What story from the past will tell about you? Archivio Aperto 2025 invites you to take center stage: get accredited to access all the competition screenings and discover the benefits reserved for those who choose to support the festival. With your subscription, you will not only experience archival cinema as a protagonist, but you will also concretely support Archivio Aperto and the work of those who make it possible.
Get ready for an edition to watch, listen to, and experience up close: click here to get accredited!
Accreditation Time of Liberations
This accreditation allows you to access the Competition screenings that will take place in the festival’s cinemas and, as a priority, the film and digital screenings of programs dedicated to avant-garde and experimental cinema that will take place at the former Church of San Mattia.
Full price → 35 euros
Reduced Culture Card, CNA Emilia Romagna – Cinema and Audiovisual → 30 euros*
Reduced students → 20 euros*
The Competition screenings will take place at Cinema Lumière and Sala Cervi. Starting on September 10—the date of publication of the complete program—each accredited person will receive a personal code via email to reserve their seat free of charge through the online ticket office and on site at the Cineteca di Bologna.
Accreditation also includes the possibility of booking priority seating for screenings taking place at the former Church of San Mattia in the following sections:
Experimental Stories – Kenneth Anger, The Nature of the Archive. The Cinema of Rose Lowder: Ecology, Chance, and Necessity, Art & Experimental Film. The dream of a future: a tribute to Andrea Granchi’s art cinema, Tribute to Marinella Pirelli, Carta Blanche – Désir / Detours. You can also reserve your place for the meetings in the Archivio Aperto Professional section.
Accreditation includes reduced-price admission to the festival’s closing event at the Teatro San Leonardo (September 30) and to the special screening at the Cinema Modernissimo (September 26).
*You will be asked to show your Culture Card or university badge when collecting your accreditation.
Supporter accreditation
Help us grow! For this edition, you can choose to support Archivio Aperto with a special accreditation, with a contribution of 50 euros.
This accreditation gives you the same benefits as the Time of Liberations Accreditation, plus you will receive the festival tote bag and catalog.
Press accreditation
Free subscription reserved for journalists and press officers.
To request and find out more about accreditation, please send an email to press@archivioaperto.it
→ How to get accredited?
You can order your accreditation on Eventbrite by clicking on this link.
You will then be able to collect your badge at the Festival Center at Archivio Aperto (Via Sant’Isaia 20) or at the cinemas (accreditation collection only: Cinema Lumière, Sala Cervi) during the festival.
It will also be possible to register on site (without ordering online) during the festival, but only at the Festival Center.
If your registration includes the collection of a catalog or shopping bag, please come to the Festival Center, where festival merchandise will be available.
The Festival Center is located at Via Sant’Isaia 20. Opening hours will be announced starting September 10.
→ Are you studying in Emilia-Romagna? We have a surprise for you!
A special promotion designed for all university students (of any discipline) and academy students in Emilia-Romagna: if you are among the first 5 people from your institution to fill out this form, you will receive a free accreditation!
What are you waiting for? Come and discover all the films, events, and meetings of the festival, meet our team, and enjoy the city through the lens of archival cinema.
Just fill out the following Google Form at this link.
For any information, you can send an email to office@archivioaperto.it
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