Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF)
14th edition
9 - 14 January 2025
Terms and Conditions:
• Official Competitions: The film director must be African, and the film's events must take place in Africa, or the film's subject must be related to the African continent. The "African Diaspora " competition accepts entries from African directors or those of African descent living outside Africa and films about Africa from a global perspective (directors from outside the continent). The films can compete in one of the following categories:
1. Official Competition: Long Documentary and Long Narrative Films (more than 60 minutes).
2. Short Film Competition: Includes short documentary, narrative, animation, and experimental films.
3. Diaspora Films Competition: Includes long documentary and narrative feature films by African directors living outside Africa or films about Africa by directors from around the world.
4. National Competition for Egyptian Student Films: Dedicated to Egyptian students, it includes narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental films.
• The competition films must be produced in 2024.
• The selection committee determines the films that will participate in the festival's competitions.
• Films submitted for the competitions must not have been previously screened in Egypt.
• Application forms and viewing copies should be submitted from August 1, 2024, until October 30, 2024, by sending the viewing copies or an online link in high quality HD, along with promotional materials (poster, flyer, promo, film summary, director's biography in Arabic and English, film stills, and a photo of the director). The final deadline for submissions is October 30, 2024.
• The festival management is not obligated to return any material received if the film is not selected.
• The Luxor African Film Festival commits not to use the submitted films for any profitable or commercial purposes.
• The festival management will announce the names of the participating films for the upcoming edition on November 15, 2024.
• Selected participants should send their films (for non-Arabic speaking films) with the film's dialogue script accompanied by a time code and a high-quality version of the film without subtitles (for Arabic translation purposes).
• The final versions with English subtitles should be sent to the festival before November 15, 2024.
• For non-Arabic speaking films, a "clear" version without subtitles and the film's dialogue script in SRT format in English should be sent for Arabic subtitling.
• Films will be screened twice during the festival, except for the winning films, which will be re-screened in non-profit cultural centers in Cairo or Alexandria or for academic purposes.
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