Romania International Film Festival (Ro-IFF) is the only international film festival that, from the very beginning, looked towards the Black Sea region’s film industry (Russia, Moldavian Republic, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Romania). Initially founded for the film productions mentioned above, due to it’s growth in 2009, another competive section was added – Woman in cinema.

• focuses on the promotion of European  Cinema, a mirror reflecting the needs and mentalities of different societies;
• is paying a special attention to the new  filmmaking including its own way of film expression.
• is paying a special attention to production from Black Sea Region
• is ment to be a link between countries which will have the opportunity of openly and directly compete with productions from all over the world.
• promotes women director,  in cinema.
• promote the multicultural diversity, creativity in cinema, innovation and the dialogue between the professionals.

• Members of the Juries will be Romanian and internationally well known personalities; any connection with films presented it’s forbidden.
• The long feature films submitted to the festival will be screened in 35 mm. Under exceptional circumstances, the Festival’s management could ask for Beta Digital, DVCam, miniDV or DVD. NTSC format can be accepted only for MiniDV or/and DVCam
• The documentaries and shorts submitted to the festival will be screened only in Beta Digital, DVCam, miniDV or DVD. The films selected in Uderground section will be presented as above.
• All films presented in the festivals should be submitted in the original language,  with English or French subtitles. A dialogue list and a DVD should be submitted in advance, in order to make the necessary arrangements for electronic subtitling into Romanian.
• Submission of a film must be made on the official Festival entry form duly completed and sent to the Festival before 1st of August, each year. The sender shall inform the Festival about the details of shipment. The preview DVD will not be return. The film selected can not be withdrawn from the competition.
• The customs fees and cost of insurance of all prints offered for selection must be borne by the producers or responsible authorities. The Festival is paying for the transport of films and is responsible for cost of storage and insurance of films while on the premises of the Festival.
• In case of damage of a print , either during the selection process or at the Festival itself, the Festival is only responsible for the cost involved in making a new print according to the current laboratory rates for ordering a standard print in Romania;
• The DVD for the selection committee shall be sent together with the dialogue list in English or French and with sufficient documentation, promotion and advertising material to allow the best promotion of the film.
• The Festival is empowered to distribute these promotional materials to interested television channels, upon request.
• When submitting a film please send the DVD with subtitles in English or French
• If the film is selected please send long and short synopsis, principal cast and crew members, logline, 2-3 stills, bio-filmography of director, director photo; please mention if it is the first or second film of director; any publicity materials you have, the DVD with the trailer and 3-4 images from films; if the materials will not reach the Festival, the Festival director can withdraw the film from the competition;
• The Festival accepts long feature (min. 60 min.), documentaries (until 30 min. and over), short features (maximum 30 min.), completed after 1st of January of the year before the Festival; the films selected  must not been commercially distributed in Romania; with exception, films from “Woman in cinema” or from some countries from Black Sea Region (having low audiovisual production) could be completed after 1st of January two years before the Festival;
• The films will be presented 3 times according to FIAPF rules
• The winnings films and the nominees, will be presented, one more time at the end of the festival.

• CineBlackSea competitive regional program for feature films (CBC- Feat.), documentaries and shorts (CBS- Doc & Short): films must be from Russia, Republic of Moldavia, Ukraina, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Bulgaria,Turquie, Greece and Romania 
• Woman in Cinema – competitive international section for feature films (W-Feat.), documentaries and shorts (W-Doc & Short) directed by women
• Underground – non competitive section, international open ( please see the specific rules)
• Focus – non competitive section; review of the opera of one personality (directors, producers, actors, director’s of photography,)
• Panorama – non competitive section dedicated to “films of the moment” highly appreciated in other festivals, or special program.
• 2 x 3 – non competitive section dedicated to one men director and one woman director; for each director we wll present 3 films
• Romania cinema – in 2011 we celebrate the first fiction Romanian film and we decided that beginning this year, each edition will present Romanian films, older and newer, in collaboration with National Romanian Archive and National Center of Cinema.

The following cash prizes will be presented by the juries members:

• Festival Trophy – 1.500 usd for The Best Feature of the Festival
• Best CineBlackSea Director  – 1.000 usd
• Best Woman Director – 1.000 usd
• Best Actor Award (male or female, regardless the section) –  500 usd

Due to this year underfunding by the National Center of Cinema, we are sorry to announce that this year in competitions will be only features.