The Marienbad Film Festival is an international film festival based in Mariánské Lázně (Czechia) focusing on works of an experimental nature, marginal forms of cinema, contemporary moving image, and artistic & challenging films. It creates an opportunity for independent and experimental filmmakers and artists using the moving image to meet, but also aims to make more challenging films accessible to a wider audience.

The Marienbad Film Festival invites authors and authors' collectives to submit audiovisual works to two separate competitions: International Competition for Films of an Experimental Nature, International Competition of Audiovisual Essays and Videographic Criticism.

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1. International Competition for Films of an Experimental Nature:

▶ the call is open to projects within the broader definition of experimental film from the Czech Republic and abroad
▶ the runtime of the films must not exceed 60 minutes
▶ the work can and must be able to be screened in a cinema
▶ the production year must not be earlier than 2024

2. International Competition of Audiovisual Essays and Videographic Criticism

▶ the competition is open to audiovisual essays from the Czech Republic and abroad that meet the definition of an audiovisual essay that develops a form of academic research or film criticism through film.
▶ the aim of the section is to support videographic film studios and video essayists
▶ the production year must not be earlier than 2023

Selected projects will be presented in the Forum Marienbad section, which aims to expand the awareness of peripheral forms of film and the contemporary moving image in the following subsections: Forum Marienbad: Main Competition, Forum Marienbad: Audiovisual Essays.

Entry fee 10 €.

 ▶▶▶The deadline for entries is 31th of March 2025.◀◀◀

 Contact: festival@marienbadfilmfestival.com