EKOIFF

The Eko International Film Festival will return for its 12^th edition in 2022 from March 07 – 11, 2022. The Film Festival is open to filmmakers from around the world and also contributes to the Nigeria being positioned as a creative hub through its focus on high quality, Nigeria cinema.

Eko International Film Festival is accepting entries to the 12th EKOIFF edition.

(Open March 15, 2021 Earlybird Deadline – August 1, 2021 Regular Deadline

February 28, 2022  Late Deadline)

Applications for submitting films are being accepted on various film submission platforms.

a. Click to submit your film https://filmfreeway.com/EkoInternationalFilmFestival

b. Click to submit your film https://filmmakers.festhome.com/f/719

The Festival accepts films in five categories which include:

Feature Film,
Short Film,
Fiction,
Documentaries
Short Documentaries
Indigenous film
Feature Animation

Short Animation

More information on the programme will be released in the lead up to the event. http://www.ekoiff.org/

BEST FEATURE FILM

BEST NIGERIAN FILM

BEST ACTOR FEATURE FILM

BEST ACTRESS FEATURE FILM

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FEATURE FILM

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FEATURE FILM

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM

BEST INDIGENOUS FILM

BEST SHORT FILM

BEST NIGERIA SHORT FILM

BEST ACTOR SHORT FILM

BEST ACTRESS SHORT FILM

BEST FEATURE ANIMATION FILM

BEST SHORT ANIMATION FILM

FEATURE FILM

1.            VENEER Feature Film by Maximillian Aguiar (USA) 1 hour 26 minutes

2.            COLD CALM –  Feature Film by Tyna Ezenma(Nigeria) 1 hour 42 minutes 49 seconds

3.            UTONWA (bonded by blood) Feature Film indigenous by Johnpaul Nwanganga (Nigeria)  1 hour 43 minutes 58 seconds

4.            EFUNSETAN ANIWURA Feature Film  indigenous by Joshua Ojo (Nigeria) 1 hour 51 minutes 51 seconds

5.            TORN – Dark Bullets feature film by Dan Rizzuto (Canada) 1 hour 36 minutes

6.            THE STATE OF TEXAS VS. MELISSA Feature film by Sabrina Van Tassel (French)    1 hour 38 minutes 18 seconds

7.            CUTLASS Feature film by Burri-Taka Bolalima (Cameroon) 1 hour 47 minutes 40 seconds

8.            THE LOFT  HOUSE Feature film by Ferdinand W Gernandt (South Africa) 1 hour 54 minutes

9.            TOPRAK  Feature Film by  Sevgi Hirschhäuser (Turkey)1 hour 45 minutes 53 seconds

10.          THE REPUBLIC OF THE CORRUPT Feature Film by Salam Zampaligré (Burkina Faso) 1 hour 28 minutes

11.          IN IBADAN Feature film by Taiwo Egunjobi (Nigeria) 1 hour 24 minutes 42 seconds

SHORT FILM

1.            BROTHERLY short film by Best Okoduwa (Nigeria)30 minutes

2.            THE LAST TANGO Short Film by Emil Garuba (Nigeria) 21 minutes 2 seconds

3.            OMOWUNMI Short Film by Hadizat Ibrahim (Nigeria) 28 minutes 50 seconds

4.            OUR HOME – short film by Iyore Edegbe (Canada) 4 minutes 10 seconds

5.            FUTURE SUPERHEROES short film by Asis Sethi (Canada) 1 minute 55 seconds

6.            ALEPH short film  by Joao Butoh (Brazil) 29 minutes 26 seconds

7.            MICHIKO A3 short film by Ryo Kagawa (Japan)  26 minutes 30 seconds

8.            DARK MOON short film by Michael ‘Micl Snr” Norman(South Africa)  21 minutes

9.            ADAM IN AETERNUM   short film by Pedro Jaen R (Spain) 14 minutes 58 seconds

10.          AUGUSTUS Short film by Maximillian Aguiar (USA) 19 minutes 38 seconds

11.          TO ALL MY DARLINGS  Short Film by Lia Campbell (Ireland) 11 minutes 57 seconds

12.          MESSIAH Short film by Jae-hyun Park (South Korea) 19 minutes 38

13.          MAMÁ Short film by Carlos  Aceituno (Spain) 15 minutes

14.          DALÍA Short film by Brúsi Ólason (Iceland) 16 minutes 9 seconds.

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

1.            KISS THE GROUND- Feature Documentary by Josh Tickell & Rebecca Tickell (USA)           1 hour 25 minutes

2.            SKY BLOSSOM: Diaries of the Next Greatest Generation –  Feature documentary by Richard Lui (USA) 1 hour 27 minutes 37 seconds.

3.            THE ART OF WORSHIP  Feature Documentary film by Ahmed Khairat (Egypt) 52 minutes

SHORT DOCUMENTARY

1.            FORGOTTEN SURVIVORS short documentary by Katman Dayil (Nigeria) 38 minutes 54 seconds

2.            JESSE: THE FUNERAL THAT NEVER ENDED Short Documentary by Eromo Egbejule (Nigeria) 35 minutes 16 seconds

3.            SHADES OF LAGOS short  Documentary by Doyinsola Wale-Banmore (Canada) 40 minutes

4.            PINNACLE Short Documentary by Vikram Jeet Singh Parmar (India) 10 minutes 2 seconds

5.            SPECIES PER AQUAM – Biodiversity between the Ticino Valley and the Alps short documentary by Marco Tessaro (Italy)  12 minutes 44 seconds

6.            POLAND: EUROPE’S GARBAGE DUMP Short documentary by Maciej Kuciel, and Patrycja Dzięcioł-Mokwa  (Poland) 21 minutes 40 seconds

7.            CALL ME NEGUINHO   Short documentary  by Selim Harbi (Cape Verde) 10 minutes

8.            VISION OF PROMISE Short film by Eva Daoud (Bahrain) 29 minutes

FEATURE ANIMATION

1.            THE LAST PAGE OF SUMMER- Feature animation  by Tim Ross (USA) 1 hour 2   minutes

SHORT  ANIMATION

1.            KENYA’S SYMPHONY Short animation by Carlos Douglas Jr (USA) 4 minutes 50 seconds

2.            BOLERO STATION Short animation by Rolf Brönnimann (Switzerland) 9 minutes 40 seconds

3.            SAD BEAUTY  Short Animation by Arjan Brentjes (Netherlands)  9 minutes 50 seconds

SUBMISSIONS END JANUARY 15,2021

 

 

OFFICIAL SELECTION EKOIFF 2020
FEATURE FILM
1. THE OTHER HALF Feature Film by Lalith Rathnayake (Sri Lanka) 1hr 30mins
2. EXIT POINT Feature Film by David Mondin (Puerto Rico) 1hr 1mins 37secs
3. WE Feature Film by Mani Nasry (Canada) 1hr 26 mins
4. I MARRIED MY MOTHER Feature Film by Domenico Costanzo (Italy) 1hr 25mins
5. THE REAL EXORCIST Feature Film by Shokyo Oda (Japan) 1hr 48mins
6. ANYWHERE IS HERE Feature Film by Ian Lettire (USA) 1hr 15 mins 45 secs
7. A DANCE TO FORGET Feature Film by Nestor Orji (Nigeria) 1hr 54mins 18 secs
8. THE BLING LAGOSIANS Feature Film by Bolanle Austen Peters (Nigeria) 1hr 38mins 39 secs
9. SEVEN Feature Film by Tosin Igho (Nigeria) 01:58:09
10. IBI (THE BIRTH) Indigenous Film by Seyi Alabi (Nigeria)1hr 42mins 11secs
11. Vendetta Feature Film by Chukwudi John Ejiofor (Nigeria) 1hr 30 mins
12. RUN Feature Film by Uche Chukwu (Nigeria) 1hr 16mins 11secs

SHORT FILM
1. ASHMINA Short Film by Dekel Berenson (Nepal) 14mins
2. HAPPINESS Short Film by Sarah Ada Ajomale (United Kingdom) 18 mins 31 secs
3. TABIA Short Film by Bagamoyo Film Collective(Tanzania) 10mins 36secs
4. FESTIVAL OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN Short Film by Björn Rallare(Sweden) 8mins 45 secs
5. FIFTY Short Film by Javier Dampierre (Spain)18mins 25 secs
6. LOSIN’ YOU Short Film by Aleksa Ristovic (Malta) 23 mins 40 secs
7. THE WINDOW’S MUSE Short Film by Mamadou Diop (Senegal) 13 Mins
8. PLAY Short Film by Piotr Sulkowski (Poland) 13 mins
9. MILK Short Film by Pennie Hunt (New Zealand) 16 mins 37 secs
10. BAXU AND THE GIANTS Short film by Florian Schott (Namibia) 28mins .40 secs
11. A MOST SAVAGE BEAST Short Film by Theo Hogben (Norway) 15mins
12. ALWAYS HOPE Short Film by Janice Walker (USA) 38 mins 3 secs
13. TEXTED Short Film by Edward Ogum (Canada) 10 mins 47 secs
14. ARIBIDE Short Film by Olumense Omonjahio(Nigeria) 5.20mins
15. FAMILY ROUTINE Short film by Ahmed Hamed (Egypt) 21mins 32 secs
16. A NICE TRIP Short Film by Ira Kopyova(Russia) 18mins 8 secs

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1.CANCER; THE INTEGRATIVE PERSPECTIVE Feature Documentary Feature Film by Nathan Crane (USA) 1hr 43 mins 27 secs
2.A DIARY ON BLINDNESS Feature Documentary Feature Film by Sajeed Naduthody (India)
50mins 40 secs
3. MICROPLASTIC MADNESS Documentary Feature by Atsuko Quirk, Debby Lee Cohen (USA)
1hr 15mins 57 secs

SHORT DOCUMENTARY
WALK WITH THE KOLUMBINAS Short Documentary by Dario Radusin (Croatia) 6mins 7secs
TAHITI Short Documentary by Latifa Said (Algeria) 16 mins 49 secs
ROAD TRIP SÃO TOMÉ by {Andreas & Leah Rohner (Calgary, Canada),Bastian Caspar (Cologne, Germany)
Christian Fausel (Munich, Germany),Denis Trümbach (Moschheim, Germany)} Canada 27 mins 30 secs

ANIMATION
1. RAYMONDE OR THE VERTICAL ESCAPE by Sarah Van Den Boom (France) 16 mins 31 secs
2. FELINE PARADOX by Ben Reicher (France) 25mins :28secs

This is to  inform you that  submission to 10th anniversary Eko International Film Festival ends in two weeks (January 15, 2020 Late Deadline)

Click on the link  below  to submit

https://filmfreeway.com/EkoInternationalFilmFestival