Berlin World International Film Festival

The World International Film Festival is a global industry event held throughout the year in about 20 world’s cities and countries. It will bring new films and audiences together in locales that are international centers of the arts, creating a meeting place for filmmakers and movie fans.
Welcome to the World International Film Festival!

FILM CATEGORIES IN THE WORLD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Narrative Feature (Submit online link.)
Any Narrative film over 75 mins.

Documentary Feature (Submit online link.)
Documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. Documentary is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality: a creative work of non-fiction, intended for cinema or TV release.
Any Documentary Film over 75 mins. will be considered in this category.

Animation Feature (Submit online link.)
Any type of film that is animated and over 75 mins. will be considered in this category.

Experimental Feature (Submit online link.)
Experimental is an artistic film creation relying less on traditional narrative structure and more on the visual arts and the essence of non-traditional cinema. Any Experimental film over 75 mins. will be considered in this category.

Music Feature (Submit online link.)
Music is an art form, entertainment, or activity which involves organized sound and varies according to culture. Any film that primarily makes use of music in its creation, performance, significance, and even its definition, will be considered in this category.

Foreign Language Feature (Submit online link.)
Any film in a language other than English.

Narrative Short (Submit online link.)
Any film less than 75 mins.

Documentary Short (Submit online link.)
Any Documentary film under 75 mins. will be considered in this category.

Animation Short (Submit online link.)
Any type of film that is animated and under 75 min.s will be considered into this category.

Foreign Language Short (Submit online link.)
Any short film in a language other than English.

Music Short (Submit online link.)

Experimental Short (Submit online link.)
Any Experimental film under 75 mins. will be considered in this category.

Feature Script (Submit online link.)
Any script over 130 pages, please submit In pdf format.

Short Script (Submit online link.)
Any script under 60 pages.

Best Television Series Drama (Submit online link.)

Best Television Comedy Series (Submit online link.)

Best Television Mini-Series (Submit online link.)

Best Television Documentary (Submit online link.)

Best Foreign Language Television Drama (Online link)
Any television drama in a language other than English.

SECTIONS

The World International Film Festival will include the following sections:

World Competition
American Cinema
European Cinema
Cinema of Asia, Africa, and Australia
Documentaries of the World
Animation
Student and Children’s Cinema

INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS

New York City
Los Angeles
Toronto
London
Hong Kong
Singapore
Brisbane
Berlin
Rome
Vienna
Amsterdam
Reykjavik
Athens
Geneva

MISSION & OBJECTIVE

The main objective of the World International Film Festival (WIFF) is to provide the opportunity for filmmakers from all over the world to excel, and to have the best work selected and showcased in a celebration of cinema, as well as to give filmmakers a platform to network amongst fellow professionals and cinematic artists. The World International Film Festival is looking forward to fostering these relationships and to helping extraordinary filmmakers get their projects seen by global audiences. WIFF unites cinematic, cultural, and educational objectives by presenting its film discoveries.


The World International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative films while fostering the next generation of filmmakers. It is a strong advocate for social change, and encourages cultural diversity and understanding between nations. It strives to foster the movie art of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema and promoting meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The World International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the spirit, passion, and skill of the best new filmmakers from around the world for audiences around the world.

We are also including and actively supporting not only the finest examples of classic moviemaking, but works that are experimental, breaking ground in new non-narrative forms and crossing over into the video arts.

All films will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the best in each category will be chosen to screen at the festival. A jury of industry professionals will then view the finalists and choose the winning selections.

Filmmakers planning on attending should notify the film festival as soon as possible, so their names may be listed in the scheduled program at the venue where their film will be shown.

A substantial number of accredited national and international press, TV and film buyers and distributors also participate.

Final jurors for the World International Film Festival will come from a selection of industry professionals in film production, distribution, new media, and festival programming from Sundance, AFI, Slamdance, SXSW, and more.