Planet Sea Festival, fourth edition

Five days are planned for the fourth edition of PMFF, Pianeta Mare Festival, scheduled from October 7 to 11, 2025 with more than 4,000 spectators expected (70 percent young people under 30 thanks to partnerships with schools and universities).

And the fourth edition of PMFF, curated as always by thePianeta Mare Darwin Dohrn Cultural Association, will also have the itinerant formula to increase the participation of young people (and others) in more places in the city of Naples. First of all, there will be cinematinées for schools in the aula magna of the Scampia campus of the Federico II University, with more than 1,500 students already booked, and in the aula magna of theUniversity of Naples "Parthenope" in the heart of the historic center of Naples. There will then be three early afternoons (Oct. 7-9 with exclusive screenings of the Focus Campania section) in the Sala degli Angeli at theSuor Orsola Benincasa University, organized in collaboration with the Master in Cinema and Television directed by Nicola Giuliano, and four evenings at the Academy Astra cinema before the grand finale on Saturday, Oct. 11 with the full day of screenings and awards ceremonies at the Darwin Dohrn Museum of the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station.

300 works will be screened (+200% compared to 2024), 50 works selected for the different sections (+61% compared to 2024), 37 countries from four different continents represented (from China to South Africa, from Chile to Norway) with a 54% increase compared to last year. Five world premieres and more than 20 Italian premieres.

Among the most interesting feature films will be the Italian premiere of the Danish-US co-production "Lowland Kinds" by Sandra Winther (with cinematography by Andrea Gavazzi), produced by Golden Lion director Darren Aronofsky, which tells the story of two teenagers' battle against climate change in the U.S. that is causing the disappearance of theIsle de Jean Charles now known as the island of America's first climate refugees, and the international co-production (Japan, France, Malaysia and Germany) "Lost Land" by Akio Fujikomoto, a special Orizzonti Jury Prize winner at the last Venice Film Festival, which chronicles the tragic situation in the refugee camp of the Rohingya people in Bangladesh .

Among the other most awaited films in the short film section is "Papillon" by Florence Miailhe, an evocative animated film with strong psycho-pedagogical aspects, and in the Cinematinèe section, a Campania premiere, the British documentary produced by National Geographic , "Ocean with David Attenborough," the most important living naturalistic science popularizer, almost 100 years old (born in 1926).

Among the Italian films in competition not to be missed are the story between docufilm and fiction of the Neapolitan astrologer in "Wishing on a star," co-produced with Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria and Croatia, and "Nel tempo di Cesare," the documentary by Angelo Loy, son of the famous Nanni from "The Four Days of Naples," which tells the story of eel fishermen on the Tiber. Both make their Campania premieres.

All PMFF screenings are free admission, with online reservations required, thanks to the support of the Campania Region Film Commission, the European Commission Representation in Italy, Fondazione Banco di Napoli, HSPI and the hospitality of Neapolitan universities and the Darwin Dohrn Museum.