Welcome

Welcome to the first stage of the 16th Encounters International Film Festival due to take place in Bristol from 16-21 November 2010. This year sees the return of Animated Encounters and Brief Encounters as our 2 competitive strands.

In 2009 over 150 films were screened in competition over 5 days to over 500 delegates and 6,500 audience members. The films and animations were a selection of the best new talent from 58 countries.

Watch short films from the 2009 festival through our BABELGUM PLAYER

Key Dates:
Jun 30: Submissions deadline
Sep 1: Films notified of selection
Late Sep: Programme announced
Nov 16-21: Encounters International Film Festival

Films Selected for programme

The submission window for Encounters International Film Festival 2010 is now closed.

The full programme will be launched here on 21st September on our brand new website, but in the mean time you can check out the films and the filmmakers here.

Congratulations to all the successful filmmakers and commiserations to all the great films that we just couldn't squeeze into our jam-packed programme.

Can you do it 90 seconds? DepicT! call for entries for 2010 competition still open. Depict

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Receiving competition entries for the Animated Encounters t-shirt competition already- and they look fab! http://tinyurl.com/2uomb7e

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Tickets are limited so get them here fast http://tinyurl.com/3yxnbog

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From the Blog

Animated Encounters T-Shirt Competition

Opportunity to Design Animated Encounters T-Shirts