Organization
Linea d'Ombra Festival is an international film and audiovisual festival, conceived and promoted by the SalernoInFestival Association Ente del Terzo Settore (ETS), supported by the Ministry of Culture, the Campania Region, and the City of Salerno, and created with the contribution of other public and/or private entities, associations, foundations and sponsors. The Festival is a member of AFIC (Association of Italian Film Festivals) and CFCC (Coordination of Film Festivals of the Campania Region).

Date
The 30th edition takes place in Salerno from November 8 to 15, 2025.

Project
Linea d'Ombra Festival is an event that aims to publicize and promote the best international film and audiovisual productions, particularly European ones, to relate the different forms of youth creativity and promote awareness of them among the public, to develop projects that have an effective educational and productive spin-off, to encourage the creation of collective works by young artists from different experiences, and finally to enhance the cultural potential of the Campania Region territory on a national and international level.

Loads of famous international and Italian directors such as Kenneth Branagh, the Dardenne Brothers, Ken Loach, Peter Cattaneo, Abas Kiarostami, Eran Riklis, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino, Nanni Moretti, Marco Tullio Giordana as well as many actresses and actors have been part of our festival throughout the years.

Juries and Prizes
The Linea d'Ombra Prize for the best film in the Passaggi d'Europa_30 section, with a cash prize of €3,000, will be awarded by a jury of experts composed of at least three experienced figures from the world of cinema and audiovisual media, chosen by the artistic direction of the Festival. The prize money is gross of the withholding taxes required by Italian law. The Public Jury (registered and present in the auditorium) will award the Linea d'Ombra Festival Award Plaque to the best film of the Passaggi d'Europa_30 section. The Artistic Direction, after consulting the Expert Jury, may give special mentions to films that have shown special technical and creative qualities.
The Jury of Experts may, at its discretion, split the prize money in the event of an ex aequo situation. The winner(s) will be paid the prize money exclusively, as stated in the prize-giving report signed by the members of the Jury of Experts. Third parties, including legal entities such as production and distribution companies, are not eligible to receive prize money, even if they can be traced to the winners.


Competitive section: Passaggi d’Europa_30
The competition is open to feature films (fiction, animation and/or documentary) in digital format, produced in Europe in the two-year period 2024-2025. The artistic direction will define the number of works admitted to the competition section, in any case not less than five, and this may vary according to programming requirements and project coherence. A group of experts and film scholars will oversee the pre-selection of works, and the festival's artistic direction will make the final choice of works admitted to the competition.

How to submit
- Films may be sent:
a. on the online platform: www.filmfreeway.com
b. on direct invitation by the Festival
- There is a fee of 5€ to be paid at the same time as entering the platform.
- The deadline for submission of a work in pre selection is 1 September 2025 at 23:59 UTC+1;
- The submission of a work to the competition implies full acceptance of these regulations. In the event of any dispute, the Italian text will prevail. For anything not covered by these regulations, the Festival organisation reserves the final decision.
- Acceptance of these regulations authorises Linea d'Ombra Festival to use the films selected for the competition in the Passaggi d’Europa_30 category. The organisation of the Festival will request the authorisation to present the work in competition in any other activities, directly organised and/or sponsored by the Festival, even outside the dates of the festival.

Competition Admission
The artistic direction will notify the official entry of the films in the competition by 10 September 2025. On receipt of this notification, the following materials must be sent as a matter of absolute priority, either by e-mail or by file transfer service, to intmanager@lineadombrafestival.it:
clean projection files in .mp4 or mov, full HD o 4K without subtitles;
.srt files of subtitles in Italian, if available, or in English;
synopsis (.doc, .rtf or .pdf format);
bio-filmography of the director (.doc, .rtf or .pdf format);
photos of the film and the director;
film data sheet (.doc, .rtf or .pdf format).

Communications
Communications relating to the pre-selection must be sent to:
intmanager@lineadombrafestival.it.