Guidelines for the selection process:
- All submitted films must be accessible for a young audience between 2 and 16 years old.
- Films in competition must be from June 2024 until June 2025
- All submitted films must be available for the festival from 22.10 until 05.11.2025
- All submitted films must have English subtitles.
- To take part in the competition, your film has to have its Belgian premiere at Filem'On. Exception - For competition categories such as Press Award and Belgian Short Film Award, a première in Brussels is enough.
Please note that entries are free for European short films and Belgian student films!
Screening fees and invitation of the talents:
- The filmmaker, producer or distribution company receives no screening fee from Filem'On for films selected for competition.
- Feature films in competition with a Belgian premiere: One representative (from Europe) will be offered 2 nights of accommodation and a free accreditation pass for all screenings, conferences and masterclasses. The travel costs of European guests are covered by the organization.
- Short films, other then Belgian, in competition: One representative will be offered 2 nights of accommodation and a free accreditation pass for all screenings, conferences and masterclasses. The travel costs are not covered unless extra funding from Embassy or from another service is provided.
Some films will be selected within the frame on Filem'On on Tour and will be screened in Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp, Kortrijk, Leuven...
- All costs of inbound and outbound physical shipping of the DCP are covered by Filem'On, unless it goes to another Festival; in such case we pay one way.
Our fed ex account is used . Digital shipping must be free of charges.
Screening-formats :
- Short film files need to be sent digitally in high quality H264 or mp4 and DCP format
one with clear feed and another with English subtitles.
- Feature films must be admitted in DCP format and Apple ProRes (422 HQ) file as back-up. We need an open DCP or DCP with DKDM to put our own subtitles in.
- The English subtitles must be delivered in .srt format with the correct timecodes 24ps or 25ps.
Guidelines for delivery process :
- All detailed information about the film has to be available on FilmFreeway.
- A synopsis has to be provided in English: For feature films 400 characters.
For short films 120 characters.
- A high quality still of the film has to be provided: JPEG 300dpi.
- All films need to be provided with English subtitles and a separate srt-timecode file.
- A trailer of the film in .mp4 format is a plus.