Bellaria Film Festival

42. Edition

Bellaria Film Festival

where:Bellaria (Italy)
when:May 8th - 12th, 2024
address:Viale Paolo Guidi, 108
IT-47814 Bellaria
tel:+39 0541-343891
email:info@bellariafilmfestival.org
website:www.bellariafilmfestival.org
deadline:February 23rd, 2024
entry form:Submission at Filmfreeway.com

Founded in 1983 under the name "Anteprima per il cinema indipendente italiano," it takes place in the Romagna resort of Bellaria Igea Marina. The festival has played a leading role in the promotion of Italian independent cinema and, throughout its evolution, has always highlighted the need for mixing and crossing of genres, durations and formats of audiovisual products. The Bellaria Film Festival is the home of Italian independent cinema, a special home, by the sea: a point of reference for new and courageous experiments in film language.

Festival competitions
- Casa Rossa Competition: committed to showcase the new voices of Italian cinema, focusing on first and second works that have a proven festival track record.
- International Competition: starting from this edition, will be added to Casa Rossa a competition of five international first and second works,evaluated by a jury of industry professionals.
- Gabbiano Competition: dedicated to highlighting a shortlist of films in firstworld or international premieres from the Italian independent scene, with no limit on format, genre or length and with a focus on research and innovation of language. The films will compete for the Gabbiano Award.
- Special events: films in national premiere, marking the new languages of the international scene and connections between Italian and foreign cinema.
- "3 Minute Green" Competition: After seventeen years, the Festival brings back the "3 Minute" competition: The proposed theme is inspired by the slogan "No Planet B" linked to various environmental and ecological awareness movements. 10 shorts will be screened as an opening to the feature films in the Casa Rossa section and judged by the Youth Jury.

Awards
- Casa Rossa award
Best Italian Film: €5,000.00

- International Competition Award
Best International Film: €5,000.00

- Gabbiano Award
Best Film: 3,000.00 €
Best film for cinematographic innovation: 2,000.00 €

- 3min Green Award
Best 3min: 2,500.00 €
Best Director: 500.00 €

BFF New Wave
A space created within the Bellaria Film Festival that brings together the educational HUB, Doc Itinerances and (IN)EMERGENCY:
The BFF HUB is a section of the Bellaria Film Festival of training and workshops, a creative atelier for independent cinema. The four classes are dedicated to creative production, film criticism, working as a programmer in film festivals, and the Bellaria Film Festival Youth Jury that will decide the winner of the Red House competition.
(In)emergenza is a support program for Italian independent cinema in collaboration with Cinecittà: a professional development project for young authors, authors, and producers aimed at supporting them in the delicate post-production phase of a film project.
Itineranze Doc is an atelier for the development of first works of "Cinema of the Real," unique in Italy, which unites six festivals dedicated to independent cinema.

BFF Industry Days
A project dedicated to supporting the work of young authors, often funded by emerging production companies. These are often small projects, but crucial in defining the beginning of an artistic path in the world of cinema. Supporting these projects in the final stage of production can really make the difference resulting in an optimization of potential creative resources.

Archive
The archive of Italian independent cinema (Bellaria Film Festival archive) has unique characteristics in Italy: in addition to preserving all the films of Italian independent filmmakers, it preserves within it the Italian independent cinema of the 1980s and 1990s, the experimental and research cinema, that of the transition between film and digital.

BFF Off
A series of events that explore how cinema is an art that embraces different lines of expression. Book presentations, musical events and meetings with guests who do not all work directly in the world of cinema, but who know the deep sense of what it means to explore the image in the contemporary world.

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