Vienna Independent Shorts

International independent festival for short film, animation & music video.

Fiction Documentary Animation

About

Being the largest short film festival of Austria and the Euroregion of Centrope, its primary task is to represent international short film to its fullest extent. Testing creative possibilities of how to make short film more popular is one signature feature of VIS, being always open to cooperations with numerous European partners is another.

The festival unites decades of deeply rooted Austrian avant-garde short film tradition and an unbiased perspective on fictional and documentary films. A separate programme section with an annually changing thematic focus offers additional possibilities of emphasizing the uniqueness of the festival.

As the only Academy Award qualifying festival in Austria, films at VIS also have the opportunity to qualify directly for the Academy Award's long list.

Awards

Each competition has its own international expert jury and its own awards. In addition two grand jury prizes are awarded to the best fictional film and the best animated film of all competitions. The grand jury prizes qualify the awarded films for the Academy Awards® (Oscars® )

The total in cash prizes in each competition:

Fiction & Documentary: EUR 5000
Animation Avantgarde: EUR 3050
Austrian Competition: EUR 7000
International Music Video Competition: tba
Austrian Music Video Competition: 1000
VR the world: EUR 1050

Rules

All films with a running time of 30 minutes or less are eligible for submission.
The film was finished on or after the 1st of January 2023.
Films can be submitted via the online platforms.

Screening Media Type: 35 mm, 16 mm, DCP

Audio language: any

Subtitles language: English

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Documents

Filmfestivallife submission

Festhome submission

Filmfreeway submission

Regulations 2024

Place

Austria
Vienna