19TH PRAGUESHORTS FILM FESTIVAL
FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 2, 2025 IN THE CINEMAS
MARCH 2 – 23, 2025 AT ONLINE PLATFORM KVIFF.TV
Article 1
The Pragueshorts Film Festival is a competitive festival of short films. Its aim is to contribute to the development and promotion of artistic short films and their production.
Article 2
The Festival is organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, a. s., located at Panska 1, 110 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic, Tel: +420 221 411 011, Fax: +420 221 411 033, E-mail: [email protected], www.pragueshorts.com
Article 3
The 19th Pragueshorts Film Festival will take place in Prague - February 26 – March 2, 2025 in the cinemas, March 2 - 23, 2025 at online platform KVIFF.TV.
Article 4
The Festival program includes the following:
International Competition of short films of up to 30 minutes
National Competition of short films of up to 30 minutes
Labo Competition of short experimental films of up to 30 minutes
Brutal Relax Show –non-competitive midnight program of short films up to 30 minutes
non-competitive informative film sections, retrospectives, biographies, tributes, programs for kids and other accompanying events. The length of films in non-competitive informative sections must not exceed 30 minutes.
Article 5
Film Submissions:
Submission fee:
Early Birds (with deadline for submissions until July 15, 2024) 15 EUR
Regular (with deadline for submissions until September 15, 2024): 25 EUR
Late (with deadline for submissions until October 15, 2024): 35 EUR
Only Master Card, Visa or Dinners Club payments will be accepted.
1/ International Competition
Short films with live action, animation or documentaries, covering any topic and running time of no more than 30 minutes are eligible for consideration. Submitted films must have been produced after January 2023.
2/ National Competition
Short films with live action, animation or documentaries, covering any topic and running time of no more than 30 minutes are eligible for consideration. Submitted film must have been produced after January 2024 and the production company has to be located in Czech Rep.
3/ Labo Competition
Short experimental films running time of no more then 30 minutes are eligible for consideration. Submitted film must have been produced after January 2023.
4/ Midnight Program –non-competitive program
All horror genres, bizzare stories or even disasterpieces up to 30 minutes running time are welcome! Submitted film must have been produced after January 2023.
No submission fee.
Article 6
Films will be selected by an expert committee acting as an advisory board to the Program Director. The committee, under the authority of the Program Director, will determine the program schedule and set the screening order of the films.
Accepted films may not be withdrawn from the Festival Program after official selection confirmation.
Applicants may submit their films as online screeners via entry form without any temporal limitation.
All spoken non-English films must include English subtitles.
Article 7
Screening copies of selected films (only digital deliveries of DCP or HD files with English subtitles) intended for screening at the Festival must be sent to the Festival by February 10, 2025. There will be no exceptions to this deadline. All participants must follow instructions for shipping of (film) copies that will be sent to the participants together with the notification on film’s inclusion in the 19th Pragueshorts Film Festival program.
Article 8
The Festival must receive a detailed documentation for each selected film, whether for a competition or for a non-competitive section, including the following: a synopsis of the film, stills of the film, a biography and filmography of the director, an original dialogue list and its translation into English, a full list of artistic and technical credits, and an online screener.
Participation at the Festival requires submission of a film teaser, preferably in electronic form, or granting an authorisation to the Festival to produce such a teaser at the Festival’s expense to facilitate the film promotion. The length of the teasers shall not exceed 10% of the film or three minutes, as the maximum length. The participant hereby grants his/her consent to the teaser being broadcast on the Czech or international TVs and on the Internet.
Article 9
The Juries will be composed of prominent representatives of culture, film production, film theory, film critics, as well as filmmakers and producers. Individuals who participated in the making of any of the competition films are not eligible to become members of the Jury. All Jury Members are sworn to secrecy. The Festival Program Director or his representative may attend the Jury deliberations, but may take no part in the voting.
Article 10
Within the International Competition, the Jury shall present the following awards:
Grand Prix and EUR 3,000 for Best Short Film
Further, the Jury may award the following:
two Special Jury Mentions
Within the National Competition, the Jury shall present the following awards:
Grand Prix and EUR 2,000 for Best Short Film
Further, the Jury may award the following:
two Special Jury Mentions
Within Labo Competition - the experimental films section, the Jury shall present the following award:
Grand Prix and EUR 1,000 for the Best Experimental Film
Further, the Jury may award the following:
one Special Jury Mentions
Financial awards will go to the director of the winning films and may not be attributed ex-aequo.
Article 11
Any unclear situations or cases not covered by these Regulations shall be resolved by the Management of the Prague Short Film Festival.
Article 12
Participation at the Festival is subject to acceptance of the Regulations set out herein.
Karel Spěšný, Program Director