Spi Stories | Bolle. Connessi. Sconnessi. Disconnessi (11)

Festival start: 01 May 2025      Festival end: 01 September 2025

The Spi Stories Short Film Festival reaches its thirteenth edition. The competition, created by the publisher LiberEtà and the CGIL Pensioners' Union, has chosen the title "Bolle. Connessi. Sconnessi. Disconnessi." ("Bubbles. Connected. Disconnected. Unplugged") for this edition.

This year, the competition focuses on the future that awaits us and how our daily choices can influence tomorrow. Climate change, social inequalities, global connectivity, and individual alienation are the central themes of this edition, which invites filmmakers to imagine future scenarios and tell stories that address the challenges of the present. The chosen title, “Bolle. Connessi. Sconnessi. Disconnessi” (Bubbles. Connected. Disconnected. Unplugged), is an invitation to explore the contradictions of an increasingly interconnected world, yet profoundly divided. The bubbles represent our social and economic isolation, while the concepts of connection and disconnection reflect the reality of a rapidly changing world in which each of us is involved, but also, at times, excluded. In the face of all this, our sociality will inevitably change. We ask filmmakers to immerse themselves in the future they wish to create, with the intent to share their vision of tomorrow’s possibilities and reflect on the contradictions of a world that appears ever more complex. “Connected, Disconnected, Unplugged” are the nuances of our existence in the present, as we prepare to face the challenges of an uncertain future.

Technology, with its pervasive power, unites us, separates us, and sometimes isolates us within bubbles of subjective reality.

Cash Prizes: 3,000€

The first prize will receive €3.000, while the second and third place winners will be awarded technology vouchers.

The duration of the short films should not exceed ten minutes.

The date of completion of the works should not be earlier than January 2024.

If the proposed short film is inspired by a work/ product already existing in the multimedia world, directors are obliged to cite the work they have used as reference and inspiration.

The work must be accompanied by: name, surname, address and brief profile of the author, and synopsis. Contact details must be sent by mail to multimedia@libereta.it (indicated in the subject line by the heading "Spi Stories 2025") no later than 15th February 2025. Short films can also be uploaded to the Festhome platform.

The works will first be viewed by a jury composed of experts, representatives of the Spi Cgil and LiberEtà. A technical jury will later select the three works that are considered the best representation of the theme of the competition.

The three finalists will be announced during the day dedicated to the LiberEtà Prize, on a date to be defined, but no later than December 2025. The author of the winning piece of work will receive a prize of three thousand euros; the second and third placed entries will receive a technology voucher.

LiberEtà and the organizers of the competition reserve the right to promote the programming of short films at the Spi Cgil facilities and in places, and in the manner deemed appropriate by the publishing house. Prior notice will given, if this occurs.

Authors of any participating entry must acknowledge this right of the organizers. Also, by submitting entries, they are agreeing for their work to be released for television and web uses, as short films, for web publication and for initiatives that we, our subscribers and anyone related to the Union of Italian pensioners of the CGIL will want to organize live in the different regions of Italy.

The organizers will inform the participants of the date and place of the programming of the works and the awarding of the prizes.

For all communications and information write to: multimedia@libereta.it

COMPLETE REGULATION: https://www.libereta.it/spi-stories-2025-il-bando-di-concorso