NaNo Film Festival (Calvizzano Stage)

The NaNo Film Festival

The NaNo Film Festival is an international event dedicated to short films and documentaries, founded in 2020 in the northern area of Naples. Organized by the NaNo Film Cultural Association, the event has quickly established itself as one of the most vibrant fixtures in the emerging and independent film scene of Southern Italy. The festival's historic home is the Teatro Area Nord in Piscinola, the cultural heart of a territory that the festival helps to promote through the language of cinema.

Calvizzano joins the festival circuit

Starting with the sixth edition in 2025, the NaNo Film Festival expanded its geography to the Municipality of Calvizzano, in the Province of Naples, thanks to a collaboration with the administration led by Mayor Giacomo Pirozzi. The Municipal Council Chamber of Calvizzano has thus become a new venue for the festival, hosting morning screenings, book presentations, podcast recordings, and meetings with authors and industry professionals. The Calvizzano events open with the "Culture & Territory" conference, a moment of dialogue between the festival and the local community.

Sections and program

The festival offers a rich, multidisciplinary program featuring over fifty works from around fifteen countries, structured into several competitive sections:

• Drama, Comedy, Animation, and Documentary, the main competitive categories;
• Corto Campano, dedicated to local talent;
• parallel sections such as Documentary Feature and Music Video;
• the Industry Area, a space reserved for audiovisual professionals with panels and meetings;
• a European cinema showcase curated in collaboration with the European Film Club.

Guests and meetings

Each edition brings actors, directors, and authors of contemporary Italian cinema to Piscinola and Calvizzano, alongside book presentations, masterclasses, and Q&A sessions with the audience. In addition to screenings, the festival features cross-disciplinary events, from music album launches to meetings with professionals from major industry players, including the Film Commission Regione Campania and leading national film festivals.

A festival for the northern area of Naples

With its dual location between Piscinola and Calvizzano, the NaNo Film Festival highlights a part of Campania often left on the fringes of major cultural circuits, transforming it into a laboratory for independent cinema open to the world. The event combines an international vocation with local roots, offering young authors a showcase and local audiences an opportunity to experience great auteur cinema close to home.