Competitions

The juries will be composed by personalities from the movies and media, environmental associations, and students.

International Documentaries Competition

The two-fold aim of this competition is to recognize the best environmental documentary films made in the past two years and to promote the production of films handling environmental topics.

Best International Documentary, offered by  Asja € 5.000,00

Torino Provincial Student Council Award € 1.500,00 

Special Mention  Green Cross

Italian Documentaries Competition

This competition is open to Italian environmental documentary films made in the past two years.

Best Italian Documentary, offered by  CiAL € 3.000,00

Special Mention LEGAMBIENTE 

International Medium Length Documentaries Competition

This competition is open to international environmental documentaries made in the past two years.

Bestmedium lenght Film, offered by  SMAT € 2.000,00 

Special Mention WWF

Special Prizes

Special Prize 'The house of tomorrow' offered by Leroy Merlin € 5.000,00 

The Special Prize "The house of tomorrow" is promoted by Leroy Merlin and Cinemambiente. This Special Selection will focus on films that deal constructively with issues of contemporary  life and suggest best practices for tomorrow's society.

The prize of 5000 euros will be awarded to the Film Production or the Copyright Owner of the winning film. In receiving the Award, the Production Company or Copyright Owner will give to CinemAmbiente the authorization to have the film available for free streaming on the Festival Website  www.cinemambiente.it The streaming will be restricted to the italian territory only for a period of 30 days maximum.


Special Prize “Eating City” offered by Risteco € 5.000,00 

The Eating City award is promoted  by the consortium Risteco and the CinemAmbiente and aims to reward the film that best addresses the issues of nutrition, loss of land, energy consumption and overall sustainability of city life.
Risteco was born as the environmental department of the italian SME Sotral S.p.A., a company specialized in food transport and logistic services for public catering. Risteco has then become a no-profit consortium in 2005, which gathers actors working in support services to catering industry. Risteco pursues its goals by creating a meeting platform with other professional sectors such as scientific communities, institutions, associations etc. to promote sustainable development within food services according to Life Cycle Thinking approach.

The prize of 5000 euros will be awarded to the Production Company or the Copyright Owner of the winning film. In receiving the Award the Production Company or Copyright Owner will give to CinemAmbiente the authorization to have the film available for screenings held  exclusively within institutional conferences organized by Eating City, the streaming of the film trailer on the Eating City’s Website site and the possibility to insert 5 minutes of the film within an Eating City’s institutional video.

Out-of-competition sections

Panorama

This international film section features meet-the-experts talks with films that use innovative language to explore environmental issues. 

Ecokids

Involving students from all school levels with a diverse program of films and guest speakers. Screenings are guided by educators and environmental experts. Realizaed with the support of Ministero dell'Ambiente

Special Events