Biennial of Animation Bratislava (BAB)

The Biennial of Animation Bratislava—BAB 2024 (hereinafter “Festival”) is an international festival of animated films for children and youth organized by BIBIANA—The International House of Art for Children. The Biennial of Animation Bratislava (www.festivalbab.sk) is held under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.

1. Submission of the completed application form and the film constitutes the applicant’s binding agreement with the Festival rules. Registration takes place via the FilmFreeway platform.

2. Only animated films or films that contain animated parts will be included in the competition program of the Festival. The maximum length of films in the category of short films is up to 30 minutes, and they cannot be older than two years. In the competition category of feature films, the minimum accepted length is 65 minutes, and the films cannot be older than two years. Only authors under the age of 15 can apply for the junior film competition, and their films cannot be older than two years. Films that were part of the competition in previous years will not be accepted.

3. The applicant is required to supply a brief synopsis and a still image from the film for the Festival catalog. Films submitted after the deadline cannot be accepted. The Festival reserves the right to grant an exception.

4. Films selected for competitive and non-competitive sections will be screened without entitlement to a fee.

5. By submitting the application form and the film, the applicant bindingly agrees that, in case of receiving an award or special recognition, the film will be used for non-commercial and educational purposes within the “Best of BAB” program, which can make the winning films available in cultural centers, schools, and other partner organizations in Slovakia, but also abroad. The applicant of the film can grant permission for the film to also be screened within the non-competitive sections intended for non-commercial and educational presentations in partner organizations.

6. The applicant of the film can grant permission to include the film in the television broadcast and use it on an online platform only in the territory of the Slovak Republic for the duration of the Festival.

7. By submitting the application form, the applicant grants the organizer the right to use a short clip of the film, with a maximum length of 30 seconds, to promote the Festival in any medium. The organizer reserves the right to use images from the film in promotional materials (festival magazine, leaflets, posters, website, social networks, or multimedia presentations) and provide them to the media to promote the Festival.

8. In the event of the official selection of the film for the competition, the applicant cannot subsequently withdraw the submitted film.

9. The applicant grants the organizer permission to archive the submitted film in the BAB archives.

10. Other conditions of the Festival are listed in the Festival’s statute on webpage festivalbab.sk.

11. The applicant declares that he has been informed about the processing of his personal data by the organizer as the operator, while the processing of the applicant’s personal data as a data subject is carried out under the Regulations of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on the protection of personal data no. 2016/679 (GDPR), as well as with the Act no. 18/2018 Coll. on the protection of personal data, namely on the legal basis of personal data processing due to participation in the Festival and the competition.