Festivals

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When

26/01
23/12

DOC IN TOUR 2026

La rassegna, organizzata da Regione Emilia-Romagna, Fice Emilia-Romagna, D.E-R e Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, presenta, nella sua 19esima edizione
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07/05
29/09

LE SERRE D'ESTATE 2026

Dal 7 maggio al 29 settembre torna la rassegna culturale alle Serre: un ricco programma gratuito e aperto alla città tra cinema, musica, incontri, market e festival
15/05
27/09

BOLOGNA ESTATE 2026

Dal 15 maggio al 27 settembre è tempo di Bologna Estate: il cartellone di iniziative estive che porta musica, cinema, spettacolo, danza, arte, letture e incontri in città e nell’area metropolitana
21/08
26/09

MUSICA IN-CHIOSTRO 2026

Undici appuntamenti di “note e parole”, da Patrizio Roversi, a Salvatore Borsellino, a Pietro Grasso, fino a Mariangela Gualtieri, con produzioni originali e prime nazionali. 
23/08
08/10

IBRIDA. CULTURE IN MISCELA

Rassegna di 9 appuntamenti che intreccia cinema, musica e letteratura, mettendo in dialogo linguaggi e forme espressive diverse.
10/09
15/11

FESTIVAL APERTO 2026

“Benvenuti in tempi interessanti” è il titolo della diciottesima edizione di Festival Aperto, in programma a Reggio Emilia dal 10 settembre al 15 novembre
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16/09
12/11

Modena Belcanto Festival 2026

Giunta alla terza edizione, la manifestazione che prosegue il suo percorso progettuale volto a custodire e rinnovare una delle più alte espressioni della tradizione musicale italiana
19/09
19/11

ACQUA 2026

ACQUA è una rassegna artistico-culturale rivolta ai territori e alle comunità della Bassa Romagna più duramente colpiti dagli eventi alluvionali degli scorsi anni.
21/09
10/10

TAXI DRIVER: YOU TALKIN' TO ME?

Mostra dedicata al 50° anniversario del film Taxi Driver. 
22/09
26/09

PARMA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL 2026

37 produzioni – film, cortometraggi, documentari – in quattro giorni intensi alla Casa della Musica, sede del Parma International Music Film Festival 
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Amarcort Film Festival - Rimini

Promoted by Smart Academy, the festival proposes a selection of Italian and foreign shorts for fiction, animation, with particular attention to themes regarding the Romagna area.

Address
Rimini

Bellaria Film Festival - Bellaria Igea Marina (RN)

The festival was created in 1983 from an initiative of the Tourists Office of the Municipality of Bellaria Igea Marina as "Anteprima per il cinema indipendente italiano”. From 2005 the name changed to the current one, with a slant towards international films.
Address
Bellaria-Igea Marina (RN)

Biografilm Festival. International Celebration of lives - Bologna

Biografilm is promoted by the Associazione Culturale Fanatic About Festivals and it is the first world event entirely dedicated to biopics and incredible life stories. All through the year offers events and important premières.

Address
Bologna

Bobbio Film Festival - Bobbio (PC)

Founded by Marco Bellocchio, the festival proposes the most interesting Italian films of the season and the protagonists of our cinema, as well a courses and training residential seminars in the permanent center "Fare cinema".
Address
Bobbio (PC)

Brescello Film Festival - Brescello (RE)

The festival promotes independent audio-visual productions, enhancing landscapes, areas, habits, new migration phenomena and the memories inherent in the concept of “small town”, and social and cultural influence that water holds onto the people and their area.
Address
Brescello (RE)

Ciné - Riccione (RN)

Promoted by ANICA in collaboration with ANEC and ANEM, Ciné gathers in Riccione the national film industry, presenting, as absolute preview, the best film products of the new season.
Address
Riccione (RN)

Cinemadivino - Mobile

This event proposes enjoying great films while in the cellar; this festival was born in Romagna and,today has been extended to numerous other Italian regions. Yesterday’s and today’s films, under the stars, combined with a good drink.

Cinemafrica - Bologna

The best films about and from the African continent, proposed by the students association Centro Studi Donati, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna.
Address
Bologna

Cinevasioni - Bologna

The first film festival organized and shown inside a prison. Hosted in Bologna’s prison called Dozza. The inmates are the jury.
Address
Bologna

CliCiak - Cesena (FC)

Competition and then travelling show of the still shots, taken with the purpose of creating a photo library of the Italian contemporary cinema.
Address
Cesena (FC)

Concorto Film Festival - Pontenure (PC)

Festival and international competition of shorts that, since 2002, proposes rare items and first works of young film-makers.
Address
Pontenure (PC)

Contaminazioni femminili - Ravenna

Cinema project that stresses those aspects apparently less visible: emotion, instinct, physicality. The festival deals with contemporary issue from the feminine point of view.
Address
Ravenna

Corti da Sogni. Antonio Ricci - Ravenna

Shorts International Festival promoted by Circolo del Cinema Sogni of Ravenna.
Address
Ravenna

Corti Vivi Film Fest - Soliera (MO)

Fondazione Campori Shorts Contest, to promote audio-visual language in its short form.
Address
Soliera (MO)

Corto Imola Festival - Imola (BO)

The best of international production can be voted on line, to confirm the artistic value of the short film, and a special event "Il giorno più corto", involving many locations in the town.
Address
Imola (BO)

Divergenti - Bologna

Unique film festival in Italy, and one of the few in the whole world entirely dedicated to narration and depiction of the transsexual and transgender experience.
Address
Bologna

Doc in Tour - Itinerante

Program sponsored by the Emilia-Romagna Region Council for Culture together with Federazione Italiana Cinema d’Essai - Emilia-Romagna, Associazione Documentaristi Emilia-Romagna and Cineteca di Bologna/Progetto Fronte del Pubblico.

Docunder 30 - Bologna

Festival dedicated to documentary film makers and authors under 30. Meetings and labs are part of this event.
Address
Bologna

Ennesimo Film Festival - Fiorano Modenese (MO)

The Festival intends to expand the knowledge of the artistry of films, particularly shorts, to show the audience the many variations of contemporary cinema at the international level.
Address
Fiorano Modenese (MO)

EstAsia - Cinema d'Oriente
 - Reggio Emilia

Open door on Asian cinema, to make communication easier and share experiences with the foreign communities in the area.
Address
Reggio Emilia

Estate Doc -Mobile

Summer program of documentaries and meetings with authors in many locations across Emilia Romagna.

Ferrara Film Festival - Ferrara

International Contest that ties Italian and USA cinema.
Address
Ferrara

Festival del cinema di Porretta Terme - Porretta Terme (BO)

In the wake of the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero of Porretta Terme, that during the 60s was one of the most important Italian anti-festival, this event promotes Italian cinema and its protagonists.
Address
Porretta Terme (BO)

Future Film Festival - Bologna

International show dedicated to animation, new technologies and special effects.
Address
Bologna

Gender Bender - Bologna

Imageries of contemporary culture tied to new representations of the body, gender identity and sexual orientation explained in a cultural context.
Address
Bologna

Gimme Shelter Film Festival - Modena

The festival is the result of a lab with young people of various nationalities, engaged in making a collective documentary; it offers a multi-disciplinary program of events tied with cultures from all over the world, with films in its center.
Address
Modena

Human Rights Nights - Bologna

Cinema and other art forms melt together to promote a culture of human rights and safeguard of civil rights, giving value to cultural diversity.
Address
Bologna

Il Cinema Ritrovato - Bologna

The great classics and very rare films, from archives all over the world, come back to their original splendour in Bologna, thanks to the Lab L'immagine Ritrovata, and they are screened in some of the town’s cinema theathers and in the largest European outdoors theather: Piazza Maggiore.
Address
Bologna

Mangiacinema Festival - Signature Food and Gourmet Cinema Festival - Salsomaggiore Terme (PR)

Free tastings, tasty screenings, cooking shows and meet the artists of Palate and Entertainment.
Address
Salsomaggiore Terme (PR)

MeiD in Italy - Faenza (RA)

The first Italian independent festival of musicals and music video clip.
Address
Faenza (RA)

Mente locale - Visioni sul territorio - Casalecchio di Reno (BO)

Screening in unusual places, “films inside the houses” and locations to be discovered through films, documentaries, music.

Montefeltro Film School Festival - Pennabilli (RN)

Festival dedicated to Cinema Schools of the world over and their authors and emerging film directors.
Address
Pennabilli (RN)

Mosaico d'Essai Film Fest - Ravenna

The best films, awarded in the most important world festivals, offering a wide panoramic of the most interesting international films.
Address
Ravenna

Movievalley Bazzacinema - Bazzano (BO)

In Valsamoggia a festival dedicated to cinema’s great protagonists and new talents, with special attention to shorts.
Address
Bazzano Bologna

Nonantola Film Festival - Nonantola - Ravarino - Castelfranco - Bomporto (MO)

The festival’s objective is promoting film making culture in the area, supporting the work of emerging and independent productions and film makers.
Address
Nonantola (MO)

Parma Video Film Festival - Parma

National event for young documentary makers,with retrospectives and focus on the great directors of world cinema.
Address
Parma

Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival - Ravenna

International Horror and Mystery Film Festival, with the best films, guests and journeys through the genre cult films.
Address
Ravenna

Reggio Film Festival - Reggio Emilia

Video makers from all over the world are invited to send their work, sticking to a theme chosen each year.
Address
Reggio nell'Emilia

Some prefer cake - Bologna

Annual festival dedicated to lesbian cinema.
Address
Bologna

Transizioni - Bologna

International show dedicated to photographic films, with the purpose to create a meeting point and a dialogue between the audience, the operators and the new photographic objects no longer static.
Address
Bologna

ViaEmiliaDocFest - On line and Modena

First Italian online Festival of documentary films. The films will be screened online for an entire month and then voted by a web audience.
Address
Modena

Visioni italiane - Bologna

National contest for shorts and medium-length films, for new authors or independent ones.
Address
Bologna

Youngabout International Film Fest - Bologna

Event proposing screenings and events dedicated to childhood and adolescence.
Address
Bologna

Zerotrenta Corto Festival - Argenta (FE)

The festival's main goal is to enhance short film works, which have always been a fertile ground for strong and innovative artistic and cultural proposals.
Address
Argenta (FE)

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