INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS WHICH WELCOME NON-COMMERCIAL FILMS
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Note that there is a list of festivals under UNICA Patronage to be found on the official website: here.
BIAFF - British International Amateur Film Festival |
No limit on length, theme or genre. Each author receives a written report from the jury. There is a range of fees - see their website.
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20th ANIMATOR FESTIVAL-
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The festival for animators and young people..
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44 FESTIVAL OF NATIONS - Austria |
Length: up to 30 minutes, any theme, any genre.
Venue: Lichtspiel, Lenzing No entry fee. Best non-commercial films in the world. |
SENFTENBERG - Germany |
On the one hand the special competition German Minute Competition of the BDFA and on the other the OSTINALE - a performance show of the film amateurs of the East German regional associations, which are organised in the Federal Association of German Film Authors (BDFA)
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FICA - Cannes - International Festival of Audiovisual CreativityClosing: March ?? 2019
Festival: June ?? 2019 Website: http://cannes4c.com (Click FICA, choose English) Contact: ccccannes@bbox.fr |
Free entry. Any theme. Up to 12 minutes. Up to two entries per person. Check the rules. Entry by wetransfer.com is preferred. Other formats accepted.
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Boucherville Independent Short Film Festival, Quebec |
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WHITE NIGHTS - St. Petersburg, RussiaClosing : April 20th 2019
Festival: May 28 - 30th 2019 contact/Kontact Mrs. Nina Zaitseva P.O. Box 158 RUS-St. Petersburg Website: http://psnk.org/ Email: amateur.rus@mail.ru (+49) 591 75236 - Harald Lorenz |
Encourages creative activity, fosters pride in the history of your country, promotes ecological knowledge, common human values: love, mercy, friendliness, peacemaking, tolerance, a sense of beauty and harmony.
Films up to 15m, fee 500 rubles. In Russian or with Russian subtitles. |
CROATIAN MINUTE MOVIE FESTIVAL - Pozega, CroatiaClosing : April 14th 2019
Festival: 29th May - 2nd June 2019 Website: www.crominute.hr Email: crominute@gmail.com |
Maximum length 60 seconds. No fee. No limit on number of entries. 1,000 Euros top prize.
You can directly upload your films. If you send more than one file per film (for instance: DVD VIDEO_TS folder) compress them into a ZIP file and then upload. Use your user names and passwords you used in past years which have been transferred into the new system with the complete data base. For further information and help please contact Zvonimir: crominute@gmail.com. |
DANUBE RIVER OF EUROPE - Rousse, BulgariaDates for 2019 not yet settled
Contact: Vladimir Iliev PO Box 365 Rousse 7000 Bulgaria Tel: 00 359 899 056 119 E-mail : vladimiriliev@abv.bg |
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23 WEST-EAST FILM FESTIVAL "neighbours and friends" - BerlinWe do not yet know if the festival will continue in 2019
website: www.ars-cinema.de/kff_2017.html http://www.ars-cinema.de/kff_2017.html contact: kff2017@ars-cinema.de |
Theme: Neighbours
Length: up to 20 minutes Venue: Festival-Kino “TONI” Antonplatz 1, D-13086 Berlin Hotel: ABACUS Tierpark Hotel |
VideoArts (Suceava, Romania) |
Video Arts is for film makers between 15 and 20 years old. It includes workshops, a day of shooting a day of editing and awards by an international jury. One section is for public service adverts up to 1 minute long. Another section is for films between 10 and 15 minutes.
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SHUMEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AMATEUR HISTORICAL FILMSClosing:not yet announced
Festival: not yet announced Shumen 9700 Square 'Vazrazhdane" 4, House of Culture "Dobri Voynikov 1856" Bulgaria Website: https://shumenfest.eu Contact: dvojnikovpost@abv.b |
A competitive festival open for fiction films, documentaries and cartoons on the theme of the festival made by individual authors or by authors' collectives - nonprofessionals. Films up to 20 minutes.
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70th MONTECATINI INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Italy |
Films produced after January 1, 2016.
Films no longer than:
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FOUR RIVERS - Karlovac, Croatia |
They ask for films from high school students between the ages of 14 and 20. There are no restrictions but they prefer films less than 20 minutes long. No fees. Event has workshops and lots of fun!
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UNICA KOREA International Film Festival |
The festival allows direct entries by individuals and other festivals. Online entry.
No limits on genre and no fee. 60 minutes maximum. |
NEWCASTLE INTERNATIONAL - Australia
Closing : September 4th 2019
Festival: October 16th 2019 website: http://nvm.org.au/competition.html email: contact@nvm.org.au |
Films up to 15 minutes. Overseas entries 15 US dollars. DVD and BluRay only.
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TATRA CHAMOISClosing : 9th September
Festival: 18-19 October 2019 in Liptovsky Hradok Contact: House of Culture, Ľubomír Kompiš, ul. J. D. Matejovie 591, 033 01 Liptovsky Hradok, Slovakia +421 903 465 493 (Mr. Kompiš), or +421 905 266 219 (Mr. Danica Žiaková), e-mail: osvetalm@vuczilina.sk |
Age groups:
A - over 19 B - 18 and under Themes: Culture and monuments Environment formation and protection Contemporary way of living The festival languages are Slovak and English. Entry fee 5 Euros. Each film in a language other than Slovak or Czech must have a commentary in English but also a separate annotation of approximately 60 words. |
22. INTERNATIONALER VIDEOGRANDPRIX UND 9.JUGENDFILMTAGEClosing : 21 September 2019
Festival : 16 November 2019 website: www.videograndprix.li email: vorstand@fvcl.com |
For rules see their website (in German)
Entry costs 20 euros or 25 CHF. Films up to 25 minutes. |
WALSER FILM DAYS - Bachschmiede, nr. Salzburg, AustriaClosing : 15 September 15th 2019
Festival: October 25th - 27th 2019 Film- und Video Club Wals-Siezenheim Int.Filmfestival „7.Walser Filmtage“ Andrä Dopplerweg 1 A-5071 Wals AUSTRIA website: www.filmclubsalzburg.at email: viktor.kaluza@A1.net |
Amateur films up to 30 minutes and not older than 5 years. Accepts mp4 or 2mts on Stick.
One entry per carrier system. Up to two entries per person. There is also a one-minute film section. Priority is given to those where the film maker will attend the festival. Entry fee 15 Euros per film. Mark your package: (amateur film - exposed,no commercial value) Download the call for entries (in English) here. |
XXXXVI ARSfilm
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Closing : 20th September 2019
Festival: 4-5th October 2019 "ARSfilm amateurs 2019" Czech Union for Film and Video, z., Dvořákova 441/9, 750 02 Přerov, tel: +420 774 196 376 email: csfv@seznam.cz |
a. creation of Art - Includes films from all fields of art
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GOLDEN KNIGHT - MaltaClosing : 30th September 2019
Festival: 1 December 2019 website: www.goldenknightmalta.org email: macc@goldenknightmalta.org |
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TALLINN 2017 - Estonia |
The 15th edition of the festival is assessed in three categories: up to 20 years old, film students, all other amateurs. By 30th October the pre-selection will be announced.
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CAMERA 300 - Bitola, MacedoniaWe await news.
Closing : Festival: Cinema Video Club, Studio Milton Manaki Public Technic 7000 BITOLA MACEDONIA website: www.camera300.mk email: contact@camera300.mk |
A festival of amateur documentary film. Up to 15 minutes long. Films in DVD, MP$ or MPEG. English subtitles.
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TO LOVE A HUMAN - Oswiecim, Poland
This festival normally takes place every second year.
Closing: ?? December 2019 Festival: January 2020 Oświęcimskie Centrum Kultury, ul. Śniadeckiego 24, 32-600 Oświęcim, Poland website:www.ock.org.pl email: festiwalfilmowy@ock.org.p |
Love a human means… to show fleeting moments, passing time, running thoughts; to give them their own life. To make them last. To sketch the picture of the human condition in spite of all things which separate or link people. To show, not only “here and now” but also “everywhere and always”, what is important, what will never end, who we were, are, and will be.
Films up to 20 minutes. |
