Festival start: 01 September 2020
Festival end: 06 September 2020
Through cinematic, humanistic and visionary perspectives, the Gothenburg Arab Film Festival starts from the Bride of Scandinavia, a cultural space that knows no boundaries to explore identity in the Arab world and the Diaspora through documentaries and short feature films by Arab directors, or by directors from other countries working on issues affecting the Arab world.
The main aim of the festival is to create opportunities for joint dialogue between Arab and foreign filmmakers to promote a culture of tolerance and to reject a culture of hatred, violence.
The festival spotlight documentaries and short fiction describing, analyzing and explaining deep problems in the Arab world, highlighting in particular fears faced by Arab citizens.
At Göteborg Arab Film Festival we are pleased to receive a wide range of audiovisual work, video/sound art, film, and new media work will be accepted: experimental, documentary, animation, narrative, non-narrative, multimedia, virtual reality, augmented reality, net art, interactive media, etc.
Rules
2 ° Göteborg Arab Film Festival 2020
Göteborg Arab Film Festival 2020 calls on all Arab directors, all over the world to participate in its upcoming version to be held from September the 15st to September the 20th, 2020.
The festival announces that its version 2020 will be digital via streaming, due to the outbreak of the new Coronavirus. The films will be broadcast on our website, hoping to show films in the In cinema halls at the end of the pandemic
ARTICLE 1: APPLICATION
Applicant films must meet the following criteria:
FILE FORMAT FOR EXHIBITION: All films must be available for display in at least one of the following Digital Archive, (Apple ProRes), MOV,mp4.
PRODUCTION DATE: For all competitions at Gaff, only films completed from 1 January 2017 onwards will be eligible to participate. Works made prior to this date will not be accepted.
LANGUAGE: All films must be with English subtitles.
ARTICLE 2: ABOUT THE COMPETITION CATEGORIES
GAAF CATEGORYS:
a) NON FICTION FEATURE FILMS: a minimum running time of 40 minutes.
b) NON FICTION SHORT FILMS: a minimum running time of 5 minutes.
c) FICTION SHORT FILMS: a minimum running time of 5 minutes.
b) EXPERIMENTAL AND NEW MEDIA
c) The Festival Selection Committee reserves the result of creating other parallel competitive sections.
THE SELECTED FILMS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE COMPETITION THAT THE SELECTION COMMITTEE CONSIDERS APPROPRIATE.
ARTICLE 3: INSCRIPTION SHEET
The producer, director, or anyone who holds the film’s exhibition rights should be the one making the application.
In completing the Registration Form, the applicant declares:
• It is well understood from the REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS that the film in question fits fully with the regulatory dispositions of the category it applies.
• The producers holds the exhibit rights, and grants GAFF the authorization to exhibit the film if selected to compete.
• It authorizes the festival to use press materials, such as photographs and trailers, for promotion and broadcasting in case it is selected to compete.
• The producer declares to own the film exhibition’s rights and therefore authorizes AMALIA, ART AND CULTURE FOUNDATION and GAFF to exhibit the film in the framework described above, regardless of any liability or conflict involving third parties.
ARTICLE 4: APPLICATION DEADLINES
The final reception date of any application is 15 Jul 2020. To this date, the applicant must have filled in the registration form and sent an available digital copy of the film via FESTHOME platform.
ARTICLE 5: ABOUT THE SELECTION
The applicants films will be preselected and selected by the GAFF Programming Team.
During this process, the Programming Team will decide in which competitive sections the selected films will participate.
The festival will notify selected works during the last week of July and will publish on its website (http://www.gaff.se) the list of selected films.
The decision of the programming team is unappealable.
ARTICLE 6: EXHIBITION RIGHTS
The registration supposes the acceptance of the regulations and requirements, and the authorization to exhibit the selected work at GAFF 2020. Once the film is inscribed, it cannot be withdrawn from the application process. Once selected, the film cannot be removed from the festival program.
GAFF ARCHIVE: All films selected will be available in DVD format and / or digital archive on a hard disk, to be part of the “GAFF Archive”, which will be available for consultation only on the basis of educational or research purposes, at the the arab movie library at AMALIA, ART AND CULTURE FOUNDATION.
ARTICLE 7: ABOUT THE JURY
The Festival Organization will select the jury committees according to the following conditions:
The jury committees will be made up of a minimum of three members, all of them with prestige and recognition in their work areas, both national and international.
People who have interests in the production and / or exploitation of films in competition will not be part of the respective juries.
The votes of the jury will be secret and the decisions will be taken in a simple majority. The members of the jury oath not to publicly express their opinions regarding the films before the announcement of the official results are released.
Any conflict (organizational or operational) not foreseen in the present regulation will be resolved by the Festival Committee. In case of absence or inability of any member of the jury, the Festival Committee will look for an adequate replacement. If the jury member in question cannot be replaced, then the festival’s director will take her/his place.
The decision of the jury is unappealable.
ARTICLE 9: REGULATIONS ACCEPTANCE
The registration of a film in the competitive section of the Festival indicates the whole acceptance of this regulation. Any issue covered in this regulation and its interpretation will be resolved, without any subjection to appeal, by the The Festival Committee only.
GAFF reserves the right to make the decisions it deems appropriate for those cases not foreseen in the bases stipulated above.
For more information contact us via email on: Info@gaff.se or on our social networks.
