Biografilm Festival

22nd Edition

Biografilm Festival

when:	June 5th - 15th, 2026
address:	Via della Zecca 2 IT-40121 Bologna
tel:	+39 051 4070166
email:	info@biografilm.it
website:	www.biografilm.it
deadline:	March 18th, 2026
entry form:	Online Submission

The only international event entirely committed to promote and support biographies and life tales.
The Festival brings the best selection of biopics, documentaries and short films produced every year on an international basis.
Biografilm Festival has progressively dedicated a wide visibility not only to screenings, but also meetings, debates, presentations of books, theater shows, exhibitions, concerts and moments of exchange between the audience and the leading characters of the contemporary cultural scene.

participations

2025	The castle by Danny Biancardi, Stefano La Rosa, Virginia Nardelli: Concorso Internazionale Despite the scars by Felix Rier: Biografilm Italia Lights off - Loris Stecca’s neverending fight by Mattia Epifani: Biografilm Italia Le Macabre rock club - La famiglia del rock italiano by Luca Busso: Biografilm Art & Music Mireille e Antonio. À bout de petit souffle by Flaminia Cardini, Simone Pierini: Biografilm Italia Nichetti quantestorie by Stefano Oddi: Biografilm Art & Music School of life by Giuseppe Marco Albano: Special Events Womeness by Yvonne Sciò: Biografilm Art & Music
2024	La Storia, the scandal novel by Silvia Luzi: Special Event Prima della fine. Gli ultimi giorni di Enrico Berlinguer by Samuele Rossi: Biografilm Italia Romina by Valerio Lo Muzio, Michael Petrolini: Biografilm Italia - Audience Award, Premio DocPoint Helsinki Sindrome Italia by Ettore Mengozzi: Biografilm Italia - Premio TOP DOC L’ultima isola by Davide Lomma: Contemporary Lives - Audience Award Una vita all'assalto by Paolo Fazzini, Francesco Principini: Art & Music - Audience Award
2023	5 nanomoles - The Olympic dream of a trans woman by Elisa Mereghetti, Marco Mensa: Eventi Speciali After the Bridge by Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano: Biografilm Italia - Best Film BPER Award, Audience Award La bella addormentata by Vanni Gandolfo: Art & Music Chutzpah - Something on modesty by Monica Stambrini: Biografilm Italia The Deceit by Sebastiano Luca Insinga: Biografilm Italia The land you belong by Elena Rebeca Carini: Biografilm Italia Il padiglione sull'acqua by Stefano Croci, Silvia Siberini: Art & Music Pure unknown by Valentina Cicogna, Mattia Colombo: Concorso Internazionale - Audience Award The Quest by Giuseppe Petruzzellis: Biografilm Italia The Store by Hanna Sköld: Beyond Fiction - Oltre la finzione
2022	A noi rimane il mondo by Armin Ferrari: Biografilm Italia After a Revolution by Giovanni Buccomino: Concorso Internazionale Barber ring by Alessio Di Cosimo: Eventi Speciali Fortuna granda by Alberto Gottardo, Francesca Sironi: Biografilm Italia Gian Paolo Barbieri. The man and the beauty by Emiliano Scatarzi: Biografilm Art & Music - Audience Award Il gioco di Silvia by Valerio Lo Muzio, Emiliano Trovati: Special events The Great work by Corrado Punzi: Biografilm Italia Hide and seek by Victoria Fiore: Biografilm Italia I Never Went Back by Silvana Costa: Biografilm Italia In the name of Gerry Conlon by Lorenzo Moscia: Contemporary Lives Into My Name by Nicolò Bassetti: Eventi Speciali Nothing wrong by Davide Barletti, Gabriele Gianni: Biografilm Italia Novorossiya by Luca Gennari, Enrico Parenti: Biografilm Italia Radiopornopanda by Mauro Russo Rouge: Eventi Speciali Red Sky at Night by Emanuele Mengotti: Biografilm Italia
2021	Bella ciao – The story beyond the myth by Giulia Giapponesi: Bio to B Bloom up - A swinger couple story by Mauro Russo Rouge: Contemporary Lifes Cinecittà: Making of History by Emmanuelle Nobécourt: Art & Music day the night, One by Michele Aiello, Michele Cattani: Special Event A declaration of love by Marco Speroni: Biografilm Italia Game of the year by Alessandro Redaelli: Best Film Award Biografilm Italia Giovanni Boldini. Il piacere. Story of the artist by Manuela Teatini The Lion's Courage by Marco Spagnoli: Biografilm Art & Music la Macchia di inchiostro by Ciro Valerio Gatto: Art & Music My place is here by Michele Aiello: Best Film Award Biografilm Italia Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne by Peter Marcias: On The Square un Setting by Pietro Faiella: Larger Than Fiction
2020	All together by Marco Simon Puccioni: Biografilm Italia Gli Anni che cantano by Filippo Vendemmiati: Biografilm Art & Music Because of my body by Francesco Cannavà: Concorso internazionale Faith by Valentina Pedicini: Concorso internazionale The House of love by Luca Ferri: Biografilm Italia In a future April (The young Pasolini) by Francesco Costabile, Federico Savonitto: Biografilm Italia - Special Mention A Marble on a Dell by Francesca Iandiorio: Biografilm Art & Music Our Road by Pierfrancesco Li Donni: Biografilm Italia - Best Film Sons of Honour by Sophia Luvarà: Biografilm Art & Music: Sqizo by Duccio Fabbri: Biografilm Italia West of Babylonia by Emanuele Mengotti: Biografilm Italia
2019	At the matinée by Giangiacomo De Stefano: Biografilm Art&Music Dark corner by Fabio Caramaschi: Biografilm Italia Dicktatorship by Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi: Contemporary Lives The disappearance of my mother by Beniamino Barrese: Biografilm Italia Entierro by Maura Morales Bergmann: Biografilm Italia I had a dream by Claudia Tosi: Biografilm Italia Kentannos. May you live to be 100! by Victor Cruz: Contemporary Lives The Lone Girl by Marco Amenta: Biografilm Italia Massimo Minini. The Story of a Gallerist by Manuela Teatini: Biografilm Art&Music Ottanta! riflessioni di Romano Prodi by Francesco Conversano, Nene Grignaffini: Storie Italiane Una primavera by Valentina Primavera: Biografilm Italia Siddhartha by Damiano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Raponi: Hera Nuovi Talenti Those Who Remain by Ester Sparatore: Biografilm Italia - Best Film
2018	ALBE - A Life Beyond Earth by Elisa Fuksas: Biografilm Italia Almost Nothing by Anna de Manincor As It Is on Earth by Paolo Santolini: Storie italiane Bottoms Up by Brunella Filì: Biografilm Italia - Audience Award, Lifetales Award In the name of Antea by Massimo Martella: Special Screening The Last Italian Cowboys by Walter Bencini: Biografilm Italia The Pallonetto Bull. The Real Story Of Joe Esposito by Luigi Barletta: Storie italiane The sea urchin divers’ clan by Pietro Mereu: Biografilm Italia - Premio Ucca Stories of the half-light by Luca Magi: Biografilm Italia This is not a Cannolo by Tea Falco: Biografilm Italia
2017	After the War by Annarita Zambrano: Biografilm Europa All about Piera by Peter Marcias: Tribute to Piera Degli Esposti Aung San Suu Kyi's Life Under Arrest by Marco Martinelli: Biografilm Art Être et Durer by Maria Serena Mignani: Biografilm Italia - competition Funeralopolis. A suburban portrait by Alessandro Redaelli: Biografilm Italia Lifeguards in love by Fabio Paleari: Biografilm Italia Oltremare by Loredana Bianconi: Biografilm Italia - Best Film Yoga Award The Prince by Raffaele Passerini: LifeTales Award Italia, Audience Award Italia, Biografilm Follower Award Skyscraper cinema by Marco Bertozzi: Biografilm Italia A Western movie without horses by Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano: Storie italiane
2016	Al di qua by Corrado Franco: Biografilm Italia The Black Sheep by Antonio Martino From Catwalk to Ring by Simone Manetti: Biografilm Italia - Best Film, Special Mention First Film I met Magnus by Paolo "Fiore" Angelini: competition Un paese di Calabria by Shu Aiello, Catherine Catella: Concorso Italia See you in Texas by Vito Palmieri: Biografilm Italia - Audience Award Varichina by Mariangela Barbanente: Biografilm Italia
2015	L'equilibrio del cucchiaino by Adriano Sforzi: Biografilm Italia
2014	This Small by Angelo Marotta

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