Festival
Sognielettrici | Electricdreams International Film Festival is a cultural and academic event dedicated to speculative fiction. It aims at investigating the concept of imagination – not only seen as a form of escapism or pure entertainment, but also and foremost as a tool for analyzing everyday life from unexpected perspectives. The festival’s focus is on cinema, but it also embraces literature, comics, video-games, seriality and it is open to contamination with new media, philosophy, science, technology, artificial intelligence.
The fourth edition of Sognielettrici is a six-day event, extending from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 October 2025. It takes place in Milan, at Iulm 6 Open Space - Sala dei 146 and Auditorium. Free admission for all the events of the festival.
Scientific Committee: Simone Arcagni (Università IULM), Matteo Bittanti (Università IULM), Gianni Canova (Università IULM), Manuela Ceretta (Università degli Studi di Torino), Luisa Damiano (Università IULM), Megen de Bruin-Molé (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton), Elisabetta Di Minico (HISTOPIA), Ester Fuoco (Università IULM), Gaia Giuliani (CES - Centro di Studi Sociali, Università di Coimbra), Hagen Lehmann (Università IULM), Stefano Locati (Università IULM), Scott Jordan (Illinois State University), Francisco José Martínez Mesa (Università Complutense di Madrid, HISTOPIA), Anna Pasolini (Università degli Studi di Milano), Juan Pro Ruiz (CSIC - Consiglio superiore delle ricerche scientifiche spagnolo, HISTOPIA), Federico Selvini (Università IULM), Nicoletta Vallorani (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Artistic director: Stefano Locati
Events: Elisabetta Di Minico
Selection Committee: Stefano Locati, Federico Selvini, Cristina Scammacca
Logistic: Cristina Scammacca
Organization: Federico Selvini
Communication: Sara Sagrati
Graphics: Rinaldo Andrea Daniele