Pentedattilo Film Festival

N.B. Dear all. Today, more than ever, the importance of culture and creativity for society is clear. We are working on this, but we are forced, because of the pandemic, in spite of ourselves, to postpone the Festival (Edition XIV) to February 2021. See you in February 26 - 28, 2021! Pentedattilo Film Festival is one of the most important Festival for Short Movies in Southern Italy. Pentedattilo Film Festival is held every year in the ancient ghost town of Pentedattilo, near Reggio Calabria. The village, defined by the nineteenth-century traveler Edward Lear "The strangest human dwelling place" is perched on a strange rock shaped as a giant hand, and it has recently experienced a cultural recovery that has made it one of the most significant destination for the spread of international short films. You have to see it to believe it: a small town still injured by the abandonment, that gets filled with words, ideas images. Every year Pentedattilo Film Festival opens to those insatiable travellers who explore unusual borders, dedicating them a 5 full time days of screenings, seminars, films, special events. The PFF, born in 2006 in the ghost town of Pentedattilo, Italy, by a group of young filmmakers and promoted by Ram Film, aims to give visibility to the most recent production of short films and to foster ideas and artistic exchanges; whereas the awards are an encouragement to the authors who invade each year a place that represents an emblem of change and creative sharing. It is actually during the days of the festival that the ghost town of Pentedattilo turns back to life: the sole source of light in the steep narrow streets is the light of the short films screened in the old houses. We fill the ancient farmhouses, the small squares, the open spaces with the stories of hundreds short movies. We annually recover an abandoned town to let it become a symbol of a virtuous union between cinema and territory.