Emilia Romagna Castles

I Luoghi dell'Anima - Italian Film Festival, the festival that interweaves cinema, landscape and poetry in the places dear to Tonino Guerra, is back. An event that stems from the desire to tell the world through the eyes of the soul - poetic, concrete and deeply rooted in the beauty of places and the memory of people.

Under the artistic direction of Steve Della Casa and Paola Poli, and founded by Andrea Guerra, President of the Tonino Guerra Study Centre Museum, the festival offers five days of screenings, meetings and reflections dedicated to cinema as a living form of knowledge and dialogue between man and landscape.

The programme is divided into:
- First and Second Works Competition, dedicated to emerging directors and narrators of places and people.
- Short Films Competition, with Italian and international works, with a special focus on female directors and authors under 35.
- Rassegna Emilia-Romagna, dedicated to film and audiovisual productions made in the region.

To complete the programme, there will be retrospectives, special screenings, meetings with guests and book presentations, to create a dialogue between the works of the past and the new visions of the present.

Each edition is a journey through real and inner landscapes: an invitation to look at places not only for what they show, but for what they hold.
The festival, supported by the Scientific Committee that safeguards its identity and coherence with Tonino Guerra's poetics, focuses on the environment, sustainability, historical memory and the transformation of landscapes, enhancing young voices and new forms of cinematic narrative.