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Golden Ger International Film Festival

Festival overview

About Golden Ger International Film Festival

Physical film festival with submission categories including Narrative and Experimental.

Ger is the main dwelling and a great heritage of the nomadic Mongols. Golden Ger means an event with the highest form of expressiveness in the most inclusive manner.

Mongolian Film Institute's (Formerly Altan Khalis International Film Festival) is Mongolia's most prestigious short film festival. It provides a platform for aspiring young filmmakers to challenge themselves and showcase their burgeoning talents to a growing audience of movie-lovers. launched the first Underground Film Competition in Mongolia, with the goal of fostering local interest in experimental films and encouraging young artists to challenge conventional methods of filmmaking.

Over the next few years, the competition evolved into. The main part of this film festival is the competition section for short films made by international and local filmmakers. is the only film festival to host a competition for short films in this scope in Mongolia.

We also screen feature films by invitation, hold master classes, host discussions, and organize networking events during the film festival. Since 2013, from the submissions we received, over 320 went onto selected in the competition section of our film festival.

Current Categories, Deadlines & Fees

Category

Narrative

At the heart of filmmaking is storytelling, and avant-garde cinema, through experimentation, uncovers new devices and formulae to tell stories. It enriches the filmmaker’s palette of tools to convey ideas and emotions that can only be conveyed by film.

Current Fee
Runtime3–30 minutes
Category

Experimental

Devoid of the traditional storytelling, but aspires to the pure non-representational form of filmmaking.

Current Fee
Runtime3–30 minutes
Category

Documentary

Any documentary short that can be deemed expressive and experimental. Creative documentaries are most welcome.

Current Fee
Runtime3–30 minutes
Category

Animation

At least 70 percent of the film should be animated whether it's narrative or non-narrative.

Current Fee
Runtime3–30 minutes