Willlachen.at Comedy, Satire, Film Festival film festival is a viennese film festival. Willlachen.at Comedy, Satire, Film Festival celebrates any type of comedy or satire films.

*Official Selection Laurels
*Category Winner Laurels
*Semi-Finalist
*Finalist Laurels
*Overall Winner Laurels
*Overall Winner Certificates
*Overall Winner Prize - goldene Kellerassel

The rules are easy just hop on over to our NEW and EXTREMELY AWESOME website to check them out www.willlachen.at

Certification of Entrant I, the undersigned, acknowledge and agree:
1 . I have read, understated and fully comply with all submission eligibility information, Submission Guidelines, Terms and Conditions of Entry and Entry Eligibility requirements.
2 . To the best of my knowledge, all of the statements in this document are true;
3 . This film or video is not subject to any litigation nor is threatened by any litigation;
4 . I am duly authorized to submit this film to the festival;
5 . I hold FRO-MEDIA / Willlachen.at Comedy, Satire, Film Festival harmless from any damage to the print(s) or tape(s) en route or otherwise during the course of the festival’s possession of the film;
6 . I hold FRO-MEDIA / Willlachen.at Comedy, Satire, Film Festival, its owners, management, juries, subsidiaries, agents, sponsors, affiliates, and etc. harmless from any and all claims of liability resulting from my entry.
7 . I certify that I have full rights to the use of the music in the entered work.
8 . I give permission for FRO-MEDIA / Willlachen.at Comedy, Satire, Film Festival, Film Festival to use stills, titles, copy, and/or information from the film for promotional purposes and allow to let Willlachen.at upload the movie on a Playlist on YouTube for an online audience - the film will be visible there for puplic audience for lifetime use. If you wish to be deleted kindly send us an email to willlachen@willlachen.at - if you harm us through a youtube claim we have to charge you 500 Euros fee for the loss of our time.
9 . I give permission for FRO-MEDIA / Willlachen.at Comedy, Satire, Film Festival to screen the film at the Festival as well as any Festival presentations, programs, and/or events.

OTHER NOTES:
There is NO 'Film Made By' date. We have shown films from as early as the 30's. Please feel free to submit your early work as well as your current.
Films showing nudity are permissible, however sexual penetration will be disqualified.
PLEASE NOTE: We DO NOT pay screening fees. If any screening fee is requested by filmmaker(s), the associated film will be disqualified.

We accept:

All genres
2. All production years
3. All film length up to 500 min.

Further RULES & TERMS
By submitting to the festival you confirm that you accept all the Rules & Terms.

All content in your film/video must be owned by the filmmaker, or you must have expressed written permission to use for exhibition.

3. The competition is open to professional and nonprofessional filmmakers.

4. Films not in german language must be subtitled with English subtitles.

5. You agree to use parts of your film (including trailer/teaser/film poster/stills) for promotional purpose.

6. Multiple entries are allowed for each filmmaker.

7. The appropriate entry fee must accompany each entry. This nonrefundable fee covers screening and handling costs, and will not be returned

8. All films can be submitted via FilmFreeway, wetransfer, or other sharing and cloud sharing options.

9. If your film is selected, we reserve the right to use images or videos solely for marketing and promotional purposes for FRO-MEDIA / Willlachen.at Comedy, Satire, Film Festival.

10. If your film/video is selected by the internet Jury for screening you will be informed by email.

11. All winners for the Festival will get the "goldener Ziegelstein certificate" and will be screened in a Livestream on YouTube

12. The decisions of the Jury President are final.
We do not accept:

1.Propaganda or Extremist content from religious or political organizations.
2. Films with a poor production standard (bad sound, lack of subtitles/captions for non-german films, video resolution less than 720p HD

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Overall Rating
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  • Akiko Matsumoto

    As a filmmaker, I deeply appreciate the platform your festival provides for independent voices. The opportunity to share my work with an engaged audience and fellow creatives means a great deal to me.

    January 2026
    Response from festival:

    Thank you sooo much Akiko for you apprecation. Its very, very, very hard to keep this project alive. Hopefully we see you this year again.
    All the Best from Vienna!

  • Levi Frazier III

    Awesome festival! I was so thrilled to be a part of this festival. Getting selected, makes me want to continue to do bigger and better things in the film and movie community and industry. Thanks again!

    November 2025
    Response from festival:

    Thank you soo much.
    Yeah. Lets grow together!
    Wish you all the best!

  • François Audoin

    Great experience !
    Great ceremony with the Kaiser.
    Lot of emotion. Weird but intense emotion

    November 2025
    Response from festival:

    Thank you Francois. It was a pleasure having you in our Livestream!

  • One of the funniest online festival I've ever seen, totally bonkers. If you have a good dose self-irony, it's totally worth the price. The only criticism: I did not understand which criteria has been used to decide which short film were broadcasted during the live show. My short film was selected but, if I'm not mistaken, it was not included. Otherwise, I enjoyed it, very entertaining.

    November 2025
    Response from festival:

    Thanks bro. We have strict criterias on quality, content and we do a ranking of the films and decide which films are shown. Usually one quarter, and the first 3 places are given a quick review...

  • Thomas Bauer

    Got a selection mail and never heard from them again. Website does not even work. I'm pretty sure this is just one more scam festival.

    April 2024
    Response from festival:

    Your inpatience is missunderstood. Good things need time. Your judgement is wrong. All the best for your timelessness!