ALTER-NATIVE 33
Targu Mures, Palace of Culture
November 5 - 9, 2025
About the festival
The ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals from this region with specific goal of supporting and promoting cinematography and fresh filmmaking talent. The event started off in 1993 with the title Fate and Imagination, having as goal to present Hungarian films of the last 50 years. In 1994 the festival enlarged its topic and became the ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival.
The program supports individual alternatives to the mass products of the media market, presenting various less-known styles and unique viewpoints, discovering independent self-expressions in film. ALTER-NATIVE inherently considers radically different genres and thoughts of film both valid and authentic. The directors of the film selected for the competition will be invited to the festival.
Near the competition the festival include complementary programs like presentation of recent future and documentary films, the price wining films of the similar festivals, university student films, video-installations, exhibitions, concerts, theatrical performances, meetings and workshops.
We were pleased to be able to transform Targu-Mures into the meeting point of films and filmmakers for a period of 5 days.



For over 30 years
November 11, 2024
The 32nd ALTER-NATIVE’s Awards

NATIONAL COMPETITIONTHE PRIZE OF LUNO COLOR GRADE STUDIOColoring services worth 1.000 eurosEx equo:Xandra Popescu: On the Impossibility of an Homage – RomaniaRebeka Hatházi: April Twenty-Seven – Romania/HungaryTHE ERVIN SCHNEDAREK PRIZE...
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October 15, 2024
Filmmaking Workshop with Ádám Breier

The leader of this year’s filmmaking workshop is Ádám Breier, director of films such as Lefkovicsék gyászolnak (The Lefkovicses Are Mourning), A báró hazatér (The Baron Returns), and Havanna, csak...
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October 10, 2024
The competition program of the ALTER-NATIVE 32 has been completed

The pre-selection jury of the festival has selected 59 short films from the 818 entered in the competition. According to the decision of the pre-selection jury, 45 short films were...
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February 21, 2024
The 31th ALTER-NATIVE’s Awards

NATIONAL COMPETIONTHE PRIZE OF LUNO COLOR GRADE STUDIOCecilia Ștefănescu: Keeping Distance (Romania)THE ERVIN SCHNEDAREK PRIZE FOR THE BEST REGIONAL FILMAND A PEN OFFERED BY AÁRY-TAMÁS LAJOS,THE COMMISIONER FOR EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS...
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October 11, 2023
Film Workshop During the Festival

During the festival, Hungarian film director Szilárd Bernáth will conduct a workshop on the possibilities of sociographic film representation. The workshop will explore how social realism influences film language, narrative...
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