Early Bird International Student Film Festival

The competition is open to international and Bulgarian student short films that meet the following criteria:

The film should be in one of the categories - fiction, animation or documentary.

Тhe director must be a student at the time of the filming. A document – stamped and signed by the University, showing the student status of the applicant, is required.

The duration of each film must not surpass 30 minutes.

The Festival accepts HD digital screening copies with English subtitles (if the dialog is not in English). The file formats are AVI - Microsoft DV codec, MOV - Apple QuickTime ProRes 422 codec, MPEG-4 - H.264 video codec.

For preliminary selection are admitted films completed after January 01, 2023.

Films that have been submitted to Early Bird ISFF in previous year are not eligible for entry again.

One director can participate with two films, if they are in two different categories and are submitted with separate entry forms.

One film is allowed to take part under one single category. Once the registration is done, no changes to the category of the film can be done.

There is no entry fee.