HIGHLIGHTS
Florence, Cinema La Compagnia
Monday, June 9, 9:00 PM
Free admission
Lo schermo dell’arte presents Architecton (2024), the latest film by Russian director Victor Kossakovsky, in competition at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival: an apocalyptic and poetic reflection that explores the relationship between architecture and civilization, past and present. The film investigates the connection between humans and nature, developing a monumental epic on the meaning of architecture in our time.
14th Edition
Florence, 13 – 17 November 2024
The call for entries for the 14th edition of VISIO closed on May 23, with 156 applications from 54 different countries.
VISIO includes the VISIO Production Fund, a production fund of 35,000 euros. Eight artists will be selected, and the funds will ultimately be awarded to three artists who will work with Leonardo Bigazzi and the Lo schermo dell’arte team to produce their works and present them as a premiere at the 2026 Festival.
Florence, November 12–16, 2025
We are pleased to announce the 18th edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte, which will take place in Florence from November 12 to 16, 2025.
The Festival, an international reference point for exploring the relationship between contemporary art and cinema, will feature a rich program of screenings, talks, meetings, and masterclasses with artists, filmmakers, and curators. It will also include the Focus on Randa Maroufi, artist who has distinguished herself in moving image work, as well as the 14th edition of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images.
Once again this year, the program will be hosted at Cinema La Compagnia.
Further details on the program will be announced soon.
The selected films, spanning various genres and formats—feature films, animated shorts, and fictional works—explored social themes such as environmental sustainability and migration issues, prompting students to reflect on these topics.
Between January and April 2025, three workshops were held at the Pirandello Comprehensive Institute across kindergarten, primary, and lower secondary school levels: Cinekids, organized in collaboration with the Taartovers Amsterdam association, which brought the multimedia installation MiniCine to the Laura Poli kindergarten; Cinema oltre lo specchio, curated by Maria Pecchioli; and Come in un documentario, curated by Roberto Fassone and Giacomo Raffaelli (with support from Fondazione CR as part of “PARTECIPAZIONE CULTURALE”). The films produced during the two workshops were screened on May 14 at the Cinema San Quirico.
The first activity, Lo schermo dell’arte Young, a film screening series curated by Anna Ricciardi and aimed at students in the 2nd and 3rd years of lower secondary school from the Istituto Comprensivo Pirandello and Pelago, took place during the 17th edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte at Cinema La Compagnia in Florence and Cinema Italia in Pontassieve.
NEWS
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!