Independent Days International Filmfestival

Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe

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Independent Days International Filmfestival

Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe

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General Information

edition

22nd

organizers

Dr. Oliver Langewitz

Festival Director

Nadine Knobloch

Festival Management

Contact details

Alter Schlachthof 17c Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg 76131 Germany

-76131

id-filmfest@filmboard-karlsruhe.de

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About the festival

The Independent Days International Filmfestival (IDIF) is one of Europe's most important festivals for independent filmmakers and part of the European Festivals Association.

Proud owner of the EFFE label (Europe for festivals - festivals for Europe) by the EU.
IDIF is an IMDb Award-listing qualifying festival!

The Festival is screening films of every length and genre from all over the world.

Audience Award:
Film Award of The City of Karlsruhe, prize money 1,500 Euro and Award Trophy KARLINA

Special Jury Awards:
Film Award of the Cultural Foundation Sparkasse Karlsruhe, prize money 2,500 Euro
Best Short Shortfilm Award (shorts up to 5 minutes) 500 Euro and Award Trophy KARLINA
Indie Award for Best Feature Film 1,000 Euro and Award Trophy KARLINA
Newbie Award for Best First Time Movie 1,000 Euro
Female Award for Best Female Director 1,000 Euro and Award Trophy KARLINA
Best Independent Actor Award: Award Trophy ZEUS
Best Independent Actress Award: Award Trophy ZEUS
Georg Fricker-Award 1,500 Euro Award Trophy ZEUS
Underground-Award 300 Euro
Best Film Composer Award

About

The Independent Days International Filmfestival (IDIF) is one of Europe's most important festivals for independent filmmakers and part of the European Festivals Association.

Proud owner of the EFFE label (Europe for festivals - festivals for Europe) by the EU.
IDIF is an IMDb Award-listing qualifying festival!

The Festival is screening films of every length and genre from all over the world.

Audience Award:
Film Award of The City of Karlsruhe, prize money 1,500 Euro and Award Trophy KARLINA

Special Jury Awards:
Film Award of the Cultural Foundation Sparkasse Karlsruhe, prize money 2,500 Euro
Best Short Shortfilm Award (shorts up to 5 minutes) 500 Euro and Award Trophy KARLINA
Indie Award for Best Feature Film 1,000 Euro and Award Trophy KARLINA
Newbie Award for Best First Time Movie 1,000 Euro
Female Award for Best Female Director 1,000 Euro and Award Trophy KARLINA
Best Independent Actor Award: Award Trophy ZEUS
Best Independent Actress Award: Award Trophy ZEUS
Georg Fricker-Award 1,500 Euro Award Trophy ZEUS
Underground-Award 300 Euro
Best Film Composer Award

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

Films should be produced within the years 2016 to 2019. Raw preview versions of films completed by the end of 2019 or beginning of 2020 can also be recognized in exceptional cases. However, the preview version must be similar to the final version. Short films as well as feature films can be submitted.

All contents and genres are acceptable (except for advertisements, image and experimental films) as long as they do not imply any illegal exposures according to German StGB law (e.g. pornography, excessive violence or sedition etc.).

Low Budget production costs have to be below 2,500 Euro per minute run-time, feature films (60 minutes and longer) shall not have more than approx. 250,000 Euro total costs and short films up to 30 minutes not more than approx. 50,000 Euro. No Budget production costs have to be below 100 Euro per minute run-time, feature films (60 minutes and longer) shall not have more than approx. 10,000 Euro total costs and short films up to 30 minutes not more than approx. 2,500 Euro. Besides the actual production costs, other indications like production facilities or infrastructure (company or film academy) are considered as well for classification.

Screening copies (e. g. USB-Storage, harddisk, DVD), which you have sent to the festival will be delivered back to your official adress (or to the next festival) with a postal service of our choice. Please note that cannot influence the speed of delivery.

Films that have been formally submitted to us and selected by our program committee can not be withdrawn.

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