Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival 11
The Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival reaches its eleventh edition, which will take place in a “widespread” dimension in Venice from 6th to 9th October with a very rich programme. Although the past year and a half has heavily influenced film festivals and cultural events in general, the Short offers its usual program composed special guests, numerous special programs and an International Competition with the best short films made by students of film schools and universities from all over the world.
The CFSFF is the first festival in Europe that was entirely conceived, organised and managed by a university and it is faithful to its mission of being an event thought out by young people for young people, with the coordination of the artistic and organisational director Roberta Novielli.
This year we had count 2.500 shorts for the preselection stage for the International Competition, from more than 100 countries. In addition to the 30 runners-up there will present, as usual, a rich program focused on the women’s rights and gender equality. Between this we can find a special program dedicated to the Herat International Women’s Film Festival, one of the most important festivals consecrated to women inside the Asiatic continent, and especially to its founder Roya Sadat and its coordinator Alka Sadat: afghani siblings who both followed a directing career. d its coordinator Alka Sadat: afghani siblings who both followed a directing career. Alka Sadat will be in Venice to show her documentary, Afghanistan Night Stories, a story about the afghani army fighting against talibans, along with a sequence of a powerful movie made by her sister, A letter to the President.
Finally, there will be presented also this year, two collateral contest: the Music Video International Competition, that will show the 10 best videoclip realised in this last year by international students; and the Olga Brunner Levi award, dedicated to the theme of women in music.
Date
InParadiso Art Gallery, 6th - 9th October 2021
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