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Adriatic Film Awards (AFA) 2025: Applications Now Open for the New Film and TV Awards of the Adriatic Region
Applications for the Adriatic Film Awards (AFA) 2025 – the new annual Adriatic Film and TV Awards – are open until the 15th of July.
The Film and TV Academy of the Adriatic Region, currently in the process of being established, was initiated by the founders of the Network of Festivals in the Adriatic Region: Sarajevo Film Festival, Auteur Film Festival Belgrade, and Zagreb Film Festival. The Academy is responsible for selecting the nominees and winners of the Adriatic Film Awards (AFA).
The AFA Awards recognize the most important film and TV series from the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
The Adriatic Film and TV Awards build on the legacy of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Heart of Sarajevo Awards for TV Series, which will no longer be held, and, which is extended with a new concept to awards for film achievements.
The aim of the newly established awards is to promote the highest quality regional films and television series and to establish a platform through which regional projects will receive additional promotion and the opportunity to present themselves on the international market. The jury consists of more than 600 film and television professionals from across the region, representing a wide range of disciplines. They watch the submitted films and TV series and take part in selecting the nominations and award winners. The current voters, who form the foundation of the Academy’s future membership, are professionals who previously voted for the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Heart of Sarajevo Awards for TV series. New members will be regularly invited to join the Academy.
Applications for films (feature and documentary) and TV series are open until 11:59 PM on the 15th of July 2025.
Producers and owners of rights to films (fiction and documentaries) and TV series from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Slovenia, and Serbia have the right to apply.
The application requirement is that the films are shown in the period from the 1st of July 2024 to the 1st of July 2025, and the TV series from the 1st of April 2024 to the 1st of July 2025.
The application is free. It is possible to apply with more than one project, and by submitting the application, you agree to all the rules from the Application Rulebook.
The 2025 AFA Awards Ceremony will be held from the 24th to the 26th of October 2025 at a prestigious location, in Porto Montenegro in Tivat, Montenegro, which is the main partner of the event.
Application for Adriatic Film Awards (AFA) 2025:
Submit your film HERE
Submit your TV series HERE
* This name, without prejudice to the status of Kosovo, is in line with Resolution 1244 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.