Malatesta Short Film Festival
Category
ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
Deadline | Event Dates (period)
29/08/2025 - 04/09/2025
City
Cesena, Italy
Email
Website
Edition
7
Final submission deadline
2023-05-07
Submission/Registration Fee
Yes
Festival Description
Matesta Short is an international short film festival, based in Cesena, Italy. The mission of the festival is to reflect on the forms of short films. The festival explores and evaluates both traditional and non-standard styles and genres of audiovisual experiences, such as video art, social videos and experimental film-making. MalatestaShort Film Festival offers the opportunity to inspect and analyze the social meaning and role of movie-making and viewing, also re-imagining the location of cinema venues.
2023 Call For Entries (Archive)
All genres and formats are eligible to participate in the festival and to receive an award in one or more categories. Only short films produced after 01/01/2020 can be eligible, with the following runtimes, according to the various categories:
- Best Narrative film: award € 350, maximum runtime 30’ (fiction and narrative animations)
- Best Documentary film: award € 350, maximum runtime 30’
(documentaries and cinema of the real, archive films, docu-fiction, cinema and territory, author documentaries) - Best Experimental and Art film: award € 350, maximum runtime 30’
(experimental films, found footage, experimental archive films, art films, performing arts) This section is dedicated to experimental short works of any genre, including non-narrative animations, independent works, and works linked to contemporary art galleries. - Brazil Focus: award € 300, maximum runtime 30’ (any genre: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, etc.)
Are considered works by Brazilian authors, or by authors from all over the world that address issues related to Brazil. - Best Short Music, Dance and Performing Arts: award € 150, maximum runtime 5’
(videodance, videopoem, videoclip, music films, etc.) - Cinema Libre Award, by Albedo: € 100
- Submit via FilmFreeway
- Deadline: 16 April (regular), 7 May 2023 (late)
2020 Festival Coverage
Animation Winners: Best Animation Udahnut zivot (Imbued life) by Ivana Bosniak and Thomas Johnson, Croatia 2019
Special mention: Streets of Fury, by Aidan McAteer, Ireland 2019
NB: 2025 Festival Dates are tentative
Event Dates
- From 29/08/2025 to 04/09/2025
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