National Documentary Short Film Festival (NDSF) 2025
National Documentary Short Film Festival (NDSF) has a unique perspective and understanding of the role of documentaries and short films as alternative visual formats and media. The challenges of radicalizing visual cultural practices politically are one of the thrust of the prestigious National Documentary Short Film Festival. In all realms of conceptualization, production and transmission; documentaries and short films addresses new challenges of technology, aesthetics and visualization.
The National Documentary Short Film Festival invites entries in both categories for its 10th edition.
The festival will be held in September 2025 in Thrissur, Kerala, India.
Rules and Regulations
- Films completed between January 2018 and July 2025 will only be accepted.
- Films should have subtitles in English.
- Films should not exceed the duration of 40 minutes.
- The films should be submitted in .mp4/ .mkv/ .avi file format.
- Registration fee for each entry is Rs.1000.
- In the event of any legal dispute, the court of appeal is Thrissur, Kerala.
- The decision of the Jury will be final.
Last date of submission is July 31, 2025
Submission Procedure
- 1) The registration shall be carried out through the NDSF 2025 page in the website mstudies.in/ndsf with the required credentials to access the registration procedure.
- 2) Make the payment of registration ONLINE. Registration Fee: Thousand Rupees (Rs.1000).
- 3) Enter the URL of the film in the designated column (URL submission).
URL submission guidelines
Submissions are only permitted through social platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo and cloud platforms such as Google Drive , iCloud etc.(When you use a cloud platform or a social media platform, the participants are supposed to grant the organisers the permission to access their submissions.)
