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The River Film Festival is a short film festival set in Padua, Italy since 2004.

History
The cultural association Researching Movie, founded in 2002 in Padua, has planned and carried on from 2004 the River FIlm Festival (known as Portello Film Festival until 2009) celebrating the place that is chosen as the main location: the beautiful historic archway of Porta Portello, which stand above the river Piovego, and its sixteenth-century staircase - respectively scenery and stalls of the festival.

The district of Portello expressed a feeling of carelessness and dereliction until the first years of 2000, therefore the event was conceived to transform the arch, the river, and the staircase into places of meeting and of artistic events that would be able to give back the citizens of Padua the interest to repossess a location of great identity, simbolic, and artistic value for the city.

Once it was a commercial harbour and the access to the city, now Porta Portello is recognized as a liven up place full of young people who exchange ideas, creativity, and cultures from nearby and distant places, thanks also to the university buildings which surround the area. Beyond the flux of students, the River Film Festival has been able to collect a great deal of followers, making Porta Portello a point of historic reference which the community recognise and identify with it.

Competition
The selection of the short movies is always been held by an independent comitee nominated by the Festival.


 * Sguardi italiani (Italian gazes) - two nights screening
 * Orizzonti internazionali (International horizons) - three nights screening
 * Documentaries - two nights screening
 * Schools of cinema - two nights screening
 * Animation - one night screening
 * Queer Shorts - one night screening

The first price, the Golden River, is a glass sculpure made by the masters of Murano.

The festival is one of the most important partners of others international cinema appointments such as the Berlin Film Festival, where every year at febraury the River Film Festival presents its program.

River Educational
In 2022 the River Film Festival opens up to the activities of media literacy and education of images by introducing the new format River Educational, aiming to educate the students of high schools to utilize the contemporay media in a more conscious way.

The initiative includes meetings with experts, masterclasses with film directors, workshops with the virtual reality, and screenings of movies which deal with adolescence themes and issues linked to their social contexts.

Yearly themes
Every edition has been dedicated to a metaphorical theme
 * Fiume (2005), a metaphor of travelling and adventure;
 * Apatris (2007), identity and dignity of people who do not have a country;
 * Muro (2008), fisical and political costraint of expulsion along the history of mankind;
 * Ponte (2010), civil unity;
 * Porta (2011), knowledge and cultural exchange;
 * Tempo (2012), loosening of the soul, inspired by the clock stopped at Porta Portello.

2007

 * Best musical documentary: Milonga el abraso de tango - Mafalda Trotta e Federico Ferrario, Italy
 * Best animated picture: Never like the first time - Jonas Odell, Sweden
 * Best short movie: A good day - Lasse Petterson, Roland Hedlund, Sweden
 * Best soundtrack: The lodge - Kim Hiorthoy, Sweden

2008

 * Best documentary: The Headman and I - PeǺ Holmquist, Sweden
 * Best animated picture: Aston’s Stones - Lotta e Uzi Geffenblad, Sweden
 * Best short movie: When Elvis Came to Visit - Andreas Tibbin, Sweden
 * Best soundtrack: 29 febbraio - Stefano Pari, Italy
 * Special mention: Willy and Wild Rabbit - Lennart e Yva-Li Gustaffson

2009

 * Best documentary: In Gaza - Andreas Thomopoulos
 * Best animated picture: Slaves - Mats Johansson, Acne Jr.


 * Best short movie (ex equo): Die Schneider Krankheit - Javier Chillon | Tile M for Murder, Magnus Holmgren
 * Best soundtrack: Apple & Ei - music by Marco Meister e Robert Meister

2010

 * Best documentary: Paradiso - Alessandro Negrini
 * Best animated picture: Ariadne's Thread (Il filo di Arianna) - Bertóti Attila
 * Best short movie: Bibendum - Augustas Liiv
 * Best soundtrack: The Conveyor - music by Yiannis Plastiras

2011

 * Best school of cinema: Ultima Donna - Tristan Aymon
 * Best documentary: Guañape Sur - Jànos Richter
 * Best animated picture: Graffitiger - Libor Pixa
 * Best short movie: El Orden de las Cosas - César e José Esteban Alenda
 * Best Soundtrack: Time Out of Place - music by Lisa Lindal e Jesper Jonsson

2012

 * Best school of cinema: Mila Caos - S. J. Paetau, Cuba
 * Best documentary: They Call It Myanmar - R.H.Lieberman, USA
 * Best animated picture: La Vuelta - Portman Marius, Switzerland
 * Best short movie: Classe B - Mohammad Nasiri, Iran


 * Best soundtrack: Small Circle of Attention - Josef Tuka, Czech Republic

2013

 * Best school of cinema (ex equo): The Swing of the Coffin Maker - Elmár Ivánof, Germany | Early Birds - Jeroen Bogaert, England


 * Best documentary: The People Who Try to Save the World - Akile Nazli Kaya, Turkey
 * Best animated picture: The Triangle Affair - Andres Tenusaar, Estonia
 * Best international short movie: Vanished Into Blue - Abdurrahman Öner, Turkey
 * Best Italian short movie: Dust to Dust - Francesco Paolo Paladino

2014

 * Best school of cinema: Touch of Silence - Sven Philipp Pohl, Hamburg Media School
 * Best documentary: Living with Leviathan - Sirin Bahar Demirel, Turkey
 * Best animated picture: L Île Noire - Nino Christen, Switzerland
 * Best international short movie: Dinola - Mariam Khatchvani, Georgia
 * Best Italian short movie: Shame and Glasses - Alessandro Riconda

2015

 * Best school of cinema: Fidelity - Ilker Çatak, Hamburg Media School
 * Best documentary: Right to Water - Sohel Mohammad Rana, Bangladesh
 * Best animated picture (ex equo): Golden Bird - Debraj Sarkar, India | Daewit - David Jansen, Germany
 * Best international short movie: Gerreta - Mantegaftot Sileshi Siyoum, Ethiopia
 * Best Italian short movie: Ahlem - Alessandra Pescetta

2016

 * Best school of cinema: Adaptation - Bartosz Kruhlik, The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School
 * Best documentary: Amdavad Ma Famous - Hardik Mehta, India
 * Best animated picture: A Documentary Film - Marcin Podolec, Poland
 * Best international short movie: The Return of Erkin - Maria Guskova, Russia
 * Best Italian short movie: Beautiful - Alessandro Capitani

2017

 * Best school of cinema: Domesticated Wolf - Elad J Primo
 * Best documentary: Fidelity - Baran Vardar
 * Best animated picture: Morning Cowboy - Elena e Fernando Pomares
 * Best international short movie: Fuel to The Fire - Harald Franklin
 * Best Italian short movie: Ratzinger is Back - Valerio Vestoso

2018

 * Best school of cinema: Fucking Drama - Michael Podogil, Austria
 * Best documentary: The boy who made a museum - Sergio Utsch, United Kingdom
 * Best animated picture: Negative space - Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata, France
 * Best International short movie: Cubeman - Linda Dombrovszky, Hungary
 * Best Italian short movie: Stella 1 - Roberto D’Ippolito, Gaia Bonsignore

2019

 * Best school of cinema: A year - Jisun Jamie Kim
 * Best documentary: The Red Tree - Paul Rowley
 * Best animated picture: Facing It - Sam Gainsborough
 * Best international short movie: Fauve - Jeremy Comte
 * Best Italian short movie: Mon Clochard - Gian Marco Pezzoli

2020

 * Best school of cinema: F for Freaks - Sabine Ehrl
 * Best documentary: Our Territory - Mathieu Volpe, Belgium
 * Best animated picture: Fly a Kite - Martin Smatana
 * Best international short movie: Anna - Dekel Berenson, Ukraine
 * Best Italian short movie: Il nostro tempo - Veronica Spedicati

2021

 * Best school of cinema: Where the Leaves Fall - Xin Alessandro Zheng, Italy


 * Best documentary: The Storyless Land - Mitra Roohimanesh
 * Best animated picture: Navozande, le musicien - Reza Riahi
 * Best international short movie: Pour Elsa - Carmen Leroi
 * Best Italian short movie: Le Mosche - Edgardo Pistone