Festival Data:

• Genre: Experimental - New Media (click to see)
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 1127
• Total Number of Films Screened: 300

• Competitive
• Students Section
• Has Panels
• Has Seminars

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

Fresh Film Fest is an international competitive film festival, which focuses on student and first feature films. The festival is a follow-up to the more than 30-year old tradition of CILECT RIFE International Student Film Festival held in Karlovy Vary with extensive contacts with the most prominent film schools (VGIK, FEMIS, FAMU, NFTS, Columbia) in the region.

In 5 days, with 7 screening venues and services of Hotel Thermal Festival Centre, the festival aims to provide a wide portrait of contemporary young world cinema. Up to 300 films in five competitive sections of the Official Selection are screened during the festival. Special film programs and feature film openings are accompanying the student and first films selection.

Fresh Film Fest offers a combination of unique conditions. It is held in Karlovy Vary, a town that annually hosts an A-category international film festival and therefore provides excellent festival facilities and up-to-date cinema halls. Fresh Film Fest is also a partner event of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and it originates from the expansion of the former Student Films section. The organizing teams of both festivals widely overlap. Fresh Film Fest is then capable of offering facilities and possibilities rivaling Berlinale Talent Campus or Cannes Cinéfondation, including a cinema hall seating 1000 together with five other cinemas that are available to festival participants.

Fresh Film Fest also offers a program for festival programmers, film curators and distributors interested in student and short films and first films. It consists of a series of screenings and services allowing further professional work with films presented in the Fresh Film Fest's Official Selection as well as another 1000 recent titles submitted for festival consideration.

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / en.freshfilmfest.net/ 128-filmmakers/ 129-festival-statute