Festival Mente Locale – Visioni sul territorio
XII Edizione: October 25th – 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 took place from 25 October to 2 November 2025 and the winners of the competition was 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 took place from 25 October to 2 November 2025 and the winners of the competition was 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.
