MEET Film Festival (7)

Festival start: 01 April 2025      Festival end: 31 May 2025

We are pleased to announce the 7th edition of the MEET Film Festival, promoted by the MEET Association (Movies for European Education and Training).

A widespread festival organised in three territorial events:

Ercolano - Naples and Mazara del Vallo - Sicily (April 2025).
Garbatella - Rome (May 2025).

The main objective of the MEET Film Festival is to ​​create a bridge between schools and cinema as a means to encourage the use of audiovisual language ​​in teaching and learning, facilitating dialogue and social inclusion.

The Festival aims to raise awareness of the links between culture, education, training and cinema and to become an innovative environment where schools, institutions, associations and independent film directors can meet, discuss and exchange audiovisual productions inspired by educational issues.

The Festival promotes the knowledge and circulation of short films that are distinguished by the critical and original ways in which they interpret the role of cinema at school.

The Festival actively involves participant schools in the fruition and evaluation of the movies admitted, with the aim of training students and teachers to cinema and audiovisual language.

A jury of film professionals, students and educators will be appointed to assess and award the finalist entries from a technical perspective and for their content and communicative effectiveness.

Awards will be given out to the works ranking first in each of the Sections of the Festival (see 3.1); organizers can decide to introduce special mentions that will be announced during the Festival.

The decisions of the Jury are final and indisputable.

Awards will be communicated during the awards ceremony and authors will also receive a communication via email afterwards.

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE ENGLISH ANNOUNCEMENT ON OUR WEBSITE !!!

https://meetfilmfestival.eu/partecipa/
By submitting your entry to the Competition, you accept the regulations in the announcement without any exclusion

SECTIONS OF THE COMPETITION

A - SCHOOLS.
PARTICIPANTS ADMITTED: Single students and all kinds of primary and secondary schools in the world. (not university students).
TOPICS: Any film made at school or by students (free topic).

MAXIMUM DURATION: 15 min. (including opening and closing credits)


B - TRAINING INSTITUTIONS AND FILMMAKERS.
PARTICIPANTS ADMITTED: universities, university students, associations, NGOs, education and training institutions, independent filmmakers.
THEME: Works concerning the world of education, training and youth.

MAXIMUM LENGTH: 15 m (including opening and closing credits).