Full-length and medium-lenght films, both fictional and documentaries, with a running-time over 30 minutes.
Works which will stand out for their experimental and fresh approach will be taken into further consideration.
Short-movies competition “Gli occhi sulla città”: short-films not exceeding 30 minutes, including credits.
Each work will have to stand out for the way they deal with issues related to urban spaces, to the environment and to the landscape. This topic can be explored with the outmost freedom. Each work, however, will have to ponder how moviemaking can tell, depict, or even “predict” the changes of urban spaces and contemporary landscapes. All authors will deal with this topic in their own creative and original way.
For all works – without limits of duration or genre – made by Campania authors or set in Campania.
feature films, both fictional and related to the “Cinema del reale”, OVER 52 minutes
for all works – without limits of duration or genre – made by Campania authors or produced in Campania.
Submission are now officially open for the contest launched by “Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival”, involving three sections: full-lenght and medium-lenght films (fictional or documentary – cash prize 3000 euro); short films (cash prize 1500 euro) and Spazio Campania “Chiara Rigione” (cash prize 1000 euro), including works by authors from Campania or set in Campania
Term for submission expired on August, 31 2026
The festival will take place from 5-13 December 2026
2025 “Laceno d’Oro” Lifetime Achievement Award
Víctor Erice
2025 “Laceno d’Oro” Lifetime Achievement Award
Leos Carax
2025 “Pier Paolo Pasolini” Honorary Award
Andrei Ujică
2025 “Gli occhi sulla città” Award
Lengua Muerta by José Jiménez
2025 “Chiara Rigione” Spazio Campania Award
Case cadde by Gianluca Abbate
2025 “Laceno d’Oro” Award d’Oro 50″
Eighty Plus by Želimir Žilnik
Laceno d’Oro 50 Audience Award “Franca Troisi”
Je suis la nuit en plein midi di Gaspard Hirschi
Red Couch Award 2025
Randaghi di Emanuele ed Enrico Motti
Spazio Campania Audience Award 2025
Lei di Parsifal Reparato
SPECIAL MENTIONS:
Special Mention “Laceno d’Oro 50”
Yrupẽ by Candela Sotos
Punku by Juan Daniel Fernández Molero
Special Mention “Spazio Campania” 2025
Una cosa vicina by Loris G. Nese
Special Mention “Gli occhi sulla città” 2025
Samba infinito by Leonardo Martinelli
Special Mention “Spazio Campania” 2025
Lievete da annaz o sole di Halim Mohammed
Special Mention “Laceno d’Oro” 50”
Meteors di Hubert Charuel
“Laceno d’Oro” Lifetime Achievement Award 2024
Arnaud Desplechin
“Gli occhi sulla città” Award 2024
When Foge Lands by Frederico Lobo
Spazio Campania “Chiara Rigione” Award 2024
It’s Said About Me by Isabella Mari
“Laceno d’Oro 49” Award
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine by Kazuhiro Soda
“Laceno d’Oro 49” Audience Award “Franca Troisi”
We Are Inside by Farah Kassem
Red Couch Award 2024
Cianuro by Eleonora Mastropietro
Audience Award Spazio Campania “Chiara Rigione” 2024
Beyond Ischia by Luca Ciriello
Supercinema Award 2024
3MWh by Marie-Magdalena Kochová
SPECIAL MENTIONS:
Special Mention “Laceno d’Oro 49“
A Savana e a montanha by Paulo Carneiro
Special Mention “Spazio Campania” 2024
Ciao Bambino by Edgardo Pistone
Special Mention “Gli occhi sulla città” 2024
Street Light by Romain Dumont
Special Mention “Spazio Campania” 2024
La Notte è un Giorno Dispari” by Vincenzo Giordano
Special Mention “Laceno d’Oro 49”
Rising up at Night by Nelson Makengo
2023 “Laceno d’Oro” Lifetime Achievement Award
Paul Schrader
2023 “Pier Paolo Pasolini” Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert Guédiguian
2023 “Gli Occhi sulla città” Award
The Secret Garden by Nour Ouayda
2023 “Laceno d’Oro Doc” Special Award
Facing Darkness by Jean-Gabriel Périot
2023 “Chiara Rigione” Laceno d’Oro Spazio Campania Award
Summer Within by Summer Minerva and Adam Golub
“Laceno d’Oro 48” Award
Zinzindurrunkarratz by Oskar Alegria
Audience Award “Best Film Laceno d’Oro 48”
Signs of Life by Leandro Picarella
Supercinema Award
Neighbor Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra
RedCouch Award
SummerWithin by Summer Minerva and Adam Golub
Audience Award Spazio Campania “Chiara Rigione” 2023
Flegrea – A Future for Bagnoli by Stefano Romano
SPECIAL MENTIONS:
Special Mention “Spazio Campania” 2023
Dreaming of Venice by Elisabetta Giannini
Special Mention “Gli occhi sulla città” 2023
Aqueronte by Manuel Muñoz-Rivas
Special Audience Mention “Spazio Campania” 2023
About Love by Diego Capone
Special Audience Mention “Laceno d’Oro 48”
At Night, the RedSky by Ali Razi
2022 “Laceno d’oro” Lifetime Achievement Award
Alexander Sokurov
2022 “Gli occhi sulla città” Award
Tied: The Sower of Stars by Lois Patiño and Further and Further Away by Polen Ly
2022 “Laceno d’oro Doc” Special Award
Lassù by Bartolomeo Pampaloni
2022 “Laceno d’oro Spazio Campania” Award
Nothing’s Left by Davide Pellino
2022 “Laceno d’oro Spazio Campania” Award for Best Newcomer
FISHMAN by Nicolas Spatarella and Raffaele Rossi
“Laceno d’oro 47” Award
Elle by Lo Thivolle
Lifetime Achievement Award “Laceno d’oro 46”
ELIA SULEIMAN.
“Laceno d’oro 46” award as best feature film
La distanza
of collective ENECE FILM.
For feature films special mentions:
All eyes off me
Hadas Ben Aroya.
Winner EX AEQUO of the “Laceno d’oro doc”
A man and camera
of Guido Hendrickx
Room without a view
of Roser Corella
Best Short Film Award “Gli occhi sulla città”
Mille Cipressi
of Luca Ferri.
For short films, special mention for
Acqueducts
of Álvaro Martín Sanz
Lifetime Achievement Award “Laceno d’oro 45”
Carlos Reygadas Castillo.
“Laceno d’oro 45” award as best feature film
“Giorno di scuola” di Mauro Santini.
For feature films also two special mentions:
“Red moon tide” di Lois Patiño e “La casa è di chi la abita – Porta Pia occupata” di Luis Fulvio.
Audience Award
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Features” di Fernanda Valadez.
Winner of the “Laceno d’oro doc”
“Irregular world” di Jing Luo.
For documentaries special mention for
“Il monte interiore” di Michele Sammarco.
Best Short Film Award “Gli occhi sulla città”
ex aequo
“Drift” di Flora Nakazone e “Noée in the storm” di Mathilde Chavanne.
For short films, special mention for
“Stay Awake, Be Ready di Pham Thien An.
“Audience Award” to the most appreciated work among the works of “Spazio Campania”
“Ponticelli terra buona” of the students of
Atelier di Cinema del Reale (Napoli), under the supervision of Bruno Oliviero e Alessandro Rossetto.
Feature films
Best Film
Thunder from the Sea, di Yotam Ben-David
Special mention
Zumiriki, di Oskar Alegria
Doc
Best Film
Non è sogno, di Giovanni Cioni
Special mention
Maelstrom, di Misja Pekel
Short films “Gli occhi sulla città”
Best Film
L’azzurro del cielo, di Enea Zucchetti
The Places from Where I Write You Letters, di Nikolina Bodganović
Audience Award
America, di Giacomo Abbruzzese
Lungometraggi
Miglior Film
Erased,_Ascent of the Invisible, di Ghassan Halwani
Menzione speciale
Pierino, di Luca Ferri
Doc
Miglior Film
Monte Amiata, di Tommaso Donati
Menzione speciale
‘Ndunetta, di Fiorenzo Brancaccio
3 Stolen Cameras, di RåFILM & Equipe Media
Cortometraggi “Gli occhi sulla città”
Miglior Film
Là est la maison, di Lo Thivolle
Menzione speciale
Cinema, di Isabella Mari
Premio del pubblico
Butterfly, di Alessandro Cassigoli e Casey Kauffman
Lungometraggi
Miglior Film
Drift, di Helena Wittmann
Menzione speciale
La nuit éclaire la nuit, di Lo Thivolle
Cortometraggi “Gli occhi sulla città”
Miglior Film
Confident, di Karen Akerman e Miguel Seabra Lopes
Menzione speciale
Manto, di Gianluca Marinelli
Cortometraggi “Gli occhi sulla città”
Miglior Film
Ex aequo
Topolò, di Sander Moyson
Santa Teresa, di Alessandro G. Capuzzi e Emanuele Dainotti
Menzione speciale
Weight, di Edoardo Montaccini
Cortometraggi “Gli occhi sulla città”
Miglior Film
Deposizione in due atti, di Carlo Michele Schirinzi
Menzione speciale
Tra quattro panchine di pietra, di Giulia Siniscalchi
Ardeidae, di Corrado Chiatti, Chiara Faggionato e Daniele Tucci
Cortometraggi “Gli occhi sulla città”
Miglior Film
Il passeggero di Teo Takahashi
Menzione speciale
Sera d’estate, di Roberto Testa
51th edition of Laceno d’oro 2026 will take place from 5 to 13 December 2026
The categories of the 2026 contest are Feature Films, Short Films and Spazio Campania.
Works can be submitted until 31 August.
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