[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"festival-about-62604":3},{"festival":4,"years":22,"news":26,"about":27},{"entryId":5,"urlTitle":6,"status":7,"name":8,"originalName":9,"alsoKnownAs":10,"logo":13,"logoAppearance":14,"logoOg":20,"about":21,"isManaged":17},62604,"bergamo-film-meeting","open","Bergamo Film Meeting","",[11,12],"BFM","Bergamo Film Meeting - International Film Festival","\u002Fimg\u002Ffestivals\u002F_th600\u002F3jgjezul.png",{"mode":15,"edge":16,"edgeLight":17,"plateLight":18,"plateDark":19,"crop":16,"og":16},"plate",null,false,"none","light","\u002Fimg\u002F_og\u002F70971.jpg?v=b94c742c","Bergamo Film Meeting is an auteur cinema festival held every March in Bergamo, Italy, that sets new international films beside retrospectives and archive classics. It is organised by the Bergamo Film Meeting association, founded in 1983, the year of the first edition. Two competitions are open to films that premiere in Italy: Exhibition, for fiction features by new directors, and Close Up, for creative feature-length documentaries. An audience jury awards the main prizes, and an international jury gives a Best Director prize in Exhibition. The programme also includes Europe, Now! on contemporary European auteurs, an animation strand, the Kino Club screenings for children and teenagers, and the Film Industry Meetings for professionals. Archive films are shown on 35 mm whenever a print is available, and the festival takes part in the Archive Film Festival Network. The 45th edition takes place on 6–14 March 2027.",[23],{"year":24,"hasAwards":17,"hasSelection":25},"2022",true,[],{"aboutHtml":28,"countries":29,"focus":31,"categories":32,"nextDates":35,"awardsPrizes":36,"rules":37,"website":38,"contacts":39,"editDate":65},"\u003Cp>Bergamo Film Meeting is an auteur cinema festival held every March in Bergamo, Italy, that sets new international films beside retrospectives and archive classics. It is organised by the Bergamo Film Meeting association, founded in 1983, the year of the first edition. Two competitions are open to films that premiere in Italy: Exhibition, for fiction features by new directors, and Close Up, for creative feature-length documentaries. An audience jury awards the main prizes, and an international jury gives a Best Director prize in Exhibition.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The programme also includes Europe, Now! on contemporary European auteurs, an animation strand, the Kino Club screenings for children and teenagers, and the Film Industry Meetings for professionals. Archive films are shown on 35 mm whenever a print is available, and the festival takes part in the Archive Film Festival Network. The 45th edition takes place on 6–14 March 2027.\u003C\u002Fp>",[30],"Italy",[],[33,34],"Documentary","Feature","6 March 2027 — 14 March 2027","Exhibition Competition\n- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Bergamo Film Meeting Prize, assigned by the Festival Audience Jury; the production of the first-prize film receives 5,000 EUR (pre-tax).\n- Best Director Prize, 2,000 EUR, given by an international jury of film professionals.\n\nClose Up\n- Best Documentary Prize, assigned by the Festival Audience Jury; the production of the winning film receives 2,000 EUR (pre-tax).\n- CGIL Jury Prize – La Sortie de l'Usine Award, 1,000 EUR (pre-tax) to the director of the film that best addresses social and workplace issues.","Competitive sections (45th edition, 6–14 March 2027):\n- Exhibition Competition: international fiction feature films, at least 60 minutes, completed after 1 January 2025, Italian premiere.\n- Close Up: international creative feature-length documentaries, at least 50 minutes, completed after 1 January 2025, Italian premiere. Not eligible: tourist promotion, making-of, current affairs reports, TV news, docu-soaps, video art, music videos, theatre and dance videos.\n\nSelected films must not have been distributed or presented in Italy before, with case-by-case exceptions decided by the Selection Committee, and may not be shown in Italy before their Bergamo screening. The Programme Committee selects the films for every section; its decision is final.\n\nSubmission: via FilmFreeway, with a screener link (preferably password-protected Vimeo), synopsis, director's bio-filmography and note, two stills, a director's photo and the signed entry form. Entry fee 15 EUR. Deadline: 4 December 2026.\n\nScreenings: foreign films are shown in the original version with English and Italian subtitles; a DCP is required for the competitions. Directors of selected competition films are invited to present their film and take part in the Q&A.\n\nFull rules: Rules and Regulation for Participation, 45th edition (PDF on the festival website).","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bergamofilmmeeting.it\u002F",[40,44,48,51,54,57,61],{"type":41,"value":42,"note":43},"Email","entry@bergamofilmmeeting.it","Film entry and submissions",{"type":45,"value":46,"note":47},"Website","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmfreeway.com\u002FBergamoFilmMeeting","Film submissions (FilmFreeway)",{"type":41,"value":49,"note":50},"info@bergamofilmmeeting.it","General information",{"type":41,"value":52,"note":53},"accrediti@bergamofilmmeeting.it","Accreditation office, including industry accreditation (December to March)",{"type":45,"value":55,"note":56},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bergamofilmmeeting.it\u002Fen\u002Ffilm-industry-meetings\u002F","Film Industry Meetings",{"type":58,"value":59,"note":60},"Phone","+39 348 1022828","Festival office",{"type":62,"value":63,"note":64},"Address","Via Antonio Ghislanzoni, 37, 24122 Bergamo, Italy","Operational office",1791972399]