The event

It has been held in Montone since 1997 thanks to a collaboration between the Umbria Film Festival Association, the Municipality of Montone (PG) and Riverside Studios in London.

The festival takes place every year during the second week of July.
All screenings are free and take place in the Piazza, the quintessential meeting and discussion place for everyone: guests, audience and participants. The audience is diverse and an integral part of the festival, as on the other hand guests and participants become an integral part of the audience in Montone.
Each evening the festival offers the screening of a series of “children’s shorts” followed by a “feature film” : spectacular programming with international premieres of films and shorts, exhibitions, debates, panel discussions, master classes and meetings.

For years, thanks to the constant research of the Artistic Direction, the work of the volunteers of the Association and with the help of the Municipality, we have been making the best of international film culture accessible to all, and in these times of crisis and uncertainty, film lovers who come to Montone for the days of the festival have the assurance of unchanged quality, reassured by the magical and intimate atmosphere that each screening provides.

In recent years we have offered more than 100 premieres, nearly 500 animated and non-animated shorts for children, more than 50 film-related side events (seminars, courses, roundtables, master classes, exhibitions, concerts), nearly 100 works by young film makers and more than 50 international film stars for free.

UMBRIA FILM FESTIVAL has now become an annual event for celebrities, directors, actors and all film lovers.