Tricky Women Tricky Realities

Published awards for the 2027 call (amounts and prizes subject to change): • Maria Lassnig Golden Film Reel: EUR 10,000, sponsored by the Maria Lassnig Foundation. • Tricky Women Tricky Realities Award: EUR 4,000, sponsored by VdFS. • MQ Artist-in-Residence Award: a two-month residency at MuseumsQuartier, including a EUR 2,600 stipend. • The Grand Post Award: a EUR 2,000 post-production voucher from The Grand Post – Audio & Picture Post Production. • Sabine & Nicolai Sawczynski Audience Award, International Competition: EUR 1,000. • Up & Coming Tricky Women Tricky Realities Award: EUR 1,000, sponsored by Sabine & Nicolai Sawczynski. • Austrian Panorama Award: EUR 1,000, sponsored by VAM. • Hubert Sielecki Award, Austrian Panorama: EUR 500, sponsored by Hubert Sielecki. • Audience awards in Up & Coming and Austrian Panorama; no monetary value is specified for these two awards. The directing artists receive the awards and prize money. Source: https://filmfreeway.com/trickywomentrickyrealities

2027 submission conditions At least half of a submitted film must be animation, and at least half of its directors must be women and/or genderqueer artists. Male co-directors are eligible within that condition. A film previously submitted to the festival cannot be entered again. Filmmakers, producers and distributors may enter multiple films. International Competition accepts films completed after 1 January 2025. Up & Coming Competition covers student films and a director’s first or second film after graduation, under the same completion-date and eligibility conditions. Out of Competition accepts older and recent works, excluding previous submissions. Its interests include political struggles, work, queerness, solidarity, resistance, feminist and intersectional perspectives, and the meeting of animation with documentary, new media and expanded cinema. Animated Feature Film is an out-of-competition submission category; the published call allows older works and requires at least 50% animation. Submissions open on 17 July 2026 and close on 11 October 2026 through FilmFreeway. The listed notification date is 29 January 2027; the terms describe notification by the end of January. Each category lists a standard fee of EUR 1 and the listing is marked Waiver Codes Only. The official call provides waiver code twtr27 for applicants unable to pay. Selected films must supply DCP, 35mm or 16mm, or digital files encoded as DNxHD/DNxHR, ProRes, or good-quality H.264/H.265. The screening copy is due on the festival FTP server by 5 February 2027. Senders pay transport to the festival and customs charges for physical copies; the festival pays return transport. Loss or damage compensation is limited to the material value, and a claim must be made within ten days of the film or hard drive being returned. The selection committee determines programming, informs the director/contact before the festival and may place a submission in a different category. Submission authorises inclusion in competitive or non-competitive programmes. Applicants authorise television/internet extracts up to two minutes (approximately 10% for shorter films), or 17 seconds on Vienna public-transport Infoscreen displays, plus password-protected press access. Preview files, titles, credits and stills remain in the Vienna archive for non-commercial use and research. Competitive screenings carry no screening or exhibition fee; submission and acceptance of selection constitute agreement to that condition. Official call: https://www.trickywomen.at/call-for-films Full published terms and category details: https://filmfreeway.com/trickywomentrickyrealities