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Abcdetc International Arts Festival

Bucharest, Bucharest

Festival overview

About Abcdetc International Arts Festival

Physical film festival in Bucharest with submission categories including Micro movies and Short movies.

Welcome to the 4th Edition of ABCDETC Int'l Arts Festival! The Festival has been established in 2025 as an indie artsy event taking place in an exquisite location Bucharest, a powerful celebration of creativity and unicity.

Also we are accepting screenplays (feature, featurette, short, micro, student), theatre plays, short stories, novels, poetry, essays, movie reviews, photography. Good luck in the contest!

Schedule

Important Dates

Call for Entries Opens
Aug 4, 2026
Final Submission Deadline
Jul 17, 2027
Notification Date
Jul 24, 2027
Festival Starts
Jul 23, 2027
Festival Ends
Jul 25, 2027
Eligibility

Rules & Eligibility

General Rules+

  1. Entrants to the ABCDETC retain all rights to their movies, videos, or photography stills; the organizers don’t hold any copyrights or selling rights of any submitted movie, video or photography still.

  2. ABCDETC will only publicize the name, the title and the location of the winners, the title of the movies, a brief description, the Jury’s motivations for choosing the winners and will only use very short excerpts for media in order to promote the ABCDETC’s winners.

  3. The grading of the movies is based exclusively on creative and artistic merits.

  4. The decisions of the Jury are final and can’t be contested.

  5. The International Jury is headed by a President.

  6. The public’s access to the ABCDETC is free.

  7. Screenings are curated and scheduled to be aired during the Festival at the discretion of ABCDETC Festival.

  8. The Festival reserves the right to choose which selected films and videos will be screened.

  9. People participating in the screenings agree to allow ABCDETC to use their photos for promotional materials.

  10. We are gladly accepting fully written feature, featurettes and short screenplays, theater plays, essays, movie reviews, in order to discover the writers of tomorrow and actively participate i

Current Categories, Deadlines & Fees

Category

Micro movies

Micro movies (0-5 min) of any genre competing for AWARDS: Best Short, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Diamond, Platinum, Gold & Silver Awards

Current FeeEUR 6.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 5 minutes
Category

Short movies

Short movies (1-15 min) of any genre competing for AWARDS: Best Short, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Diamond, Platinum, Gold & Silver Awards

Current FeeEUR 7.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 15 minutes
Category

Smartphone Films

Smartphone Films currently lists a maximum runtime of 15 minutes. Listed fees include EUR 6.5 early-bird, EUR 6.5 regular, EUR 6.5 late, and EUR 6.5 extended.

Current FeeEUR 6.50Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 15 minutes
Category

Student films

Student movies (1-15 min) of any genre competing for AWARDS: Best Short, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Diamond, Platinum, Gold & Silver Awards

Current FeeEUR 5.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 15 minutes
Category

Music videos

Music Video (0-15 min) of any genre competing for AWARDS: Best Short, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Diamond, Platinum, Gold & Silver Awards

Current FeeEUR 6.00Early
Category

Fashion films

Fashion films (0-15 min) of any genre competing for AWARDS: Best Short, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Diamond, Platinum, Gold & Silver Awards

Current FeeEUR 6.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 15 minutes
Category

Short Screenplay

Up to 15 pages screenplays of any genre competing for Best Short Script, Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver Awards + Certificates of Achievement!

Current FeeEUR 6.00Early
Category

Featurette Screenplay

Featurette Screenplays (15-60) pages competing for Best Featurette Script, Diamond, Platinum, Gold & Silver Awards + Certificates of Achievement

Current FeeEUR 7.00Early
Category

Feature Screenplay

Screenplays (60-300 pages) competing for Best Feature + Diamond, Platinum, Gold & Silver Awards

Current FeeEUR 8.00Early
Category

Micro Screenplay

Up to 5 pages screenplays competing for Best Micro Script + Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver Awards + Certificates of Achievement!

Current FeeEUR 6.00Early
Category

Student screenplay

Student screenplays (0-30 pages) competing for Best Screenplay+ Diamond, Platinum, Gold & Silver Awards

Current FeeEUR 5.00Early
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 30 minutes