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Your support for Bergamo Film Meeting Onlus is even more important today: join us in relaunching culture, cinema, our Festival and our community!

It is not the first time we have faced adversity but, this past year, the pandemic forced us to a hiatus in our initiatives and to cancel the 38_th edition of the Festival. Since we started, back in 1983, no such thing had never happened.

After months of closures and limited admissions, of events either cancelled or moved online, culture, the whole cultural sector worldwide, including our organization, is struggling. We want to regroup and restart together with our city, our audience and a community that needs to come together again.

With your invaluable help, we will discover together what the 39_th edition of Bergamo Film Meeting will be and which initiatives we will be able to offer in 2021.

For almost forty years, Bergamo Film Meeting Onlus has been a beacon of quality cinema, with an offer which includes an international film festival, events, exhibitions, screenings (over 3,500!); during these years, we have engaged our audience providing food for thought and inspiration.

Support BFM is...

Support BFM is the fundraising campaign to help us restart and put together the 39_th edition of the Festival and all the corollary events and educational programs we’ve always offered during the year.

Support BFM is a “call to action” to all those who believe in cinema and its ability to engage us and open our hearts and minds; to offer us a glimpse of unknown universes; to portray reality but also leave a door open to the imagination.

Support BFM is a declaration of love to cinema and its community.

Donating is easy and entitles you to tax benefits provided in accordance with existing legislation for non-profit organizations.

You can donate online, by credit card or PayPal by following the instructions on our website. Alternatively, you can donate via money transfer (to: IT50M0311111101000000040073 UBI BANCA BERGAMO SEDE), cheque or cash / Donations to Bergamo Film Meeting Onlus from individuals or companies, with the exception of those made in cash, are deductible in the tax return.

If you want to donate online, choose the option that better suits you below!

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Dear friends,

We have just left behind a very challenging year, burdened by many personal and collective tragedies, which will remain in our memory for a long time to come. A year full of despair, fear, bewilderment, fleeting hopes and disappointments. The Festival did not take place, leaving us with just the memory of the people who crowded the screenings in past editions; of the happiness of meeting friends and fans, directors and actors, of making new friends, learning about new artistic experiences, exchanging ideas and thoughts; the memory of the heated discussion and the many films seen, both classics and contemporary, sometimes never seen and sometimes rediscovered through new eyes. The memory of days full of opportunities, where we came together with intensity and participation, enjoying every second while waiting to enter the theatre and explore the boundless world of film productions, along the tracks suggested by the many sections, each year different, each year more exciting.

This past year also took away some people dear to Bergamo Film Meeting, and the sadness has amplified even more our feeling of paralysis, of being stuck without an end in sight or the possibility to imagine a “normality” hazy and unattainable as never before.

Despite all this, however, we never stopped. At first, we tried to postpone the 38_th edition of the Festival further forward, towards the beginning of the summer, not quite hopeful but willing to leave no stone unturned, out of respect for our audience and the work already done. Having to cancel the Festival a few days shy of its opening date left us literally gutted, having already completed all the prep work and eager as we were to welcome you all.

Most of the films were already in our offices: the digital copies already in standby, and the physical film copies prepared to test the mechanics of the new 35mm projectors. In short, we were ready to go, to enjoy the show together with you all and to welcome the many guests who, ticket in hand, were inbound from all over the world.

In the end, it all went wrong, not just for us but for many other organizations and individuals, in the cultural sector and others which contribute to enrich the cultural and social life of this country. Our territory was the hardest hit in the first and most tragic phase of the pandemic. Many have suffered much more severe misfortunes: those who have lost their loved ones or their jobs, or those who have been deeply affected by the many restrictions, which were undoubtedly necessary but nonetheless had severe consequences on the most fragile subjects.

Despite this, we firmly believe that Bergamo Film Meeting is a resource to be preserved at all costs; we believe we need to return to sharing knowledge and beauty, in the presence and through the gaze of those who are physically close to us, sharing our feelings and emotions. We have seen and felt this during the brief summer respite, when outdoor movie arenas were allowed to reopen, albeit partially. On the occasion of our “Big Wednesday” initiative, we were able to reconnect with an audience that we did not expect to be so big: a sign that the desire to experience films in a movie theatre has never died out. On that regard, our online initiatives such as A Shot in the Dark and the Ermanno Olmi Award also yielded very encouraging results. We feel that the desire to come together again is still strong.

We are about to begin the preparations for the 39_th edition of the Festival which, as you know, will take place from April 24 to May 2, 2021; obviously, we cannot foresee what the situation will be like by that time but, in any case, the Festival will be held on those dates, be it on-site or online or both.

These short notes accompany the traditional support campaign we usually launch for the holiday season and the new year. We have made it through this season thanks to the support of public and private institutions, but we have lost some sponsors and the revenue from the sale of tickets and passes. Therefore, we’re kicking off 2021 at a considerable disadvantage: we need everyone’s help, and we’re not shy to ask those who will read these lines. We shall keep working, with the same conviction and tenacity as always. Cinema will not die, the theatres will reopen.

Our Donors

Thanks to all those who support us!
Roberto Carrara, Lab 80 film, La Cornice di Lagetto, Myrrha Store, Stefano Testa, Flavio Vergerio, Gianluigi Zucchetti, Guido Molinero, Roberto Giavazzi, Stefano Cernuschi, Enrico Bosco, Serena Melgari, Fiamma Pretti, Mario Berlanda, Ugo Baistrocchi, Augusto De Stasio, Marchetti Annamaria, Bianchin Rita, Carmen Martinez, Doris Schnabel.

Grazie di cuore! 🖤

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For the Companies

Becoming a partner

To associate a business brand to the 36th edition of Bergamo Film Meeting means:

TO SHARE the artistic and cultural values of an international film Festival whose 35-year-long history ranks it the top European events in the field: BFM is a place for premieres, special events, rediscovered masterpieces, and for the audience, the press and its many guests from around the world to meet and exchange ideas. With its art exhibitions, workshops and live performances, BFM is also a fruitful moment of dialogue between cinema and other artistic forms and events.

TO BE IN CONNECTION with a top cultural event, widely recognized not only at local but also at national and international level. Highly praised by film critics, BFM is yearly followed by a diversified, curious, intelligent and above all large audience, with its over 60.000 attendees in a 9-day schedule full of screenings and events.

TO BE PART of the development, preservation and diffusion of cinematic culture and to share the mission of the Festival, meant at giving visibility to new authors and to emerging cinematic cultures, and at rediscovering great cinema from the past.

TO DISENGAGE from the traditional promotion circuit in order to create new forms of communication that may benefit from the Festival’s media coverage, as well as to gather a new audience: numerous, young and culturally dynamic.

Customized forms of collaboration with institutions and business partners can be fine-tuned in close contact with the Festival organizers. Different forms of financial contributions are possible. The partner of a BFM event will benefit from all communication strategies, channels and means that will grant it maximum public visibility, in terms of both network and promotion.

Donate now! And find out your rewards:

This year, due to the particularly challenging and exceptional situation, we won’t be able to offer you the rewards you were used to. However, we want to find new ways to thank you for your donation. In addition to featuring your name on the website page dedicated to Support BFM, you will be able to choose among the following perks: reduced rates, digital publications and a one-year subscription to the cinephile magazine par excellence! And if you donate €500+, you’ll receive a personalized acknowledgement on all the BFM social profiles.

Doris Day — 50 to 99 €

Online acknowledgement – A complimentary ticket to a streaming screening of BFM 39

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Rock Hudson — €100 to €199

Online acknowledgement – Reduced rate for an online subscription to BFM 39

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Bette Davis — €200 to €499

Online acknowledgement – Reduced rate for an online subscription to BFM 39 – An eBook from the Bergamo Film Meeting catalogue

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Hollywood BLVD —€500 to €999

Online special acknowledgement on all the BFM social profiles – Reduced rate for an online or on-site subscription to BFM 39 – An eBook from the Cineforum catalogue

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Academy Award — €1,000 or higher

Online special acknowledgement on all the BFM social profiles – Reduced rate for an online or on-site subscription to BFM 39 – One-year digital subscription to the Cineforum magazine

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Donate now! And find out your rewards:

Doris Day — 50 to 99 €

Rock Hudson — €100 to €199

Bette Davis — €200 to €499

Hollywood BLVD —€500 to €999

Academy Award — €1,000 or higher

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