1. Festival
- Flipbook Film Festival is an event organized by the FlipBook Productions and ASIFA Macedonia, with the support of the Cinematheque of Macedonia (Skopje).
2. Submissions
- All submissions are free of charge.
- Any European animated film, European Student animated film, European animated documentary film, and European Animated Music Video completed after January 01, 2024 can participate. The submission deadline for all the categories is February 1st, 2026.
- To be considered for one of the competitions, the duration of the films must be less than 20 minutes (including credits).
- The submission of the films is via FilmFreeway platform.
- All films must have English subtitles for translating purposes.
- Animated flipbooks are submitted as a video of the flipbook via FilmFreeway platform.
- Only the selection committee will have access to the film files.
3. Competitions and Awards
- Competition of European Animated Short Films (short animated films from European countries with duration less than 20 minutes),
- Competition of European Student Animated Short Films (short animated films from European countries with duration less than 20 minutes that were completed as graduation films or as part of university studies),
- Competition of European Animated Documentary Film (short animated documentary films in which the animation is integrated in the films in such a way that without it the meaning of the film would become incoherent, with duration less than 30 minutes).
- Competition of European Animated Music Videos (short animated music videos from European countries with duration less than 7 minutes)
- Competition of European Animated Flipbooks (animated flipbooks films from European countries ),
- Three juries will decide the above awards and none of the jury members will be involved in the production of any of the films they judge.
4. Selection
- The selection of the animated films and flipbooks will be made according to the following criteria: originality, artistic excellence and innovative animation techniques, social and educational impact.
- All applicants who have submitted films for pre-selection will be informed of the results by the Festival organization.
- All the applicants/authors of the accepted and not accepted films will be informed at the latest by the 1st of April, 2026.
- Once a film has been selected to participate in the Festival cannot be withdrawn from the Festival program.
- All the selected films will be screened at the physical edition of the festival.
- The Festival does not pay screening fees for the films of any of the Festival competitions. By participating in any of the categories the festival is permitted to screen your film a maximum of ten times for promotional purposes and other programs such as educational programs, and additional film screenings as collaborations with other festivals. No screening fees are included in this agreement.
- All the applicants/authors of the accepted and not accepted flipbooks will be informed at the latest by April 1st, 2026.
- The selected flipbooks must be sent by mail no later than June 1st, 2026.
- Information about the mailing process will be sent with the official acceptance email.
- The Festival does not pay mailing or exhibiting fees.
- The Festival will take good care of the flipbooks, but is not to be held legally or in any way responsible for any damage that might accrue to the flipbooks, or in the event of disappearance of a flipbook.
- The flipbooks may have to be perforated to protect them from theft.
For any additional information regarding the above mention please contact:
Flipbook Film Festival
flipbookfilmfestival@gmail.com
+38970266745
+38971908806
