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The 14th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra & Awards, offers you the opportunity to submit your documentaries now, in order to compete in the monthly selections of projects. Selected projects will automatically qualify to participate in the Competition Sections of the annual Festival's Awards, taking place from August 7th to 22nd 2027.
The rich thematic sections of the Festival include: human rights, recordings of memory, docudrama, young directors, true stories, climate change, environment, the role of women, Greek Panorama, views of the world, human portrait, violence, war threat, diversity, socio-political discrimination, religious conflicts, racism, migration, as well as themes related to all forms of art and culture, such as folklore, customs, mythology, history, biographies, ethnographies, journeys, travel-tourist documentaries.
The 14th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra & Awards, promotes the best documentaries from Greece and around the world for screening in its’ Competition Sections. Ierapetra, the southernmost city in Europe, a crossroads of cultures and continents, will once again host a large number of films and artists from all countries. The Juries consist of international recognition's personalities.
The film files must be in mp4 format , no more than 10GB, and must have embedded English and Greek subtitles (in case of foreign dialogue).
Without Greek subtitles, unfortunately, you cannot participate in the Competition Sections of the Festival.
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Where the Himalayas meet the horizon, stories find their wings.
Humro Cinema Film Fest, born in the picturesque city of Pokhara, Nepal, is a celebration of cinema that transcends boundaries — a gathering where dreamers, creators, and visionaries unite under one screen of imagination.
In just a few years, the festival has blossomed into a creative sanctuary, recognizing over 300 films, screenplays, and visual works from across the world and honoring more than 150 exceptional talents. Every laurel we grant isn’t just an award — it’s a salute to courage, storytelling, and the relentless pursuit of artistic truth.
From film screenings under the open sky to digital showcases that reach across continents, Humro Cinema embraces every storyteller — filmmakers, photographers, screenwriters, and performers — giving their craft a platform to shine. Each official selection becomes part of our growing cinematic tapestry, woven with passion, diversity, and emotion.
Set against the serene beauty of Nepal, this festival isn’t merely an event — it’s an experience.
It’s where stories breathe, cultures converse, and cinema becomes the universal language of connection.
Humro Cinema Film Fest — because every frame has a soul, and every storyteller deserves a stage.
[Indicative date: the festival will take place in April 2027, though possibly on a different weekend]
Le Frisson qui vient is a festival powered by the association Le Cinéma qui vient, founded in April 2026. The association’s mission is to bring cinema to rural areas and to offer high-quality artistic programming to territories with limited access to cultural experiences.
The Festival’s Core Principles
— Showcasing new voices
Le Frisson qui vient is a discovery-driven festival. We welcome films from all filmmakers, whether emerging or established, provided they bring innovation to the way stories are told. An additional award will nevertheless be dedicated to first and second feature films. We are drawn to works created outside established circuits. Films that don’t tick the “right” boxes. Innovation, boldness, and surprise are our guiding principles.
— Reinventing genre
Genre cinema has its codes. We are interested in those who dare to bend them. What matters to us is fear as it has not yet been seen: emerging from a frame, a sound, an image, or the unspoken. The kind that settles in before anything even happens. Each edition of Le Frisson qui vient is a laboratory—a mapping of what the genre can still invent.
— Atmosphere over gore
We do not program gore films. This is not a moral stance, but an aesthetic one. The kind of thrill we champion is built through atmosphere, tension, and ambiguity. The most lasting fear, in our view, is the one the viewer constructs themselves—in silence, between two shots, in subtext, in what remains off-screen.
— Doing more with less
Some of the most important films in horror history were made with very limited means: a handheld camera, a forest, a night. Constraints foster invention, and invention can yield remarkable results. In this spirit, Le Frisson qui vient awards each year a Found Footage Prize, paying tribute to a form that turned limitation into its own language.
— More than a festival
Le Frisson qui vient is as much an experience as it is a screening event. The festival is conceived as a work in itself: recurring characters appear, voices emerge from the darkness, fragments of narrative accumulate year after year. At the edge of a medieval castle, you discover not only a program, but a universe. We cultivate uncertainty—the very source of the thrill. Each edition reveals a little more. And compels you to return…
Authorial film festival held by one of the most important distributors of movie Brazil. The awards will result distribution contracts of winning films in Brazil.
The "Le Matié" University Audiovisual Festival is conceived as an academic space to highlight and promote the audiovisual works carried out by students of Social Communication - Journalism of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and other academic institutions at a national and international level, conducive to sharing experiences of classroom, encourage originality and enhance the technical and conceptual quality of audiovisual products, thus encouraging the exploration of new ways of telling stories from real life or the product of the students' imagination, as well as news, reports and other narratives through of the audiovisual.
It is a space of encounter that has been developed in Quindío since 2020 and where through a formative process in peace, coexistence and reconciliation with young people of the territory, tools are provided so that they can narrate through audiovisual content, their realities and generate proposals that advocate for Peace. In previous versions, more than 40 audiovisual contents have participated, as well as more than 100 teenagers and young people trained in audiovisual production from the pre-production, production and post-production stages.
Founded in 2018, the Almagro International Film Festival (AIFF) was created as a platform to support and promote the audiovisual industry. The Festival provides a space for the exhibition and promotion of audiovisual works while turning the historic city of Almagro into a meeting point for filmmakers, industry professionals and audiences, encouraging the exchange of ideas, new collaborations and the development of future projects.
AIFF showcases some of the most outstanding recent short films, with a strong commitment to quality, emerging talent and contemporary audiovisual culture. The Festival also embraces new forms of creation and distribution, supporting innovative formats and projects that reflect the ongoing evolution of the audiovisual industry.
GUARRA, the First Buenos Aires International Kinky Film Festival has an unmistakable purpose: to give visibility and celebrate a culture that has historically been marginalized and stigmatized.
This festival is not simply a cinematic event but a space for meeting, exploration, and artistic expression for those who live and create within the kink spectrum.
Our mission is to challenge and dismantle the prejudices that often surround kinky and BDSM practices by presenting authentic, diverse stories that capture the multiple dimensions of this culture. Each film selected for the festival will provide a window into the realities and
experiences of people within the community, offering perspectives that are rarely represented in mainstream cinema.
The first edition of GUARRA took place in August 2025 across three venues in the city of Buenos Aires: Teatro Empire, Planta Inclán and Centro Cultural Paco Urondo (UBA). We screened 40 works from 15 countries and welcomed around 700 attendees.
Saraqusta Film Festival is a film and tv series festival about the historical genre in its broadest sense. It was created with the aim of exhibiting and promoting feature films, documentaries and series using the past and the historical context as a common thread.
Submissions are open to Spanish and International works, real-image or animated that deal with the historical genre or whose theme, context or set design are historical or refer to a period of the past.
DOCA Film Festival is an independent film festival founded in Silicon Valley, California, created for filmmakers, artists, and storytellers who use moving images to share ideas, explore creativity, and connect with audiences.
Built around audiences, DOCA Film Festival creates opportunities for filmmakers to share their work through a public cultural experience where films can be discovered, experienced, and remembered.
The inaugural DOCA Film Festival will take place during San Jose Holiday Lights 2026 in downtown San Jose, California — the heart of Silicon Valley. Selected films will be screened throughout the 48-day festival season as part of a large-scale public cultural experience, creating opportunities for filmmakers to connect with diverse audiences.
The event is expected to welcome 80,000+ visitors, including local communities, families, and visitors from around the world, providing filmmakers with an opportunity to share their stories with audiences in an open and accessible environment.
The Palencia International Films Festival is organised by the Association Friends of the film and the Popular University of Palencia.
This edition is number 36, and during all these years, our philosphy has been considering cinema a tool of development and social cohesion.
Our festival colaborates with the Spanish Cinema Academy, and its a qualifyer festival for the GOYA shortfilm Awards.
In addition, the short film awarded the first prize by the jury at the MCIP (the Milagros Alcalde Award) will go directly to the Short List finalist of the FUGAZ Awards, making up the short list of films that will then be evaluated for nomination by the commission that awards these prizes each year.
Shortcutz Paris is an independent short film festival for cinema lovers — a gathering point where creatives, producers, industry professionals, and film enthusiasts come together to exchange ideas and nurture their shared passion for filmmaking. Based in Paris, the festival draws filmmakers and audiences from across France and beyond, building an international community around independent short cinema.
More than a screening series, Shortcutz Paris positions itself as a space for engaged, socially conscious storytelling — each themed edition tackles pressing social and political questions, using short film as a lens to spark dialogue on the issues shaping culture today.
Each month, the festival hosts a session showcasing a themed selection of narrative, animated, documentary, and experimental short films, followed by a debate with the filmmakers and their teams. Sessions are open to the public on a prix libre (pay-what-you-can) basis, with films subtitled in French or English and Q&As conducted in French to foster connection with the local community.
3rd CINEFANTASY RIO – Rio de Janeiro International Fantastic Film Festival
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | March 23–28, 2027
CINEFANTASY RIO is now accepting submissions for its 3rd edition, bringing together horror, fantasy, science fiction, thriller, magical realism, and their many variations for six days of programming in Rio de Janeiro.
The festival expands the legacy of Cinefantasy – São Paulo International Fantastic Film Festival, one of Latin America’s leading genre film festivals. In 2026, Cinefantasy received 1,569 submissions from 89 countries and screened 70 films from 24 countries across 114 screenings — and throughout its history, the festival has showcased more than 1,600 films.
The 3rd CINEFANTASY RIO will feature competitive programs, special screenings, and activities connecting filmmakers, audiences, and audiovisual industry professionals.
We are looking for films that challenge boundaries and explore other worlds. Films that provoke, frighten, surprise — and reinvent the fantastic.
Brazilian and international short and feature films are invited to participate.
The journey continues in Rio de Janeiro.
Corti a Corte was born from a question: what can truly engage an audience increasingly accustomed to streaming platforms and small-screen viewing?
Our answer is a festival conceived as a cinematic salon, bringing the collective experience of cinema back to the centre.
After each short film is screened on the big screen, the audience meets filmmakers and film professionals, taking part in a direct conversation about the works, their cinematic language and the themes they explore.
Corti a Corte is a non-competitive event.
It is a space for encounter and exchange, where short films become the starting point for sharing ideas, experiences and new perspectives.
The three works selected through this open call will receive the official recognition “Corti a Corte 2027 Official Selection” and will be screened on the big screen.
Selected filmmakers will be required to attend the presentation of their works and take part in a public conversation with film professionals and experts. These meetings are conceived as an opportunity for dialogue, in-depth discussion and professional development for emerging filmmakers.
A/R/TOGRÁFICA International Videonarration Exhibition is an annual event organised by the University of Granada which, in its 11th edition, gave rise to the A/R/TOGRÁFICA platform. Since then, the platform has expanded its activities through a year-round programme held both in Granada and beyond the city.
The Exhibition brings together artistic research projects that use audiovisual narration as a methodology for artistic creation, research, and learning, and each year launches an INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL inviting artists, researchers, and educators to participate in screening sessions held during February and March in different venues and institutional spaces associated with the event.
The open call brings together experimental, essayistic, and research-based proposals within the contemporary audiovisual art landscape, with particular interest in works that incorporate or generate a/r/tographic processes throughout their development (A/r/tography Films). From this perspective, A/R/TOGRÁFICA highlights the research, educational, and creative dimensions of moving image practices, with particular attention to works that explore their potential as tools for thinking, learning, and producing knowledge through the arts.
The Exhibition also seeks to foster encounters and the creation of networks of collaboration among artists, researchers, and educators interested in the possibilities of the moving image as a space for experimentation, reflection, and the collective construction of knowledge.
Espacio habilitado para la promoción, difusión y distribución internacional de los cortometrajes más recientes y destacados de nuestra industria.
Where Great Stories Begin
Cero Grados Film Fest is an international short film festival dedicated exclusively to emerging filmmakers presenting their first or second short film as directors.
Our mission is to discover, promote and support new cinematic voices by providing a professional platform where talent is evaluated on equal terms, free from competition with established filmmakers.
The festival welcomes fiction, documentary, animation and experimental short films from all over the world, celebrating originality, creativity and distinctive artistic vision. We believe that great careers often begin with a single story, and our goal is to help those stories reach an international audience.
Cero Grados Film Fest is held entirely online, making it accessible to filmmakers and audiences worldwide while ensuring broad international visibility for the selected works.
Awards include:
- Best Director** (€1,000)
- Best Short Film**
- Best Screenplay**
- Best Cinematography**
All selected films and award winners receive the official Cero Grados Film Fest laurels.
If this is the beginning of your filmmaking journey, this is your festival.
Where Great Stories Begin.
The Versilia Film Festival (VFF), organized by APS Form.Art.E, is a film festival and competition with a strong cultural identity. It gathers the experience and legacy of the Camaiore Film Festival (of which it is the successor), proposing itself as a space for artistic expression and social reflection, promoting works that tackle highly current themes with original, innovative, and courageous cinematic languages.
The festival unfolds as a multi-stage journey, culminating in a final event featuring public screenings and collective participation.
It is also structured as a widespread festival across time and the local area, featuring cultural and educational activities that accompany the public throughout the entire year. The goal is to bring independent cinema back to the center of the region's cultural life and create opportunities for meetings, discussions, and participation among authors, the audience, and the community.
Notable guests from past editions (Camaiore Film Festival) include Steve Della Casa as the director of the technical jury, Alessandro Aronadio, Paolo Hendel, Saverio Guarna, Massimo Bonfatti, Ferruccio Marotti, GianMarco Tognazzi, Riccardo Rossi, Anna Pavignano, Salvatore Veca, and Franco Giubilei.
DATES AND DURATION
Event series: April – July 2027
Screening of competing short films and final ceremony: September 4-5-6, 2027
Medium-length or Arthouse Film series: Autumn 2027
COMPETITIVE SECTIONS
The Festival is open to Italian and international directors to submit short films of any genre produced after January 15, 2025, in accordance with the 4 designated sections:
FICTION SHORT FILM: Fiction short films of any genre from all over the world; maximum duration 20 minutes (credits included).
"CORTISSIMO" (Very Short Film): Short films of any genre from all over the world with a maximum duration of 5 minutes (credits included).
INCLUSION, LEGALITY, AND CIVIC SENSE: Short films of any genre addressing the themes of inclusion, disability, legality, and civic duty (reportage, investigations, community stories, portraits of people with disabilities, documentaries on legal proceedings, civic campaigns, material aimed at social change or raising justice issues...); maximum duration 15 minutes (credits included).
"HORIZONS OF KNOWLEDGE" (EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH AND GROWTH): Short films dedicated to educational outreach, education, science, culture, and personal growth (explainers, scientific or philosophical mini-documentaries, video lessons, research-based educational storytelling, educational products created for the web...); maximum duration 10 minutes (credits included).
Porto Femme - International Film Festival is a place for the exhibition and dissemination of multiple and diverse artistic visions. A concrete action in the struggle for equal representation, focusing on new identity representations that seek to deconstruct stereotypes and erase invisibilities. The Festival aims to create a visibility space for women and/or non-binary identities in the cinematographic world, uniting them internationally.
Feminist solidarity is our guiding thread, and we want to continue creating feminist spaces through an innovative, intersectional, and intergenerational way of working characterized by support, diversity, creativity, and experimentation, serving as a point of sharing, debate, and creation for all those who love cinema.
These films intend to educate and inform the public about social and political issues that affect women and minority identities worldwide and give voice to several groups and struggles.
Our curation aims to reflect the diversity of genres, themes and languages. PORTO FEMME is a festival with a varied and appealing offer to the public, including competitive sessions, exhibitions, workshops, debates, Q & A sessions, exhibitions, among others.
