The Serbest International Film Festival has been organized to showcase the work of film makers from around the world. Its aim is to discover new directors and screenwriters from the world of cinema and give clear support and encouragement to them, but it is also a space where they will represent and promote their work. We especially encourage those who through new innovative approach to the topics can offer a new more human vision of the world in which we live.SIFF is a cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film.
The idea of a new film festival emanated from the dire need for a wider space to present films by many new filmmakers from the region and all over the world.The Serbest International Film Festival brings together the most original storytellers and the most adventurous audiences in its annual program of feature, documentary, short, experimental, animation and other films.In addition to the main program of the festival, there will be many other programs and activities that will enrich the festival and enable film makers to enhance their knowledge of cinematography and experience by participating in panel discussions, debates, and masterclass workshops.
We continue to move forward and develop our film festival, creating better conditions and opportunities for filmmakers.That is why in 2023 we have launched a new platform, Serbest Film Distribution, which is designed to help film festival participants distribute and promote their films. You can get acquainted with the Serbest Film Distribution platform on the website - www.serbestdistribution.com
The full-scale launch of the Serbest Film Distribution platform will take place in February-March 2024 and will be a new milestone in the promotion of independent cinema from around the world.
The Serbest International Film Festival therefore includes activities such as promotion, support, incentives, exchange of experiences, and film awards. It's a place where filmmakers can showcase new stories and offer a fresh perspective on humanity and the world we live in.
At Filmyway film festival , it is our ongoing mission to champion the work of writers and filmmakers, and this goal has never felt as urgent as it does today.
Filmyway film festival is an annual festival with award ceremony and a live show.
Mumbai is a hotspot for filmmakers who want to promote their independent project.
With so many awards, you have more chances to win! No budget? No problem.
We know how painstakingly difficult it is to make a movie, we even know how hard it is just to write a good script.
We know what it takes, and we're here to reward you so you can get real recognition for your work.
We want to help indie filmmakers find success by celebrating their achievements with a plethora of different awards.
Interactive Festival where the public enjoys Short Films, theater, music and surprises.
The public participates in an active way during the event.
We accept any gender except Horror. Open to all types of filmmakers, whether professional or amateur.
The festival will be held in the town of Gavà, Barcelona (Spain), in mid-February. The VII Edition will take place on Saturday, February 17, 2024.
The Wayuu Film and Video Show was born in 2008 as an initiative of young filmmakers worried about not having spaces for dissemination and exhibition of their work in La Guajira. Alliances are quickly made between the Wayuu Women's Force Organization and the Jain Wain’juin Audiovisual Foundation (Venezuela). The young filmmakers David Hernández Palmar, Miguel Iván Ramírez and Leiqui Uriana, with great interest and enthusiasm, show their first cycle of Wayuu cinema on the improvised screens of a wall of the town of Uribia, beginning the Wayuu Culture Festival First cycle of the Wayuu Film and Video Exhibition. Thus, this space was born to promote an exchange where communities, spectators and the general public could contribute critically to the achievements, as well as helping to recognize in us as Wayuu the possibility of telling our own stories.
The Life Beyond Life Film Festival is proposed by the ArtInMovimento Popular University and the Cultural Association SystemOut (both at Torino, Italy), being in synergy with A.R.E.I. ( The Afterlife Research and Education Institute, Normal/IL, USA) and Religion Today Film Festival, and linked to the International Afterlife Conferences Andare Oltre. Uniti nell Luce e Oltre L’Oltre. This Afertlife Cine Fest will lay the focus on eschatological subjects referring, in the main, to the Hereafter.
Death for many cultures represents the great taboo, where instilling fear and terror, anxieties are hidden behind, along with emotions, probably based on a dominant mainstream, that subjects most people by orienting themselves towards particular lifestyles and behaviors.The Life Beyond Life Film Festival, casted on, by an anthropological and esoteric eye, welcomes clips/shorts, medium and feature film, documentaries/fact films, video arts, and cartoons, thematising the terminal care, grief, transition, the visions of the Afterlife, Eternity, Immortality and Destiny; the Coincidences, the Divine, Angels and Demons, Karma and Darma, Samsãra, the Akashi Records, Entanglement, the Multiverse (parallel dimensions), Quantum Physics and Universal Energy. There will be even space for testimonials, narratives, bearing witness specially to the learnings of mediums, psychics and holistic operators, being both in continuos connection with the Afterlife and having had some experiences with it, as well as cinematographic products of great worth, having a significant social and spiritual value, where the message linked to Death will be Hope, Solidarity and Lightness.
Retama, Latin American Film Festival, was born in search of an intermediate and nodal space that reflects on the forms of representation of territories, social and ethnic groups from the cinematographic perspective, as well as as a place of vanguard of the most daring contemporary Latin American cinema. daring and innovative.
Being an exhibition showcase, as well as a training point from observation for local filmmakers in search of their own perspective.
The Pirineos Mountain Film Festival (Mountain, Adventure and Nature Film Festival of the Pyrenees) was born in Huesca (Spain) as a film competition focused on mountain and Biosphere.
This film event held its first edition in sample format in February 2022, to give way in 2023 to an international competitive festival around mountain, adventure and nature short films.
The IX edition of the Elipsis University Film Festival will be held from May 20th to 31st, 2024, through youtube official FestiCineGye Filmotec and 4 local universities.
Welcome to FirstCut, one of India’s biggest international festivals of student films organized by FLAME University, Pune! Set up to provide an active platform for young filmmakers all over the world, FirstCut encourages them to explore the medium of film as a potential agent of change.
In its 2023 edition, Firstcut received 380+ short films from students from over 40+ countries.
As part of the final event of FirstCut on 8th, 9th and 10th March, shortlisted works will be screened for a live audience and an eminent panel from the film industry. Screenings will be followed by a panel discussion with renowned film personalities as well as interesting talks.
We believe that freedom is essential for any creative work, and provide our participants with the complete freedom to choose their own themes and styles of work. While offering opportunities in fiction, animation and documentary filmmaking, FirstCut also has a unique “Nano” film a category that aims to challenge the students’ creativity to make super short films.
Winners from each category shall be awarded a certificate and a cash prize.
Submissions to FirstCut are FREE and do not
require a processing fee. Attending the event is FREE and open to all interested individuals.
On Vous Ment Mockumentary Film festival - 5th edition, will take place from May 7 to 10 in Lyon, France.
This one of a kind event is dedicated to mockumentary genre films, that is to say fiction films that follow the conventions of documentary. This festival claims to be a place of reflexion about the influence and the manipulation of images.
Campaigning for artistic freedom to expand at its best, our festival is open to professional productions as well as self-produced films.
During a weekend of celebrating the mockumentary genre, we want deconstruction, punk amusement and childish gullibility to coexist.
The submitted films will be seen and put to the vote by a prestigious jury – no pressure, cool it ! - and the winners will be awarded with prizes
International Environmental Film Festival is a festival dedicated to short films (Ficton & Documentary) which treat the subject of the environmental such climate change, global warming, extinction of species...Peace Corps actions....Activism...
We are 100 % environmental film festival and our goal is to educate through entertaining and to raise awareness, using audiovisuals as a tool and language.
The IEFF is an annual film festival which takes place in Sidi Wassay-Massa village in the South of Morocco (60 km far from Agadir City).
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The “Cachinus de Cine” Festival is organized by the Cultural Association of Cilleros (A.C.D.C.) and the Town Hall of Cilleros.
The festival "Cachinus de Cine" was born with the hope of bringing the seventh art to the children and youngest so that they have the posibility to learn trough this art to know and understand better the world around them. Also to get the posibility to express their concerns through the images.
It will take place at the beginning of May in Cilleros, a town located in "Sierra de Gata" in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, at the East of Madrid (Spain).
An enclave that are still preserving his nature and tradition over the years.
It is surrounded by rivers of crystal clear water, natural pools and mountains that invite you to explore their paths.
We wish this festival to be a meeting point where we can meet people and cultures from all over the world and get to know ourselves too.
Exchanging concerns and experiences with all the participants is also part of the dream with which this festival is born.
Antakya Film Festival, is an International, competitive festival. (AFF) is a major destination on the Festival circuit and recognized by the sinema Academy as a Qualifying Festival in all film categories.mission is to provide a public forum in Antakya in order to advance public interest in films and the independent production of films. To draw worldwide attention to Antakya as a center for cinema. To encourage the rights of all Antakya residents to access and experience the power of independent filmmaking, and to promote artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure.
In 2018, the Festival presented 350 films, representing work that was shot and produced in 42 countries. The event offers well rounded, and for many, career-establishing experiences. Submit your work before the final deadline!
The festival is for and by independent filmmakers. The organizers of Antakya Film Festival bring 7 years of festival experience to this annual event. Antakya Film Festival accepts submissions in six categories: Narrative Features, Documentary Features, Short Narrative, Short Documentary, Experimental, Short Student, and Animation. Submissions are open from March to September of the year, the final selection of 150 + films is announced in September, and the film festival takes place in October. Selected films in each category are eligible for several awards. In addition to our lineup of films, the festival also hosts multiple filmmaker parties and networking events at venues around Antakya and Hatay.
The Rabat-Comedy International Film Festival is among the biggest festivals exclusively dedicated to comedy. The festival offers an opportunity for unique feature and short comedy films from around the globe, to compete and share their messages in front of an live comedy lovers audience and a prestigious international jury. In addition to the screenings, meetings with film the directors, actors and other professionals are also organized
. The festival offers also special screenings, training sessions and masterclasses related to comedy in cinema.
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Le Festival International du Film Rabat-Comedy est parmi les plus grands festivals exclusivement dédié à la comédie . Dans ce sens, le festival offre une opportunité unique pour des longs et des courts métrages de comédie, provenant du monde entier, d'être en compétition et de partager leurs messages devant une audience de cinéphiles amoureux de films de comédie et d'un jury international . En marge des projections de la sélection officielle, le festival organise des rencontres avec des réalisateurs, acteurs et autres professionnels.
Le festival organise aussi des projections spéciales, des formations professionnelles et des master classes qui traitent du cinéma de comédie.
The 8th annual Skyline Benidorm Film Festival will be celebrated from 13th through April 20th 2023, in the city of Benidorm (Spain).
TFM Online Film Festival is a premier film festival encouraging Independent Film Makers showcase International films, television, and new media to the world. TFM is taking Film Festivals Digital, keeping up with the current media trends. Our festival that is devoted to finding and highlighting the best cinema in the world and to taking it to maximum people through digital media. Our Jury will award the best films through private screenings.
We Are Inspired by Innovation, Enterprise, and Creativity in Film making.
Thousands of films are made every year by extremely talented, innovative, and visionary filmmakers that are left unnoticed. We aim to celebrate these filmmakers for their efforts and share with the world the raw talent that we discover along the way.
Kindly see last years entries:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwkbTiRhVY
Kinopositive is a long-term project that creates a system for identifying and supporting young talents in the field of cinema and music, united by a common positive ideology. The main difference from other festivals is the involvement of film and music industry leaders in major film projects and collaborations. For example - the creation of a rare film product - a musical.
Dance-films are liquid. They flow between the categories of ‘dance’ and ‘film’. The camera reveals new aspects of the body, rhythm and movement to dancers. On the other hand, dance expands the meaning of ‘performance’ in film. The tensions in the hyphenation of the two have resulted in a new language capable of complex articulations.
'Manifest’ is the first dance-film festival in India that is onsite and is publishing an open call for submissions. Created by AuroApaar-an artist-run, non-profit arts centre in rural South India, this pioneering event aims to catalyse the explosion of the dance-film genre in India and intensify trans-national artistic dialogue.
Structure : 4 day offline event. Screenings will be followed by audience Q&A and interactions with artists.
The entries will be curated and viewing restricted to those who have registered for the event.
Where: Alliance Francaise de Pondicherry, India
What : fiction dance films excluding documentaries and recordings of performance.
The festival has an international character and all authors with films in compliance with other propositions can participate. Films selected for competition will be judged in two categories:
1. FILM RECIPE - a sort of documentary that should display complete image and/or text instructions for preparation of culinary creations (meals, drinks or deserts), including information about required ingredients and sequence of work. Based on those, after watching film one should be able to prepare the recipe.
2. OPEN CATEGORY - a film that should thematize or depict content related to food and/or drink.
Duration of individual films submitted is limited to 15 minutes.
