The aim of the festival is to promote short films that communicate with the audience without using words, through means of pure expression. The filmed representation, shown only through moving images and natural sounds, without any verbal expression, creates a direct international communication system, without the need for translation or subtitling, thus restoring the pure and absolute meaning of the image to cinematographic art

To be confronted with the rest of the world, on the same level, doesn’t happen so often. How many times we wonder, while reading the last best-seller, if the author describes the situations in the same way in his own language. How many times, watching a film we realize that we don’t enjoyed the photography or the actors’ play because our eyes have to stuck to the subtitles.

The international Film Festival No Words allows the communicational exchange offering to every audience the same base for the comprehension of the film, with no difference if it is shown in Italy, Germany or China. The absence of dialogues makes the film polyglot, enhancing his potential and his details.

The strength of our concept, at its 4rd edition this year, is proved by the high number of films submitted to the preselection. Whether we watch animations or experimental films or documentaries of fictions, we can be sure that these works are unique and able to make us understands with the silence what the world is shouting loud.

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