GENERAL
- Festival dates & times may be subject to delay or change.
- We reserve the right to change any of this rules.
- Budapest Film Festival is not liable for any copyright infringements or unauthorised usage and any conflict should be settled by the parties involved thereof.
- By submitting your film you giving us permission to share your contact details with our technicians , staff and other festival partners.
- Budapest Film Festival reserves the right to not to give an award in specific category.
- Only official selections in the main categories (Best Hungarian Film, Best Short Film, Best Short Documentary, Best Feature (Documentary or Live Action), Best Director, Best Experimental Film) will be screened during the event. Winners in other categories will receive only certificates, laurels, or trophies by post.
- All the fees are non-refudable.
SUBMISSIONS
- All submissions have to be in English language or with English subtitles.
- A submitted film may be resubmitted multiple times within the same year.
- Adult guardians or parents may submit on behalf of minors.
- By submitting your film to our festival you automatically declare that you own all the rights to the film (images, sound, music and poster). Copyright owner must be at least 18 years old.
- Each film submitted to our festival must be in English language or include English subtitles.
- By submitting your film you giving our team permission to use any promotional materials (poster, press release, trailer, etc...) for our marketing needs
- There is no premiere requirement; however, films must have been produced within the year of submission. Exceptions may be considered at the discretion of the festival.
- All accepted and non-accepted submissions will be notified to submitters via email.
- We do not accept partial screeners, trailers, or screener links that require access other than password protected links.
- Multiple entries from the same submitter are accepted.
- No postal submissions are accepted.
SELECTION PROCESS
- Each month our pre-selection jury will select nominees. across a After private screening our main jury will select the winners. Few weeks ahed of our annual event best films will be chosen out of all winners across all the categories.
- Jury consist from working professionals.
ANUAL EVENT
- All necessary information about annual event will be published on our website few weeks ahead of the event.
- Event is free for all the visitors however every single visitor including winners and nominees must register on this link.
- Organiser (Budapest Film Festival) reserves the right to change the date due to government restrictions connected with coronavirus or cancel entire event.
- All the films will be screened in digital format. We won't be accepting DCPs.
CATEGORIES
We accept films in following categories :
Best Hungarian Film
Best Short Film
Best Short Documentary
Best Feature (Documentary or Live Action)
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Composer
Best Sound Design
Best Original Story
Best VFX
Best Production Design
Best Original Screenplay
Best Comedy
Best Experimental Film
Best Horror
Best Sci-Fi
Best Thriller
Best Drama
Best Action
Best Music Video
Best Animation Film
Best First Time Filmmaker
