Biennale College Cinema 2025/2026: Italian call open through 14 April

The Italian call for the 14^th Biennale College Cinema remains open for another ten days, through April 14^th 2025, on the website www.labiennale.org. This is the higher education workshop launched by La Biennale in 2012, addressed to emerging filmmakers to develop and produce microbudget feature films over the course of one year.

Registration for the Biennale College Cinema – Italia is open to teams consisting of directors and producers, both of whom must be Italian nationals.

Eight projects for microbudget feature films will be selected and invited to participate in a development workshop, to be held in English from July 3^rd to 7^th, at the end of which a further selection of 3 projects will be made. The latter will be invited to take part in a workshop to be held from October 7^th to 16^th, together with the teams of nine projects selected through the international call of Biennale College Cinema, which will be launched on May 6^th (through July 7^th). The workshops will be held in Venice on the island of San Servolo.

The announcement of the projects selected for the training sessions in October will be made during the 82^nd Venice International Film Festival 2025 directed by Alberto Barbera. From that moment on, the two programmes involved in the 14^th Biennale College Cinema, namely BCC-Italia and BCC-International, will proceed along the same track, towards the selection and presentation of a maximum of four microbudget feature-length films at the 83^rd Venice International Film Festival 2026, supported by La Biennale and to be produced on a budget of € 200,000.

Furthermore, following the second international workshop of the 9^th Biennale College Cinema – Immersive, held in Venice from March 10^th to 14^th, the selection has been made of the project that will move on to the production phase, supported by a € 75,000 grant, and will be presented at the 82^nd Venice International Film Festival. The winner is the Italian project:

• Re-Launching Luigi Broglio
  Director: Vincenzo Cavallo | Producer: Silvia Gioiello

The two other projects that participated in this phase will be invited to the Venice Gap-Financing Market organised by the Venice Production Bridge, together with the nine projects developed during the first workshop held in January 2025. The two teams are:

• Channelers
  Director: Jakub Wróblewski (Poland) | Producer: Anna Szylar (Poland)

• We Do Not Believe in a God Who Cannot Dance
  Director: Gombo (France) | Producer: Maria Høeberg (Denmark)

Biennale College Cinema, organised by La Biennale di Venezia, enjoys the support of the Ministry of Culture – General Directorate Cinema and the additional support of Chanel. Biennale College Cinema relies on the academic collaboration of the Gotham Film & Media Institute and the TorinoFilmLab. The Director is Alberto Barbera, Head of Programme Savina Neirotti.