilia Romagna Film Commission, on the beach in front of the Apollo Cinema.
BFF Industry is a project of Bellaria Film Festival realized in collaboration with Cinecittà with the support of Cineporto dell’Emilia-Romagna, Camera di Commercio della Romagna, CNA cinema audiovisivo Rimini, CNA cinema audiovisivo Emilia Romagna, Futuristika Green, Flippermusic, Dimmer Academy, Itineranze Doc.
The 42nd Edition is Approaching!
With the press conference on 09.04, at the headquarters of the Emilia-Romagna Region, we unveiled the program of the 42nd edition of the Bellaria Film Festival. It will be an edition made up of innovations designed for the future and founded on a renewed historical and social awareness of contemporary and independent cinema.
Discover more:
read the press release (in italian)
Alternatively, browse the full programme:
You can now book your accreditation for BFF 42!
ONLINE
Accreditations are now available for purchase on Liveticket
Upon purchasing accreditation, you will receive the official festival tote bag!
Additionally, single-entry tickets will be available for purchase starting in May.
TICKET OFFICE
April 23 through May 7, 2024 on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., at the Biblioteca Comunale A. Panzini (Via Guidi Paolo, 108, Bellaria-Igea Marina).
From May 8 to 12, 2024 daily, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. at the ticket office in front of the Biblioteca Comunale A. Panzini.
Looking for accommodation? Have a look at the accreditation + accommodation combo offered by the Milano Resort Hotel.
Welcome back to the three-minute one-theme shorts
Each year, one theme is proposed by the artistic direction draws filmmakers from all over Italy to narrate the chosen theme with their eyes, with the only rule being to stay within the three-minute time limit.
Past participants include Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco, Antonietta De Lillo, Paolo Sorrentino, Giogiò Franchini, Michelangelo Frammartino, Stefano Mordini, Luca Guadagnino, Yuri Ancarani and Samira Guadagnuolo, among others.
Shorts are the perfect tool to recount current events, and for Bellaria Film Festival this year the artistic direction has chosen to focus on the environment and its precariousness. For the 42nd edition, the three-minute competition’s theme is NO PLANET B – a reflection on the future, in the present emerging from the past: we neither a plan nor a planet B.
The boundary between civilisation and nature has grown distant and verging on collapse. Political, economic, and social choices spiral on a hotbed of questions: what role do we play in this change? What are the causes and what are the prospects of the environmental crisis? What can we do and how can our actions be felt?
It is up to your 3 minutes to interpret questions and answers, problems and solutions — and to show us your own perspective.
The 10 short films selected will be screened in the cinema before the films competing for the Casa Rossa award, as well as shared on our social media channels. During the closing ceremony, the competing films will all be screened together and awarded by a jury composed of film or industry personalities who have distinguished themselves with a “green sensibility.”
In collaboration with Futuristika Green, the prizes are:
– € 2,500 for the “Best 3 Minutes”
– € 500 for the “Best Director.”
In addition, the selected participant(s) will be guests at the festival for two nights.
READ THE WHOLE ANNOUNCEMENT HERE
THE CALL FOR BFF HUB IS NOW OPEN!
Bellaria Film Festival 42 will host for the third year its teaching and meeting programme for young film lovers and young film workers, from 8 to 12 May 2024. Four workshops with tutors and experts, to bring emerging young filmmakers together with European professionals:
BECOMING PRODUCERS | A workshop dedicated to young producers, their creative role and how to accompany an author;
WHAT A CRITIC! | A workshop dedicated to young critics, telling about a film, writing about it, forming their own taste. Built on the beautiful films that will be at BFF;
PROGRAMMER – The right film, when and where | A workshop for young programmers, to know which is the right film, which is the right place, to build the backbone of every festival: the films you watch in the hall;
GIURIA GIOVANI – A workshop dedicated to young studying cinema, who will decide the winner of the Casa Rossa section;
Registration is open until February 28 on the BFF website.
Fee is 60€ (workshop + accommodation)
Last year, BFF HUB hosted 60 young italian cinema lovers who attended workshops and talks with important guest: Helena Wittmann, Renato Berta, Francesco Giai Via alle registe e i registi Fabrizio Ferraro, Valentina Bertani, Riccardo Giacconi. They also had the chance to attend Ciak — the career day by CNA Cinema e Audiovisivo.
This year, BFF HUB are going to be the beating heart of the Festival again. A free, young and fresh space for discoveries and experience exchanges.
Waiting forward to seeing you in Bellaria!
BFF42 – NEW DATES!
The 42nd edition of Bellaria Film Festival, historical festival devoted to Italian independent films, will take place from 8 to 12 May 2024, in Bellaria Igea Marina. Firstly envisaged during the first week of May, the long-lived festival is postponed of one week to better fit the cinematographic national calendar.
Under the artistic direction of Daniela Persico and the organization by Approdi, art film start-up created by Sergio Canneto, Cesare Barbieri, Cecilia Guagnano ed Elena Monti.
The doors of the seaside house for Italian cinema are about to open again – a bigger and cozier house!
SUBMIT YOUR FILM AT THE 42 BELLARIA FILM FESTIVAL
From 3 November the official call for film submissions to the 42nd Bellaria Film Festival is open on FilmFreeWay. Double deadline: 18 December 2023 early bird and 23 February 2024 final deadline.
New gazes, new perspectives and visions of cinema: to broaden our horizons and boundaries, a new journey into independent cinema.
The call is mainly dedicated to two sections: the Gabbiano Award and the Special Events section. All information for submissions and entry is available on the following call.
DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL 2024 REGULATION
The Gabbiano Award, a historic prize of the Bellaria Film Festival since its first editions, is dedicated to highlighting a shortlist of world or international premieres of films from the Italian independent scene. No limits on genre or duration. Particular attention is paid to research and innovative language. There is a €3,000 prize for Best Film and a €2,000 prize for Cinematic Innovation.
The Special Events section is dedicated to Italian national premieres of films that mark new languages on the international scene and connections between Italian and world cinema.
The Bellaria Film Festival is a renowned Italian festival dedicated to independent cinema, now in its 42nd edition. It will take place from 8 to 12 May 2024, with the artistic direction of Daniela Persico and the organisational direction of Approdi srl.
Founded in 1983 as a Anteprima for Italian independent cinema, the Bellaria Film Festival boasts a prestigious history among Italian film festivals. It is one of the most authoritative Italian film events, thanks also to the prestigious and historic Casa Rossa Award, won over the years by Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Silvio Soldini, Paolo Sorrentino, Matteo Garrone, Gianfranco Rosi, Pietro Marcello, Daniele Segre, Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco, Michelangelo Frammartino and many others.
After a period of a few years in which the Festival was dedicated solely to documentary cinema, since 2022 it has returned to welcoming films of all lengths and genres, aiming in particular to support works of filmic linguistic research, young authors and new trends in cinema.
The 42nd Bellaria Film Festival hosts various sections: the Casa Rossa competition, the Gabbiano competition, the Gabbiano international competition and the Special Events section.
Where to sleep at BFF41
Here are the special agreements for overnight stays during Bellaria Film Festival 41 in Bellaria Igea Marina, from 10 to 14 May 2023.
To book one or more rooms, please contact Hotel Milano – Bellaria Igea Marina:
info@milanoresort.it – 0541 344235
www.milanoresort.it
Breakfast and accreditation for Bellaria Film Festival 41 is included for each person!
DOUBLE ROOM USE SINGLE (1 person)
- 2 nights: 112,00€
- 3 nights: 158,00€
- 4 nights: 195,00€
- 5 nights: 237,00€
DOUBLE DOUBLE ROOM (2 persons)
- 2 nights: 154,00€
- 3 nights: 205,00€
- 4 nights: 245,00€
- 5 nights: 295,00€
TRIPLE ROOM (3 persons)
- 2 nights: 230,00€
- 3 nights: 305,00€
- 4 nights: 368,00€
- 5 nights: 445,00€
New deadline for the Gabbiano competition!
Deadline extended to 12 March for the Seagull competition.
Until Sunday 12 March it will still be possible to enter films of any length, short or long, in the competition for the Gabbiano prize of the 41st Bellaria Film Festival. The Gabbiano Competition rewards and searches for ambitious, free, courageous films, with a strong research of cinematographic language, that are able to open cinema to the new looks of future Italian authors.
For information and registration visit the FilmFreeway platform at the following link: https://filmfreeway.com/BellariaFilmFestival
The 41st Bellaria Film Festival, the centre of Italian independent cinema, will be held from 10 to 14 May 2023, in Bellaria Igea Marina.
Submit your film at the 41 Bellaria Film Festival!
Calls for submit your film to the Bellaria Film Festival 41 are now open, both for the Casa Rossa and Gabbiano competitions.
For all those who have a film, or are in the process of completing it, calls are open for the two Bellaria Film Festival competitions, from 4 December 2022 to 5 March 2023. You can enter your film through the FilmFreeway platform.
The Gabbiano and Casa Rossa competitions are the two historical awards of the Bellaria Film Festival. A festival that has been dedicated to independent cinema, cinematographic innovation and courageous research for forty years.
The Casa Rossa competition is dedicated to first or second feature-length films that have a well-proven festival track record.
The Gabbiano competition is dedicated to works of any format, genre, length or medium with national or international premieres. Works that know how to experiment with cinematographic language and be bold.
The director or producer must be of Italian nationality.
The complete regulations can be found here.
The 41st edition of the Bellaria Film Festival will be held in Bellaria Igea Marina (Rimini) from 10 to 14 May 2023, under the artistic direction of Daniela Persico and with the organisational direction of Approdi.
