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KinaKaliady48 is a challenge for participants of any skill level who want to apply their abilities or try, for the first time, to write a script, shoot, produce sound, and edit a finished holiday short film in 48 hours.
The competition is open to people from any country.
All films are compiled into an anthology and screened in a cinema in Vilnius!
You can participate both in Vilnius and ONLINE. The number of teams is unlimited.
Create your film on the theme of Christmas holiday traditions.

See you in 2026!
WINNERS

  • Best Film - Cinemamicon / The Oldest Occupation
  • Best Directing - SOC / To the bright future of ours
  • Best Cinematography - Кінамайстэрня Кракава / We will arrange everything
  • Best Acting - Арліна Моладзь / Ліст з вёскі
  • Best Fit for the Genre - Млечны шлях / Flame of the Silent
  • Best Editing - Паганцы / I'm here
  • Best Sound - Млечны шлях / Flame of the Silent
  • Best Screenplay - SOC / To the bright future of ours
  • Best Makeup & Costumes - MARA / Ліфт
Audience Award Prize - SOC / To the bright future of ours
TEAMS
  • Арліна Моладзь
  • Chmarka
  • 21productions
  • Млечны Шлях
  • Зорачкі
  • MARA
  • Korallenriff
  • Cinemamicon
  • Паганцы
  • Кінамайстэрня Кракава
  • SOC
PRIZES
BEST FILM
Gift certificate FOTOFOTO.LT
for 200 EUR

Prize provided by AY INSTITUTE
https://activeyouth.lt/
BEST FILM
Consultancy on film fistribution by one of the Jury members

Prize provided by AY INSTITUTE
https://activeyouth.lt/
AUDIENCE AWARD
Christmas beer by Belarusian Awarded homebrewery
SCREENINGS
22 December
14:00
22 December
14:00
Warsaw
Belarusian Youth Hub
28 December
28 December
Berlin
Fem*hub
11 January
11 January
Krakow
Prastora krk
TBD
TBD
Belastok, Riga..
TBD
Jury
  • Oisín Kealy
    Oisín Kealy is a film curator, writer, researcher and radio DJ based in Scotland. He is programme manager for Glasgow Short Film Festival, and holds a doctorate with the University of Glasgow on the practices of activist film festivals in South America. He has worked with selection teams, panels and juries at festivals such as Document Human Rights Film Festival Glasgow, Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Entretodos Human Rights Short Film Festival São Paulo, and IndieCork in Ireland.
  • Gleb Osatinski
    The director and screenwriter lives in New York City and is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Arts. A director of seven award-winning short films, he was a participant in the Lighthouse Selections at T-Port Market in 2021. He is also a recipient of the 2020 Katherina Otto-Bernstein grant at Columbia University and of a 2021 Fiscal Sponsorship at The Gotham Film & Media Institute for his film Resentment.
    https://www.glebosatinskifilms.com/
  • Ihar Sukmanau
    Film expert, publicist, festival organiser and journalist, the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI member, founding member of the Belarusian Independent Film Academy. For 11 years (2010-2020) he served as a program director for the Listapad International Film Festival in Minsk. Since 2022 he serves as an Advisory Board Member of programming at the Odesa IFF and as a senior programmer for the Warsaw IFF. Worked as Eastern European film market consultant for the European Film Market at Berlinale’23-24. Сurrently serves as a member of the goEast Wiesbaden Film Festival's selection committee.
  • Arnas Balčiūnas
    Arnas is a Lithuanian director, a graduate of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. His short films have screened and won awards at national and international film festivals like Scanorama, Friss Hús, PÖFF, Go Short, Lago. He works in film education and is a film selection assistant at the Vilnius Short Film Festival.
KinaKaliady48 in numbers over 2 years
  • 45
    TEAMS
  • 288
    FILM MINUTES
  • 1000+
    VIEWERS
Partners

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Email: kinakaliady48@createculture.group
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