Linea D’embra Festival – The Thirtieth Edition in Salerno, 8 – 15 November 2025

From 8 to 15 November 2025 to Salerno Thirty edition of Shadow Line Festival. Three official competition e There are many guests in the internationalIncluding the Eran Riklis, Lifetime Achievement Award, helps to translate the right to knowledge, the theme of the event, in the future.

Eight days of screenings, meetings and debates on the International Cinema protagonists of yesterday and today, for a comparison that appears to be required in the “shadow line” of contemporary conditions.
XXX edition theme is Rightsin continuation of the previous edition but there is a new focus on Right to know. Linea d’embra makes an appeal to mobilizing culture as a vehicle for peace, because the “Sharing knowledge is a powerful tool for dialogue and bonding even between differences -“. The artistic direction of the festival was signed by Peppe D’Antonio and Boris Sollazzo.

There are three competitive sections in the —30 edition: European excerpts_30 with six European fiction feature films; Short Europe_30with twenty -one European short films of fiction, animation and documentary; Unifest with ten audiovisual works done by university students from around the world.
The Linea D’embra, which has always been attentive to contemporary reflection through images, will host the director on its thirty-year anniversary Eran RiklisWho will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his careful view of stories and analysis of critical socio-political issues of the Middle East. That -Cclaim for his filmography capable Night marathon where they can be -screen The manager of human resources (2010), The bride of Syrian (2004), The Lemon Garden (2008), By running with the enemy (2012), Reading Lolita to Tehran (2024).

A. has been added to the competition Out of competition full of appointments, including PREVIEWS, TRIBUs and SPECIAL SCREENS: The celebration offers a view of Italy’s works from the recent cinematographic period, accompanied by meetings with the sets. Among the events, in the cinema Fatima, the screening of Gaza’s children Of Loris Lai (2024) and, to follow, a debate meeting with Maria Rosaria Grecocreator and curator of the Palestinian women’s exhibition and Omar SuleimanDirector, actor and activist, member of the Palestinian community of Campania. Space also for OpenSpaceA showcase dedicated to labor from Campania – especially from the province of Salerno – including shorts, documentaries, video clips and animations (traditional or AI).
The program is completed through meetings and conversations with guests, spaces dedicated to new borders of cinema and audiovisual as well as training.
To provide visual identification to the program, the concept of Roberto Policastro of doppiavù: “An apple, a universal symbol of knowledge, which is the corroded of the decay, offers itself as a symbol of betrayal of knowledge, the sign that it must be nourishing and lifting the spirit becomes an open wound, a memory of darkness whose war and ignorance have left”.

Source: press release