ORTIGIA FILM FESTIVAL
Founded in 2009 by the Sa.Li.Ro’ cultural association, it promotes, stimulates and supports Italian and international cinematographic and audiovisual culture with particular attention to younger and more innovative cinema. Ortigia Film Festival whose acronym is OFF, offers the public different competitive and non-competitive sections, meetings, workshops, retrospectives, focuses, collateral events which over the years have attracted a large participation of film enthusiasts, professionals, talent and tourists.
Founded in 2009 by the Sa.Li.Ro’ cultural association, it promotes, stimulates and supports Italian and international cinematographic and audiovisual culture with particular attention to younger and more innovative cinema. Ortigia Film Festival whose acronym is OFF, offers the public different competitive and non-competitive sections, meetings, workshops, retrospectives, focuses, collateral events which over the years have attracted a large participation of film enthusiasts, professionals, talent and tourists.
Ortigia Film Festival has developed a strong identity linked to Italian cinema, but at the same time, it has renewed and expanded its offer, exploring new realities in the audiovisual and international field. Today the Festival promotes both Italian and international cinema, thanks to a quality program rich in content: 3 competitive sections, feature films, first and second Italian works, national and international documentaries and short films; 2 international non-competitive sections, Cinema Women, Cinema and another art and other collateral events; both for the participation of the numerous guests and protagonists from the world of cinema.
OFF has passed its first decade and expanded its programming and the number of guests year after year: jurors, directors, actors, producers, journalists and professionals have exceeded three hundred. What made OFF unique over time was the trait d’union between the cinema, the large audience, the squares and courtyards of the island of Ortigia, transformed for the occasion into cinematographic arenas and meeting places between spectators and guests, in a fluid interchange, under the aegis of the successful trinomial: culture/tourism/development.
The flourishing visibility in the national press and the consensus obtained from the institutions (Medal of Honor of the President of the Republic, Mibac, Sicily Film Commission, Municipality of Syracuse, Siae, Unesco, Rai, etc.) and civil society as a whole, confirm the growing interest in the Ortigia Film Festival which is gaining ever more national and international importance.
our mission
Over the years, Ortigia Film Festival has spread young cinematography, first Italian and then international, to the general public, through a careful selection of audiovisual proposals, which have tended to create an ideal connection between Sicily and the great ferments that animate the national cinematographic culture and international. A work of diffusion and cinematic literacy of the territory which has allowed us to achieve the set objective: to become promoters of audiovisual culture, even the most risky and rare, but ranging up to the commercial to involve and create new, increasingly heterogeneous and numerous audiences. New challenges and reorganization of objectives await us with the intention of expanding to other places in Syracuse and growing in national and international communication to make Ortigia become more and more: the island of cinema.