The TerraLenta Film Fest launches its second edition with the opening of the call for entries for feature-length and short documentary films on environmental themes. Following last year’s success, which saw the participation of 189 submissions from around the world and the awarding of 9 documentaries, the Festival renews its commitment to promoting environmental research through the language and power of the seventh art.
The second edition of the TerraLenta Film Fest will take place in Basilicata from July 1 to 5, 2026.
Directors, production companies and film distributors may submit their works by April 18, 2026. The selected titles will be evaluated by a jury of industry experts, compete for prestigious awards, and be screened during the Festival.
The Festival
TerraLenta Film Fest is an international film festival dedicated to environmental documentary filmmaking that aims to promote independent and auteur documentary cinema, raise community awareness on environmental issues, foster cultural spaces for dialogue and learning, support field-based multimedia research, and encourage eco-sustainable actions.
Thanks to the synergy between visual art and critical environmental dissemination, the event establishes itself as the ideal space for authentic and countercultural artistic expressions, capable of stimulating awareness through cinematic experimentation and of portraying the complex relationship between humans and the environment through new and unconventional perspectives.
The film program is complemented by a rich cultural and experiential panel featuring seminars and talks, photographic exhibitions, artistic and theatrical performances, community workshops, literary spaces and outdoor activities aimed at discovering the Lucanian Apennines.
An important opportunity for activists, researchers, film enthusiasts, and families to discover the power of cinema in telling stories and inspiring change toward a more sustainable future.
Call for entries – 2nd edition
The film program is structured into the following sections dedicated to documentaries:
- International feature doc competition;
- International short doc competition
Eligible works are those produced from 2024 onwards. Therefore, films whose first public screening took place before January 1, 2024, are not eligible for selection.
Documentaries that explore one or more of the following themes may be submitted:
• natural sciences and biodiversity;
• events related to climate change;
• human–environment relationships and the transformation/evolution of natural and anthropic landscapes;
• ethno-anthropology and socio-environmental history;
• economy and sustainable development;
• political ecology and environmental justice;
• academic and/or independent multimedia environmental research;
• other topics not listed but closely related to the environment.
TerraLenta Film Fest is conceived and promoted by APS Fuorisentiero, a Lucanian organization that has been supporting the environmental cause and its dissemination for about 10 years.
