Dear Asian filmmakers, the Bergamo Film Meeting (Italy) is accepting feature films (both fiction and documentary) until December 5, 2025.

About the festival:
Bergamo Film Meeting offers every year a dense and varied programme that confirms the Festival’s incessant research to compare the most innovative trends of contemporary cinema with the styles, genres and authors of the past.

For 9 days, with over 150 films, including shorts and feature films, Bergamo Film Meeting, confirming itself as one of the most prestigious Italian cinema events, becomes the crossroads of international cinema, proposing guests, meetings, special events, exhibitions, workshops, master classes, screenings for schools and numerous initiatives which – thanks to the collaboration of partners and institutions – allow to wander between the infinite contaminations of cinema with art, literature, music and comics.

Sections:
– Exhibition Competition section: for fiction feature films
– Close Up section: for Documentaries.

Eligibility:
– The festival accepts feature films both fictions (over 60 minutes) and documentaries (over 50 minutes).
– Films must have been completed after January 1, 2024.
– Films must be Italian Premiere.
– The Screening format is DCP.
– Submission Fee: $ 6 USD
– Deadline: December 5, 2025
– Notification Date: February 21, 2026

We recommend filmmakers to read the full Rules and Regulations here: https://www.bergamofilmmeeting.it/bfm/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RegolamentoIT_2024_DEF.pdf

To submit to the festival please visit: https://filmfreeway.com/BergamoFilmMeeting

We remind readers that the 44th Bergamo Film Meeting will take place from March 7 – 15, 2026 in Bergamo, Italy.

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