THE FESTIVAL

The project

The project is based on the constitution of a film review, the international field of action in the Mediterranean. The film festival will be open to productions by directors belonging mainly to the Mediterranean area, whether they are emerging that are established. 

The title of the review is MED-LIMES “on The Borders of the Mediterranean”, and presents work and turn in the form of a short film. It will take place in Salerno 15-16-17 May 2025 in its traditional event, with the screening of the films in competition and the awards ceremony, also during the three days will be organized forum with the theme of the 17SDGs. The exhibition will be open to Italian and foreign directors, provided that they belong primarily to the area of the Mediterranean. The themes of the exhibition are those listed by the UN in August 2015, in which 193 countries agreed on 17 Sustainable Development goals SDGs that are the following:

1. Defeat the poverty: end poverty in all its forms everywhere;
2. Defeat the hunger: end hunger, ensure food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture;
3. Health and well-being: ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages;
4. Education quality: ensure inclusive education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for equitable and quality;
5. Equal genre: achieving gender equality through the empowerment of women and girls;
6. Clean water and sanitation: ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation;
7. Energyclean and accessible- to ensure the availability of energy services affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern for all;
8. Decent work and economic growth: promote inclusive economic growth, sustained and sustainable growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all;
9. Business, innovation and infrastructure: build infrastructure, solid, promote the industrialization for inclusive and sustainable development and foster innovation;
10. Reduce inequalities: reduce inequality within and among countries;
11. Cities and sustainable communities: create sustainable cities and human settlements that are inclusive, safe and sound;
12. Consumption and production managers: ensure models of sustainable consumption and production;
13. The fight against climate change: take urgent action to combat climate change and its consequences;
14. Life under water: conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development;
15. Life on earth: protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, managing forests sustainably, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss;
16. Peace, justice and institutions solidpromote sustainable development; strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
17. Partnership for the goalsto strengthen the mode of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

  The directors will be free to submit their works relevant to one or more of the themes of the exhibition. The themes were chosen in relation to the Sustainable development Goals.

On 1 January 2016 are officially entered into force on the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the agenda 2030 for sustainable development – adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at a historic Un summit. In the next fifteen years, with these new goals that apply universally to all, countries will be active in working with the efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind. The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), also known as the Global Goals, are based on the success of the Millennium development Goals (MDGS) and aim to go further to end all forms of poverty. The new goals are unique in that they require action by all countries, poor, rich and middle-income to promote prosperity and protect the planet. Recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, addressing at the same time, climate change and environmental protection. In particular, the themes of the Festival-in fact, all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals:  

Goal 1 end poverty the purpose of putting an end to every form of poverty in the world. Despite the poverty rates have reduced by more than half since 1990, in the areas in developing a person out of 5 is living on less than $ 1.25 a day. In addition to the lack of resources and income, the deficit bigger is represented by hunger and malnutrition.

Governments have decided to implement by 2030 these goals:

• Eradicate extreme poverty for all people around the world, currently measured on the basis of those living on less than $ 1.25 per day;
• Reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women, and children of all ages living in poverty in all its forms, according to the national definitions;
• Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and safety measures for all, including the lower levels, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable;
• Ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, access to basic services, the private property, control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, new technologies and appropriate financial services, including microfinance;
• To strengthen the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to extreme climate events, natural disasters and economic shocks, social and environmental considerations;

1.to Ensure adequate mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through development cooperation, in order to provide means for adequate and reliable for the developing countries, in particular least developed countries, implementing programmes and policies to end poverty in all its forms; 1.b: Create robust systems and policies at the national, regional and international levels, based on the development strategies of the poor and sensitive to gender differences, to support investment accelerated in the actions of the fight against poverty.  

Goal 2 end hunger aims to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. If managed well, the agriculture, forestry and fisheries can provide nutritious food for all and generate adequate incomes, supporting rural development centered on the people and protecting the environment at the same time. However, nowadays, our soils, rivers, oceans, forests, and our biodiversity are degrading rapidly. Climate change is putting increasing pressure on the resources on which we depend on, increasing risks associated with environmental disasters such as droughts and floods.

It is necessary for a profound change in the world system of agricultural and food if we want to feed 795 million people today suffer from hunger and the other 2 billion people will inhabit our planet in 2050. The food industry and the agricultural sector offers key solutions for development, and are vital for the elimination of hunger and poverty.

That's why governments are given goals to achieve by 2030 as:

2.1 end hunger and ensure that all people, especially to the poor and the most vulnerable people, including infants, a secure access to nutritious food and enough for the whole year;

2.2: end all forms of malnutrition; and to achieve, by 2025, the goals agreed at the international level against the arrest of growth and wasting in children under 5 years of age; meet the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons;

2.3: Double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of food producers on a small scale, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, herders and fishers, including through secure access and equitable land, other resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value-added and non-agricultural land;

2.4: Ensure food production systems that are sustainable and implement agricultural practices resilient that increase productivity and production, that help to protect ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that will improve progressively the quality of the soil;

2.5: to Maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants, farm animals and domestic and wild species related, through the banks of the seeds and plants diversified and appropriately managed at the national, regional and international levels; to promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with them, as agreed at the international level;

2.in: Increase investment, including through the improvement of international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and training, technological development, and the banks of the genes of plants and animals, in order to improve the capacity of agricultural production in the developing countries, in particular least-developed countries;

2.b: Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the elimination of the parallel of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all measures of export with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round;

2.c: Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of markets of food raw materials and their derivatives and facilitate rapid access to market information, including the food reserves, in order to help limit the instability in the extreme prices of food products.

Objective 3 Health and Wellness you configure an action addressed to all people of every age group. Although we have made great progress with regard to the increase of life expectancy, access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, reduction of dangerous diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and the spread of HIV/AIDS, other efforts to eradicate a wide variety of diseases. To obtain this result, the Governments of the world have agreed to achieve by 2030:

3.1: By 2030, reduce the rate of maternal mortality globally to less than 70 per 100,000 live births

3.2: By 2030, end the dead-preventable diseases of infants and children under 5 years of age. All countries should try to reduce neonatal mortality to at least 12 per 1,000 live births, and the mortality of children under 5 years of age with at least 25 per 1,000 live births

3.3: By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases; fight hepatitis, diseases of the source water and other communicable diseases

3.4: By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote well-being and mental health

3.5: Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including the abuse of drugs and harmful alcohol consumption

3.6: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries in traffic accidents

3.7: By 2030, ensure universal access to services for sexual and reproductive health care, including family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health strategies and national programmes

3.8: Achieve universal health coverage, including protection from financial risks, access to essential services of health care quality and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable basic medicines and vaccines for all

3.9: By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and by contamination and pollution of air, water and soil

3.to: Strengthen the implementation of the Regulatory Framework of the Convention of the World Health Organization on Tobacco Control in an appropriate way in all countries

3.b: Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect the developing countries; provide access to drugs and vaccines are essential to economic and, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, containing the so-called “flexibility” to protect public health and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all

3.c: substantially Increase the funds allocated to health and to the selection, training, development and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed and small island States of the developing world;

3.d: Strengthen the capacity of all Countries, especially developing Countries, to report in advance, reduce and manage the risks related to health, both at the national and global level.

Goal 4 quality Education it aims to provide an education of quality, equitable and inclusive able to provide learning opportunities to all. A quality education is set up as the basis for improving the lives of people and reach the standard of sustainable development, redoubling efforts to achieve equality between boys and girls in primary education. The objectives of Countries by 2030:

• To ensure that all women and men an education at affordable cost and quality; a professional education and third level, including the University.
• Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in difficult situations.
• To greatly increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing Countries, in particular in the least developed Countries and small island States.

The goal 5 gender Equality it is proposed to facilitate the achievement of gender equality. Although the world has made progress in gender equality and the empowerment of women, many of them continue to suffer discrimination and violence.

The goal is to ensure women have equal access to education, medical care, a decent job, to representation in decision-making processes, political and economic. For this reason, the Countries commit to:

• Eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls both in the private and the public, including the trafficking of women and sexual exploitation.
• Ensure full and effective participation of women and equal opportunities for leadership at every level of decision-making in political, economic and public life.
• Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in the field of reference.
• Undertake reforms to give women equal rights of access to economic resources, as well as the ownership and control of land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws.

The goal 6 Clean Water and sanitation aims to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation. The lack and poor quality of the water, along with inadequate health care systems, have a negative impact on food security, on the choice of the means of livelihood and educational opportunities for poor families across the world. The drought affects some of the most backward Countries of the world, worsening hunger and malnutrition.

Among the goals that Governments intend to achieve within these priorities:

• Achieve, by 2030, the universal and equitable access to safe drinking water, safe and economical for all.
• Improve by 2030, the water quality by eliminating landfills, reducing pollution and the release of chemicals and hazardous waste, halving the amount of waste water is not treated and considerably increasing the recycling and reuse is safe at the global level.
• Expand by 2030, the international cooperation and support to create activities and programs related to the protection and diffusion of water and sanitation facilities in the developing Countries, including the collection of water, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment and recycling technologies and

Objective 7 clean Energy and affordable it aims to ensure access to energy is an essential element in every aspect of society: work, security, climate change, food production.

The goals to be achieved by 2030:

• Reduce carbon emissions by producing energy with a low intensity of this substance.
• Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in total energy consumption.
• Facilitate access to research, and technologies related to clean energy, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean-energy technology through international cooperation.

The objective 8 Decent work and economic growth it aims to foster sustainable economic growth. Half the world's population lives with the equivalent of 2 dollars per day. The lack of employment opportunities for decent, it violates the fundamental principle of a democratic society, according to which everyone should have equal job opportunities to contribute to the progress. The major challenge for all Countries of the world is the creation of quality jobs.

Economic growth and sustainable is possible if the companies manage to create the conditions that allow people to find jobs, stimulating the economy and not damaging the environment.

The Governments undertake to:

• Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, and the creation of decent jobs, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formation and growth of small-and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services.
• Protect the right to work, creating the necessary conditions through immediate action and effective to eradicate forced labour, end slavery and trafficking in human beings, abolish by 2025 child labour in all its forms.
• Develop a global strategy to promote youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization.

The objective 9 Enterprises, innovation and infrastructure it aims to stimulate investments in infrastructure – transport, irrigation, energy and information technology and communication – that are crucial for the achievement of sustainable development.

For this reason, the commitment of the Countries of the world by 2030 is concentrated in the following actions:

• Develop the infrastructure of high-quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient – including regional and cross-border – to support economic development and the well-being of individuals, with particular attention to fair and affordable to all.
• Adopting technologies and industrial processes cleaner and healthier for the environment, improving the infrastructure, and by reconfiguring the industries.
• Support the technological development within the research and innovation in developing Countries in order to increase the access to information technologies and communication, pledging to provide access to the Internet a universal and economic.

The objective 10 Reduce inequalities it is proposed to reduce the inequalities between nations in order to foster a context that is inclusive and not exclusive to all the people that live and move in the world, which is the place of sharing, and not separation. The international community has made significant progress to steal people out of poverty. The most vulnerable Nations – the least developed Countries, the developing Countries, landlocked and small island states in development – continue to be the way to reduce poverty. However, inequality still persists and there remain large disparities in access to health, education, and other services. Additionally, while income inequality between Countries would seem to have been reduced, inequality within the same Country is increased. It is shown that, beyond a certain threshold, inequality harms economic growth and poverty reduction, the quality of the relationships in the public and political sphere, and the sense of satisfaction and self-esteem of the individual. For this reason, Governments commit themselves to:

• to gradually achieve and sustain – by 2030 – the income growth of 40% of the population in the social layer, the lower at a higher rate than the national average.
• to enhance and promote social inclusion, economic, and policy of everyone, regardless of their age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, economic status, or other.
• to ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities in the results, eliminating laws, policies and discriminatory practices and promoting laws, policies, and appropriate action in this regard.

L’objective 11 Cities and sustainable communities it aims to make cities and communities inclusive, long-lasting and sustainable. However, the cities to be inclusive settings, long-lasting and, above all, sustainable have to overcome numerous challenges. For example, urban air pollution, the deterioration of the infrastructure, the shortage of housing for all, a lack of funds for basic services.

For this reason, there is a need for a commitment by all Governments of the world to:

• ensure access to a system of infrastructure that is secure, convenient and sustainable by improving public transport and by meeting the needs of those sectors of the population most vulnerable such as the elderly, women and children.
• provide universal access to green spaces and public safe, inclusive and accessible, in particular for women, children, the elderly and the disabled. To do this it is necessary to increase considerably the number of cities that adopt plans and policies are integrated to the thesis to inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resistance to disasters, and promote and implement a holistic management of the risk of disasters at all levels.

L’objective 12 Consumption and production managers it aims to ensure sustainable patterns of production and consumption. The sustainable consumption and production, pointing to “do more and better with less,” increasing the benefits in terms of well-being derived from economic activities by reducing resource use, degradation and pollution along the entire production cycle, thus improving the quality of life. It is necessary for this systematic approach and cooperative relationship between the active parties in the supply chain, from manufacturer up to consumer. This requires, in addition, consumers engage in awareness-raising initiatives to consumption through sustainable lifestyles, providing them with adequate information on the standards and labels and engaging them, among other things, in the public procurement sustainable. While a significant environmental impact in the area of food occurs, starting from the stages of production (agriculture and agri-food), households influence these impacts through choices and eating habits.

This, in turn, has an impact on the environment through the energy consumed for the production of food and the generation of waste. 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year, while almost 1 billion people suffer from malnutrition and another billion suffer from hunger. The goals to be achieved by 2030:

• halve food waste in global per-capita level of retail sales, reduce the loss of food during the chain of production and supply, including the loss of the post-harvest;
• substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse;
• make sure that all the people in every part of the world, have the relevant information and the right awareness of sustainable development and a life style in harmony with nature.

The lens 13 and the Fight against climate change it aims to promote actions at all levels, to combat climate change. Climate change is affecting all Countries of the world. The emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activities, are the driving force behind climate change and continue to increase. Are currently at their highest level in the history. If you do not take measures, it is expected that the average temperature of the earth's surface will increase in the course of the twenty-first century and is expected to increase by 3°C in this century. The poorest and most vulnerable are the most exposed. To cope with climate change, the Countries commit to:

• make a real commitment by the parties of the developed Countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which provides for the mobilization – 2020 – 100 billion dollars a year, coming from all the participating Countries, to address the needs of communities in the developing world.
• improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional regarding climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and the alert in a timely manner.

L’goal 14-Life under water it is proposed to keep and use in a sustainable way for the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. The oceans of the world with their temperature, their chemical composition, their currents, and their lives affect the global systems that make the Earth a place liveable for the human race. The rain water, the water that we drink, the weather, the climate, our coastlines, much of our food, and even the oxygen in the air that we breathe are elements ultimately provided and regulated by the sea. Careful management of this essential global resource is the basis of a sustainable future. For this reason, the Countries of the world are committed to:

• prevent and significantly reduce all forms of marine pollution, in particular that arising from the activities carried out on the mainland.
• regular fishing effectively, and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing methods. Implement plans of scientific management so as to restore the ecosystem of the fish.
• preserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas, increase the economic benefits to small island States in the developing world, through the use of a more sustainable use of marine resources, including sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism.

L’goal 15 Life on Land it aims to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystem. Forests cover 30% of the earth's surface and are essential to combating climate change, protecting biodiversity and indigenous peoples. Every year 13 million hectares of forests disappear because of the deforestation and desertification. Governments have committed to:

• ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of the forests, marshes, mountains and arid areas, stopping deforestation and desertification.
• restore the degraded forest and promote everywhere afforestation and reforestation.
• act to put an end to the poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and to fight the illegal trade of wild species.

L’goal 16 Peace, justice and institutions solid it aims to promote the society peaceful and inclusive for sustainable development, provide access to Justice for all and build effective Institutions, responsible, and inclusive to all levels. Corruption, bribery, theft and tax evasion cost to developing Countries around 1,26 billion dollars a year. This sum of money could be used to lift those who are living on less than $ 1.25 a day above the threshold for at least six years.

To create a society that is inclusive and just, the world's Governments commit to:

• to reduce corruption and abuse of power in all their forms through the development of effective Institutions, responsible and transparent, and ensuring the decision-making process open to all, participatory and representative at all levels.
• by 2030, provide legal identity to all, and protect fundamental freedoms, combating all forms of violence, such as crime and terrorism.
• put an end to the abuse, exploitation, trafficking in children, and to all forms of violence and torture against them.

      L’ Goal 17 Partnerships for the goals it is proposed to strengthen the means of implementation and renewal of the global partnership for sustainable development. To be successful, the agenda for sustainable development requires partnerships between Governments, the private sector and civil society. These collaborations inclusive, built on principles and values, a shared vision and shared goals that place in the center, the people and the planet, are needed at the global, regional, national and local levels.

The goals relate to different sectors:

• Finance: developed Countries must fulfil their commitments for official aid to developing Countries by mobilizing economic resources in order to increase the fiscal capacity internal, the collection of revenue, and help them cope with the long-term debt that these Countries are supporting it.
• Technologypromote in the developing Countries, the growth, and the exchange and dissemination of environmentally sound technologies on favourable terms, through understandings of concessional and preferential determined by mutual agreement.
• Capacity development: enhance international support for implementing in non-industrialized development of the capacity for effective and targeted manner in order to support national plans to achieve all of the goals of Sustainable Development, through the North-South cooperation, south-South and triangular.

• Trade: promote a system of universal exchange, regulated, open, non-discriminatory and multilateral, under the control of the World Trade Organization. Increase the exports of emerging Countries by providing access to the market free of duty.

You chose to focus on these specific objectives since the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, are among the social purposes of the FONMED – “Foundation South Cooperation and Development in the Mediterranean”, the promoter of the event. The context in which you will play the film festival will be the city of Salerno, the earth and the sea and the encounter of different civilizations. The place that the co-mingling of so many souls cultural saw the birth of the Medical School of Salerno, the first and most important medical institution in Europe in the middle Ages. The Mediterranean, is a place to develop further the principles of democracy and the brotherhood of the union of the peoples. The vastness of his waters, as in an embrace, welcome all.

The present has seen, all too often, companies increasingly locked in territorial boundaries as in the soul. The opening of the union, sharing the place leaves to the racial prejudice, xenophobia, the rhetoric of the invasion. You must return the Mediterranean in the position of mediator. To do this, you need to promote a culture of respect, of cohesion, of the principle of solidarity, of the confrontation and dialogue. The means best suited to this purpose, it can also be the cinema, why direct and always current.

The film tells the story of the old and new at the same time, and appeals to an audience of varied gender, interests and age.