Officinema Festival

The Cinema of tomorrow

Rooted in the present but looking to the future, Officinema has become an unmissable event for anyone who wants to discover cinematic debuts, independent productions and the best of student films from Europe’s major film schools. Seeking out the new frontiers of audiovisual media since its inception in 19XX, Officinema is a festival dedicated to the future, providing a showcase for the directors and films that will shape the next generation of cinema.

European schools and italian visions

The festival’s foundations rest on a pair of important sections which over the years have gambled on future talent and welcomed some of the most promising filmmakers at an international level: the Mostra delle Scuole Europee di Cinema (exhibition of European film schools) and Visioni Italiane (Italian visions). The first is designed to attract and publicize the finest works made in Europe’s film schools, while the second combs through the vast mass of independently produced short films made every year in Italy to find the best examples.

The best of local youth production

The festival’s orientation is completed and reinforced as it turns its gaze on the freshest local productions. Here there are another two categories, providing a stage for young filmmakers: the Luca De Nigris Prize for the best videos made in primary and secondary schools in Emilia-Romagna, and a panorama of the most recent locally made films in the section Fare cinema a Bologna (making films in Bologna).