Festival Mente Locale – Visioni sul territorio
XII Edizione: October 27th – November 2nd, 2025
Mente Locale – Visioni sul territorio (Local Mind – Visions of the Territory) is the first Italian festival focusing on the narration of territories through audio-visual media. Founded in 2014, every year Mente Locale offers a selection of international documentary films on communities and territories, highlighting the changes and challenges, solutions and gainings of people living in a particular area, village, district, or shared workplace.
The festival stands for the values of equality, dialogue and freedom, respect for the territory and environmental sustainability.
The selected films are screened in different towns in Emilia Romagna, supporting independent cinemas, bringing local audiences together with international professionals in the beautiful countryside between Bologna and Modena. The screening of the movies selected for the competition Mente Locale – Visioni sul territorio will take place from 27 October to 2 November 2025 and the winners of the competition will be announced on November 2nd.
The festival stands for the values of equality, dialogue and freedom, respect for the territory and environmental sustainability.
The selected films are screened in different towns in Emilia Romagna, supporting independent cinemas, bringing local audiences together with international professionals in the beautiful countryside between Bologna and Modena. The screening of the movies selected for the competition Mente Locale – Visioni sul territorio will take place from 27 October to 2 November 2025 and the winners of the competition will be announced on November 2nd.
The 2025 competition
The competition is reserved to Italian and international documentaries with no distinction of duration, techniques, or format, as long as they focus on the narration of a territory, considered – in a broader sense – as a narration of sites, people, organisations, knowledge and traditions linked to a particular place or geographical area.
Works completed from 2023 onwards can compete.
The artistic director of Mente locale 2025 is Leena Pasanen.Sono ammesse al concorso le opere realizzate a partire dal 2023.
Subscription times and costs
In order to participate works must be submitted through the FilmFreeway platform.
- Early bird deadline: May 15th – Registration fee Euro 5,00
- Second deadline: July 31st – Registration fee Euro 10,00
- Final deadline: August 30th – Registration fee Euro 15,00
