| Festival del cinema di Salerno Salerno Film Festival The Film Festival of Salerno | |
| Location: | Salerno, Italy |
| Founded: | 1946 |
Salerno Film Festival (in Italian language, Festival del cinema di Salerno) has operated since 1946 in the Italian city of Salerno.
"Cine Club Salerno", a non-profit association of cinematographic culture, was born in 1945 from a group of friends which had an ambitious program: promoting culture through cinema. Thus, in 1946, the 1st National Exhibition of Cinema a Passo Ridotto was born.
The Film Festival of Salerno had its first event in 1946, when it happened to be the first festival of the so-called movement of "reduced step", that lowered all 35 mm movies to 16 mm ones, for a more comfortable spreading.
That historical edition was attended, among others, by Vittorio De Sica, Rossano Brazzi, Adriana Benetti, Maria Mercader and Mariella Lotti. On that occasion, the projections were held not only in Salerno but also in Cava de' Tirreni, Positano and Amalfi.
Since its first edition, the festival has been held annually (with the exception of the editions of 1953, 1957, 1959 and 1960). The location is at the cinema/theater Augusteo, located at the ground floor of the northern Palazzo di Città ("The Salerno Town Hall") and even sometimes at the Salerno's Teatro Verdi.[1]
The festival was won by the movie "Governance"[2] in 2021.[3]
The Festival gave useful innovations to the cinema industry:
The 2021 edition saw the participation of 350 films in competition from 50 countries and was internationally famous.[4]
The 76th event of the Salerno Film Festival was held from 28 November to 3 December 2022, at the CineTeatro Augusteo and in various locations in Salerno.[5] The Sections of the competitions were: Feature and short films, Fiction, Film Dossier, Cartoons, Commercials, Video clips and Smartphone films, Videscuola, Discovery Campania, Environment, Soundtracks, Cinema for a book – a book for Cinema and Documentaries with various Sections of specialized Cinematographies.