BFM 2015 will be an opportunity to strengthen our goals and refresh our ambitions. BFM’s main aim is to stimulate, enhance and promote the knowledge of films and audiovisual works that, despite established artistic and cultural qualities, have some difficulties in finding distribution and circulation in Italy. BFM also means to promote the cultural and geographic diversity of European audiovisual works and the diffusion of films of particular interest that are presented within the Festival’s programme. BFM’s mission includes both supporting independent, high-quality cinema, one that confronts reality in creative, linguistically innovative ways, and rediscovering film heritage, by means of recovering and promoting classic cinema, currently unavailable even in public and private collections, or in the TV / DVD market. In order to implement such a project, BFM will consolidate and expand collaborations with other Festivals and public or private institutions with which resources, projects, and know-how will be shared. In keeping with the past few editions, BFM will also keep its focus on film audience: our cultural proposals, in terms of the Festival’s programme and related events, will be enriched, and communication and public relations will be boosted, along with contacts and all-year-long collaborations. We expect our constant efforts in this direction to both numerically widen our public and to refine their competence in film as well as audiovisual culture in general. Specific attention will be devoted to junior attendees: BFM will encourage individual students and school classes to take part in the events organized by the Festival and the Association, and it will intensify its educational activities. Our goal is to keep renewing our public from generation to generation, and to help young people develop cultural sensibility, especially in the film and audiovisual field.