Biografilm Creative Hub

For the 2026 edition, Biografilm involved the young illustrator from Brescia, Maria Giulia Pedrotti, known as Gitti, in the creation of the Festival’s official image, renewing for the second consecutive year its collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna.

The image emerges as a visual synthesis of the concept developed by the Biografilm team, the result of a shared reflection on the meaning and potential of documentary cinema. What takes shape is a window open onto the complexity of reality: an intentional gesture that expresses the Festival’s identity as a space where documentary filmmaking becomes a tool for a critical, deep, and plural reading of reality.

The illustration invites viewers to pause, observe, and question, just like the three figures depicted from behind, facing a window opening onto elsewhere. Beyond this threshold appears the “Biografilm building,” animated by fragments of life: glimpses of everyday scenes emerge from its windows and balconies, small suspended stories that can be glimpsed. Created through the layering of different drawing techniques, the work conveys a plurality of perspectives and narratives, in line with the spirit of the Festival.

For its first edition, the project involved students from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, the Aldini Valeriani Institute, and the Francesco Arcangeli Art High School.

In particular, the students of the Graphic Design course at the Academy, coordinated by Professor Danilo Danisi, created the visual identity linked to the Festival’s official image, intertwining graphic design, critical thinking, and visual imagination, with the aim of enhancing the role of artistic education in dialogue with the content and opportunities offered by Biografilm. In parallel, the students of the Experimental Cinema and Animation course produced the opening sequence of Biografilm 2025: a collaborative work directed by Maurizio Finotto, featuring live-action footage by Federico Cesaroni, animations supervised by Simone Tacconelli, and an original soundtrack by Enzo Casucci, with Dana Caparnagiu as the protagonist.

The students of the Aldini Valeriani Institute instead worked on filming and video editing, alongside teachers Antonio Capodieci and Francesco Costabile, gaining hands-on experience inside the festival production process. Finally, 15 students joined the Biografilm social media team as part of a creative and immersive PCTO pathway, telling the story of the Festival with a young, curious, and contemporary perspective, guided by teachers Silvia Moretti and Sandro Natalini.

On the occasion of the 21st edition of Biografilm, first-year students of the Graphic Design course at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna present a series of 25 artist posters, exhibited in the cloister of the Santa Cristina “della Fondazza” Complex.

The exhibition stems from an educational project that brings together graphic design, critical thinking, and visual imagination, with the aim of highlighting the role of artistic education at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, in dialogue with the content and opportunities offered by Biografilm.