Kicking + Screening Soccer Film Festival is the world's premier event series dedicated to the beautiful game.
Founded and organized by passionate soccer fans, we can't get enough of the game, its stories, and its storytellers. We live and breathe the soccer lifestyle, and we are dedicated to sharing it with others. That's why K+S is not only a festival, but also a gathering for the entire soccer culture community of North America -- and beyond.
The flagship festival in New York City is held every summer. It is our centerpiece and is a vital, circle-the-date part of the NYC soccer scene. More than just a showcase of soccer films, each K+S festival is a full cultural event, including film screenings, featured speakers, panel discussions, photography/art exhibitions, literary readings, and more.
GIJÓN/XIXÓN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (FICX) aims to showcase a wide and varied selection of auteur cinema currently being produced worldwide and especially focused on innovative films and emerging filmmakers. High quality, personal, young in its shape, edgy and independent cinema at a creative level. During its selection process, the Festival will prioritise those works of interest that have their World, International, European or Spanish premiere at FICX as well as those that do not have commercial distribution agreements in the Spanish territory.
Acknowledged as “Specialized Festival” by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association)
Centro Studi Sereno Regis presents GIVE PEACE A SCREEN, the first film competition for short films dedicated to the theme of peace and the creative solution of conflicts.
The festival is aimed at young Italian and foreign directors. Works of fiction and documentary films are eligible.
IMPORTANT: short fiction, animated and documentary films made by Italian and foreign authors which highlight the THEME OF THE FESTIVAL: the construction of Peace through the non-violent resolution of conflicts are admitted to the Competition. The denunciation of injustices and violence will be considered less central than the examples, real or fictional, of overcoming conflicts through nonviolent actions.
Across Cultures Film Festival is a cultural film event based in Bamberg, Germany, dedicated to stories that connect people across cultures.
We focus on films that explore identity, migration, belonging, and shared human experiences between different worlds.
Our mission is to create a space where filmmakers and audiences meet on common ground—through cinema.
The first edition will be presented as an intimate in-person screening (Edition 0), featuring a curated selection of short films followed by an open audience discussion.
We welcome independent filmmakers, students, and emerging voices from all backgrounds.
Because stories bring us closer.
The Universal Martial Arts Film Festival (UMAFF) showcases films that explore the martial practice, philosophy, aesthetic and spirituality.
The Universal Martial Arts Film Festival (UMAFF) encourages an emerging generation of filmmakers whose films treat various aspects of the field of the martial arts; those of the arts of combat and the arts of health. The purpose being to collect and to protect the memory, to educate the public, to share and to pass on the knowledge.
The Universal Martial Arts Film Festival (UMAFF) is open to filmmakers and spectators worldwide.
A preliminary committee will watch the films and select the finalists.
Then, a jury panel composed of known and respected personalities from the worlds of cinema and Martial Arts will offer an award for each category.
After this first step, the films will be screened to March 15th, 2027 until March 31th, 2027 on the festival website.
Clang Rose Film Festival is a celebration of love, human connection, and the art of storytelling in all its forms. While we proudly honor the creativity and craftsmanship of wedding filmmakers, our festival is open to a wider range of films that capture the beauty of love, relationships, and the human experience. As the first festival to equally recognize the work of wedding professionals alongside filmmakers of all genres, we invite creators from diverse backgrounds to showcase their visions, from intimate love stories to narratives that explore the bonds that unite us all.
Our mission is to provide a platform that highlights the brilliance of wedding cinematography while also celebrating the universal themes of connection, joy, and emotion through film. Whether your film tells the story of a wedding or another meaningful human experience, you will find your work elevated on the grand screen of a prestigious cinema house, surrounded by an engaged audience of couples, industry professionals, and film enthusiasts.
At the Clang Rose Film Festival, we go beyond just recognition—we create opportunities for filmmakers to connect, collaborate, and inspire. For wedding filmmakers, this means connecting with potential clients and couples seeking to capture their special day, while non-wedding filmmakers have the chance to share their unique narratives with a wider audience. Join us in celebrating the artistry and innovation that defines love and human connection in cinema, and be part of a festival that embraces the diversity of storytelling in every form.
WHAT IS “JARABA IS CINEMA 2026”?
It is a film event promoted by the Jaraba Town Council and CSA El Castillo, combining film screenings, citizen participation, and contemporary audiovisual creation.
It is a cultural project that will once again fill Jaraba with film, culture, and creative activity, transforming the thermal spa town into a meeting point for audiovisual creation, heritage, and rural tourism.
It is an audiovisual initiative to revitalize the rural environment and position it as a space for artistic creation and inspiration.
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES
It consists of two complementary activities that combine audiovisual creation and screening in the municipality of Jaraba.
JARABA IS CINEMA - EXPRESS SHORT FILM. July 10 and 11.
An intensive audiovisual production event in which participating teams must write, shoot, and edit a short film within the municipality of Jaraba in just 24 hours.
This is a cultural production activity that transforms the municipality into an active creative space. It promotes its natural, urban, and landscape heritage as a cinematic setting.
8th JARABA CASTLE FILM FESTIVAL. August 7, 8, and 9.
A competitive event for the screening and promotion of national and international short films. This open-air event will feature various participation categories.
OBJECTIVES
“Jaraba is Cinema” was created with the aim of making audiovisual culture a tool for social, cultural, and tourism development in the municipality of Jaraba and its surrounding area.
Among its objectives are:
→ To bring cinema and audiovisual creation to rural areas, facilitating access to contemporary cultural offerings outside of major urban centers and creating spaces for interaction between creators, residents, and visitors.
→ To promote Jaraba as a film location and cultural tourism destination, using audiovisual language to showcase the municipality's natural, scenic, historical, and thermal heritage.
We Are Human is the first international festival and platform for dialogue dedicated to human rights in the age of AI. Edition 1 is placed under the sign of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Filmmakers are invited to create a film of 1 to 10 minutes — fiction, documentary, animation, video essay, or digital art — using AI as a creative partner to freely interpret or challenge Article 1: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
Free to enter. Open to all, 18 and over, solo or as a group. Selected works will travel the world: Paris, São Paulo, New York, Johannesburg, Nairobi Geneva.
3 awards — €10,000 total: Grand Prix €5,000 · Best Screenplay €3,000 · Ethics Award €2,000.
Since its creation in 2013, the Santurtzi Film Festival has gradually evolved to become a benchmark event in the Basque Country, expanding fields of action and gaining in solidity. Always faithful to its three founding axes –the socio-cultural promotion of the municipality, the connection with the community from the artistic point of view and the promotion and professionalization of new directors– the original motto of "cinema at street level" has consolidated a distinctive personality –close, participatory cinema with a social vocation– that has served as a platform for emerging filmmakers and for cultural revitalization, social and economic of Santurtzi.
The great success of SZ has been to position itself as a platform for emerging Basque cinema: to screen and give space to short films and debut films that have then toured national and international circuits, which has reinforced the festival's reputation and attracted media attention and institutional collaboration. Among its greatest values is also an identity marked by horizontality: bringing authors and the public closer together, eliminating barriers between professionals and spectators and facilitating direct interaction in informal venues such as hospitality or historical spaces (Cofradía, Casa Torre).
What began as a post-crisis cultural antidote of 2008, with the idea of screening short films in bars on weekends, has grown thirteen years later: since then, more than 50,000 euros in prizes have been awarded and the making of more than 200 short films has been promoted in the local section, filmed in the village of Santurtzi. In the last edition, in 2025, there have been numerous sold-outs (such as at the SKA, with a capacity of 600 seats) and an overall record of attendance, participation and institutional collaboration.
The International Short Film Week Regensburg was founded in 1994 by the Arbeitskreis Film Regensburg e.V. (AKF e.V.) as a non-profit festival and has been held annually ever since.
What began as a small experiment has grown into an integral part of Regensburg’s cultural scene. Since March 2013, the festival has officially operated under the name International Short Film Week Regensburg.
At no fewer than four venues across Regensburg, the festival celebrates the short film format.
In addition, throughout the year the festival maintains a regional, national, and international presence through collaborations with partner festivals, supporters, and sponsors.
Four competitions form the heart of the festival, and the several thousand submissions received each year testify to the international relevance the festival has built over time.
Alongside the competitions for contemporary productions, the festival also presents a high-quality special programme featuring thematic and country-specific focuses as well as retrospectives. Some of these screenings are curated and presented by renowned guest curators, who also engage with audiences through discussions and contextual presentations.
Workshops, musical contributions, and art exhibitions further distinguish the festival from the wide range of cultural offerings and attract both interested audiences and industry professionals to the cathedral city alike.
Another important component of the festival is its programme of screenings for children and schools, accompanied by media education initiatives. These activities help preserve film as an art form while also encouraging critical and informed engagement with media in everyday life.
Minority Languages International Film Festival | City of Spilimbergo aims to enhance these idiom cultures through independent film productions.
By opening the contest to authors worldwide, the festival welcomes works in officially recognized minority languages to bring young people closer to their roots, celebrating local identities through the magic of cinema and turning marginal stories into a universal cultural heritage.
AI Film Festival Japan (AIFJ) started as Japan’s first international film festival dedicated to the creative collaboration between human storytellers and artificial intelligence.
Taking place on November 22, 2026, in the heart of Tokyo at Tokyo Innovation Base, AIFJ2026 brings together pioneering filmmakers, technologists, researchers, and audiences from around the world to explore the evolving possibilities of AI-driven cinema.
The festival features a curated selection of long and short films, animations, documentaries, experimental works, and student films that leverage artificial intelligence in their creative process—whether through writing, visual generation, sound design, or thematic exploration.
With screenings, artist talks, panel discussions, accessibility programs, and an awards ceremony, AIFJ2026 is more than a showcase—it’s a global platform where the future of storytelling begins.
We champion diversity, equity, and inclusion, and actively encourage submissions from underrepresented creators, women, and emerging artists from around the world.
SANFICI is a space to generate meetings at different levels, with an overcoming and innovative will. First of all, it is a space for the relationship between spectators, filmmakers and theorists around cinema and all border and heterodox manifestations. Secondly, it is a special and temporary meeting point.
SANFICI wants to become, year after year, the place of convergence for world independent cinema. But it also wants to be the space where the past and the future dialogue. The place where the most diverse film traditions are embraced with their riskiest proposals.
Animacción is an international festival of animated short films, which showcases the artistic potential of a whole new generation of animators. Organised by the cultural association dedicated to animation ‘Ánimas Anónimas’, the festival returns this year for its 10th edition.
I would put this whole paragraph like this: The selected short films will be screened from 27/10 to 31/10 in different venues in the metropolitan area of A Coruña, and the winning films from both the general section and the children's and Galician sections will be chosen by voting by the audience attending the screenings.
The days of the screenings will be an opportunity to create a bridge between professionals from the world of animation and the public, as we will be programming talks and activities for all audiences related to this discipline.
In addition, the programme will include a series of talks and activities which, together with the screenings of the short films, will serve to create a bridge between professionals from the world of animation and the public.
For this 36th edition, we are holding the third edition of the “MicroSaberes” competition, a contest sponsored by the Castilla y León Social Work Foundation (FUNDOS), which invites filmmakers to shoot documentary short films, with a maximum runtime of 5 minutes, about the Community of Castilla y León.
As part of the 36th edition of the Palencia International Film Festival, which will take place from February 26 to March 6, 2027, and promoted and sponsored by FUNDOS, this competition aims to promote filmmaking, serve as a platform for creators to showcase their work, and foster new perspectives on the Autonomous Community.
PRAGUE FILM FESTIVAL 2027 (April 28 – May 2, 2027 )
The Prague Film Festival is an international film festival designed for film professionals, critics, distributors, enthusiasts, and film school students. The festival has already been attended by:
• Gunnur Schlüter: Special Mention at Festival de Cannes 2023
• Elzbieta Benkowska: Special Mention at Krakow Film Festival 2024
• Izabela Plucinska: Silver Bear at Berlinale 2005
• Réka Bucsi: Golden Bear at Berlinale 2018, EFA Nominee 2017
• Alexandra Hroncová: Founder of famufilms.cz
• Maximilian Breckwoldt: Director of Berlin Animation Hub
• Dániel Erdélyi: Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2008
• Lukáš Vacula: Finalist at the Student Academy Awards 2025
• Tereza Halamová: Winner of the Czech Lion Award for Best Short Film 2026
During its first year, the festival also hosted Masterclasses under the banner of the SHORTS WRAP. Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter led a session focused on micro short live-action films under 5 minutes, based on her Cannes-awarded work. The second masterclass featured Elzbieta Benkowska, also a lecturer at the Gdańsk Film School, who discussed dramaturgy and structure in short narrative films featuring two main characters. The festival plans to continue offering similar masterclasses in future editions.
During our second year, we organized several engaging industry events: a masterclass on in-depth analysis of the film The Godfather, a masterclass focused on filming in war zones, and the Anirama Pitching Forum, which brought together all film schools in the Czech Republic, including FAMU, UMPRUM, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, and the University of Creative Communication.
Notable partners of the festival include: Kino Pilotu Prague, Le Palais Art Hotel Prague, Green Garden, Go Out, Bad Flash Bar, Radio 1, Festival of Animation Berlin, Navarra International Film Festival (GOYA qualifying), dog 95 film factory, ALTUM FRAMES, Shorts Wrap, International Film Festival ZOOM ZBLIZENIA and Art2Friends.
The festival is committed to inclusion, focusing on social issues, minority stories, LGBTQ+ topics, and showcasing top-tier international films. It was founded by two young filmmakers, director Erik Jasaň and producer Hynek Spurný, with the vision to bring artistically acclaimed short and feature-length foreign films.
Several celebrated filmmakers personally presented their films at the festival, including:
• Marian Crisan (Palme d’Or winner), who premiered his new Romanian film Warboy
• Nghiem Quynh Trang (Vietnamese producer), with Cu Li Never Cries, which had its world premiere at Berlinale Panorama,
• Aurielle Jioya (Benin), who screened NOCES D’EAU, previously awarded at Clermont-Ferrand
Each filmmaker also participated in Q\&A sessions with the audience. The festival officially welcomed 1000 attendees, which is a great success for its debut edition. Attendees enjoyed fine Czech beer and wine, and many informal connections were made—connections we believe will lead to future collaborations.
The festival closely collaborates with the SHORTS WRAP, which includes over 12 film directors whose works have premiered at Cannes, such as Raymund Ribay Gutierrez (Philippines), Helena Brooks (Australia), Javier Palleiro (Uruguay), Erenik Beqiri (Albania), Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic), and many more.
See you in Prague at Kino Pilotu, April 28 – May 2, 2027.
The purpose of the festival refers to awareness of both the external filters on the screen, including censorship (commercial, ideological, aesthetic), and the internal filters of screen perception and projection, including self-censorship. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is an exploration of aestheticization and commodification in art. The next aim of the festival is to expose the complexity, manysidedness, and variety of filmmaking.
NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino) is a film festival that is held by the Short Movie Club, the platform for cinematic projects. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is ADAMI Media Prize qualified festival. The International Film Studies Conference is held at the same time as the film festival. In this way, film theory and practice are integrated together at the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO.
Originally the festival was held in Belarus, but because of political repression and publicly stated anti-war stance, screenings and events can be held in different countries. First of all in Poland (Warsaw), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg), Lithuania (Vilnius). For example, the 11th and 10th Nefiltravanae Kino took place in Warsaw, Berlin, Hamburg, Vilnius and Helsinki. The content of past years' film programs can be found on the website https://shortmovie.club/programmes/
The festival will be held in a hybrid format. We will have a part of live screenings and online screenings on a video platform https://film.nofilterkino.org/ . The video is cryptographically secured. In addition, we pay attention and promote films from our previous years that are released to the public on the Internet after their festival curcuit.
Nefiltravanae Kino involves theater, artists to interpret symbols and history. We work with the audience's reaction and participants' as well.
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The concept of the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino):
ALIENATION PROBLEM
We live in a world of malls and cinema multiplexes. We see that indie cinema and non-commodity art go to the periphery of public attention. Primitive attractions replace the cinematography. The escape audience is alienated behind the big screen. So modern mainstream cinema is part of a manipulating tool that leads to the society of alienation. Thus the tendency is that indie cinema becomes more unreadable for the wide audience. We should understand the context of the filmmaker to understand the independent cinema. That is why the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO concept implies the physical presence of filmmakers.
FILM SELECTION PROBLEM
Filmmakers shoot millions of movies. And thousands of short film festivals organize screenings all over the world every year. On average, several thousand films are submitted to a film festival. So various good films can be neglected for whatever reason. Often selecting probability is like winning a lottery. As a result, filmmakers are left with no feedback. It is a paradox that no one can hear you in the age of the Internet! The mainstream culture prefers attractions and casual viewing.
Also, this idea is based on the film selection problem. Perhaps it’s no surprise one person, i.e. programme director at best, or even students of film schools make a preliminary decision to select a movie. Сoncordance of judges or previewers is more seldom thing than the difference of background, tastes. So selection or judging can be one-sided or perfunctory. It is not bad as the programme director has a good taste and aesthetic sensitivity, of course. But we’ve discovered another conception of “unfiltered cinema”. We matched it against “the best of the best” way. This way aids to perceive cinematic idiom without the dictate of art-curators.
CELEBRATION OF INDIE CINEMA
So the NoFilter Kino tries to avoid “the best of the best” way but it does not ignore it completely, sure. The festival selects fiction, animation, documentary, experimental and virtual reality sections. A jury awards the best film in every section. The festival holds the screenings at cinema theatres, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, and art-spaces.
Our aim is to gather people in art, to have a dialogue to be happy with smart communication.
Cinema is art but not sport. The key point of our project is to establish communication between the filmmaker and the audience.
Please, read about the festival history through the link to the festival's website. http://shortmovie.club/history/
Muestra Intergaláctica International Film Festival is a space where people can present their film projects of all kinds of genre.
It started as a small local show. Due to the response of the people and thanks to the support of sponsors, it has become an event with local, national and international projects.
The attendance to festival has increased edition after edition, initially with a unique function, however, since the edition of the year 2017, additional dates have been added, having a week long festival with local, national and international short and feature films.
We hope in this edition to receive more productions from around the world, and of course a greater response from the public and satisfaction, as well as sharing the work of the filmmakers.
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Doc Coimbra is an international film festival that showcases the best in documentary films from political and social perspectives. Our festival is based in the historical city of Coimbra, Portugal, and showcase films from Portuguese speaking countries and international films.
We have a wide variety of films, from those that focus on immigration, political, environment, to those that highlight the stories of those who have been forgotten by history. We are committed to providing a space for meaningful conversations, and our films reflect our commitment to creating a safe and inclusive space for all.
We are dedicated to creating an inclusive and inspiring environment for filmmakers to share stories and perspectives from around the world. We invite you to join us at our next festival and be part of a movement to share stories that matter.
