Moscow Asian Film Festival

About

The Moscow Asian Film Festival features work produced by filmmakers of Asian decent as well as stories about Asian culture and heritage. We will be accepting submissions from asian filmmakers, directors, writers, majority asian crew and/or asian stories.

The festival will primarily support Asian filmmakers to showcase their talents. The event will show short to full length movies and documentaries of Asian cultural, social and historical significance by Asian as well as non-Asian filmmakers. The festival will host filmmakers for a reception and audience engagement. The festival will be a marquee event for the city with support from Big Asia TV-chanel with the goal to promote asian films in Russia.

Festival features live screenings in Global Cinema in Moscow with six 100 – seat theaters with laser DLP projectors and JBL speakers throughout the venue, delivering top notch quality in an intimate screening environment. Filmmakers whose work is accepted into our festival will receive free passes to screenings, invitations to networking events and are eligible for awards consideration.

MAFF is organized and produced by Valery Shanin’s Film Club and Big Asia TV-chanel with generous financial support from private donors.
All best films that were selected for the screening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on March 14 – 16, 2025 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the “Best film”. As well as for the prizes in the standalone nominations.

Awards

• Best Asian Feature Film
• Best Asian Narrative Short
• Best Asian Feature Documentary
• Best Asian Short Documentary
• Best Asian Feature Animation
• Best Asian Animated Short
• Best Asian Music Video
• Best Asian TV Pilot/Web Series Episode
• Best Asian Ai-generated film
• Best Asian Feature Film Screenplay
• Best Asian Short Film Screenplay
• Best Asian Director
• Best Asian Cinematography

The winners will receive the Moscow Asian Film Festival Trophy.

Rules

1. We accept International films.
2. Categories include Feature Film, Short Narrative, Student Shorts, Feature Animation, Short Animation, Feature Documentary, Short Documentary, Music Video.
3. Each film must be entered for one of the competitions named above. In some cases, though, the selection committees reserve the right to assign it to another competition or special programme.
4. Films in languages other than English (or Russian) will only be accepted with English (or Russian) subtitles.
5. All types of fllms are accepted. 
6. We have no minimum length limit.
7. Films must have been completed after 1 January 2020.
8. All submissions will be viewed in their entirety by at least three judges. Submissions will be judged and scored based on criteria including: quality of screenplay (story, dialogues etc), acting, production quality, originality, technical proficiency, cinematography, sound design, editing, location/s used and set design.
9. The directors of submitted films that are accepted will be notified via e-mail. There will be a list of accepted films on our website www.mosfilmfest.ru.
10. Moscow Asian Film Festival will screen Finalist Films at our Annual Event.
11. We work hard to keep our submission fees as low as possible – consequently we cannot provide fee waivers.
12. Moscow Asian Film Festival has no festival premiere eligibility requirements. Films that have screened at other festivals are still eligible.
13. Moscow Asian Film Festival has no public or internet broadcast eligibility requirements. If your short has screened on Vimeo etc, it is still eligible.

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Festival President: Valery Shanin

Festival Director: Irina Spirina

Festival Programming Director: Slava Krasko

Pr-manager: Alina Fedulova