Beijing Indie Short Film Festival

This is a festival celebrating Indie Short Films with a particular emphasis on those made in Beijing, China. It is a bilingual festival supporting both English and Chinese films.

The festival is held biannually in December and June inside of a 500 year old hutong, a traditional style Beijing house. Approximately 20 short films are to be screened at the festival each year. Each year, the goal will be to hold a minimum of one screening and with an aspiration for 2 more. Previous other venues also included a pretentious and beautiful Art Gallery with a very high-end theater and a lively and popular bar in the city center. A screening was also held in Shanghai in collaboration with filmmakers and festival directors there.

Our past three festivals all had sell out crowds. The first had 500 people in a large rooftop venue, the second had 90 in a trendy Beijing hipster neighborhood, and the third had 50 in a cozy independent theater.

Our festival prefers entries with a connection to Beijing as a large percentage of our audience are Beijing based filmmakers.
Preference in the selection goes to indie short films made in Beijing, those with relation to Beijing, then Shanghai, then the rest of Mainland China, then the rest of the world.

If you have trouble reaching us here, then please do contact us via instagram, facebook, or wechat. It is highly recommended that if a film is selected to this festival to have subtitles made, preferably in English and Simplified Chinese out of respect for the audience.