Edition 2025
PROGRAM – ARTISTIC DIRECTION – JURY – HOST – FILM AWARD
Now in its sixteenth edition, Corto e Fieno is the only film festival in Italy entirely dedicated to the rural world, with screenings and meetings that focus on the land, its fruits, and those who care for it.
Twenty films from all over the world, a journey through Europe and the planet that will take us to very different places and times, but with the common denominator of the rural world and all its facets.
The films will all be in their original language with Italian and English subtitles, not only to travel around the world through cinema, but also to welcome as many people as possible to our cozy location at the Tornielli Museum in Ameno.
Since 2010, Corto e Fieno screenings have been free of charge. You can help us and support the festival by becoming a member of Asilo Bianco with a donation or by purchasing one of our special rural gadgets directly during the festival.
The 2025 poster is designed by illustrator Cristina Mandelli, an image where cinema and nature meet, inviting us on a journey full of discoveries!
We look forward to seeing you all on October 10, 11, and 12 in Ameno!
Trailer
Corto e Fieno 2025
Tornielli Museum - AMENO
8:30 PM
Festival Opening: Small cocktail in the courtyard of the Tornielli Museum
9:15 PM
Special Opening Event – Mietitura Section
Filmix and the pastafrolla amena
Screening (Italy, 52’)
Discussion and cookie distribution with the director and the two main characters
Tornielli Museum - AMENO
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Sezione Germogli
(Screening, 49’ - followed by a small workshop with Floriano Negri)
The Hedgehog, Daniela Hýbnerová | 2023 | Czech Republic | 2’
The Carp and the Child, Morgane Simon e Arnaud Demuynck | 2024 | France, Belgium | 7’
Dreaming of Flight, Elena Walf | 2025 | Germany, Croazia | 6’
Capybaras, Alfredo Soderguit | 2024 | Uruguay, France, Cile | 10’
Writing Home, Eva Matejovičová | 2024 | Czech Republic | 12’
About a Cow, Pavla Baštanová | 2023 | Czech Republic, Svizzera | 12’
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6:00 - 7:30 PM
Frutteto Section / block 1
We, the Earth
Where did humanity develop from, if not from the land and our relationship with it?
In the first Frutteto block, we find stories of discovery, return, and rebirth that remind us how fundamental the bond with the soil still is today.
Elysian Fields, Anna-Maria Dutoit | 2025 | Germany, Greece | 28’
Chicken Stories, Jonathan Pickett | 2023 | USA | 18’
Where the Wind Blows, Hana Elias | 2024 | USA, Palestine | 15’
That's How I Love You, Mário Macedo | 2024 | Croatia, Portugal | 18’
Underground, Yiannis Christoforou | 2024 | Greece | 7’
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21:00 - 22:15
Frutteto Section / block 2
Other Worlds
We often think of the rural world in purely practical terms, forgetting that it can also be a bridge to the unknown. This block takes us not only to other times, but to distant spaces where we can rediscover our connection with nature.
That Tiny Place Where the Light Comes In, Giulianna Camarena Montenegro | 2024 | Portugal, Hungary, Belgio, Peru | 29’
The Moving Garden, Inês Lima | 2024 | Portugal | 18’
Wormwood, Matthieu Dupille, Chenhe Liu, Philémon Martin, Ninon Quemener, Alexander Vanderplank, Binlin Xie | 2024 | France | 10’
Common Pear, Gregor Božič | 2025 | Slovenia, UK | 18’
Tornielli Museum - AMENO
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Frutteto Section / block 3
Adaptation
In the rural world, reality is constantly shifting. Between ancient innovations, unexpected ideas, and new communities, the final Frutteto block celebrates adaptability and the dynamic spirit that characterizes this universe.
Dog Bridge, Jorn Leeuwerink | 2024 | The Netherlands | 3’
Il giro dell’acqua, Arianna Biguzzi, Marco Mancini, Antonino Rizzo, Giorgia Sernicola, Valentina Sommariva | 2024 | Italia | 30’
Firefighter Goats, Phoebe Dobey e George McCann | 2024 | Norwegia | 11’
The Shining Tapestry, Kai Harlow | 2025 | Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, USA | 28’
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3:00 - 4:00 PM
Rural Talk – in collaboration with Safe Habitus
A conversation on cinema and rurality with the filmmakers attending Corto e Fieno
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4:00 - 4:30 PM
Corto e Fieno Awards Ceremony
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9:00 PM
Screening of the winning short films
Artistic Direction
Cristian Cerutti
Cristian Cerutti holds a Master's Degree in Cinema, Arts, and Media from the University of Turin. Since 2022, he has been working with several international film festivals and currently collaborates with the Locarno Film Festival, Visions du Réel, and Festival dei Popoli. Since 2025, he's the Artistic Director of Corto e Fieno
Jury
Alessandra Fredianelli
Federico Osmo Tinelli
Lao Buono
Selezionatori
Francesco Clerici
Thomas Horat
Riccardo Palladino
Cristian Cerutti
Host
Floriano Negri
Floriano Negri was born in Borgomanero on September 4, 1968. He attended the A. Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria and the Filodrammatici Academy in Milan. He perfected his skills with Nola Rae and Carlo Boso. Over the years, he has collaborated with many theater associations, including the Gianni e Cosetta Colla puppet company, Tag Teatro in Vicenza, and I Guitti in Brescia. He is president of the Somsi theater in Gozzano.
Film Award
That’s How I Love You by Mário Macedo
An unexpected portrayal of the rural world; a film, formally speaking, almost perfect; keeping an elderly man and a child in the same frame for so long, exploiting spontaneity but also the obligation to make dramatic, planned appointments, is something very treacherous in terms of staging; a test it has easily passed; Dubravka Kurobasa’s cinematography, non manneristic yet coherent, is explicitly inspired by Alexander Sokurov’s Faust, leading one to suspect a subtext: a sort of “demonic” initiation into necessary evil, killing for survival, the acceptance of the mortal system that constitutes the entire ecosystem and from which humanity itself cannot escape.
About a Cow by Pavla Baštanová
From a technical and visual point of view, this is a work of research that is anything but predictable. It is a portrayal of animals in the globalized world in all their complexity and problematic nature.
The Shining Tapestry by Kai Harlow
A graduation short film that we feel deserves recognition for its original perspective, which skillfully exploits different image registers and reuses footage that has been critically reinterpreted. A mockery and questioning of the human approach to the animal world.
That Tiny Place Where the Light Comes In by Giulianna Camarena Montenegro
The Circle of Water by Arianna Biguzzi, Marco Mancini, Antonino Rizzo, Giorgia Sernicola, Valentina Sommariva
The Asilo Bianco Award is the result of the partnership between Corto e Fieno – Festival of Rural Cinema and SafeHabitus, a multi-actor project funded under Horizon Europe that aims to strengthen farmers’s health and safety and support the EU transition to social sustainability in farming.
The collaboration highlights a key aspect of the SafeHabitus mission: ensuring that the wellbeing, health and safety of those who work the land are not only addressed through policy and research but also made visible in culture and society.
By supporting the award, SafeHabitus contributes to creating new narratives where the challenges, risks and resilience of rural communities are recognised and shared with a wider public.
Elysian Fields by Anna-Maria Dutoit
A work that poetically depicts the difficulties faced by a family of olive growers, with particular emphasis on the complexity of fighting fires and the passing of the baton between generations.
Dreaming of Flight by Elena Walf