Crime Short Film Making Competition

We invite short film submissions from all around India in the crime genre. Once the submitted short films are undergone through a review process by our jury, the top films will be screened at Criminologia E Cinema 2026, which will be held on November 27, 2026 at National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar. The winners of the event will be awarded a first prize of ₹60,000, second prize of ₹30,000, and third prize of ₹10,000 on stage during the event. The guidelines for submitting short films are listed below. The film should engage with the subject matter of crime or related areas in a creative and interesting way. We encourage filmmakers to base their short films on knowledge and reality. The maximum runtime is 12 minutes total, including all opening and closing credits. You can have a maximum of 10 members who own the film and an unlimited number of members who work on the film. The films should be submitted in an HD MP4 file (1080x1920) in the standard 16:9 Landscape ratio. The film can be in any language, but English subtitles must be included. Submission of the short films are through online mode only.