FILM FESTIVAL REGULATIONS FOR THE FILM SUBMISSION
ABOUT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL
NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is a film festival that is held by the Short Movie Club, the platform for cinematic projects. The festival provides long-term research of contemporary short film creation context. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is an exploration of aestheticization and commodification in art. The aim of the festival is to expose the complexity, manysidedness, and variety of filmmaking.
The film festival is a non-institutional art activity. The shorts film festival belongs both to filmmakers and organizers. We are moving to self-organization, transparency, and horizontal communication step by step. The established submission fee is a kind of crowdfunding to support the film festival project. Selected films are considered for ADAMI Media Prize (for produced films in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, or directors from these countries).
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 Vilnius, Berlin, Helsinki, and Tbilisi.
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 5 months prior to the beginning of the film festival. Notifications are sent for two months before the festival dates.
Venues are the Skalvia Cinema Centre, CreateCulture Space (Vilnius), ZK/U (Berlin), Kitchen Lab Tarvo (Helsinki).
The festival will be held in a hybrid forma In the coming year like last edition. 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 (Youtube, Vimeo etc).
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 and the section of the Unfiltered Cinema. But submitted films are accepted into competitive sections if they were made not earlier than January 2022.
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 subtitles. In the case of the selection, the file should be attached separately. The subtitles must be in English and in SRT or SUB format. The use of any other format is allowed only after coordination with the organizing committee.
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 can be used for promotion on the Internet or TV.
SUBMIT THE FILM TO THE FILM FESTIVAL