Now taking place in winter, 8th-10th December, the festival is organised in a time of the year when Acireale lacks cultural programming. Going back to the cinema – the festival is held at Cinema Spadaro – represents a new challenge focused on offering a quality event to the audience. Something totally new this year is that, for the very first time, all the works in competition have been subtitled into Italian by the festival organising committee. In addition to the international competition, this year the programme offers special sections devoted to producers or distributors of the short film such as the English project Comma Film and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Rome). Furthermore, on the occasion of the celebration of the tenth year of activity, some of the winning short films from previous editions are screened again.