Corti a Ponte - grande festival

Corti a Ponte is an international short film festival in Ponte San Nicolò, near Padua, built around film education and an audience aged from 3 to 99; films are screened in Italian or with Italian subtitles. It grew out of a short film and music showcase in March 2008, and since 2010 the Associazione “Corti a Ponte” APS, formed from the civic committee behind the event, organises it with the municipality. The festival has two strands: the Grande Festival for auteur short films and the Piccolo Festival for films made by children and young people.

The Grande Festival centres on an international competition for live-action and animated auteur shorts, with PLUS sections for adults and FOR sections for younger audiences; the most recent competition dates from the 2024 edition. In 2025 and 2026 the Grande Festival is a non-competitive showcase of shorts from earlier editions, and the 2027 call covers only the Piccolo Festival. The 2026 festival runs 12–16 May 2026.