Albori
Soulplace Film Festival

A festival to rediscover
an amazing small town of the Amalfi Coast

EVENT

Albori Soulplace Film Festival is an international competition with live screenings open to filmmakers from all over the world. It takes place in the small town of Albori (Amalfi Coast, Italy) and its purpose is to help independent cinematography talents and filmmakers to improve their career.

We accept films of all genres and also shorts. Award-winning films will be screened in public before the award ceremony.

PLACE

The small village of Albori is part of the town of Vietri sul Mare (Italy) and it is located, above the Amalfi Coast: a landscape of outstanding cultural value and certified UNESCO World Heritage Site. The event is patronaged by the Municipality of Vietri sul Mare and the Italian Association “I Borghi più belli d’Italia” (Italy most beautiful towns) whose main goal is to enhance the great heritage of history, art, culture, environment and traditions of small Italian towns.

PATRONAGES, SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Years Running

4 Opening Date

Sep 26, 2024

Sep 22, 2025

Final Deadline

Notification Date

Sep 23, 2025

Sep 24, 2025

Event Date

VENUE

Church of Saint Margaret
Loc. Albori
Amalfi Coast
Vietri sul Mare, Salerno 84019

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hours

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Submit your project

Category *

€ 19,90

Awards & Prizes

Rules & Terms

Best Narrative Feature
Best Documentary
Best Animation
Best Narrative Short
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Original Soundtrack
Best First Time Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actor
Best Actress
Special Jury Prize

Soulplace Film Festival is an international competition with live screenings open to filmmakers from all over the world and its purpose is to help independent cinematography talents and filmmakers to improve their career.

We want to support as many filmmakers as possible, all over the world, motivating them to always improve, always give their best and never stop dreaming.
The event involves not only filmmakers and the public, but also the whole territory as well.

We accept films of all genres and also shorts, in the form of narrative (fiction), documentary (non fiction) or animation.

Award-winning films will be screened in public before the award ceremony.
*All winners will receive an official laurel and a free ready for print certificate.

By submitting your film, you declare to know and accept that we can promote some of the films by uploading the trailers and/or teasers or posters and production stills and so you allow us to use them for free, for promotional purpose. However the films will never be available online.

Submission fees cover administration costs and therefore they are non-refundable. Multiple entries are allowed for each filmmaker and each entry may be entered in multiple categories.

We do not accept:
- poor standards or amateur movies (bad sound, lack of subtitles/captions for non-English films, video resolution less than 720p HD);
- movies involving politics or promoting political agenda;
- extremist or propaganda content movies, either religious or political organizations.

Winners

2024

Best Narrative Feature, Sound of love, Ayuta Yoshikawa

Best Documentary, Home of the Brave, Paul S Foley & Kathy Estocin Foley (ex aequo)

Best Documentary, Manufacturing Madness, Gary Null & Valerie Van Cleve (ex aequo)

Best Animation, What a Day, Zihan Cheng

Best Narrative Short, Buddy, Yeonwoo Kim

Best Director, Dancing with the shadows, Pluton Vasi

Best Cinematography, Derun, Muge Ugurlar & Abbas Fasaei

Best Editing, Shepherds of the Earth, Iiris Härmä

Best Original Soundtrack, Creature of the Sun, Albert Romanutti

Best First Time Director, Garlic Parmesan, AJ Lutsky

Best Screenplay, Wrath, Martin White II

Best Actor, Bubbles, Robert Milan Knorr

Best Actress, Bubbles, Maria Salinger

Special Jury Prize, How are you?, Sia Titova

2023

Best Narrative Feature, Raven Woman, Junichi Haruta

Best Documentary, Air, Ricardo Íscar

Best Animation, On/Off, Nicolas P. Villarreal

Best Narrative Short, Kogershin, Malik Zenger

Best Director, Kasha, Alexander Amirov

Best Cinematography, Attic, Mohammed Sherwani

Best Editing, XNUR, Miran Omer

Best Original Soundtrack, Looking For A Heart Of Gold, Rudolf Mestdagh

Best First Time Director, Rhythm of the Donkey, Caitlin Long

Best Screenplay, The truth does not exist, Roberto Cicco

Best Actor, The Old Man In The Rocking Chair, Niko El Santo Zavero

Best Actress, Non sai quanti nomi ti ho dato, Noemi Castronovo

Special Jury Prize, Erik, David Kodheli

2022

Best Documentary, The Soul of Sicily, Margie Raimondo

Best Narrative Short, Tragodia, Marco Latour

Best Director, The Privilege of the Last Wave, Stefano Aufiero

Best Cinematography, Survival- living through covid, Sakriya Shrestha

Best Editing, Selected Milk, Jose Luis Ducid – Paula G. de la Fuente

Best Original Soundtrack, Seaper Powers Mystery of the Blue Pearls, Kim Cameron

Best First Time Director, Beginning, Jagan Vijaya

Best Screenplay, Bad Love Tigers, Kevin Schewe

Special Jury Prize, Tyrannosaurus Blues, Vittorio Caratozzolo & Class 1 A

Albori

Albori
Soulplace Film Festival