FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI SALERNO (75)

Festival start: 22 November 2021      Festival end: 27 November 2021

Il Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno was founded in 1946 by CINECLUB SALERNO.

Since its inception, the Salerno Festival has been characterized as a competitive event for Italian and international productions, thus proposing a continuous comparison on the developments of world cinematography.

The Festival assigns to cinema an important social function and its finality is to constantly adapt its line with an eye to the evolution of technologies and new "audiovisual" media.

The 75th Salerno International Film Festival will take place in the city of Salerno from 22 to 27 November 2021. As it is not possible to hold the Film Competition "in presence", it will also take place on a dedicated VOD platform, in order to make the vision of the films participating in the Festival wider.
Films uploaded to the platform will only be visible to those who register on the site and cannot be downloaded. Those who register on the site to watch the films will be able to vote for their favourites for the "PUBLIC PRIZE".

If you do not wish to be present on the platform, the recorded film will only be seen by the jury.
In addition to the Competitions of the various Film Sections, the Festival also offers reviews, retrospectives and collateral activities (Exhibitions, Conferences, Round Tables, etc.) as a contribution to the dissemination of the History of Italian and International Cinema.

On the final evening of 27 November, prizes will be awarded to the winning films and awards will be presented to important personalities in the artistic, social and cultural fields.

Both the side events and the awards ceremony will be streamed on the Festival's social channels.

The film admitted will be submitted to a TECHNICAL JURY formed by directors, critics and cinema experts, journalists and university professors who will assign:

• CATEGORY TROPHY for the various SECTIONS
If there is no film that excels on the others the Category Trophy for the Section may not be awarded.

For each section the Jury may assign one or more Awards for particular merits of the work.

• GRAN TROFEO GOLFO DI SALERNO “IGNAZIO ROSSI” for the best filmic work ever.

• A POPULAR JURY, made up of people who participate assiduously in the screenings, will award the PUBLIC AWARD.

The Film Contests of the Festival are divided into various sections and exactly:

1) Feature Film
2) Short films
3) Television Fiction
4) Film Dossier
5) Cartoons
6) Commercials, Videoclip and Smartphone movie
7) “VIDESCUOLA”: Contest reserved for films made by students of the Schools of all levels.
8) "CAMPANY DISCOVERY". In this section participate films (both documentaries and fiction) that have the aim of valorizing places of social, cultural and tourist interest of the Campania Region.
9) "ENVIRONMENT" section addressed exclusively to documentaries with environmental themes. The competing works will have to address this theme by highlighting the socio-cultural and scientific aspects as well as proposals on initiatives to defend the eco-system.
10) Soundtrack Competition
11) Competition: “The Cinema for a Book - a book for the Cinema”
12) Documentaries with Sections of specialized Cinematographies:
• Experimental
• Sporty
• Tourism
• Underwater video
• Didactics
• Industrial
• Information
• Surgical doctor
• Religious
• Scientific
• Social