The call for the 15th edition (2026-2027) of the International Biennale College – Cinema is now open through 6 July.
The higher education workshop of La Biennale di Venezia was 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 Biennale grants to produce 45 feature-length films, promoting new talents that have established their names nationally and internationally and were selected from 2,549 applications from all around the world.
Nine microbudget projects will be invited to participate in a development workshop from 6 to 15 October, along with the three projects selected from the Italian call (Biennale College – Cinema Italia), which was launched earlier, on 15 January, and closed on 13 April.
The announcement of the 12 projects selected for the educational workshop in October will be made during the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, directed by Alberto Barbera (2– 12 September 2026).
After that, the two separate sections of the 13th 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 €200,000 each) at the 84th Venice International Film Festival.
The call for the 11th edition (2026-2027) of the Biennale College Cinema – Immersive is now also open.
This will aim to develop and produce 12 immersive international concepts, among which two will be Italian, of up to 30 minutes in 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 realised using immersive technologies,” La Biennale clarified.
More information is available on La Biennale’s website.
