Harvest Time Short Film Festival, organized by Istanbul Gelişim University (IGU), Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA), Radio, Television and Cinema Department, is waiting for applications in three different categories.

Harvest Time Short Film Festival, where Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts Prof. Dr. Şükran Güzin Ilıcak Aydınalp is the festival president and Radio, Television and Cinema Department Head Asst. Prof. Dr. Emre Doğan is the festival director, will be held in three separate categories titled "First Harvest", "End of Harvest" and "Fallow".

The rules of the festival are as follows:

• Films shot in 2023 and 2024 will be included in the "First Harvest" section of the inter-high school film competition, which is one of the competitive sections of the festival, and films shot in the 2023-2024 academic year (except graduation projects and first-year students movies) can participate. In the "Nadas" screening section of the festival, the previous year's graduation projects will be shown and special screenings will also be held in this section.

• There is no genre or subject limitation in the festival. The duration of the movies must be between minimum 2 minutes and maximum 25 minutes.

• Applications must be made by directors. A director can apply with more than one film.

• Films will be evaluated by an independent jury whose names will be announced later. At the end of the evaluation, 'Best Film' and 'Special Jury Award' will be presented in the First Harvest and End of Harvest sections.

Films, along with short director biographies and posters, must be delivered via wetransfer to hasatzamanifilmfestivali@gmail.com by 27.05.2024 at the latest.

Details about the festival's jury members, physical organization and awards will be shared at https://gsf.gelisim.edu.tr/tr/akademik-bolum-radyo-television-ve-sinema and on @igu_gsf_rts Instagram account in the coming days.