Amarcort Film Festival - Short film festival - 2025 Edition

Short film contest
Winners 2025 edition

These are winners of Amarcort Film Festival 2025.

"Un Felliniano nel Mondo" Award

Gérald Morin
He was Federico Fellini’s assistant and personal secretary from 1971 to 1977 (collaborating with the maestro on masterpieces such as Roma, Amarcord, and Casanova); he received the award for having contributed to spreading Fellini’s legacy throughout the world.

Andrea De Carlo
Assistant and collaborator of Fellini (And the Ship Sails On); he created the film/documentary The Faces of Fellini about the relationship between the great director and his actors, and he is currently writing a new novel in which Fellini himself is the protagonist.

Amarcort section

Best Short Film 2025
Rochelle by Tom Furniss

Special Mention
Burul by Adilet Karzhoev

Special Mention
Amplified by Dina Naser

Special Mention
Ne Me Quitte Pas by Karim Huu Do

"Corto Fellini" Award
Ne Me Quitte Pas by Karim Huu Do

Critics' Award
Amplified by Dina Naser

Special Mention Critics' Award
Rochelle by Tom Furniss

Selection Committee Special Mention
Relocation by Dazhi Huang

"Wonderland" Award
A thing about Kashem by Bijon Imtiaz

Best Italian Short Film 2025
Marcello by Maurizio Lombardi

"Burdlaz" Award

Best Film 2025
Ciao bambino by Edgardo Pistone

Best Performance
Anastasia Kaletchuk in Ciao bambino

Audience Award
Ciao bambino by Edgardo Pistone

Rex section

Best Animated Short
Autokar by Sylwia SZKIŁĄDŹ

Special Mention
World Naked Bike Tour by William Bradford

Special Mention
Zarko, You Will Spoil the Child! by Veljko e Milivoj Popovic

Aldina section

Best Short Film
Lovers’ story: fragment(s) by Marta Irene Giotti

Special Mention
Nothing serious by Kamil Czudej

Youth Jury Award
Land of the dead deer by Anahita Qarcheh, Soroush Javadzadeh

Calzinaz section

Best Documentary Short
After Fentanyl by Rinaldas Tomaševičius

Special Mention
I sommersi by Giacomo Venturato

Gironzalon section

Best Experimental Short
Velocità di fuga by Andrea Belcastro

Special Mention
How now, house? by Tess martin

Cinema and Neurodivergence

Best Short Film
My Brother, My Brother by Abdelrahman e Saad Dnewar

Volpina section

Best MOViE Short Film
Loverdance by Victor Gomez

Special Mention
Art of light by Varvara Guzeniuk

Fulgor section

Regione Emilia-Romagna Award
Interno 18 by Matteo Lolletti

Special Mention
Quarto livello by Francesco Pasquinelli

Special Mention
Amelia by Lorenzo Nicolino

Titta section

Best Short
Rimini Secondary Schools Award
Coscine di pollo by Federico Paolini

Special Mention
Agapé by Matteo Georges El Hani

Miranda section

Best Short
Rimini Primary Schools Award
Dog Bridge by Jorn Leeuwerink

Gradisca section

Audience Award
Viva Revolution by Alessio petrillo

Cantarel section

Best Videoclip
Mai più by Vonjako

Special Mention
Sky deverel - Run by Michelle Brand

riCIRCOlo dei Sogni

1st place
5a A Scuola Primaria Alba Adriatica

2nd place
4a A I.C. Miramare - Scuola Primaria San Salvatore

3rd place
4a A Scuola Primaria Montessori

Special Mention
4a A Scuola Primaria Tre Ponti

Special Mention
4a B Scuola Ferrari

Short film contest
Finalists 2025 edition

These are finalists movies of Amarcort Film Festival 2025.

Amarcort

• A Thing about Kashem by Bijon Imtiaz
• ACE by Marco Renda
• Amplified by Dina Naser
• Burul by Adilet Karzhoev
• Film Library by Dima Montanari
• Ice Box by Mehdi Joudi
• Ivanko's Childhood by Vera Graziadei
• L'ultimo giorno di felicità by Giovanni B. Algieri
• La spiaggia dei sogni by Alessandro Orefice Campogrande, Giuseppe Barile
• Lights in the Night Sky by Octavio Daniel Carreño
• Marcello by Maurizio Lombardi
• Ne Me Quitte Pas by Karim Huu Do
• Not even the birds singing by Rose Denis
• Place under the sun by Vlad Bolgarin
• Reliefs by Juan Manuel Gonzalez Fernandez
• Relocation by Dazhi Huang
• Rochelle by Tom Furniss
• SofIA by Paolo Sassanelli
• TIC TAC by Emilio Mercanti
• Until the sun rises by Rodrigo Elizalde

Aldina (by school of cinema students)

• @gesùofficial by Annapaola Ragno
• Come Sit With Us by Elis Rumma
• David by Kai Xue, Jiexi Hong
• Don't Look Into The Sun by kishazy.eszter
• 꿈 속의 꿈 (Dream within a dream) by 현지 권 (KWON Hyun-ji)
• Falliti - Losers by Pietro Macaione
• Here for You by Cezary Orłowski
• Il Criaturo Sintetico / A Silicon Baby by Sarah Narducci
• In Our Hands by Camillo Sancisi
• L'uomo D'inverno by Ingrid Focchi, Lynn Bacillieri
• Land of The Dead Deer by Anahita Qarcheh, Soroush Javadzadeh
• Las amigas de Dora by Julián Santaella
• Love Spells by Michael Plewa
• Lovers’ Story: fragment(s) by Marta Irene Giotti
• Nothing Serious by Kamil Czudej
• Oppure lo immagini by Fatima Foudil
• Phantom by Gabriele Manzoni
• Ronzio by Niccolò Donatini
• Teresa, Station B by Katharina Sporrer
• The Steak by Kiarash Dadgar

Rex (animation)

• 6845 by Maurizio Andrea Campo
• A pleasure by Sonia Estevez
• Autokar by Sylwia SZKIŁĄDŹ
• Cloe by Angelo Luca Bianchino
• Dagon by Paolo Gaudio
• Dollhouse Elephant by Jenny Jokela
• From one painting... to another by Georges Schwizgebel
• Ghariba & Ajeeb by Boubaker Boukhari
• How by Marko Mestrovic
• Il burattino e la balena by Roberto Catani
• Insomnia by Tomás Gonzalez Montalvo
• My Brother, My Brother by Abdelrahman Dnewar, Saad Dnewar
• Playing God by Matteo Burani
• Raaf by Jeroen Ceulebrouck
• Rossi Boomer by Bruno Bozzetto
• Silver Salts by Filipe Abranches
• Sublunar by Alessia Paino
• The Eye In Nothing by Michael Edwards
• Three Birds by Zarja Menart
• World Naked Bike Tour by William Bradford
• Zarko, You Will Spoil the Child! by Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic

Calzinaz (documentaries and reportages)

• After Fentanyl by Rinaldas Tomaševičius
• Beirut Addio - Singing under the bombs by Jean-Claude Chincheré
• Campo Libero by Cristina Principe
• Deep Tones by Igor Ilić
• Dissonance by Raquel Larrosa
• I Would Rather Be a Stone by Ana Husman
• Kite by Thanos Psichogios
• La Fenêtre by Lucas Ortiz Estefanell
• Maestri di sci by Aureliana Bontempo
• Ngoor Gayan by Jan Beltran
• One Land by Saoussen Tatah
• Peregrinus by Arturo Cannistrà
• The drowned by Giacomo Venturato
• The garden of delights by Simone Spampinato
• White Veil by Žiga Ciber

Gironzalon (experimental)

• Adaptation 2.0 by Darko Bakliža
• Bubble Bath by Giulia Magno
• Cristina by Giulio Golfieri
• Final Whistle by Lotti Bauer
• Fur by Adriano Ricci
• Goodbye Pig by Roberta Palmieri
• How Now, House? by Tess Martin
• I Tredesin by Bianca Girardi
• Il cielo in bocca by Gaia Ugliano
• Kids by Claudia Pollet
• like drops on a bed of embers by Juliette Pons
• No Room by Jelena Oroz
• Obliterate by Gaetan Saint-Remy
• Prayer of the Sea by Martin Gerigk
• Ray the rug by Mohammad Ali Shakeri
• Screen Kills by Mario Pagano
• Summer of Fellini by Nicola Giraffe, Juliana Giraffe
• The muse by Anna Tsukanova-Kott
• Velocità di fuga - About Escape Velocity by Andrea Belcastro

Gradisca (shorters)

• Among Shadows by Sofía Pifarre, Lola López
• And now? by Omar Sandrini
• Aspettando/Waiting by Alessandro Marchese
• Choice by Valentin Frolov
• Dust by Nicolò Silverii
• Fall In by Emanuele Mocci
• Hold On by David Barbieri
• Io by Alessandra Salvoldi
• Pinne by Carmelo Sudano
• Saturn in Venus by Alla Eliseeva
• Silbando by Camila Forteza
• Spiral by Cian J. Glynn
• Streaming fame by Maria Levina
• Takla by Libera film Academy
• The Escape by Davide Passaretti
• To be by Radda Novikova
• Viva Revolution by Alessio Petrillo
• Ya Hanouni by Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib

Fulgor (shorts emiliano-romagnoli, only italian)

• Amelia by Lorenzo Nicolino
• Homo Homini Lupus by Lorenzo Bentivogli
• Il crepuscolo della serratura by Lorenzo Muccioli
• Il Nido - The Nest by Daniele Fugarese
• Il ragazzo del cavalcavia by Pietro Cornini
• Interior 18 by Matteo Lolletti
• Non qui, non ora, non io by Lillo Venezia
• Passeggiata by Valeria Zadumina
• Quarto livello by Francesco Pasquinelli
• Rise up by Caterina Salvadori
• Sorelle - Sisters by Giacomo Bonazzi
• Symposium by Enea Maestri
• The Rules Of The Night by Lorenzo Gennari
• Verso Mare by Gabriele Rattini

Cantarel (videoclip)

• "Carpenter" - Muscle by Danielle d'Amico
• Aber by Quentin Bernard
• Fooled by Your Love by Tamás Rebák
• Mai Più by VONJAKO
• Matti Like by Francesco e i Passabanda, directed by Federico Cavallini
• Miracolo by Giuseppe Lanno
• Notte Incubica by Emanuele Gabbi
• Panchiko - Chapel of Salt by Simon Ellis
• Repression by Omar Seyam
• Say You Are My Lover Again by Cate Kileva
• Sky Deverel - RUN by Michelle Brand
• Soul of a River by Martin Karlsson
• Take it Back by Laure Sullivan
• There are no longer the fascists of the past by Antonio
• Tulipomania: Shines On by Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray
• Whatever by Fiorella Coto Segnini

Miranda (animated short films for the younges)

• Bird to be alive by Mathieu André, Anaïs Berost, François Fontaine,Rowan Rosencourt, Valentin Rosset
• Bunnyville by Maria Audrey Samudro
• By a Thread by Estúdio Escola de Animação Estúdio Escola de Animação
• Dog Bridge by Jorn Leeuwerink
• Haulo by Andrea Moneta
• Have a nice dream by Jonathan Kirkpatrick
• How To Cook A Snail by Media Design School Albert Zhao
• Lena's Farm: Full Nest by Elena Walf
• No Effect by Dinko Kumanovic
• Steklishko (Glass Piece) by Anya Ru
• Stupid dog by Daria Ishcheykina
• Take Care of Yourself by Sara Jane Lessio
• The house by the sea by Fulvio Davide Ricca
• UPS! by Galvão Bertazzi, Luís Canau

Volpina (short films that use dance, movement and body language to convey stories, emotions, messages)

• Alice in the Río de la Plata by Diego Alejandro
• Art of light by Varvara Guzeniuk
• Be by Simon C. Vaillancourt
• Five Brahms waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan by Grigory Dobrygin
• Hidden Steps by Kati Kallio
• Kielo by Janina Rajakangas
• Larva by Julián Santaella
• Loverdance by Victor Gomez
• Lymph Dance for the Planet, Reach out to the Nature by Carlo Magrì
• Moon light by Andrea Hackl
• Origin by Marion Chuniaud-Lacau
• Reddening by Sinem Kayacan, Elina Pirinen
• Rockfall by Robin Lancaster Bisio
• Spell by Khalil Charif

Titta (category, dedicated to short films on the topic of parents-children relationships)

• 2054 Seele by Edoardo Maione, Alice Gnech
• Agapé by Matteo Georges El Hani
• Coscine di Pollo / Lullaby by Federico Paolini
• Escape by Alena Kazantseva
• Flocky by Esther Casas Roura
• Gym Classes by Gabriele Lippi
• La mort by Jesús Martínez "Nota"
• Love by Ilya Severov
• Such a Perfect Day by Piotr Pluta
• Tears and Tarantella by Gina Carroccia
• The Family Dirt by Gianni McLaughlin
• Those Who Love Me Will Follow Me by Alessandro Giovanni Lunghi
• Va bene cosi by Paolo Addario
• Yuri by Ryan William Harris