STATUS OF THE COMPETITION OF FEATURE-LENGHT FILMS FROM V4 COUNTRIES, AUSTRIA AND UKRAINE
"IN THE HEART OF EUROPE"
as part of the International Film Festival FEBIOFEST BRATISLAVA

Art. I

Application criteria

There are always 10 feature films (feature, documentary, animated or experimental) participating in the competition, which meet the following conditions:

• minimum duration of 60 minutes
• the year of production cannot be older than 2 years from the current edition (i.e. in the case of the 2024 edition, © 2022 and © 2023 are also acceptable)
• at least one represented country must be a minority producer within the meaning of the European Convention on Film Co-productions: V4 (Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland), Austria or Ukraine
• the representation of individual countries in the competition may not be equal
• films that were part of the selection in previous years cannot enter the competition
• films do not have to meet a specific premiere status

Art. II

Pre-selection of competition works and its closing date

The pre-selection of competition titles is ensured by a selection committee consisting of three permanent members of the festival's organizing staff. In all cases, the selection must be based on consultations conducted with well-founded and generally respected film experts - guarantors for the given cinematographic territory, and thus responsible for the objective assessment of the quality of the selected works and their suitability for inclusion in the final competition selection. The pre-selection of 10 competitive works must be concluded by January 30 of the given year by announcing the selected/non-selected titles to the competition.

Art. III

Basic principles of selection

The decisive criteria in the assessment and selection of works for the festival competition are clearly their film quality and artistic value. Gender or genre affiliation, chosen theme, creative method and specific technique are not taken into account at all in this context. The intention followed during the selection of competition titles is definitely not to achieve an overall balanced representation of feature, documentary, animated and experimental works, but to compile the best possible set of feature films representing the current film production of the cinemas of the individual countries mentioned above.

Art. IV

International jury

The jury of the festival is made up of three members and its composition is international - they are ideally representatives from outside the countries participating in the competition, in order to ensure the greatest possible objectivity in the selection process. Jury members are appointed by the program director of the festival for only one year of the competition, so the membership of a specific jury cannot be repeated more than once. A representative of a foreign film festival, film sales, filmmaker, film historian or theoretician, or a publicist with many years of experience can be appointed to the position of judge. professional interest significantly affects the field of cinematography. On the other hand, a person who participated in any way in the creation of one of the competition films may not be a member of the jury.

Art. IN

Grand prize and announcement of results

The main and at the same time the only prize of the competition is the FEBIOFEST Prize associated with a financial bonus in the amount of €2,000. It is awarded to the majority producer of the winning film, who, based on their vote and the final verdict determined by the expert competition jury. The jury will announce the results of the competition and the winning title during the closing ceremony of the Bratislava part of the festival. At the same time, the jury can decide to award a "special recognition" to one of the films. The number of special recognitions per year is limited to 1.

Peter Dubecký

President of the International Film Festival FEBIOFEST BRATISLAVA

November 2023 Bratislava