OPEN CALL MATIFF 7
EDITION 2026
LATE DEADLINE JULY 19 2026
MEDITERRANEAN, REFLECTION OF THE WORLD
September 26 – October 04, 2026
Matera – Italy
“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..”
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
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IDEA’MATER – THE AUTHORS’ FORUM OF MAMA
Matera International Film Festival
Inside MAMA – Matera Market, MATIFF establishes IDEA’MATER – Authors’ Forum, a European and international platform dedicated to invention, writing, research, and co-creation of new audiovisual content. IDEA’MATER represents the creative heart of MAMA: the place where industry meets authorship and where technological transformations are turned into new narrative possibilities. The project comes from the belief that a contemporary audiovisual market shouldn’t just be about buying and selling works and rights, but should also contribute to the very birth of projects, creating connections between authors, producers, broadcasters, public service media, platforms, cultural institutions, universities, and local communities.
In collaboration with the Après Varan Cine-club Festival in Paris and in line with the goals of the Eurovisioni Festival, IDEA’MATER proposes the gradual building of a European network of local co-creation labs, where trans-European teams can develop films, series, documentaries, and short films along with their potential extensions into new media: artificial intelligence, immersive experiences, cultural gaming, and interactive storytelling.
Matera thus becomes the starting point of a process that brings together territory, creativity, technology, and industry.
FROM IDEA TO MARKET. FROM MARKET TO WORK.
IDEA’MATER completes MAMA’s mission by building an original pipeline:
IDEA → WRITING → CO-CREATION → DEVELOPMENT → PITCH → CO-PRODUCTION → MARKET → AUDIENCE
So MAMA doesn’t just want to be the place where finished projects arrive.
It also wants to be the place where projects begin.
IDEA’MATER
Not just showing works. Making them come to life.
MAMA – Matera Market
Cinema is built, stone by stone.

































































