35mm Film Festival (2)

Festival start: 27 September 2025      Festival end: 28 September 2025

The 35mm Film Festival was born in Milan from the desire to share the love of cinema and to give voice to talent. The main goal is to create an opportunity for artists and film enthusiasts to meet.

The first edition of the festival was held on 19 and 20 October 2024 at ‘Il Cinemino’ and ‘Area Zelig’. This will be possible thanks to the event, which will be held for two consecutive days: on the first day, there will be screenings of the projects selected to participate at the festival; on the second day, there will be TALKS with the directors in competition and the jury, and finally THE AWARD EVENING.

We accept short films from all over the world, fiction or documentary, of any genre and shot on all types of support, both digital and analog. The second edition of the 35mm Film Festival will be held in MILAN on September 27 and 28, 2025.

-AWARDS AND SCREENING

The awards will be presented during the final evening of the festival on September 28, 2025. Screenings of the 16 selected short films will take place during September 27, 2025. The audience present at the screenings will be able to express their preference among the works viewed.

The audience votes will determine the favorite work of the two days of screenings, which will be awarded the AUDIENCE AWARD. The 35mm Film Festival jury will assign an award for each of the following categories: BEST FICTION SHORT FILM, BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM. BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST ACTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITING; The 16 works selected at the Festival will be announced on August 29, 2025. All 16 selected films will be screened during the two-day festival. The winners will be announced on September 28, during the awards night.

- REGISTRATION and ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS.

Registration for the 35mm Film Festival opens on January 19, 2025 and closes on August 19, 2025:

January 27 - Opening Submissions February 25 - First deadline March 23 - Second deadline April 21 - Third deadline May 19 - Fourth deadline June 17 - Fifth deadline July 15 - Sixth deadline August 13 - Last deadline August 18 - Notification Day (Official Selection) September 27-28 - Screenings, Talk and awards Night Short Film and documentary made from January 1, 2023 to the present are eligible for the competition. Works from all parts of the world are admitted to the competition without exception.

Films not made in the Italian language must be subtitled in Italian or english. Fiction and documentary works of less than 35 minutes in length are admitted to the competition.

By submitting a project, the author declares that he/she owns all rights of economic use and vision of his/her project and all its parts. He/she also declares that his/her project is original and does not infringe on the rights of any third party. In case of an untrue statement and in case of any claims by the actual copyright holders, the authors absolve the Festival and the organizers from any legal and economic liability and agree to be fully responsible for the consequences attached to and connected with the fraud.
Each Author may enter more than one work. By entering the competition, you allow the Festival to use your project and the material that will be requested for publicity, media and promotional purposes, as well as permission to screen your work during the days of the event. The author agrees to provide an e-mail address, to which all relevant communications will be sent. In the case of films entered by festival distribution companies, the author's e-mail contact must be provided at the time of entry. Please feel free to contact the organizers at info@35mmfilmfestival.com if you have any questions before submitting your work to the 35mm Film Festival. If your work is not selected for the competition, the entry fee will not be refunded. In case the Festival decides, at its sole discretion, to screen works out of competition, the authors of those works will be contacted by the organization. Works must be submitted to the Festival no later than August 13, 2025, so that the organization can view them all.

- SELECTION and ADMISSION TO THE COMPETITION.

Candidate films will be initially evaluated by a technical committee to certify that they possess the requirements of the regulations. Entry does not actually imply selection of the work at the Festival. The selection of films is made by and at the discretion of the Festival. Official selections will be announced on August 18, 2025.

16 projects will be admitted to the Official Competition Selection. Then the works will be judged by an external jury that will decide the winners in the various categories. The owners of the works selected for the competition and the festival days must send the material useful for screening and publicity communication by September 2, 2025:

-The short film/documentary and trailer files, through online file transfer services (e.g., WeTransfer). Videos must have the following quality requirements in order to ensure optimal streaming: maximum size of 40 GB; a minimum resolution of 1920x1080; a video codec: Apple ProRes 422HQ or Apple ProRes 444 / H264. -Poster of the film work A4 vertical, minimum resolution 300dpi (29.7 x 21 cm / 3508 x 2480 px) in JPG format; The schedule of the screenings are by the Festival Management, which will publish a general catalog of the submitted works. The screening will take place in a cinema theater.

All 16 selected projects will be screened during the first day of the Festival, September 27 2025. All 16 works will compete for the 8 categories.