Artistic Direction and Overall Organization: Maria Roberta Novielli
Coordination: Anja Boato, Cora Boato, Eugenio De Angelis, Filippo Donolato, Ilaria Ingenito, Marianna Lavano, Alessandro Leombruni, Daniele Pelizzon, Luca Pili, Alessandra Signorini, Ginevra Tanto.
Graphic Project: Luisa Simioni, Luca Pili
Image Short 2025: Manuele Fior
Press Office: Studio Morabito – Mimmo Morabito
With the cooperation of Eugenio De Angelis
Communication and Promotion Office: Federica Ferrarin, Federica Scotellaro, Paola Vescovi
Movie Selection: Cecilia Cossio, Cynthia Felando, Keiko Kusakabe, Anton Giulio Mancino, Andrijana Ružić, Allegra Bell, Anja Boato, Maria Roberta Novielli
Film Festival Directors Coordinator: Ilaria Ingenito
Backstage – photography: Rebecca Legnaro, Beatrice Valinotto
Website: Eugenio De Angelis, Solomon Taiwo with the collaboration of ASIT (Computer Services and Telecommunications Area)
Italian Press Office Team
Coordination: Eugenio De Angelis
Giulio Abatangelo, Giorgia Artusi, Viola Bacci, Gioia Bincoletto, Elisa Antonia Blaj, Rebecca Canavesi, Federico Cardinale, Irene Carpita, Giorgia Ciato, Alessia Costantino, Sofia Domeniconi, Antonella Faggiano, Francesca Filippi, Filippo Giacoboni, Martina Maestri, Tommaso Menichelli, Teresa Morettin, Elena Picchiotti, Susanna Pittarello, Greta Ponzo, Beatrice Rigato, Elisabetta Romano, Emma Schenardi, Benedetta Sialino, Alessandro Signori, Emma Sist, Linda Soligo, Monica Stocovaz, Vanessa Toniolo, Marco Trevisanello
International Press Office Team
Coordination: Anja Boato with the cooperation of Ginevra Tanto
Estella Nelly Barberi, Emilie Beaudet, Mael Bertotto, Caterina Campagna, Pietro Corvino, Ivan Facenda, Luigi Falaschetti, Caterina Fiocchi, Annachiara Pia Flagiello, Niccolò Gerotto, Bahar Cemre Gökçe, Teodora Ilic, Anna Magiera, Giulia Marchioro, Chiara Mascotti, Ayaka Nagata, Stefania Emanuela Ore, Maria Alessandra Però, Eleni Selengidi, Filiz Temizkan, Dario Vitale, Lucia Zanin
Social Networks Team
Coordination: Ugo Comunicazione
Federico Cardinale, Martina Maestri, Giulia Guglielmo Mancino, Tommaso Menichelli, Egle Pala
Fundraising Team
Coordination: Marianna Lavano
Viola Bacci, Aurora Basha, Chiara Battaglino, Natalie Battisti, Laura Bettelle, Elisa Bivi, Jessica Brioli, Federico Cardinale, Nicolina Cuzzocrea, Luigi Falaschetti, Giovanna Longobardi, Giulia Marcelloni, Giulia Miceli, Micol Mirri, Elena Picchiotti, Arianna Prosepio, Cecilia Robbiati, Eleni Selengidi, Uroš Šestović, Linda Soligo, Monica Stocavoz, Viola Zannarini
Video Team
Coordination: Luca Pili
Kimia Bakhtiarianpak, Alessio Barbazza, Rebecca Sofia Barbazza, Giulia Bortolatto, Alexia Boscolo Gnolo, Flavio Brunelli, Andrea Cracco, Ernesto Dell'Olivo, Yulia Kalachikhina, Rebecca Legnaro, Rasmita Shrestha, Linda Soligo, Beatrice Valinotto, Giorgia Velluti, Michele Franchetto
Logistic Team
Coordination: Filippo Donolato, Alessandra Signorini
Lotte Maria Adema, Eufrasia Agostinelli, Davoud Akbarbeyglu, Sebastian Bacchetta, Kimia Bakhtiarianpak, Angelina Bazhenova, Marta Bianco, Sofia Bigazzi, Vincent Billiani-Adams, Irena Blauth Azuar, Giulia Bortolatto, Jessica Brioli, Alessia Carlassara, Elena Covelli, Gaia Crotti, Alessia Cuman, Flavia Curcio, Nicolina Cuzzocrea, Clara Della Frera, Camilla Festa, Lisa Furlan, Beatrice Germozzi, Ricarda Homman, Irene Imarisio, Joice Briggitte Lopez Zavala, Aurora Maso, Livia Mele, Giulia Miceli, Luca Pagnoscin, Luna Palermo, Martina Pavanetto, Quang Viet Phung, Sara Pintore, Nicolae Ponomarenco, Giovanni Virgiliani Presenti, Elisa Primola, Valentina Romani, Giovanna Sedicino, Uroš Šestović, Alice Silva, Giulia Tonelli, Matteo Tonelli, Angelina Trisic, Anna Verdier, Yirui Ye, Viola Zannarini, Nicola Zanon, Valentina Ziveri
Subtitles Team
Coordination: Alessandro Leombruni
Irene Abatangelo, Eufrasia Agostinelli, Marina Alfiero, Emilie Beaudet, Vincent Billiani-Adams, Cristina Boifava, Ilaria Bozza, Alice Elena Campagna, Sarah Caniato, Irene Capelli, Alessia Carlassara, Giorgia Chinese, Giorgia Cianfanelli, Eleonora Copetti, Gaia Crotti, Nicolina Cuzzocrea, Clara Della Frera, Camilla Festa, Caterina Fiocchi, Beatrice Guerra, Giulia Guglielmo Mancini, Irene Imarisio, Virginia Lo Vullo, Gabriella Longo, Joice Briggitte Lopez Zavala, Sara Marongiu, Chiara Mascotti, Giulia Massai, Tommaso Menichelli, Egle Pala, Camilla Panatteri, Maria Alessandra Però, Greta Ponzo, Elisa Primola, Diletta Rombaldoni, Elena Russo, Anna Santi, Anna Scala, Giovanna Sedicino, Emma Sist, Linda Soligo, Giulia Tonelli, Marco Trevisanello, Elena Turcu, Francesca Vallone, Demetra Vanni, Beatrice Vigani, Giovanni Virgiliani Presenti, Viola Wohlt
Catalogue Team
Coordination: Maria Roberta Novielli
Marina Alfiero, Giorgia Artusi, Rebecca Sofia Barbazza, Laura Bettelle, Marta Bianco, Cora Boato, Riccardo Brunello, Rebecca Canavesi, Irene Carpita, Ernesto Dell’Olivo, Gaia Diurisi, Sofia Domeniconi, Luca Hylla, Joice Briggitte Lopez Zavala, Martina Maestri, Livia Mele, Tommaso Menichelli, Linda Soligo, Vanessa Toniolo, Yirui Ye, Valentina Ziveri
PDF Catalogue Design and Editing
Coordination: Daniele Pelizzon
Irene Abatangelo, Giorgia Artusi, Aurora Basha, Alexia Boscolo Gnolo, Jessica Brioli
High Schools’ Competition Jury: Giulio Abatangelo, Angelina Bazhenova, Vincent Billiani-Adams, Jessica Brioli, Flavia Curcio, Ernesto Dell’Olivo, Michele Franchetto, Niccolò Gerotto, Yulia Kalachikhina, Giulia Marchioro, Luca Pagnoscin, Egle Pala, Elena Picchiotti, Susanna Pittarello, Marco Ramponi, Uros Sestovic, Linda Soligo, Monica Stocovaz, Defne Su Gokceer, Beatrice Vigani
Dedicated editorial team “Taxi Drivers”: Giorgia Artusi, Viola Bacci, Elisa Antonia Blaj, Federico Cardinale, Sofia Domeniconi, Francesca Filippi, Alessandro Signori, Emma Sist, Linda Soligo, Vanessa Toniolo
Review of the English language contributions: Francesca Ellero
The Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival is promoted by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and is planned in collaboration with the Fondazione di Venezia (Vincenzo Marinese, Giovanni Dell’Olivo), the Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Cristiana Rita Alfonsi), the Avani Rio Novo Venice Hotel (Stefano Botteon), The National Museum of Cinema in Turin (Carlo Chatrian), the Ugo Comunicazione Company (Piergiorgio Paladin), the streaming platform WeShort (Alessandro Loprieno), the Conservatory ‘Arrigo Pedrollo’ of Vicenza (Stefano Lorenzetti, Davide Tiso), the Giornate della Luce (Donato Guerra, Claudio Tolomio), the Religion Today Film Festival (Andrea Morghen, Lisa Martelli), Cinit – Cineforum Italiano (Massimo Caminiti, Neda Furlan), the Vice Rector for Communication and Research Knowledge Valorisation Alessio Cotugno, ACIPIC – Cultural Promotion Office (Veronica Gusso, Elisa Bizzozi), the Communication and Promotion Office (Paola Vescovi, Federica Ferrarin, Luisa Simioni), ASIT – Computer Services and Telecommunications Area (Modesto Trincanato, Luca Pietrini, Cristiano Colleoni, Mariangela Vedovo, Alberto Piotto, Stefano Maria Bonetta, Paolo Montagner, Fabio Frappola), and Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Events and Cultural Activities Office (Martina Collauto, Martina Sguazzin): we are truly grateful to all of you.
Special thanks to Martina Sguazzin (Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Events and Cultural Activities Office) for her precious and tireless co-operation.
Design and Graphic Awards: Promovetro – Vetro Artistico di Murano
Stefano Beggiora is Associate Professor of History of India, Hindi Literature, and Ethnography of Shamanism at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. With a strong passion for oriental societies and cultures, he has been conducting Indological and anthropological research and development cooperation activities in India for many years. After specializing in the study of South Asian shamanism, he has published numerous essays and books on ādivāsī, the indigenous peoples of South Asia, as well as scientific articles on colonial history, welfare and development, constitutional rights for low castes and ethnic minorities, contemporary history of the political movements of the Indian Subcontinent.
John Bleasdale is a teacher at Ca Foscari, a writer and film critic. His work appears regularly in Sight and Sound, The Economist, The Financial Times and many online publications. He is the producer and host of the Writers on Film podcast. He is currently writing a biography of Terrence Malick.
Cecilia Cossio, researcher of Hindi Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice from 1978 to 2006, for almost thirty years she has been studying Indian cinema and society, about which she has published many essays and the book Cinema in India. Lo strano caso di Shashi Kapur (Cinema in India. The Strange Fate of Shashi Kapoor, 2005). She is presently in charge of editing the Indian section of the website AsiaMedia. (http//asiamedia.unive.it).
Tiziana D’Amico is an university researcher at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice where she teaches Czech Literature and Language. Her areas of interest and research are the avantgarde, primarily Czech surrealism; multimedia translation (subtitle and comics); and memory studies in the popular culture production. She studied Philology and History of Eastern Europe (Polish, Czech and Slovak literature and language) at the University of Neaple “L’Orientale”, where she also obtained her PhD in Cultures of Eastern Europe.
Vincenza D’Urso teaches Korean Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari and has been the Director of the King Sejong Institute of Venice. She has been awarded the Grand Prize for Literary Translation from the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism in 2009. She has been the curator of various film events where important filmmakers were involved, including Lee Chang-dong and Kim Ki-duk.
Elisabetta Di Sopra, video-artist, lives and works in Venice. Her artistic research is expressed through her way of using the video-making language, which she uses to investigate the most sensible dynamics of the everyday dimension and its unexpressed micro-stories, where the woman’s body has a central role. She also works as a promoter of video-art works for different expositions and galleries.
Cynthia Felando is the editor of Short Film Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal. After earning her PhD at UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, she worked as a programmer for art-house cinemas and film festivals. She is a senior lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a visiting professor at UCLA. Her short film-related publications include the monograph Discovering Short Films: The History and Style of Live-Action Fiction Shorts; Girls Rule in Sofia Coppola’s Lick the Star, in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola, edited by Suzanne Ferris; and Spike Jonze Shorts Stories in The Films of Spike Jonze, edited by Wyatt Moss-Wellington and Kim Wilkins.
Flavio Gregori is full professor of English literature at Ca’ Foscari University. Among his main fields of research there are the relationships between literature and cinema — as in the case of the series of conferences on Kubrick, literature and the arts he has organized since 2000. He has co-directed the literary festival Incroci di civiltà – Crossings of Civilizations, in Venice. He was also the director of a series on literature and cinema for the publishing house L’Epos.
Keiko Kusakabe, Japanese film and CM producer and distributor, is the president of Makotoya. Many internationally acclaimed movies are to her name, among which some of the most famous works by Yoshihiko Matsushi, Hisayasu Sato and in particular Shinya Tsumamoto, including the prize-winner Kotoko (2011, Orizzonti Prize at Venice Film Festival).
Stefano Locati is actively involved in Asian cinema. He holds a Ph.D. in Literatures and Media: Narrative and Languages. He is currently teaching assistant at IULM University. He has authored the books “Il nuovo cinema di Hong Kong. Voci e sguardi oltre l’handover” (2014, with E. Sacchi), “Evolution. Darwin e il cinema” (2009, with E. Canadelli), and “La spada del destino. I samurai nel cinema giapponese dalle origini a oggi” (Luni Editrice, 2019).
Anton Giulio Mancino (Bari, 1968), former film critic and essayist, is associate professor of Film History at the University of Macerata. Member of the National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI, of which from 2012 he was Trustee of the Puglia Group until 2017) from 2001 to 2004 and from 2009 to 2012 he was a selector of the International Critics’ Week of the Venice Film Festival.
Laura Marcellino is a Ca’ Foscari graduate, EU MEDIA expert, who has taken part in the international film market and festival world as programme expert for almost 30 years;in addition, she has also acted as retrospective curator, festival juror, PR, tutor, lecturer, moderator, producer, translator and involved in subtitling. For 21 years she was one of the organizers of the Venice Biennale Film Festival and directed its film industry office. She is presently collaborating with the National Cinema Museum-TorinoFilmLab and the Locarno Film Festival.
Carlo Montanaro has written numerous critical essays and has contributed to the organization of important cultural events. He is one of the main organizers of the “Le Giornate del Cinema Muto” in Pordenone. He was director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Since 2010 he has been holding the position as President of the Italian Association for Research on the History of Cinema. He is also owner of the Carlo Montanaro Archive and founder of “The Factory of Vision”.
Elena Pollacchi (PhD, Cam.) teaches Chinese Film History at Ca’ Foscari University. Since 2010 she has been Curator of the Asian section for the Kosmorama – Trondheim International Film Festival in Norway and she currently serves as a Programme Advisor for the Venice International Film Festival for Chinese language and Korean film. Her researches focuses on contemporary Chinese cinema as well as on production and/or distribution-related issues within the framework of international film festivals.
Andrijana Ružić graduated in History and Criticism of Art at the Università degli Studi in Milan, Italy. She specialized in History of Animated Film under Giannalberto Bendazzi’s mentorship. As an independent scholar she has participated to numerous international conferences for animation studies presenting works of diverse independent authors of animation and has served as a juror in international animation festivals. She is member of the Selection Board of Animafest Scanner, the international symposium for contemporary animation studies, held annually at the International Festival of Animated Film (Animafest) in Zagreb, Croatia. She writes about animation and other arts for Belgrade weekly magazine Vreme, Croatian film magazine Hrvatski filmski ljetopis and French animation magazine Blinkblank and is the author of the book Michael Dudok de Wit – A Life in Animation (CRC Focus).
