Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City - Competition 2020/2021

“URBAN VISIONS. Beyond the Ideal City” is an independent film festival promoted by City Space Architecture.
It is the first Italian competition for short films entirely dedicated to the contemporary city and urban public life, aimed at exploring urban humanities through an interdisciplinary approach.

“URBAN VISIONS. Beyond the Ideal City” is interested in collecting narratives of different realities, in investigating city’s connections, intersections and activities while focusing on the public realm, where public aspects, related to participation, sharing and social practices, blend with private aspirations, related to individuality, diversity and lifestyles. Urban Visions intends to collect stories of happiness or poverty, success or solitude, compliance or rebellion, beyond the seducing and reassuring shapes of the beautiful, ideal city. Overcoming the stereotypes and well-known consumerism images, Urban Visions looks for something that our eyes, deliberately or unconsciously, don’t know or can’t see.

“URBAN VISIONS. Beyond the Ideal City” is part of A-Place, whose competition includes:
- A-Place / Migrants, refugees and displaces communities, investigating the living conditions of migrants, refugees and displaced communities in cities, in Italy and elsewhere.
- A-Place / A Confined Urban Vision" (online), investigating human life in cities during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Awards & Prizes

Category: Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City
1st prize - € 800 in cash
2 honourable mentions - certificate of excellence

Category: A-Place / Migrants, refugees and displaced communities
1st prize - € 500 in cash
2nd prize - € 300 in cash
3rd prize - € 200 in cash
2 honourable mentions - certificate of excellence

Category: A-Place / A Confined Urban Vision (online) 
1st prize - € 500 in cash
2 honourable mentions - certificate of excellence

Rules & Terms

The competition is open to film professionals and film enthusiasts, and to all genres (fiction, experimental, documentary). There is no restriction about the language, but subtitles in English must be included.
We accept short films of maximum 30 minutes.
Submitting a short film implies that all applicants accept the terms and conditions set out in this competition.
Each applicant can submit one proposal only.

Applicants sending proposals must legally assume the rights of authorship. All questions and claims that may arise in this respect fall solely on the applicant. The video products are the property of the artists. This understanding also includes the right of City Space Architecture to reproduce the work during the international film festival “Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City” and during other cinema events related of the A-Place project.