About the Film Festival
Boyeris International Film Festival is an independent international film festival based in France, founded to discover and support new voices, new forms of cinematic expression and filmmakers responding to the changing landscape of contemporary cinema.
The festival welcomes short films from around the world and places particular emphasis on innovative storytelling, emerging filmmakers, social observation, vertical cinema, experimental approaches, and works exploring new technologies including artificial intelligence.
Rather than focusing on production scale or conventional festival aesthetics, Boyeris values originality, personal vision, creative courage and meaningful cinematic expression.
The inaugural 2026 edition is held primarily online, with international submissions, online jury evaluation and the announcement of official selections and awards. From future editions, the festival plans to progressively develop physical screenings, filmmaker exchanges and industry activities in France.
Authorization Letter
The festival presents the following eight awards:
BOYERIS Grand Prize
New Cinematic Form Award
Best AI-Assisted Film
Best Hybrid & Experimental Film
Best Vertical Film
Social Vision Award
Emerging Voices Award
Jury Special Mention
Subject ：
Video Format ：MPEG4 MOV
Terms and Conditions
- Submissions are open to filmmakers worldwide.
- Eligible works must have a running time of no more than 40 minutes.
- Fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, vertical, hybrid and AI-assisted works are welcome. Music videos are not accepted.
- Films in languages other than English are encouraged to include English subtitles.
- The submitter must own or control all necessary rights to the submitted work.
- Submission does not grant the festival the right to publicly screen or distribute the film beyond the purposes of selection and jury evaluation. Any public screening requires separate authorization from the rights holder.
- The 2026 inaugural edition is free to submit.
- The festival may use film stills, posters, trailers and brief promotional materials for festival publicity.
- The jury’s decisions are final.
- The festival reserves the right not to present an award in a category if no submission meets the required standard.
Categories and fees
New Cinematic Forms
Video length ：1 - 40
Open to short films exploring new forms of cinematic expression, including innovative narrative structures, unconventional visual language, new technologies and new approaches to image-making. Maximum running time: 40 minutes.
AI-Assisted Cinema
Video length ：1 - 40
Open to short films created with meaningful use of artificial intelligence in any stage of the creative process, including writing, image generation, animation, editing, sound or other forms of audiovisual creation. AI should contribute substantially to the work rather than being used only incidentally. Maximum running time: 40 minutes.
Hybrid & Experimental
Video length ：1 - 40
Open to experimental, mixed-media, animated, live-action hybrid and other formally adventurous short films. The festival welcomes works that combine different media, techniques, genres or modes of storytelling and challenge conventional cinematic boundaries. Maximum running time: 40 minutes.
Vertical Cinema
Video length ：1 - 40
Open to short films created for vertical viewing. Works should use the vertical format as a meaningful part of their cinematic language, composition or storytelling, rather than simply adapting conventional horizontal content for mobile viewing. Maximum running time: 40 minutes.
Social Vision
Video length ：1 - 40
Open to short films that engage with society, communities, public life and contemporary realities through a distinctive cinematic perspective. Works may address social observation, identity, inequality, migration, technology, work, relationships, civic life or other issues of human and public concern. Fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and hybrid forms are welcome. Maximum running time: 40 minutes.
