In occasion of the sixteenth edition of Genoa Film Festival, greater kermesse cinematographic from Liguria one that will be carried out from the 1 to the 7 July next, the Harbour Authority of Genoa and Genoa Film Festival has indetto two national competitions on the topic of the portualità, dissects competitive joins to those traditionally anticipates in the billboard of the manifestation.

the first competition, "the port today, between local identity and total nets" for short films and documentary (30 expiration May), is opened to works of any genre and style of the maximum duration of 30 ' for the fiction and 60 ' for the documentary. According to competition, "Port, motor, action", for unknown scenarios of short films (expiration 15 July), intends to propose a reflection on the value, the role and the identity of the harbour space today - place of transit of people, goods and ideas, from the city to the world and vice versa - and is finalized to the realization of a short film based on the work winner who will be been set and turned in the port of Genoa.

"the double ban - it has explained the Harbour Authority - re-enters in the multiple initiatives connected to the newsroom of the new Portuale Town development plan and, in the specific cinematographic within, it aimed to not only promote the image of the port - it is generally, it is in the concrete of the truth of Genoa, first national marine port of call and between the greater ones of the Mediterranean basin - like essential economic-commercial ganglion, but also like crossroads of exchanges social humans and, place of encounter of cultures, symbol for excellence of the cosmopolitanism, landing place of imaginary for history and the adventures without border; at the same time, precious tank of professionality, saperi, trades and irreplaceable resource for the city and the territory" .