SEA-EU Film Festival 2025: get your work shared on an international stage

Get your work shared at the international stage and presented at the University of Algarve during the SEA-EU Film Festival.

The University of Algarve (Portugal), a member of the European University of the Seas (SEA-EU) alliance, invites all students to apply to the SEA-EU Film Festival by sending videos 3 - 15 minutes long.

The idea of the festival is to promote the artistic work of students and allow new talents to showcase their work to the international community. The best-ranked videos will be selected by the international jury of experts from all SEA-EU universities. Selected videos will be exhibited in Faro (University of Algarve, Higher Institute of Engineering – ISE) during the Sea Heritage Staff Week (29 October 2025).

Theme
The theme of the call is open, and will welcome all ideas and topics to ensure everyone can contribute.

Who can apply?
The call is intended for all SEA-EU students as well as students from other universities outside of the Alliance.

Guidelines and rules

The contest is free of charge and open to all students of the Alliance and outside of it.
The contest participants must hold the rights to their video and obtain permission if they take videos/videos of smaller groups, families, or close-up photos of faces or videos with children in them. The film must be 3–15 minutes long.
Films must be in English or subtitled in English (if they contain speaking parts).
Each applicant can submit 1 video.
The applicant needs to be the author/creator of the video; otherwise, it won’t be accepted.
Submission of the videos will be done through Google Docs’ form. A video must be named as follows: Name of the University_Surname and name initial (for example: UNCW_SmithJ).
All videos must be uploaded in mov, mp4 or avi format.
Videos made by artificial intelligence will not be accepted.

Registration and submission: Online

Application deadline: 15 September 2025.

Selection
The selection criteria will include technical and artistic value. The selection will be made based on the professional opinion. The expert jury will decide on which work will be exhibited at the SEA-EU Film Festival.

Jury composition - 1 member nominated by each SEA-EU partner.

Video Rights
Each participant declares to be the author of the video and acknowledges having all the necessary authorisations for video release.

Participants agree that, if selected, their video may only be shared by partners within SEA-EU alliance at the SEA-EU Film Festival. Further distribution of the selected videos will not be possible without prior explicit consent of the author. This approach ensures that participants’ works are distributed responsibly and exclusively within a trusted network of collaborators, fostering a supportive environment for creative exchange and distribution while respecting intellectual property rights.

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