Dear Asian filmmakers, the SMIfest, Asian Moving Images Festival is accepting films until October 1, 2023.

About the festival:
SMIfest is the festival of Asian AV experimentation, art-house cinema, and art video from Asia that takes place in Madrid (Spain). It is especially dedicated to emerging Asian filmmakers and artists, but with an eye always on classics and pioneers. It is an ideal platform to present the most relevant and avant-garde current audiovisual works and creators from China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia. As well as making them dialogue with their emerging Spanish and Latin American colleagues.

Eligibility:
– The festival accepts short films (narrative and documentaries), animations (short and feature), and experimental films.
– Films made by Asian female filmmakers can be submitted to the ASIATICA section.
– Debut films from Asian filmmakers can be submitted to the FIRST section.
– Films must have been produced after January 1, 2021.
– Films must have Madrid Premiere.
– All the films selected by the Festival will be presented in their original version with subtitles in Spanish or English.
– Submission Fee: $ 11.20 USD via FilmFreeway | $ 9.2 USD via FestHome (Not counting platform fee)
– Deadline: October 1, 2023
– Notification Date: October 3, 2023

We recommend filmmakers to read the full Rules and Regulations here: https://smifest.com/submit-your-film/

To submit to the festival via FestHome: https://festhome.com/f/5846
To submit to the festival via FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/SMIF2023

We remind readers that the 7th SMIfest, Asian Moving Images Festival in Madrid will take place from October 8 – 15, 2023 in Madrid, Spain.

To see other Call for Entries please follow the next link: “Call for Entries”.