Divergenti Festival
Website for a Film Festival.
Services
Team
- Web Design: Valentina Maccioni
Client
Overview
Divergenti is the International Trans Film Festival held in Bologna since 2008, produced by MIT and hosted by the Cineteca di Bologna. Each year, the festival presents a different theme, selects, and awards the best films internationally. The website UI was designed in Adobe XD and built on WordPress using Elementor.
Goal
Homepage pre/during the festival:
Homepage after the festival:
Site Architecture
The website structure consists of two modules: a fixed module dedicated to documenting the festival and a temporary module focused on promoting each edition.
The fixed module, the archive mode, gathers general information about the Divergenti Festival and is accessible year-round.
The temporary module, the festival mode, contains information and the schedule for the current edition and is visible in the month leading up to the festival and during the event.
The dynamic homepage adapts its content and appearance according to the festival timeline: throughout the year, it showcases films awarded in the previous edition, while during the festival it shifts to promoting the ongoing event.
Concept
The Divergenti’s website serves as a professional showcase for artists engaged with trans-themed topics. For this reason, photography holds a central place in the website’s interface design. This visual approach, aligned with the festival’s goal of promoting trans-themed cinema, highlights the competing works, giving due recognition to the efforts of those who create them.
Design
The visual nature of the festival requires an engaging aesthetic, while the platform calls for an intuitive design. Photography takes center stage in the website’s interface design. This visual approach, aligned with the festival’s goal of promoting trans-themed cinema, showcases the competing works, transforming the site into a professional display.