Arc Film Festival

1. The Competition

- Our Film Festival lives of the good communication and the chances of networking in a super relaxed environment. Therefore we kindly ask our jury to choose films from which the filmmaker is able to attend at the festival. Because your personal attendance enriches our prospects to unite and create a propulsive movement.

- We take protection of your data very seriously. Please note that when submitting to the Arc Film Festival you accept that we are saving your data including contact information and details to your film.

- We are working on a platform to support filmmakers beyond the possibilities that we have provided so far. We also consider attending filmmakers for this program and may contact you.

- If selected we will need 3 Still images in a high resolution as well as one picture of the director to present you well in our print and online media. The film is required to have English subtitles if the original language is not English. The festival may produce German subtitles for projection copies at the festival‘s expense. In order to produce the subtitle copy for the festival screening the festival has the permission to copy the film file and to add subtitles. The submitter may be entitled to receive the copy. Both parties may negotiate the hand over.

- The prize monies are endowed directly by companies from the industry. Since 2017 we award the Arc of Senses, which is open to every work in the Official Selection. In 2019 we awarded the “Rheinland-Pfalz Film- und Förderpreis” for the very first time, because the state of RLP has been the last state without supplying an institutionalised film promotion. In the past years the following categories have been awarded with prizes monies: Best Visual Storytelling, Special Narrative Style, New Media Award, Best Feature, Greatest Risk, Civil Eye, Best Scenography, Fresh View Award, Special Prize of the Jury, Audience Choice and Prize and of course the The Arc of Senses.

- In the category "360°" and "Video Installations" we only accept films no longer then five minutes. All works submitted into this category that does not meet our expectations in social context or doesn't match the length will be disqualified.

2. General Regulations

- In general we are happy to receive films from different genres and do not wish to not set any limits on creativity. However, please be informed that we reserve the right to exclude any film which is considered racist or glorifies violence.

- If a film is in a language other than English or German, it must have English subtitles (or be dubbed) in order to be considered.

- We recommend that you submit the best possible quality of your film. You may choose from the following formats: .mov, .mp4, oder .avi. For the submission, the file should not be larger than 2 GB. Should you wish to submit another format, we kindly request a brief consultation with us. (If your film makes the selection, a larger file (like DCP) will be handed in later for the screening.)

- Please submit your film via a password-protected streaming-link, that gives an option to download or send us a direct link to download (additionally to the registration via FilmFreeway). If you are unable or unwilling to submit your film by URL link, please just contact our team through submission@arc-filmfestival.com and we will find an alternate method for your entry).

- The year of completion film may not be dated before 2023.