Gulf Of Naples Independent Film Festival (12)

Festival start: 27 November 2026      Festival end: 27 November 2026

The "Gulf of Naples Independent Film Festival" is an event intended to serve as an international showcase for films of various types and gender, in order to promote and spread the art, auteur and experimental films that are not released in cinemas playhouses, to foster dialogue between different experiences and to create a meeting point for the support of cinema culture.

Best Feature Film
Best Short Film
Best Feature Documentary
Best Short Documentary
Best Short Student SmartPhone
Best Short Animation
Best Short AI
Best Screenplay "Elvio Porta Award"
Best Poster "Alberto Bruno Award"
Jury Special Mentions
Festival Special Mentions

Films from all nations will be considered only if they have:

- English and Italian subtitles
- Feature Films with a minimum length of 60 minutes
- Short Doc with maximum length of 25 minutes
- Short Films with maximum lenght of 25 minutes
- Student Smartphone Short Film max of 8 minutes
- Feature Doc with a maximum lengh of 45 minutes
- Any lenght for AI short Films
- Any lenght for Animation Films

- for Student SmartPhone Short film (max 8 m.)*

*Participants in primary and secondary schools (10-18 years old) are considered "students", with an indication of their school and reference teacher.

Discounted fees are available for schools that submit multiple works by students from the same institution.

Works that have already been screened at other festivals or distributed over the internet will also be accepted.

If a film is selected, screening formats allowed are: mov, h264, mpeg4. Other formats must be approved by the Festival Programming Office.
Discounted rates are available to schools that submit several works of their own students
All entry fees are non-refundable.

Materials can be sent via wetransfer, transfernow, google drive or similar applicationa to: info@gulfofnaplesfilmfestival.com

The screenings of the films in competition will always be free both during the festival and in subsequent events that will be organized to promote festivals and authors for which requests for rental costs or other types of charges to be borne by the festival will not be taken into consideration.

Registration to the festival and sending of the material constitutes acceptance of the regulation in all its points

For the experience gained in the different editions, we recommend, in the interest of the participants, that films in Italian have English subtitles and English-language films have Italian subtitles.

For films in other languages, the subtitles will be in Italian and English, thus giving the international jury the opportunity to choose the language they prefer and give a fair evaluation to the work by interpreting the dialogues correctly.

Rights of use

Participants assign to the Festival, without any compensation, the right to reproduce photos or excerpts of up to three minutes of their film for publications on social media, on its website, in the press, on television and through its network of partners. Participants guarantee to the Festival Management that they own all necessary rights of use (authorship, images and intellectual property) and grant authorized persons the right to use, in whole or in part, these films.

Some films will be able to be screened again free of charge in theaters and other venues under the supervision of the Festival. These additional screenings will take place after the official competition for further development and visibility of both the works and the Festival.

Participation in the Festival implies the unconditional acceptance of these regulations.