Festival MISFF – Montecatini International Short Film Festival

The Montecatini International Short Film Festival is the longest-running International Short Film Festival. MISFF is the most well-known Italian film festival dedicated to short films after the Venice International Film Festival. This year’s edition will be a hybrid format, with in-person screenings at the Excelsior Cinema and Portoghesi Hall within the Tettuccio Baths.

A significant novelty this year is the festival’s setting in the METAVERSE, in addition to all the activities organized in previous editions.

October 15 – Preview Guest Country 2023

October 16-22 – MISFF 2023: The festival will take place in its natural setting, in Montecatini Terme, in the extraordinary Historic Halls of the Excelsior and Tettuccio Baths, with the festival’s opening ceremony featuring local and national and international guests.

October 16: Opening Ceremony

MISFF Official Selection: Screening of short films in competition and films from Guest Festivals – TV talk show with international and national guests. A series of conferences and meetings on the promotion of the territory through culture are also planned, with the participation of associations, businesses, business networks, and more, in collaboration with CNA Pistoia-Prato, Confcommercio Regional and Provincial, ASSORETIPMI, FEDERMEP, ENIT, Società Dante Alighieri, Regione Toscana, Comune di Montecatini Terme, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Pistoia e Pescia, Schools, and Universities.

October 15-16 – Frontier Cinema: Europe-Asia

Armenian Cinema History – Classic Films and Contemporary Films on October 17 Iran: New Iranian Cinema with themes related to Human Rights and the Female Condition on October 17

October 18 – Ibero-American Cinema: Past, Present, and Future

October 19-20 – CINETOUR: A Glimpse into the Cinema of 45 Festival Partners

October 19-21 – International Meeting, Masterclass, Talk Show, Community

Days dedicated to meetings with international authors at the Baths, in Historic Cafés, and in the historic halls of the Grand Hotels in the city. Their presence becomes a memory and a testimony.
Masterclasses in person and remotely.

October 21 – MISFF MARKET

For the first time, the festival is organizing meetings between producers and distributors. Entrepreneurs and representatives of the “Italian Lifestyle” will engage in discussions on cinema as a driver of development.

• Portoghesi Hall / Historic Café of Montecatini Terme at Tettuccio Baths: Morning and Networking Aperitifs and Case Study with international authors and students from film schools and academies, production and distribution companies.
• Pitching The Autors Day – incubator of new Italian cinema;
• Bio & Art – Biographies-Monographs-Exemplary Stories that tell Cinema and Art.

MISFF Hall Program

October 20-21-22 – Days dedicated to International Guests of the Festival

October 21-22, 2023 – Ceremony Award: Award ceremonies with live connections with winning authors, critics, and national and international guests.

MISFF-FEDERMEP International Wedding Film Awards

Certificates and Honorable Mentions for Filmmakers, Students, Schools, and those producing films during the festival.
Awards presentation with the presence of international guests for the final evening.
To stay updated on the program, please visit the website www.filmvideomontecatini.it