61st VIENNALE International Film Festival
Call for entries
(Features)
The Viennale International Film Festival is currently accepting entries for its 2021 edition.
Please note that all films must be submitted directly to the festival.
- Competitive: No
- Submission fees: No
Eligibility
- Must not have been released in Austria prior to the festival;
- Screening format: 70mm, 35mm, 16mm, S-8, Beta SP, Digi Beta, HDCam, DCP;
- Feature length fiction films (over 40 minutes) and documentaries;
- If the original language of production is not English, the film must be subtitled in English or German;
- Only films completed or premiered not before October 1, 2020, may be submitted.
Information and registration process
About
The Viennale is Austria’s most important international film event, as well as one of the oldest and best-known festivals in the German-speaking world. Every October, the Viennale takes place in beautiful cinemas in Vienna’s historic center, providing the festival with an international orientation and a distinctive urban flair. A high percentage of the more than 92,000 visitors to the festival from Austria and abroad is made up of a decidedly young audience.
In its main program, the Viennale shows a carefully picked selection of new films from all over the globe as well as from Austria, some of them international premieres. The choice of about 300 films offers a cross-section of bold film-making which stands apart from the aesthetics of mainstream conventionality and is politically relevant.
The Viennale receives regular international acclaim for the large-scale retrospective on relevant aspects of film history it organizes every year in collaboration with the Austrian Filmmuseum, its numerous special programs, as well as for its tributes and homage dedicated to important personalities and institutions in film-making. The conclusion of the festival sees the awarding of the FIPRESCI Prize of the International Film Critics’ Association, the Vienna Film Prize of the City of Vienna, the Erste Bank MoreVALUE Filmaward and the DER STANDARD-Viennale-Audience-Award.
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