๐—” ๐—ก๐—˜๐—ช ๐—–๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ง๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—”๐—Ÿ ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—Ÿ๐—˜๐—–๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—ฆ๐—›๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—ง ๐—™๐—œ๐—Ÿ๐— ๐—ฆ ๐—˜๐—ฉ๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฌ ๐—˜๐——๐—œ๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก, ๐—–๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ง๐—˜๐—— ๐—•๐—ฌ ๐—ง๐—”๐—Ÿ๐—˜๐—ก๐—ง๐—ฆ ๐—™๐—ฅ๐—ข๐—  ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐—ก๐—˜๐—ช ๐—š๐—˜๐—ก๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—œ๐—ง๐—”๐—Ÿ๐—œ๐—”๐—ก ๐—–๐—œ๐—ก๐—˜๐— ๐—”.

Next edition in Milan!
Bari, Rome and San Francisco coming soon!

โ€œShort Daysโ€ is an international ๐—œ๐— ๐——๐—• ๐—ค๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ณ๐˜†๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด short film festival that has been active in several Italian cities since 2015. Keeping its nature of periodical screening, since 2018 โ€œShort Daysโ€ has become a unique festival, with its own peculiar format that our public has come to love.

๐—” ๐—ก๐—˜๐—ช ๐—œ๐——๐—˜๐—” ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—™๐—˜๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—œ๐—ฉ๐—”๐—Ÿ ๐—™๐—ข๐—ฅ ๐—ก๐—˜๐—ช ๐—œ๐——๐—˜๐—”๐—ฆ ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—–๐—œ๐—ก๐—˜๐— ๐—”.

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.

๐—–๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—ก๐—ง ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—”๐—ฅ๐—ง๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—œ๐—– ๐——๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—–๐—ง๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—ฆ

โ–ช Olga Torrico, David di Donatello nominee director, and Adam Selo, distributor
โ–ช Antonio Romagnoli, director and film critic, winner of Best Italian Film Critic Blog
โ–ช Giulia Di Maggio & Collettivo Corrente, directors collective

๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—–๐—ข๐—ก๐—— ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—”๐—ฅ๐—ง๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—œ๐—– ๐——๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—–๐—ง๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—ฆ

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

๐—™๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—ฆ๐—ง ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—”๐—ฅ๐—ง๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—œ๐—– ๐——๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—–๐—ง๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—ฆ

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

๐—ช๐—œ๐—ก๐—ก๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฆ ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—ง๐—›๐—œ๐—ฆ ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—จ๐—ฃ ๐—ง๐—ข ๐—ก๐—ข๐—ช

โ–ช Acid Rain by Tomek Popakul (30โ€™ Poland)
โ–ช Aqueronte by Manuel Muรฑoz Rivas (26โ€™, Documentary, Spain)
โ–ช Bye, Little Block by by ร‰va Darabos (9โ€™ Hungary)

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

๐—ง๐—ข ๐—”๐—Ÿ๐—Ÿ ๐—ฆ๐—จ๐—•๐— ๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—ฆ๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก๐—ฆ
โ–ช All the submitters will receive discount codes from our partner festivals during the year amount to more than $40 in discounts.

๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ข๐—ก๐—”๐—Ÿ ๐—”๐—ช๐—”๐—ฅ๐——๐—ฆ
โ–ช Best short of the season (Trophy and $๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ต ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ)
โ–ช Honorable mentions and awards

โ€ข The festival is open to directors and producers of all ages and nationalities;
โ€ข Short films can be of any genre, theme and language and must be under 40โ€™;
โ€ข Non-english and non-italian short films should be subtitled in english or italian;
โ€ข In case of selection, an italian-subtitled copy must be provided.
โ€ข Short films must be produced later than 01/01/2016;
โ€ข The author declares to own all rights (music and film) for its short. Our festival is not responsible for any claim about copyright.

Overall Rating
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  • Kyoungwon Son

    Thank you for choosing my movie at a great concept film festival. What's sad is that I couldn't see online screenings in my country. But I'm happy to have participated.

    April 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you for your participation and for your amazing film!

  • Marios Lizides

    A great film festival which is both unusual and unique, thank you for selecting my film for your last online edition. I enjoyed the online interview, it was really lovely to speak with Andrea Gatopoulos and Giulia Di Battista. I wish you all the best to you and the festival.

    March 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you Marios for your gem and for your unique vision of filmmaking!

  • Giedrฤ— Burokaitฤ—

    Very well organized, with lots of attention to the filmmaker.

    March 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you Giedrฤ—, looking forward to follow you in your career.

  • Antonio La Camera

    A very interesting festival that offers a high quality selection in every edition, diversified each time by the chosen artistic director. A unique way to expand your knowledge of the world of short films.

    November 2020
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you so much for being one of us!

  • Salaud Morisset

    Keep going, and good luck for next year during these trying times!

    October 2020
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you for your work in the short film panorama!