Izmir International Short Film Festival

izmir, Ege, Turkey, Asia

02 - 07 Nov, 2021

Academy Award ® Qualifying

Keywords

experimental, fiction, animation, Documentary

Category

Feature, Short

Genre

Documentary, Animation, Comedy, Romance, Sport, Action, Drama, Adult, Crime, Experimental, Fantasy, Historical/Epic, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western, Live-Action

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Izmir International Short Film Festival

izmir, Ege, Turkey, Asia

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General Information

founded

2000

edition

22nd

Contact details

Mimar Sinan Mah. Ali Çetinkaya Blv. No:70/601 Alsancak / İZMİR Alsancak izmir, Ege 35000 Turkey

35000

saygiyusuf@gmail.com

+90232-422-6626

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About the festival

22 nd International Izmir Short Film Festival
Izmir International Short Film Festival has been holding its place as being one of the greatest events in the field of movie in Turkey and it will meet its audience for the 22nd time this year. The festival is the first film festival that gave rewards to international short films. It began to show its movies in 2000 and since then it has been one of the most esteemed festivals between movie lovers.

Awards & Prizes

Best National Short Fiction Film Award
Best National Short Animation Award
Best National Short Documentary Award
Best National Short Experimental Award
Best International Short Fiction Film Award
Best International Short Animation Screening
Best International Short Documentary Screening
Best International Short Experimental Screening

About

22 nd International Izmir Short Film Festival
Izmir International Short Film Festival has been holding its place as being one of the greatest events in the field of movie in Turkey and it will meet its audience for the 22nd time this year. The festival is the first film festival that gave rewards to international short films. It began to show its movies in 2000 and since then it has been one of the most esteemed festivals between movie lovers.

Best National Short Fiction Film Award
Best National Short Animation Award
Best National Short Documentary Award
Best National Short Experimental Award
Best International Short Fiction Film Award
Best International Short Animation Screening
Best International Short Documentary Screening
Best International Short Experimental Screening

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

22nd INTERNATIONAL IZMIR SHORT FILM FESTIVAL APLLICATION TERMS
(Please note that IISFF's Oscar Qualification is valid for only national animation and fiction short films.),

1. IISFF application requires no charge.

2.Deadline for application is 03.8.2021.

3. No withdrawal is accepted after the official selection and/or competitive films are published.

4. Applicants are allowed to submit more than one film. You need to fill separate forms for each film.

5. The films that are selected for the competition by being utilized by the jury are announced on the official website (www.izmirkisafilm.org), facebook page (facebook.com/izmirkisafilmfestivali/). The owners of the films that are not selected will not be informed.

6. Films that are in national and international fiction, experimental, documentary and animation category are welcome to apply. The applicant should select the type of the film, yet the festival jury has all the rights to review and change.

7.Once the film is selected, applicant should upload the master copy of the film and the necessary files to a file sharing site. Films uploaded to video sharing sites like Youtube, Vimeo, etc... will not be accepted due to quality issues.

a.The master copy of the film matching specs below:
VIDEO OPTIONS :
Type: mpg2, vob, mov, mp4, bluray
Codec: MJPEG, Apple ProRes, H264, H265 Bitrate: 15 MBit/s or higher

b.English subtitle file (.srt) of the film

c.Film poster (A3 higher,.jpg format)

d.Trailer (Please check the format details above.)

8. Pre-selection jury, main jury or people of the festival team or their first degree relatives cannot apply for the festival.

9. Only one member of the creative teams of the films that are selected for competition section will be invited to the festival as a representer. Attendance date of the festival will be announced by the festival management.

10. Films are screened to the jury and the audience in the halls which are chosen by the festival management conveniently according to the programme.

11. IISFF committee may compound the categories with another one or may not open the ones, which do not have enough applications, for the competition.

12. There are two different screening types in IISFF as competition and official selection. The festival jury decide which one should be in which type.

13. The length of the film that is applied for IISFF cannot be longer than 30 minutes.

14. The festival committee has the right to use a 30-second-part of a film for promotion.

15.The date of the film that is applied for IISFF should beeither 2019 or 2020. The ones that belong to 2018 and earlier will be eliminated.

16. Additional non-commercial screenings of the film that is applied for IISFF during the festival and later for the cultural events, and also to send them to the other national and international festivals which IISFF is invited as guest festival, are automatically approved by the applicants. The applicants will be informed in these circumstances.

17. English subtitles should be embedded to the film (for non-English films) and the additional link of the subtitle should be attached to the application form.

18. It is allowed to add the information of 1 or 2 directors of each film to the application form. It is also valid for the ones with more than 2 directors.

19. Only films produced in 2020 and 2021 are eligible for 22nd IISFF. Older productions are not accepted.
20. The applicant is responsible for their copyrights.

This agreement has been drawn up with 19 clauses and cannot be changed.

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

Best National Fiction Short Film
Early Bird (1st April, 2021) $0
Regular (30th June, 2021) $0
Late (3rd August, 2021) $0
Runtime - 30 minutes
Age restriction No age restriction
Country Turkey
Director's age No restriction
Director's gender Any gender
Student films No
First films No

Best International Fiction Short Film
Early Bird (1st April, 2021) $10
Regular (30th June, 2021) $12
Late (3rd August, 2021) $14
Runtime - 30 minutes
Age restriction No age restriction
Country Afghanistan, Aland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas The, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Congo The Democratic Republic Of The, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Croatia (Hrvatska), Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji Islands, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia The, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey and Alderney, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard and McDonald Islands, Vatican City State (Holy See), Honduras, Hong Kong S.A.R., Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Man (Isle of), Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea South, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau S.A.R., Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestinian Territory Occupied, Panama, Papua new Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Island, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint-Martin (French part), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard And Jan Mayen Islands, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, East Timor, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad And Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turks And Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (US), Wallis And Futuna Islands, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Korea North, South Sudan, Kosovo
Director's age No restriction
Director's gender Any gender
Student films No
First films No

Best National Documentary Short Film
Early Bird (1st April, 2021) $0
Regular (30th June, 2021) $0
Late (3rd August, 2021) $0
Runtime - 30 minutes
Age restriction No age restriction
Country Turkey
Director's age No restriction
Director's gender Any gender
Student films No
First films No

documentary

Best National Animation Short Film
Early Bird (1st April, 2021) $0
Regular (30th June, 2021) $0
Late (3rd August, 2021) $0
Age restriction No age restriction
Country Turkey
Director's age No restriction
Director's gender Any gender
Student films No
First films No

animation

Best National Experimental Short Film
Early Bird (1st April, 2021) $8
Regular (30th June, 2021) $10
Late (3rd August, 2021) $12
Runtime - 30 minutes
Age restriction No age restriction
Country Turkey
Director's age No restriction
Director's gender Any gender
Student films No
First films No

experimental

Best International Short Animation Screening
Early Bird (1st April, 2021) $10
Regular (30th June, 2021) $12
Late (3rd August, 2021) $14
Runtime - 30 minutes
Age restriction No age restriction
Country Any country
Director's age No restriction
Director's gender Any gender
Student films No
First films No

animation

Best International Short Documentary Screening
Early Bird (1st April, 2021) $8
Regular (30th June, 2021) $10
Late (3rd August, 2021) $12
Runtime - 30 minutes
Age restriction No age restriction
Country Any country
Director's age No restriction
Director's gender Any gender
Student films No
First films No

documentary

Best International Short Experimental Screening
Early Bird (1st April, 2021) $8
Regular (30th June, 2021) $10
Late (3rd August, 2021) $12
Runtime - 30 minutes
Age restriction No age restriction
Country Afghanistan, Aland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas The, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Congo The Democratic Republic Of The, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Croatia (Hrvatska), Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji Islands, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia The, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey and Alderney, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard and McDonald Islands, Vatican City State (Holy See), Honduras, Hong Kong S.A.R., Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Man (Isle of), Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea South, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau S.A.R., Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestinian Territory Occupied, Panama, Papua new Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Island, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint-Martin (French part), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard And Jan Mayen Islands, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, East Timor, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad And Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turks And Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (US), Wallis And Futuna Islands, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Korea North, South Sudan, Kosovo
Director's age No restriction
Director's gender Any gender
Student films No
First films No

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