Chameleon Film Festival - Contemporary Visions

After the great success of the previous editions, the Fourth Edition of the Chameleon Film Festival is underway.

The Chameleon Film Festival – Visions from Contemporary Art was born from the initiative of a group of cinephiles, industry experts and cinematographic art enthusiasts who dream of a regeneration of the audiovisual market, increasingly incapable, especially in Italy, of giving space to independent products and of offering the general public works that can truly tell the story of contemporaneity.

If in the post-war period Italian Neorealism had started a real revolution, both in the specifics of the language and in the production methods, opening up for the first time to the consideration of reality as such, outside the artificial scenarios of prose theaters, the cinema of the last decades seems in some way to return to a rejection of reality, and, even more seriously, to succeed without returning to the confines of factories, but by cloaking itself in highly realistic photographic settings and characteristics that are only apparently inspired by reality.

With the obvious exception of a few, one has the impression of stagnating in the usual stories, the usual dialogues, the usual contrite emotions, without ever being able to see beyond. Can we perhaps think that only great events, be they wars or devastations of any kind, can be worthy of note for a cinema that intends to tell reality? Or is there also an ordinary, everyday reality, apparently immobile, but rich in nuances, contrasts and profound anxieties that deserve just as much attention? Where do those anxieties really come from? Are they simply an intimate effect of the economic-political order, or are there more hidden reasons that invade the psychic and spiritual sphere of the contemporary world? Which cinema, theater or literature really addresses these questions? How can we then describe this chameleon-like contemporaneity? The Chameleon Film Festival therefore aims to give space to those new authors who know how to tell glimpses of contemporary everyday life in their films, tearing the veil of appearances, of the obvious, of the already seen and the already said.

For the works presented in the Review Category there will be the possibility of obtaining an official critical review and an interview with the Director who will be given ample space on our website.

The works must necessarily be subtitled in English in the case of non-Italian productions. A jury of experts will view the films with a gaze free from the constraints of the market, from distribution impositions, from categories of thought, to reward the most deserving works and thus begin to form the Contemporary Library, a virtual audiovisual library that collects short films capable in some way of giving us an authentic and analytical image of the contemporary world.

Every month a winner will be announced for each category.
Our annual live screening event will be held on September 23, 2025.

The CFF will screen films, but the selection of a film will not imply its screening. The jury will choose the screening of the films based on their own criteria, always striving to distribute the largest number of films to the largest audience possible.