Ardea Film Festival is a cinematic cultural event held in the city of Ardea, an Italian municipality within the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, in the Lazio region.
The Festival promotes several calls aimed at engaging citizens, artists, professionals, and students, with the goal of igniting a passion for cinema as an experience of sharing, contemplation, listening, and discovery - an invitation to rediscover and experience cinema in the city of Ardea in its deepest and most authentic dimension.
Ardea Film Festival aims, through screenings, meetings with directors, workshops, retrospectives and exhibitions, to educate about the image, stimulate a critical reading of film language and create moments of intergenerational comparison. The promotion of film culture will also be supported by an open and varied program, designed to engage a broad and varied audience, as well as by collaborations with schools, universities, and training institutions.
Ardea Film Festival aims to creatively enhance the local cultural heritage, a narrative territory par excellence: its thousand-year history, natural landscape, historical architecture and places of memory represent an immense unexpressed potential that the festival intends to highlight through the gaze of the camera, restoring a new visibility to the material and immaterial assets of the territory, promoting an emotional, dynamic and participatory knowledge of it.
Awards & Prizes
The awards will consist of commemorative plaques for the event and will be divided into the following categories:
Category - Short Film (Il Cinema degli Autori)
- Best Short Film Award
- Best Director Award
- Best Cinematography Award
Category - Documentary (Il Cinema del Reale)
- Best Documentary Award
- Best Director Award
- Best Cinematography Award
Category - Student (Il Cinema degli Esordi)
- Best Short Film Award
Special Mentions will also be awarded to works of particular cultural relevance:
Special Mentions
- Territorial Promotion Award
- Social Issues Award
- Visual Arts Award