Set in the heart of Qatar’s modern cultural hub, the Lusail International Film Festival (LIFF) is a global celebration of cinema, creativity, and cultural exchange. The festival brings together filmmakers, artists, and industry leaders from around the world to showcase groundbreaking films, foster dialogue, and explore diverse storytelling traditions.
Hosted annually in Lusail City an icon of innovation and architectural excellence. LIFF features an inspiring lineup of international and regional premieres, masterclasses, industry panels, and red-carpet events.
The festival highlights voices from the Arab world while embracing global cinema that challenges, inspires, and entertains.
LIFF is more than just a film festival it is a platform for emerging talent, a meeting point for visionaries, and a cultural bridge connecting Qatar to the world.
Focused since more than three decades ago on the discovery of new talents and the diversity of contemporary cinema, Granada Film Fest has a special interest in upcoming filmmakers of all nationalities, open to films decided to explore new audiovisual forms regardless of their definition, genre, format or duration.
Roma Short Film Festival is a newly-founded festival based in Rome (Italy) that aims to create an opportunity for emerging filmmakers. Our goal is to support low budget and underground films that create new experiences and narrate unique stories with limited resources. Understanding how filmmakers around the world work, how young filmmakers get creative to get past the obstacles of production, and how their attempts can lead to a new form of cinema are among the things we care about. We strive to play a small role in the emergence of the new generation in the world of independent filmmaking by helping young filmmakers, actors, cinematographers, editors and producers to be heard and to get their messages across.
From the creators of the Depth of Field International Film Festival, Docs Without Borders Film Festival, and the WRPN.tv Women’s International Film Festival (among a few other successful festivals) and, under the umbrella of the WRPN.tv Network we bring you the Hispanic International Film Festival (HIFF)
To ensure that each screenplay or film is read, studied, and rated individually,
HIFF has instituted a system in which entries do not compete against each other but are recognized for their merits.
They compete against themselves: each entry is judged on its merits and scored according to an inherent value system.
When it is your turn to be evaluated, the judges focus on your screenplay, not on all the other screenplays in the cue. This ensures that they won't have comparisons going on in their minds when they should focus entirely on you.
The International Festival of Cinema in Minority Languages "City of Spilimbergo" aims at enhancing minority languages through independent film productions.
The intention is to bring young people as close as possible to their roots, therefore the contest will be open to all authors from all over the world who produce works in one of the officially recognised minority languages.
"Sezze Film Festival" is a cinema and entertainment event dedicated to Italian and foreign short films.
The Festival will be held in Sezze (LT) on 19-20-21 september 2025.
Prizes will be dedicated to the best works and their artistic and technical figures.
For information and applications:
sezzefilmfestival@libero.it
https://www.facebook.com/sezzefilmfestival/
A weekend celebration of Science Fiction from all over the world. We will present you with a selection of insights and stories never seen. There is plenty of planning and work to do. We are open to participants planetwide to join us in the impressive, historical rich city of Baltimore, Maryland.
The intent of The Outer Rim Festival is to showcase the best in Science Fiction, and other imaginatively-themed films from around the world. This celebration is in the culturally rich city of Baltimore, Maryland. Our creative and inspirational environment is ideal for exploring films that ponder the infinite possibilities our multiverse holds.
In addition to the amazing films, there will be workshops, panels, and lectures.
Notifications typically begin a week after the last submission date. So grab tickets early, inform your friends, and prepare for the best original content to reach the DMV.
Short film exhibition in summer cinema format in Jaraba Square (Zaragoza).
A non-profit effort to bring the art of the big screen and audiovisual communication to rural areas of rural Spain.
The objectives of the "Castillo de Jaraba" Short Film Exhibition are the dissemination, promotion, and screening of cinematographic works, as well as the public's awareness of them. The submitted works are not eligible for any cash prize, only for public appreciation.
All award-winning short films in each section will receive an exclusive trophy made of cut-out paper designed by Jose Antonio Berdie from the permanent Eustaquio Castellano cut-out toy exhibition.
Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF) is India’s only independent international film festival, established to honour and celebrate the legacy of the father of Indian cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke Ji. The festival aims to recognize and celebrate excellence in the global entertainment industry across Film, OTT, and Television platforms.
DPIFF stands as a prestigious platform that not only awards cinematic brilliance but also promotes Indian culture, heritage, and tourism through the lens of cinema. With participation from artists, filmmakers, and creators across the world, the festival fosters cross-cultural dialogues and empowers the voices of independent storytellers.
Every year, DPIFF brings together industry pioneers, celebrities, government dignitaries, and media under one roof to celebrate the art of storytelling and to inspire a new generation of creative talent. The festival also leads various social and environmental initiatives, aligning with the vision of a progressive and culturally unified India.
A non-competitive showcase of community cinema and independent audiovisual work
Street Cinema is a traveling outdoor film screening series held in community-based, alternative, and publicly accessible spaces. The initiative aims to bring cinema and audiovisual creation to territories that have been historically excluded from traditional cultural circuits.
In its first edition, the showcase focused on the theme “Stories from the Southern Edge,” featuring local narratives, neighborhood memories, and voices from the periphery. The second edition explores narratives around transportation, reflecting on movement, transit, and the daily experience of living in the south.
The call is open to:
Community filmmakers
Audiovisual collectives
Individuals who create videos spontaneously as tools for storytelling, memory, or social reflection.
Street Cinema fosters filmmaking from and for the community, creating spaces for gathering, conversation, and reclaiming public space through the moving image.
A Mostra Cinema das Gurias é um evento dedicado a exibir, valorizar e celebrar o audiovisual feito por mulheres cis e trans. Focada em curtas-metragens de ficção, documentário, animação e experimental, a Mostra busca dar visibilidade a diferentes olhares e narrativas femininas, fortalecendo o protagonismo das mulheres no cinema brasileiro. A 2ª edição acontece nos dias 14, 15 e 19 de outubro de 2025, com sessões gratuitas na Cinemateca de Curitiba.
Film/ Feature Film/Short Film/Documentory/music vedio/Animation/VFX/CGI/2D/3D/other
All Entertainment Catagory Accept
About Us
CINEMA is a reflection of the SOCIETY, human behavior and cultures, which are ever changing.
It’s been 122 years since the Lumière Brothers screened the first film in India and gave birth to Indian Cinema. We have come a long way since then, including The Golden Era of Indian Cinema (1940-1960).
The French New wave, which came along the 1950’s and the 1960’s, is regarded as one of the most influential movements in Cinema. Today, Cinema has evolved vastly with new camera techniques, lighting methods and above all, varied narratives that don’t necessarily adhere to the conventional story arc.
India is a country of great cultural diversity and, has a history of being one of the biggest contributors to the field of Art in the world. Moving to the present, we are situated in the heart of the Indian Film Industry, Mumbai, where the Star Culture is still prevalent in the Mainstream Cinema and most of the films thrive solely star power. Yet, there have been story tellers who have managed to break this mold and come out with amazing films in the recent past. The Parallel Cinema, a film movement that emerged as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Cinema, particularly in the latest era, characterized by its focus on REALISM, SOCIAL ISSUES and a rejection of typical Bollywood tropes like Song & Dance routines, is gradually taking a place in Indian Cinema. The key figures including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen & Ritwik Ghatak, etc who were initially based in Bengal & later gained their influence across India. While the Parallel Cinema was a distinctly Indian Movement, it was also influenced by the International Film Movements like Italian NEOREALISM.
We, as the Global Indie Film Festival of India (GIFFI-Hyderabad), have a fundamental belief that Cinema is a beautiful platform and storytelling is diversely serene.
We are at the end of the second decade of the 21st century and we believe that it’s the time that new age experimental story tellers and artists are given their rightfully deserved audience.
Our aim through this festival is to reignite the love for cinema which has somewhere been blurred due to the commerce of the trade. After all, DADASAHEB PHALKE did not make the first Indian film, RAJA HARISHCHANDRA with the purpose of earning money. Passion is what drives us, and we are looking to meet and celebrate passion through the medium of cinema.
Welcoming talented independent film makers from India and across the Globe to showcase their narratives, short films, long short films, feature films, documentaries, animation films, web series and music videos etc of any genre, any length, any medium of shooting, to come forward and submit your films with appropriate entry fees.
If your work has merit and you have passion, we have a platform for you. This Global Indie Film Festival of India (GIFFI-HYD) is a platform to provide an open environment for the producers, directors, writers, actors, technicians, film appreciation enthusiasts and anyone who has a zest for Cinema. Let’s network and talk about cinema and also let’s vow to bring another new wave through our work.
We have a Panel of Experts as the Board of Juries. They will scrutinize your films in all aspects and decide the official selections & and as well as Final Awards as per the required Categories.
The Screenings of officially selected films will be organized in various Theatres physically/an OTT Platform, that is associated with GIFFI-Hyderabad online.
We conduct the Final Award Ceremony, where all the Award Winners will be facilitated with Trophy & Certificate. The First, Second & Third level Winners of the Best Film Category will also be honored with CASH REWARDS on the same Dias.
We conduct this unique Film Festival twice in a year in the different Cities of India with maximum gaiety & color.
GIFFI-Hyderabad is a PROGRAMME, organized by HONOR HEIGHTS AWARDS & REWARDS PRIVATE LIMITED, duly registered with Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. (CIN: U82300TS2024PTC184552)
ImoIFF Creatives & Film Festival is a platform for films and filmmakers around the world that inspires the love for film, cinema, and the arts; and supports independent filmmakers. The festival is created to promote the local film industry both locally and internationally and to bring all the industry stakeholders together in a more focused and structured environment.
At ImoIFF, filmmakers are going to be seen, supported, and celebrated. The festival contributes towards the development of films in Imo State by showcasing the best film on the continent and worldwide. The goal of the festival is not only to celebrate arts but also to create an incubation space to encourage and grow young people in film and art, especially in the State. They do this by establishing systems through which continuing film education is sustained.
ImoIFF aspires to bridge the gap between Imo State filmmakers, Cinemas and the World, providing the best global film knowledge, skill acquisition, training, and global film distribution opportunities for independent and aspiring filmmakers. The festival is run by young people, for young people, and aims to celebrate the next generation of Film and TV talent and increase access for under-represented people to careers in the media. The festival creates a lucrative industry economically and socially to preserve our national values through film.
The festival also boasts a distinguished jury panel comprising luminaries from the global film community, including Kayode Kasum, Linda Obasi, Goodnews Erico, Ozioma Nwughalu, and Art Arutyunyan.
ImoIFF’s advisory board includes Dr. Victor Okhai, Queen B. Ebigieson, Okey Ogunjiofor, Dr. Chika Onu, Chris Odeh, Amayo Uzo Phillip, Osita Iheme, Dr. Gloria Ernest Samuel, Dr. Ken Obiakor, and Obinna Okerekeocha
FesticineKids 27 is an international children's and youth film festival in Cartagena de Indias, it is a film competition that orients its efforts towards strengthening the production and distribution of Colombian, Latin American and world cinema for children and young people.
In 2025, FesticineKids reaches its 27th, edition with the same spirit of highlighting and celebrating cinema for girls, boys and young people. The phrase has been chosen as the slogan: OUR KIDS VALUES. From this concept it is intended to invite children and young people to be aware of the responsibility they have to be agents of change in their environments. Children and young people are the future that should encourage the care of our planet earth, the human beings that surround them, animals and plants, as well as the places they visit. The tendency to Afro movies and ones oriented to indigenous people.
In the construction of the profile of the FesticineKids 27, the screen is problematized as a point of confluence of girls, boys and adolescents. By postulating cinema as that scenario in which feelings, emotions and beliefs are expressed, it is intended that girls, boys and adolescents, understanding what the cinema evokes them, what they extract from it and its meanings, wonder about the place that cinema has in their lives, in their environment, in parallel to the place they want and dream of.
It is also an opportunity for adults, parents, teachers, cultural and cinematographic authorities, to think about the need to strengthen their capacities to be trainers in tension and interaction with the audiovisual media, especially the cinema.
Dear friends and friends:
Once again we have the honor of inviting you to be part of our festival for which we look for films of any duration, theme or origin that, embracing the tools of real cinema, represent diverse points of view on the contemporary human experience.
In this version we are once again a face-to-face space, returning our hearts to the collective bodies of the desert. AricaDoc was born as a path to explore alternatives to the competition and commodification that industrial logics impose on the cinematographic arts.
Promoting a sensitive and political meeting based on the active search for new ways to feel our relationship with the world around us.
We are deeply grateful to each and everyone who has joined the communities of audiences of the festival from distant territories, thinking of them and them is that at least part of the program will be available on an online viewing platform, for access from Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
For this year the activities will be concentrated between October 3rd to 12th. Being this call open between June 26th and July 27th, through FESTHOME.
Thanking you in advance for your kind participation.
Kindly say goodbye
Arica Doc Team
On the border of Europe and Asia, in the 300-year-old city called the "Russian Manchester" in the middle of the Ural Mountains —
we organize an International Short Film Festival with a quarterly Official Selection and Live Screenings every summer, autumn, winter and spring.
NOW OPEN: Submissions for the Ural Shorts Summer 2025
Grand Prix: $1,000
Ural Shorts consists of four Seasons and Annual Award Event. Every Season the selection committee watches privately the submitted short films and chooses the Official Selections. All selected films enter the competition for the Season Awards.
Within 10 days after the Official Selection list is published the jury announces the Season Winners. The winning films enter the Screening Program in cinemas and on television for all to see.
All Season winners enter the competition for the Annual Awards in 18 nominations corresponding to the Main and Technical and Performances categories, and for the Grand Prix. They receive an invitation to the Annual Award Event.
The Annual Event takes place in August 2026 in the 300-year-old city of Nizhny Tagil, on the border of Europe and Asia, which is called the "Russian Manchester" in the middle of the Ural Mountains. The winner of the Grand Prix will receive a statuette, a diploma and a cash prize of $1,000. The Annual Award Event consists of a cultural and educational program, the annual awards ceremony, screenings, TV interviews, workshops, and other activities.
The fourth edition of the Pila Audiovisual Festival (FAP), produced by the Municipality of Pila and organized by the Padre Adolfo Anastasio Municipal Film Theater, will be held in person in Pila from August 28 to 31, 2025.
This festival aims to stimulate and facilitate meetings between members of the cinematography, promote the exhibition, production and reflection on audiovisual production in our locality, generate zonal ties, and present films of all genres, accompanied by their representatives, to
contribute to the development of culture and the progress and dissemination of the audiovisual industry.
FID:RIO is the new International Documentary Film Festival based in Rio de Janeiro, inspired by the spirit that established FIDBA as the most important documentary festival in Ibero-America. FID:RIO envisions itself as a gathering space for non-fiction cinema, where films share a common vocation for reflection, formal exploration, and a critical gaze upon the world we live in.
Based on this premise, FID:RIO presents itself as an annual event that combines a selection of films by emerging directors with retrospectives of renowned filmmakers, as well as the recovery of essential works that remain outside the commercial circuit. The festival is an open platform for all documentary languages and for all forms that question reality and seek to understand it through cinema.
FID:RIO also aims to expand the cinematic experience toward other languages and formats, opening a dialogue between documentary and other disciplines: from photography to installations, from documentary theater to transmedia storytelling, and from traditional narration to new digital platforms. In this intersection between reality and fiction, documentary emerges as an irreplaceable form of contemporary thought.
In a world where markets tend to turn every connection into a spectacle, documentary cinema reaffirms its uniqueness: it works with uncertainty, instability, and unpredictability. And that fragility is precisely its strength. Documentary cinema invents forms, builds new maps, and explores territories that we do not yet fully know.
LINK:RIO is the industry section of FID:RIO, the direct successor of the work consolidated by LINK at FIDBA, one of the most important documentary gatherings in Latin America. Its aim is to strengthen documentary production through various instances of support, training, networking, and project development.
Its activities include:
Work in Progress – Presentation of projects at an advanced stage.
One-to-One Meetings – Individual meetings between filmmakers and decision-makers.
DocLab – A laboratory for projects in development.
Masterclasses and Conferences – Spaces for training and inspiration with national and international leaders.
It is a Festival with two sections to contest. Official Section and Section of Asturian Short Films. Three prizes will be awarded (best short official section, best performance and best short Asturian). All the information is in the bases. Any author of any nationality can participate.
