Efebo d’Oro film festival – Palermo”, was initially created in 1979 as an International Prize to celebrate feature films based on a literary work.

In the last twelve years, after moving from Agrigento to the primary Sicilian city of Palermo, “Efebo d’Oro” has established itself as an International Film Festival with two competitive sections: one dedicated to first or second features (with no other contraints), the other – following the tradition – for features based on literary works.
Tributing as well each year a Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Award for New Languages, the Festival has always placed emphasis on the connections between different artistic languages, and loves to involve film directors, writers, actors, and other key figures and professionals in the film industry, to deepen and discuss their vision(s) of cinema with the passionate festival’s public and the Sicilian film students.

AWARDS

46th edition

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Efebo Perspectives / Farshad Hashemi

Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others

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Michele Mancini Award / Farshad Hashemi

Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others

CINEMA FOR SCHOOLS

Efebo d’Oro, with the Research Center for Narrative and Cinema, promotes a series of meetings with experts to talk about the history of cinema, directing, audiovisual languages, video art, special effects, new media, film screenings; and also writing workshops, short film making and subtitling.

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The winners of the Efebo d’Oro Film Festival 2023 (45th edition)

La Bête by Bertrand Bonello wins the Efebo d'Oro Award for best film based on a literary work.

Alessandro Rais named artistic director of the Ephebo d’Oro Film Festival

The festival opens the call for the competition dedicated to the best film based on a literary work and that for the competition aimed at first or second works.

Efebo Education Kids

Reading and creative workshop for children at Spazio Marceau, organised by Libreria Dudi. [...]

Constanze Ruhm will be awarded the Efebo d’Oro City of Palermo for New Languages.

Constanze Ruhm is an Austrian director, artist, author, and curator, whose work explores the connections between cinema, [...]

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