Shanghai International Short Week (SHISW) is an international art exhibition of creative short films.

SHISW is an Internet community platform for young creators to show their talents, improve themselves, advance their careers, find partners, share their lives and gather their ideas.

SHISW provides a platform and method for the new generation of young artists to advance their professional fields.

We have the SHISW Short Film Awards,Film Critics Competition,Writing Contest,Artist Short Creation Program,Creation community.

SHISW will hold screenings in Shanghai / Beijing / USA.

NFT technology: use NFT digital collection authentication technology to develop and enhance the social value and market value of creative short film art.

Date

Deadline: August 22, 2025.

The shortlist will be disclosed on October 1, 2025.

Winners will be announced on October 9, 2025.

Global call for films: https://filmfreeway.com/ShanghaiShortWeek

Rules & Terms

SHISW short film award

The selection is held every two months and the winners are selected for the annual finals.

Competition

1. Narrative Short,Documentaries Short,Experiment Short,Experiment Short,Video Art, Animation

2. Completion Time: Works created after 2020

3. Duration: within 30 minutes (including 30 minutes)

4. Format requirements: 1080P/2K/H.264/Within 5G

5. Language English subtitles

If you have 4 k version please keep used in offline screening.

AI Short Film

Use your imagination to create and explore the unknown.

This unit is set up to encourage the exploration of AI (artificial intelligence) writing/painting/video/film creation, as a parallel unit of the main competition for selection.

Type of signs:

story short film, documentary short film, experimental art short film, animation short film

2. Short films containing pictures/clips produced by AI writing/painting/video and other related software

3. The whole film is produced by AI writing/painting/video and other related software.

4. The understanding of AI and the creation concept should be explained in the creation description.

Running time: Under 30 minutes.

Shanghai Style New Wave

This unit will be selected and shown as a parallel unit of the main competition.

Narrative Short,Documentaries Short,Experiment Short,Experiment Short,Video Art, Animation

1. Directors from relevant universities or native places in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui in the Yangtze River Delta region.

2. The film was mainly shot in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces in the Yangtze River Delta region.

3. Films based on dialogue in Wu language (also known as Jiangdong Dialect, Jiangnan Dialect, Jiangzhe Dialect, Wuyue language).

4. Films related to Wuyue culture.

If you meet any of the above 4 requirements, you can submit your application.

Running time: Under 30 minutes

Submitted works must Confirm that you agree to authorize:

1.By submitting your works to the exhibition, it means that the applicant agrees to accept all the rules and regulations of SHISW organizing Committee. Once the applicant formally submits his/her application, he/she shall not withdraw the selected work for any reason. Registration should confirm that the submitted works have complete intellectual property rights, and the entries will not infringe on the rights of portrait, reputation, privacy and other legitimate rights and interests of any third party. In case of any legal disputes caused by the entries, the applicants themselves will bear all legal liabilities. The SHISW exhibition committee rejects any work that might conflict with Chinese law or ideology.

2. If all individuals and units sign up for this short Film Week, it will be deemed as granting the SHISW Organizing Committee the right to perform and broadcast in all authorized shows. The full version of the video, clips of the work, still frame images, Chinese/English subtitle copies, and promotional flowers of the entries can be used for the SHISW Organizing Committee's promotional activities of this short Film Week and subsequent related exhibition activities. Including being reported by news media, broadcast, production of promotional brochures, book special publication and publication, TV, network, mobile media and other new media special publicity exhibition column.

3. The organizer and the organizing Committee have the right to use the names and portraits of the applicants and relevant rights holders of the short films for promotional purposes. The organizer has the right to save the shortlisted films for publicity, screening and international cultural exchange.

4.The author of the short film agrees to authorize the organizer and the organizing Committee as one of the brokers to negotiate the international exhibition, overseas publicity and promotion, and global copyright sale and distribution of the works. The director of this work agrees to authorize the organizer and the organizing committee of this event as one of the agents to negotiate with the director of film and television and related business work. SHISW organizers and organizing Committee have the right to interpret the selection, exhibition and selection rules of SHISW works.

Source: SHISW