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The Report on Applications for the 14th Edition of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images

The deadline to apply for the 14th edition of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images expired on May 23, 2025.

A total of 156 applications were received from 54 different countries, including Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Benin, Brazil, China, Colombia, Finland, Japan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Palestine, Peru, Senegal, United States, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Australia.

More than half of the applications were submitted by women artists.

The eight selected artists will receive a notification via e-mail by September 30, 2025.

La Montagna Magica winner of the Cinematic Innovation Award at the Bellaria Film Festival

We are pleased to announce that La Montagna Magica by Micol Roubini has won the Cinematic Innovation Award at the Bellaria Film Festival 2025.

“For a cinematic approach that intertwines dream and reality, direct sound and performative action, observational cinema and archival research, aiming to dig deep into the earth and bring to light the nightmares and crimes of a legacy still present yet forgotten, the Cinematic Innovation Award goes to La Montagna Magica by Micol Roubini.”

The film, co-produced by Altauro Film and Lo schermo dell’arte, originates from the homonymous video installation created with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity and the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC), as part of the 11th edition of the Italian Council (2022), promoted and produced by Lo schermo dell’arte, with the contribution of nctm e l’arte, and curated by Gabi Scardi.

Randa Maroufi is the featured artist of the Focus section at the 18th edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte

Lo schermo dell’arte is pleased to announce that artist Randa Maroufi (1987, Morocco) will be the featured artist of the Lo schermo dell’arte Focus in November 2025. Each year, the focus highlights an artist who has distinguished themselves through innovative and experimental use of cinematic language.

Previously selected for the VISIO program in 2022, Randa will also take part in the Cannes Film Festival, where her film L’Mina (Morocco, France, Italy, Qatar, 2025, 26′) will premiere in the Semaine de la Critique section. The film is co-produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film and Leonardo Bigazzi.

Set in Jerada, a mining town in Morocco where coal extraction, though officially halted in 2001, still continues informally to this day, L’Mina recreates current working conditions in the mining pits through a set design developed in collaboration with the town’s residents, who appear as themselves.

Congratulations, Randa — see you soon!

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