In 2024, the Iquique International Film Festival (Ficiqq) will celebrate its 15th anniversary. Ficiqq is a unique event in the Tarapacá region that is financed on this occasion by the 2024 Audiovisual Development Fund, and is sponsored by SQM Yodo Nutrición Vegetal and produced by Volcánica Films.
The Visual Anthropology Laboratory “Fiorenzo Serra” - the operational headquarters in Sassari of the Cagliari Cultural Services Center of the Humanitarian Society - Cineteca Sarda (hereinafter called “Cineteca”) relating to the Department of History, Human and Educational Sciences of the University of
Sassari (hereinafter called “Department”) as part of the project to enhance the figure of the filmmaker and ethnologist Fiorenzo Serra, he is announcing the competition for ethnographic film productions, named Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival, for the year 2025.
The theme of this eighth edition of the competition for the section “Fiorenzo Serra” is “MASKS, BEYOND THE HUMAN, RITES AND ETHNOGRAPHIC TRADITIONS”
In 1981, André ABET and the city of Cabestany decided to create the First Encounter Short Film Festival of Cabestany. It is truly a encounter, more than a festival, because everything is planned to promote exchange between audience and directors, like the numerous “verre de l’amitié” (friendship toasts), offered after each screening. Always a fun and friendly moment!
Animation, documentary, experimental, fiction, musical clip and report with a maximum length of 30 minutes and French subtitles can take part in this international event.
KYIV INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (KISFF) is largest short film festival in Ukraine.
Our festival features a diverse range of short films created by emerging and accomplished filmmakers, including film school students and independent creators from all corners of the world. Our goal is to showcase the most stirring, inventive and distinctive films while promoting Ukrainian cinema, encouraging communication and exchange of experiences between Ukrainian and international filmmakers and artists, and providing a safe and welcoming space for our audience.
The Paracho International Independent Film Festival (FICIP) was founded in 2012 as a social event for the screening and awarding of audiovisual works that employed cinematic narrative despite having a very low budget. The Paracho International Independent Film Festival is a space for independent filmmakers and producers to showcase their work and learn about the work of others.
CINETORO 2026
Converging Boundaries
#MIRAYESCUCHADIFERENTE
Under the concept of Converging Boundaries, CINETORO 2026 proposes a curatorial framework inspired by the force of tectonic collision. Just as, in geology, a convergent boundary is the space where two plates collide to destroy the old and raise new mountain ranges and volcanoes, this edition seeks films in which the impact between languages generates new ways of seeing and hearing. We move away from the static reading of maps — those arbitrary divisions of dots and lines — to focus instead on the energy that emerges within the zone of contact, where the friction between the human and the non-human, or between the here and the elsewhere, constructs new narrative geographies.
CINETORO 2026 calls for works that explore processes of collision and emergence. We seek films that use experimentation as a tool to blur political and social boundaries, proposing perspectives that recognize the continuity of the jungle or the vastness of the desert beyond geographical fictions. How does perception transform when cinematic form itself becomes the result of a clash of forces?
In this edition, the border is not an impenetrable wall, but a living zone of creation; a space of formal risk that challenges pre-established categories and allows us to understand, through cinema at the margins, what new unions emerge when we dare to inhabit the liminal state. We seek films that inhabit the interstice: the space that exists precisely in the middle of the line, inviting audiences into a cinematic experience where genres do not simply intersect, but transform one another. We are interested in a cinema of hybridization where documentary, animation, and fiction function like tectonic plates in constant motion.
This is an invitation to a cinema unafraid of crossing and dissolving boundaries; a cinema that inhabits the periphery and the frontier in order to raise, from the margins, new and necessary mountains of imagination.
#ConvergingBoundaries #TheLiminal #Cinetoro2026 #SeeAndHearDifferently #CrossTheBoundary #ExperimentalFilmFestival #HybridCinema #ExperimentalCinema #ExperimentalNarrative
*** Submissions for the 2024 Short Film Slam, presented by The Madlab Post will be opening in the Spring. If you are interested in submitting your live action, animation, documentary or experimental film, Sign up for our waitlist to be the first to hear about the Call for Entries for our 2024 season - https://cinema.madlabpost.com ***
The Short Film Slam is a bimonthly competition presented by The Madlab Post that focuses on providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers to showcase their work. Each round, a selection of up to twelve short films will be screened for local audiences who get to cast a vote for their favorite film. The highest rated film at live screenings will be declared "Movie of the Month" during the following month. The highest rated "in-competition" films from each live and online screening room will advance to the final round. All finalists get to compete for a total of $1,000 in prize money during the final round and festivities preceding the 2023 shnit Cinemas screening in Philadelphia.
Since 2012, The Madlab Post has promoted community outreach and engagement through film, screening dozens of exceptional short films from around the world to local audiences; including the Academy Award nominated short film A SINGLE LIFE, Clermond-Ferrand International Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner THE BATHTUB and Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Et ta prostate, ça va? (HOW'S YOUR PROSTATE). Main venues include the historic Bok building and Taller Puertorriqueño's state-of-the-art El Corazón Cultural Center.
Memorimage, International Film Festival of Reus is a Festival targeting films that use archival moving images.
The 20th edition of Memorimage will be celebrated from the 4th to the 7th of November 2025.
Review of Short Films, Films and Documentaries on Sport.
The Pindaro Cultural Association organizes OVERTIME FESTIVAL, which will take place from 5 to 9 October 2022 in Macerata (Italy). The main objective of the festival is to propose sport, sports practice and sports ethics through all the arts, workers and means of communication.
In this context, the Pindaro Cultural Association, for the year 2022 OVERTIME FILM FESTIVAL, an international competition for short films, films and social documentaries, with the aim of promoting, disseminating and making young cinema visible. The event also aims to create an appointment in Italy where directors, video makers, industry professionals or simple cinema and sports enthusiasts can compare and combine different experiences.
The ELCO 2025 Competition
Discover the competition categories and everything you need to know to submit your film to ELCO 2025: A festival that opens borders, reaching 6 countries and 16 cities.
The ELCO Film Festival classifies aspiring works into three sections, aiming to showcase the talent competing with their diverse works in the festival. We'll award feature films, short films, and music videos in our 13th ELCO edition.
In the feature film section, we'll award categories for fiction, documentary, and animation in a single competition for Venezuela. Likewise, in Argentina, Colombia, Spain, the USA, and the Dominican Republic, we'll exclusively award the best fiction feature film from each country, respectively. These latter winners will then compete for the "Best Foreign Film ELCO 2025" award.
Similarly, in the short film section in Venezuela, we'll award fiction, documentary, and animation. And specifically to encourage local production, within the same short film section, for the first time we'll award the best short film from each Venezuelan region. This means this year we'll specially recognize local talent from the venues in Caracas, Maracaibo, Calabozo, Ciudad Bolívar, Ciudad Guayana, Mérida, Margarita, Lechería, and La Victoria. In Argentina, Colombia, Spain, the USA, and the Dominican Republic, we'll also award the best fiction short film from each country, respectively.
In a different approach, the music video section will award the best international ELCO music video, a competition where all competitors from ELCO 2025 countries will meet and be judged.
#LOVEISLOVE Festival is a film festival, specializing in short films of LGBT + themes; supporting and promoting creative expressions of emerging and internationally consolidated filmmakers.
The first edition of the #LOVEISLOVE Festival will take place from August 22nd to 24th, 2019, based in the Ex Convent of Guadalupe of the Miguel Hidalgo Delegation, Mexico City.
Greek mythology Gelos is the divine personification of laughter, the most welcome of the gods, always owes its success to some novel subterfuge. This deity favourably and affectionately accompany everywhere the person who arouses and enacts his laughter, and he will never allow you to grieve in mind, but will implant continual joy on your countenance with his sunny elegance.
We hope you will join us in a days full of fun and endless laughs! We will highlight comedy short and feature films, web series, TV episodic, filmed sketch comedy, Dark Comedy, music video and animation with the goal of screening the best comedic content from around the world for a wide audience! Our dual emphasis is on “discovering” great comedic talent with the purpose of promoting it to both the entertainment industry and the Moscow public, as well as, showcasing the works of seasoned professionals and well-known stars. We are proud to showcase, connect and promote talented comedy filmmakers from all over the world.
Globale Uruguay is an autonomous collective that generates spaces for debate through the dissemination of documentary films.
Committed to the present, we organize an annual festival to support the different struggles that pursue an emancipatory horizon.
We intend to strengthen links with other social organizations to generate debates and share materials and different experiences.
We want to participate in the construction of a critical thinking that visualizes the effects of capitalist globalization and forms part of the reflections and struggles of the movements that everywhere resist the attacks of this system.
Globale has its origin in Berlin -Germany- where it has been held annually since 2003, an initiative that has been extended to other cities such as Warsaw -Polonia-, Montevideo -Uruguay- and since 2011 in Rio de Janeiro -Brazil- and Bogotá -Colombia.
ISFFI is being organised by a charitable non profit organisation- Vikas India Trust, whose mission is to cultivate and promote the art and science of film through education and audience participation.
ISFFI Director being himself a filmmaker and also Director of India's oldest film Association (IMPPA) Indian Motion Picture Producers Association since 2010 has taken the initiative along with the group of passionate filmmakers.
It is a very sincere and humble attempt to add our expertise of film making and distribution to provide another unique platform for younger generation filmmakers.
ISFFI is being celebrated in Mumbai the film capital of India Bollywood, also the financial capital of India, the home of topmost Industrialists, of top Film actors, producers, Investors and distributers. The filmmakers will have a great chance to interact with these film fraternity during festival event.
India International Film Festival is being organised by group of active filmmakers through a charitable non profit organisation, Vikas India Trust, whose mission is to cultivate and promote the art and science of film through education, audience participation and cross cultural cinema experience. Our principal objective is to enrich, to educate, to entertain, to initiate cultural dialogue and celebrate cinematic experience.
Pune being very close to the film capital of India, Bollywood Mumbai and Pune a vibrant, buzzing with youth , a cultural educational technological centre of India where there is a culmination of producers Investors Distributers and renowned film personalities. Which will present the submitters with future opportunities to advance their films and further careers.
