Opi
Soulplace Film Festival

A festival straight into
the incredible Abruzzo National Park

EVENT

Opi 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 Opi (in the middle of Abruzzo National Park, 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

Located in a splendid natural amphitheater, Opi still retains the characteristics of an ancient medieval village.

The seventeenth-century palace, the Romanesque church of Santa Maria Assunta and the chapel of San Giovanni Battista, built in the Baroque era, are just some of the symbolic places of the small urban center to discover.

PATRONAGES, SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Years Running

3 Opening Date

Jul 28, 2024

Jun 23, 2025

Final Deadline

Notification Date

Jul 3, 2025

Jul 26, 2025

Event Date

VENUE

Sala Polivalente comunale di Opi (L'Aquila, ITALY
Via San Giovanni n.30.

days

hours

minutes

seconds

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
Best Music Video
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, Unfounded, Hiroaki Yanagi

Best Documentary, World War II: the shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon, Christian Wehrle

Best Narrative Short, The Game of Masks, Achille Concerto

Best Director, One Second at a Time: Battling the Monster of Addiction, Tim Searfoss

Best Cinematography, Reel Terror, Lou Murrall

Best Original Soundtrack, Hanar, Shahryar Rostami Nasab

Best Editing, At Night Time, Mahmood Arib

Best Actor, Dreams of Glory, Zack Zheng

Best Screenplay, Compliments, Ronaldo Soares & Gustavo Pastorino

Best Actress, Hope, Ebru Kara (ex aequo)

Best Actress, Call of the Wild, Ayla Hijran (ex aequo)

Special Jury Prize, Little Anonymous Mobile Phone Users, Vittorio Caratozzolo

2023

Best Narrative Feature, Ujan Story, Shahram Badakhshan Mehr

Best Documentary, Into the Mist, Sachin Ghimire & Gaurab KC

Best Animation, The Pearl (lets-make-peace), Abdollah Alimorad

Best Narrative Short, Remember Its Flight, Sasan Golfar

Best Director, The Wild Olive Tree, Kamel Azouz

Best Cinematography, The Librarian, Hasan Kılıç

Best Editing, Chennai Diaries, Harish Gokul

Best Original Soundtrack, 1984, Ardavan Mirani

Best First Time Director, Curettage, Sepideh Ghavami

Best Screenplay, The Young Mozart, Ali Moazen

Special Jury Prize, Pestis Muliebris - Stories of Female Resilience, Vittorio Caratozzolo, Luca Nicolini & Class 2A (22-23)

Opi

Opi
Soulplace Film Festival