UNDER_the_RADAR_Vienna 2025
Festival Description:
The focus is on ANIMATED SHORT FILMS, with a non-exclusive emphasis on experimental and documentary work in the international section. Hybrids, composites, mixtures, crossbreeds, and combinations are welcomed and favoured. This years motto and topic is: "Real Time Identity" - How the interaction with our image of the past and our idea of the future shape the work in film, media, art, and connected hybrids at our current moment.
At UNDER_the_RADAR_Vienna we present and celebrate:
a n i m a t e d / m o v i n g / i m a g e s
2024 Call for Entries
- All films submitted must have been produced after 1 January 2022 and must be shorter than 15 minutes.
- All films selected for screening automatically qualify for the Radar Vienna Audience Award and Radar Vienna Special Mentions.
- All films selected for RADAR AUSTRIA and ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD automatically qualify for the Hubert Sielecki Award.
R a d a r - V i e n n a - I N T E R N A T I O N A L - A w a r d
This category is open to any artists or students from the entire planet.
R a d a r - V i e n n a - A U S T R I A N - A w a r d
This category is ONLY open to artists with AUSTRIAN nationality, or to artists who live or work in Austria and produced a film during their time in Austria. In case you do not fulfill these requirements your film will not be accepted for this category. RADAR AUSTRIA is for anything that is artistic with a clear exploratory, experimental, reality-related direction. If your film is using language (written or on the audio track), it either has to be in English, or it has to include a translation into English through embedded English subtitles.
A N G E W A N D T E - A N I M A T I O N - A W A R D
This category is only open to STUDENTS with AUSTRIAN nationality, or to artists who study in Austria and produced the submitted film during their studies at an Austrian educational institution. In case you do not fulfill these requirements your film will not be accepted for this category. RADAR STUDENT is awarded to films with animation of any kind as a predominant element. Exploratory, experimenting and investigative work is preferred. If your film is using language (written or on the audio track), it either has to be in English, or it has to include a translation into English through embedded English subtitles.
You can not submit a film to more than one category.
All submitted films will only be considered if they match the described criteria.
- Regulations and entry via Film Freeway
- Deadline: 21 August 2024 (later deadline), 10 October 2024 (late deadline), 1 November 2024 (final deadline)
2019 Festival Schedule (Archive)
Event Dates
- From 25/02/2025 to 01/03/2025