E&U European Short Film Festival

Please read and mind the above CORONAVIRUS STATEMENT before submitting.
Below you find all our rules and terms. Each of these points is mandatory, but none of them is unusual for a film festival. We tried to keep it simple and transparent and rely on our positive experiences with the international film scene so far:

Only short films coming from within the European Union will be accepted.
It's supposed to be a decent competition, so please name the country of origin (where you, your team or your film production are mainly located) in your entry data.

A submission does not necessarily mean that your film is shown at the screening event. A jury of film experts and filmmakers on a professional level selects the "best ones" only, which simply indicates these films just fit best into our programming idea of the respective festival edition.
If not selected, please don't feel disappointed, but rather reassured to try again some other time with a new film project. Sometimes it takes a detour to reach your goals.

Dialogue of submitted short films must be in German or English and/or must be subtitled in German or English (if possible hard-coded).

All short films must have a maximum total running time of up to 20 minutes.

All submissions must be made via FilmFreeway.

As it is the easiest way, we prefer online links to the projects, normally on the FilmFreeway platform itself. All common digital formats are accepted, just please be aware, the better the quality of picture and sound, the better your chances are of winning one of the awards and prizes.

Your film does not have to be exclusive for us, which means you can show or submit it somewhere else at the same time as well. We would just love to see all your great works, but films should not be much older than two or three years to maintain a good chance at the competition.

We endorse and are open to all forms or genres of entertaining, bold and fresh shorts.
But films that are discriminatory and/or are against a common democratic sense, for example clearly promoting sexism, will be disqualified from the competition.

Female filmmakers should feel most encouraged to join our festival. The quality of the content counts in the end, however we will try our very best to achieve an equal gender participation.

Please understand that we cannot give refunds for submissions that do not match the described criteria.

The submitters declare to hold all intellectual property rights or utilization permissions to the submitted work.
As we intend to help and support emerging filmmakers, submitters agree that we may use all connected material (like photos, posters or film trailers) for marketing and promotion purposes, for example on our festival website.

As usual all decisions concerning the competitions and the event are solely at the discretion of the jury and the festival organization.
Recourse to the courts is excluded for disputes.

With each film entry the submitters declare that they agree and hold on to all rules and terms mentioned above.

We look forward to your exciting films.
Thank you and best of luck!

-E&U Festival Organization

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Most essential criteria for films =

(Please still read the complete rules & terms section, as it gives more orientation and is legally binding for all submitters.)

- EU members only
- understandable in German or English
- 20 min. max