Biography

Sergio Fant is an Italian film programmer based in Germany. After graduating in film studies and working as a film archivist and researcher at the Cineteca di Bologna, he conceived and curated programmes for Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, the Pesaro Film Festival, the Rome Film Fest and the Mostra del Cinema in Venice, where he was in charge of the short film selection in 2010 and 2011. From 2012 to 2023, he was Head of Programme at the Trento Film Festival in Italy.

In 2012 he also joined the Locarno Film Festival, first as a short film programmer and then as a selection committee member from 2013 to 2018. In 2019, he became co-artistic director of the 18th DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, as well as a member of the Berlinale selection committee, a position he held until 2024. Since 2022, he has been the programmer of the ARCA International Film Festival on Visual Arts in Punta del Este, Uruguay.