Reykjavík Film Festival is an online film festival that brings indie short films to everyone’s screens. Our goal is to create a diverse streaming platform with screenings that run the gamut from documentary and fiction to music video and experimental. We strongly believe that short films are a powerful medium that can transfer strong messages and spark conversations and ideas.
Submit your creations in the different categories and share your story with us! Can’t wait to see the world through your eyes.
The Close:Up Reykjavík Film Festival is organised by HF Productions, a pioneer organisation that runs Film Festivals and other events showcasing and championing ideas of diversity. Through our global series of film Festivals that spread over 13 countries, we open the path to voices with a compelling story to share. Our main mission is to honour independent cinema and establish a network of artists eager to join forces and spread their work across all nations. HF runs 25 film Festivals worldwide.
The festival programmers will carefully select the films to be nominated for the following awards, and will create a selection of nominated films to be screened in front of a live audience at the Bíó Paradís, Reykjavík. The winners will be announced at the event, on our website and on social media.
There are three stages to the process:
△ Nominations – Films nominated for each category will be contacted on the notification date, and listed on our website and social media pages. Nominated filmmakers are invited to join the event, although only the films in the Official Selection (below) will be screened.
△ Official Selection – Films selected for screening will be notified if they have been considered to be part of Close:Up Reykjavík Film Festival’s Official Selection on the notification date. Screening materials will be requested and more information about the event will be provided.
△ Winners – Award winners will be selected from the Nominations & Official Selection and announced at our festival, after the screenings, and online the following day.
Awards will include Certificates, Treats, and exclusive online Distribution deals, and will be given in the following categories:
Best Feature
Best Short
Best Feature Documentary
Best Short Documentary
Best Animated Short
Best Comedy
Best Drama
Best Student Documentary
Best Experimental
Best Music Video
Best Icelandic Production (discounted entry for films made by local filmmakers)