SalinaDocFest 2018

The 12th edition of the SalinaDocFest – Festival of Narrative Documentary, in Salina from September 13th to 15th, is dedicated to the themes of community and insularity.

The stories of peoples and cultures, especially those of the Mediterranean, is immediately the main theme of the festival. Even since the first edition – when immigration issues were not at the center of the news as they are today – the Festival dedicates special sections for the “invisible people” that in increasing numbers are reaching Europe. A commitment underlined by the patronage of the UNHCR and the Associazione Carta di Roma.

With a history of over 1,500 submitted and 400 screened films, 1,000 directors and productions from 12 countries, 200 accredited journalists, 700 special guests, and thanks to partnerships with documentary festivals from all over the world (United States, Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, Slovenia, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia), SalinaDocFest has established itself among the leading events for international documentary cinema and is one of the protagonists of the movement that in recent years has transformed the “narrative documentary” into a genre capable of great popular impact and deserving of awards such as the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival 2013 in Sacro Gra and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival 2016 in “Fuocammare”, both by Gianfranco Rosi.

This festival is made for the world as a whole, and for the land where it takes place. It exists thanks to the spectacular nature of the greener volcanic islands and to help for its economy. The SalinadocFest has the support of the municipalities of Malfa and Santa Marina Salina and of some of the most important companies in the Aeolian and Sicilian areas: the historical winery of the Conti Tasca D’Almerita (which since the first edition attributes the prestigious Tasca D’Oro Award to the best documentary of the competition) with its Capo Faro Hotel; the Clara Rametta‘s, mayor of Malfa, Hotel Signum, (host of a restaurant run by Martina Caruso, the youngest star-winning chef in Italy);  and Giuseppe and Lorenzo Siracusano‘s Ravesi Hotel.

www.salinadocfest.it