Call For Entries 2023

BFM — 41
BFM — 41

Sign up for BFM 41!
The 41st Edition of Bergamo Film Meeting will take place from 11 to 19 March, 2023.

Deadline

December, 10th 2022.
No entry fee is required.

In 2023 Bergamo Film Meeting will turn 41: the call for entries to submit a film to the Festival is officially open.
December 10th, 2022 is the last day in which it’s possible to register movies for the Competition – Exhibition Section (competitive section reserved for fiction feature films) or the Close-Up Section (competitive section reserved for creative feature-length documentaries). Both competitive sections will present Italian premières coming from all over the world.

Competitive Sections

Competition – Exhibition

→ International fiction feature film competition (min. 60 minutes) – ITALIAN PREMIERE.

Close-up section

→ International creative feature-length documentarie film competition (min. 50 minutes) – ITALIAN PREMIERE.

Juries and Prizes

The Festival Audience Jury, composed of spectators, film professionals, critics, journalists and cultural managers, will assign:
 1st, 2nd and 3rd Bergamo Film Meeting Prize to the best three movies in Exhibition Competition. The production of 1st prize will receive 5.000 Euros (pre-tax);
 CGIL Bergamo – Best Documentary Prize to the best movie in the Close-Up section. The production of 1st prize will receive 2.000 Euros (pretax).

The following prizes will also be awarded:

 Exhibition Competition: Best Director Prize of 2.000 Euros is given by an international jury composed of Cinema professionals;
 Close-Up: CGIL Jury Prize is reserved to the film of Close-Up section which better face social and workplace issues. To the director of the winning movie the 1.000 Euros (pre-tax) Award LA SORTIE DE L’USINE.

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