By showing cinema and documentaries on art today, and encouraging discussion on these topics, the festival hopes to give world visibility to an entire area of production, for which Italy is a natural setting, and also to create a stimulus for launching "made in Italy" productions that can compete with the best international productions.

The competition is divided into six sections:

1. ART AND ARTISTS
This section includes the most important productions from the year 2003 to the present from all over the world, in the area of "story-telling" with images associated with painting, biographies of artists, sculpture, performance, exhibition settings, new trends in contemporary art, solo exhibitions by artists, restoration, events, investigations, TV programs, critical studies, and the history of art and its leading figures in all periods and of all trends.

2. ARCHITECTURE
This section includes the most important productions from the year 2003 to the present from all over the world, dealing with architecture, design and related computer graphics: documentaries on monuments, churches, museums, buildings, cities, villages, modern and contemporary architectural design, restoration, landscape interventions, gardens, architectural installations, land art, architect's biographies and historical material on the art of building and reconstruction.

3. CINEMA
This section includes the most important productions from the year 2003 to the present from all over the world, dealing with documentaries on cinema, and includes biographies of actors, directors, producers, scriptwriters etc., the history of cinema, historical material, critical studies, television programs, backstage, etc.

4. THEATRE
This section includes the most important productions from the year 2003 to the present, dealing with theatre and the performing arts, excluding dance and music. The section welcomes stories on actors, playwrights, sets, costumes, theatrical stagings, backstage, rehearsals, cabaret, monologues, the avant-garde and performance, as well as television programs, critical studies, masks, puppets, etc.

5. NEW LANGUAGES
This section includes the most important productions from the year 2003 to the present from all over the world, in the area of research and visual experimentation. It presents new horizons and innovative linguistic approaches through the use of cinematographic and audiovisual techniques such as: essays and animated shorts, experimental films, "auteur" documentaries.

6. FILM SCHOOLS
This section includes the most interesting film school essays, documentaries and animation, produced from the 2003 to the present, on the subjects of art, architecture, cinema and theatre in all their forms.

The high quality of the hundreds of works submitted for the first edition led the Festival Committee to organise a special section called "Lo spirito del tempo" for films that for various reasons merit special attention and visibility. The two best films in this category will be awarded a special "Lazio Region" prize.

The international Jury, made up of seven members, will award an overall 1st prize and prizes for the best film in each competition category, as well as prizes for best photography, best editing and most innovative documentary.
Special recognition (the Lazio Region Prize) will also be presented by the Festival's President and Artistic Director for the two best films in the "Spirit of the Times" section.
The best film on Italian art will be awarded the "Plaque of the President of the Republic".