◽ 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶. - 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗸 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝘂 (𝗥𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗺 𝗜𝗙𝗙 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻)

◽ 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴. - 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁-𝗙𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿)

◽ 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘺. - 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝟭𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 (𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲)

➖ 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘. ➖

𝟏𝟎.𝟐𝟎𝟓 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟏𝟎𝟐 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱, 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟓.𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝟗𝟒 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝟭𝟱 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀, 𝟕𝟗 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱, 𝟒𝟕 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝟔 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆, 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟯𝟳𝟬.𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

These are just some of the numbers of the first six editions of the 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 (CVFF), a short film festival made with the contribution of Calabria Film Commission and the Municipality of Castrovillari, under the artistic direction of the Venice Critics' Week winning director Antonio La Camera and the composer Francesco Sottile.

Attentive to young cinema since its inception, the festival aims to create a meeting point between the authors of the future, within the frame offered by the city of Castrovillari.

Driven by our slogan 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 we are looking to showcase the authors of the future: directors that are capable of shooting films that can reflect their innermost soul and their own personal gaze on the world. Wherever they are on the globe, whatever their budget is: we are aiming for the ones who can really speak from their soul into an original, new cinematic language, that can cheer our crowds and open their hearts.

We have always paid great attention to Chinese cinema, having already selected in the past short films such as "The Wather Murmurs" bu Story Chen, "Will You Look at Me" by Shuli Huang (winner of the Best Editing Award in the 2022 edition), "She Runs" by Qiu Yang (winner of the Best Director and Young Jury Award in the 2020 edition) and "Umbilical" by Danski Tang.

Directors as Prantik Narayan Basu (Rotterdam IFF winner, Berlinale alumn), Yorgos Zois (Semane de la Critique nominated), Guy Nattiv (Academy Award® winner), Alan King (Clermont-Ferrand official selected), Tommaso Santambrogio (Venice Film Festival winner), Anthony Nti (Academy Award® short listed), Jérémy Comte (Academy Award® nominated) has been part of our festival with their shorts films, showing their gazes and giving us a taste of what the future of cinema will be.

➖ 𝗪𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗧 𝗡𝗢 𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗦 𝗪𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪 ➖

The City of Castrovillari will be hosting again our 2025 edition, in which our aim is to provide both entertainment and culture to our ancient city through innovative languages and author's works of short cinema, choosing an heterogeneous array of films in a 2025 program that will include entertaining, uncanny, emotional, thoughtful, challenging films with no nationality or budget or theme restrictions.

We are interested in seeing your short films, in seeing your worlds, in being guided by your vision of the future.
Our international jury awaits you.

We hope to see you among the authors of the future in Castrovillari.