2024
The 2024 edition of Duemila30 Festival was our most ambitious yet, bringing together 200 emerging filmmakers from over 80 countries for four unforgettable days in Milan. With screenings of 130 impactful short films, workshops, masterclasses, and networking events spread across six iconic venues, participants experienced a dynamic blend of education, creativity, and collaboration.
The festival’s outcomes were remarkable: feedback sessions fostered deep learning and growth, while networking events sparked new partnerships between filmmakers, activists, and industry professionals. The closing event saw the selection of three project pitches for funding, enabling participants to turn their ideas into reality. The festival empowered young creators and reinforced its mission to make cinema a tool for meaningful social change.
2023
2023
The 2023 edition of Duemila30 Festival hosted over 100 emerging filmmakers from more than 40 countries in Milan, delivering a packed three-day program of screenings, masterclasses, workshops, and networking events. Across five venues, the festival showcased 70 short films centred on social impact, sustainability, and inclusivity, sparking critical conversations and creative collaborations.
Participants highlighted the transformative experience of engaging with international peers and industry professionals, with many forming lasting connections and initiating new projects. The festival concluded with an innovative project pitch session, resulting in the funding of three original audiovisual ideas.
2022
2022
For the third edition of the Festival, Duemila30 brought together in Milan more than 80 Directors (young international high school and university filmmakers) and 70 Ambassadors (high school students from different regions of Italy) to learn about social change and sustainability through audiovisual storytelling.
The events consisted of a series of master classes, designed with the help of a professional advisory board, aimed at providing participants with inspiring inputs and practical tools for the production of original social-impact short films. The workshops were taught by film industry experts and representatives from leading international institutions and nonprofit organisations.
During the three-day event in Milan, Directors were asked to write an original short film (with a production budget awarded to the best projects), while Ambassadors attended a program of workshops aimed at offer new tools and knowledge on the organization of an event that uses the audiovisual medium to address current issues and sustainable development.
2019
2019
For the second edition of the Festival, the initiative is enriched in its cultural and educational offerings dedicated to participating high school and university students from all over the world. The Festival is structured in three days, including both public events (screenings, opening ceremony at Palazzo Reale and award ceremony at Fondazione Feltrinelli) with special guests, and workshops and masterclasses dedicated to the participants.
The latter were held following two programs in parallel: the Directors program dedicated to young aspiring filmmakers and aimed at writing and shooting an original audiovisual product made in collaboration with local realities active in the field of sustainable development; and the Ambassadors program for Italian and international high school students aimed at planning an event to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals through cinema that the participants will carry out in their schools and communities. All of this with experts in the field and representatives of nationally and internationally recognized public institutions and private entities.
"A new festival, hoping to create the foundations for a new culture of sustainability among the young generations around the world."
2018
2018
What will the next ten years look like? What can and must we do so that the future we desire can be realised? What is the responsibility of cinema? It is to try to answer these questions that Associazione Quindici19 began its collaboration with the United Nations Regional Information Center (UNRIC) and Cine-Onu Italia, creating the project Duemila30 - Youth Film Festival for a Sustainable Revolution. An entirely free festival dedicated to high school and university students, aimed at investigating the role of cinema and culture in promoting the UN 2030 Agenda. In this intent, it develops over three days of activities involving young filmmakers from around the world and experts in the film industry and international activism. Meetings with the Jury, screenings, workshops to explore cinema in all its facets, spread awareness among young people of the communicative power of the audiovisual medium and offering tools to convey messages with high social impact.
"I’m not aware of anything else like this, an initiative that gathers together young filmmakers from all over the world, providing a sample of our youth’s creativity."
Roberto Faenza - Director