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Life Beyond Life Film Festival (7th Edition)

Immortality and Destiny; the Coincidences, Italy

Festival overview

About Life Beyond Life Film Festival (7th Edition)

Physical film festival in Immortality and Destiny; the Coincidences, Italy with submission categories including Short Film and Feature Film.

Festival is proposed by the ArtInMovimento Popular University and the Cultural Association SystemOut (both at Torino, Italy), being in synergy with A.R.E.I. ( The Afterlife Research and Education Institute, Normal/IL, USA) and Religion Today Film Festival, and linked to the International Afterlife Conferences Andare Oltre. Uniti nell Luce e Oltre L’Oltre.

This Afertlife Cine Fest will lay the focus on eschatological subjects referring, in the main, to the Hereafter.

Death for many cultures represents the great taboo, where instilling fear and terror, anxieties are hidden behind, along with emotions, probably based on a dominant mainstream, that subjects most people by orienting themselves towards particular lifestyles and behaviors.The Life Beyond Life Film Festival, casted on, by an anthropological and esoteric eye, welcomes clips/shorts, medium and feature film, documentaries/fact films, video arts, and cartoons, thematising the terminal care, grief, transition, the visions of the Afterlife, Eternity, Immortality and Destiny; the Coincidences, the Divine, Angels and Demons, Karma and Darma, Samsãra, the Akashi Records, Entanglement, the Multiverse (parallel dimensions), Quantum Physics and Universal Energy.

There will be even space for testimonials, narratives, bearing witness specially to the learnings of mediums, psychics and holistic operators, being both in continuos connection with the Afterlife and having had some experiences with it, as well as cinematographic products of great worth, having a significant social and spiritual value, where the message linked to Death will be Hope, Solidarity and Lightness.

Schedule

Important Dates

Call for Entries Opens
Apr 4, 2026
Final Submission Deadline
Feb 10, 2027
Notification Date
Mar 31, 2027
Festival Starts
May 6, 2027
Festival Ends
May 12, 2027
Recognition

Awards & Prizes

Best Feature FilmBest Short FilmBest DocumentaryBest Short-DocBest Art MovieBest Animated FilmBest Director (for each category)Best Actor (for Feature film category)Best Actress (for Feature film category) Jury Special Mentions By Special CommissionsBest Sound TrackBest Sound DesignBest Animated Films AwardBest Cinematography Religion Today Award Andrej Tarkovskij AwardBest Afterlife Research to LifeBest Creative ProductionBest Visual Emotion ImpactBest Editing (for Doc and Feature film categories)Best Performance (for Short film and Art Movie categories)
Eligibility

Rules & Eligibility

General Rules+
  1. Art.

  2. 1 LBLFF is an independent festival event open to Shorts, Medium and Feature Film, Documentaries, video arts, and Animation, thematising the terminal care, grief, transition, the visions of the Afterlife, Eternity, Immortality and Destiny; the Coincidences, the Divine, Angels and Demons, Karma and Darma, Samsãra, the Akashi Records, Entanglement, the Multiverse (parallel dimensions), Quantum Physics and Universal Energy.

  3. There will be even space for testimonials, narratives, bearing witness specially to the learnings of mediums, psychics and holistic operators, being both in continuos connection with the Afterlife and having had some experiences with it, as well as cinematographic products of great worth, having a significant social and spiritual value, where the message linked to Death will be Hope, Solidarity and Lightness.

  4. Submitted films should be an original work of the contestant.

  5. Films dealing with all before themes are allowed to the festival, with the only exception of advertising and pornographic, or themes in contravention of the provisions of the Italian law.

  6. Films in any different language from English must be subtitled in English.

  7. Films in Italian are allowed not

Current Categories, Deadlines & Fees

Category

Short Film

Short Film currently lists a maximum runtime of 59 minutes. Listed fees include USD 12.5 early-bird, USD 14 regular, USD 15 late, and USD 15.5 extended.

Current FeeUSD 12.50Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 59 minutes
Category

Feature Film

Feature Film currently lists a maximum runtime of 240 minutes. Listed fees include USD 20 early-bird, USD 23 regular, USD 25 late, and USD 26 extended.

Current FeeUSD 20.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 240 minutes
Category

Short Documentary

Short Documentary currently lists a maximum runtime of 60 minutes. Listed fees include USD 12 early-bird, USD 13 regular, USD 15 late, and USD 15.5 extended.

Current FeeUSD 12.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 60 minutes
Category

Documentary

Documentary currently lists a maximum runtime of 180 minutes. Listed fees include USD 15 early-bird, USD 18 regular, USD 21 late, and USD 22 extended.

Current FeeUSD 15.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 180 minutes
Category

Art Movie

Art Movie currently lists a maximum runtime of 180 minutes. Listed fees include USD 12 early-bird, USD 14 regular, USD 15.5 late, and USD 16 extended.

Current FeeUSD 12.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 180 minutes
Category

Animatated Movie and Cartoon

Animatated Movie and Cartoon currently lists a maximum runtime of 180 minutes. Listed fees include USD 12 early-bird, USD 14 regular, USD 15 late, and USD 16 extended.

Current FeeUSD 12.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 180 minutes
Category

Italian Afterfife

Italian Afterfife currently lists a maximum runtime of 45 minutes. Listed fees include USD 12 early-bird, USD 14 regular, USD 15 late, and USD 15.5 extended.

Current FeeUSD 12.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 45 minutes