The theme of the 2025 edition is "Masks, Beyond the Human, Ethnographic Rites and Traditions." Registration is now open for the 8th Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival, organized in Sassari by the Visual Anthropology Laboratory of the Società Umanitaria-Cineteca Sarda and the Department of History, Human Sciences, and Education at the University of Sassari. The deadline for submitting films is September 20.
The international ethnographic film competition has brought together over 2,000 films from around the world, telling compelling stories from the hidden corners of the cultures and traditions of peoples who still enrich human civilization.
Masks, ancient symbols rich in meaning, represent identity and transformation; they mediate between the visible and the invisible. Wearing a mask is never merely an external act: it is a crossing of thresholds, a transcendence of the boundary between the human and the other. Anthropology interprets these forms as visual texts that tell the stories of peoples, collective memories, and worldviews. An invitation to look beyond the human, to question the boundaries of identity and reality.
The total prize money is 5,000 euros, to be divided among the winners of the competition in the following categories: the main one, named after the Sassari filmmaker Fiorenzo Serra, and the section, intended for films on any theme, named after Antonio Simon Mossa, a colleague and friend of Fiorenzo Serra.
There will also be a special mention for a short film called the "Antonio Bisaccia Award," named after the late director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Sassari, with a prize of 500 euros.
