Kerala Short Film Festival offers celebration of Cinema, with live screenings of Local & International amazing quality independent Cinema.
Film categories include Narrative Shorts, Documentary , Short Films, Animated Films, Music Videos, Ad films and Student Productions from all over the world.
What Filmmakers will experience? Keeping the event truly international Kerala Short Film Festival will have the following programs, press opportunities, networking occasions, industry attendance, Discussion Forum & high-quality Workshops.

Kerala Short Film Festival is started with the idea of building and promoting a healthy film culture in Kerala. Our objective is to give film lovers in the city access to global cinema and spark a cultural exchange. With discussions, lectures and discussions on varied topics related to the craft, we try to instill an academic flavor in the festival. Through categories like International Competition, Indian Competition Malayalam Competition, Student Competition, we bring forth quality films from various countries and cultures. An acclaimed jury decides awards for films in the competitive sections.

Kerala Short Film Festival is the only festival that gives international recognition to local language Short films.

Best Film
Second Best Film
Best International Film
Best Student Film
Best Animation Film
Best Documentary Film
Best Music Video
Best Malayalam Short Film
Best Director (Malayalam Language Film)
Best Experimental Film
Best Documentary Film
Best Fiction Film
Best International Film
Best Live Action Film
Best Advertisement Film
Best Director
Second Best Director
Best International Director
Best Student Director
Best Malayalam Short Film Director
Best International Film Director
Best Screenplay
Best Camera Work
Best Editing
Best Sound
Best Original Score
Best Poster Design
Best Creative Concept
Best Music Composition
Best Production Design

The short film must have been completed after 1st January 2018
• If you are submitting the film by Filmfreeway.com no need to send anything to us
All Non English Films needs to have English subtitles.
Films originally made in Englijsh does not need to have English Subtitles
•• The film can be Documentary, Experimental, Narrative, Fiction, Non - fiction or Animation.
• Total running time must be less than 30 minutes in length, including front and back credits. No minimum running time limitation.
• The short film can be in any language or any genre. All non- English films must have English sub- titles for festival presentation.
• Censor Certificate is not mandatory for the film screening.
• Multiple entries can be submitted
• Festival organization has right to use the entries / send / selected / nominated films, retain copies of each film as part of our festival library.
• Films once selected & submitted for final screening will not be allowed to be withdrawn under any circumstances until festival is over.