Rules & Terms

By submitting your project to our festival, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

1. Granting us the rights to upload and embed your project's trailer, stills, and/or promotional materials on our website.
2. Ensuring ownership or valid usage rights for all film content.
3. Understanding that entry fees and services fees are non-refundable.
4. No feedback or justification will be provided if your project is not selected.

HeartThrob International Film Festival welcomes submissions from filmmakers of any background and accepts the following films:

1. Projects by passionate filmmakers, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or nationality.
2. Projects with nudity.
3. Projects that break conventional norms, think differently, or push boundaries.
4. Projects in languages other than English or Dutch, provided they have English or Dutch subtitles.
5. Erotic and pornographic projects.

HeartThrob International Film Festival will not accept submissions with the following characteristics:

1. Extremist or propagandistic content from religious or political organizations.
2. Projects that promote hate, racism, transphobia, homophobia, or other forms of bigotry.
3. Over the edge political projects.
4. Projects produced before 2010.
5. Projects with poor sound quality, lack of subtitles/captions for non-English language projects, and/or video resolution less than 720p HD.
6. Projects in languages other than English without English subtitles.

Disclaimer:

By submitting your project to HeartThrobIFF for consideration, you confirm that it is cleared for festival exhibition and accept full responsibility for its intellectual property. Additionally, you agree that the festival has the right to display your work online for promotion. You further agree to indemnify and hold HeartThrobIFF harmless against any potential copyright, trademark, credit, publicity, or legal issues. Furthermore, you acknowledge that the festival does not provide payment for showcasing the project.

We retain the right to exclude certain awards if there were not enough submissions for a given category or if none of the entries met our stringent judging standards. We may also decide to include additional categories if necessary. This festival will not offer physical awards or screening events.