Ronita Torcato

9th Rome Film Festival: Call for Entries

The prestigious 9th Rome Film Festival (FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL FILM DI ROMA) has called for entries in all categories for the 2014 festwhich is  scheduled to be held from October 16-25, 2014 in the Italian capital.The Festival will give priority to feature films that are world premieres. Films will also be offered the possibility to participate in The Business Street (October, 17-21), Rome Film Festival program, dedicated to the circulation, acquisition and sale of audiovisual products.

Last year, ‘Rangabhoomi’ by Kamal Swaroop had its World Premiere at the 8thRome Film Festival and Amit Dutta’s ‘The Seventh Walk’ was the closing filmof the CinemaXXI Section. There was a Special screening of ‘Om Dar B Dar’ by Kamal Swaroop on the occasion of 100 years of Indian Cinema. Prantik Basu’s ‘Makara’ was in CinemaXXI competition.

The  9th edition of the festival has the following sections:

1) New International Cinema | Cinema for Today which showcases a  selection of a maximum of 14 feature films of young or already successful directors. 

2) Gala: A selection of some of the year’s most important films, for a maximum of 11 titles. 

3) Mondo Genere: A selection of 7 films belonging to different film genres. 

4) Prospettive Italia:This section aims to highlight the new trends in the Italian cinema. It will present a selection of maximum 8 feature films. 

Each of the sections carries a People’s Choice Award based on the majority of the audience’s preferences, along with 4 Lifetime Achievement Awards assigned by the President and the Board of Directors. In addition to this, TAODUE International Jury will assign the TAODUE Award for first or second film.

Film-makers may note the 9th Rome Film Festival will only consider feature length films as submissions. All submitted films must be recent productions completed not prior to Monday 1st December 2013. They must not have been presented in any other format or length, not even as works-in-progress, for submission to previous editions of the Festival. With the exception of Out of Competition films,  films that have had prior public screenings, have participated in other international festivals or are available on the Internet, may not be presented at Rome Film Festival.

To submit a film to the selection, one has to fill out a pre-selection entry form on the official festival website after which the preview DVDs should be sent to Deepti DCunha, the India Consultant to Artistic Director, Marco Müller.   All submissions (duly subtitled in English) should be sent to :

23 Gautam Niwas, 7 Bungalows,

Andheri West,Mumbai 400 053.

Contact Number: (+91)9820522468 (SMS only)

Email: deepti.dcunha@gmail.com