Mikrofilm Short Festival

About

The festival is open to anyone willing to submit short-films, either as an individual contestant or as a group. No country restriction. The festival will ONLY show short films complying with Film Noir. This includes both animation and fiction.

Awards

• Best Short Film Award: €2000
• Audience Award: €800
• Best Basque film: €1000

Rules

Short films must not exceed 20 minutes.

The festival will ONLY show short films complying with Film Noir. This includes both animation and fiction (Comedy, thriller, science fiction, horror, animation).

Aesthetics:

• Prevalence of night or day sequences of intense contrast (color, climate, etc.), 
• Photography that emphasizes chiaroscuros, shadows, penumbra, etc., 
• Rain, fog, cold or other oppressive environments, 
• Animation adhering to the foregoing criteria will also be accepted.

Content:

• Critical view of politics and society, 
• A dual view of reality,
• Corruption, fatal passions, 
• Femme fatale, violent men, 
• Unsolved mysteries, 
• The doom of destiny, 
• Flashback as a narrative resource, 
• Animation with the aforementioned content.

Selection Media Type: online

Audio language: original

Subtitles language: Spanish

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement