Festival Data:

• Established: 2003
• Genre: General
• Total Number of Films Screened: 200

• Competitive
• Retrospective
• Has Panels
• Has Seminars
• Workshops

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

TOFIFEST is one of the fastest developing film festivals in Poland. The event focuses on the presentation of feature films, with emphasis on young cinema, made outside the commercial system, and on artists' debuts and on their second films. The Festival's catchwords are "independent films - independent thinking" and "the festival for dreamers". Tofifest presents cinema, which is called by media "an immodest cinema." Film screenings are accompanied by many workshops, concerts, theatrical spectacles, dancing party, and meetings with the stars of European cinema.

During the festival there are several Competitions:

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for The Best Full-length Feature Film -Golden Angel + money award. For feature films longer than 60 minutes.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for The Best Short Feature Film -Grand Prix: Golden Angel + money award. For feature films longer than 60 minutes.

FORWARD - International Competition for the Best Feature Film -especially Debut or Second/Third Film for the filmmakers who break the schemes and will to shape the future of cinema

POLISH COMPETITION

Since previous edition films awarded at TOFIFEST are distributed across cinemas on a regular basis due to the Vivarto Film company’s partaking in the organization of the Festival, winners of TOFIFEST are screened in Polish cinemas. See: www.vivarto.pl .

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Submission formats: Beta-SP, Digi-Beta, 16mm, 35mm, DVD, MiniDV
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.tofifest.pl/ en/ news/ 54