The Food Film Fest is an international competition dedicated to food and film, organized by the Art Maiora Cultural Association and the Bergamo Chamber of Commerce. The goal is to promote a food-conscious culture through cinema.
The festival aims to promote a food-conscious culture through short and feature films, documentaries and animated films. The main themes of the event are taste, culinary art, issues related to proper nutrition and food production, as well as biodiversity and gastronomic memory as a collective heritage to be preserved.
The Food Film Fest is enriched by numerous events: food and wine tastings, lectures, meetings with farmers and food traders, made possible thanks to the collaboration of various local organizations.
Admission to the festival is free for both film screenings and side events.
The festival includes the following competitions:
– Film: Works in any film format. Narrative works that tell the world of food as an expression of culture and knowledge, as a representative of a social condition, as a passion or obsession.
– Documentaries: Documentary works, in any film format, that develop the main theme on: agribusiness issues, nutrition issues, memory of ancient recipes, culinary traditions of a specific area, production of particular food products, food as a passion or as a resource, nutrition education.
– Animation: Films in which drawing, line graphics, sculpture, and materials come to life through various techniques, becoming short and feature-length animated films, centered on food.