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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS WHICH WELCOME NON-COMMERCIAL FILMS 2021

SO FAR (5 JANUARY) THE ONLY FESTIVAL WHICH HAVE ANNOUNCED PLANS ARE:
WHITE NIGHTS
- St. Petersburg, Russia

​Closing : January 25 (extended deadline March 8)
Festival: April 23-25

​
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
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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.


BIAFF - BRITISH INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR FILM FESTIVAL
- Birmingham or online
​
Closing: January 31st 2021
Festival: April 16-18 202
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Website: www.biaff.org.uk
Email: 
competition@theiac.org.uk

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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.


FESTIVAL OF NATIONS 
- Lenzing, Austria

​Closing: 1st March 2021
Festival: September 23 - 28 202
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website: www.festival-of-nations.com

www.filmfreeway.com/FestivalofNations​
Contact: info@festival-of-nations.com
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Length: up to 30 minutes, any theme, any genre.
Venue: Lichtspiel, Lenzing
No entry fee.
Best non-commercial films in the world.
​See FilmFreeway


MONTECATINI INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
- 
Montecatini Terme, Italy

​Closing: May 15 (extended July 31)
Festival: 
October 23-28

Website: www.filmvideomontecatini.it
Contact via website
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Films produced after January 1, 2020.
Films no longer than:
  • 40 minutes for Documentaries
  • 30 minutes for Fiction
  • 20 minutes for Animation and
    ​Experimental films
All films must be subtitled in English and in Italian. See the full regulations on their website. Submit films through agencies like FilmFreeway - see website


BELOW IS OUR USUAL LIST, SORTED BY MAIN CLOSING DATE. WE SHOW THE USUAL MONTHS FOR CLOSING DATE AND EVENT.  PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS MAY FORCE POSTPONEMENTS OR CANCELLATIONS
Closing dates: - go to
January / February / March / April / May / June / July / August / September / October / November / December
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JANUARY
​WHITE NIGHTS
- St. Petersburg, Russia

​Closing : January 25 (extended deadline March 8)
Festival: April 23-25

​
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
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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


BIAFF - BRITISH INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR FILM FESTIVAL
- Birmingham or online

Closing: January 31st 2021
Festival: April 16-18 202
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Website: www.biaff.org.uk
Email:
competition@theiac.org.uk
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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.


SENFTENBERG
- Senftenberg, Germany
Closing: January ??
Festival: February ??

website: 
www.videofilmer-senftenberg.de
Contact: 
Die.Dietriche@t-online.de

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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) 




FEBUARY

ANIMATOR FESTIVAL
- St. Petersburg, Russia

Closing: February ?? 2021
Festival: February ?? 2021

Mrs. Nina Zaitseva
P.O. Box 158
197706 Saint-Petersburg
Website: ​
http://psnk.org/
Email: ekranru@mail.ru
The festival for animators and young people..

MARCH

FESTIVAL OF NATIONS
- Lenzing, Austria

Closing: 1st March 2021
Festival: September 23 - 28 202
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website: www.festival-of-nations.com

www.filmfreeway.com/FestivalofNations​
Contact: info@festival-of-nations.com
Festival logo.
Length: up to 30 minutes, any theme, any genre.
Venue: Lichtspiel, Lenzing
No entry fee.
Best non-commercial films in the world.
​See FilmFreeway


FICA - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUDIOVISUAL CREATIVITY
- Cannes, France

Closing: March ??
Festival: June ?
?

Website: 
http://cannes4c.com (Click FICA, choose English)
Contact: ccccannes@bbox.fr
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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.

BOUCHERVILLE INDEPENDENT SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
- Boucherville, Quebec

Closing: March ??
Festival: April ??

Website www.festival-courts-metrages.com
​
Check their Facebook page
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  • French-language films, subtitles in another language accepted.
  • Independent and self-financed films
  • Duration of 3 minutes or less, including credits
  • Maximum 2 movies per director
  • All types of films except animated films
  • Prizes $ 500 - $ 350 - $ 300
  • Free registration
  • For complete rules and submit your films, visit the website.


APRIL
MAY

CROATIAN ONE-MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL
- Pozega, Croatia

Closing : May ??
Festival: July 2020 ??


Website: www.crominute.hr
Email: crominute@gmail.com
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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.


VIDEO ART
- Suceava, Romania

​Closing: May ??
Festival:
July ??

Website: www.concursulvideoart.ro
Contact: viorel_ieremie@yahoo.com
Poster for the Video Arts festival 2017
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.

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AMATEUR HISTORY FILMS
- Shumen, Bulgaria

​Closing:  ??
Festival:
??

Shumen 9700
Square 'Vazrazhdane" 4,
House of Culture "Dobri Voynikov 1856"
Bulgaria


Website: https://shumenfest.eu
Contact: dvojnikovpost@abv.b
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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.

MONTECATINI INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
- 
Montecatini Terme, Italy

Closing: May 15 (extended July 31)
Festival: 
October 23-28

Website: www.filmvideomontecatini.it
Contact via website
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Films produced after January 1, 2020.
Films no longer than:
  • 40 minutes for Documentaries
  • 30 minutes for Fiction
  • 20 minutes for Animation and
    ​Experimental films
All films must be subtitled in English and in Italian. See the full regulations on their website. Submit films through agencies like FilmFreeway - see website.


JUNE

FOUR RIVERS
- Karlovac, Croatia

Closing: June ??
Festival: September ??

Website: https://frff.com.hr/
Contact: frff@hfs.hr
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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!


JULY
AUGUST

UNICA  KOREA  International  Film  Festival

Closing : ??
Festival:  ??

Website:
http://unicakorea.org
Email: 

filmworld7@gmail.com
Festival logo.
The festival allows direct entries by individuals and other festivals. Online entry.
No limits on genre and no fee. 60 minutes maximum.


SEPTEMBER

TATRANSKÝ KAMZÍK
- Liptovský Hrádok, Slovakia

Every second year
Closing : ??
Festival: 16-18 October 2021

in Liptovsky Hradok
Contact:
House of Culture,
Ľubomír Kompiš,
ul. J. D. Matejovie 591,
033 01 Liptovsky Hradok,
​Slovakia
E-mail: ozartstudiolh@gmail.com
Tel:: +421 903 465 493 (Mr. Kompiš) or
+421 905 266 219 (Mr. Danica Žiaková)
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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.

INTERNATIONALER VIDEOGRANDPRIX & JUGENDFILMTAGE
​- Ruggell, Liechtenstein

Closing : ??
Festival : 
??
 
website: www.videograndprix.li
email: vorstand@fvcl.com
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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, Austria

Closing : ??
Festival: ??


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
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 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. 

ARSfilm
- 
Kroměříž, Czech Republic

Closing : September ??
Festival: October ??

"ARSfilm amateurs 2020"
Czech Union for Film and Video, zs,
Dvořákova 441/9
750 02 Přerov
tel: +420 774 196 376
send films to
JBS STUDIO sro
Rohozná 71
569 72 Rohozná u Poličky

email: csfv@seznam.cz
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a. creation of Art - Includes films from all fields of art
b. animation - pictures taken by all animation techniques
c. videoart and experimental images
d. ethnographic films 


15 Euro fee for foreign films.
See last year's rules in English as pdf here.

GOLDEN KNIGHT
- Malta

Closing : September ??
Festival:  November ??


website:
https://www.facebook.com/GKMALTA
email: macc@goldenknightmalta.org
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  • Amateur productions.
  • Productions by film-school students.
  • Others.
Up to 30 minutes. Send synopsis in English. No fee. Apply through FilmFreeway

OCTOBER

TALLINN 2020
- Estonia

Closing : ??
Festival: November ??

​
website: http://efl.planet.ee
email: .jaak.jarvine@mail.ee
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The 15th edition of the festival is assessed in three categories: up to 20 years old, film students, all other amateurs. 


CAMERA 300
​- Bitola, Macedonia

Closing : October ??
Festival : October ??

Cinema Video Club, Studio Milton Manaki
Public Technic 7000
BITOLA
MACEDONIA 
website: www.camera300.mk
email:  contact@camera300.mk
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A festival of amateur documentary film. Up to 15 minutes long. Films in DVD, MP$ or MPEG. English subtitles. 

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER
TO LOVE A HUMAN
​
- Oswiecim, Poland
This festival normally takes place every second year.
Next edition due end 2021
Closing
: -- 2021
Festival: -- 2022

Oświęcimskie Centrum Kultury,
ul. Śniadeckiego 24,
32-600 Oświęcim,
Poland
website:www.ock.org.pl
email: festiwalfilmowy@ock.org.p
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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. 

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