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              RAGFF Cairo, Egypt                  RAGFF New York City, USA               RAGFF Venezia, Italy

                           2026                                                                                                                 2026

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                           QIIFF                                            Tulum, Mexico                             Bacalar, Mexico

                           2026                                                      2026                                                  2026

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Festival's Descriptions :

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Every Country has a different Jury from the host City and Worldwide.

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 Retro Avant Garde Film Festival is an IMDb qualifier Festival
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RAGFF

Contact :

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ragfilmfestival@gmail.com

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— Direct to Festivals —

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RAGFF Venezia, Italia

europe.ragff@gmail.com

 

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RAGFF NYC, United States

americas.ragff@gmail.com

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RAGFF Cairo, Egypt

cairo.ragff@gmail.com

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T U L U M  W E, Mexico

tulum.wefilmfestival@gmail.com

 

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QIIFF

q.indigenousfilms@gmail.com

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7 Colors Lagoon Bacalar IFF, Bacalar, Mexico

bacalar.biff.contact@gmail.com

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- info -

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Submissions Questions 

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submissions.ragff@gmail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAGFF

 

 

 

 

1. – Organization 

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The Retro Avant Garde Film Festival aka RAGFF is an independent and Private Organization
Owned Completely on its own, not influenced, not in bias, not in affiliation to any Political or
Religious entity.

 

Arts
The Retro Avant Garde Film Festival mission is of promoting, propagating and exploring the
understanding of every form of expression relevant to cinema with the main priority of every Retro /
Avant Garde Art expression that moves forward at the edge of new forms of human expression
through Visual Arts and Moving Sound Image ( Experimental Audio Visuals, Short Film, Feature
Film, documentaries, public encounters, educational encounters ) throughout the year.

 

 

Human
The aim of the Retro Avant Gard Film Festival is to be hosting the Festival every year at a different
city from a different Country, this way, while promoting the Arts, the Festival brings Human
Communion between different Cultures and Societies for the growth and better of the human
condition.

 

 

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2. – Film Submissions

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Every Country has a Different Set of Jury.

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Feature-Length, Documentary Films :

Not Restriction whatsoever

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Short Films, Medium-Length Films, Music Visuals, Music Videos :

Not Restriction whatsoever

 

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3. – Categories

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Feature Length films or Short Films to be Encourage to participate are :
Retro Avant Garde,
Experimental,
Music Visuals,
Drama,
Science Fiction,
Horror,
Comedy,
Documentary,
Any other New form of “ Sound Visual Art “ are encourage to participate.
“ Only in Particular cases, at the discretion of the Artistic Director, may exceptions be made to the
above-mentioned conditions for admission.”

 

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4. – Waiver Agreement

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The Retro Avant Garde Film Festival is open to Public. All Participants and / or guest of the
Festival acknowledge that Multimedia Channels, web and accredited television channels and other
media partners will / might cover the Retro Avant Garde Film Festival for Television, Radio, Web,
Newspaper, Digital News. By agreeing to take part in the Festival, all participants relinquish, free of
charge, their broadcasting rights to any filmed footage and recorded audio, allowing the media
partners to make such use of the above materials as they see fit.

 

 

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5.- General Rules

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Participation in the Retro Avant Garde Film Festival automatically entails observance of the present
Regulations.
Producers, distributors or other parties who submit films must guarantee that they are legally
authorized to represent the film and get any responsibility if fail to do so, as well as if any copyright
or Trademark infringement is due to act within the film they representing, also they guarantee that
they are legally authorized to register the film in the RAGFF.
RAGFF Committee, Artist Director, Aggregators and Affiliates will carry Not Responsibility if any
infringement on copyright or Trademark is made by any of the Invited films as well as Participating
films or films from the pre-selection phase and during and after RAGFF screenings.
The Director of RAGFF reserves the right to settle any cases not covered by the present
regulations.
Should any dispute arise regarding the interpretation of any article of these regulations, the English
Version is Binding by the State laws, and jurisdiction of New York City, NY, USA.

 

 

       

 

 

 

      RAGFF       

Films – Art – Music 

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6.- RAGFF World Tour Cinema 

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It is a Service Distribution offered by RAGFF and also 

at the total discretion of RAGFF, an exclusive list of prior Winners and Selected Films from RAGFF Competitions, might be invited as ‘ honor guest ‘ to be Screened at the  RAGFF World Tour Cinema wich will be happening in a different country from where they have been in prior Competition.

Producers, distributors or other parties who submit films must agree before next year screenings , and guarantee that they are legally  authorized to represent the film and get any responsibility if fail to do so, as well as if any copyright or Trademark infringement is due to act within the film they representing, also they guarantee that they are legally authorized to register the film in the RAGFF.

 

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7. – Art Movements

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Installations

Exploration, Unobvious, Aesthetics of silence, Pantomime, Painting, Drawing, Film Graphics,
Color, Color Structure, Texture, Composition, Words, Image, Silence, Speech, Colors, Verbal Tone,
Music Line, Decks of sounds in images, Video Art.

WORD AS WRITTEN,
A Word of Singing, Moving Images, Glitch

INSTALLATION
Scenery, Calligraphy, Animations.

BODY LANGUAGE
TONS OF HUMAN CULTURE DNA, MOVING IMAGES OF LIFE, HORIZONS, VIEW POINTS OF EXPRESSION, ART IN MOVEMENTS FRAMES, INSTALLATIONS

Art that defies the limits of human impulses …

We are waiting for YOUR interesting concepts and expressions of ART.

 

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8.- RAGFF Music Fest

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Depending on the City and Venues of RAGFF Years Edition, All local Artist as well as International artist will be always invited to participate during the days of RAGFF Music Fest.

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Video on RAGFF Background is

RAGFF Venezia 2018 Winner Best Music Video 
" 14 " 
Dir. Hiroshi Kizu
Japan

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