About ARES Film and Media Festival


The main purpose of the Festival is the promotion of the culture as a social cohesion vehicle through the creation of an open support network aimed at encouraging, helping and linking all the expressions and positive experiences which can spread the values of pluralism and general well being in the cultural and social fields.


It can be considered as an intervention in favour of the creation of a laboratory not only of artistic but also sociological creativity by the fusion of subjects and ideas.

Communicating with digital images and places let young people and people in general to be in the forefront of the cultural education: the use of new technologies associated with the need to communicate with amodern and easily understandable language.

The registration is free and open to all Italian and foreign video makers from the age of 18.
All feature films and short films by a maximum length of 20 minutes are admitted to the competition.
All categories of movies but fictions will be accepted.

The following list show an example of the category of the films:

• dance videos;
• animation;
• abstract videos;
• experimental;
• art videos;
• documentaries;
• music videos;
• Architecture and Design