Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Festival (INEFF)

We are interested in discovering innovative pieces of film fiction: films that are experimental in nature yet based in fictional narrative and dramatic contexts. The experimentation can be on the level of the story (how the story is told), the style/form of the film, the modes and methods of production, experimentation with drama or performance, and technological or artistic innovation. We welcome submissions of any work, and at any length, satisfying the broad boundaries of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking. Expanded cinema or VR/360 video submissions will be considered. The festival is free of charge.

As well as submitting your film, you are required to submit a short statement of no more than 200 words that describes your understanding of how your submission relates to the notion of experimental fiction filmmaking.

Films of any completion date will be accepted. Work-in-progress cuts will be accepted, as long as the final version can be submitted ahead of the event.

The films must include English subtitles (unless the spoken language is English).

For the screening at the event, the submitter must provide a full-HD or 4K high-quality screening file, such as .mov or .mp4.

By submitting the film, the submitter agrees that:

– INEFF can use the trailer/teaser/film poster/stills, as well as any selected footage from the film for a festival trailer, for promotional purposes on the internet (but will not release the full film online).

– Your Film can be screened repeatedly during any public events organised by INEFF, including in future years of the festival.

– The submitter owns all the rights to the film, meaning that by submitting the submitted work, the submitter confirms that the work (i) does not violate or infringe any copyright, patent, privacy right, publicity right, trademark, service mark or any other personal or property right of any person or entity, that (ii) does not constitute or include a defamation of any person or entity, and that (iii) its representatives have paid and will pay in full all licence fees, clearance fees, and other obligations, of any kind, arising from or associated with the exhibition of the Film at or in connection with the INEFF Festival. Also, that the submitter is duly authorised, on their own behalf and on behalf of all other persons or entities who have any ownership rights or interests (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights) in or relating to the film, to exhibit the film at the event.