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Festival start: 20 January 2017      Festival end: 22 January 2017

Euregion Shorts Film Festival offers you a three-days festival experience with the best films from all over the world (maximum duration: 20 minutes, every genre), an award show, workshops, seminars and more.

For the traveling program, every two months an event will be organized in a different city in the Euregion in which the best and most remarkable films from the Meuse-Rhine Euregion will be screened. Each event, an experienced professional will be invited to share his or her knowledge.

Every January, a closing festival program will be presented. This program contains selections of films from all over the world, workshops, seminars, meeting corners, an award show and more. If your film is selected, you are automatically in the running for several prizes during the festival.

Euregion Shorts aims to connect professionals, filmmakers and the public in an international context in the unique Crossborder region of the Netherlands: the part of Limburg.

Cash Prizes: 500$

Films in the Euregion Shorts competition:

ESFF Award for Best Euregional Short Film

Films in all selections:

ESFF Award for Best Film
ESFF Award for Best Director
ESFF Award for Best Script
ESFF Award for Best Actor
ESFF Award for Best Camera
ESFF Award for Best Music

Audience Award for Best Film
Special Jury Prize

Requirements

1. Films must be completed after 1 January, 2012.

2. The maximum running time is 20 minutes (including credits)

3. Films in every genre can be submitted (e.d. fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and more).

4. For Euregion Shorts competition only: the origin of the film must be (geographical) Euregion Meuse-Rhine* or the director, writer or producer is from the Euregion Meuse Rhine. If your film matches this criterium, please send in in this categorie.

5. Titles produced in languages other than English must have legible English subtitles or dubbed in English. Preferably, also English spoken films contain English subtitles.

6. Submissions only via Festhome.com, with online screeners.

7. For the viewings at the festival digital files are allowed. We will contact you about this when your film is selected.

8. By submitting your film, you automatically accept the regulations of the festival.

9. E-mails with questions regarding waiving the submission fee will not be answered. We respect your work, please also respect ours.

10. For full regulations and requirements please visit www.euregionshorts.eu.

* The Meuse–Rhine Euregion contains: Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg (Belgium), Province of Liège (Belgium), Deutsch Sprachige Gemeinschaft (Belgium), Region Aachen, Cologne and Düsseldorf (Germany).