Short Days

𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗙 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠𝗦 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡, 𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗔.

Next screening in Rome, coming soon!

“Short Days” is an international 𝗜𝗠𝗗𝗕 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 short film festival that has been active in several Italian cities since 2015. Keeping its nature of periodical screening, since 2018 “Short Days” has become a unique festival, with its own peculiar format that our public has come to love.

𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗢𝗙 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗔.

Every edition the production will chose a new artistic director that will propose his own idea of cinema. Since 2018 we hosted 25 editions curated by some of the most interesting talents of the new generation of Italian filmmakers, screening more than 80 films with thousands of spectators, both offline in cinema venues and online on our own platform. This is not a fake monthly festival. People are going to watch your short and they're going to watch in a curated program by our artistic directors.

This is how our process of selection works:
- The submissions are watched by a pre-selection panel and put in an archive divided by genre, themes, and mood that we share with the new artistic director.
- The new artistic director every season chooses his own mood, genre, taste or topic for the edition and drafts the best films for his idea from the archive. This means that a single submission may be watched by two, three, ten different artistic directors in a year. If it's not chosen by the first, it might be chosen by the others that come later and, in any case, will remain in our archive forever.

𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗦

▪ Olga Torrico, David di Donatello nominee director, and Adam Selo, distributor
▪ Antonio Romagnoli, director and film critic, winner of Best Italian Film Critic Blog
▪ Giulia Di Maggio & Collettivo Corrente, directors collective
▪ Gabriele Biasi, Venice SIC@SIC Winner for Best director
▪ Eclettica, italian collective and producers

𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗦

▪ Alain Parroni, Venice Selected director
▪ Tommaso Santambrogio, Venice Selected director produced by Werner Herzog & Lav Diaz
▪ Veronica Spedicati, winner of best director at Venice Film Critic Week, David di Donatello Nominee for Best Short Film
▪ Giulia Di Battista, Locarno selected director
▪ Toni Trupia, Nastri D'argento winner director and screenwriter
▪ Antonio Di Biase & Davide Perego, director and film critic, founders of Tafano
▪ Tommaso Frangini, Venice Selected director
▪ Marcello Di Trocchio, italan producer and curator
▪ Eleonora Contessi, Venice selected cinematographer
▪ Lorenzo Tardella, Berlinale selected director
▪ Giulia Grandinetti, Venice Selected director

𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗦

▪ Andrea Gatopoulos, italian producer and director (Oct 2018)
▪ Lilian Sassanelli Nissen, german/italian director and actress (Nov 2018)
▪ Elio Di Pace, italian photographer and director (Jan 2019)
▪ Rossella Inglese, italian award winner director (Feb 2019)
▪ Samuele Sestieri, italian director (May 2019)
▪ Lorenzo Berghella, italian director (June 2019)
▪ Konstantinos Stragalinos, greek director (July 2019)
▪ Paolo Strippoli, italian director (Aug 2019)
▪ Adriano Giotti, italian director (Oct 2019)
▪ Daniele Parisi, italian actor (Nov 2019)

𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗢 𝗡𝗢𝗪

▪ Acid Rain by Tomek Popakul (30’ Poland)
▪ Aqueronte by Manuel Muñoz Rivas (26’, Documentary, Spain)
▪ Bye, Little Block by by Éva Darabos (9’ Hungary)
▪ Supereroi senza superpoteri by Beatrice Baldacci (18’ Italy)
▪ Sticker by George Unkowski (18’ Belarus)

Short Days is produced by IL VARCO CINEMA

Short Days is partnered with:
- Nuovo Cinema Aquila
- FedraHub
- Gargantua Film Distribution
- Il Varco International Short Film Festival
- Rome Prisma Film Awards
- Desenzano Film Fest
- Castrovillari Film Festival