shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival is a premier venue for the exhibition and promotion of short films. The festival is an exceptional twelve-day event with a unique concept – a transnational film festival simultaneously taking place in eight cities on five continents worldwide. The festival includes three main segments:
shnit PLAYGROUNDS*
shnit EXPANDED
shnit FINALE*
In its nineteen years of existence, shnit has become a major international short film festival that reinvents itself in ever new forms. What started as a local initiative is now an exceptional transnational event that connects and inspires makers and fans of short films across the globe. shnit embraces diversity, originality, and exchange between creators and an audience from different cultures and backgrounds. It is the main goal to actively increase the perception of short filmmaking by creating a multi-platform event for high-quality short films. With its cinematic treats, the popular festival fascinates more than 35.000 visitors and therefore belongs to the leading short film festivals in the world.
shnit is a non-profit organization. The annual festival is created and centrally coordinated by the shnit ASSOCIATION in cooperation with the executives. The organization is built on principles of excellence and professionalism, enabling the global expansion of the festival possible.
*shnit PLAYGROUNDS: shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival takes place simultaneously in the following cities, shnit PLAYGROUNDS, on five continents: Bern [Switzerland], Buenos Aires [Argentina], Cairo [Egypt], Cape Town [South Africa], Hong Kong [China], Moscow [Russia], San José [Costa Rica]. The shnit FINALE in New York is held annually, as long as the contributions of the partners and sponsors make this possible.
The Memorable Film Festival is a short films festival dedicated to showing and promoting the creation and dissemination of short films about Alzheimer's disease and its effects on patients and families, as well as its social interest.
The festival is organized by the CIEN Foundation, the Alzheimer Centre of the Queen Sofia Foundation.
Film festival on the theme of ecological transition, all types of films are allowed with a deadline of 2018.
ASUFICC - International Contemporary Film Festival of Asuncion is an event born with the aim of bringing contemporary cinema from around the world, through unique authors with works that take risks and invite reflection. Emphasizing social issues that empathize with the Asuncion and Paraguayan society, it seeks, through a program of cinematographic excellence, to form spectators with greater sensitivity and greater awareness of the cinematic experience and the problems of society. Likewise, it seeks to be a space for meeting and promotion of national creators.
We accept only films about the right to health and subtitled in Italian or English
The Fausto Rossano Award Association promotes the seventh edition of the “Premio Fausto Rossano” that will take place at the end of October 2021, in Naples, Italy. The award commemorates the life and work of Jungian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Fausto Rossano, who died in 2012.
It is the purpose of the award to combat the stigma and prejudices that surround the many forms of psychic suffering and the importance of the individual person in the concrete context of his or her life by stimulating social awareness through the language of cinematography and dialogue with authors, professionals and experts of the field.
Entrance to the festival is free.
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FIXION Fest (A.K.A. FIXION-SARS) is Chile's first Fantastic and Terror Film Festival. The first one was organized 14 years ago, from which 6 editions have been realized and preparing this 2021 it's seventh edition which, between diverse sections and activities, will show to the last and best exponents of the cinema of Chilean, Latin American and world genre.
Animated film exhibition dedicated to the exhibition of films produced in Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Hispanic-American countries.
One of the main events dedicated to the promotion of contemporary production of Ibero-American animation cinema reaches its 15th edition punctuated with attractions, in addition to the already traditional parade of the main animated productions in Portuguese and Spanish.
The Houston Latino Film Festival is an organization dedicated to developing, promoting and increasing awareness of Latino culture among Latinos and other communities by presenting a variety of art and films to the Houston area.
During the festival, films from all over Latin America, Spain, Portugal and the United States will screen. The programming represents the great diversity of themes and genres of the Latino and Hispanic filmmaking community. The five-day festival also features opportunities for the audiences to participate in discussions with the directors at the screenings as well as a series of special events highlighting the diversity of the Latino culture. 2022 will mark the sixth year of the Houston Latino Film Festival.
Our Mission: The Houston Latino Film Festival is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and enlightening the communities of the South Texas region about other cultures and issues through film and video while also recognizing the contributions of the artists who are dedicated to the craft of independent filmmaking.
The annual 2nd CARMEL international short film festival is taking place at the picturesque town of Zikhron Yaakov, on the Carmel mountain, near the mediterranean sea in Israel. Screening will take place in magical historical venues. Our aim is to promote short films and new media - fiction, documentary, animation and VR. International section divided to panorama (non competitive) and competitive awarding prizes of 1k NIS,
Student's movies will be considered to panorama ONLY.
An international festival that seeks to build networks of work, cooperation and business in Latin America, fostering relationships between television stations, filmmakers and producers, and TV.We will be the meeting place for television stations and filmmakers from Latin America. Year after year, we will receive an increasing number of independent producers, students, television representatives, decision makers, speakers and professionals from the audiovisual sector.
TarapacaFic develops activities in the areas of Training, Market, Networking and Exhibitions. The activities in the different areas range from masterly presentations, practical workshops and business rounds to exhibitions, award ceremonies, toasts and meeting spaces. These activities cover all the profiles of the sector, seeking to be a meeting place for the whole culture, and the tours can be differentiated and be found depending on whether they are Professionals, Televisions, Students, Decision Makers and general public. In addition to the regional company, which will showcase its services and products worldwide.
In TarapacaFic there is space for those who have a project in development, for those who have finished contents, for those who seek to acquire contents, for those who seek inspiration or knowledge of the market or for those who simply seek to see good movies.
Videoclub 85 has been open for more than 30 years in Gijón. It is one of the few video clubs in Spain that has its own projection room. That is why we want to support the culture and creation of audiovisual material that continues to fill the cinemas with the magic of cinema. Thus, the first edition of this short film contest is born, where all kinds of genres will be able to participate. There will be a section destined to Asturian cinema, to promote and give visibility to the great amount of works made in Asturias.
Rustenburg film festival (RFF) is Rustenburg's signature film event operated by Rustenburg Film Festival (NPC), a Non-Profit Company registered in terms of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 of South Africa, with Reg No. 2014/137852/08. Rustenburg is a major city of the North West province in South Africa. The Festival has run for 5 years under the name "Bojanala Film Week" but has since 2020 changed to Rustenburg Film Festival. It has provided filmmaking skills to more than a thousand filmmakers across the province in the form of film workshops and most of these filmmakers are now independent filmmakers producing films for various exhibition platforms.
In 2020, RFF launched under the pandemic attack and still held an amazing successful event. Rustenburg Film festival prides itself as the signature annual event to be hosted in the platinum city. RFF’s key objectives are;
- Develop & promote filmmakers through practical interventions
- Audience Development through evoking appetite for local movies
- Foster networks amongst key stakeholders in film (local & international filmmakers)
- Promote North West as a film destinations
We look forward to having you as a guest. Rustenburg is an hour's drive from Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa's capital city. The city boasts modern architecture including the famous Sun City where movies like Blended (Adam Sandler), 10 Days in Sun City were shot. With some of the country's largest game parks, no one can get bored.
The Luz del Desierto International Festival is an audiovisual Festival that aims to promote cinema within the country and abroad. The festival will take place in october with competition for feature films and short films, both fiction, animation and documentary. There will also be talks and workshops.
International Short Film Festival Pune ,India 2021
In Our Festival Competition We Are Done Screening 1111 Short Films And Make world Record in 2018 Also.Each Participants We give A Participation Certificate And Trophy Also.Official Selection And Screening 1111 Short Films Get Certificate and Trophy Also. Festival Screening Function And award function Is 10 Days In December Month.
This Year Festival Is Online festival due to covid .
DocuRock is an international documentary film Festival that offers the best documentary film works of the recent international Panorama focused on the world of music.
DocuRock comes to cover a lawsuit that the commercial halls do not cover. In DocuRock the spectators will be able to see premieres in Canary Islands and Tenerife in original version subtitled with free entry.
The Mexico City Ibero-American Film Exhibition invites filmmakers and/or producers of feature films and short films from all over Ibero-America to submit their films to the first edition that will take place during November 2021.
OFFICIAL SECTIONS
LATIN AMERICAN FEATURE FILM
We will consider all feature-length films (fiction and/or documentary and/or animation) produced and/or co-produced in any part of Latin America, with a completion year of 2019-2021 as long as they have not been previously exhibited in Mexico, either commercially in movie theaters or in digital platforms and have a running time of at least 60 minutes, including credits.
We will not accept films made for promotional purposes, or those that have been aired on television, distributed via DVD or Blu-Ray, or via internet in Mexican territory.
LATIN AMERICAN FIRST FICTION FEATURE FILM
We will consider all feature-length films (fiction) produced and/or co-produced in any part of Latin America, with a completion year of 2019-2021 as long as they have not been previously exhibited in Mexico, either commercially in movie theaters or in digital platforms and have a running time of at least 60 minutes, including credits. Such feature films will be considered as long as they are the first fiction feature film made by a filmmaker.
We will not accept films made for promotional purposes, or those that have been aired on television, distributed via DVD or Blu-Ray, or via internet in Mexican territory.
SPAIN & PORTUGAL FEATURE FILM
We will consider all feature-length films (fiction and/or documentary and/or animation) produced and/or co-produced in Spain and/or Portugal, with a completion year of 2019-2021 as long as they have not been previously exhibited in Mexico, either commercially in movie theaters or in digital platforms and have a running time of at least 60 minutes, including credits.
We will not accept films made for promotional purposes, or those that have been aired on television, distributed via DVD or Blu-Ray, or via internet in Mexican territory.
IBERO-AMERICAN SHORT FILM
We will consider all short films (fiction and/or documentary and/or animation) produced or co-produced in any part of Ibero-America, with a completion year of 2020-2021 as long as they have not been previously exhibited in Mexico, either commercially in movie theaters or in digital platforms and have a maximum running time of 40 minutes, including credits.
We will not accept films made for promotional purposes, or those that have been aired on television, distributed via DVD or Blu-Ray, or via internet in Mexican territory.
