DocuDonna is an international film festival dedicated to documentaries directed by women, a new appointment in the programme of Italian and international festivals. A heritage of images, sensibilities and points of view, scattered in a male-dominated cultural industry, compacted in an event, which releases an avant-garde film production, promotes and enhances it. An international film festival that allows many film, art and culture enthusiasts to discover the unpredictable styles of the new “Reality Cinema”.
An event to create new perspectives of productions, collaborations, ideas and experiences.
Massa Marittima, an ancient city lying on the hills of Tuscany
Three days of events, documentaries, experiences and female creativity
2025 AWARDS
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
The Eternal Song
Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo
BEST ITALIAN DOCUMENTARY
Amor
Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
SPECIAL MENTION
Vibrations From Gaza
Rehab Nazzal
Special Events
Tutto Ci Ri Guarda
Tutto Ci Ri Guarda: workshop lasting 3 hours – Sunday morning, October 19, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. , led by artist Guendalina Salini and curator Gaia Cianfanelli.
It is a workshop open to all ages, for a maximum of 20 participants. It is a collective and participatory experience where thoughts and imaginations intertwine to create visual and poetic texts – collage-drawings inspired by the Surrealist game of exquisite corpses, here renamed sharp living beings! The aim is to invent together creatures that resist the impoverishment of soil and imagination, in order to celebrate biodiversity and sociodiversity, sparking reflections and ever-open questions.
More info: https://volumebk.it/prodotto/libri/tutto-ci-ri-guarda/
Guendalina Salini | Roman artist with exhibitions in Italy and abroad. After earning a Master’s in Fine Art from Middlesex University in London, she exhibited with galleries such as Sprovieri Art Gallery and Saddlers Wells Theater. In Italy, she has collaborated with curators and spaces including Ex Elettrofonica, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Fondazione Fendi, Fondazione Baruchello, Auditorium Parco della Musica, and has participated in festivals (Locarno, Rome, Ismaila), museums (MACRO, MAXXI, Museo Bilotti), and international projects (Paris, London, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Lviv).
Her research spans installation, video, collage, drawing, photography, and performance, with a strong focus on participatory and inclusive practices. She has led numerous workshops in collaboration with cultural associations. In 2017, she co-founded with activist and violinist Giulia Anita Bari the association La Frangia, which connects art and human rights.
Pilgrimage Of Love
Since 2023, Dutch artist Ruchama Hoed has been on a pilgrimage, traveling through churches, cathedrals, basilicas, and sacred places across the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy with her handwoven artwork entitled “More Veneration”. Her journey leads from Amsterdam to Rome (amoR), where this beautiful adventure will conclude at the end of October 2025.
The artwork offers a space to encounter one’s own poetic soul, allowing inner light to shine even brighter.
So that all roads may lead to love!
For more information and to follow her final stops in Italy, you can visit her page on Instagram, on her website, or support her at https://www.gofundme.com/f/pilgrimage-of-love-amsterdam-to-amor
Michela Buttignon
Michela Buttignon works in silence. Her hands brush against materials, listen to them, and transform them. Far from rhetoric, close to the heart of things, Michela creates intimate, profound works, suspended between the visible and the invisible.
Each piece is a visual haiku, a small universe that unfolds through pigments, fibers, leaves, and metallic threads. They are forms made of delicate transparencies. She speaks a language of subtraction, where every mark carries weight, every choice is essential. In the fragment, she discovers the whole; in the detail, she captures the universal.
She is also the artist who created the “Premio Olympia de Gouges Wabi Sabi – riparare con l’oro ciò che si rompe”, a ceramic work entitled Haikubox_010 – “fai che siano preziose”.
Bodies on the Line: Violence in the First Person
with Lizzie Thynne
A discussion (in Italian) by Emeritus Professor of Cinema at the University of Sussex, UK, Lizzie Thynne, which highlights how many women have used first-person storytelling to bear witness to violence, both in the personal and public spheres.
Lizzie Thynne is Professor Emerita of Film, University of Sussex,UK. She is a documentary maker and author. Her feature documentaries include Playing a Part: The Story of Claude Cahun, On the Border and Independent Miss Craigie (winner of best foreign documentary at Docudonna, 2023). She has written widely about representations of gender and sexuality in film and television and her films have been screened in international festivals, on Channel Four television (UK) and in galleries including the Jeu De Paume and Centre of Modern Art Sydney.
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