Topic
The theme of the 2023 edition is Design Visions: Aiming for new goals, imagining possible futures, finding creative solutions and answers to real needs. Every architecture or interior design project intended to last has a vision behind it. It is the higher principle that guides choices.
The objective of the award is to create a bridge between the world of design and the world of film art, which today represents not only a form of entertainment and storytelling, but also a reality capable of engaging and educating all those interested in the world of design in its various forms of expression.
The selected movies
Get to know the finalists and how they conceived their creative inspiration here
The Jury
Cinema, Design, Caesar: three identities that enter into synergy for a project of great interest and with a strong echo both in the world of communication and design.
The panel of judges for CDFA contest is comprised of highly proficient and distinguished experts: get to know them
Wannabe Designers - Special Mention
In addition to the official winner of the Caesar Design Film Award, the shorts will also compete for the Wannabe Designers Special Mention which will be awarded by a jury made up of university students from the Faculties and Schools of Architecture, Design, Graphics and Art.
Goals
With this initiative, Ceramiche Caesar reaffirms its affinity for the worlds of architecture and design and its commitment to innovation, expressed in its unceasing research into ceramic solutions as well as in the use of cutting edge communications.
Cinema is here a valuable tool for expressing Caesar's values in an original way, including its Made in Italy branding, and its social and environmental ethics, which can be summed up as a green oriented approach which respects both man and the ecosystem: aspects which are nourished by both the company's Emilian rootsand its global reach.
The latest CDFA edition: 2023
The fourth edition of the award was won by Jim Stephenson with his short film Jubilee Pools.
The film Jubilee Pools shows the relationship between place, people, and space – an inseparable triad that accompanies everyone's life. For space is precisely the place where we create memories and bonds. The design visions in this narrative also take into account the history of the place and the stories of a community that has grown around it.
Among the awards given during the night of 4 May, students of of the University of Bologna conferred the Wannabe Designers Mention on In Between by Samir Karahoda. In addition, Ken Rischard won the People’s Mention with the film Glimmen.





