Russian Indie Film Festival

About the Film Festival

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Russian Indie Film Festival (RUIFF) is the annual international film festival, which aim is to show the best indie short films from all over the World to the 5-million city of Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Our inaugural festival took place with great success on the 6th and 7th of October 2018 in one of the most popular, modern and famous places in Saint-Petersburg - ALEXANDRINSKY THEATRE'S NEW STAGE. The screenings were overcrowded by the audience. Here are the fotos from the event https://www.facebook.com/pg/RUIFFEST/photos/?ref=page_internal Here are the videos from the Awarding ceremony https://www.facebook.com/pg/RUIFFEST/videos/?ref=page_internal The prizes of the Festival are made by the artist from Saint-Petersburg Anna Yasinskaya http://anna-yasinskaya.ru/ On our second edition we include the screenplay competition with cash prize. RUIFF is non-profit, non-governmental event without: – any support from the government; – any discrimination of films and filmmakers on any basis (nationality, residence, profession, sex, age, faith, politics, theme of the film and so on). (Sfilmmaker is our exclusive platform for cooperation in China, and we look forward to your good film.)

Best fiction film、Best animation、Best sound design、Best art direction、Best editing、Best actor、Best actress、Best screenplay、Best DOP、Best director、Peter the Great Award、Audience Choice Award、Gran-Prix 、Special mentions

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Categories and fees

Short fiction films competition

Video length ：1 - 26
We accept short fiction (narrative) films, completed not earlier than January 2016 with running time (including credits) no more than 26 minutes.
Films mustn’t be available in Internet in public free access (private access – private links, links with password, e.t.c. is OK), or shown in Saint-Petersburg before the RUIFF (no matter – commercial, free screenings, any screening at any festival in Saint-Petersburg). VOD, any screening (theatrical or TV) outside Saint-Petersburg is OK.

2019/03/31

Standard: 20 Dollar / Student： 20 Dollar

2019/04/30

Standard: 25 Dollar / Student： 25 Dollar

2019/05/31

Standard: 30 Dollar / Student： 30 Dollar

2019/06/30

Standard: 35 Dollar / Student： 35 Dollar

2019/07/31

Standard: 40 Dollar / Student： 40 Dollar

Short animation films competition

Video length ：1 - 15
We accept short animation films, completed not earlier than January 2016 with running time (including credits) no more than 15 minutes.
Films mustn’t be available in Internet in public free access (private access – private links, links with password, e.t.c. is OK), or shown in Saint-Petersburg before the RUIFF (no matter – commercial, free screenings, any screening at any festival in Saint-Petersburg). VOD, any screening (theatrical or TV) outside Saint-Petersburg is OK.