YARAT SHORTS – INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL / OPEN CALL FOR FILMMAKERS

OPEN CALL FOR FILMMAKERS

YARAT Contemporary Art Space launches an open call for emerging and mid-career Azerbaijani filmmakers who would love their short feature films to be screened in the frames of a newly established YARAT Shorts Festival to be launched this year.

PROJECT GOAL

Our goal is to have a platform for emerging talent from Azerbaijan, Georgia and UK, provide visibility for local filmmakers and audiences for films. We will explore how today’s cinematography is shaped by our reality and how cinematography shapes who we are. We will realize our mission through open air/indoors screenings in all YARAT venues and a program of educational events (workshops/lectures/talks) by international directors, scriptwriters, actors.

Our intention is also to screen directorial debuts and empower young filmmakers through intensive trainings.

CATEGORIES

Films, to be screened this year should somehow touch upon the following themes:

• Women and their role in society.
• Solitude and self-growth
• Memory and mental landscapes

Deadline for submitting your film: August 20, 2023

If interested, please, send a private link to your film to info@yarat.az

Selected films will be screened in September

PARTNERS: 

Georgian entry will be provided by Nino Anjaparidze from Tbilisi International Film Festival (Cinema Art Center Prometheus).

British cinematography will be represented by winners of BAFTA Film Awards (partnership will be enabled by British Council).

MAIN CRITERIA

To be eligible for participation your film should also comply with the preselection conditions:

• Any film or video project originating from Azerbaijan or co-produced/directed/written by Azerbaijani cinematographers with a running time of less than 30 minutes, including credits. This includes scripted or improvisational fiction, experimental film or video and animation.
• Short films have no premiere requirements or prior screening restrictions that impact Festival eligibility and may have been screened at any number of festivals or other public theatrical exhibitions, broadcast or streamed on television or the Internet, and/or released via any home video or other public distribution platform anywhere in the world.