RUFA On Screen 2026

RUFA ON SCREEN 2026: the creativity of RUFA students and alumni returns to the big screen.

14 – 15 – 16 April 2026 – Nuovo Cinema Aquila (Pigneto – Via L’Aquila 66/74) – Free admission subject to availability.

RUFA is pleased to present RUFA ON SCREEN 2026, the film showcase dedicated to audiovisual works created by students and alumni of the Cinema, Film arts and Computer animation and visual effects, Photography and Audiovisual.

The 2026 edition will take place from 14 to 16 April 2026 at Nuovo Cinema Aquila in Rome, featuring three days of screenings, talks and networking opportunities with companies and professionals from the audiovisual industry.
The showcase aims to highlight the talent of young authors trained at the Academy, offering them the opportunity to present their work on the big screen and connect directly with the worlds of production, distribution and film promotion.
The selected works in competition are divided into the following categories:

❯ Fiction short films
❯ Animation or experimental works
❯ Documentaries

During the showcase, RUFA’s young authors will engage with directors, producers, distributors and industry professionals through dedicated talks and meetings.
Among the expected guests are directors, screenwriters, cinematographers and actors such as Matteo Rovere, Carolina Crescentini, Daniele Ciprì and Riccardo Grandi, along with Carlo Rodomonti, Head of Marketing and Innovation at Rai Cinema, Mirko Perri, sound designer and four-time David di Donatello winner, and Michele Franzese, Founder of Future Week® and Creative Director of SCAI Comunicazione.

Awards and distribution opportunities.

RUFA ON SCREEN 2026 includes several awards designed to support the circulation of the selected works. The four official awards consist of one-year distribution contracts, aimed at submitting the winning films to national and international festivals.

In addition to the official awards, further recognitions will be granted thanks to the contribution of the initiative’s partners, including the Rai Cinema Channel Special Award, dedicated to promoting the selected work across its channels, the Best Production Award in collaboration with One More Pictures, the SCAI Comunicazione Award for Innovation, and the Audience Award, determined by audience votes at the end of the screenings.

A network of partners supporting new authors

RUFA ON SCREEN 2026 is produced with the support of partners from the audiovisual sector, including Rai Cinema, Esen Studios, Sayonara Film, One More Pictures, SCAI Comunicazione, Lers Film and Allegorie Film. Thanks to the involvement of these organisations, the showcase confirms itself as a concrete opportunity to support young authors in their transition from education to the professional world, enhancing the talent and creative experimentation of new generations of filmmakers.

A major new feature of this edition: for the first time, screenings will also include works by students from Photography and Audiovisual. A choice that reflects the renewal of the undergraduate programme, which RUFA has enriched over the past two years by combining traditional photography with a strong video component.

Out of competition: Fellini revisited through the lens of new generations

Alongside the competition works, several out-of-competition screenings are part of the Grand Tour AFAM project, an international initiative for the promotion of Italian culture and creativity, coordinated by RUFA, involving 14 AFAM institutions (Higher Education in Art, Music and Dance), together with organisations such as CNR, Sapienza University of Rome, the Municipality of Rimini, Confindustria – Young Entrepreneurs and the MAECI.

Through short films, documentaries and visual experiments – including the use of emerging technologies such as computer animation and artificial intelligence – students were invited to reinterpret Fellini’s imagery, translating its visionary power into a contemporary language. A journey that shows how his free and universal gaze continues to resonate with new generations and contemporary forms of expression.

As part of this programme, on 14 April at 10:00 a.m., the book presentation Federico Fellini. La sicurezza del sonnambulo by Raffaele Simongini (Edizioni Mimesis) will take place, within the dissemination activities of the PNRR project. The event will be introduced and moderated by Alessandra Barone, Rai Tg1 journalist. Guests include screenwriter Marianna Cappi, film historian Gina Annunziata, cinematographer Massimo Intoppa, and director Daniele Ciprì.

Discover all scheduled screenings

14 APRIL

9.30 am – Opening of the day: “FELLINI” – Grand Tour AFAM Project

Opening remarks – Dr Alessandra Barone, journalist at Rai Tg1
Welcome address by the scientific coordinator of the Grand Tour Afam project – Arch. Fabio Mongelli

10:00 AM
Presentation of the volume
“Federico Fellini. The Security of the Sleepwalker”
by Raffaele Simongini, Edizioni Mimesis.

Round table (moderated by Alessandra Barone)
Raffaele Simongini – author and film historian
Gina Annunziata – film historian
Marianna Cappi – screenwriter
Daniele Ciprì – director
Massimo Intoppa – director of photography .

11.00 AM – Special screenings – Grand Tour AFAM Project

Being Present by Disappearing by Mino Capuano
Short film – Grand Tour Afam

Tribute to F. by Daniele Ciprì
Short film – Grand Tour Afam

Dennis Mc Nuggets by Alain Parroni
Short film – Grand Tour Afam

AmarFellini by Veronica Citi
Documentary – Grand Tour Afam

Four and a Quarter by Laura Ettori
Animation – Grand Tour Afam

1.00 pm – Q&A with the authors (moderated by Alessandra Barone)
1.20 pm – Lunch break

2.30 pm – Opening of RUFA ON SCREEN Showcase

Introduced by Carolina Crescentini

Stage of Flesh by Guibert Najarian – Short film
Mannara’s Dog by Baldassarre Caradonna – Short film
Analgesia by Leonardo Califano – Short film
Cursed Be Venus by Arianna Proietti Mancini – Short film
Gehenna by Antonina Rzyska – Short film
Ordinary Triptych by Gengyuan Zhang, Mario Krastev, Anthony Ricci – Documentary
Flow by Sara Angeloni – Short film
There Was the Sun by Sara Tavernini – Short film
March Rain by Giacomo Salvatelli – Short film

6.30 pm

Meeting with Michele Franzese
Founder of Future Week®, Creative Director of SCAI Comunicazione

Screening of the winning short film of the “Corti Futuri” Contest, promoted by Rome Future Week

15 APRIL

10.00 am – OPENING OF THE DAY: RUFA ON SCREEN

The Sheep Are Counted at the End by Swami Camilli – Animation / Experimental
Lääne / Восtок by Elia Canevascini – Animation / Experimental
In the City of Mankobat by Swami Camilli – Animation / Experimental
Acirra by Assunta Assia Peluso, Edoardo D’Olimpio, Filippo Svevi, Paolo Zampese – Animation / Experimental

10.30 am (approx.)
Meeting with Nicolò Cuccì
Co-founder and Executive Producer
Megadrago – Story-driven Animation Studio

Just for Memory by Xiang Ding – Experimental
The Whore Living Upstairs by Wenjie Yu – Documentary

11.50 am (approx.)
Meeting with Riccardo Grandi and Mirko Perri
Director and screenwriter / Sound designer

A New Family by Serena Lazzaro – Documentary

1.00 pm (approx.)
Meeting with Andrea Trono and Matteo De Liberato
Founders of Allegorie Film

1.30 pm – Lunch break

2.30 pm – Screenings resume
Sneak Pig by Sebastiano Rolfi – Short film
Small World by Laura Balestieri – Short film
If I Had Had You by Flavio Germani – Documentary

3.50 pm (approx.)
Meeting with Daniele Ciprì
Director, screenwriter and cinematographer

4.30 pm – Special screenings: “FELLINI” – Grand Tour AFAM Project

Ico by Sabrina La Macchia
Documentary – Grand Tour Afam

Wanda by Marco De Filippo and Tommaso Banti
Short film – Grand Tour Afam

R-Day Off by Ludovico Bosica
Short film – Grand Tour Afam

Fellini Between the Lines by Serena Lazzaro and Tommaso Banti
Documentary – Grand Tour Afam

Ugly Scribbles by Virginia Ardizzone and Giulia Brighenti
Animation – Grand Tour Afam

Rome by Marco and Aurelia Pietrolini
Audiovisual – Grand Tour Afam

Satyricon: Ubique Latens by Gabriele Gianni and Giulio Pernice
Artificial intelligence – Grand Tour Afam

Fellini and beyond by Francesco Gallo
Grand Tour Afam

The Contemporary Dolce Vita by Accademia del Lusso
Video Trailer – Grand Tour Afam

AnMARCORD by Marco Iacomelli and Massimiliano Perticari (Scuola del Teatro Musicale)
Video Trailer – Grand Tour Afam

Corti FellinIAna by Accademia Italiana
Grand Tour Afam

16 APRIL

10.00 am – OPENING OF THE DAY: RUFA ON SCREEN

Chekhov’s Gun by Eleonora Maiolino – Short film
2080 by Ester Tessuti – Short film

10.20 am (approx.)
Meeting with Matteo Rovere
Director

Video Diary of a Flat-Earther by Andrea Bertucci – Short film
Just a Breath by Sofia Trentini – Short film

11.15 am (approx.)
Meeting with Carlo Rodomonti
Head of Marketing and Innovation at Rai Cinema

The Hare by Ester Tessuti – Documentary
Frenzy by Stella Capolicchio – Short film

12.30 pm (approx.)
Meeting with RUFA ON SCREEN partners
Esen Studios · Sayonara Film · Lers Film

1.00 pm – Lunch break

2.30 pm – Screenings resume
We’re Still Dancing by Elena Cavazzini – Documentary
Lovin It by Gregory Ledovsky – Short film

3.10 pm (approx.)
Meeting with partner ONE MORE PICTURES

3.40 PM – OUT-OF-COMPETITION SCREENINGS – RUFA ON SCREEN

Nadir by Michele Baldi – Fiction
BLU by Laura Ettori – Animation
Deti i lirë by Chiara Kallazi – Documentary
I Die Upright Like a Tree by Lorenzo De Filippo – Documentary
Lucid by Luca Carbone – Fiction / Music video
Angina Pectoris by Alice Fincato – Experimental
Andrea by Matteo Pilloni – Fiction / Music video
Monacidd by Luca Mileti & Luca Carbone – Documentary
Indiscreet Eyes by Martina Madeddu – Documentary / Experimental
The Yellow String by Michele Baldi – Fiction

❯ Performance curated by Saint Louis College of Music
❯ 6.00 PM – AWARD CEREMONY FOR THE WINNING WORKS
❯ Aperitif to follow.

We look forward to welcoming you from 14 to 16 April at Nuovo Cinema Aquila for three days of screenings, talks and new visions: admission is free and open to all, subject to availability.