21st BuSho – Submission Period Closed
The submission period for the 21st BuSho (Budapest Short) Film Festival has come to an end. Filmmakers could submit their fiction, animation or experimental films until 1 March. This year, the festival received an impressive number of entries, with over 500 films submitted from more than 50 countries, showing the amazing variety of short films from around the world.
This year, the Hungarian filmmakers sent in the most films with 98 entries, followed to little surprise by Iranian filmmakers with 81 entries and the Germans, as usual, on the podium with 52 short films. The French sent 41 entries, the Russians 23, the Italians and Canada 20-20. The 17 films from Spain are a bit surprising, with the same number from Turkey this year and 18 from the UK and 21 from the USA. As always, we look forward to seeing the cultural diversity of the short films from countries from all over the world, such as Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cuba, Egypt, Guatemala, Lebanon, Mexico, Syria and Uzbekistan.
Among the submissions, fiction films dominated the field, making up approximately 70% of the total entries. Animated films followed with around 20%, while experimental films accounted for about 10% of the submissions.
Our pre-jury has been reviewing the films since December, working hard with one of the biggest challenges of the festival, to select the short films that will compete in the first week of September at Puskin Cinema. Filmmakers and audiences alike can look forward to the big announcement on May 1, when the final lineup for this year’s festival will be revealed.
Stay tuned for more updates as we move closer to the 21st edition of BuSho Film Festival, we can’t wait to share this year’s lineup with you!
