The Open Call 2026 has closed: 238 applications were received from 28 countries
From 14 to 17 May 2026, nine selected productions will go on stage in Cividale del Friuli for the sixth edition of the most under-30 festival in Europe.
Applications are open to under30 artists, ensembles and companies working in theatre, music, dance and circus, coming from 27 European countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Hungary.
All submitted projects will be examined and evaluated, under the coordination of the Artistic Director, by a group of curators under 30: a specially formed commission of curatores. We would like to thank for their collaboration: Accademia Eleonora Duse – Centro Sperimentale di Cinema e Arti Performative, Associazione culturale Arearea, State Conservatory of Music Giuseppe Tartini in Trieste, State Conservatory of Music Jacopo Tomadini in Udine, Fondazione Luigi Bon, University of Trieste, University of Udine, SNG Nova Gorica (Slovenia), as well as Associazione culturale Circo all’incirca, Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono, Istituto Tecnico Arturo Malignani, Scuola di Danza Erica Bront and Teatro Club Udine – Palio Teatrale Studentesco.
Among all submissions, 9 titles will be selected (2 theatre, 2 music, 2 dance, 2 circus, and one production belonging to any of the above categories) to be presented from 14 to 17 May 2026 in Cividale del Friuli.
A jury of experts will also be present during the festival to evaluate the performances on stage.
The same group of under30 curatores will then select, during the days of Mittelyoung, 3 shows to be included in the programme of Mittelfest Fear. The selected works will be presented between 16 and 26 July 2026 in Cividale del Friuli.
” This is what happens with fear: it is all in the expectations, in what we imagine it will be. Fear is the primary emotion that anticipates events, it does not follow them. It is already there. It arrives and points the way, as in the allusive geography of myth. Yet, while it predicts succumbing to every fatal challenge, it prevents the outcome. All you have to do is go beyond what your eyes believe. Because sight is often deceiving: it does not notice what is in front of it, but what the mind already expects. The gaze, it is said, only registers differences.
Our story, then, may be similar to that of Perseus: do not yield to Medusa’s gaze, do not turn to stone in the face of terror that is already known, in the face of what the mind fears will happen. Instead, shielded by a stolen eye, keeping our fearful gaze locked, we can return victorious, riding our Pegasus, laden with precious corals. Will it happen? Who knows: if, while observing things, we begin to see them with new tools and different eyes, some pleasant surprise may await us. If the fear that lurks in our thoughts were overcome by our actions, some miracle might reveal itself. Instead of running away from it, why not follow every fear wherever it leads us? Why not accept its adventures? Maybe we will find stones, maybe corals.“
Giacomo Pedini, Artistic Director of Mittelfest
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