Madero City International Film Festival (FICCMADERO) invites Mexican and international producers and filmmakers to submit their short and feature films to the 10th Edition of the Festival, which will take place from November 24 to 26, 2026.
Welcome to the Northstar Filmfare International Film Festival—an avant-garde cinematic journey that extends beyond traditional boundaries. Focused on empowering emerging filmmakers in the dynamic world of cinema, NFIFF emphasizes globally showcasing your work, securing press coverage, and fostering connections with influential figures in the industry.
At NFIFF, we warmly embrace filmmakers from around the world, anticipating films that embody courage, determination, and unique voices. Our commitment extends to supporting content creators and cultivating an environment where creativity thrives.
In the realm of NFIFF, the spotlight illuminates filmmaking every month. Winners receive an exclusive laurel and certificate, tangible recognition of their accomplishments. Submit your masterpiece today and explore new horizons in the world of filmmaking with NFIFF.
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Filmmakers from all countries can participate in this festival!
All language, All film /project/song accepted & Any Duration Accept.
Asian Talent International Film Festival 2025, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, INDIA.
Filmmakers from all countries can participate in this festival!
Through the festival, we want to take the cinema culture to the people.
Our goal is to connect all the filmmakers from the Asian continent.
It is also our aim to inculcate a basic understanding of cinema in the coming generations.
We are confident that every country on the Asian continent will have a filmmaker, and we are ready to give their artwork a mainstream platform.
The Río Negro International Social Film Festival is an audiovisual festival that aims to promote cinema within the country and abroad. The festival will be held in March with a competition of feature films and short films, both fiction, animation and documentary. There will also be talks and workshops.
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.
An engaging festival featuring curated screenings, filmmaker Q&As, networking opportunities, and awards. Selected filmmakers will connect with audiences, gain exposure, and celebrate their work in a vibrant, supportive environment. A two-day event featuring scheduled film blocks by category, morning and afternoon panels, evening Q&A sessions, and a closing night awards presentation.
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.
The Cinemana festival was founded in 2021 at the Alliance Française de Tunis offices.
It's a festival dedicated to emerging Tunisian short films, bringing together film students, independent filmmakers, and cinema lovers to train, meet industry professionals, and showcase their own work in competition for awards.
The Alliance Française, the world's largest associative cultural network, operates around two complementary strategic missions: promoting the French language and developing cultural projects that encourage diversity, mobility, and intercultural dialogue.
In this context, the Alliance Française de Tunis launched and supported the creation of the Cinemana festival, conceived as a key platform for training, professional development, and cultural outreach.
Cinemana primarily serves young filmmakers, students, independent creators, and enthusiasts, offering them opportunities for training, visibility, and networking with audiovisual industry professionals. The festival nurtures emerging talent through specialized workshops, professional meetings, competitive screenings, and focused artistic mentorship. It provides a practical pathway for cultural and professional development, especially for young people.
In 2025, the festival evolved significantly with its transformation into Cinemana Mare Nostrum. This new direction reflects a strategy of regional expansion and greater impact, positioning the project within a shared Euro-Mediterranean space. The inclusion of Italy and Malta alongside Tunisia marks the first step toward building a sustainable Mediterranean cultural network based on the exchange of films, expertise, and audiences.
Beyond geographic expansion, Mare Nostrum embraces a strong ethical and social dimension. The festival now places ecology at the core of its programming and artistic vision, raising awareness among participants and audiences about environmental challenges facing the Mediterranean region. This focus adds significant value in terms of cultural responsibility, aligning with current priorities of both institutional and private partners.
Supporting Cinemana Mare Nostrum enables us to: strengthen employability and professional development for young creators, build a lasting Mediterranean cultural network, enhance partners' visibility through a project with strong social, educational, and environmental impact, and promote Tunisian cultural creation on the international stage.
Through its institutional foundation, educational mission, and international reach, Cinemana Mare Nostrum represents a cultural investment with lasting impact, serving youth, intercultural dialogue, and regional artistic development.
FIRST OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME
Projects that already have nominations have a much higher selection rate.
That’s why we have decided to be a “bridge festival”, helping you secure those first nominations. This way, you’ll have many more chances of being selected by other festivals.
WHAT SETS US APART FROM OTHER FESTIVALS?
We believe the relationship between festivals and artists should once again be closer. Every festival has a responsibility to use all its resources to support filmmakers on their journey. Nowadays, festivals tend to promote only the winning projects, and that is not enough. Financing a festival run requires a huge effort, and festivals should do much more to help.
This is our motto:
Clear communication: We respond to all emails, personally notify all nominees, and send a second email to winners with the full list of award recipients in each category.
Constant promotion: We promote all submitted projects weekly throughout the festival.
Custom laurels: We create personalized laurels for each winning project so you can use them on your social media.
Ultra-low fees: As a festival, we subsidize 70% of the cost of each submission, so the final fee paid by the artist is much lower than usual. This is our way of supporting you on this journey.
Networking: Connections with directors, producers, and distributors.
MECAL PRO, the Barcelona International Short Film and Animation Festival, is a festival dedicated to short films, both national and international.
This year, we are launching the second call for applications for the Mecal Lab as part of the 28th edition of the Mecal Barcelona International Short Film and Animation Festival. One of its main objectives is the professional development of artists and filmmakers, understood as the process of growth, refinement, and consolidation of their professional profile within the audiovisual sector.
The 13th Annual Toyama International Film Festival will take place in June of 2026 in Toyama Prefecture. With such great success in previous years, we are excited to once again share the visions of filmmakers from all over the world with our local community in the countryside of Japan.
Submissions will be open until March 22nd, 2026.
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The Annual Toyama International Film Festival (TIFF) began in the rural prefecture of Toyama, Japan. Started by a few English teachers in the area, we hoped to reach people not just in Japan, but around the globe.
The first TIFF took place in a small room inside of a shopping center, where about 70 people watched the 10 films we had received. The following year was a tremendous success with over 100 submissions from different countries, quite a step from our first year. The event was held in the city of Toyama at a local independently-owned venue, Bodegas-Mambo with around 80-100 guests coming to view the films. Every year since, we hope to expand even further and provide an even larger venue for participants and the movie-going community in Japan.
Today, with over 3000 submissions each year from countries around the world, TIFF has become a highly-anticipated annual event and a staple of Toyama's international community.
Note: Due to time constraints, we cannot accept films that run over 10 minutes. However, any genre of short film will be considered for exhibition.
The Esoteric International Film Festival collects the best esoteric films from around the world, which were created both by professionals and by enthusiasts, and helps to get them across to the Russian audience.
We admit only the esoteric films, both modern and historical ones. As well as those films, where esoteric world is an important part of the synopsis.
Esoteric International Film Festival invite filmmakers who make films and documentaries about ghosts and spirits, brownies and witches, fairies and sorcerers, exorcism and parapsychology, telekinesis and transmission of thoughts at a distance, prophetic dreams and premonitions, alchemy, amulets, amulets, non-traditional religious cults, voodoo religion, animism, shamanism, theosophy and anthroposophy, the hidden edges of reality and other dimensions; self-discovery, the search for the meaning of life, the search for yourself in this world and your mission, life after death, human energy, chakras, aura, meditation, yoga, retreats, spiritual practices, spiritual teachers and ashrams, reincarnation and the recollection of past lives, the power of thoughts and the work of the subconscious; alternative medicine and non-standard methods of treatment, the universal mind, the energies of the new time, high vibrations, etc.
All films must be in English (orRussian). Alternatively, have the English or Russian subtitles (with the exception of all films without words), regardless of the country of production.
All best films that were selected for the vscreening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on January 30-31, 2027 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best Esoteric film". As well as for the oteric in the standalone nominations.
The closing date for the festival registrations is extended to July 31, 2025, the official selection notifications will be sent on August 31, 2025, the list of finalist films will be published on September 15, 2025, The Sports Cinema Week will take place in Palermo from December 1 to 7, 2025.
Here are the prizes awarded in each edition. Four main categories: best Olympic film, best Paralympic film, best football film and best E-Sport film. The awarded sections are for best feature film, best short film, best documentary, best fiction, best direction, best actor, best sports protagonist, best editing, best screenplay, best sound, films are also awarded with special prizes: Distributor award, social award, jury award, Other Cinema award (non-sporting subject) and the “School & University” award. All the films that have been selected will receive an participation plaque during the final ceremony of the festival.
Near Nazareth Festival ( NNF ) invites all film lovers to partake in our celebration.
Near Nazareth Festival hospitably opens its doors to filmmakers. Festival participants from around the world will show their works. We believe that the best place for them to present their work - is Near Nazareth Festival.
More than 6000 participants from 70 countries of 5 continents presented their films and works at the Festival in Israel since 2015.
The works are evaluated by an international jury. Many participants became prize-winners and winners in their nominations.
A festival diploma increases the prestige of the piece.
We invite you to take part in it. We will be glad to review your work.
Our motto is: Everyone has a chance to be evaluated and win! We wish you creative success.
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An important addition.
We continue our work.
We believe that film and art is very important during this time.
We still accept submissions and will hold online and live screenings as scheduled.
You may apply the code 20NNF10 for an additional 10% discount
We look forward to your new works.
Art is life.
Stay safe and healthy!
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Our festival - NNF - is the first of its kind.
Our festival will serve to strengthen mutual understanding and friendship between the peoples of the world. Through cooperation with movie lovers from around the world, we will make history.
Today filmmakers from 65 countries are participating in the festival, and presented his works
Near Nazareth Festival Online Film Market - Free of charge for all participants of the NNFestival.
We post your film info on Near Nazareth Festival Facebook page - post + image.
We'll set up info about your film on Near Nazareth Festival website.
Page is opened and distributed among national and international distributors.
We are inviting of you to join
We do not limit the categories of participants. All films are presented in their original language. There is no need for subtitles in a foreign language different from the original.
Every submitting will be reviewed by a qualified jury and the audience.
Event venue - The Poznak Community Centers, Givat Ha-More
Festival Description
CULTURAL DISRUPTORS – Film Festival is an international platform dedicated to works that explore the boundaries of conventional narrative and challenge established consensus. We distance ourselves from closed schools of thought and from culture used as a tool for ideological dissemination.
We understand that traditional analytical frameworks have lost their relevance in explaining the complexity of the present. In an environment saturated with predictable narratives and uniform discourses, this festival was born to offer an alternative grounded in creative autonomy.
Our programming prioritizes cinema that challenges standards:
We reject official discourses, the moralization of art, and the pursuit of audience complacency. We seek films that operate in the space of friction, that contradict their own premises, and that understand culture as a process of constant questioning, not as a finished product.
CULTURAL DISRUPTORS is not a place for the confirmation of certainties, but for the discovery of new perspectives.
We champion ambiguity over dogma, contradiction over simplification, and risk over uniformity.
Here, cinema doesn't seek audience tranquility; it seeks to provoke thought and strengthen critical thinking.
FINCI 2026
ONLINE | IN-PERSON FORMAT
June 2026
FINCI 2026 proposes the following main theme:The Truth
today everything moves very fast, where filters are all around, where there is an excess of information everywhere, it's necessary, I would say almost urgent, to encounter our true selves and what we feel that connects us to the simplest things. ¿What is our truth? ¿How do we connect with our essence? ¿How do we connect with what represents us and what doesn't? ¿What place do we give to that? When we connect with our true selves, it has an impact on the collective, on all of us together.
There are truths that are urgent to show, to speak, both individual and collective. ¿What is our truth? ¿How do we allow ourselves to be flexible when we are infant of something new? ¿How are we honest with ourselves? ¿How do we connect with our desires and are we sincere with them?
This year, the International Festival of New Independent Cinema (FINCI) will be a hybrid event.
It will be held in person in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Mexico City, and online for all of Latin America and Europe.
80 projects will be selected for the online portion. A total of 10 projects will be selected per country for the in-person portion.
Categories:
Feature Films (Fiction)
Short Films (Fiction and Documentary)
Feature Documentaries
Erotic Cinema
Vertical Cinema
Women's Cinema
LGBTQ+ Cinema
Animated Cinema
Special attention will be given to emerging filmmakers presenting their debut features.
Corti in Movimento. Discover the Wonder of Your City
is designed for students and young filmmakers with a clear and meaningful goal: to explore and tell the story of the city of Pescara through the most widespread and immediate tool of our time—the smartphone.
Launched in 2013, the LakeCity International Film Festival (LCIFF) held in Mumbai was founded to showcase the emerging talents and the leaders in contemporary film making, and aims to exhibit the most captivating and innovative content.
Festival Mission:
Serving as a Premier Film Festival, LCIFF's mission is to present quality films from around the world as well as support, recognize and honor indie film makers. These films will be organized thematically, in hopes of representing the full range of the human experience as reflected by our chosen filmmakers. LCIFF will also be a vital showcase for indie short film makers as the festival has a PSA Films Category in addition to its competitive sections revolving around a theme and have a strong social message.
Welcome to the Tadeus Film & Music International Festival
The Tadeus Film & Music International Festival is an international film and music festival in rapid expansion—an independent space where authorial vision, artistic sensitivity, and creative freedom find their own voice.
Following a highly impactful first edition, the festival selected works from Spain, Russia, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and the United States, consolidating its growth and identity within the global circuit of independent film and music festivals.
Tadeus positions itself as a carefully curated festival, attentive to new voices and contemporary languages. It brings together filmmakers, musicians, and independent artists from around the world—both emerging and established—without restrictions of genre or format, prioritizing originality, identity, and the expressive strength of each work.
The festival stands out for its commitment to projects that generate emotion, reflection, and impact, addressing themes such as social justice, our relationship with living beings, identity, resilience, and personal transformation. It also includes a dedicated category for works created with Artificial Intelligence, reaffirming its place as a contemporary festival, attentive to the technological and artistic evolution of audiovisual expression.
In a constantly evolving cultural landscape, the Tadeus Film & Music International Festival is gaining recognition within the worlds of cinema, music videos, and music, distinguished by its sensitive curation, artistic vision, and sustained growth.
To be part of Tadeus is to join a festival that grows with discernment, builds community, and champions art with identity and purpose.
If you have a work that deserves to be seen, heard, and recognized, this is your place.
THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL OF CALAHORRA, THROUGH THE YOUTH DEPARTMENT, ANNOUNCES THE 27TH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL “¡¡CORT...en!! 2026”, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING RULES.
The Messina Opera Film Festival is a meeting and discussion place for delving into the relationship between cinema and opera through various artistic perspectives and trends. The Messina Opera Film Festival is the only event in the Italian cinematic landscape that addresses this interaction and offers the public a diverse cultural program consisting of screenings, concerts, presentations, and exhibitions. The entire program is exclusively dedicated to the relationship between the Seventh Art and one of the greatest Italian cultural traditions, Melodrama. There are non-competitive sections and a section dedicated to short films, which is competitive in nature. The competition is thematic, and only works with a maximum duration of 15 minutes (including titles) are admitted, which must feature stories inspired by operatic works or their characters, or that include music or arias from operas, or a setting in an opera theater.
