Prospettive - International Film Festival is well known and the festival promoting films that tells the story of cultures of cities. Held in historical city of Catania, the festival will feature films of both long form and short films telling stories of the culture and identity of urban suburbs, stories of contexts, people and communities. Prospettive is a project by Trame di Quartiere, winner of the Cineperiferie tender promoted by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, with artistic direction by Maria Arena and organizational direction by Massimo Finistrella.

Each day will be dedicated to a significant theme for the neighborhood and the city and the self-representation of the cultures and traditions of communities. Around the films, meetings will be proposed in which active realities in the city of Catania will be involved together with other guests such as directors, teachers, institutions, scholars, citizens and personalities who will offer insights and testimonies on the topics addressed. The event will take place within the San Berillo neighborhood, where a screening space will be set up inside Palazzo de Gaetani and various spaces for outdoor screenings in the streets and squares of the neighborhood.

Awards & Prizes

Trame di Quartiere has always promoted the use of audiovisual language as a tool for investigating reality. The competition for short films within the Prospettive 2024 series developed from this same idea. Award Categories include

Best Fiction Short Film
Best Experimental Short Film
Best Documentary Short Film
Jury Award for Best Cultural Short Film
Sponsors' Award
Audience Choice Award

Rules & Terms

1. The 2025 Perspectives International Film Competition
is organized by Trame di Quartiere and dedicated to works created in any format. The competition is open to all Italian and foreign authors with no age limits and no obligation to be unpublished. Anyone can participate as long as they are adults. Short films belonging to the documentary, animation or fiction genre may be presented.
2. The proposed short films must have a maximum duration of 30 minutes and must have been made after January 2023.
3. The aim of the competition is to encourage the use of cinematographic language as a tool for investigating the present and reality, therefore short films produced by both professionals and non-professionals can participate in the selection. Self-produced amateur projects or those produced in workshops will also be eligible for selection.
4. Each author can compete with only one work.

TIMES AND METHODS OF PARTICIPATION
5. The short films must be sent no later than November 2024 under penalty of exclusion from the competition and exclusively via a link where you can view the short via the filmfreeway platform. In this second case, the requested documentation must still be sent via email. You can download everything on the website www.prospettive.tramediquartiere.org.
The emails must contain the words: 2025 Perspectives International Film Competition in the subject and attach:
to. REGISTRATION FORM duly completed
b. RELEASE and PRIVACY INFORMATION completed and signed
c. LINK to the work which must have been uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, or other streaming platform, indicating the link and any password.
d. If the film is in another language other than English/Italian, it must have subtitles in English.
e. Each author is responsible for the content of his own works and any
false statements provided in the release (separate form).
f. Works sent without the necessary documentation will be excluded from the competition.

CONCLUSIONS
6. The organization reserves the right to make changes to the announcement following official communication on the Trame di Quartiere website.
7. Participation in the competition implies the unconditional acceptance of this regulation and the granting to the organizing association of the right to reproduce the films, whether selected or not, in all events linked to Prospettive or which have the aim of promoting the event or the Neighborhood Trame association.
8. Based on the provisions of law 196/03 on privacy, participation in the festival entails the author's authorization