The 18th edition of LO SCHERMO DELL’ARTE, a film and contemporary art festival, will be held from 12 to 16 November in Florence at the Cinema La Compagnia and other venues, presenting a selection of the best recent art films and documentaries on contemporary art.
The programme also includes an exhibition in which artists Valentina Furian and Claudia Losi will exhibit two virtual reality works, BITE (2025) and Anìmule vr. Il mondo sottile (2025), at the Strozzina in Palazzo Strozzi.
Focus 2025 will be dedicated to Moroccan artist Randa Maroufi, with five films made between 2015 and 2025, including “L’MINA”, set in the mining town of Jerada, winner of the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film at the Semaine de la Critique at the last Cannes Film Festival.
The Festival will open with the live documentary Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments, specially created for Lo schermo dell’arte by Serbian artist and filmmaker Mila Turajlic, while the programme will bring together many Italian premieres, including The Tree of Authenticity (2025) by Congolese artist Sammy Baloji, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2024) by American artist Khalil Joseph, Sleep #2 (2024) by Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, and Fierté Nationale: De Jéricho vers Gaza (2025) by Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen.
The Festival will close with the world premiere of Matteo Frittelli’s documentary Due qui / To Hear (2025), which recounts the project created by Tuscan artist Massimo Bartolini for the Italian Pavilion at the last Venice Biennale.
The 14th edition of the VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, a programme curated by Leonardo Bigazzi dedicated to artists under 35 who use moving images, will feature eight artists selected from an open call launched in June, which received 156 applications from 54 different countries. Meanwhile, the VISIO Production Fund will preview works by artists Valentin Noujaïm and Peng Zuqiang.
With the Under 30 Audience Award for Best Film at the 18th edition, Lo schermo dell’arte confirms its focus on the younger generation of viewers, who will have free access to the screenings thanks to the contribution of main sponsor Gucci and can actively participate in the Festival by voting for their favourite film through the Lo schermo dell’arte app.
Lo Schermo dell’arte Film and Contemporary Art Festival, curated by Silvia Lucchesi, Florence, Cinema La Compagnia, Palazzo Strozzi/Strozzina, Institut français Florence, Innovation Centre of Fondazione CR Firenze, NYU Florence and streaming on the MYmovies ONE channel, 12-23 November 2025, 12 – 16.11. 2025
The festival is supported by Fondazione CR Firenze and is part of the programme 50 giorni di cinema a Firenze (50 days of cinema in Florence) | With the contribution of Regione Toscana – Giovanisì – Toscanaincontemporanea 2025
Comune di Firenze | Main supporter | Fondazione CR Firenze | In collaboration with: Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Fondazione In Between Art Film, FRAC Bretagne, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Human Company, MYmovies, Institut français Firenze | with the support of Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Embassy of Belgium/Representation of the Flemish Community and the Region of Flanders, Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati/Franco-Italian Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Creation, Austrian Cultural Forum Rome, New York University Florence | Main Sponsor: Gucci | Sponsor: B&C Speakers, Unicoop Firenze
Lo schermo dell’arte (The Screen of Art) is a project launched in Florence in 2008 dedicated to the exploration, analysis and promotion of the relationships between contemporary art, moving images and cinema. Among the international artists who have participated in past editions are: Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Yuri Ancarani, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Garrett Bradley, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Andro Eradze, Omer Fast, Peter Greenaway, Assaf Gruber, Alfredo Jaar, Isaac Julien, Hassan Khan, Oliver Laric, Simon Liu, Diego Marcon, John Menick, Rabih Mroué, Rosalind Nashashibi, Deimantas Narkevicius, Shirin Neshat, Valentin Noujaïm, Melik Ohanian, Gerard Ortín Castellví, Adrian Paci, Philippe Parreno, Julian Rosefeldt, Roee Rosen, Andres Serrano, Amie Siegel, Simon Starling, Hito Steyerl, Maryam Tafakory, Fiona Tan, The Otolith Group, Guido van der Werve, Yuyan Wang.
images: (cover 1) Randa Maroufi, “L’MINA”, 2025 (2) Radu Jude, “Sleep #2”, 2024 (3) Claudia Losi, “Il mondo sottile”, 2025 (4) Matteo Frittelli, “Due qui To Hear” documentario di Massimo Bartolini, 2025
