One of Europe’s longest-running sci-fi film festivals, the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, is accepting submissions for the 2024 edition via FilmFreeway.
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival presents and promotes ‘fantastic’ productions from all over the world in Italy and its neighbouring countries, focusing particularly on science fiction and fantasy movies and audiovisual works.

Awards and Prizes
The Festival features the following competitive sections:
• Asteroid Award – competition for best international science-fiction and fantasy feature-length film;
• Méliès d’argent Award – competition for best European feature-length and short film from the fantastic genre;
There are also the following non-competitive sections:
• Spazio Italia – selection of Italian productions from the fantastic genre open to both feature-length films and short films (Spazio Corto);
• Fantastic Shorts – selection of international short films from the fantastic genre;
• Mondofuturo – selection of international science (-fiction) documentaries, public meetings, and lectures.
• Education Program – a selection of international feature-length and short films from the fantastic genre. Programmes are targeted according to audience age, from 3 to 8. The section features educational activities and workshops open to students of schools and universities, educators, and families.
• Artificial Universe – selection of short films incorporating Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) tools.
• premieres and special events;
• retrospectives and special programs.
The Selection Committee selects and invites the films, assigning them to the competitive and non-competitive sections of the Festival.

Organised by the Italian film centre La Cappella Underground, the festival is supported by Ministry for the Cultural Heritage – DGC, Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Municipality of Trieste, and the University of Trieste. The first festival was in 1963, and Trieste Science+Fiction Festival has been a member of the M.I.F.F. (Méliès International Festivals Federation) since 2005.
Filmmakers can head to the FilmFreeway page to submit their shorts or features here.