Golden Knight Malta International Short Film Festival (63)



Deadlines

01 Jan 2025
Call for entries

31 Mar 2025
Early deadline

30 Sep 2025
Standard deadline

15 Oct 2025
Late deadline

25 Oct 2025
Extended deadline

9
mths

09 Nov 2025
Notification date

29 Nov 2025
29 Nov 2025

Address

PO Box 450 GPO,  MRS1000, Marsa, -, Malta


Festival description
Short film festival >1' 30'<


Festival requirements
 Film festival
 Fiction
 Documentary
 Animation
 Fantastic
 Terror
 Experimental
 Music Video
 Other
 Any Genre
 Any Theme
 Has submission fees
 International Festival
 Physical Location
 Production date: Any
 Production countries: Any
 Shooting countries: Any
 Director nationalities: Any
 Debut Films 
 School projects 
 Short Films  >1' 30'<
 Any language
 Subtitles 
English
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Festival start: 29 November 2025      Festival end: 29 November 2025

One of the longest running film festivals of its kind worldwide. It is a short film festival open to non-professional productions, film school students as well as commercial productions. It is held annually during the last week of November.


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The award consists of a 10 inc (26 cm.) gold plated statuette.

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62nd GOLDEN KNIGHT AWARD WINNERS - OFFICIAL RESULTS 2024
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- THE CAP - by Claude Neuray - Belgium
- IN HALF - by Jorge Morais Valle - Spain
- COOKIE BOX - by Adam Żurawiecki - Malta
- TEHRAN IS OURS - by Hamideh Azimi - U S A
- THE SERVICE - by Andrej Sepetkovski - Serbia

The following productions were awarded a
HIGHLY COMMENDED CERTIFICATE by the Festival Jury

- MAR – by Joaquín Carmona Hidalgo- Spain
- UNTIL HE'S BORN - by Qingxuan Wang- China
- NAILED IT! - by Luke Vella Clark- Malta
- AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES - by Rene Brar- Canada

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Organized by the Malta Cine Circle
www.goldenknightmalta.org
macc@goldenknightmalta.org

1. The Golden Knight Malta International Short Film Festival is organized by the Malta Cine Circle and is open to non-commercial,film school students and commercial productions.

2. Entries are not to exceed 30 minutes duration

3. Only one production may be registered on each submission. Each Video clip/disc must contain only one entry.

4. Productions entered in previous Golden Knight Festivals are not eligible to participate.

5. The Organizers solely recognize as the entrant the signatory of the Entry Form.

6. Titles/credits must not have indications of previous awards or of merits pertaining to the production.

7. Limited inserts from commercial productions are allowed, if, in the opinion of the judges, these are directly relevant to the development of the script.

8. If dialogue is not in english language, (if in a language other than english), It is expected that english burn-in subtitles are included.

9. The productions, together with their copyright, remain the property of the producers. The Organizers, however, reserve the right to exhibit the entry to the public for publicity purposes of the Festival and to make copies for the archives.

10. Copyright clearance is the responsibility of the Entrant.

11. The Organizers will appoint a panel of judges whose decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

12. Any attempt by the entrant, directly or indirectly, to influence the organizers towards a favourable assessment of their production will disqualify the entry.

13. All entries will be handled with extreme care, however, the Organisers will not accept any liability for the loss of or damage to the media/DVD's, etc.

14. The decision of the Organizers, as to the interpretation of these rules, is final.

15. Closing Dates: Entry Forms, video clips /DVD's, etc.. are to reach the Festival Secretary by not later than the Regular deadline, 30th September 2025.


Visit the Facebook link below to watch the 2024 presentation of awards.


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Festival Chairman: Vincent Lungaro-Mifsud
Phone: +356 27418387 | +356 9946 0866

Festival Secretary : Edgar Ciancio
Phone: +356 9947 2513


OFFICIAL ADDRESS:
The Malta Cine Circle – c/o The Festival Secretary
PO Box 450 GPO Marsa MRS 1000 – MALTA
email: macc@goldenknightmalta.org

Organised by the Malta Cine Circle
www.goldenknightmalta.org





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