Welcome to the Milano Design Film Festival!
The Milano Design Film Festival is a cultural platform that, through the language of film, aims to bring the general public closer to the most contemporary concepts of design and architecture. The MDFF annual appointment – held in different venues in Milan at the end of November – showcases films by designers, and films on design by filmmakers and artists, exploring new tendencies and broadening the context and meanings of design and design research in the fields of consumption, care, social organisation, information and future industries.
The MDFF international programme is composed of curated sections and open submissions sections. The call to submit new films is now open
- MDFF22 Official Selection
- AFA – Architecture Film Award
MDFF22 OFFICIAL SELECTION
The MDFF22 Official Selection presents an international programme with the best and the newest design-related film productions.
Milano Design Film Festival has opened a worldwide call and offers the opportunity to designers, independent filmmakers and production and distribution companies to submit their works.
Your film can be a documentary, a short film, an art video or a feature film that explores themes related to architecture and design in their broadest aspects and meanings, as well as designers’ films intended as prototypes, research, presentations. The 10 selected films will be screened during the festival from 22-26 November 2022 as part of the Official Selection.
There is no restriction on duration, content, theme or genre, however it is mandatory to submit works completed during the last three years. Italian premières are truly welcome.
An administration fee of € 5 will be charged for each submission (payable in conjunction with the submission process via PayPal).
Please note that it is possible to submit the rough cut, ensuring implementation by the end of September (unpublished works only).
The deadline for submitting the films is 27 September 2022.
AFA – ARCHITECTURE FILM AWARD
Milano Design Film Festival organises Premio AFA – Architecture Film Award in collaboration with Fondazione dell’Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C of the Province of Milan (FOAM), aimed at promoting films about architecture and landscape.
The films may be fiction, documentaries, art videos, feature films, or short films, unreleased in Italy. The purpose of the Award is to explore the overlaps between architecture and filmmaking, promoting new ways of experiencing space and places, and encouraging and motivating architects in the use of audio-visual language as a means of communication.
The AFA is divided in two categories:
ARCHITECTURE'S FILMS
For films (medium-length and feature films) about ancient, modern and contemporary architecture
Prize: € 3,000
STUDIOS’ FILMS
For short films commissioned by architects to promote their projects.
Prize: € 1,500
Ten shortlisted films will be screened during the festival 22-26 November 2022.
The deadline for submitting the films is 27 September 2022.