This is 8th edition of BEFF - Babul EFF, the first and only International Environmental Film Festival in Hyderabad and south India!
The festival is hosted in the historical Sri Sarathi studios established in 1956 [http://srisarathistudios.com/]. To ensure better connect with audience and leverage mileage nationally and internationally, the festival is held every year during first week of June to coincide with World Environment Day. Babul EFF is supported by 45 year old Hyderabad Film Club established in 1974. Hyderabad is capital of Telangana state and known as City of Pearls and Biryani, is a major film making hub and has many world class studios including the world's largest Ramoji Film City. Screening your film at BABUL EFF will ensure your film's reach to a quality and diverse audience & opens the doors for networking with the best of talent in film-making.
There will be Seminars / Panel Discussions / Eco Bazar / Master Classes / Studio tour etc., Our hashtags are #babulecofest and for the 7th edition #babulecofest23 #beff2023
While we make all efforts to hold a live physical event, however, due to prevailing situation the festival holds the right to postpone/defer or convert to online virtual festival.

Awards & Prizes


Prize money of INR.50,000/- [ USD 700 ] will be awarded to the winners in Short Film Category. This includes:
~ USD 350 for short films [open for all non-Indian countries]
1st Prize 200 USD
2nd Prize 100 USD
3rd Prize 50 USD
and
~ ₹25,000/- for short films [Indian Entries]
1st Prize ₹14000
2nd Prize ₹7000
3rd Prize ₹4000
Topic for 7th BEFF2023 is ENVIRONMENT. Cash award, citation and memento will be given to the winners.
All the selected films ( Foreign and Indian ) will get laurels, screening certificates.

Rules & Terms

~ Films should cover one or more aspects of Environment, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development. All genres, including documentaries, narratives, shorts, children’s films, and experimental films, PSAs are all welcome. The quality of the film production will also be considered and weighed. Animation includes: traditional animation, 2D animation, 3D animation, motion graphics, and stop motion
~ Film run-time: Upto 60 mins
~ Format: MP4 / AVI / MOV
~ Films shot on mobile are also accepted
~ Non-English films should have English
Subtitles
~ Win Laurels, get a screening certificate and
Recognition.
~ Films made after 1.1.20120 are eligible.
The Jury for pre and final selection of film for 6th BEFF 2022 consist of personalities from the world of environment, media, cinema, and audio-visual, as well as entrepreneurs or artists engaged in and/or sensitive to environmental issues. Decision of the organisers regarding film selection is final.
By submitting their films, the filmmakers agree that BEFF can screen the films at different venues as part of the travelling BEEF festival.

~For the Short Film Contest, in addition to the above, the following rules also apply:
Topic: ENVIRONMENT
Duration: Below 5 minutes ( including credits )
Total prize money of Rs.50,000/- will be awarded. This includes:
~ [a] USD 350 for Animation short films [open for all non-Indian countries] and
~ [b] ₹25,000/- for Indian Short Films

Note: While we make all efforts to hold a live physical event, however, due to prevailing situation the festival holds the right to postpone/defer or convert to online virtual festival.

12 Reviews
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  • Pat Boran

    A great festival with enthusiastic, welcoming organisers and audience. A very positive experience.

    July 2022
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks Pat Boran for the review. It means a lot for our young and growing environment film festival. Bes wishes

  • Marina-Evelina Cracana

    Very good communication and passion for environmental documentaries.

    June 2022
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks Marina for the Overall Rating review. It sure encourages us to work with more dedicated for the spread of environmental messages using Cinema. Best wishes

  • Lou Sumray

    Thankyou for selecting my animation, Takeaway for your festival and wish you well for this incredibly important subject.

    June 2022
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    Response from festival:

    The Lou Sumray for submitting the wonderful film giving positive review. Wish more and more outreach to your works. Best wishes

  • Finn Harvor

    Great festival and best wishes to the organizers and other participants. We need more ecological art.

    June 2022
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    Response from festival:

    Yes, you are right. All of the humanity needs more ecological art which is the best vehicle for environment messagings and has the potential to bring a change in the collective behaviours. Thanks

  • Leslie Streit

    Thank you for including our film 95 Days in your festival!

    June 2022
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks for submitting the film 95 days to 6th BEFF. Wishing more wonderful films from you about Environment. Best wishes and thanks for the review.