Pitching Session YOU ONLY PITCH TWICE
Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Monday, Nov 24 | 11:15-12:00
International co-production pitch for upcoming short films. Selected participants will have five minutes to pitch their project to an audience of film professionals. Short film projects that have been previously presented at other pitching forums: SFC | Rendez-vous Industry – Cannes Court Métrage (France), Baltic Pitching Forum (Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia), ShorTS International Film Festival (Italy), Sentiero Film Lab (Italy), Short Film Forum (Kosovo).
SELECTED PROJECTS
Venus Carnivores – Fiction | director: Chloé Wasp | prod: Léo Granger, Antoine Delahousse and Thomas Jaeger – Haïku Films
Nowhere Land – Fiction | director: Ilija Zekovic | prod: Anja Kečalović – Makina d.o.o.
Who is singing? – Animation | director: Ana Morina | prod: Anita Morina – Little House Productions
Accollo / A pain in the neck – Fiction | director: Francisca Borges and Giaime Invidia
Mutation – Animation | director: Liisi Grünberg | prod: Aurelia Aaasa – AAA Creative
Pitching Session THINK OUTSIDE THE KEYFRAME
Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Tuesday, Nov 25 | 10:00-10:45
Think Outside the Keyframe is the new original call launched by ShorTO Film Market, once again focusing on animation projects. It is dedicated exclusively to two categories of applicants: directors or creative teams composed of a producer and a director, from any country in the world, seeking support for the development or production of an animation project at any stage of development.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Kind of Airbnb | director: Harper Hou| prod. Ming-Jung Kuo
The Famous Gino Bartali | director: Gaëtan Trigot | prod. Baptiste Salvan – Pentacle Productions
Tales From Soda Island: SONOGENESIS | director: Simone Fougnier| prod. Peter Ariet – Studio Syro / Red Sled
Glass Elephants | director: Vykintas Labanauskas and Dominyka Adomaityte | prod. Giedre Burokaite – Akis bado
To My Beautiful Beast | director: Margherita Giusti | prod. Giorgio Calogero – Polittico
Performance | director: Loreta Gasparyan
Pitching Session ROAD TO EURO CONNECTION/ITALY
Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Monday, Nov 24 | 12:15-13:00
Pitch session for short film projects in development that already have an established author/producer team and are looking for co-productions. The teams have been selected from the Italian projects that have applied to the European co-production pitching forum Euro Connection. The same selected teams will take part in the programme Talent Connexion in Clermont-Ferrand during the International Short Film Market in February 2026.
SELECTED PROJECTS
L’isola di Nina/Nina’s Island – Fiction | director Valentina Pietrarca | prod: Paolo Sideri, Matteo Giampetruzzi – Fuoristrada
Il volo del gabbiano/The Seagull’s Flight – Animation | director Domenico Croce | prod: Luca Ferrara – Oki Doki Film
La forma della luna/The Shape of the Moon – Fiction | director Tommaso Romanelli | prod: Alessandro Carlini – Teorema Studio
Santo Patrono/Patron Saint – Fiction | director Antonio Cofano | prod: Yellow
Gǎiguān – Fiction | director Luigi Sacco | prod: Davide Mogna – NewGen Entertainment
Pitching Session SONEGO AWARD
Sala Grande, Circolo dei Lettori
Tuesday, Nov 25 | 11:15-12:00
For the 2025 edition of ShorTO Film Market, the Italian Short Film Center is pleased to once again host a pitching session entirely dedicated to the comedy screenplays of the Rodolfo Sonego Award, a project by Lago Film Fest. Thanks to this collaboration, all 6 finalists of the award will present their projects at ShorTO Film Market, with 5-minute pitches each.
SELECTED PROJECTS
SCHRÖDINGER | directors: Martina Venturi e Francesco Bravi
Kidnap the kid! / Non ti faccio niente | director: Fabio Velardi
Ritorni / Returns | director: Pasquale Pio Troiano
La signora D. | director: Raffaella Bonivento
Un giorno qualsiasi | director: Livia De Mattia
Terapia di coppia | director: Caterina Irdi | prod. Insomnia