The Best-First Student Film Festival

Welcome to The Best-First Student Film Festival!

This is the best opportunity to share your share your film with indie film lovers, find your fans, meet pros, and just to enjoy watching movies!

We invite and accept all kind of student films in any genre.

The festival was set to raise awareness and promote independent student films all over the globe, to give filmmakers a comfortably accessed venue to have their work showcased to fans and pros in a spirit of friendship, positive feelings, and dialogue, to help the filmmakers publicize their films selected for the festival.

The festival is an invitation-only event with online access. 

Only registered attendees can access the screening room. 

The Screening Room has 1500 seats which you can comfortably attend online from all over the globe.

Our followers will receive information about the selected films on social media.

You meet and enjoy watching many new independent films.

You can meet and talk to filmmakers, pros, fans, and other attendees directly in the Screening Room.

You can learn from other filmmakers and share your experience.

You will enjoy a unique atmosphere. Friendship and positive feelings only!

The festival accepts all kind of films produced by students according to the submission categories. 

The festival does not give fee waivers.

The festival does not give refunds.

The film submission fee does not guarantee acceptance and no refund will be provided if your film is not selected.

If you wish to be eligible for multiple awards you have to submit to several categories.

All projects must be in English or have English subtitles.

The festival is not responsible for any copyright infringement of your material.

You give the festival the permission to publish your images, posters, trailers, and parts of your film (not longer than 1 min) on the Festival’s website and/or social media pages for the promotional proposals.

All projects must have been completed on or after January 01st, 2015.

All projects must have cleared or licensed copyright materials

We are not held responsible for the content of your submissions

Awards:

The Category Award, Laurels, and the Certificate. The Festival Jury selects the winners of the festival categories.  

The Audience Award, Laurels, and the Certificate. The film receiving the most votes of the attendees in the screening room gets the Audience Award.

The Fan Award, Laurels, and the Certificate. The film receiving the most votes in social media gets the Fan Award. We accept votes in the special posts.

The Awards, Laurels, and Certificates may be sent by email.​

​Welcome to The Best-First Student Film Festival!