REGULATIONS FOR THE FILM SUBMISSION
ABOUT FILM FESTIVAL
NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino) is a film festival that is held by the Short Movie Club, the platform for cinematic projects. The festival provides a long-term study of screen discourse and its perception, awareness of internal and external filters, censorship and self-censorship. The aim of the festival is to expose the complexity, manysidedness, and variety of filmmaking.
Originally the festival was held in Belarus, but because of political repression and publicly stated anti-war stance, screenings and events can be held in different countries. First of all in Warsaw, Vilnius, Berlin, and Helsinki.
DATES AND VENUES
The film festival is held in March-April annually. The precise date of the film festival will be announced no later than within 4-5 months prior to the beginning of the film festival. Notifications are sent for a months before the festival dates.
Venues are the Kinoteka (Warsaw), Skalvia Cinema Centre, CreateCulture Space (Vilnius), ZK/U (Berlin), Haus 73 (Hamburg), Kitchen Lab Tarvo (Helsinki).
The festival will be held in a hybrid format. We will have a part of live screenings and online screenings on our video platform . The video is cryptographically secured. In addition, we publish and promote films from previous years that are released to the public on the Internet.
FILM SUBMISSION
Films can be submitted through the website or film festival platforms. A participant does not need to fill any additional film submission forms in the case of submitting the film via film festival platforms.
Short films with runtime no longer than 45 minutes are allowed to participate in the film festival. There is no limit on how many works one participant can send. TV-films and films for children are not accepted.
There are no restrictions on the year of film creation for non-competitive sections. But submitted films are accepted into competitive sections if they were made not earlier than January 2023.
The participant that sends the application must guarantee observance of copyright on the films sent. All responsibility for copyright observance lies on the contestant.
Each film must have English subtitles. In the case of the selection, the file should be attached separately. The subtitles (captions) must be in English and in SRT format. The use of any other format is allowed only after coordination with the organizing committee.
In case of not providing the necessary materials and files for the film screening, the organizing committee has the right to exclude the film from the program.
It is possible to withdraw a film after the announcement of the program of selected films only by agreement with the organizing committee. As a rule, we always meet participants in this matter.
The film festival can share a press-kit, a trailer, a teaser of a submitted film for promotional purposes. Not more than 10 seconds of the submitted film in overall (and/or 65 seconds of audio) can be used for promotion on the Internet or TV.
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