CORTI IN MOVIMENTO (6)

Festival start: 11 February 2026      Festival end: 31 March 2026

Corti in Movimento. Discover the Wonder of Your City
is designed for students and young filmmakers with a clear and meaningful goal: to explore and tell the story of the city of Pescara through the most widespread and immediate tool of our time—the smartphone.

Duration

Short films, created using a smartphone, must have a duration between 1 and 5 minutes.

Brevity thus becomes an exercise in style: just a few minutes to deliver a precise, clean, and memorable narrative.


Format and Permitted Techniques

All works must be produced exclusively with smartphones.

The required format is MP4.

Innovative techniques and creative solutions are strongly encouraged, including:

Time-lapse to convey the rhythm and breath of urban time;

Slow motion to isolate gestures and micro-events;

HDR shooting to ensure wide dynamic range between interiors and backlighting;

Creative filters and color grading to define a distinctive authorial style;

Optical or electronic stabilization and varied frame rates to enhance fluidity and rhythm;

Editing enriched with visual effects, original or public-domain music, and sound design.

Special attention to sound quality—often the invisible half of cinema—is an integral part of the work: soundscapes, voices, silence, and music all contribute to the construction of meaning.


Themes and Content

Participants may choose to tell stories about:

Iconic and historic locations: squares, theaters, architecture, museums, viewpoints;

Local traditions and popular festivals: rituals, songs, flavors, craftsmanship;

Stories of people who live and work in the city: portraits, professions, vocations;

Hidden and unexpected places: inner passages, courtyards, workshops, and overlooked corners waiting to be discovered;


The lights of the city at night:

Night transforms the city. Artificial lights—street lamps, signs, illuminated windows, headlights, screens—create new landscapes and reveal stories that remain invisible during the day.

This theme invites filmmakers to portray the city at night as both a physical and emotional space, where light becomes a symbol of life.


Narrative Style

Each short film may adopt the most suitable style—documentary, fiction, animation, video art, or hybrid forms—as long as the message remains clear, coherent, and engaging.


Creative Elements

The use of contemporary technologies is encouraged, including generative or assistive AI tools (for subtitles, audio descriptions, sound cleaning, or visual experimentation), filters, dynamic editing, evocative music, and experimentation with film language.

What matters most is that every technical choice serves the story and translates the city’s vitality and sense of wonder into images.


Evaluation Criteria

A jury composed of experts and students will evaluate the works based on four fundamental criteria:

Originality: a personal perspective on the city, the ability to surprise within a few minutes through a strong idea and a recognizable point of view;

Technical Quality: accuracy of shooting, stability, exposure and color; sound clarity; editing effectiveness and coherence between form and content;

Emotional Impact: the power to move the viewer through images, sound, and rhythm, leaving a lasting emotional and meaningful impression;

Clarity of Message: relevance to the theme, narrative readability, and communicative effectiveness in conveying the identity of the place or community portrayed.