Five Continents Film Festival

Short films form the cinema strand of the Festival dei Cinque Continenti, an itinerant arts event in southern Italy. Established in 2014, Cinque Continenti Film Festival uses international short filmmaking to encourage dialogue among cultural, social and religious identities. Its screenings use historic settings, including castles, cloisters, churches, palaces and town squares.

The festival is organized by the Venosa-based cultural association Il Circo dell’Arte with Artistica Management. Its competition combines audience selections at local screening stages with a professional jury for the final programme. Fiction, documentary, animation and experimental work are among the forms accepted.