Garden-in-Movies/ShortFilmFest

The Garden-in-Movies Film Festival, born in 2017 as part of the International Festival of Landscape Radicepura Garden Festival (Giarre, Catania) and now in its third edition (2-3-4 August 2019), narrates the Garden with through the language of cinema in a broad perspective that embraces every dynamic that cultivates cultural, political, social and artistic values. Nature and landscape, therefore, but also ecology, eco-sustainability, education, culture and respect for the environment. The Festival consists of three days of screenings, meetings and conversations with prestigious guests and offers three different sections for feature films: "Roots" (Italy), "Mediterranean Essence" (Mediterranean Countries) and "Beyond the Garden" (Rest of the world). In addition, a competitive section for short films, the Garden-in-Movies / ShortFilmFest, international competition of short films with an Expert Jury and an Audience Jury that respectively award the Best Short Film Award and the Audience Award. The Festival takes place in summer, at the evocative Radicepura Park, transformed for three days in an open-air botanical sitting room and a movie theater under the stars, at the foot of Etna and in front of sea, embellished by the smells and scents of the plants in the park.