Welcome to the fifth edition of Andaras Traveling Film Festival, dedicated to travels, new beginnings, and the discovery of the world and the self.
TRAVELING LIGHT is the title of this new chapter of our festival, dedicated to all those who find traveling around the world and getting to know distant lands and peoples the shortest way to reach oneselves. More than any other human activity, traveling is a state of mind, research, self-awareness, knowledge of others, testimony, the starting point of each arrival.
In the Sardinian language, "Andaras" indicates traveling, but also the paths that shepherds followed during the long winter transhumance in search of lusher pastures, the same paths that miners have also traveled since ancient times. And it is in Sardinia, in Fluminimaggiore and Buggerru, villages of mines, shepherds and fishermen, that the Festival will be held, from 4th to 8th of July, between the sea and the mountains of the Costa delle Miniere, the wildest and most evocative of the island.
The Festival will be divided into five days, each of which is dedicated to the screening of the works in competition, the meetings with filmmakers, writers and photographers, and the discovery of the territory, good food and good music.
With the theme of this fifth edition, “Traveling Light”, we are searching for a new way of looking at the world, stories of hope, rebirth, discovery and education.
There are six different categories in the competition:
1. “Super Shorts”
Short films both fiction or documentary, of a maximum duration of 180 seconds;
2. “Docu-Shorts”
Non-fiction short films, of a maximum duration of 20 minutes;
3. “Narrative Shorts”
Dedicated to fiction short films, of a maximum duration of 20 minutes;
4. "Gazes from the World"
Dedicated to experimental, fiction and documentary short films, not strictly connected with others categories, of a maximum duration of 15 minutes;
5. “Animation”
Animated short films, of a maximum duration of 15 minutes;
6. "Andaras Noas" (Nuovi Sentieri)
Dedicated to fiction stories that tell the moment before the start of the trip, of a maximum duration of 20 minutes.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Best Super Short
Best Docu-Short
Best Narrative Short
Best Gaze from the World
Best Animation Short
Best Andaras Noas
Special Jury Prize
Special Prize “Andaras”
The deadline for sending the works is 22 April 2023. The selected works will be announced on 8 May 2023.
Only travel films made after 2019 are accepted.
All submitted works must have English subtitles.
Each filmmaker can submit one work per category.
All selected works will receive the “Festival Laurel”.
Best Super Short
Best Docu-Short
Best Narrative Short
Best Gaze from the World
Best Animation Short
Best Andaras Noas
Special Jury Prize
Special Prize “Andaras”