Festival Announcement

1. Festival Objectives
A) To contribute to the happiness and internal development of individuals and the progress and peace of human kind by finding and making known films that move and educate, that help in living life, and that make the world beautiful
B) To conduct cultural exchange through film
C) To create the best cultural content that satisfies the public of a visual and global age by opening an international film festival based on films from more than forty European countries
D) To increase the desire of domestic filmmakers to create films and promote Korean film development

2. Nature
Competition will be open to films regardless of where they were made, the filmmaker’s age, or genre

3. Host: UNICA Korea – Making the World Beautiful Through Film Corp. (official UN cooperative CSO)
Website : http://unicakorea.org/eng, E-mail : unicakorea20@gmail.com

4. Sponsor: UNICA World Union, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gyeongsan-si

5. Judges: 5-member committee including UNICA international judge

Awards:

UNICA Award (1),
Gold (1),
Silver (2),
Bronze (3),
Best Acting,
Special Jury Award,
Audience Award,

※ No award will be given if not applicable.

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World Minute Movie Cup:

Gold
Silver
Bronze

Submission rules

0. Directors, please do not submit violent or sexually explicit films.

1. Submission deadline: Jun. 30, 2025

2. Entry qualifications: No limit on nationality, gender, or age

3. Eligibility
A) Production date: Films completed after January 2024.
*World Minute Movie Cup- Films completed after January 2023.
B) Genre: No limit
All genre including drama, documentary, animation, and experimental films
C) Language: No limit, The preview copy must come with English subtitles.
D) Running time
Up to 40 minutes.
*World Minute Movie Cup- 1minute.
E) Rights: Films that have no issues with copyright or other rights
- The Festival does not check the copyright of submitted films. The applicant will be responsible for any problems resulting from copyright.

4. Films for public screening
A) Selection and announcement: Films for public screening will be selected by the selection committee and the Festival director.
B) Selected films should submit HD/MOV format files or DCP with dialogue list in English.
C) Submission documents:
-Film image cut or still cut: three jpg files 3000 dpi or above.
-Director’s picture: one jpg file 3000 dpi or above.
-Film file: mp4/ h264 format
D) Once a film is selected for public screening, the screening cannot be canceled.
E) By submitting a film to the Festival, the filmmakers are considered to have agreed to screen the film officially and free of charge during the Festival.
F) Applicant to the Festival will be considered to have understood and agreed to the rules and regulations of the Festival. Any issues not included in the submission rules will be decided according to the discretion of the Festival organizer.

5. Use of submitted materials
A) Submitted materials may be used for the production of a book of the UNICA Korea International Film Festival, and for promotion of the Festival through media including newspapers and broadcasting.
B) All submitted films will be archived on the website of Making the World Beautiful Though Film Inc. (UNICA member representing Korea) for the non-commercial purpose of research and education.
C) The Festival reserves the copyright for screened films for two years after the submission deadline for the non-commercial purpose of promotion and submission to oversees film festivals
D) The Festival may produce a video clip of three minutes or less of the selected films to promote the film and the Festival.
E) The Festival may freely submit the best films among the films screened to international film festivals on behalf of the filmmakers.

Overall Rating
Quality
Value
Communication
Hospitality
Networking
  • Mehmet Kanadlı

    This festival is beautiful and the communication is very successful. We were also happy to receive the award.

    December 2024
  • An excellent festival with excellent communication and organizational! I enjoyed my participation!

    November 2024
  • Lotti Bauer

    Unfortunately I couldn't be there in person. The communication is exemplary - fast and valuable also social network.

    November 2024
  • Joe Inchincoli

    Nice to be a part of your festival. Was all amazing. Thank you

    November 2024
  • Henrik Dahlbring

    Very happy to have participated, however the festival can do a lot of work on it's communication. Several tries to contact the festival via the email adress they themselves use with no response.

    November 2023