Call for documentaries for Sole Luna Film Festival

 PALERMO – More than 200 documentaries have already been submitted to the 17th edition of the annual Sole Luna Doc Film Festival, which takes place every July in the Sicilian city.

 The festival showcases all kinds of stories - about the past and current world, human experiences, travels and encounters, urban and rural, the violation of human and environmental rights, and concrete examples or suggestions of ways to solve environmental and humanitarian crises.  

 The call is open to feature films and short movies completed after Jan. 1, 2020, and it will stay open until March 15. Both feature length and short films can be submitted to the competition. 

 The works submitted so far come from Austria, Mexico, Jordan, Iran, Brasil, Sweden, Morocco, Belgium, Canada, Italy, USA, Egypt, Argentina, Colombia, Poland, Bielorussia, Portugal, Israel, Qatar, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Ukraine.

 The event is organised by the non-profit organisation Sole Luna – Un ponte tra le culture. The main aim of the association is to promote values of solidarity and communication among peoples through documentaries and independent movies. 

 The 17th edition of SLDFF will take place from the July 4 to 10 2022. The enrollment to the festival is free of charge. 

 Since 2006 more than 125,000 people have participated in the festival, while the Sole Luna archive comprises around 10,000 documentaries coming from all over the world. The festival is chaired by Lucia Gotti Venturato, who created it, and relies on the artistic direction of directors Chiara Andrich and Andrea Mura, and the scientific direction of Gabriella D’Agostino professor of Cultural Anthropology  at the University of Palermo.

 

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