In 2012 UNICA's Festival took place in Ruse, Bulgaria ... read a report of the festival    results of the competition     watch some of the films    photos.
Liberty Square, Ruse. picture privided by Herman Ottink	The jury decided the overall best film of the festival was Obid/Lunch by Ivica Mušan from Croatia.	The jury decided La Gamelle (The Bowl) by Maher Ben Khlifa from Tunisia was the best film by jeunesse.	Russian delegation dressed for the parade of nations. picture provided by Julia Obratzsova

The UNICA Congresses (Festivals) click for reports of past ones and details of future ones

1999 Finland 2000 Holland 2001 Estonia 2002 Luxembourg

2003 Poland 2004 Germany 2005 Belgium  2006 South Korea

2007 Slovakia 2008 Tunisia 2009 Gdansk 2010 Einsiedeln (Switzerland)

2011 Luxembourg 2012 Ruse (Bulgaria) 2013 Fieberbrunn (Austria) 2014 Slovakia (subject to confirmation)

What is UNICA?

In formal terms:

In the sense of peaceful co-operation and friendship between peoples, UNICA
promotes international understanding and collaboration, in particular in the field of art, culture, education and science, in accordance with the principles of the UNESCO.

UNICA, as a rule, achieves its purpose with the following activities:

• congresses and General Assemblies
• international film and video competitions
• international exchange of non-commercial films
• international seminars
• debates on new concepts and theories about art and culture
• film shows and exchange of experience between countries
• publishing

In short: Promoting Non-Commercial Film & Video Making.

In practice it brings together people with similar interests in amateur film and video production from all over the world.

Who is in UNICA?

Check the official UNICA website for the latest information, but in late 2010 the list was:

Andorra Argentina Armenia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia	Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Hungary	Iran Italy Liechtenstein Luxemburg Macedonia Netherlands Poland	Républic Of Korea Rumania Rwanda Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden	Switzerland Tunisia Ukraine United Kingdom Russia Uzbekistan
Corresponding members: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Latvia

UNICA NEWS Magazine

For many years UNICA published a magazine in English, French and German three or four times a year. It was assembled by Ctirad (Radek) Stipl in the Czech Republic. For financial reasons that has been discontinued, but we have web versions of some issues available to read here:

2001 - issue 1	2002 - issue 1, issue 2, issue 3, issue 4	2003 - issue 1, issue 2, issue 3	2004 - issue 1, issue 2 , issue 3
2005 - issue 1, issue 2, issue 3	2006 - issue 1, issue 2, issue 3	2007 - issue 1, issue 2, issue 3	2008 - issue 1, issue 2 - discontinued