About us:
The Munich Short Film Awards is an online festival and competition dedicated to low-budget short indie film and script projects. Every edition, the festival selects and promotes the winners of each category through private screenings and evaluations by our team of dedicated professionals. The festival seeks all genres. The event selects international projects and is devoted to short filmmaking, independent cinema, arthouse projects and short cinema. The short film festival aims to find talented short filmmakers and help them promote their work. Short films will be reviewed by our screeners team and the highest scored ones will be selected as Official Selection receiving corresponding Laurels. Then, our international jury will choose the winners in each category and they will receive the Official Laurels and Certificates.

Awards & Prizes

Awards & Prizes
Best Narrative Short
Best Documentary short
Best Experimental
Best Animation
Best Science Fiction
Best Horror
Best Director
Best Producer
Best Cinematography
Best Editor
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Script
Best Unproduced script
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Best Comedy
Best Student Film
Best Music Video
Best Thriller
Best Trailer
Best Composer
Best First Time Filmmaker
Best Female Filmmaker
Best Independent Film
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Rules & Terms

Rules & Terms
Films must have been completed after 2018 in order to be eligible.

Any Foreign film must have English or German subtitles.

You must own the rights or have permission from the owner in order to submit.

All genres and all countries are eligible

All films must be under 50 minutes

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  • ramonda production

    The best festival! Than you for nice expiriance 🙏👋🎬🇷🇸

    October 2023
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  • Montse Bertran Arqué

    Muchas gracias al festival por la selección a Semi-Finalista y por la buena comunicación que ha habido en todo momento. ¡Espero participar de nuevo en su festival!

    August 2023
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  • Myriam TANGI

    Dear Team I received with a great joy the announcement of my selection and I see in my list of submissions that my "Judging Status" is "SEMI FINALIST" !!
    Thanks for Chana which story is told in "Tu sais quel jour on est aujourd'hui ?"

    August 2023
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  • Thomas Webster

    Thank you so much to the Munich Short film awards for selecting Embrace to your festival! Great pleasure to be added to the line up of so many beautiful films. Thank you to Hans for all the correspondence and making it a joyful process!

    August 2023
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  • BO TANAS

    Thank you for selecting my first short film, THE RETURN, as a semi-finalist. I am grateful and encouraged.

    August 2023
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