Founded in 1959 by a group of humanities scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, ethnologists and experts in mass-media, the Festival dei Popoli has been working for almost fifty years to promote and study social documentary cinema. Chiefly, the association organizes one of the most important international documentary festivals in Italy. At the same time, the Festival dei Popoli is busy restoring and conserving its archives (including about 10,000 titles, from video to film reels) as well as organizing courses and workshops for aspiring directors and documentary filmmakers.
The 52nd edition of Festival dei Popoli is approaching!!! Don't miss it! These are the Festival sections: FESTIVAL SECTIONS * Official Selection – Feature-length…
The 52nd Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival - will take place from the 12th to 19th of November 2011 in Florence (Italy). The film…
The 51st edition of Festival dei Popoli- International Documentary Film Festival- is approaching! festival sections: * Feature Documentary Competition * Short Documentary…
From April 20 to April 26, 2010 will be held in Beijing the first edition of the IIF - INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FORUM (China Italian International Image Documentary…
A film festival is never a finished work, but a work in progress, an open shop, a kind of stop-frame that attempts to unite, in a brief encounter, the image of…
Celebrating the work of Albert Maysles The second edition of the New York Documentary Film Festival - Festival dei Popoli (May 27-31, 2009) at Anthology Film Archives…
From May 29th to the 31st, the Festival dei Popoli will set down in New York's splendid Snug Harbor, Staten Island, currently a vital center of activity in one…
Founded in 1959 by a group of humanities scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, ethnologists and experts in mass-media, the Festival dei Popoli has been working for almost fifty years to promote and study social documentary cinema. Chiefly, the association organizes one of the most important international documentary festivals in Italy. At the same time, the Festival dei Popoli is busy restoring and conserving its archives (including about 10,000 titles, from video to film reels) as well as organizing courses and workshops for aspiring directors and documentary filmmakers. 
