RUFA is partner of the 2025 edition of Milano Film Festival, a major event that enlivened the city with films, series, exhibitions, concerts, talks, performances, and installations. A programme that crosses languages, neighbourhoods and generations, offering new visions and new stories every day. In this edition, RUFA took part with two exclusive masterclasses held… Find out more
At Spallanzani, a permanent photographic exhibition to remember the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. To remember and honour the effort and sacrifice of those months. The photos were taken by the photographer and RUFA lecturer Massimo Berruti. An Italian stronghold against the pandemic, a national and international reference point during those months that rewrote… Find out more
Le Moscerine, an organisation that has long been committed to promoting children’s creativity, returns this year with a rich programme of events as part of the Moscerine Film Festival 2025. The association has always focused on developing the expressive potential of girls and boys through play-based educational activities that stimulate motor, cognitive, and emotional development…. Find out more
RUFA is proud to announce a collaboration with Balletto di Roma, a historic company founded in 1960 and a key reference point for contemporary dance in Italy and worldwide. This synergy will offer RUFA students of Film Arts an extraordinary opportunity: to create a documentary that will follow the emerging Junior Company of the… Find out more
Thanks to its partnership with Filming Italy Los Angeles 2025, RUFA offers its students the exclusive opportunity to follow the event online. Through dedicated access to the Festival’s streaming platform, students will be able to attend masterclasses with actors and international film professionals, enriching their academic journey with exclusive content. Filming Italy Los Angeles, now… Find out more
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at the Aula Magna in Via Libetta, first and second-year students of the Film Arts course had the opportunity to meet a distinguished guest: Taye Balogun, filmmaker, activist, and director of the The NGO International Film Festival. During the event, Balogun presented and screened “Camp 32,” the opening film of… Find out more
RUFA partner Marte Studios announces the Marte Film Festival, a unique event dedicated to cinema and creativity. The Marte Film Festival will take place along the banks of the Tiber, at the picturesque “Industrie Fluviali” in Rome, during the month of March. The festival will also stop in Palermo and Milan, offering a day… Find out more
The cultural association ‘Tra Terra Cielo e Mare’ of Renato Verdecchi, with the technical collaboration of the cultural association ‘IlCorto.it’, present the 11th edition of the FLAMINIO FILM FESTIVAL 2024 International Competition. The Flaminio Film Festival is dedicated to the art of short films. Each year, the Festival is centered around a theme that… Find out more
Music Meets Film Arts, a creative encounter between RUFA and Saint Louis. The project stems from the collaboration between RUFA students from the Master’s course in Film Arts and students from the Jazz and Pop academic courses at the Saint Louis College of Music. Guided by a shared passion for visual and musical arts, students… Find out more
“Visit Italy With Movies” is a digital project by Minerva Pictures, a film production and distribution company that recently celebrated its seventieth anniversary, partnering with RUFA Rome University of Fine Arts. The project aims to promote the internationalization of Italy’s reputation through audiovisual media, which represent a significant asset for both the cultural and tourism… Find out more
RUFA is pleased to announce the 2024 edition RUFA ON SCREEN, a biennial film festival aimed at enhancing and supporting the talent of the Academy students enrolled in the Cinema, Film Arts and Computer Animation and Visual Effects courses. 11-12-13 March 2024 – Cinema Troisi, via Girolamo Induno 1. RUFA ON SCREEN will be… Find out more
“Una sterminata domenica” by Alain Parroni, director and RUFA graduate, wins the Special Jury Prize Orizzonti at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. A story of young people, an unconventional novel of formation, set between Rome and the coast. This is how Alberto Barbera, director of the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinemantografica, presented the film… Find out more
The works of the two directors and former RUFA students Alain Parroni and Gabriele Biasi have been selected to participate in the 80th Venice International Film Festival. “Una sterminata domenica”, the feature film by Alain Parroni, will be presented in competition in the “Orizzonti” section. Among the authors of the screenplay is Giulio Pennacchi,… Find out more
The docufilm “Oltre il mare”, written and directed by fresh RUFA graduates on behalf of WALCE Onlus and Sanofi, will be screened at the prestigious Giffoni Film Festival on 28 July 2023. The docufilm, produced by RUFA and signed by WALCE Onlus and Sanofi, tells the hidden face of lung cancer through authentic and… Find out more
The short documentary film “Blue Dots” directed by RUFA graduate Lorenzo Squarcia and produced by Jumping Flea studio, was selected and screened as part of the prestigious Short Shorts International Film Festival & Asia 2023. After participating in festivals of international calibre such as the Rome Independent Film Festival, l’European Film Festival of Lille,… Find out more
On Tuesday 23 May 2023 RUFA invited students from the programme in Film Arts and the Academic Master in Cinema and New Formats Production to attend a special screening of ‘Earth Protectors’, the documentary directed by Anne De Corbuccia. Produced by Art + Vibes, Minerva and Raro films. Executive producer: Max Brun. Anne is… Find out more
“Come una vera coppia” – the documentary made by director and RUFA lecturer Christian Angeli – won Best Documentary and Best Editing at the Festival Internazionale della Cinematografia Sociale “Tulipani di Seta Nera”, for “the ability to narrate in a delicate and courageous way, disrupting any system of expectations based on the automatism of politically… Find out more
New international recognition for MALLEUS After its success at the Film Fest International of Edinburgh, “MALLEUS” (2023) – feature film directed by director and RUFA lecturer Andrés Rafael Zabala – is the only Italian film among the eight in competition in the PANORAMA section of the Festival de Cine Fàntastico de Bilbao, and will… Find out more
The 14th MATTADOR International Screenplay Award dedicated to Matteo Caenazzo and aimed at young Italian and foreign authors aged between 16 and 30 has opened. The Award, conceived and promoted by the MATTADOR Cultural Association, was created with the intention of bringing out and enhancing new talents who choose to approach a professional and artistic… Find out more
Once again this year we return with the 8th edition of “Filming Italy Los Angeles 2023”, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, which will take place from 28 February to 6 March 2023. It will be possible to watch masterclasses throughout the duration of the festival. The initiative also aims to… Find out more