Program

The festival will take place from Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th May 2025 in the spaces of the MIC – Museo del Cinema and of the Teatro del Buratto, in Milan. The first three days of the festival are dedicated to the screenings of the films in competition, on Sunday morning the awards ceremony will take place.

Find us at: Cineteca Milano MIC, Viale Fulvio Testi, 121, 20162 Milan

9:30-10:00 Institutional greetings and opening of the festival

10:00-10:45 KIDS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 8 to 13 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Pressione Calma | Siziano (PV), Italy
Oh My Kampung | Malaysia
Vanima for Varaždin 2 | Varaždin, Croatia
Keep Calm | Vranje, Serbia
Oh! Difetto a chi! | Milan, Italy

10:45-11:00 Youth Cinema Network presents Camera Zizanio Festival, Greece

11:00-12:00 TEENS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 13 to 20 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Estrangement | Nanjing, China
Heart of Gears | Vancouver, Canada
School Morning | Iran
Another One | Thessaloniki, Greece

12:00-13:00 Presentation of the short documentary film La Cameretta Azzurra made by the Martin Luther King School of Muggiò, with the director Federico Pascuzzi

13.00-14.30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:15 KIDS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 8 to 13 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

X and the Time Machine | Canary Islands, Spain
Dietro le parole | Rome, Italy
Sanba: il cuore di casa nostra | Rome, Italy
Walk Beside Me | Valencia, Spain
When We Finally Undestood | Valencia, Spain
The Power of Imagination | Tallinn, Estonia

15:15-15:30 Youth Cinema Network presents Four River Festival, Croatia

15:30-16:40 TEENS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 13 to 20 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Sobadehena: Ponder of the Nature | Ratnapura, Sri Lanka
The Reiterative Reality of Rosemary Robinson | Denver, USA
The Haunted House | Denver, USA
War Symphony | Istanbul, Turkey
Laglag | Alaminos, Philippines
Fear of Being Heard | Ludvika, Sweden

16:40-17:20 KIDS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 8 to 13 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Pamela | Peru
Re-Make | Messina, Italy
Phone Fiasco | Singapore
The Mess of Fake News | Seville, Spain
Summer from Space | Zaprešić, Croatia

17:20-17:30 Pausa

17:30-19:30 Conference Well-being at school through audiovisual narration, moderated by Andrea Chimento, at Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti | viale Fulvio Testi 121, Milan

Find us at: Cineteca Milano MIC, Viale Fulvio Testi, 121, 20162 Milan

10:00-10:45 KIDS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 8 to 13 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Joana’s Challenge | Porto, Portugal
The Mistery of Watermelon Thieves | Šipan, Croatia
Cult Enigma | Šipan, Croatia

10:45-11:00 Youth Cinema Network presents The Dubrovnik Film Festival, Croatia

11:00-12:00 TEENS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 13 to 20 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Ninfa | Galatone (LE) e Milan, Italy
Am I You? | Watwill, Switzerland
The Cloakroom | Sofia, Bulgaria
Belgian Bob | Antwerp, Belgium
Honey Milk | Istanbul, Turkey

12:00-13:00 Rai Kids presents the animated film To be by Maurizio Forestieri, Director

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:15 KIDS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 8 to 13 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Tigers in Danger | Niterói, Brasil
The Forest Magic Contest | Niterói, Brasil
La nota stonata  | Sora (FR), Italia
Mickey Mouse and His Friends | Hamburg, Germany
Il respiro immobile | Valdiliana (BI), Italy

15:15-15:30 Youth Cinema Network presents Enimation Platform, Slovenia

15:30-16:40 TEENS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 13 to 20 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Antigone | Caserta, Italy
οράω | Rome, Italy
Glory to God in the Highest | Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje, Bosnia Erzegovina
The Lost Film | Paris, France

16:40-17:20 KIDS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 8 to 13 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Zzunna | Bari, Italia
Donatella: The Sweet Mistake | Khotyn, Ukraine
Pure Water | Khotyn, Ukraine
Titamic | Liège, Belgium
Get Along! | Düsseldorf, Germany
Trash | Louvière, Belgium

17:20-17:30 Break

17:30-19:30 Round Table Film Education in Europe, curated by Youth Cinema Network and moderated by Robert Hinterlitner, in English, at the Aula Magna Civica Scuola di cinema Luchino Visconti | viale Fulvio Testi 121, Milano

Find us at: Cineteca Milano MIC, Viale Fulvio Testi, 121, 20162 Milan

10:00-10:45  Presentation of Si Fa ReMix! a five-minute dubbing and sound-editing workshop organized by Circonvalla Film in collaboration with Medicinema, Centro Milano Donna and the University of Milan, teacher Emilio Sala

10:45-11:00 Youth Cinema Network presents Cinemathesis, Greece

11:00-12:00 TEENS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 13 to 20 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

Huh | Holland, Italy, Norway, Greece, Moldova
L’importanza della sceneggiatura | Naples, Italy
Aria | San Giorgio a Cremano (NA), Italy
The Kid | Tallinn, Estonia
Sunflower | Tallinn, Estonia
We, Women | Cadiz, Spain

11:30-13:00 At the same time at the Teatro Bruno Munari – Teatro del Buratto | via Giovanni Bovio, 5 Milan there will be a panel on the theme General States of Culture for children and young people (in the Civil Week Program), a debate with Milan’s cultural operators and institutions, open to all

12:00-12:15 Youth Cinema Network presents Fresh Film Festival, Ireland

12:15-13:05 TEENS’ SECTION Selection of national and international short films from 13 to 20 years old, followed by Ǫ&A authors

The Distance | Tehran, Iran
Frequency 208.4 | Waterford, Ireland
Binario Unico | Feltre (BE), Italy
Code Dependency | Australia
The Ceiling of Wishes | Mashad, Iran

13:05-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:45 Special screening Finescuola Mai, film by Fabio Martina

16:00-18:00 Guided thematic tour of the city of Milan

Find us at: Teatro Bruno Munari – Teatro del Buratto | via Giovanni Bovio, 5 Milano

10:00-11:15 Presentation of the short film out of competition and the Young Milano project; Presentation of the ISTMI animation Lab in Candia’s Elementary School

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-13:30 Awards Ceremony

KIDS Category: Best Short Film, Jury Award
TEEN Category: Best Short Film, Jury Award
KIDS and TEEN Categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, RaiKids Award, Medicinema Award, Children’s Rights ​​Award, Audience Award