The Festival awards the prize GOLDEN RING SPECIAL EDITION to those Directors who greatly explored and reinterpreted throughout their film careers The Dark Side of movies. 

The Festival awards the prize MEDAL OF HONOUR to those Directors who contributed researching and narratively experimenting by venturing in new and original paths.

An exceptional critical jury will assign the CRITICS' AWARD to the Best Feature Film Direction among the works presented in the International Competition.

The audience jury assigns the GOLDEN RING award for Best Feature Film to the film that receives the highest vote.

Closely connected to the newest releases presented in major film markets, Contemporanea exclusively presents significant titles still little known to Italian distribution.

In collaboration with A.S.C.I.G. (Association for Cultural Exchanges between Italy and Japan)
Ottobre Giapponese is the section dedicated to one of the cinematography that contributed most to the enhancement of genre cinema, through the screening of retrospective and contemporary films.

Celebrations are an occasion to remember the great names of the past and bring them to the general public before being forgotten, even if they are unforgettable.

In collaboration with the Emilia-Romagna Region Film Commission
Showcase Emilia-Romagna is the section dedicated to promoting the best regional film productions.

The pilot episode of the new docu-series Il giro dell'Horror on the evolution of horror film genre in Italy.

In collaboration with LonTake.it
The seminar by Andrea Chimento dedicated to the interpretation of one of the most recurrent themes in David Lynch's cinema: the uncanny.

Teasers, insights and interviews with authors, directors and guests realized during the Festival.