Between Festival 2025

Between Music&Arts new 2025 edition of the Mediterranean Festival in Sicily.

From July 22-27, 2025, the Between Music&Arts Festival returns with an even richer program. An artistic proposal that explores new forms of expression, ties up new collaborations, consolidating, thus, its cross-sectoral approach and strengthening the international dimension.

It will be six days of concerts, performances, exhibitions, screenings, talks and workshops, enlivening the wonderful sites of the UNESCO site Archaeological Park of Morgantina and the Villa Romana del Casale and the four municipalities that are part of it: Piazza Armerina, Aidone, Mazzarino and Pietraperzia.

THE THEMES OF THE 2025 EDITION

The 2025 edition will be a journey through universal and highly relevant themes, with a focus in particular on discovery and sharing as key experiences in fostering encounters between individuals and communities through culture.

Along these lines, the artistic program is inspired by the figure of Marco Polo, a symbol of exploration, discovery and dialogue between East and West, who embodies the dream and openness to new horizons, representing an intercultural bridge between the Mediterranean and the East. The Festival will offer a reflection on these issues in a journey that goes beyond physical and cultural boundaries.

THE GUEST COUNTRY OF HONOR: TUNISIA

Starting in 2025, the Festival will host a different Mediterranean country each year, thanks in part to the valuable collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. For this edition, the guest country of honor will be Tunisia, which will enrich the program with specific events and proposals.

SONGWRITING CAMP 2025

Also this new edition of the festival will host within it the Sognwriting Camp, a creative and educational experience for songwriters, who will have the opportunity to work under the careful mentorship of industry experts-songwriters, composers, performers, sound engineers and producers-on the creation of a professional record product to be presented to producers and publishers on the Italian scene.

The specific focus of this edition is Mediterranean Music, in its broadest sense, beyond genre categories, leaving resident artists free to range from jazz to pop to electronic.

The international dimension of the Project is ensured by the participation of Italian and international students from Saint Louis and 4 European Partner Institutes of the Erasmus+ network.

In this sense, Between Campus hopes for the circulation and dissemination of musical ideas and ethnic influences that can provide fertile soil for creativity, experimentation, and innovation.

Between Festival 2025

Notice of participation available soon.

CINEMA CONTEST

One of the main new features of this edition is the introduction of film and audiovisual art. Thanks to new and important collaborations, the film festival “Tales from the Mediterranean” will start in 2025, which, along with evening screenings of films, will offer opportunities for meetings and discussions with directors and actors.

Also, for the first time at Between Festival comes the 50hFilmContest. A creative challenge aimed at young filmmakers, called upon to make an original short film in just 50 hours.

During the Contest, teams will work independently and will need to equip themselves with their own technical equipment. Each group will be supported by professional mentors in the field, who will provide creative and organizational assistance along all stages of production.

The short films, inspired by the places, themes and atmosphere of the Between Festival, will be screened in public during the Campus evening, at the end of which a technical and popular jury will award prizes to the most significant projects for artistic quality, thematic coherence and originality.

During the Campus, participants will, in addition, have the exclusive opportunity to participate in a talk with the director of the film Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania, nominated for the 2025 Oscars for Best International Film.

You can check out the Cinema Announcement HERE

All workshops and residencies of the Mediterranean Artistic Production Campus will take place in the City of Piazza Armerina. The project is made possible thanks to a network of prestigious collaborations: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Network of Italian Cultural Institutes Abroad, the MedFilm Festival in Rome and the Experimental Center of Cinematography.

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