The Fourth Edition of the Florence International Film Festival is underway. The new festival website - Fifth Edition 2025 - is under construction.
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The Florence International Film Festival (FIFF - Florence, Italy) is an international cinema festival born with the aim to promote talented filmmakers, their works and their aesthetic research: the fourth edition will take place in December 2024.
The Festival takes place once a year, in autumn, in a live event.
The Festival includes prizes for each category, various awards and special mentions.
The winning films and those awarded special mentions will receive a pdf certificate.
The Festival is open to every kind of film and support independent productions.
We do invite filmmakers from all over the world to join us: Florence, as lead city of the Renaissance, is waiting for your films!
The Florence International Film Festival is organised by The Garden of Helichrysis Cultural Association (Florence).
The Festival will not be cancelled or postponed due to the Covid-19 emergency; only in case of future further restrictions, the Festival will take place completely on line.
CATEGORIES
Feature Film
Feature Documentary
Short Film
Short Documentary
Experimental Short Film
Video Art Short Film
Music Video
Poster
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PALMARÈS
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THIRD EDITION 2023
Best Feature Film: "The Chaos Daughter" by Juan Posada - Brazil, 2022
Best Short Film: "A Spare Room" by Wang Hung-Liang - Taiwan, 2023
Best Feature Documentary: "La malavita" by Paolo Colangeli - Italy, 2023
Best Short Documentary: "La Lixeira - La dignità degli invisibili" by Guido Galante and Antonio Notarangelo - Italy, 2022
Special Prize Awarded by Silvia Novak: "This Time" by Robert G. Vaughn - Canada, 2023
Young Audience Award: "This Time" by Robert G. Vaughn - Canada, 2023
Youth Prize: "Robert Mutt" by Fiorenzo Brancaccio - Italy, 2022
Best Actor (Youth Prize [ex aequo to Ryan Hayes and Benjamin Schnau]): "Kamerad" by Toby Kearton - United Kingdom, 2023
Beat Actress Feature Film (Anwen O'Driscoll): "This Time" by Robert G. Vaughn - Canada, 2023
Best Actress Short Film (Jiyun Lee): "Playing House" by Eunjin Lee - Republic of Korea, 2023
Best Score Film/Soundtrack: "Duet" by Daisy Gao - Canada, 2023
Best Music Video: "I Miss You" by Georgios Demetres Iosefides - Cyprus, 2023
HONORABLE MENTION
"Blue Sky White Clouds" by Astrid Menzel - Germany, 2022
"Tutto è qui" by Silvia Luciani - Italy, 2022
"Fuck Feminists - Voci femministe nel mondo della street art" by Erika Alice Segni Rotiroti - Italy, 2023
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SECOND EDITION 2022
Best Feature Film: "Pessoas" by Arturo Dueñas Herrero - Spain, 2022
Best Short Film: "Lili" by Brian Ríos - Puerto Rico, 2022
Best Feature Documentary: "Finding Thule" by Sofia E. Rovati - Italy, 2022
Best Short Documentary: "Nos Horizons" by Charlotte Cayeux - France, 2022
Special Award Mujeres nel Cinema: "The Cardamom" by Shikha Mahajan - India, 2022
Best Actor Feature Film (Patrick Epinoux): "Au Nord de la Nuit" by Olivier Simon - France, 2021
Best Actress Feature Film (Anabela Moreira): "The Last Bath" by David Bonneville - Portugal, 2020
Best Actor Short Film (Jules Robertson): "Love" by Jane Ashmore - United Kingdom, 2022
Best Actress Short Film (Mikka Chantal Deleuran): "Kold" by Marley Hasselbach - Denmark, 2021
Best Score Film/Soundtrack Feature Film: "Grand CanCan" by Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov - Russian Federation, 2020
Best Score Film/Soundtrack Short Film: "Rôdé" by Adrien Sanchez and Hugo Leman - France, 2022
Best Score Film/Soundtrack Feature Documentary: "Faraway" by Qing Li - China, 2022
Best Score Film/Soundtrack Short Documentary: "Happy" by Ivan Rodin - Russian Federation, 2021
Best Music Video: "Dancer Under The Sea" by Antonio Maria Cortese - Italy, 2022
Best Poster: "Facing the Silence" by Emilio Ruiz Barrachina - Spain, 2022
HONORABLE MENTION
"The Last Bath" Prize awarded by Silvia Novak
"Love" Prize awarded by Anila Varfi
"Medea" by Dimitri Athanitis - Greece, 2022
"Au Nord de la Nuit" by Olivier Simon - France, 2021
"Dear Satyajit" by Proshoon Rahmaan - Bangladesh, 2022
"Aller Simple" by Jan Amor and Jeanne Lorne - France, 2022
"Draining" by Guillaume Chevalier - France
"I titoli che vorrei" by Sarah Signorino - Italy, 2020
"Twice in a Blue Moon (After Nokomis)" by John Woodman - United Kingdom, 2021
"At the bottom" by Tamara Kubaeva - Kyrgyzstan, 2022
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FIRST EDITION 2021
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Best Feature Film: "Market" by Pradip Kurbah - India, 2019
Best Feature Documentary: "Gelsomina Verde" by Massimiliano Pacifico - Italy, 2019
Best Soundtrack Feature Film: "Pelícano" by Gustavo Letelier - Chile, 2019
Best Soundtrack Feature Documentary: "Dimitris, Nikos ...and the Uncertainty Principle" by Costas Aenian - Greece, 2021
Best Short Film: "The Wedding" by Haigang Du - China, 2021
Best Short Documentary: "Important Things Don't Matter" by Gabriel Tizón - Spain, 2021
Best Soundtrack Short Film: "Janie's Melody" by Rick Cerda - United States, 2021
Best Actress Short Film (Patricia McCormack): "Myrtle" by Patricia McCormack - United Kingdom, 2021
Best Music Video: "Stevan - Hope It's Not" by Ben Develin - Australia, 2021
Best Poster: "Kindred Spirits - Spiriti Affini" by Federico Bordin - Italy, 2021
HONORABLE MENTION
Silvia Novak ("Pelícano", Special Mention Acting)
"We Have Ashes As Offerings" by Lucas Tétry-Rivière - France, 2021
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STAFF
Costantino Maiani
Festival Director | President of the Jury
Serena Stefani
Vice Festival Director | Jury
Silvia Novak
Patroness of the Festival | Jury
Drilona Bramo
Jury
Elisabetta Peri
​Translations | Jury​
Maurizio Biserni
Graphics
CONTACT
IL GIARDINO DEGLI ELICRISI
Cultural Association
Via Marcialla 347 - 50052 Marcialla, Certaldo (Florence)
ITALY
+39 340 4832390
