The annual editions of our International Film Festival ASTERFEST  (since 2005, founded by Goran Trenchovski) are dedicated to the professional short film culture and emphasise its affirmation, popularization and valorization towards the audience.

It is about the AsterFest, a film festival focusing on fiction, documentary and fiction short works of film authors who are coming from or living in the Euro-Atlantics region and other world meridians.

We will present the festival programme in the categories:  Global Fiction, AsterDocs, Animotion, Merry-Diones, and Tributes.

In previous years we have chosen around 1000 films from 50 countries in the competitive contest, together with a few special programs and several extra films.

The main awards for AsterFest film competition are GOLDEN HORSESHOE, SILVER HORSESHOE, BRONZE HORSESHOE, ACO ALEKSOV Award for Best  Film Auteur and GJORGI ABADZIEV Award for Best Screenplay.

Former festival mottoes are: Discovering new cinematical spaces, Capture of multicinematical spaces, Boundless film views, Southeastern stories, Euro-Atlantics film signpost, Strumica – openness – creation, Odyssey 2012, Behind the ninth screen, New & old, One film everywhere, everyone at AsterFest, Brief stories - great wisdom., Between fact and fiction, Short cuts, Moves. Paths, New motivations...

Dates & Deadlines

• December 4, 2022

  Opening Date

• February 1, 2023

  Earlybird Deadline

• February 28, 2023

  Regular Deadline

• March 20, 2023

  Late Deadline

• April 10, 2023

  Extended Deadline

• April 15, 2023

  Notification Date

• August 4 – 8, 2023

  Event Date