Zurich Arab Film Festival and a Chance to Win Valuable Prizes in Switzerland

Film Free Way invites filmmakers to participate in the 6th Arab Film Festival in Zurich from November 17-27, 2022.

The Arab Film Festival Zurich aims to promote personal filmmaking of artistic merit; to provide a showcase for major new films of the past two years from around the Arab world. The Arab Film Festival Zurich is organized every two years by the association IAFFZ and the Filmpodium Zurich.

The program includes short and full-length features, documentaries, animation, and experimental films exploring social, cultural, and political issues. Discussions with the invited filmmakers also offer the audience the opportunity to discuss films and topics further.

• Best Film.
• Best Director.

• The festival will screen documentaries, feature films, short films, and animated films.
• All works selected for the festival must be screened in their original language with English, German, and/or French subtitles.
• Production of selected films must have been completed within 30 months preceding their festival screening.
• In order to qualify for selection, films must not have been previously screened in the German-speaking part of Switzerland (Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Winterthur, etc).
• Works that are solely promotional, educational, or scientific in character are not eligible for selection in the festival.
• Each feature-length film participating in the festival should ideally be represented by its director. The festival undertakes to provide accommodation for these filmmakers in accordance with its hospitality regulations.
• The festival will cover all costs of transportation and customs clearance for both outgoing and return screening copy shipments. It will contact the participant in due time to clarify all the details.
• As far as possible, the festival will respect the wishes of participants concerning the return shipment of their films. The festival accepts no liability for any forwarding errors that may result from a lack of instructions, or from erroneous information provided by the participant. In principle, films will not be returned before the end of the festival. As a rule, films will be returned to participants within two weeks following the end of the festival.
• Any claims or queries arising from the return of a film sent to the festival must reach the festival by e-mail (info@filmpodium.ch) no later than three days after the film has been received.
• All prints will be insured by the festival during transportation to and from the festival against any loss or damage that may occur.
• The festival may refuse to allow the participation of any film that fails to meet the technical requirements for a public screening of good quality.

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