Festival Del Cinema Dei Diritti Umani Di Napoli

The Naples Human Rights Film Festival was born in 2008 as an initiative of the association "Cinema e Diritti" with the aim of establishing a reference point for Human Rights debate in Southern Europe opening up a dialogue among civil societies from the Middle East to North Africa and to Northern Europe and America. 

The tradition of hospitality in the city of Naples and its function as a crossroad for migrant people since the Middle Age allows us today to establish a meeting point for communities that are moving towards democracy and peace. Naples, through the project of its Film Festival, aims to become a “Human Rights City”, and has been aligned with Buenos Aires and its DerHumALC festival from the beginning. The Festival of Naples is designed and built every year through a process of participation that features the city's neighborhood associations and municipalities from the metropolitan area. Each association chooses a day and a topic from universal rights developing it through movies, presentations and open debates. Guests are available to schools and universities for lectures and discussions; and there is a documentary film competition. Shows are all free. The main target audience of the festival is scholars and university students, but also the outlying communities and most vulnerable social groups, as far as immigrants and Roma people. 

The 17th Naples Human Rights Film Festival will be held from 11 to 21 November 2025 in the city of Naples and will have as its title "Promised Lands, Stolen Lands, Peoples without Peace". 

The central theme of the 2025 edition will be the analysis of the stories of struggle and resistance of the Kurds, Palestinians and Saharawis, three peoples who are still suffering due to the lack of a unitary state or a one land on which to live together. 

The goal of this Festival is to understand how they prepare to face the future by being "guests" of territories that are not recognized as their own. 

Their ability to endure serious hardships and their continuous search for new balances in living together with "owner" peoples has developed in them the ability to adapt to complex situations and the search for a peaceful life at all costs. 

The latest example of this ability is the Kurds' decision to abandon the armed struggle and to entrust political diplomacy with the task of establishing rules of coexistence with the Turkish people to defend their identity, customs, traditions and the social model they bring. 

The 17th Festival in Naples will therefore be dedicated to the Kurd leader Abdul Ocalan.who decided to dissolve the PKK party and to definitively renounce the armed struggle

Further, the film competition associated with the 2025 Festival will close on July 10th and authors can submit works that deal with any human right. The platform will be Film Freeway.

For more details https://www.cinenapolidiritti.it/web/2025/05/12/xvii-festival-del-cinema-dei-diritti-umani-di-napoli-il-bando-del-concorso-cinematografico/?lang=en 

Four categories of competition: Long works (HR DOC), Short works (HR Short), films for or by  young people (YOUTH) and the Peace Prize offered by the Swiss Embassy in Italy to the film that best deals with the theme of Peace. Other Mentions and Prizes will be awarded.

More info www.cinenapolidiritti.it or Facebook page: Festival del Cienma dei Diritti Umani di Napoli