Garden in Movies/ShortFilmFest (4)

Festival start: 01 August 2025      Festival end: 03 August 2025

The Garden-in-Movies Film Festival, founded in 2017 as part of the Radicepura Garden Festival, a biennial event dedicated to Mediterranean landscape design, has reached its fourth edition and will take place on August 1-3, 2025, at the Radicepura Botanical Park in Giarre (Catania, Italy).

At the heart of the festival is the intersection between gardens and cinematic storytelling, explored from a broad perspective that embraces fundamental cultural, political, social, and artistic values. The themes go beyond nature and landscape to include ecology, sustainability, education, culture, human rights, social engagement, and environmental awareness.

The Garden-in-Movies/ShortFilmFest International Short Film Competition is open to all works that, through cinematic language, highlight nature, the environment, landscape, ecology, and sustainability as key drivers of growth and cultural exchange. However, the "garden" is also seen as a metaphor for any place, context, dynamic, or relationship that fosters and nurtures essential cultural, political, social, and artistic values. Therefore, films that interpret the concept of "garden" from this perspective are also eligible for selection.

Alla scadenza del presente bando, le opere pervenute nei termini stabiliti saranno visionate dalla direzione artistica del Garden-in-Movies, coadiuvata da un comitato di selezione, che individuerà una rosa di opere
finaliste. Le opere finaliste verranno proiettate durante la IV edizione del Garden-in-Movies (1-2-3 agosto 2025) e concorreranno per l’aggiudicazione del premio al Miglior Cortometraggio e del Premio del Pubblico.

I premi saranno assegnati da una Giuria qualificata e da una Giuria popolare.

La Giuria di qualità sarà composta da tre membri nominati dalla direzione artistica del Festival e individuati tra esperti del settore cinematografico, televisivo, dell’arte, della cultura, del giornalismo, dello spettacolo e
del paesaggio.

La Giuria popolare sarà formata dal pubblico presente alle proiezioni, che potrà esprimere il proprio voto attraverso appositi moduli, distribuiti durante le tre serate del Festival.

Eventuali menzioni speciali, attribuite dalla Giuria di qualità, verranno comunicate durante la serata di premiazione.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

The Garden-in-Movies/ShortFilmFest International Short Film Competition is open to all fiction, documentary, and animated short films of any narrative genre (drama, comedy, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy, noir, etc.), with a maximum duration of 15 minutes (including opening and closing credits), from any country, whether previously released or not, as long as they were produced after January 1, 2023.

All films in Italian must have English subtitles, and all films in English must have Italian subtitles. Films in any other foreign language (other than English) must have Italian subtitles, and preferably English subtitles as well.

SUBMISSION & DEADLINE

Short films must be submitted through the application form available on this page.
For more information, please contact gardeninmovies@radicepura.com or call +39 095964154.

The submission deadline for entries and required materials is April 30, 2025.