Paws - International Film Festival held in Serbia, Belgrad.
Festival was created to evolve the Serbian Film Industry by collaboration with international professionals.

PIFF's judging committee every three months is selecting works and authors with potential. After selection, the PIFF management team invited authors to offline event where the further strategy of cooperation will be attached . Offline event will be held for 4 days. Within these 4 days participants and viewers will have the opportunity to discuss works that will be screened during the festival, make connections with other participants and festival team and promote their works.

Best of the best will be invited to the international team and will have the opportunity to join many perspective projects.

Join PIFF now and always remember the wildest predator also has paws.

PAWS exclusive category - works about pets.
Event will have a special day as a pet festival where the four-legged friends will be introduced among heroes of pet movies. Winner of PAWS Pet International Film Festival will have the opportunity to create work with his pet with collaboration of our international filmmakers team.
PIFF is promoting awareness about our animal brothers and sisters.

Annual awarding films are shown at the PAWS Event including Q&A, Interviews, Pet Festival and a Closing Award Ceremony in Belgrad, Serbia.

Each year the festival presents 25 shorts films and 5 shorts about animals as part of the films in competition programming.

Opportunity to join and work with a crew of Serbian and worldwide professional filmmakers.

All awarded films receive laurels, publication in our media.

Your project might become an annual Multi-Award-Winning Film for the next categories:
Best Documentary Feature
Best Narrative Feature
Best Narrative Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Documentary Feature
Best Animal Short
Best Animation
Best Drama
Best Thriller
Best Sci-Fi
Best Dark Comedy
Best Music Video
Best Feature Script
Best Short Script
Best Cinematography
Best Producer
Best Director
Best Student Director
Best Student Work
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best New Actress / Actor
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Sound Design
Best Original Score
Best Screenwriter

Rules:

All films in all genres will be considered.
By submitting you're accept that you own all rights to send work to festival.

Requirements:

For Short Films, the films need to be 50 minutes or less.
For Feature Films, the films need to be at least 50 minutes.

Premier Status:

No premiere status is required. So, don’t wait to submit your film.

Rights:

We require films to have all necessary rights and releases secured for us to feature them.

Refund Policy:

Unfortunately we cannot refund a submission fee once you’ve submitted your film. Please make absolutely sure you want to submit your film before doing so. As with other festivals, your fee is paid for your film to be considered. By no means does submitting your film guarantee that your film will be accepted. If your film is not accepted, your submission fee is not refunded.

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  • Thanks for choosing Feature 'Hidden' and Best Narrative Feature and Award for the Best Actor : Naser Rafuna for Feature Film 'Hidden'. We didn't expect it and makes us very happy.

    December 2022