周末友会是一个新创的实验影像展，于2025年2月份正式创立。我们的初衷是以聚会的形式和包容的友好姿态去容纳那些未被挖掘的，尖锐，新奇，甚至是激进的影像创作。如同给自己的朋友推荐影片一般，将我们喜爱的作品在短短三天的周末时光中介绍给观众。我们希望将“周末”转化为影像对话的场域，鼓励不同类型的影像创作之间的碰撞，为影像与观众，创作者与创作者之间产生新的交流可能性。

我们会更关注一些新兴的影像形式，去探索影像的更多可能性，例如混合纪录片(hybrid documentary), 纪实虚构影片(docufiction)，论文电影 (essay film)，实验电影(Experimental film)，视频艺术（video art）等。视野的多样性，以及对影像本质的思考与反思，会成为我们的主张。

我们希望借“周末友会”这一平台挖掘并推广一些勇于在传统电影产业体系之外探索个人表达，或者拓展影像语言边界的影像作者，以自己的力量给予它们鼓励与支持。希望“周末友会”能成为一个长久发展的关注影像创作的项目，持续对实验影像的迭变投以我们敏锐的注视。

有关影展的更多介绍与资讯，可搜索“周末友会”微信公众号进行了解。

"Weekend Domain" is a newly founded experimental image festival, officially launched in February, 2025. Our original intention is to create a welcoming, inclusive gathering that embraces undiscovered, provocative, innovative, and even radical moving image artworks. Much like recommending films to close friends, we aim to present the works we admire to the local audience over the course of a three-day weekend. We envision the “weekend” as a space for cinematic conversation—one that fosters collisions between diverse forms of experimental image-making, while encouraging new possibilities of exchange between image and viewers, and among creators themselves.

We are particularly attentive to emerging genres of experimental image that explore the expanded possibilities of the moving image, including Hybrid documentaries, Docufiction, Essay film, Experimental film, and Video art. Diversity of vision, along with a reflective and critical approach to the essence of the moving image, are central to our curatorial perspective.

Through the platform of "Weekend Domain", we hope to discover and support filmmakers who courageously venture beyond the conventional systems of film production in pursuit of personal expression or expanded innovation. It is our hope that "Weekend Domain" will become a sustainable and evolving project—one that continues to closely engage with the shifting landscape of experimental cinema.

Awards & Prizes

国际竞赛与华语竞赛单元将分别设立三个奖项：1个评委会大奖 (Grand Jury Prize)，2个评委会特别提名 (Special Jury Mention) 。两个单元分别特邀3位评委进行评奖。

International Competition and Sinophone Competition will each present three awards: one Grand Jury Prize and two Special Jury Mention. Each competition will include a jury of three invited professionals to decide on awards.

Rules & Terms

International Competition Submission Guidelines （国际竞赛征片细则）:

We accept international films completed after January 1, 2024, with a running time of under 60 minutes (including full intro and closing credits). No premiere requirement.

Films not in English or Chinese must include English subtitles.

Please ensure that the screener link and password remain valid until the shortlist is announced, and do not change them after submission.

If a watermark is needed on the submitted preview copy, please use: "Weekend Domain". Works-in-progress are acceptable at the submission stage, but the final screening version must be complete.

华语竞赛征片细则：

时长60分钟以下（包含完整片头片尾演职员表），完成日期在24年1月1日之后的华语影片皆可报名。无首映要求。

影片须满足以下其中一项条例：影片导演为华人身份（如为联合导演作品，其中一位符合即可），影片主要对白语言为华语（包括普通话、粤语、方言 等），主要制片国为华语地区，或影片 50%以上的拍摄场景在华语地区。

请确保影片观看链接与密码在入选名单揭晓前，一直保持有效且没有变更。

影片至少含有中文或者英文字幕。若需要添加画面水印，请标注“周末友会”。可接受制作中版本，但影像展最终放映版本需为正式版。

Sinophone Competition Submission Guidelines:

All Chinese-language films completed after January 1, 2024, with a running time of under 60 minutes (including full intro and closing credits), are eligible for submission. No premiere requirement.

Submissions must meet at least one of the following conditions: The director is of Chinese descent (for co-directed works, at least one director must meet this criterion); The primary language of the film is a Chinese language (including Mandarin, Cantonese, or regional dialects); The main producing country or region is within the Chinese-speaking world; More than 50% of the film was shot in a Chinese-speaking region.

Films must include Chinese or English subtitles.

Please ensure that the screener link and password remain valid until the shortlist is announced, and do not change them after submission.

If a watermark is needed on the submitted preview copy, please use: "Weekend Domain". Works-in-progress are acceptable at the submission stage, but the final screening version must be complete.