art200 is a queer cultural festival in Bucharest, Romania. Queer is an umbrella term for the LGBT community: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. The festival’s main purpose is to encourage queer filmmaking, expression and collaboration between local queer artists, to encourage just and complex representations of LGBTQ+ characters in movies, to promote equality and solidarity through art and culture. The project has the following components:
- An educational component, which includes literature, film, dance workshops, as well as masterclasses and discussions;
- The festival per-se, which includes film screenings, literature readings, concerts, performance.

We are organizing art200 because we realize how important it is to encourage queer film-making in Romania. There are very few LGBTQ+-themed film productions in Romania: only up to six or seven shorts are produced every year. We believe that the existence of the festival itself will encourage more filmmakers to produce queer film because of the fact that there is a space dedicated to them, where they can create collaborations, exchange ideas and discuss their works.

At the same time, art200 aims to show the general public complex and just representations of LGBTQ+ people, especially when it comes to intersectional identities, in the context in which this group constantly faces discrimination, violence and stereotypes.

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The fourth edition of art200 is looking for filmmakers! If you have an LGBTQ+ themed film and you are part of the community, we are waiting for your proposals until May 15th!

You can submit both short and feature films in the following categories:

- International short films with the following themes: Queer Horror, Radical Queers, Queer Roma, Queer Night Life, Masculinities;
- International feature films: any LGBTQ+ - themed films;
- Romanian & Moldovan films: any themes.

The selected films will be screened during the art200 festival, which will take place between the 23rd and 30th of September in Bucharest. There will be additional screenings in Iași, Timișoara, Brașov and online. Before registering, we kindly ask you to carefully look over the rules. Failure to follow the rules will result in disqualification of the film. Any films that do not respect this year's themes will be disqualified.

Awards & Prizes

art200 does not have a competition and does not offer awards/ prizes.

Rules & Terms

1. Organizers:
art200 the international queer culture festival is organized by Asociația Culturală Gabriela Ionescu & Slavomir Popovici in Bucharest, Romania. The directors of the festival are Cristina Iacob and Luca Istodor. For any questions regarding the festival, you can contact them here: contact@art200.ro.

2. The goal of the festival
art200 is a queer film festival (umbrella term for the LGBT community: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) based in Bucharest, which is now at its fourth edition. The festival aims to promote queer film in Romania, artistic expression and the collaboration between queer artists from the local scene, to encourage just and complex representations of LGBTQ+ characters in cinema and to promote values as equality and solidarity through art and culture.

3. Project components:
- An educational component, which includes literature, film, dance workshops, as well as masterclasses and discussions;
- The festival per-se, which includes film screenings, literature readings, concerts, performance.

4. Important dates
The festival will take place between the 23rd and 30th of September, in Bucharest. Additional screenings with selected films will take place in Iași, Timișoara, Brașov and online. The call for entries will be open until May 15th.

5. Submitting films to the festival
5.1. The submitted films must have an LGBTQ+ theme. Additionally, every year the festival has sub-themes for the short films, which need to be taken into consideration when submitting. Film creators must as well be part of the LGBTQ+ community.
5.2. We accept both short-films and feature length films. Short films must not be longer than 40 minutes.
5.3. The submission of all films will be made through FilmFreeway. There is no entry fee.
5.4. Regarding the Romanian films, we accept any themes. Regarding the international short films, we accept films that tackle the following themes: Queer Horror, Radical Queers, Queer Roma, Queer Night Life, Masculinities. For international feature films, we accept any themes.
5.5. The deadline for submitting the films is May 15th 2023. We do not accept films submitted after this date, except in the case that we extend the deadline with 10 more days, which will be announced beforehand. The selected films will be announced around September 1st.
5.6. All films, including those in Romanian, have to be subtitled in English (either hard-coded or externally through a .srt file).
5.7. The festival doesn’t include a competition. We will not reward the screened films.
5.8. Once registered, the film cannot be withdrawn from the festival. Once the films have been selected, the directors must be ready to provide additional information and the film in a screening format negotiated with the technical department coordinator.
5.9. The directors of the selected films will be able to take part in the festival. We will try to cover part of the accommodation/ travel costs, but we cannot guarantee to do so due to our limited budget. The amounts covered will be established after the final list of directors has been established.
5.10. art200 can use snippets from the films (maximum 2 minutes and maximum 30% of the submitted movie) for promotion purposes. The information sent is for the catalog and for our site/blog. Please be ready to submit additional information via e-mail as needed.
5.11. The films can be screened up to 6 times during art200 screenings, including online screenings. When submitting your film, you are giving us permission to screen the film both online and in a cinema. The festival will most likely take place in a hybrid format- in person screenings plus online screenings. Online screenings will take place on a secure online platform and can be geoblocked to Romania upon your request. Online films will only be available during the festival period, with registration required. Please carefully take this into account when submitting your film. If, once selected, you would like your film to be geoblocked to Romania or if you have any other questions/ requests related to online screenings, please contact us at contact@art200.ro.
5.12. We do not accept films that incite to hatred or discriminate against certain people or social groups.
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  • Camera Roll

    Great festival, very excited to be a parto of it!!!

    October 2022
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  • Menelas Siafakas

    Very happy to be part of this important festival for its country.

    October 2022
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  • David Simpatico

    Wonderful festival, thrilled to be a part of it, and to share the bill with such a terrific group of queer ilm makers.

    November 2021
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  • Ann Antidote

    It was both a pleasure and a honor to participate with films and in a Q&A in such a carefully organized festival. The ART200 festival makes a great and unique piece of work in maintaining uncompromising political relevance and artistic content. My work is very much fromthe DIY/guerrilla part of art and politics, and it is amazing and empowering to be taken seriously in a world that is getting more and more commercialized and professionalized. The communication was perfect and the orga-team just amazing human beings!

    June 2021
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    Robert Menefee

    Thank you for selecting my documentary, “Reclaiming Pride.” It was a great honor to be included in ART200 International Queer Film Festival with so many other very fine films.

    January 2021
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