STATUTES / Propositions / Regulations
of the 30 th year of the international thematic competition of non-professional
(amateur) and non-commercial films
A. Basic information
Announcer: the Town of Liptovský Hrádok
Organizational guarantor: Amafilm Nicolaus, Liptovský Mikuláš
Professional guarantor: Liptov Cultural Center,
Liptovský Mikuláš
Co-organisers: Liptov Cultural Center
Liptovský Mikuláš
the village of Liptovský Ján
Date of the event: 21. – 23. november 2025
Place of the event: Liptovský Ján, the House of Culture
Competition web-site: www.tatranskykamzik.sk
Basic characteristics
The Tatra Chamois 2025 is the 30 th year of the international thematic
competition of non-professional (amateur) and non-commercial films, which has been
held since 1973, usually with a two-year periodicity. The competition is held under the
patronage of the World Organisation for Nonprofessional Film UNICA (Union
Internationale du Cinéma).
The mission of the competition
The main mission of the event is to present and support non-professional
(amateur) filmmaking, to activate and inspire non-professional (amateur) filmmakers
and to stimulate the creation of films from the following thematic areas: culture, art,
ethnography, travel and films about mountains. Environmental problems and their
solutions are also mapped and the current way of life of people is recorded for future
generations. The event also makes it possible to bring the audience closer to cultural,
historical and technical monuments at home and abroad, to preserve for future
generations the testimony of disappearing crafts or customs, and to bring the
audience closer to interesting places on our planet.
Organizing another year of the competition will contribute to preserving the continuity
of such thematically oriented work in Slovakia and will allow comparison with similarly
oriented works from abroad.
B. The course of the competition
The competition is single-round and is open to any non professional (amateur)
filmmaker, citizen of the Slovak Republic, as well as non-professional (amateur)
filmmakers from abroad. The competition is divided according to age criteria and
thematic focus of the entries. Each competitor can enter his/her works in individual
categories.
Competition categories
I. Culture and epoch-mark monuments – in this category, films
depicting history, cultural and technical monuments in their entirety,
especially folk culture, crafts, architecture, folk customs, folklore and
medallions of creative people compete.
II. Creating and protecting the living environment – in this category,
films depicting natural beauty, films about the creation and protection of
nature (protected fauna, flora) and the environment (forests, water, soil,
air, ecotopes, waste treatment issues, etc.)
III. Contemporary way of life of people – films competing in this
category mainly portray the contemporary way of life of people of
different age and social groups in different agglomerations (solitudes,
seclusion, settlements, villages, cities) in an ethnographic manner
IV. Travel video-movies and video-movies about mountains –
travelogues (including mountain hiking and sports)
Feature films are not accepted!
Terms and conditions of participation
Authors submit their video-movies directly to the address of the event's
organizing guarantor.
Each author can submit a maximum of 2 video-movie for each competition
category.
The competition is open to non-professional (amateur) and non-commercial
films only.
The competition is open to authors not younger than 16 years.
The competition is not open to professional filmmakers.
The competition is not open to non-professional filmmakers (or students or
graduates of) coming from secondary and higher education institutions who
had/have in their study programme a specialisation or subject focused on
television- or film-making.
The condition for accepting a film into the competition is a properly completed
and submitted online application the Link to which is at the website of this film-
competition (tatranskykamzik.sk).
By submitting a film to the competition, the author expressly consents to the
recording of his personal data specified in the application for the needs of the
Tatra Chamois film competition and assumes all responsibility in the area of
copyright.
The competition video-movies will be judged by a pre-selection jury appointed
by the competition organiser.
Only those video-movies that correspond to the thematic focus of the
competition and are of high artistic and technical quality will be included in the
competition screening.
The announcer and organizers reserve the right to exclude from the
competition works that violate human dignity, incite violence, spread hoaxes
and prejudices, or otherwise deny the values of humanity and humanism.
Only video-movies that have not participated in any previous years of this
competition will be accepted.
The selection jury reserves the right to limit the number of films due to time
constraints.
Authors will be informed about the results of the selection procedure by e-mail.
The results of the selection procedure will also be published on the filmdat.cz
website
The recommended duration of competition video-movies is up to 20 minutes.
The condition for accepting a video-movie into the competition is the payment
of a participation fee of 5,- EUR for each submitted video-movie to the bank-
account of the competition organizer:
o IBAN: SK77 8330 0000 0023 0250 6137
SWIFT/BIC: FIOZSKBAXXX
o for CZK payments in the Czech Republic: 2302506137/2010 (no
transfer/transaction fee – Fio banka)
o In the message to the recipient, please enter the author's name and
surname, and the film title.
Each submitted film must be accompanied by a dialogue list or subtitles in Slovak, Czech or English in .srt format with individual timecodes.
If the Slovak or Czech film already has subtitles in English, an attached .srt file is not required.
Technical terms and conditions
Only DVDs and flash drives will be accepted for the physical sending of films.
When selecting a medium, please note that media will not be returned by post.
For DVD media, only the DVD-video format will be accepted.
All video-movies must have a frame rate of 25i, 25p, 50i or 50p.
Video formats: MP4, MPG2, AVI – must have a minimum resolution of 720 ×
576, maximum 1920 × 1080.
Video-movies submitted in other formats may not be accepted into the
competition.
Both the video-movie file and the carrier (DVD/CD) must contain at least: the
title of the film, the name of the author, the place of residence.
The autor send the video-movie file to the adress of the competition organiser.
The video-movie can also be sent via the data transfer service, as e.g. www.uschovna.cz or www.wetransfer.com or other similar portals, to the e-mail address indicated in the final provisions of these Regulations/Statutes. Films without a completed and submitted application form will not be accepted.
Each video-movie must be delivered as a separate file and must have a
minimum of 5 seconds of black at the beginning and end.
Films placed on YouTube, Stream, Vimeo and similar servers will not be
downloaded and accepted.
Competition time schedule
15.10. 2025 – application submission and video-movies delivery
deadline.
by 3. 11. 2025 – notification to authors of acceptance/non-acceptance
of their video-movies.
21. – 23. 11. 2025 – the date of the attendance competition.
Assessment/Evaluation method
The competition video-movies are evaluated by a five-member international
jury appointed by the organizing sponsor.
Awards
The organiser will award one Main Prize – the Prize of the Mayor of Liptovský
Hrádok for the best film, the Prize of the Liptov Cultural Centre and in each category
will be proposed I., II. and III. prize and honourable mentions on the proposal of the
jury. In addition, there will be proposed the Best Director Award, the Best Editing
Award and the Best Cinematography (camera) Award.
No prizes will be awarded to absent authors. However, they can pick them up
personally from the organizing guarantor by 31 March 2026. Absent authors will
receive a diploma and participation certificate via email.
The organizer has the right not to award any of the prizes or to redistribute them on
the proposal of the jury. Thanks to UNICA´s patronage, it will also be possible to
award a UNICA medal to the video-movie whose content most aptly depicts the
alliance and cooperation between nations.
Competition results
At the evaluation ceremony, the organisers will announce the results of the
competition and hand over prizes to the winners. The organisers will publish the list
of results on the following websites: www.lks.sk, next: www.tatranskykamzik.sk and:
www.filmdat.cz
Final provisions
Your video-movie(s) you can send to us via the data transfer service, as e.g.
www.uschovna.cz or www.wetransfer.com or other similar data transfer
service
portals, to our email address tatrakamzik@gmail.com
Information at tel. no.:
+421 940 354 408 or: +49 1525 7 303136 (Peter Rybín – English)
+421 905 477 005 (Ján Kuska – German, Slovak, Czech),
+421 908 696 288 (Andrej Guráň – Slovak, Czech)
The organizer will use the submitted film during the pre-selection and during the
festival for the needs of film screenings, and after the festival it will be included in the
Tatras Chamois film-festival archive for the purpose of documentation and possible
use exclusively for non-commercial purposes (research, education, post-festival film
screenings).