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All the editions
2019
2019
Almost 150 hours of cinema, meetings, music, parties, photocalls. But above all smiles, shared emotions outside and inside the rooms of the Odeon Cinema, packed from the first day to the last, the home of this 24th edition, 7 unforgettable days and 7 nights. Milano Film Festival 2019 is #BasedOnATrueCity.
2018
2018
The Festival invades the city. We are in Piazza XXV Aprile, at the ANTEO, at the Piccolo, at the Oberdan, at BASE Milano, at Palazzo Litta and in Cascina Cuccagna. We open to the future with My Screen, a section entirely dedicated to teenagers, and close with the double sold-out of “Rome”, of the immense Cuarón.
2017
2017
Milano Film Festival is done in three. From May to September, two episodes starring animation, second generations and independent cinema and between September and October the final episode, “The Greatest Shot”.
2016
2016
The 20 + 1 edition brings with it a change of direction, new places to discover, innovative languages. After twenty years, Milano Film Festival has decided on its stomach. But the goals remain the same: to be an international platform for independent cinema.
2015
2015
Exactly twenty years of history! Long, short, state faults, the Outsiders, the focus on Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Nicolas Steiner and Jean-Gabriel Périot; Austrian cinema, animation, expanded videos and Parklive music.
2014
2014
State faults, the return of the Outsiders and the focus on Švankmajer and Eugene Jarecki. Mexican cinema enters with a straight leg together with the first reviews “ Expanded Video ” and “ Experiment Europe ”. Evenings are always Parklive.
2013
2013
A special review for the “ 18 years ” spent together, a focus dedicated to Sylvain George, as well as the Outsiders, the animation focus and Parklive. We count 120,000 visitors.
2012
2012
Long, short, a section on 80’s cinema, “ Mr Poster Presents: Play it Again Woody! ”, Ben Rivers … this and more at the 17th edition of MFF.
2011
2011
Main focus of the 2011 edition, the full retrospective dedicated to Jonathan Demme and a tribute dedicated to Randall Poster.
2010
2010
Jim Jarmusch is the protagonist of the retrospective, previews of Godard and Iosseliani, Don Letts special guest of Soundoc.
2009
2009
A long competition of first and second works only. And then the complete retrospective on Olmi; Niccolò Ammaniti and Avi Mograbi at the festival. We exceed 100,000 presences.
2008
2008
A moment to frame, above all: Terry Gilliam at the festival. 10 feature films premiered in Italy and the first Immigration Day.
2007
2007
The world of Ciprì and Maresco and 9 thematic sections out of competition, including the first edition of Soundoc. For 90,000 spectators.
2006
2006
An ever-growing program: the stories of Godard’s cinema, another American cinema, the newsreel and a young Roberto Saviano on the jury – still without an escort.
2005
2005
X edition, the first of Colpe di Stato, of the (now historic!) Animation Marathon and of the milano film festivalino for the little ones. Vinicio Capossela surprisingly closes the festival.
2004
2004
The festival expands: Audiovisual and projections invade the moats of the Castle and the House of Directors is born, the first retrospective is dedicated to Truffaut.
2003
2003
56 films in competition between long and short films, a special section of Israeli and Palestinian shorts, a great musical program with the first Audiovisual.
2002
2002
For the first time 10 days of programming, 223 screenings with the first Italian meetings, 61 directors from all over the world and 30,000 admissions.
2001
2001
Over 1000 entries in competitions win a Kurdish long and an Israeli short on a roadblock in the occupied territories.
2000
2000
7 days and 7 nights at the Strehler theater, the first International Feature Film Competition and a seminar by a great Art Spiegelman.
1999
1999
Three evenings at the Anteo Cinema. 660 films arrived from 45 countries around the world, 40 shorts selected in competition and for the first time 15 out of competition.
1998
1998
The competition becomes international. At the historic De Amicis cinema there are Luca Bigazzi and Maurizio Maggiani and for the festival Jonathan Coe writes a letter to Mr Cinema.
1997
1997
Two evenings in February at the San Carlo Auditorium in collaboration with the legendary Pandora Association. It opens to Italy, 17 shorts selected out of 70 registered. Among the guests also Bruno Pizzul.
1996
1996
The beginning is in a deconsecrated church, Luca Mosso, Silvano Cavatorta and Paolo Rosa keep us baptized. We remember an evening of Milanese shorts and the sold out in the hall.
