The Festival first aim is to encourage, through cinematographic art and expression, a reflection on relevant issues for women related to their specific cultural, political and social context but also according to a multicultural and global perspective. Therefore, the Festival itself wants to be a place for intercultural dialogue and dialectical comparison between different cinematographies as well as an opportunity to promote distribution of films that are unlikely to have access to commercial circuits, in spite of their quality and thematic relevance. The Festival pays also particular attention to emerging cinemas and young female filmmakers.
The Festival is divided into 3 competitive sections:
• Nuovi Sguardi, for international feature-length films and documentaries directed by women – Woman Director Cinema
• Sguardi (S)confinati, international female directed short films competition - Talent Under 35
• #FrameItalia – for Italian feature-length films and documentaries directed by both male and female filmmakers - Public choice 2019
The festival also includes non-competitive sections, such as:
• Human Rights, Today international section dedicated to documentaries and “docu-fiction” - directed by both male and female filmmakers - focused on human rights and their violation all over the world, in peacetime as well as during wars an social, political, economic conflicts etc...
• Other non-competitive special sections and focus on specific themes or on particular countries or geographical and political areas
Competitive sections are open only to films made by female directors.
Non-competitive sections are open to both male and female directors.