Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival 2018

The Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival is an extraordinary event that displays many excellent documentary films from all over the world as well as business result in the documentary film industry. The festival, held annually in Frankfurt am Main Germany,aims to promote the international exchange in the documentary film industry and to build a bridge for exchange, trade and communication in the documentary film industry between East and West. The festival encourages creative, critical, unique and meaningful documentary films of exceptional quality to participate. It honors the outstanding achievements and work of filmmakers in the documentary film industry. The Golden Tree rewards artists who produce documentary films in tremendous quality and who continue to devote themselves to the development of the documentary film industry, by offering them a professional world-class platform. The Golden Tree Festival consists of six integral parts: exhibitions, film screenings, awards, forums, investment fund and broadcasting abroadcasting right trade.

In addition, the event covers the presentation of outstanding documentary works, communication in the fild of the documentary film industry,negotiation and introduction among cultural creative enterprises,the individuals, investment organization and financing institutions.

International mainstream media, an organizing committee with professional documentary film experts coming from all over the world and two committees which are responsible for the pre-selection and the final selection of the documentary films in the Golden Tree award competition, consisting of experts, famous educators, actors and directors from the documentary film industry, all of these famous people gathered in The Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival.The Golden Tree Awards are awarded in the following categories "Best Long Documentary", "Best Medium-Length Documentary", "Best Short Documentary", "Best Mini Documentary", "Best Director" and "Special Jury Mention Award".

The first Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival was held in Frankfurt am Main from October 15th, 2016, to October 18th, 2016. A total of nearly 400 films from 38 countries participated.

After the successful debut of the first festival it received the attention and praise of the international documentary film industry, mainstream media, and public. 1017 films from more than 92 countries and regions participated in the second Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival (06-09 Sept 2017).

The 3rd Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival is scheduled from 19th to 22nd September, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The registration for the festival begins on September 17th, 2017 and ends on March 31st, 2018.