HIGHLIGHTS
Florence
12 – 16 November 2025
Cinema La Compagnia, Palazzo Strozzi, NYU Florence, Institut français Firenze, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Palazzo Gucci
Opening night with Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments, a live documentary by Mila Turajlić exploring Yugoslav archives and African revolutions.
Focus on Randa Maroufi, a Franco-Moroccan artist whose work investigates bodies, public space, and gender issues.
Throughout the Festival: VR installations by Italian artists Valentina Furian and Claudia Losi at Palazzo Strozzi, an exhibition on Armin Linke at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, and screenings of BLKNWS by Kahlil Joseph at Palazzo Gucci.
The program will also feature La Defense III – Demons to Diamonds (2024) by Valentin Noujaïm and the world premiere of Afternoon Hearsay (2025) by Peng Zuqiang, both produced through the VISIO Production Fund.
Also confirmed: streaming on MYmovies ONE, the Under 30 Audience Award, and free admission for visitors under 30.
14th Edition
Florence, November 12–16, 2025
Selected from over 150 applications from 54 countries, eight artists will take part in VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images during Lo schermo dell’arte in Florence, from November 12 to 16.
Three of them will receive support for the production of a new video work through the VISIO Production Fund(€35,000), in collaboration with Centro Pecci, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Frac Bretagne, and with additional support from Human Company.
The selected artists are:
Tohé Commaret (1992, France/Chile), Rafik Greiss (1997, Egypt), Vir Andres Hera (1990, Mexico), Maxime Jean-Baptiste (1993, France), Olukemi Lijadu (1994, United Kingdom/Nigeria), Thomias Radin (1993, France), Jordan Strafer (1990, United States), and Shen Xin (1990, China).
The streaming channel of Lo schermo dell’arte, dedicated to artist cinema and documentaries on contemporary artists, is now available on MYmovies ONE.
This collection features films that successfully straddle genres, as presented in various editions of the festival, focusing on the use of moving images and urgent contemporary issues.
These films include portraits of famous figures in the art world, rediscovered personalities who are little known or have fallen into oblivion, narratives of well-known or distant events, and stories that introduce us to the thoughts and practices of artists and curators, accompanying us through the process of creation.
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Under 30 Audience Award
Lo schermo dell’arte 18th Edition
Are you under 30? Choose your favorite film and vote on the Lo schermo dell’arte App.
Among all participants, four winners will be randomly selected to receive a one-year subscription to the MYmovies ONE platform.
Free guided tours at Museo di Storia Naturale - La Specola, Florence
On the occasion of the screening of Panorama (2023, 70′) by Amie Siegel,
the Museum of Natural History – La Specola offers two free guided tours
on Saturday, November 15, 2025, at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM (maximum 25 participants).
Reservation required.
The 2:00 PM tour is fully booked.
Bringing to life a vast trove of dormant 16mm film reels the artist found in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s storage, Panorama re-works these scenes of specimen collection and the creation of the museum’s dioramas across geographies and decades.
Panorama will be screened on Friday November 14 at 9:00 PM, Cinema La Compagnia.
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 at Lo schermo dell’arte. Each year, the focus highlights an artist who has distinguished themselves through innovative and experimental use of cinematic language.
Lo schermo dell’arte is pleased to present five of Maroufi’s films, created between 2015 and 2025, including the Italian premiere of L’MINA (2025), the film won the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes and the Grand Prix at the Festival du Film in Tangier.
The artist will give a lecture on her work on Friday, November 14 at 3:00 PM at the Institut français Firenze.