PDSFF24 | Love & Revolt, 7 - 10 March 2024, Athens (main event), special screenings in 10 cities around the world in 2024

PDSFF24 is a trans-local cinematographic space of creation and resistance. We collectively negate the existing order that disconnects and confines film-makers, communities and struggles. We claim a new space where we can be together in all our diversity - safe and brave at the same time. PDSFF24 is the fifth edition of the Positively Different Short Film Festival.

The central event will take place from 7 to 10 March 2024.

We invite filmmakers, documentarists, visual content creators, students and emerging artists to submit their shorts. We are particularly interested in the topic of intersectionality; in the stories of characters, communities and individuals that, due to their identities and life-experiences, remain unseen. Our team and audience are charmed by aesthetic coherence as much as they are excited by simplicity. Shorts that reflect bold visions and personal urgency are, essentially, what we are after!

The festival will feature a curated catalogue of approximately 35 short films that will be screened in Athens competing for 4 prizes – Best Film Award, Audience Award, Best Greek Production, Curators' Award. Concerts, workshops, masterclasses, and discussions will assemble a four-day celebration of diversity, communities, and resistances. Special screenings of the award-winning films will take place in 10 European countries throughout the year.

We eagerly await the new creations and look forward to meeting you in the cinema for 4 days of screenings, discussions, and parallel actions.

The festival will support all finalists to join festival events in person.

Best Film Award: 1000 euro
Audience Award: 500 euro
Best Greek Film Award: 500 euro
Positively Different Award: 500 euro

Travel & subsistence costs: The festival will support all finalists to join in person.

- Early bird deadline: 22 July 2023 [free]
- Regular submission deadline: 30 September 2023 [5 euros]
- Topics: Intersectionality; LGBTQI+; feminism; social justice; privilege.
- Age of video makers: There is no age limit to the participants in the competition.
- Origin: There is no limitation or restriction to the origin of the video or its author.
- Duration: Videos should be up to 30 minutes long.
- Completion date of the film: after 01/07/2022
- Waivers: Films where at least one of the main contributors is African are eligible for a fee waiver and for competing for the Best African Production award. Waivers are also available on a case by a case basis. If you want to be considered for one, briefly explain the reason by writing us at positivelydifferentff@gmail.com)
- Submission fee: 5 euro
- Categories: Documentary, fiction, animation, experimental, video art.

Submission of your video
- You can use Vimeo (by submitting your password) or any other platform to submit the video. Other forms of submission (e.g. USB stick delivered to our office) will also be accepted.
- The video files should be in one of the formats: AVI, MP4 or MOV.
- Videos created with a smartphone are encouraged and will also be accepted.
- Suggested frame size 1080 * 1920
- Language: The video can be in any language, subtitled in English.
- More information available here: positivelydifferentff@gmail.com, indicating in the subject line of your e-mail: “Video Call 2024”.

Film Festival Terms
- The final number of films that will be screened during the festival in Athens depends on the final decision of the organising team.
- The final films will be selected by the International Jury of the Film Festival by December, 2023
- The selection of the screened films, the order of projection and the programme are decided by the organisers, based on the technical specifications, the duration and the grouping of the films.
- The finalists will be informed by January, 2024 about the progress of their film in the contest.
- The organising team of the Positively Different Short Film Festival, reserves the right to project part of the final selection whenever it is needed for reasons of promotion of the Festival and under no circumstances for commercial causes.
- The finalists have to inform the organisers whether they will attend the festival so as the organising team can organise their trip and stay.
- There will be a jury prize, an audience prize, and an award for the Best Greek Production. The organisers will decide about the possibility of giving special prizes regarding the amount and the characteristics of the finalist films.
- The award ceremony will take place in Athens in a special ceremony right after the end of the competitive programme of the Positively Different Short Film Festival.
- Prizes consist of cash awards as well as promotion in other events of the organisation throughout the year
- Participants agree to give interviews to the communication sponsors and to be photographed if asked.
- Parts of the Festival will be filmed for Inter Alia’s archive and for its promotion to the public. Members of the audience and participants that may appear in these parts cannot claim anything from the organising company.
- During the Positively Different Short Film Festival parallel events will take place.
- Positively Different Short Film Festival organising team reserves the right to cancel the Festival if it is necessary
- The sending out of the signed participation form entails the complete and unconditional acceptance of the above terms of participation.

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  • mehtap şamiloğlu

    It was a great experience to be at our festival thank you very much for your interest during the festival I hope I will attend your festival again I hope to see you

    March 2024
  • Scott Coello

    This is the benchmark for how a film festival should be: a tight and diverse curation of films that a vibrant and enthusiastic community supports. A powerful combination that makes this one of the best festivals out there. You'll come for the films, and leave with happy memories and met new friends. Unique and amazing in every way, and I can not thank the organisers enough, this is a special festival which I hope to support in years to come. Thanks team 😃

    March 2024
  • Janis Westphal

    It was my third time I was invited with one of my films to this festival and I have been to many others but I can truly say it is the best festival experience one could wish for. The focus makes it super special, the films are very diverse, beautiful and interesting, the screening are very well attended and the audience is super interested, hospitality is just on it's own level and all of that get's even better year after year. This festival just doesn't feel like a relative newcomer but like an institution, that is unique and so, so relevant to have. Also the team is beyond lovely. After three years I feel both being part of a movement and a family. :) Thank you so much for your work and this amazing festival!

    March 2024
  • Dominique Preusse

    A festival whose curation is of remarkable quality and diversity, a place where bigger and smaller productions meet. The festival team makes a brilliant job of making sure that the filmmakers feel welcome and that the audience enjoys high quality screenings. Communication and organisation was perfect, as well. We were honored to present our short film Coffee Grapefruit Cacao and hope to come back with a new film soon!

    March 2024
  • Best festival in town! Warm, inclusive, lovely people, important artistic values. Thank you for everything!

    March 2024