Schermo dell'arte 2025
The festival dedicated to cinema and contemporary art returns to the city, from 12 to 16 November
The best and most recent international production of artists' films and documentaries on contemporary art in Florence for the 18th edition of Schermo dell'arte, from 12 to 16 November, at Cinema La Compagnia, Palazzo Strozzi, and other locations in the city, with Gucci confirming its support by offering free admission to the screenings to those under 30.
The program also includes an exhibition with two virtual reality works by artists Valentina Furian and Claudia Losi at the Strozzina in Palazzo Strozzi.
BLKNWS Terms & Conditions by Kahlil Joseph Focus 2025 will be dedicated to Moroccan artist Randa Maroufi, with five films made between 2015 and 2025, including L'MINA, set in the mining town of Jerada, winner of the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film at the Semaine de la Critique at the last Cannes Film Festival.
The Festival will open with the live documentary Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments, specially created for Lo schermo dell’arte by Serbian artist and filmmaker Mila Turajlic, while the program will feature many Italian premieres, including The Tree of Authenticity (2025) by Congolese artist Sammy Baloji, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2024) by American artist Khalil Joseph, Sleep #2 (2024) by Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, and Fierté Nationale: De Jéricho vers Gaza (2025) by Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen.
Mila Turajlic Performance, Non-Aligned Newsreels Fragments, 2025Closing night with the world premiere of Matteo Frittelli's documentary Due qui / To Hear (2025), which recounts the project created by Tuscan artist Massimo Bartolini for the Italian Pavilion at the last Venice Biennale.
The 14th edition of the VISIO European Programme on Artists' Moving Images, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi and dedicated to artists under 35 who use moving images, will feature eight artists selected from an open call launched in June, which received 156 applications from 54 different countries. Meanwhile, the VISIO Production Fund will preview works by artists Valentin Noujaïm and Peng Zuqiang.
