Cinematic European Film Festival
Our Festival is organised with the infinite support and help offered by the Spiru Haret University through the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Science Craiova, which assures the headquarters for the unfolding of the festival in Craiova on Vasile Conta Street No. 4. The room in which the projects are screened has the capacity of 380 seats.
The festival takes place once every 4 months.
The award ceremony for the February 2025 edition will take place on the 28th of February 2025. The entry is based on invitations.
At the event itself, the winners will be announced, and the certificates and trophies will be handed to the winners. While the awards are being announced, the trailers of the winning films will be played. For those who cannot participate in person, the trophies will be delivered through post.
Between February 20th and February 28th 2025, all selected films will be screened every day, beginning with 12 in the afternoon to 11 in the evening. The entry for the public is free.
The festival has 8 main sponsors and over 40 volunteer students from the Spiru Haret University who assure the assistance of those who come regarding accommodation, city tours, museums, touristic information, etc.
The Executive Director of the festival is the Ph. D. Professor Gheorghe Mihail (Spiru Haret University), who is also a member of the Writers Union from Romania, and he is a very important figure of the jury regarding the judging of the scripts of the films.
Before and after the event, the organisers will publish in the media announcements and the festival poster for the February 2025 edition.
For any information, please contact the organisers at the email address cinematic.efilmfestival@gmail.com
Also, you can contact us on our Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/cinematicfestival
Our Film Festival has been formed by teachers, students, film directors, musicians, writers from the very love and passion for filmmaking.
The festival is held in one of the most beautiful places from Eastern Europe, known as "Bania", place located in the South of Transylvania.
The region is known through the well-known national theatre ''Marin Sorescu'', which has got many awards internationally throughout the years.
It encourages the artistic vision of everyone who is passionate about film, without restrictions or borders. The Festival is desired to be the bond between cultures, nations and people.
How our story began
WINNERS November 2024-February 2025
- Best Short Film –
WINNER –Masks of Fidelio
Special Award –The Silver Lining
Honorable Mention –THE UNSEEN WOUND
Honorable Mention –NINI
-Best Feature Film-
WINNER –Moments of Youth
Special Award –Legends of Laughter: California.wav 10 Years Later
Honorable Mention –Frankenstein
Honorable Mention –LANDSLIDE
- Best Documentary –
WINNER –Smokeys Dream - When Formula 1 Came to Town
Special Award –Safara
Honorable Mention –Eddy Hamel - Gentleman from Auschwitz
Honorable Mention –Shards
- Best Original Score –
WINNER –Frankenstein
Special Award –The Girl from Fedamore
Honorable Mention –Quiet
Honorable Mention –The High King's Daughter (IRELAND)
- Best Cinematography-
WINNER –An American in Amsterdam
Special Award –The ration
Honorable Mention –Armor of the Heart
Honorable Mention –Unravel
-Best Director –
WINNER –Flourfish
Special Award –Stay Alive
Honorable Mention –THE END OF THE RIVER
Honorable Mention –Confused
- Best Editing –
WINNER –The ration
Special Award –Unravel
Honorable Mention –TEL VISA
- Best Screenplay –
WINNER –Hanoi Confidential
Special Award –Symbiosis Scars
Honorable Mention –Begin At The Bygones
Honorable Mention –Sober Blue
- Best Animation –
WINNER –Zombie Ship
Special Award –TO BE
Honorable Mention –My Beloved
Honorable Mention –Into the Reds Tale
- Best Actor –
WINNER –The Multidimensionals
Special Award –THE END OF THE RIVER
Honorable Mention –Memorium - before the end
Honorable Mention –SORRY MAA
- Best Actress-
WINNER –Old Wild Mob
Special Award –IN DORA'S SHOES
Honorable Mention –TEL VISA
Honorable Mention –BLUE DAYS
- Best Supporting Actress –
WINNER –The End was just The Beginning
- Best Supporting Actor –
WINNER –Confused
Special Award –THE CLAY HORSE
Honorable Mention –The End was just The Beginning
Honorable Mention –
- Best VFX-
WINNER –ECHOES
- Best Student Filmmaker-
WINNER –Spectacle
Special Award –Johnny Jr.
Honorable Mention –Pig Slayers
Honorable Mention –CÉLIMO
- Best Movie Poster –
WINNER –Confused
Special Award –The Canary
- Best Costume Design –
WINNER –The Canary
- Best Sound Editing –
WINNER –Deconstructing Beijing
Special Award –The Last Gunfight... yet!
Honorable Mention –The End was just The Beginning
- Best Sound Design –
WINNER –UNSA!D - A Second Chance
Special Award –Deconstructing Beijing
Honorable Mention –The Last Gunfight... yet!
- Best Production Design –
WINNER –LESBIAN PSYCHO?
Special Award –The Canary
Honorable Mention –UNSA!D - A Second Chance
- Best Makeup –
WINNER – The Canary
Winners
July - October 2024
- Best Short Film –
WINNER –A Life Well Lived
Special Award –COLORS
Honorable Mention –I'm not a robot
Honorable Mention –Tell me, RAI
-Best Feature Film-
WINNER –Memento Vivere
Special Award –Shrutaxwini
Honorable Mention –Okamoto
Honorable Mention –Compassion
- Best Documentary –
WINNER –Jeevan Kee Nadee - The River of Life
Special Award –America's Woman
Honorable Mention –BOFI
Honorable Mention –The Wizard of McKeesport
- Best Cinematography-
WINNER –The Script
Special Award –At Dinner with Delivery
Honorable Mention –TUTSAK/Hypnotic
Honorable Mention –Frame of Mind
-Best Director –
WINNER –Flesh of the Unforgiven
Special Award –The Entering
Honorable Mention –Better Tomorrow
Honorable Mention –Sons of Adam
- Best Editing –
WINNER –At Dinner with Delivery
Special Award –PALACE GUARDIANS
Honorable Mention –No Escape
Honorable Mention –Breaking Out
- Best Screenplay –
WINNER –48 Hours in Atoka
Special Award –Terrificman
Honorable Mention –Fiabexit
Honorable Mention –VLAD THE TIMEWALKER
- Best Animation –
WINNER –LUKi and the Lights
Special Award –Father's Mountains
Honorable Mention –Bubbling Synapses
Honorable Mention –Into the Reds Tale
- Best Actor –
WINNER –Fiabexit
Special Award –GREED
Honorable Mention –Lucien
- Best Actress-
WINNER –When f***ing spring is in the air
Special Award –Last Kiss In Paris
Honorable Mention –Sakura Tournament
Honorable Mention –Gift Of Life
- Best Supporting Actress –
WINNER –No Escape
- Best Supporting Actor –
WINNER –No Escape
- Best Original Score –
WINNER –Breaking Out
Special Award –The Red Market
Honorable Mention –OUTBREATH
- Best Student Filmmaker-
WINNER –A Neighborhood Odyssey
Special Award –Balloon
Honorable Mention –Don't Look
Honorable Mention –My Shadow
- Best Movie Poster –
WINNER –Breaking Out
Special Award –No Escape
Honorable Mention –Together
- Best Costume Design –
WINNER – VLAD THE TIMEWALKER
Special Award –Lucien
- Best Sound Editing –
WINNER –Eternal Empress
- Best Sound Design –
WINNER –"A Vampire's Kiss"
Special Award –Return To Planet Underground (Part 1)
Honorable Mention –No Escape
- Best Production Design –
WINNER – PALACE GUARDIANS
- Best Makeup –
WINNER –Lucien
Past Winners
WINNERS March 2024-June 2024
- Best Short Film –
WINNER –Hector heat stroke
Special Award –January 2nd
Honorable Mention –ghost fish
Honorable Mention –The Parting Glass
-Best Feature Film-
WINNER –Hercules Recycled 2.0
Special Award –Rear View Cataclysm
Honorable Mention –Welcome to reality or death in the aquarium
- Best Documentary –
WINNER –Campus Stories
Special Award –Driving Fast and Saving Lives Since 2001
Honorable Mention –Running Towards the Fire - A War Correspondent’s Story
Honorable Mention –The Missing Piece
- Best Cinematography-
WINNER –The Substitute
Special Award –Chasing
Honorable Mention –DREAMFINITY
Honorable Mention –Reset Now
- Best Director –
WINNER –MEMORIA DI UN DOLORE
Special Award –Ecocide
Honorable Mention –A Deadly Conversation
Honorable Mention –Reset Now
- Best Editing –
WINNER –The Substitute
Special Award –Maybe Next Time
Honorable Mention –Garlic Parmesan
- Best Animation –
WINNER –Happy Birthday
Special Award –Reni's Worlds
- Best Actor –
WINNER –"A Vampire's Kiss"
Special Award –Garlic Parmesan
- Best Actress-
WINNER –.Raw_File
Special Award –TangoX (with a Sequel)
Honorable Mention –I am Rain
Honorable Mention –A Deadly Conversation
- Best Supporting Actor –
WINNER –Garlic Parmesan
- Best Original Score –
WINNER –Before Dawn
Special Award –A Deadly Conversation
Honorable Mention –Zombie
Honorable Mention –Maybe Next Time
- Best Student Filmmaker-
WINNER –The Substitute
Special Award –The 3rd
Honorable Mention –Just a sec
Honorable Mention –9 O'CLOCK
- Best Movie Poster –
WINNER –Malevolent Whispers
Special Award –Take it easy on me
Honorable Mention –Ecocide
Honorable Mention –IRaH
- Best Costume Design –
WINNER –Die letzte Hexe
Special Award –Reset Now
- Best VFX –
WINNER –IRaH
Special Award –Garlic Parmesan
- Best Sound Editing –
WINNER – The Substitute
- Best Sound Design –
WINNER –Garlic Parmesan
Special Award –PENDIRA (ENG)
- Best Production Design –
WINNER –The Substitute
Special Award –Beast
WINNERS November 2023-February 2024
- Best Short Film –
WINNER – Farewell Dreams
Special Award – Beyond the Sea
Honorable Mention – Roaldies
Honorable Mention – The Girl Who Faded Away
Honorable Mention – No More Gravity At Night
-Best Feature Film-
WINNER –Group
Special Award –UNCLE EDOUARD
Honorable Mention –Vellakuthira [White Horse]
Honorable Mention –Gulag Eros of the Russian Mind: Sex in the Soviet Union
- Best Documentary –
WINNER – BLUE SKY WHITE CLOUDS
Special Award – The breath of Sarajevo
Honorable Mention – Golden Era
Honorable Mention – LUCY - A pioneer destiny
- Best Cinematography-
WINNER –"TWO CHAIRS"
Special Award –Impermanence
Honorable Mention –Daughter of Saint
Honorable Mention –Passing Through
- Best Director –
WINNER –The Katinas - Love God / Love People
Special Award –Sunrise Boulevard
Honorable Mention –Sadness of Absence
Honorable Mention – Yoron Island Your own life, your own voyage
- Best Editing –
WINNER –Sadness of Absence
- Best Screenplay –
WINNER –"THE ORDER OF THE KA"
Special Award –AFTERTASTE.
Honorable Mention –Yoron Island Your own life, your own voyage
- Best Animation –
WINNER –The Blanket
Special Award –The Body of the World
- Best Actor –
WINNER –"TWO CHAIRS"
Special Award –S for Submission
Honorable Mention –Wars Never End
Honorable Mention –Sadness of Absence
- Best Actress-
WINNER –Beyond You
- Best Original Score –
WINNER –Lucinda´s Pandora
Special Award –Garlic Parmesan
Honorable Mention –The immensity
- Best Student Filmmaker-
WINNER –Products of deception; human trials
Special Award –Sadness of Absence
- Best Movie Poster –
WINNER –Gulag Eros of the Russian Mind: Sex in the Soviet Union
Special Award –The Vision of the Shadows
- Best Costume Design –
WINNER – Quest
- Best VFX –
WINNER –"TWO CHAIRS"
- Best Sound Editing –
WINNER –The Katinas - Love God / Love People
- Best Sound Design –
WINNER –The Katinas - Love God / Love People
Special Award –Jealousy
WINNERS July-October 2023
- Best Short Film –
WINNER – The redemption from YU
Special Award –The list
Honorable Mention – A Dinner
Honorable Mention – Tak-Tak
-Best Feature Film-
WINNER – Subversion
- Best Documentary –
WINNER – Something Ain't Right
Special Award – Winter Camping
Honorable Mention – LET HER SING
Honorable Mention – Pvt. Ravel's Bolero
- Best Cinematography-
WINNER – The Mandatory Leave
Special Award – Cecily
- Best Director –
WINNER – GILA ISLAND
Special Award – The Mandatory Leave
Honorable Mention – Walk
- Best Editing –
WINNER – MIDNIGHT
Special Award – Mystique No. 4
Honorable Mention – Love in the Evening/Morning
- Best Screenplay –
WINNER – Lucky in Long Island
Special Award – The Teenage Bodyguard – With RM
Honorable Mention – The story of Kostas Puppetopoulos
- Best Animation –
WINNER – Wa Isjod Wa Iqtareb
Special Award – a tree once grew here
Honorable Mention – ElementHonorable Mention – STIGMA
-Best Production Design-
WINNER – Per Aspera…
Special Award – The vineyard
- Best Actor –
WINNER – Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!
Special Award – My Toy
Honorable Mention – Milite
Honorable Mention – The Mandatory Leave
- Best Actress-
WINNER – An Ever After Drama
Special Award – The Wedding Bandit
Honorable Mention – DRINK IN THE PAIN
Honorable Mention – The Mandatory Leave
- Best Supporting Actor –
WINNER –DRINK IN THE PAIN
- Best Supporting Actress-
WINNER – DRINK IN THE PAIN
- Best Original Score –
WINNER – Under Offer
Special Award – Wing Man
- Best Student Filmmaker-
WINNER – Until We Dance Again
Special Award –Cleveland
Honorable Mention – The Girl and The Great City
Honorable Mention – Vulture City, Wyoming
- Best Movie Poster –
WINNER – Culture Talk on the Radio
Special Award – FILMMAKERS ON HOLD
Honorable Mention – DRINK IN THE PAIN
- Best Costume Design –
WINNER – An Ever After Drama
WINNERS March-June 2023
- Best Short Film –
WINNER – Woman in the mirror
Special Award – Go to the woods
Honorable Mention – Manta Ray
Honorable Mention – One for the other
-Best Feature Film-
WINNER –Home Away
Special Award –SINIOLCHU, the peak a man fell in love with
Honorable Mention –ULTIMATE DESTINATIONS
- Best Documentary –
WINNER – Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free
Special Award – Victims 2006
Honorable Mention – Quest for Vinca
Honorable Mention – ARTIST'S VOICES
- Best Cinematography-
WINNER –San Francisco Cowboy
Special Award –Ithaka
Honorable Mention –The Ruin
Honorable Mention –Shine your light
- Best Director –
WINNER –All The Way Around
Special Award –The Rescue
Honorable Mention –Ghost (Spettri)
Honorable Mention –Black Box
- Best Editing –
WINNER – Welcome to Candy's
Special Award – Kallithea Springs Of Rhodes
- Best Screenplay –
WINNER – Home Away
Special Award – An Offer and A Dilemma
- Best Animation –
WINNER – The Waves of life
Special Award – Shumisen town
-Best Production Design-
WINNER – DUEL
- Best Actor –
WINNER –BREAKOUT
Special Award –Agony
Honorable Mention –R talks to D /or/ The Rabbits Hole
Honorable Mention –SINIOLCHU , the peak a man fell in love with
- Best Actress-
WINNER – Fatima
- Best Supporting Actor –
WINNER – Home Away
- Best Supporting Actress-
WINNER – Culture Talk on the Radio
Special Award – SINIOLCHU , the peak a man fell in love with
Honorable Mention –Home Away
- Best Original Score –
WINNER –Tesla's Medicine: The Universal Fluid
Special Award –The Rescue
Honorable Mention –Mariposas
Honorable Mention –Grimoire Vol. 1
- Best VFX –
WINNER – Tatty
-Best Makeup-
WINNER – The faun of healwood, the edge
Special Award – Zombie Resurrection
- Best Student Filmmaker-
WINNER –Above The Line
Special Award –Sónia
Honorable Mention –Hit Astray
Honorable Mention –F
Honorable Mention – Danzhou fisherwoman
- Best Movie Poster –
WINNER –Hunted 2: Lost Pursuit
Special Award –All The Way Around
Honorable Mention –Grimoire Vol. 1
Honorable Mention – SINIOLCHU , the peak a man fell in love with
WINNERS November 2022-February 2023
- Best Short Film –
WINNER –Good Evening
Special Award – Breath in a cage
Honorable Mention – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Honorable Mention – Red Lily
-Best Feature Film-
WINNER – Somebody
Special Award – Running The Bases - Feature
Honorable Mention – Ruger the Rude Dog
Honorable Mention – I can look after you
- Best Documentary –
WINNER – The lost Keys
Special Award – Contactus
Honorable Mention – The Call We Carry: Confronting PTSD In The Fire Service
- Best Cinematography-
WINNER – A Letter to Amelia
Special Award – The Crossing
Honorable Mention – Once upon a time in the Canaries
Honorable Mention – Aquarium In The Fishbowl
- Best Director –
WINNER – GOOD GUY WITH A GUN
Special Award – Running The Bases - Feature
Honorable Mention – Once upon a time in the Canaries
Honorable Mention – Aquarium In The Fishbowl
- Best Editing –
WINNER – A Refugee's Guide to Rome
Special Award – Once upon a time in the Canaries
Honorable Mention – Ever So Slightly
- Best Screenplay –
WINNER – The Crossing
Special Award – The king of light the order of the dark gods
Honorable Mention – BOIZ KLUB
- Best Animation –
WINNER – The Gondolier
Special Award – Full Moon
Honorable Mention – Dreamcatcher
Honorable Mention – Just Bugs
-Best Production Design-
WINNER – Ever So Slightly
- Best Actor –
WINNER – WU WAY DAY
Special Award – ONCE UPON A KINGDOM - A fairy tale for hidden souls
Honorable Mention – Lady Luck
Honorable Mention – The Scary Clown News 100
- Best Actress-
WINNER – Running The Bases - Feature
Special Award – Lady Luck
Honorable Mention – Luna's Fear
Honorable Mention – Facing the Silence
- Best Supporting Actor –
WINNER – I brake for animals
- Best Supporting Actress-
WINNER – seascape
-Best Sound Design-
WINNER – Ever So Slightly
Special Award – LuoLan
-Best Sound Editing-
WINNER – Ever So Slightly
- Best Original Score –
WINNER – Christopher.
Special Award – Arrivederci Paris version sous-titree en anglais
Honorable Mention –Aquarium In The Fishbowl
Honorable Mention – A Maiden Made Not of Clay
-Best Costume Design-
WINNER – That Way
Special Award –A Good Cop
Honorable Mention – Heidee
Honorable Mention – Ever So Slightly
- Best Student Filmmaker-
WINNER – The Secret of A Butterfly
Special Award – The Breeze of Summer Night
Honorable Mention –A Matter of Luck
Honorable Mention – Lepas
- Best Movie Poster –
WINNER – Once upon a time in the Canaries
Special Award – GOOD GUY WITH A GUN
Honorable Mention – 3am 8°east - Bremerhaven at night
Honorable Mention – LuoLan
WINNERS -July-October 2022
- Best Short Film -
WINNER - And Then, the Silence
Special Award - The Death, Burial, and Rise of Lilith
Honorable Mention - Bye Bye
Honorable Mention - A Fairy Tale
-Best Feature Film-
WINNER - Shades of Day - New Director's Cut - 2022
Special Award - The Happiness Theorem
Honorable Mention - ASHES AND BLOOD
Honorable Mention - The Quarantine Zone
- Best Documentary -
WINNER - Shepherds of the Earth
Special Award - CIRCLES IN THE STONES
Honorable Mention - Tempo Rubato Enigma - An Argentinian Mozart
Honorable Mention - Sammy | a Pine Marten Story
- Best Cinematography-
WINNER - ON MY WAY
Special Award - Midnight
Honorable Mention - FAKTORY 92
Honorable Mention - Adoptive Land
- Best Director -
WINNER - ID
Special Award - A Haircut for the Hina Doll
Honorable Mention - JOON
Honorable Mention - Sunshine In Winter
-Best Sreenplay-
WINNER - A Haircut for the Hina Doll
Special Award - Here Comes The Sun
Honorable Mention - Fairy Tale Country
Honorable Mention - Broken Circle
- Best Editing -
WINNER - Fairy Tale Country
- Best Animation -
WINNER - Music of Love
Special Award - D is for Drama
Honorable Mention - Observation
-Best Production Design-
WINNER - Broken Circle
Special Award - DARKNESS THIS IS MY REVENGE
Honorable Mention - Fairy Tale Country
- Best Actor -
WINNER - Lost in the City
- Best Actress-
WINNER - Ghosted
Special Award - Ellida
Honorable Mention - Here Comes The Sun
Honorable Mention - Remind Me (Gia thimise mou)
-Best Sound Design-
WINNER - Here Comes The Sun
Special Award - 21...
Honorable Mention - DOG - (2022)
- Best Original Score -
WINNER - Here Comes The Sun
Special Award - DOG - (2022)
Honorable Mention - Broken Circle
Honorable Mention - Swamp Dragon
- Best VFX -
WINNER - Greetings From Wormhole 61
Special Award - Kiwi's Dream
-Best Costume Design-
WINNER - Giulia e il Capoposto
Special Award - Fairy Tale Country
-Best Makeup-
WINNER - Zombie Resurrection
- Best Student Filmmaker-
WINNER - Erden
Special Award - THE LADY IN RED
Honorable Mention - Felix
Honorable Mention - Sunshine In Winter
- Best Movie Poster -
WINNER - Fairy Tale Country
Special Award - Jackpot (Poster)
