Pertosa Auletta Grotte
Soulplace Film Festival

A festival to rediscover
caves to navigate on an underground river

EVENT

Pertosa Auletta Grotte Soulplace Film Festival is an international competition with live screenings open to filmmakers from all over the world.

It takes place in the Caves of Pertosa-Auletta (Campania, 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 Pertosa-Auletta Caves are our new non conventional location for Soulplace Film Festival. Located in the Alburni Mountains, the Pertosa-Auletta Caves are one of the focal geosites of the "Cilento" Geopark.
They are the only caves in Italy where you can navigate an underground river, the Negro, and are the only ones in Europe to preserve the remains of a pile-dwelling village dating back to the second millennium B.C.

The event is patronaged by the MidA Foundation.

PATRONAGES, SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Years Running

3 Opening Date

Nov 10, 2023

Oct 5, 2024

Final Deadline

Notification Date

Oct 15, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

Event Date

VENUE

Grotte di Pertosa-Auletta
18/20 Località Muraglione
Pertosa, Campania 84030

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Submit your project

€ 40,00

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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

2023

Best Narrative Feature, Darking way, Zsolt Pozsgai

Best Documentary, Breathing, Viktor Petrenko & Maria Pankova

Best Animation, Seven Flavours, Gairah Praskovia

Best Narrative Short, Bent Spoons, Josh Brodis & Arnold Aldridge & Lou Castro

Best Director, Chateau Laurier -Season 2, James Stewart

Best Cinematography, Ithaka, Ben Lawrence

Best Editing, Love in the Evening/Morning, Alexandra-Ana-Maria Savu

Best Original Soundtrack, Findings, Thomas Chabalier

Best First Time Director, So Happy Together, Gabriel J.Queenta

Best Screenplay, The curse of the village without memory, Michele Azzarito & Roberto Pareschi

Best Actor, The Final Bullet, Roger Dvorak

Best Actress, Don't shed a tear, Lisa Riesner

Special Jury Prize, Norcia: the earthquake, Andrea Sbarretti

2022

Best Narrative Short, Love 4 Britland, Jaritza Lopez

Best Director, Do Over, Sharvi

Best Cinematography, Big Guy, Hicham Harrag & Samir Harrag

Best Editing, The Discipline, Aritra Majumdar

Best Original Soundtrack, Forgotten song, Monika Grzybowska

Best Screenplay, Lajjawati: a love story from India, Sumathy Ram & Charles Leopardo

Best Actor, Cage: Between Two Battles, Cenk İzgören

Special Jury Prize, Birth of two departeds, Ali Sadeghian

Special Jury Prize, Kogershin, Malik Zenger

Pertosa Auletta Grotte

Pertosa Auletta Grotte
Soulplace Film Festival