Biennale College Cinema 2026/2027: Ten days left to participate in the Italian call

The Italian call for the 15^th Biennale College Cinema, the higher education workshop launched in 2012 by La Biennale and addressed to emerging filmmakers for the development and production of microbudget feature films over the course of one year, will remain open for just ten more days, through 13 April 2026, on the website www.labiennale.org.

Registration for Biennale College Cinema – Italia is open to teams composed of directors and producers, both of whom must be Italian nationals.

Eight projects for microbudget feature-length films will be selected and invited to participate in a development workshop to be held in English from 13 to 17 July, at the end of which there will be a further selection of 3 projects. These will be invited to take part in a workshop to be held from 6 to 15 October, together with the teams for the nine projects selected through the international call of Biennale College Cinema, to be launched on 5 May (through 6 July). The workshops will be held in Venice, on the island of San Servolo.

The announcement of the projects selected for the October training sessions will be made during the 83rd Venice International Film Festival 2026 directed by Alberto Barbera. From that moment on, the two paths planned for the 15^th Biennale College Cinema, BCC-Italia and BCC-International, will follow the same track toward the selection and presentation of a maximum of four microbudget feature films at the 84^th Venice International Film Festival 2027, to be produced with € 200,000 and the support of La Biennale.

Biennale College Cinema, organised by La Biennale di Venezia, enjoys the support of the Ministry of Culture with additional support by Chanel. Biennale College Cinema relies on the academic collaboration of the Gotham Film & Media Institute of New York and the TorinoFilmLab. The training sessions are made possible by the support of Creative Europe Media. The Director is Alberto Barbera, the Head of Programme Savina Neirotti.

Furthermore, following the second international workshop of the 10^th Biennale College Cinema – Immersive, held in Venice from 6 to 9 February, the selection was completed for the project that will move on to the production phase thanks to the support of a € 75,000 grant, and will premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.

It is the Italian Project:

Desert Palms
Director: Tristan Seniuk (USA) | Producer: John Gerard (USA)

Two more projects that participated in this phase will be invited to the Venice Gap Financing Market organised by Venice Production Bridge, together with the nine projects developed during the first workshop in January 2026.
The two teams are:

Mystis
Director: Tatiana Collet Apraxine (France) | Producer: Ruth Mariner (UK)

Primer Plano
Director: Giulia Jiménez Tani (Venezuela) | Producer: Stefania Chehade (Venezuela)

Biennale College Cinema – Immersive, organised by La Biennale di Venezia, enjoys the support of the Ministry of Culture – Directorate General Cinema and Audiovisual. The training sessions are made possible by the support of the Creative Europe – Media programme. The Director is Alberto Barbera, the Head of Programme Savina Neirotti.