Sopot Film Festival ()

Festival start: 10 July 2021      Festival end: 18 July 2021

Sopot Film Festival is an international film festival that has been organized since 2001. The Festival's rich programe consists of numerous film shows, meetings with filmmakers, exhibitions, workshops, silent cinema live concerts and music events. The Festival presents works of the European cinema as well as the recent and most interesting world cinema productions and world cinema classics. It introduces a variety of film productions as well as renowned directors and their work to the public. It also outlines some of the latest cinema trends. Each year movies awarded at the most well-known film festivals in the world such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam, Sundance and Toronto are being presented at the Festival.

The Festival aims at familiarizing the public with film premieres as well as those pictures that have never been broadly distributed in Poland or have only been screened at film festivals. Filmmakers, industry reps and cinema lovers from Poland and abroad come to the Festival each year. With each edition it has been more and more widely commented on by the local media and Poland-wide as well as abroad and by the film industry media. It also attracts more and more accredited journalists.

Different Sopot Film Festival events are taking place simultaneously in some of the most important cultural venues of the city. Film screenings, meetings with filmmakers and workshops are organized in Multikino, Sopot National Art Gallery, Scena Kameralna Theatre, Na Plazy Theatre and in the Sopot Forest Opera.

Best Feature movie
Best DOC.PL
Best Short movie
Best Director
Best Cinematographer
Audience Award

To be found on festival website: www.sff.pl

1-2 COMPETITION/ International feature competition

Section devoted to the first and second feature movies produced after the 1st of January 2019.

All kinds and genres not shorter than 60 mins.

All films need to have English subtitles.

Submission deadline: 15 April 2021

DOK.PL COMPETITION / Polish full length docs competition

Section devoted to documentary movies from Poland (or filmed in Poland), not shorter than 40 min, produced after the 1st of January 2019.

All films need to have English subtitles.

Submission deadline: 15 April 2021

SHORT COMPETITION

This sections are meant for short movies, features and animations from all over the world. We will present commerial, artistic and independent productions. We are looking for works influenced by achievements of the digital world of the 21st century – Internet, cyberspace, new trends in design, fashion and public space, global TV and other inventions of a today’s world. From classic feature, through experimental impressions and 3D animation.

Section for films produced after the 1st of January 2019.

Submission deadline: 1 April 2021

All films need to have English subtitles.

Submission Pack should contain:

– screener on-line (Vimeo, youtube, etc. / please do not use Wetransfer or Mega – use only streaming platforms/services)

– Filled in and signed entry form (send it to: biuro[at]sopotfilmfestival.pl) or via e-form