1. The film’s subject matter, the production itself or the film’s director should have a connection to ecological topic, environmental, environmentally friendly technologies, urbanistics, road movie, nature and minority people, protection of nature.
Instructions for film submission
2. Screenings formats are films delivered as files.
3. The film should be finalised during the last years ( 2023-2024).
There will be competition of movie:
Fiction-length films
Documentary film
Short film
Animation
Films of more than 50 minutes can be considered for the festival’s film programs:
Feature-length films: Fiction film with a running time of 50 minutes or more.
Documentary: Any non-fiction film.
Short film: only films of less than 49 minutes will be considered for Short Film Program.
International Films that have been or will be exhibited publicly at one or more non-festival screenings in Russia, broadcast or streamed on Russian TV or the Internet before August 7th, 2024 are not eligible for any of the Institute’s Festival programs.
Screening copies must have English subtitles (and Russian subtitles even better), unless they are in English Selections will be made by the festival’s administration. Decisions of refusal will not be commented. Preview copies will not be returned.
Deadlines
1. Submissions are done with application form BEFF from our web site. Use our submission form from. The form must be submitted by July 25 , 2024
2. Preview copies (digital file) must be sent to us by July 21 , 2024. If the film is not complete, a temporary version can be sent instead upon agreement with the festival.
3. The selection will be announced by August 1st, 2024.
4. Screening copies should be sent to us before festival starts.
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