OPEN CALL MATIFF 7
EDITION 2026
DEADLINE JUNE 29 2026

MEDITERRANEAN, MIRROR OF THE WORLD

“In times like these, escape is the only way to stay alive and continue to dream.”
(Initial quote by Henri Laborit from the film “Mediterranean” by Gabriele Salvatores)

EDITION 2025 | MATIFF SIX

A DROP OF HOPE

“What a little thing a life,
my like all is it a Drop?
I want him to get lost
in a Sea of Love it’s the only way…
otherwise, it’s a wasted drop!
too small to be happy alone…
but too big to be satisfied with nothing..”

EDITION 2024 | MATIFF FIVE

EMOZIONARE, A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

EDITION 2023 | MATIFF FOUR

MY MATER. THE DROP OF UNIVERSE.

EDITION 2022 | MATIFF THREE

Moonwalk: the (sustainable) lightness of being

EDITION 2021 – MATIFF TWO

Ulysses on Mars: attempting sublime things

EDITION 2020 | MATIFF ZERO ONE

MaTiFF

Matera International Film Festival

MaTIFF is the acronym for MATera International Film Festival,
the first global arts festival in Matera.

Because the seventh art, Cinema, is the synthesis of the 6 that precede it and that manifest themselves in it: Music, Architecture, Theatre, Dance, Sculpture-Painting, Literature, creating the first Matera Biennial, nominating the city of the Sassi for the UNESCO title of Mediterranean Capital of Dialogue and Culture and World Capital of Architecture