Sotto18+ Film Festival is a showcase of top-quality films that has earned it the favor of the public and the media by offering a series of events for all audiences: national premieres, retrospectives and conferences given by major Italian and international guests, in addition to special programs.

Sotto18+ Film Festival presents
– the general program with previews, restored films, retrospectives, international guests, special programs and events for the Festival audience;
– a section reserved for schools that includes the screening program aimed at classes of all levels, the National Competition of films made by schools and young filmmakers, and the activities of Sotto18 LAB with workshops and training opportunities

All screenings are in the original language and all are free admission.

Previews
Sotto18+ Film Festival has premiered films nationwide that have marked the cinematic landscape in recent years, winning the acclaim of critics and audiences for films like: The Millionaire, Billy Elliot, Bend it like Beckham, Happy Feet, Paranoid Park, Persepolis, Megamind, Monsieur Lazhar, The Muppets, L’enfant, Stories We Tell, Walking with Dinosaurs , Microbe et Gasoil di Michel Gondry, Our Little Sister di Kore Eda, Dafne di Federico Bondi, Selfie di Agostino Ferrente, Jeanette, L’Enfance de Jeanne D’Arc di Bruno Dumont, Les Deux Amis di Louis Garrel, The Breadwinner di Nora Tomway, I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced di Khadija al-Salami, Victoria di Sebastian Schipper, I cormorani di Franco Bobbio, Toni Erdmann di Maren Ade, Les Sauteurs di Abou Bakar Sidibé, Moritz Siebert e Estephan Wagner.

Guests
Numerous high-caliber directors and actors have participated in the various editions of the Festival, including Alan Parker, Mia Hansen-Løve, Elio Germano, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Gabriele Salvatores, Sandrine Bonnaire, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Leigh, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Bahman Ghobadi, Paolo Virzi, André Téchiné, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Jim Sheridan, Filippo Timi, Olivier Assayas, Andrea Bajani, Marco Ponti, Boris’ directors: Luca Vendruscolo, Mattia Torre, Giacomo Ciarrapico, and  cast: Caterina e Corrado Guzzanti, Ninni Bruschetta, Carlo De Ruggieri, Andrea Sartoretti; Dario Argento, Martha Cooper, Enzo G. Castellari, Ian McEwan, Altan, Hamid Ziarati, Babak Karimi, Alexandre Rockwell, Antonio Rezza e Flavia Mastrella, Giuseppe Culicchia, Manetti Bros, Roberto Saviano, Giovanni Veronesi, Alessandro D’Avenia, Agostino Ferrente, Willy Peyote, Ensi, Rancore, Omar Rashid,and numerous animation artists, among whom Michel Ocelot, Sylvain Chomet, Emanuele Luzzati, Jurij Norštejn, Jean-François Laguionie, Aleksandr Petrov, Bruno Bozzetto, Jimmy Teruaki Murakami .

Special Programs
Sotto18+ Film Festival provides an opportunity to examine issues of great topicality and social urgency. Among the most significant proposals of these past years were the special programs “La mafia è cosa nostra, Giovani in lotta per la legalità” (Young people in the struggle for legality), “Da questa parte del mare” (On this side of the Sea) sponsored by the International Organization for Migration and the National Center for Documentation and Analysis for Childhood and Adolescence on the issue of unaccompanied minors, “The Cartoon d’Or” promoted by Cartoon Media – European Association of Animation Film, “Educating for responsible growth” with a lesson held by Serge Latouche, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris, “What’s the Big Idea?” meeting with the canadian philosopher Oscar Brenifier, L’arte di essere fragili. Come Leopardi può salvarti la vita, the exhibition Dylan Dog, Shock in my Town, Buon compleanno, Boris!, La grande festa della Pimpa, the exhibition Vedersi visti by Eleonora Manca.