ALPINALE short film festival

A live action film uses imagery created primarily through practical photographic techniques used to capture physical actors, props, sets, and locations. Documentary short subjects will not be accepted in the live action category. Student films are welcome.

We look for narrative animated films in which movement and characters’ performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique. Some of the techniques of animating films include but are not limited to hand-drawn animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation, cutout animation, pinscreen, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects created frame-by-frame, and drawing on the film frame itself. An animated short film has a running time of 30 minutes or less. In addition, a narrative animated film must have a significant number of the major characters animated.

The VR Competition is open for short Virtual Reality films from anywhere in the world. The special award is awarded by a jury. Submitted films must not be longer than 30 minutes.

The Children Short Film Competition is open for short films for children in German or with no dialogue. The trophy is a Golden unicorn and is awarded by the audience. Submitted films must not be longer than 30 minutes.

We would like to invite you to submit it to the third editon of OBACHT! (Watch Out!), the horror shorts special event of the ALPINALE Short Film Festival. It will take place on October 31 (Halloween!) in the Alpine town of Bludenz in Vorarlberg/Austria. If chosen by the curators, your movie will compete for our audience award, the Bloody Unicorn.