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Umbria Film Festival

July

The Umbria Film Festival is an event that aims to provide an overview of Italian cinema, and "European" preference for young talent and research, planning short films, feature films and documentaries. The films presented provide a choice among the best worldwide production with an eye for the Italian and European cinema. Italian premieres new films and generally outside the circuits of screening in cinemas. A part of the programming of the festival is reserved for public presentation of a new director of the international scene. The program also provides for a single competitive section: the International Competition for Short Films for Children. This section provides for a jury of children aged 6 to 12 years, schools from the Upper Tiber Valley, which in addition to judge and rate the films in competition are included with the support of their teachers in a process of training the art of cinema . The selection encompasses the best worldwide production of animated shorts for children.