A New Season of WISFFF is about to start. Wait for the White Stag Banner to Beckon you to Adventure!
The Wild Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival is soon back for a new season. Last season, the Phoenix from the Ashes was appropriate… this season the White Stag calls to you to follow us for an amazing adventure in film.
Welcome to the new season of WISFFF.
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So, what is WISFFF?
We're an independent, filmmaker-run festival celebrating the films and filmmakers working in our favourite genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror and all the strange, wonderful things that live somewhere between them.
We're specifically a short-film festival, with categories for Micro (2 minute), Mini (10 minute) and Short (25 minute) films. We’ve been asked to run for full length features, but if you want that you’re going to have to bombard us with messages.
With WISFFF, you enter your film once and we assess it across all the categories for which it is eligible. You don't need to keep paying to enter cinematography, directing, VFX, performance, production design, etc. If we think you've done something particularly well, we want our judges to notice it.
There are awards, laurels and, in selected categories, prizes. We're always trying to find more useful prizes for filmmakers rather than simply adding things for the sake of having a longer list.
Prize sponsors and additions for the new season will be announced as they are confirmed.
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WISFFF at Genesis Cinema, London
WISFFF found a home at Genesis Cinema in London, and we rather like it there.
It's a proper cinema with great character, awesome picture and stunning sound, but more importantly there's a wonderfully welcoming, film-obsessed atmosphere to the place.
Our screenings have increasingly become more than simply sitting in the dark watching films. Filmmakers meet filmmakers. People talk. Contacts get swapped. Projects get discussed. An unexpected amount of networking happens.
Which is exactly how we like it and we’ll encourage it more.
WISFFF continues to grow, with films arriving from around the world and an increasing range of ideas appearing on screen.
Please keep doing that.
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Yes, Horror Counts.
We get asked this surprisingly often.
Yes. Horror is included. It even has its own subgenre award. Indeed last season a Horror won the overall award.
Science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, animation, fan films, pulp, comedy, documentary, music videos, pilots and films that are frankly rather difficult to describe are all welcome — provided there's a home for them somewhere within the wonderfully elastic boundaries of sci-fi and fantasy.
The festival is open to filmmakers from the UK, worldwide, the Up/Down/LSide/RSide Dimensions and, naturally, the Outer Spiral Arm of the Galaxy.
English is the festival's first language. Films in other languages are very welcome, but they need English subtitles/closed captions.
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About Those Discount Codes…
If we've seen an advert, trailer or post for your film and sent you a discount or waiver code, there's a reason.
We'd genuinely like to see your film.
We make films and enter festivals ourselves, so we know how many automated "special offers" filmmakers receive during a festival marketing cycle.
That's not what we're trying to do.
If we've contacted you, something about your film caught our attention and made us think it might belong at WISFFF.
And if we didn't happen to see your advert?
Ask us.
Filmmaking is about networking after all.
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A Small but Important Thing About WISFFF
We're independent.
We're filmmakers too.
We know what it's like to make something with too little money, too little time, a crew held together by enthusiasm and caffeine, and then send that film out into the festival world wondering whether anybody is actually going to watch it.
We watch the films.
That's rather the point… send those adventures in space, time, and magic our way.
Welcome to the new season of the Wild Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival.
Let's see what you've made.
Welcome to Kala-Samruddhi International Film Fesival
Kala-Samruddhi International Film Festival (KSIFF) 2026 is an international platform dedicated to celebrating outstanding cinema, discovering exceptional talent, and connecting filmmakers from around the world.
Since its inception, KSIFF has earned recognition as a growing global festival for independent and mainstream filmmakers alike.
1st Edition – 2018: Featured 200+ films from 30+ countries.
2nd Edition – 2019: Expanded significantly with 500+ films from 70+ countries, reflecting the festival's growing international reputation.
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and unavoidable personal circumstances, KSIFF was unable to conduct the festival from 2020 to 2025. After this pause, we are proud to return in 2026 with renewed energy, a stronger vision, and an even greater commitment to supporting filmmakers worldwide.
KSIFF welcomes submissions from emerging, independent, student, and professional filmmakers, providing a platform where creativity, originality, and powerful storytelling are recognized and celebrated regardless of budget or background.
We believe that cinema is a universal language capable of inspiring, educating, entertaining, and bringing people together across cultures and borders. Our mission is to promote artistic excellence while encouraging fresh voices and diverse perspectives from every corner of the world.
Officially selected films will receive Official Selection Laurels and Digital Certificates, while award winners will be honored with the prestigious KSIFF Winner Trophy, Winner Laurel, and Winner Certificate across multiple competition categories.
Whether you are submitting your first film or your latest masterpiece, Kala-Samruddhi International Film Festival 2026 invites you to share your vision with an international audience and become part of a global celebration of cinema.
We look forward to welcoming filmmakers from around the world to Mumbai, India, for KSIFF 2026.
The International Film Festival with a Gender Perspective in Hospitalet was born in 2025 with the support of L’Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet, Torre Barrina, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival i Dones Visuals with the aim of visualizing the gender perspective through horror cinema. Promoting values through leisure. Providing windows, visions different from the hegemonic ones. Generating new perspectives. Offering opportunities and a space of representation.
The best audiovisual tool: horror.
Genre cinema is more trendier than ever, with a boom and an increase in the prestige of authors who speak from a diversity perspective. An opportunity to provide new perspectives for all types of audiences.
The Humus Film Fest is an international short film festival focused on environmental themes. It aims to showcase both professional and amateur filmmakers, broadening perspectives on the environmental challenges we face: the disconnect between rural and urban areas, the loss of nature in cities, rural depopulation, climate change, and the eco-social transition towards a society more respectful of its environment.
The Humus Film Fest was born and continues in this 12th edition with a distinctly hedonistic and optimistic spirit. Therefore, we encourage filmmakers not only to present stories that address these issues from a stark reality, but also to open their cameras to humor, poetry, surrealism, and experimental art. This allows us to approach more hopeful future environmental scenarios, or at least to help us understand the current situation from less apocalyptic perspectives that paralyze us.
An important milestone for the International Humorous Short Film Festival State aKorti, between laughter and the other, we arrived at the 20th Edition
The show, as always, is open to film makers and directors of all nationalities. Participation is free.
Cachaça Filmes has held the festival since 2009. It always brings in nationally renowned filmmakers and artists from the area, aiming to offer culture and leisure options, and to favor the region's economy. In the short term we intend to bring an “elite” audience to Vila de Paranapiacaba, and in the medium and long term to bring cinematographic productions to the region.
We also have the Short and Feature Films Contest.
Regulation:
https://www.cachacafilmes.com/regulamento-concurso-de-roteiros
The FIRE!! Festival is the first LGBT film festival in Spain: established in 1995 by Casal Lambda, in Barcelona, it addresses affective diversity in its broadest sense through a careful selection of feature films, documentaries and short films. A selection of art-house cinema and an educational approach are its main characteristics.
Throughout two weeks at the beginning of June - mainly at the French Institute but also at other different indoor or open-air venues in the city -, a wide range of public is invited to enjoy this Barcelona cultural landmark, with stories and testimonials of free people, creators who break barriers and fighters for human rights, all of whom help with love to build a fairer and freer world.
The festival's name is a tribute to the late 20s New York magazine of the same name, FIRE!!, led by the black gay writer Richard Bruce Nugent, portrayed in one of the most iconic films of the festival, Brother to Brother, which we screened a few years ago.
LATINUY, Uruguay's International Latin Film Festival, showcases the most recent and innovative films (short and long feature films, fiction and documentaries) made in Iberoamerica. Numerous titles, directors and producers from around the world, national and international actors and actresses, and a wide schedule of activities meet annually in Punta del Este, the main Uruguayan seaside resort. LatinUy, a classic meeting point for cultural exchange between filmmakers and movie enthusiasts, awards several prizes, both for short and feature films in competition, both from the jury and the audience.
The festival will take place in Alicante from November 16 to 21, 2026.
Only short films produced exclusively with a smartphone will be accepted.
Both national and international short films are eligible to participate.
The theme is open to all genres and subjects.
MIRANCHURITO FEST 2027 — Stories Beyond Borders, Cinema That Connects Communities
Pupiales, Nariño, Colombia | International Short Film Festival
Some stories begin in a small town and end up speaking to the world. Others travel from distant places and find a new way to be heard within a community.
MIRANCHURITO FEST was created to celebrate that encounter.
Based in Pupiales, Nariño, Colombia, our International Film Festival welcomes independent filmmakers, emerging talents, and creative voices from around the world who use cinema to explore identity, question reality, move audiences, and change the way we see one another.
We are looking for films with something to say. Stories that surprise us through their perspective, sensitivity, visual language, or ability to bring us closer to different realities. Whether you are taking your first steps in filmmaking or continuing an established creative journey, we want to discover new voices and celebrate the many ways stories can be told.
A Space for New Perspectives
MIRANCHURITO FEST welcomes fiction, documentary, and animation short films, with national and international categories and distinctions for debut works. We invite filmmakers exploring personal, social, experimental, cultural, and fantastic worlds, as well as those pushing the boundaries of cinematic storytelling.
We believe cinema does not end when the credits roll. It lives on in the conversations it inspires, the people it brings together, and the questions it leaves behind.
The Papialpa Statuette: Recognition with Identity
The Papialpa Statuette is the distinctive symbol of MIRANCHURITO FEST. It represents the festival’s commitment to authentic stories, creativity, and the value of voices that deserve to be heard.
Winning films will receive the award corresponding to their category and official festival recognition. Participants will receive a certificate of participation, subject to the terms of the call for entries.
Participation is about more than competing for an award. It is an opportunity to share your work with a cultural initiative seeking to bring cinema closer to the community and recognize the diversity of the people who make it possible.
Why Submit Your Film?
An international film festival rooted in Pupiales, Nariño, Colombia.
Categories for national and international short films.
A space for emerging filmmakers and debut works.
Recognition through the Papialpa Statuette and official certificates, according to the festival’s participation terms.
A commitment to connecting independent cinema with the community and encouraging cultural exchange.
Selection, screening, and participation conditions are detailed in the official rules for this edition.
Your Story Deserves to Be Seen
If you have a film that invites audiences to see the world differently, a story that deserves to reach new viewers, or a voice just beginning to find its way, we want to discover your work.
Submit through Festhome and become part of MIRANCHURITO FEST 2027.
MIRANCHURITO FEST — The world tells stories. We create a place for them to meet.
Cine Pobre is a self-funded filmmaking genre without a set of stylistic criteria nor format boundaries, involving many geographically separated creators with at least two things in common: a strong desire to tell their story: with their own resources and without establishment constraints.
Cine Pobre builds bridges based on the belief that film becomes art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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After 25 years of showcasing and celebrating The World's Best Self Funded Films, at Cine Pobre Film Festival we have discontinued our public screenings and henceforth operate in an invitation only private space while preserving the Cine Pobre spirit, essence and prestige.
The discontinuation of our public venues makes it easier and much less costly to manage.
This means significantly lower inscription fees. No airplane tickets, no hotel bills, no liver cirrhosis from afterparties; just an evolved value proposition, while continuing to deliver the timeless professional prestige and to be lauded and formally recognized among the World's Best Self Funded Filmmakers.
In August 2024 XXII Cine Pobre Film Festival inaugurated its own humble movie theater in the Oaxaca cloud forest at 2,400 m a.s.l. This small special events playhouse allows us to focus more on motivating our target audiences to develop their creative talents as mentor of future filmmakers.
El Cine Pobre es un género cinematográfico autofinanciado sin un conjunto de criterios estilísticos ni límites de formato, que involucra a creadores geográficamente distantes con al menos dos cosas en común: un gran deseo de contar su historia con sus propios recursos y sin las restricciones del sistema establecido. Cine Pobre tiende puentes basándose en la convicción de que el cine se convierte en arte cuando sus materiales son tan económicos como el lápiz y el papel.
POR FAVOR, LEA: Después de 25 años exhibiendo y celebrando las mejores películas autofinanciadas del mundo, en el Cine Pobre Film Festival hemos suspendido nuestras proyecciones públicas y, de ahora en adelante, operamos en un espacio privado al que se accede únicamente por invitación, conservando el espíritu, la esencia y el prestigio de Cine Pobre. La suspensión de nuestras sedes públicas facilita la gestión y resulta mucho menos costosa. Esto supone tarifas de inscripción significativamente más bajas. Sin billetes de avión, sin facturas de hotel, sin cirrosis hepática por las fiestas posteriores; simplemente una propuesta de valor evolucionada, al tiempo que seguimos ofreciendo un prestigio profesional atemporal y el reconocimiento formal entre los mejores cineastas autofinanciados del mundo.
En agosto de 2024, la XXII edición del Cine Pobre Film Festival inauguró su propia y humilde sala de cine en el bosque nublado de Oaxaca, a 2400 m s. n. m. Este pequeño espacio para eventos especiales nos permite centrarnos más en motivar a nuestro público objetivo a desarrollar sus talentos creativos como mentores de los futuros cineastas.
The LIDF is London’s oldest documentary festival and offers an unprecedented all year-round snapshot of the contemporary world. The festival adopts a questioning, critical attitude to the cultural, social and political issues of the day, engaging with filmmakers, their subjects, and our audience to create a highly distinct environment for cultural interaction.
Alongside established names like Martin Scorsese and Steve Soderbergh, the festival presents the best emerging talent from around the globe in a highly distinctive environment for cultural interaction. A truly public sphere for debate, analysis, and entertainment.
The Movie Mouse International Short Film Festival is an annual short film competition featuring an official award ceremony. The festival organizers reserve the right to hold the award ceremony in any format—whether in person at the festival venue, online, or simply by announcing the results on the festival website and mailing diplomas and awards to participants.
The festival was created with the objective of identifying talented filmmakers and promoting short films. The festival organizers are the film production company "Mouse and Husband Production" /
www.mimproduction.info.
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FIFTH SEASON OF THE FESTIVAL WILL
OPEN ON FEBRUARY 1, 2026*. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS NOVEMBER 1, 2026.
The result announcement dates (PUBLICATION ON THE OFFICIAL FESTIVAL WEBSITE) for the stages are:
OFFICIAL SELECTION (LONGLIST), SEMIFINAL (SEMIFINAL) — December 1 to 15, 2026.
FINAL (SHORTLIST), NOMINEES, WINNERS — December 15 to 25, 2026.
The date and location of the upcoming award ceremony (if held) are indicated on the official film festival website.
Categories:
Feature films · Animation films · Documentaries
Nominations:
1. DRAMA — Best short film of the drama/melodrama /psychological drama genre, with a running time between 10 and 40 minutes.
2. SUPER-SHORT — Best short film of the drama /melodrama /psychological drama genre up to 10 minutes in duration.
3. ACTION / COMEDY — Best short film of the detective/horror/comedy/action genre.
4. SPORTS — Best short film with a sports theme.
5. SILENT — Best short film of the SILENT CINEMA genre.
6. DOC — Best short documentary film of any genre.
7. ANIMATION — Best short animated film of any genre.
8. DEBUT — Best debut film and student feature film.
9. KIDS — Best short film for children and adolescents (0+ category).
10. RISING STAR — Best short film made by children and adolescents (0+ category).
Submitted projects are reviewed and evaluated by a professional jury, which includes at least three Russian and international film experts each season.
Stages:
1. All films submitted by filmmakers are reviewed by the jury members, after which some of them, separately in each category, are included in the official selection (LONGLIST).
2. Depending on the number of films that pass the official selection, additional selection stages are formed in each category: quarterfinal (QUARTERFINAL), semifinal (SEMIFINAL), finalists (SHORT LIST), award nominees (NOMINEE), and winner (WINNER) — Festival Grand Prix.
3. The festival organizers reserve the right to carry out the selection process sequentially through all stages, or to omit some of them, depending on the number of participants in each category.
4. Semifinalists and finalists in each category are invited to the award ceremony (if held in person), which will be announced on the festival website. All filmmakers who have submitted a film to the competition program have the right to request attendance at the official award ceremony from the festival organizers.
5. The Grand Prix winner in each category (the category winner) is announced from among the nominees.
Launched in 1980, our festival, the first of its category in South Korea, has grown and evolved from the Korean Short Film Festival, to become the Busan Asian Short Film Festival in 2000 and eventually the Busan International Short Film Festival in 2010 (www.bisff.org).
Taking place late April at the Busan Cinema Center, BISFF delivers a dozen awards in three competitive sections (International Competition, Korean Competition and Operation Kino) while also presenting several curated, non-competitive sections including: Guest Country, Korean Shorts, Asian Shorts, Prism, 3D Cinema, etc.
BISFF is a member of the Short Film Conference (http://shortfilmconference.com/) and of the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema https://netpacasia.org). In 2018, it became South Korea’s first Oscar®-qualifying festival.
The 28th International Festival "Corti da Sogni - Antonio Ricci" is organized by Circolo del Cinema Sogni – Antonio Ricci APS (hereafter referred to as Circolo Sogni), in partnership with the Municipality of Ravenna / Department of Culture and in collaboration with UICC, the company Cinemaincentro, and the cultural association Solaris.
Associazione Circolo del Cinema Sogni – Antonio Ricci.
Join us for the Dallas International Film Festival 2027, April 22 – 29, 2027!
DIFF 2027, the 21st annual Dallas International Film Festival, will screen the best narrative and documentary features and short films from across the globe.
The 21st annual Dallas International Film Festival doesn’t just screen films. The interaction between story tellers, audiences and the Texas community is what we strive to develop both during the festival and throughout the year.
DIFF 2027 is a global adventure that features premiere screenings, nightly red carpets, eye-opening documentaries, intriguing short films, filmmaker panels, award presentations, daily filmmaker happy hours, and an enhanced filmmaker hospitality program that includes city tours and a Festival Lounge where filmmakers, screenwriters, film industry leaders, celebrities, sponsors, and our audience can all come together to discuss film.
DIFF supports both the beginning and end of the filmmaking process from script to screen. The annual Screenwriting Competition has a track record of moving stories beyond the page, showcasing selected Screenwritings through live scenes table read performances at the festival and helping projects advance to fully produced films that premiere at DIFF. Since 2024, 11 selected Screenwritings have received live table read performances through the competition. Selected scripts may be considered for development and production through Event Horizon Films, the production company behind (S)HIT SQUAD, SNEAKERHEAD, and THE BEST DAYS OF RICHARD DAVIS. The DIFF Screenwriting Competition has been featured by Final Draft, recognized by Script magazine, and named a top "15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competition” by MovieMaker magazine. Writers may submit short, feature-length or TV pilot scripts. All scripts are read in their entirety by industry professionals currently working with leading management and representation companies. Outstanding submissions have the opportunity to gain visibility with professionals actively seeking new voices and projects. Advancing scripts are evaluated by a distinguished panel that has included Academy Award® winners, Emmy Award® winners, producers, executives, and produced screenwriters behind major film and television projects. DIFF is committed to creating meaningful opportunities for writers through festival participation, industry exposure, live table reads, development discussions, and potential production pathways.
We invite you to add your voice to the conversation. At DIFF, filmmakers are invited to the festival to participate in a variety of programs, Q&A sessions, and a series of panel discussions, including sessions with Dallas area high schools, in which filmmakers have the opportunity to discuss their work and careers with a new generation of content creators.
2027 DIFF PROGRAMMING STRANDS:
Narrative Feature Competition
Documentary Feature Competition
Short Film Competition
Texas Competition
Animated Short Competition
Premiere Screenings
Latino Cinema Showcase
DEEP ELLUM SOUNDS (Music Films)
Music Video Competition
Family Films
Faith Based Films
Environment and Sustainability Films
GAME ON (Sports Films)
Indigenous Films
Health Issues and Health-Related Films
Special Presentations
Table Read Performances
Filmmakers of selected films are invited to the Festival to participate in a variety of programs. Question and answer sessions after screenings are well attended and lively, and panel discussions are held throughout the Festival.
The Festival is the signature presentation of DIFF (Dallas Film Society, Inc.), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 2006 “to celebrate films and their impact on society; to honor filmmakers and recognize their achievements and contribution in enhancing the creative community; to provide educational programs to students to develop better understanding of the role of film in today’s world; and to promote the City of Dallas and its commitment to the art of filmmaking".
This commitment of the early founders to the art of film and the artists who are its creators continues to guide the organization today. In addition, through curation of the broadest range of expression through film, DIFF is committed to serving as the region’s most powerful platform for diverse, emerging and underrepresented voices.
Throughout its history, DIFF has demonstrated consistent commitment to providing accessible, inclusive, immersive, educational, and entertaining film experiences for all. It is the vision of DIFF that, by promoting wide and thoughtful expression through film, our organization can help foster human connection and greater appreciation for our common humanity and our rich diversity.
A premier International Film Festival in Kathmandu Nepal. Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival is running since 2010. This year the 14th Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival will be organized from 27 November to 1 December 2026.
Over 60 selected films from around the globe made on human rights issues will be screened during the festival. Some screenings will be followed by a discussion on the film with the filmmakers.
The films will be screened under the following sections:
- Competition section
There will be competition section for both Nepali and International films. Films produced during 2024-2026 will be eligible to participate in this section. The films need to be based on at least one aspect of human rights. They could be both fiction and documentaries. The films need to fulfill all the criteria set by the organizing committee to be eligible for competition.
- Special Screening
Special films that could not fulfill all the criteria of the competitive section but are important in raising the human rights issues will be screened in this section. This section will also cover such films, which may not want to compete under the other section. Films from partners of the NHRIFF, which are qualified for being selected for the festival but could not participate in the competitive section due to the conflict of interest, will also be screened under this section.
- Yesteryears Eyes
Classics from the yesteryears, which deal with human rights issues, will be screened under this section.
- Partners' Panorama
This section will screen the films produced by organizations, who are partners of the 12th Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival. These films will not be recognized as official entries to the festival. But the festival will only provide a platform for the partners to showcase their works.
IMPORTANT REMINDER
****THE FESTIVAL WILL BE PHYSICAL****
****WE DON'T PAY SCREENING FEE FOR THE SELECTED FILMS*****
It have been already Sixteen years of this festival, which year after year, with firm step, has expanded its proposals for good cinema. Lies far away 1999, when sponsored by the humoristic duo Gomaespuma and M-80 Radio began the first edition of the festival with the slogan “the Indians are coming! ”. Eventually Imagineindia has internationalized, showing films from all over the world while those from Asia are still assuming the bulk of the festival.
The company FOT EL CAMP presents its first exhibition of CAMP short films, which aims to give voice to filmmakers with a surrealist sensibility, a Dada imagery and a kitsch aesthetic. Shortfilms hooliganns, freaks, absurdists and Kafkaesques... you are welcome!
