page_title: Cinema of Italy
section_title: Festivals
hierarchical_section_title: Cinema of Italy / Festivals
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Il regista Martin Scorsese riceve il Leone d'oro alla carriera alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia del 1995
context_page_description: The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. The first Italian director is considered to be Vittorio Calcina, a collaborator of the Lumière Brothers, who filmed Pope Leo XIII in 1896. Since its beginning, Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide. As of 2018, Italian films have won 14 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film as well as 12 Palmes d'Or, one Academy Award for Best Picture and many Golden Lions and Golden Bears.
  Italy is a birthplace of Art Cinema and the stylistic aspect of film has been the most important factor in the history of Italian movies. In the early 1900s, artistic and epic films such as Otello, The Last Days of Pompeii, L'Inferno, Quo Vadis, and Cabiria, were made as adaptations of books or stage plays. Italian filmmakers were utilizing complex set designs, lavish costumes, and record budgets, to produce pioneering films. One of the first cinematic avante-garde movements, Italian Futurism, took place in Italy in the late 1910s. After a period of decline in the 1920s, the Italian film industry was revitalized in the 1930s with the arrival of sound film.
context_section_description: Venice Film Festival, founded in 1932, is the world's oldest film festival, and one of the most prestigious and publicized
  Bari International Film Festival
  Beyond Media
  BigScreen Festival
  Capri Hollywood International Film Festival
  Chieti Film Festival
  Il Cinema Ritrovato
  CinemadaMare Film Festival
  Cortomobile
  Courmayeur Noir Film Festival
  Ecologico International Film Festival
  Fantafestival
  Festival del Cinema all'Aperto "Accordi @ DISACCORDI"
  First Car Film Festival
  Giffoni Film Festival
  Gran Paradiso Film Festival
  Grolla d'oro
  Io Isabella International Film Week
  Ischia Film Festival
  Italian Environmental Film Festival
  Jalari in corto
  Lucca Film Festival
  MedFilm Festival
  Milan Film Festival
  People and Religions – Terni Film Festival
  Pordenone Silent Film Festival
  River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival
  Riviera International Film Festival
  Rome Film Festival
  Salerno Film Festival
  Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival
  Taormina Film Fest
  Torino Film Festival
  Trieste Film Festival
  VIEW Fest
caption: Martin Scorsese receiving a Golden Lion, the most prestigious award given out at the Venice Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world.
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