Blog: Film festivals

Ardea Film Festival is an event of cinematographic culture in the city of Ardea, an Italian municipality in the metropolitan city of Rome Capitale in Lazio.

Ardea Film Festival is a cultural event, in its first edition, conceived by the cultural association Atelier deUtopie in collaboration with Pro Loco Ardea APS, promoted by the Ministry of Culture | Pantheon and Castel Sant’Angelo | Direzione Musei Nazionali of the city of Rome and sponsored by the administration of the Municipality of Ardea, which provides for the promotion of various calls designed to involve citizens, artists, professionals and students, with the aim of igniting the passion for cinema as an experience of sharing, contemplation, listening and discovery. An invitation to return to experience cinema in the city of Ardea in its deepest and most authentic dimension.

Ardea Film Festival will take place in the splendid setting of the Giacomo Manzù Museum in Ardea, from 17 to 19 July 2025, representing an opportunity to bring citizens closer to auteur cinema, new visual languages, experimental and independent forms of cinematographic and audiovisual production in general.

Ardea Film Festival aims, through screenings, meetings with directors, workshops, retrospectives and exhibitions, to educate about the image, stimulate a critical reading of film language and create moments of intergenerational comparison. The promotion of cinematographic culture will also be supported by an open and varied program, capable of dialoguing with a broad and transversal audience, and by collaboration with schools, universities and training centers.

Ardea Film Festival aims to creatively enhance the local cultural heritage, a narrative territory par excellence: its thousand-year history, natural landscape, historical architecture and places of memory represent an immense unexpressed potential that the festival intends to highlight through the gaze of the camera, restoring a new visibility to the material and immaterial assets of the territory, promoting an emotional, dynamic and participatory knowledge of it.