La Città dell’Utopia International Film Festival is delighted to announce the Finalists and our Oficial Selections.

We are immensely proud of our finalists who have demonstrated a profound and philosophical perspective in their films! Each finalist has taken risks and endeavoured to shape artistic and critical language visually within their works. We need new voices like you in our era! Congratulations to all the talented filmmakers who provide a window into diverse perspectives, cultures, and human experiences, fostering empathy and understanding!

Feature

Finalist:

A Criminal Film, Zahra Korehei and Javid Moazami, Iran

Oficial Selections:

No Shadows Left, Richard Thornéus, Sweden
Yellow Dog, Delavar Dostanian, Iran
Enemy Next Door, Ovanes Ovanesyan, Kazakhstan

Short Film

Finalists:

The Night of the Monkey, Heloise Haddad, France
The Death Mess, David Da Costa, Portugal
Ballare, Esraa Munim, Iraq
Flowers, KRISTIAN XIPOLIAS, Italy
Mother, Mariia Felenko, Ukraine
Curiosity, Kaja Jakubowska, Poland
PLAYGROUND, Elisa Possenti, Italy
DEAF, ROY ARIDA, Lebanon
Vivi, without H, Estelle Carbonneau, France
Pitage, Ali Khaledi, Iran
Does Heaven Cremate Bodies?, Muhammad Hafeez Sahrin, Singapore
Fail To My Past, BOWEN JING, China
THE NICE GUY WHO WENT BAD BUT WHO USED TO BE NICE, Jauffrey Gallé, France
Pisho, Aun Ul Haider, Pakistan

Oficial Selections:

THE INSURANCE, Sengthe Vanh Bouapha, France
The Ingenuity of Bodies, Leandro Ghersi, Argentina
Boy’s things, Raquel Colera, Spain
On Sundays, Olavo Junior, Brazil
Saksham, Ajinkya P Patil, India
Robert and the Sorcerer, Frères MICHEL, France
The 13, Margaux Le Bail, Clément Beauvois, France
COCOON, Mona Farkhondeh, Iran
8 РЮМОК КЕФИРА, Давид Владимировичь Чебан, Kazakhstan
Bitter, Antoine Clément, France
BOUMLA, Yazid Yettou, Algeria
MHATARA DONGAR(The Old Mountain), DEVESH RANGANATH KANASE, India
AHALYA, Chinmoy Barma, India

Experimental

Finalists:

Wind of Jinn, Boredom of November, Javid Moazami and Zahra Korehei, Iran
That is the Silence, Inna Ivanovskaya, United States
LAS MEMORIAS PERDIDAS DE LOS ÁRBOLES, Antonio La Camera, Italy
The Kitchen Dance _ An offbeat arrival, Katerina Foti, Greece

Oficial Selections:

Incidents (Savaneh), Hajeer Moradi,Iran
Serious and lively, Jie Ying SONG, China
Ambrozia, Borimir Ilkov, Bulgaria
The Ritual of The Black Sun, Yas` Maeterlinck, Russia
Mechanical Resonance, Juejun Chen, China
Retake, Larissa Moon, Experimental

Documentary

Finalists:

Macula, Sasha Stanislavovich Kozma, Russia
Rich and Famous, Arina Sergeevna Shevtsova, Russia
Rodchenko, Ivan Antonovich Baturin, Russia
Other Worlds Child, Natalya Aleksandrovna Tetenkina, Russia

Oficial Selections:

LASTER, David Lužar, Germany
The Treaty of Vain Combat, Márcio Januário, Henrique Drebes, Brazil
Reverie, Vasu Bhatia, India
The Dream, Alice Evgenievna Tamarova, Russia
By the beginning of the 2008 war on the Gaza Strip, ‪Mohammed hussine Majd‬‏, Palestine
The Weight of Memories on My Feet, Tariq Abdalla, Egypt