CALL FOR ENTRIES – PICCOLE LINGUE DOC | BFFB 38 The BFFB, in collaboration with the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and the Association La Fournaise, dedicates a special section to films on language minorities for the fifth consecutive year. Bolzano, 15/10/2024. The Bolzano Film Festival Bozen – BFFB, organised by the Bolzano FILMCLUB, is preparing for its 38th edition, scheduled to take place in Bolzano from 4 to 13 April 2025. The Festival, in collaboration with the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and the Association La Fournaise, dedicates a special section to films on language minorities for the fifth consecutive year. The Piccole Lingue DOC section brings together works (documentary/fiction/hybrid films) of any length that deal with issues related to linguistic minorities, i.e. populations that speak a language different from that of the surrounding majority. These will be works in which minority languages are present and spoken, and/or tell stories that highlight territorial, social and cultural issues associated with minority language communities. We expect film proposals from every region of the world! The section, devised by linguists Silvia Dal Negro and Daniela Veronesi (Free University of Bolzano) and by documentary filmmakers and geographers Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro (Associazione La Fournaise), will be curated by them together with Vincenzo Bugno, the festival’s artistic director. IMPORTANT DATES > 15th October 2024 – Opening Date > 15th November 2024 – Earlybird > 15th December 2024 – Deadline REQUIREMENTS > The films must never have been shown in public in any form in the Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano and must not have been distributed in commercial cinemas in Italy; priority will, however, be given to films that have never been shown in Italy. > Films must have been completed after 1st January 2023. REGISTRATION AND INFO – PICCOLE LINGUE DOC | Bolzano Film Festival Bozen – BFFB // piccolelinguedoc@filmfestival.bz.it And here you can download the complete Call for entries.