Sahar International Short Film Festival
01 Jul 2025
Call for entries
26 Oct 2025
Festival closed
11 Dec 2025
Notification date
12 Dec 2025
20 Dec 2025
Festival start: 12 December 2025 Festival end: 20 December 2025
The Sahar International Short Film Festival is a platform for art and poetic filmmakers, animator, documentary makers..., who are working in drama and fiction from around the world to showcase and encourage passionate emerging or established filmmakers.
Award Certificate for all selected films
Submission is Free of Charge
Terms and Conditions
- Genres: all genres are accepted
- The Films quality: High definition, 4k, 2k Mobile format
-Duration of Film and video : 1 to 22 minutes.
- English subtitles is required for Foreign language films.
- Please send your Film via Dropbox, Vimeo and YouTube along with the film trailer to the festival's email address.
This year Festival is online and we will announce the name of selected films and stream only the trailers.
- Production date has no limitation but priority is with current year and premiere Films.
Closing date extended to 2oth of November 2025
Thank you for your participation.
The 12th Sahar International Short Film Festival 2025
Team
Executive Director, President and Organiser:
Mandana, Sahar Ansari and Martin Gleeson
No Fee
Submissions deadline
26 Oct 25
Films produced outside of the UK and/or in non-English language are classified as International.
Films produced in the UK in English language are classified as National.
