Festival Del Cinema Dei Diritti Umani Di Napoli

The 18th Naples Human Rights Film Festival will be held from 9 to 20 November 2026 in the city of Naples and will have as its title "Human Development, Integral Development. Principles of Peace".

The 2026 Festival, in addition to the usual International Film Competition featuring films from around the world, aims, through its International Events, to present and disseminate knowledge of the theory and key characteristics of two development philosophies that can contribute to the creation of a new Culture of Peace.

We are talking about Human Development, theorized in the 1990s by Pakistani mathematician Mahbub ul Haq in collaboration with Amartya Sen and supported by the United Nations, and Integral Human Development, proposed by the Vatican and supported by a specific Dicastery of the Holy See.

The aim of this initiative is to highlight alternative thinking to current development philosophies based on economics, finance, and exaggerated competitiveness, principles that create the conditions for conflict and war introducing these disciplines in Schools and Universities.

The dissemination of these alternative theories, which place human beings and their living conditions at the center, can create professionals who will be a concrete part of peace processes and the construction of global balances aimed at the birth of a new humanity. The HRFF of Naples is since 2025 also promoting a specific Peace School “Mario Paciolla” dedicated to the orientation of young students toward these jobs of Peace and carreers.

The 18th edition of the Naples Festival will be dedicated to one of the greatest modern thinkers, Edgar Morin, the recently deceased human development theorist and his thought, and will draw on the contributions of experts from the United Nations and the Vatican.

Further, the film competition associated with the 2026 Festival will close on June 30th 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/2026/04/14/xviii-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.

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