The festival’s international competition is preceded, as usual, by Insula – Impressions of Sicily, the section devoted to short films by Sicilian directors or set in Sicily.
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In 2022, the collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania led to the birth of Eksperimenta, a section dedicated to video art and experimental cinema that aims to revive among the students of the Academy the function of audiovisual research and experimentation, but also to familiarise them with the creative, productive and distributive paths of the festival circuits.

International Competition

Here you can find the list of the selected short films! 

A dead marriage, Michal Toczek, PL, 2022, 18’

A good boy, Paul Vincent De Lestrade, BE/FR, 2023, 10’

Aerolin, Alexis Koukias-Pantelis, GR, 2023, 19’

As if it could, Ada Güvenir, BE, 2023, 13’

Au 8ème Jour, Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois, FR, 2023, 8’

Binaud et Claude, Mélanie Laleu, FR, 2023, 17’

Bye Bye Benz Benz, Mamoun Rtal Bennani & Jules Rouffio, FR/MA, 2023, 9’

Cross my heart and hope to die, Sam Manacsa, TH/PH, 2023, 17’

Crush, Michal Socha, Jakub Socha, PL, 2022, 6’

Dead cat, Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet, CA, 2023, 12’

Dielli, Dritero Mehmetaj, XK/ CZ, 2023, 20’

Father.son, Jakub Gomółka, PL, 2022, 18’

If the sun drowned into an ocean of clouds, Wissam Charaf, FR/LB, 2023, 20’

Kafar, Mahdi Barzoki, IR, 2023, 14’

Magda, Adela Kaczmarek, PL, 2022, 9’

Maman t’avait dit, Cécile Cournelle, FR, 2022, 7’

Ny Fiaran’i Dada, Jeremy Andriambolisoa, Cérine Raouraoua, William Ghyselen, Benjamin Germe, FR, 2023, 11’

Stuck Together, Anna Wowra, CZ, 2023, 21’

The sea in between, Lun Sevnik, SLO/CZ/HR, 2024, 14’

Things unheard of, Ramazan Kılıç, TR, 2023, 15’

Tilipirche, Francesco Piras, IT, 2023, 18’

To bird or not to bird, Martín Romero, ES, 2023, 9’

Turisti, Adriano Giotti, IT, 2023, 15’

Un lavoretto facile facile, Giovanni Boscolo, IT, 2023, 15’

Utländsk, Alba Lozano, ES, 2024, 20’

When The Wind Rises, Hung Chen, TW, 2023, 18’

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LORENZO VECCHIO AWARD
The Lorenzo Vecchio Award is named after the creator of Magma, who passed at the young age of twenty-three, after directing the first three festival editions. The main festival award – which comes with a cash prize and an ornamental plate especially designed for Magma by Ceramiche De Simone.

AUDIENCE AWARD
The festival-goers will be able to rate each film through online voting forms made available at the start of each festival night to let them have a say in the choice of the international competition winner.

SPECIAL MENTIONS
The Magma Jury will also give some special mentions to those short films in competition standing out in artistic and technical qualities.

INSULA AWARD
Now in its fifth edition, the Insula Prize will be awarded to the best Sicilian short film chosen by the audience .

The enjoyment of cinema among young people constitutes a moment of fundamental importance for their cultural enrichment and personal growth: cinema stimulates the imagination and curiosity, and is an extraordinary form of communication through which to convey important values for the educational path of young students.

Magma Youth is the section of the festival dedicated to young audiences: on Friday 8 November at the Margherita Multisala in Acireale there will be a special screening of films specially selected for students, characterised by the presence in the auditorium of some of the directors, with whom brief debates will be held with simultaneous translation into Italian. Students attending the screenings will be asked to write a review of one of the short films seen during the morning; the best review will be awarded a special prize.