Exclusive coverage from Nòt Film Fest in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy. Discover filmmaker interviews, reviews, and behind-the-scenes stories from one of Europe’s most innovative independent film festivals.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Nathan Catucci's "Rabbit" distills the tension between a mother and child into two wordless minutes of 16mm, letting horror bloom from the ordinary act of preparing dinner.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Jackson Griffin's "feel ur bones" follows a young man whose grip on New York is slipping until he loses himself in an underground rave, turning a story of survival into a visceral case for the necessity of dance.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Michele Formica's "Sweet Sweat" observes a young fighter's private preparation without commentary or judgment, asking what discipline actually costs when pushing through pain becomes its own quiet form of self-destruction.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Martin Strange-Hansen's "Best Practice" traps a young locksmith between duty and conscience, asking when doing your job quietly makes you complicit in someone else's harm.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Peter Vass's "Banshee" conjures a slow-burn folk horror from 1880s Ireland, where a mysterious comb, a grieving family, and the collision of old customs and new thinking set a village on edge.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Giuseppe Lanno's "Reality is worse" follows a group of Palermo supporters who found a community-owned football club against the commercial game, tracing how a small utopia can hold real ground against modern life.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Stefano P. Testa's "The Empty Space" follows a son's return to the origins of his family story, turning the gaps in a lost mother's memory into the film's true subject.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Aurora Ovan's "LUNA" builds a world split between City and Nature by political decree, following one rebellious young Custodian who refuses to believe the two can never speak to each other again.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Lada Kopytova's "Talismans" traces how mudlarking shapes the work of artist Klara Fokicheva, following found bone, ceramic, and driftwood from the Thames foreshore into jewellery that carries memory and spirit.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Maxwell Klaiber's "The Rattlin' Bog" makes its World Premiere as an "anti-horror" about three friends at a mountain cabin, trading jump-scares for the everyday menace of fragile egos.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Filip Nerold's "Wild Eye pub" sends the person of Death into a local watering hole for a doomed love affair and a string of absurd mistakes, a stop-motion comedy that plays reverent tribute to the fading rituals of the Czech pub.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Nicolò Ferrara's "Lighèia" follows a solitary fisherman who hides a mermaid from the world, refusing to resolve whether we are watching a rescue or a mind coming apart.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Isabella Bazoni's "Songs of Salt" gathers the untold stories of the Riviera Romagnola's beach workers and fishermen, asking what it means to safeguard memory and belonging as new EU legislation threatens their livelihoods.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Francesco Gheghi's "La Buona Condotta" traps two ordinary parents inside a single night and a single apartment, where love for a child slides quietly toward complicity.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Luka Galle's "The Catcher" follows a lonely young man tasked with catching invisible birds, using a quiet sci-fi premise to speak to anyone who has ever felt overlooked.
At this year's Not Film Fest, Gaia Antonini's "It's not like you've seen it anyway" strips away trailers, spoilers, and secondhand opinions, betting that a film hits harder when you walk in knowing almost nothing about it.
