The Tatra Chamois 2025 is the 30th 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).
Basic characteristics
The competition video-movies are evaluated by a five-member international jury
appointed by the organizing sponsor.
Assessment/Evaluation method
of the 30th year of the international thematic competition of non-professional
(amateur) and non-commercial films
Statutes / Regulations / Propositions
Announcer:
the Town of Liptovský Hrádok
Organizational guarantor: AMAFILM NICOLAUS, Liptovský Mikuláš
Professional guarantor:
Liptovské kultúrne stredisko, Liptovský Mikuláš
Co-organisers:
Liptovské kultúrne stredisko, Liptovský Mikuláš, obec Liptovský Ján
Date of the event:
November 21–23, 2025
Place of the event:
Liptovský Ján, the House of Culture
Competition web-site:
www.tatranskykamzik.szm.sk
A. Basic information
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.
The mission of the competition
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).
Competition categories
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Authors submit their video-movies directly to the address of the event's
organizing guarantor.
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Each author can submit a maximum of 2 video-movie for each competition
category.
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The competition is open to non-professional (amateur) and non-commercial films
only.
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The competition is open to authors not younger than 16 years.
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The competition is not open to professional filmmakers.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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The competition video-movies will be judged by a pre-selection jury appointed by
the competition organiser.
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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.
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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.
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Only video-movies that have not participated in any previous years of this
competition will be accepted.
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The selection jury reserves the right to limit the number of films due to time
constraints.
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Authors will be informed about the results of the selection procedure by e-mail.
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The results of the selection procedure will also be published on the filmdat.cz
website.
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The recommended duration of competition video-movies is up to 20 minutes.
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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:
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IBAN: SK77 8330 0000 0023 0250 6137
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SWIFT/BIC: FIOZSKBAXXX
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for CZK payments in Czech Republic: 2302506137/2010 (no transfer/transaction
fee – Fio banka)
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as the message for the recipient, please write 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.
Terms and conditions of participation
Feature films are not accepted!
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Only DVDs and flash drives will be accepted for the physical sending of films.
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When selecting a medium, please note that media will not be returned by post.
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For DVD media, only the DVD-video format will be accepted.
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All video-movies must have a frame rate of 25i, 25p, 50i or 50p.
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Video formats: MP4, MPG2, AVI – must have a minimum resolution of 720×576,
maximum 1920×1080.
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Video-movies submitted in other formats may not be accepted into the
competition.
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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.
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The autor send the video-movie file to the adress of the competition organiser.
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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.
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Films without a completed and submitted application form will not be accepted.
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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.
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Films placed on YouTube, Stream, Vimeo and similar servers will not be
downloaded and accepted.
Technical terms and conditions
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October 15, 2025 - application submission and video-movies delivery deadline.
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by November 3, 2025 - notification to authors of acceptance/non-acceptance
of their video-movies.
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November 21–23, 2025 the date of the attendance competition.
Competition time schedule
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. To absent authors/filmmakers-winners it
will not be possible to hand-out prizes awarded to their films; object-prizes will not be
sent by post or in any other way, either. However, they can pick them up personally
from the organizing guarantor by 31st 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.
Awards
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, www.tatranskykamzik.szm.sk and www.filmdat.cz.
Competition results
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.:
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+421 905 477 005 (Ján Kuska),
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+421 908 696 288 (Andrej Guráň)
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+421 940 354 408 (Peter Rybín – English)
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).
Final provisions
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.
B. The course of the competition
