Blog: Film festivals

Theme 2016 – Hotel Stories:
This year's International Bavarian Short Film Festival revolves around the topic "Hotel Stories". We are looking for a very special, extraordinary, creative, funny, touching encounter in a hotel. The hotel could be your filming location or the golden thread in the story. We are looking forward to receiving short films from all over the world.

Save these dates:
You can submit your film anytime before 31st May 2016, 23:59 hrs CET. The servers will close down automatically after that date. And on 15th July 2016 (expected date) the International Bavarian Short Film Festival will open its doors. The short films will be shown to an international audience and will be awarded with prizes of up to 4,000 € by a renowned jury.

Films and formats:
You can submit short films with the topic "Hotel Stories" that are a maximum of 20 minutes long and come in one of the following formats: 35mm, 16mm, Blu-ray, DVD (NO HD files). We will only need your film in one of the above formats for presentation once it has been selected for the festival. We can only accept films if they have been submitted to shortfilmdepot or via our portal before the above-mentioned date.