Dear Friends

The 19th TLVFest - Tel Aviv International LGBTQ+ is right around the corner and will take place on the 31st of October - November 10th.

We are opening submissions for the festival at a complex time when winds of hatred and war are blowing around us.

As a film festival, we strive to place focus on movies that promote love, peace and tolerance through the art of cinema.

We aim to provide a stage for LGBTQ+ movies with different perspectives and cultural backgrounds.

We believe that the power of cinema can change the mind and create empathy, awareness and understanding.

Our festival is, and will always be, in favour of peace and a solution between two sane and healthy democratic countries.

We are concerned to see that anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim resentment, anti-democratic currents, and hate speech are spreading in our country and all over the world. As a cultural institution, we take a firm stand against all forms of discrimination, hate speech and prejudice.

We look forward to watching your submissions, to build a unique, colorful and boundary-breaking LGBTQ+ Film Festival program.

Yours,
The TLVFest team.

Official Competition – International Narrative
Official Competition – International Documentary
Official Competition - Israeli Short Films - 1000 $
Official Competition - International Short Films
Israeli Short Script Competition - 140,000 ₪

The full info in our website www.tlvfest.com

2024 ENTRY RULES AND REGULATIONS

GENERAL
TLVFest acknowledges that most of the submissions are made by independent filmmakers, who are making their films without financial support, therefore there are modest submission fees.

HOW TO ENTER
Submit fully-completed entry form.

ENTRY MATERIALS
All entries must include the following:
(1) An official TLVFest “Entry Form” properly completed and submitted;
(2) A link to the film with password (vimeo.com for example) – entries in any other format will not be accepted.

MULTIPLE ENTRIES
Each entered work must be accompanied by its own entry form and by a separate vimeo link.

ELIGIBILITY
Entrants must fully comply with the following Entry Rules & Regulations, including deadline(s) and entry material requirements, selected film requirements and premiere requirements:

(1) The film should be of LGBTQI+ interest or depict main LGBTQI+ characters;
(2) Submitted works must be Israeli premiere.
(3) Submitted works must have their world premiere during 2023-2024
(4) Non-English language films must display English subtitles;

KEY DATES AND DEADLINES
March 5, 2024 – Submissions open
July 31, 2024 – Submissions close

filmmakers will be notified via email by the end of September 2023

31st October - 10th November, 2024 – 19th Annual TLVFest: Tel Aviv International LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Please note: TLVFest does not send notifications to entries which have been declined.

IF YOUR WORK IS SELECTED
You must comply with the following requirements by the date(s) designated by the Festival:

(1) You will submit a properly completed online official TLVFest “Entry Form”;

(2) To respect the festival tickets buyers, after the release of the program, The movie cannot be pulled or canceled.

(3) Your acceptance of an invitation to screen at TLVFest is final. The filmmaker cannot withdraw his/her participation after accepting an official invitation.

(4) By entering a submission you acknowledge responsibility for obtaining any and all clearances necessary to exhibit your film at TLVFest Film Festival and hold harmless TLVFest Film Festival and its affiliates against any claim arising out of the exhibition of your film at TLVFest;

(5) You are responsible for delivery of the exhibition copy of the invited work(s) in one of the Exhibition Formats specified below:

Feature film formats: DCP, Quicktime Prores 422HQ (If the film has a DOLBY-E audio track or surround sound, please note so), 35mm film, Blu-Ray (please inform us regarding the frame rate – 24, 25 or 29.97 FPS)

Short Films can be exhibited in DCP, Prores 422HQ (If the film has a DOLBY-E audio track or surround sound, please note so).

Due to our limited capacity to project 16mm, the Festival reserves the right to request that works originally in that format be provided to us in other formats.
Films which are not in English must provide English subtitles.

(6) You are responsible for delivery of the exhibition copy to the address designated by the Festival. The Festival will arrange for, and cover the cost of, the return-shipping of the exhibition copy after the conclusion of the Festival. We recommend shipment via courier in order to track the delivery of your entry;

FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING
TLVFest programmers will determine the most appropriate section of the festival’s program in which to screen the works that they have selected.

Competition Categories:

World Narrative Features
Open to works from all regions, must be an ISRAELI premiere.
Eligible for: Best Narrative Feature, Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature.

World Documentary Features
Open to works from all regions, must be an ISRAELI premiere.
Eligible for: Best Documentary Feature, Honorable Mention for a Documentary Film.

Shorts (narrative and documentary – under 50 minutes)
Open to works from all regions, must be an ISRAELI premiere.
Eligible for: Best Narrative Short, Honorable Mention for International Short Film.
Shorts will play either in a program of short films, or prior to a feature film.

Israeli Shorts(narrative and documentary – under 50 minutes)
Must be an ISRAELI premiere.
Eligible for: Best Israeli Short, Honorable Mention for Israeli Short Film.

Panorama
Open to works from all regions, Must be an ISRAELI premiere.
Eligible for: Audience Award

By submitting your entry form, acknowledge that if your movie was selected to TLVFest 2024 edition it is impossible to cancel the screening for any reason

By submitting your entry form, you are providing your consent to TLVFest to screen your film, if selected, at the festival. Should your film be selected, TLVFest will send you an acceptance notification and expects an acknowledgement in reply. In cases where no acknowledgement is received, TLVFest will consider your online entry form as providing your permission to screen the film.

Overall Rating
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Value
Communication
Hospitality
Networking
  • It was such a pleasure to participate in this wonderful festival, at my hometown and with great friends.
    This is not so obvious, especially in these times, in our fragile democracy in Israel.
    I thank you all, friends at the TLVFest, from the bottom of my heart!

    September 2023
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you so much - We greatly appreciate your support. We will continue to fight the right-wing and fascist Israeli government. We will continue to promote LGBTQ+ culture, love and peace

  • Gisela Chicolino

    This festival is really a necessary one. Please keep working on generating this exquisite and outstanding programming for the audiences.

    November 2022
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you very much for your support

  • Myat Noe

    Too bad, with the borders still shut down, many of us outside Israel could come to attend in person. But from the pictures, it looks great! I just wish they also highlight more short films on their social media. Feature length line-ups were impressive.

    November 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Dear Myat, Thank you very much for your important note and we'll do our best to highlight more the shorts that we are showing in the festival. and we're waiting to see more of your amazing work in the future.

  • Amazing festival highly recommended as a must do must go , very professionally and really cool. Yair Hochner just nailed it with a multi diverse program which definitely represents the lgbt world in all its forms . I didn’t expected to be selected, it was a great honor . Thank you for working so hard to bring people together against war and fear.

    November 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you so much, it was a pleasure to show your movie at TLVFest and we're waiting to present your next project and hope for better days free viruses that we can have guests like in the past.

  • I was very happy to screen 2 short films at TLVFest.
    One in the Israeli competition and another in the short international animation collection.
    The communication was great and the festival was very well made with amazing films and good queer vibes.
    Highly recommend!

    June 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Dear Amir, it's very moving to read your review, we do our best to please the filmmakers who present their movies at our film festival. We're doing it with a minimum of manpower. Thank you very much and we're waiting to watch your next movies.