We are warming up the engines!
The Festival will take off on December 1st, 2023 and the full selection will be available until January 31th, 2024 on Swiss Air Lines’ flights.
The Flying Film Festival is the first film festival of short documentaries and doc-animations taking place entirely in the air on Swiss Air Lines aircraft.
The Flying Film Festival was created by artistic directors Francesca Scalisi and Mark Olexa with the objective of taking into the sky a short movie festival.
The festival was launched in 2015 to give an alternative to film programs usually shown in airplanes.
In recent years, the team has expanded with the arrival of Dunja Keller as operational director and Andrea Giovarruscio as festival assistant.
The festival takes place on a biannual basis, from December through January, onboard Swiss Air Lines long haul flights.
The program is curated and by invitation only. Each film selected will receive a fee.
The festival mainly presents recently released creative short ani-doc and documentary.
Audio language: original
Subtitles language: English
No premiere requirement
Festival Organization
Festival Director
Francesca Scalisi & Mark Olexa
Operational Director
Dunja Keller
Festival Assistant
Andrea Giovarruscio
Mail: office@flyingfilmfestival.com
Flying Anidoc Award – first edition
This year, for the first time, we have awarded a special prize at the Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, the “Flying Anidoc Award”. We reviewed the short anidocs hosted at Fantoche 2023 and, after a lively debate, we picked one winner. “Beautiful Figures” by Soetkin Verstegen received the award in Baden on September 10th, and thereby joined the selection of our upcoming festival. We are grateful for this collaboration, which was especially made possible by the director Ivana Kvesić and the team of the Fantoche Festival.
The beautiful trophy was designed and created by Léonard Périès of the CREAHM Atelier in Fribourg.
The Festival landed at school
In spring we started a collaboration with Eikon, an Interactive Media Design school, based in Fribourg, Switzerland. Starting from the concept of “short film” and “flight”, the students created some short videos. Check them out on the festival’s Facebook and Instagram pages!
Movies for Airplanes a Flying Film Festival Podcast
Up in the sky, we take short documentaries and animadocs on Swiss Air Lines’ flights.
Down on earth we interview some directors of the last edition. Short film and podcast made with love! Listen to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast or Google Podcast.