Info on the INDEPENDENT SHORT FILM COMPETITION GRAND PRIX “ilCORTO - INTERNATIONAL ROME FILM FESTIVAL 2025“ 17th edition - FREE registration - Deadline: 15 NOVEMBER 2025 - Maximum duration of 52 minutes - And to give greater visibility to the works submitted, hundreds of Short Films will be selected for the “Short Film Marathon - International Rome Film Festival 2025” (12 afternoons of screenings with free admission from 15 to 26 October at the Cine-Teatro Della Forma in Rome). Send the short film and the registration form via file transfer software, even free, such as WeTransfer.com, to the email: concorso@ilcorto.eu
Cinema not only tells stories, it transports cultures, traditions, and emotions. It is a window to unknown worlds, an invitation to explore realities that, although distant, resonate in the depths of our humanity.
Today, we invite you to open that window and immerse yourself in a unique cinematic experience: the Honduran Film Festival.
For the first time in this space, we bring a visual journey that captures the essence of Honduras through the eyes of its most daring and talented filmmakers. From the majestic natural landscapes to the vibrant stories of its people, this exhibition is a tribute to the art, identity, and passion of a country that, although small in size, is immense in creativity and expression.
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Cinemaya
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Cinemateca Capitólio
Ícaro International Film Festival
The International World Film Festival Monterrey is a monthly film festival that celebrates the diversity and cinematographic proposals of all the filmmakers in the world, where different categories are awarded each month, recognizing talent at its highest quality. We are a festival with a sensitive appreciation of cinematographic art, with juries of the highest rank to evaluate your film.
By participating in the International World Film Festival, you could be invited to a national exhibition in commercial movie theaters throughout Mexico.
Your work will be appreciated by the Mexican moviegoers.
The jury will select films from different categories, and from these at least one will be awarded per category each month. The winning films of the month will automatically qualify for the annual screening and are nominated for the prestigious International World Film Festival. The annual event will take place on November 28-30, 2025, a glamorous red-carpet premiere with press conferences and a gala party.
This festival accepts short films, medium-length films and feature films. Regardless of the subject matter, films from all over the world are accepted.
All titles submitted in the different categories must have subtitles in English or Spanish (in case their original language is neither English nor Spanish). For a winning film to be screened at the annual event, it must have Spanish subtitles, in case its native language is not Spanish.
Month after month, our judges will decide the selection of films, the nominated, and winners of the International World Film Festival, in its eleventh edition.
A film may win in different categories and may be re-entered in categories other than those in which it won.
There are 13 categories for the Film of the Month award (fiction, animation, documentary, environmental film, horror film, experimental film, family and children's film, student film, low-budget film, musical film, film about religion, best short film, and best trailer) and 10 Individual Categories for the awards of: Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Production Design, Best Editing, Best Sound Design, Best Feature Film Script, Best Short Film Script.
Bucharest Short Film Festival [BSFF]
Independent is the key word for Bucharest Short Film Festival [BSFF], as it is founded by independent film professionals and focuses on independent artists in cinema, from all over the world. Bucharest Short Film Festival aims at recognizing, showcasing and spreading-out the most professional, most innovative, and most interesting fresh short international films, while always prioritizing independent short films.
Bucharest Short Film Festival will showcase some of the finest short international film in Narrative, Animation, Student, Experimental, Documentary, Music Video and Human Rights. We take to heart the amount of work put into each film. Therefore, the festival rules ensure that each movie is reviewed at least two times and well-debated by our team. Some of the awarded films will also be screened at other international film festivals.
Independent artists and their short films will meet an effervescent, and a quite experienced with cinema and film festivals audience, ensuring quality networking, and engaging opportunities, while the selected films will be determined by a panel of industry experts.
Bucharest Short Film Festival is building a strong community of interest around international independent film professionals and film lovers, in the heart of one of the most interesting emergent capitals of arts and culture, a city that never sleeps – Bucharest.
The festival will run film screenings, preceded or followed by artists Q&A, or networking side events, and, surely, parties, that all take place in various conventional and unconventional stages around Bucharest, as in cinemas, open spaces, and even summer theatres. Bucharest, you’ve heard about it, eventually – a city for young people. Well known for different things – like “Old Paris” nickname, in its bourgeois times, before the communism decades, or the world’s biggest parliamentary building [and one of the largest buildings of any kind], from its communism times, new architecture, or the explosive contemporary art scene, and the also quite impressive underground arts and music and nightlife communities, in its current times.
Media affirmation association “MAT” (in further text: The Association) is non-governmental and non-profit voluntary association, founded for an indefinite period of time due to media affirmation of all social segments via audio-video material making, press articles and web presentation making. One of the aims of the Association is the organization of festivals which, due to their content, contribute the development of culture. From 2016. one of the organized festivals is International festival of short movies and photography, called “Short cut”.
The Association for Media Affirmation "Mat" from Indjija, has announced a competition for the tenth edition of the International Short Film and photographs Festival "Short cut" Indjija 2025. Short feature, documentary and animated films are shown at the festival. The festival is open to films by domestic authors, as well as to authors from all over the world. The topics of the films should be in the field of: ecology, tourism, life and animated film. The public call for authors of short films lasts from May 15 to 31, 2025. Received films are reviewed by a selection committee that will not consider films that contain offensive or aggressive messages or content.
The International Short Film and Photography Festival "Short cut" Indjija will be held on from August 25 to September 2, 2025. The festival screens short feature, documentary and animated films on the theme of ecology, tourism and life. The festival is open not only for the movies made by native authors, but also for the authors from all over the world. The following program consists of the photography exhibition (the theme is “Objective(s)”),which is a competitive nature too, and will be realized from August 25 to September 2, 2025
COMPETITION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
The Short Cut Festival organizers organize an exhibition of photographs titled “Objective(s)” in the accompanying program, inviting all interested people to participate in the exhibition, photographs with personal information and contact send on shortcutfest @ gmail.com with an indication for a photo contest “Short cut”, from 15 to 31 May 2025. Photo authors for the competition can send a maximum of 10 photos, the size of the longer page of acceptable digital photos cannot be less than 3,000 pixels, the file type can only be jpg, ie. jpeg and the maximum file size must not exceed 20MB.
An exhibition of selected photographs for the competition will be held from August 25 to September 2, 2025.
Are you ready to showcase your editing skills and creativity?
We’re inviting passionate filmmakers and content creators to take part in an exciting new competition to identify and reward the most technically gifted and visually creative editors.
Mountain Biking
Capture the thrill of the trails from multiple perspectives.
Skiing / Snowboarding
Show off your downhill runs with dynamic angles!
Static Blog Content
From cooking tutorials to unboxing, highlight the details from every perspective.
Dynamic Blog Content
Whether it’s travel, pets or live music, bring your storytelling to life with multiple camera setups.
Each entry must include the following. We regret that any submissions which do not include these will not be considered:
1: Three Synchronised Raw Video Files
2: Edit Decision List Document
3: One Finished Edited Video
Please visit our site for full requirements.
ABYCINE – FESTIVAL Y MERCADO DE CINE INDEPENDIENTE DE ALBACETE tiene entre sus objetivos fundamentales la difusión y promoción de películas y cortometrajes de carácter independiente que, por una u otra razón, no disfrutan de distribución regular en los circuitos convencionales de exhibición.
El Festival trata de cubrir, en la medida de lo posible, este importante vacío. Asimismo, otro de sus propósitos, no menos relevante, es presentar una selección de películas que atiendan a las nuevas corrientes del cine joven contemporáneo, al fenómeno “indie” en el cine español y a la educación de la mirada de las nuevas generaciones de espectadores.
Since 2013, the International Human Rights Film Festival – Colombia has offered audiences an audiovisual, cultural, and academic program that contributes to audience development, the strengthening of the film and cultural industries, the creation of spaces for dialogue around life, reconciliation, the promotion and defense of human rights, and the construction of ideas for peace.
The Festival is the ideal platform for Colombia’s and the international film community committed to storytelling with a human rights perspective. It serves as a key space for the promotion, circulation, distribution, and exhibition of audiovisual works with limited commercial demand due to their social and thematic focus.
The Festival takes place simultaneously in the cities of Barranquilla, Medellín, Cali, Bogotá, Manizales, Pereira and Quibdó, as well as in about twenty municipalities across the country.
The Iridescent Guadix International Film Festival. Was created with the aim of promoting diversity, inclusion, and visibility through film.
From the city of Guadix, gateway to the Granada Geopark, this event will offer a space for exhibition, training, and dialogue around cinema, highlighting national and international works. It will also serve as a platform for new talent, promoting the production of independent and arthouse films from an intersectional perspective as a tool for social transformation.
With this initiative, MagaZinema Cineclub seek to consolidate a space for resistance, creativity, and the celebration of diversity through the seventh artas a driver of social, economic, and cultural change.
The first edition of the La Spezia Film Festival took place in 2016, with the aim of creating and growing a festival that combines research with attention to the tastes of the public, with the awareness that cultural participation also produces social and economic repercussions, which constitute an added value for the territories.
Organized by Cut-up Publishing and Associazione Cinema e Cultura, with the patronage of the Municipality of La Spezia, the artistic direction is entrusted to the director Paola Settimini and the screenwriter Paolo Logli. The president of the jury is Professor Roberto Danese of the University of Urbino.
The Santa Fe de Antioquia Film Festival Corporation decided, through the Festival, to turn the municipality of Santa Fe de Antioquia into a large movie theater and show open-air cinema, under the stars and framed in the colonial architecture of one of the Heritage towns of Colombia.
Over the years, the Santa Fe de Antioquia Film Festival has sought to bring cinema closer to the public through workshops, conferences, a central screening of films according to the theme, and training workshops. These activities are designed not only for the inhabitants of the municipality of Santa Fe de Antioquia, but also for inhabitants of Medellín and other inhabitants of western Antioquia and in general for university students, specialized journalists, filmmakers in training, film critics, producers, filmmakers and film lovers who for twenty-three years add up to an annual average of 15,000 festival attendees.
Arizona Underground Film Festival is Arizona’s only premier underground cult film festival! Celebrating our 18th year, we make it our sole mission to showcase the work of filmmakers with defiantly independent visions. We are on a quest to represent every genre of independent film from across the world celebrating the artist, and their work. We will cover categories from Narrative, Horror, Documentaries, Experimental, Animation, and Exploitation. Join us in the underground!
Many of the films that have screened at the festival over the years have gone on to receive distribution from the festival screening, or attention from press and other festivals. We have been the World Premiere for many films over the past 10 years, and we will continue to premiere films, and showcase the best of independent cinema.
WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT AZUFF
“It’s got the vision and confidence of fests that have been around a lot longer.” - Filmmaker Magazine
“Prestigious festival” – The Huffington Post
“Unbeatable!” - Arizona Daily Star
“Truly Amazing” - Tucson Citizen
“AZUFF shed(s) light on the underground network… bringing independent films into the lime-light” - Yahoo News
“A Top-Notch Film Festival” - Trashwire
“A Real Powerhouse of a Festival” - Underground Film Journal
“A Wild Ride to the Edges of Visionary Independent Cinema” - Film Festival Examiner
Zigguart Filmfest: Elevate Your Story to Global Heights
Zigguart Multimedia is thrilled to announce the launch of the 1st Zigguart Filmfest, a groundbreaking online film festival based in Milan, Italy, running from October 20-30, 2025. This unique event is more than just a festival—it’s a launchpad for filmmakers to achieve global recognition and secure exceptional distribution deals.
Why Zigguart Filmfest Is Your Ultimate Platform:
At Zigguart Filmfest, we’re not just celebrating films; we’re investing in their futures. As part of a year-long initiative powered by Zigguart Multimedia’s talent agency and distribution company, we go beyond traditional festival offerings to ensure your film reaches its highest potential.
• Year-Long Collaboration: Our commitment doesn’t end with the festival. For an entire year, we’ll work closely with your film, crafting exclusive strategies tailored to its unique strengths.
• Global Distribution Opportunities: Through our strategic partnership with Filmhub, we connect selected films to over 120+ global streaming platforms and channels, including Apple TV, Amazon Prime, HBO, Netflix, and more. This ensures audiences around the world see your story.
• Festival and Streaming Success: From navigating festival circuits to securing top-tier streaming placements, we offer personalized support to position your film for success.
Submit Your Film Today
Be part of a festival that doesn’t just spotlight your film—it amplifies your reach. With Zigguart Filmfest, you’re not just competing; you’re building a future for your creative vision.
We are an International Short Film Festival, which works in the Dissemination and promotion of Venezuelan cinematography, Latin American and worldwide in four countries simultaneously;
And of all its cultural scope. Try to show cinematographic works that entertain, but above all, that exert an influence education in children, youth and the general population.
The F.I.C.Y (International Film Festival of Yopal) is an event that will take place from October 2nd to 6th, 2025 in the city of Yopal, located in the department of Casanare, Colombia. The main objective of this festival is to promote regional, national, and international film production and to strengthen the region as a center for the seventh art.
The festival aims to foster circular economy around audiovisual production, generating greater employment opportunities and economic development in the region. Additionally, the F.I.C.Y proposes new expressions of culture and folklore in the region, through the presentation of films that address themes related to identity and cultural diversity of the region.
The event will feature a varied program that includes screenings of national and international films, short films, documentaries, conferences, workshops, roundtable discussions, and cultural activities in general. There will also be competitions among filmmakers, with the aim of awarding the best audiovisual productions.
In summary, the F.I.C.Y is a film festival that seeks to promote audiovisual and cultural production in the Casanare region of Colombia, and contribute to its economic and social development.
The annual Eko International Film Festival (EKOIFF) is an international film festival in the coastal megacity of Lagos in southwestern Nigeria.
It was founded and established by Hope Obioma Opara in 2009 and Hope Obioma Opara is the also the CEO of Supple Communications Limited under which the festival is Holden. He is also the publisher of publishers of Supple magazine a film festivals and culture magazine in Africa showing previews and reviews of movies and interviews on www.supplemagazine.org.
The mission of Eko International Film Festival is to promote the appreciation of Arts and Culture through the motion picture arts and sciences and increase tourism in Nigeria.
Eko International Film festival is owned (Trade Mark and Copy Right) and organized by Supple Communications Limited.
The inaugural edition was held in the megacity of Lagos in summer, July 7-12, 2010, at the Genesis Deluxe Cinemas of The Palms in Lekki, Lagos, with filmmakers from Nigeria and around the globe
The subsequent editions were held at the Silverbird Cinemas of the Silverbird Galleria on Victoria Island, Lagos. till date
Our film festival is on her 15th edition slated to take place in April 21-26,2025
The festival will offer diverse program, featuring films of the famous directors, debutants and animation students from various countries, many of whom were awarded at numerous international animation festivals.
International Animated Film Festival "Tindirindis "- is not a commercial film scene. The festival's mission - to deliver the widest range of the animation world: the different styles, the schools work, to show the animation, which encourages creativity.
Artistic animation, author retrospectives, the films, which stimulate creativity. 22 years festival is running every year in Lithuania, showing the best non-commercial animation works from around the world. Competition programs include short and feature films for children, adults, experimental, student, debut, and music clips. Since 2018 new nomination - "Best Animadoc". From 2019, a new nomination "For the Best Work of Applied Animation" will be introduced, with the aim to introduce new animation forms: performances, interactive media works, applications, installations, advertisements, educational works, works of virtual reality. The purpose of the festival is to reveal the wide variety of animation, diversity and perspectives. During the festival we present retrospectives of animation masters, organizing meetings with viewers, animation workshops, Master classes for students and industry employees with famous animation creators from abroad and Lithuania.
