13th MikroFAF – CONTROVERSY EDITION
MikroFAF welcomes films from all around the globe that are created by passionate filmmakers under unlimited artistic conditions, but often limited production conditions. Through various programs, we promote art freedom, by focusing on independence, guerrilla film, innovation, lo-fi, experimental forms and self-organizing in creating.
This year, MikroFAF has its 13th edition – some would say ominous, which corresponds with this year itself, marked by scary and gloomy prospects of energy crisis, hunger, and even possible nuclear catastrophe. But we want to overcome the curse of this number and drive bad luck away. According to some beliefs, number 13 marks the end of a cycle and beginning of a new one. Also, there is even a controversy between cultures that consider this number an unlucky one and those cultures who see it as a lucky one. So, where are we now in all these tumultuous and contradictory times? Do we turn our blind eye to the controversies that surround us, or follow the others, or try to define our own view?
We would like to see your sincere and uncompromising answers to the questions raised by the latest global developments, and their reflections on your closer surroundings and your inner self. How do you neutralise curses, defy the odds and fight bad luck? What is your spiritual talisman? How do you reconcile your own contradictions and how do you navigate through the controversies of this world? How do you (and do you at all) manage to stay in one piece, in a world that moves as if it has lost its compass.
Send us your film answers via until 25th of August 2022.
13th MikroFAF festival submission categories:
Short DIY Film. Refers to films of all genres (fiction, documentary, animated, experimental…), topics and production techniques, made in non-professional circumstances, without the involvement of film professionals and without professional obligations during or after the production.
Independent Short Film. Refers to films that do not match the above mentioned DIY criteria because their making involved professionals, but were made in independent production, without commercial and producers’ pressure.
Junior Film. A category intended for filmmakers who were not older than 18 at the moment of creating submitted films.
Good luck!
Your MikroFAF team
1. Mikropolis Prizes - handmade statuettes - will be given by a international three-member jury consisting of renowned artists from various areas of the arts.
