Biennale College Cinema: the International and Immersive calls 2026-2027

Open through July 6^th 2026, on the website www.labiennale.org, the call for the fifteenth edition (2026-2027) of the International Biennale College – Cinema, the higher education workshop of La Biennale di Venezia, created for emerging filmmakers to develop and produce microbudget feature-length films that will be presented at the Venice International Film Festival. The call invites the participation of teams from around the world, composed of directors making their debut or sophomore films, associated with producers who have made at least three audio-visual works, or a feature-length fiction film, or a documentary, distributed and/or presented at festivals.

Overall, since 2012, the workshop has awarded the Biennale grants to produce 45 feature-length films, promoting new talents that have established their names nationally and internationally and were selected from 2549 applications from all around the world.

Nine microbudget projects will be invited to participate in a development workshop from October 6^th to 15^th 2026, along with the three projects selected from the Italian call (Biennale College – Cinema Italia) which was launched earlier, on January 15^th, and closed on April 13^th.

The announcement of the twelve projects selected for the educational workshop in October will be made during the 83^rd Venice International Film Festival 2026 directed by Alberto Barbera (2– 12 September 2026). After that, the two separate sections of the thirteenth edition of the College Cinema programme, BCC-Italia and BCC-International, will move along the same track, leading to the selection and presentation of up to four microbudget feature-length films (costing no more than 200 thousand euro each) at the 84^th Venice International Film Festival 2027.

Get the call: Biennale College – Cinema International

Biennale College Cinema, organised by La Biennale di Venezia, enjoys the support of the Ministry of Culture with the 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 programme. The Director is Alberto Barbera, the Head of Programme Savina Neirotti.

Open through July 6^th 2026, on the website www.labiennale.org, the call for the eleventh edition (2026-2027) of the Biennale College Cinema – Immersive, the higher education workshop of La Biennale di Venezia, to develop and produce 12 immersive international concepts, among these 2 are Italian, of up to 30 minutes duration that can be made within € 75,000 and completed for exhibition at the Venice International Film Festival in 2027. It is essential that the projects submitted can only be realized using immersive technologies.

Get the call: Biennale College Cinema – Immersive

Biennale College Cinema – Immersive, organised by La Biennale di Venezia, enjoys the support of the Ministry of – 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.