VFX Shortlist Event 2026

Saturday 28 February 2026, from 10:00 to 13:00, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome will host the second edition of the Shortlist, the AVFX meeting dedicated to the VFX world of Italian cinema.

All the VFX Supervisors and the VFX Producers of the best fifteen films selected by the jurors of the category for the Shortlist for the Best Visual Effects VFX award from the David di Donatello 71st.

Below are the 15 selected titles:

• Killing is Tiring: Autobiography of a Murderer

• Short Love Story

• Outside

• The Master

• Enchantment

• Ithaca – The Return

• The Forbidden City

• Grace

• The Valley of Smiles

• Life Goes Like This

• Despite

• Orpheus

• Spring

• Queer

• US Palmese

Ci sarà una una veloce presentazione di circa 10 minuti per ciascun film in Shortlist, illustrata direttamente dai creatori dei titoli, con clip di "Making of" che evidenziano gli interventi più significativi.

Morning program:

10:00 Welcome speech by Diego Viezzoli for AVFX and Daniele Tomassetti for the CSC
10:15 Start of presentations of the first 7 films
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 Start of presentations of the remaining 8 films
13:00 Closing of the event, group photo.

is free, but registration is required at this link.

Anyone arriving without an electronic ticket, or after the maximum capacity of the room has been reached, will not be able to enter for security reasons.

At this link you can see last year's event.