Horizons IA – Punta del Este International AI Film Festival – celebrates its first edition from May 27 to 31 at The Grand Hotel in Punta del Este (Maldonado, Uruguay). This new international event is dedicated to exploring the creative possibilities of cinema made with artificial intelligence and the new forms of storytelling that emerge from the dialogue between artists and generative technologies.
Over five days, Horizons IA will present a selection of short films from around the world, along with talks, meetings, and the participation of national and international guests linked to cinema, technology, and digital arts.
With free admission, the festival seeks to become an open space for discovering new perspectives, experimenting with the audiovisual languages of the future, and connecting creators who are expanding the horizons of cinema in the age of artificial intelligence.
Born in 2009 in order to highlight and encourage artistic expression, film and cultural identity of the region. Promoting the permanence of cultures and strengthening the cultural policies of the city as a mechanism for citizen and community participation; thus supporting the development, exhibition and dissemination of film and the visual arts in the city of Guadalajara de Buga and Valle del Cauca; proposing dialogue between the various expressions of art today and their participation mechanisms mainly in the youth population. This festival seeks to create spaces for discussion, artistic and audiovisual creation in a participatory manner.
The festival became the first event of its kind in this area, for display, training, capacity building and collective on the subject of film and visual arts in Guadalajara de Buga and Valle del Cauca.
Participate and showcase your animation talent!
Universidad Europea's Creative Campus is celebrating the second edition of its animated short film festival: a space for students and professionals to share their best work, compete for awards, and connect with the industry.
Who can enter?
Student
Students over 16 years of age or alumni graduating in 2024.
Note: Students must provide a current enrollment or 2024 graduation certificate. All categories must present a promotional teaser and poster of the work.
Professional
Members of the animation or video game industry
Format
MP4 or MOV (H.264) with HD 1080p resolution.
Language
They can be in any official language of Spain, with Spanish subtitles.
Theme
Free, as long as they respect the principles of non-discrimination, hatred, xenophobia, or explicit sexual content.
Rights
They must be original, and the author must own the exploitation rights. Accepted: Narrative and experimental short films, music videos, promotional pieces, video game cinematics.
Restriction
The use of generative artificial intelligence in the production of short films is not permitted.
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL FILM FESTIVAL OF CATALONIA has as his basic aims the dissemination and promotion of films that contribute to the knowledge of world cinema Social Film, on Human Rights and Civil Rights
Film/ Feature Film/Short Film/Documentory/music vedio/Animation/VFX/CGI/2D/3D/other
All Entertainment Catagory Accept.
The 2nd Miradas Mayores Film Festival is a space for dialogue, promotion, and reflection among filmmakers, their works, and audiences, with the aim of exploring the many ways of experiencing aging in contemporary society. Through the audiovisual medium, the festival seeks to bring forward stories that highlight the diversity of experiences, life paths, and realities of older adults, promoting a more human, inclusive, and respectful perspective on aging.
With a decentralized approach, Miradas Mayores brings cinema to different communities and regions, transforming each screening into an opportunity for community engagement and cultural participation.
The festival aims to challenge stereotypes that associate old age solely with dependency, illness, or unproductiveness, instead highlighting older adults as active participants in social, cultural, and community life.
Miradas Mayores is an invitation to build new narratives about aging, fostering recognition of the rights, dignity, and valuable contributions of older adults.
Through cinema, the festival seeks to contribute to a more inclusive society, where people's experience, memory, and diversity are valued as an essential part of our collective identity.
All is Prompt is an international online short film festival dedicated to films created with artificial intelligence. This AI short film festival invites filmmakers, artists, and creators from around the world to explore new forms of audiovisual storytelling using AI tools.
The festival was born in a moment of transformation for cinema. For years, many creators relied on grants, open calls, juries, and lengthy validation processes that left more projects out than in. Meanwhile, technology was quietly advancing. Today, AI filmmaking tools make it possible to transform ideas, prompts, and screenplays into cinematic imagery.
Today, an idea can become a scene.
Today, a text can become a film.
Today, the act of directing can begin with a simple instruction: a prompt.
Todo es Prompt arises at this turning point in AI-driven cinema, where creators can produce audiovisual works without the traditional industry barriers. The festival celebrates AI-generated cinema, ranging from experimental works to narrative short films created with AI video generation and AI storytelling tools.
We invite filmmakers, digital artists, and experimenters worldwide to submit their AI short films and join an international community exploring the future of cinema.
We believe in human authorship amplified by artificial intelligence tools.
We believe that technology does not replace vision: it expands it.
We do not wait for our turn to create.
We do not ask for permission to make our cinema.
Join us for the 12th New York Short Film Festival (NYSFF), a week-long celebration of outstanding independent short films from America and across the globe!
Taking place November 6-12, 2026, at the iconic Cinema Village in Manhattan, this milestone edition promises an unforgettable showcase of creativity, innovation, and storytelling. NYSFF champions emerging filmmakers, providing a platform for bold, diverse voices in cinema.
The "Gulf of Naples Independent Film Festival" is an event intended to serve as an international showcase for films of various types and gender, in order to promote and spread the art, auteur and experimental films that are not released in cinemas playhouses, to foster dialogue between different experiences and to create a meeting point for the support of cinema culture.
Submissions are now open for another edition of the Primeiro Plano Film Festival of Juiz de Fora and Mercocities.
You can submit your short film to the festival's competitive sections until July 31.
The Regional Competition is open to filmmakers from Juiz de Fora and the surrounding region. The Mercocities Competition is dedicated to first-time directors from across Brazil and South American countries.
In addition to screening selected films, the festival continues to encourage new productions and strengthen the independent audiovisual sector.
The festival takes place in November and features a diverse programme including film screenings, workshops, panel discussions, networking events, and special activities for both audiences and filmmakers.
Follow our social media channels to stay up to date with all the latest news about this year's edition.
Submit your film and become part of the history of Primeiro Plano Film Festival!
The Utebo International Film Festival was created with the goal of promoting film culture, creating connections between filmmakers and other audiovisual professions, and establishing the town of Utebo as an annual meeting point, both for them and for the local residents. A town of Cinema, a united community.
The Films 26 Festival – ALCE Awards is a short film competition that celebrates emerging talent and creativity in short-form cinema. Running from May 2 to October 18, 2026, the festival brings together creators, industry professionals, and the public in a space where stories—told in just a few minutes—make a powerful impact.
Through screenings, gatherings, and various activities, the ALCE Awards recognize excellence across the different disciplines of short filmmaking, showcasing new voices and championing narrative and visual innovation.
The festival was founded with the aim of bringing cinema closer to the public and serving as a meeting point for the industry and the audience, highlighting the power of the short film format to move, surprise, and provoke reflection.
Many Awards Many Official Selections, Many Categories... CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI International Film Festival's main objective is to provide the opportunity for filmmakers from all over the world to excel, and to have the best work selected and showcased in a celebration of cinema, as well as to give filmmakers a platform to network amongst fellow professionals and cinematic artists. CSIFF is looking forward to fostering these relationships and to helping extraordinary filmmakers get their projects seen by global audiences. CSIFF unites cinematic, cultural, educational more over Inspirational objectives by presenting its film discoveries.
About CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji
The CSIFF is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative films while fostering the next generation of filmmakers. It is a strong advocate for social change, and encourages cultural diversity and understanding between nations. It strives to foster the movie art of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema and promoting meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.
The CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the spirit, passion, and skill of the best new filmmakers from around the world for audiences around the world.
We are also including and actively supporting not only the finest examples of classic moviemaking, but works that are experimental, breaking ground in new non-narrative forms and crossing over into the video arts. All films will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the best in each category will be chosen to screen at the festival. A jury of industry professionals will then view the finalists and choose the winning selections.
Filmmakers planning on attending should notify the film festival as soon as possible, so their names may be listed in the scheduled program at the venue where their film will be shown. https://csiff.buddhafest.in/
From the FCIA 1503 Film Festival we are happy to tell you that we are going to start our first edition in the great Villa de Aranda de Duero (Burgos), giving shape to our illusion of being able to bring Culture and Cinema closer, and to be able to give also meet those young directors and actors.
From the El Mostacho association we send you our most affectionate greetings.
The IA Play International Film Festival is an international audiovisual competition comprising a series of festivals where works from around the globe compete in iconic international cities, bridging culture, technology, and creativity. Featuring local screenings, audience voting, a professional jury, and a Grand International Final, the festival aims to promote, recognize, and reward audiovisual creations that explore new forms of expression emerging from the use of artificial intelligence.
The festival invites creators, digital artists, filmmakers, and experimenters worldwide to participate with works that investigate, experiment with, or integrate artificial intelligence tools at any stage of the creative process—including, among others, image generation, animation, script development, editing, sound design, or narrative construction.
From November 3 to 8, Anfibia Festival turns Madrid into the capital for discovering new narratives and exploring the creative potential of adaptation.
#AnfibiaFest is a space for connecting audiences with new creative universes and diverse origin formats.
The registration period for audiovisual works will be open from July 22 to August 24, 2026. Fiction or non-fiction audiovisual works, series, and animations adapted from any narrative format—such as novels, short stories, graphic works (such as comics or manga), stage plays, video games, journalistic reports, digital content, or other narrative media—are eligible to participate.
The fifth edition of Anfibia Festival will take place in November 2026 in Madrid.
Short films, either animation or live action, in the science fiction, fantasy or horror categories are desired. Films are typically from 5 to 15 minutes (as long as 20 minutes)in length.
Currently we plan on a live event from May 30-31, 2027 in downtown Baltimore, much like the events we have had for the past 50+ years.
Rather unusual, rather trapped on the border between dream and reality, silent film has for several years found affirmation at the PSSST! Silent Film Festival organised by the Trešnjevka Cultural Centre.
PSSST! is a unique film festival presenting the art of silent film in a new, exciting and entertaining way. This Festival is a rare gem on the cultural scene which lacks initiatives offering artists the opportunity to try out their skills in this specific (and demanding!) artistic form.
The event confirms its status as a festival in the classic sense of the word through its competition programme in which contemporary “silent” titles are screened to an audience. The best film in the competition is awarded the Brcko Grand Prize, the official award of PSSST! named after the main character of Croatia’s first feature film Brcko in Zagreb made back in 1917.
But how many real silent films are made today, someone may rightfully ask? Certainly very few are made (although we can’t say none), and so we could ask the question – what is the point of the competition, what is the point of the Brcko Grand Prize? But the concept of this festival should be understood as a media experiment, created in the spirit of heterogeneity and the visual wealth of silent film. Authors can send films to PSSST! which they think could function and communicate even after we remove the original sound, and our festival is responsible for providing high-quality sound support, live music which will accompany the silent projection. Our expert improvisers cover a range of different genres and their hybrids – from rock via classical to jazz and electronic music, providing the audience with an interesting synaesthetic experience. This of course creates a film completely different from the original from which we removed the soundtrack, which is precisely why PSSST! is so exciting.
Apart from the competition programme, the Festival screens a rich selection of film classics from the golden era of silent film.
Silent film, with an expressive musical accompaniment, will lull you into a state of reverie. Its hypnotic power is not destroyed by the rude reality of the spoken word and so it becomes clear that dreams and silent films have much in common – they both deal with simple, direct emotions and action, such as love, hate, conflict or escape. This dimension of silent film emphasises its undying charm.
If you wish to open the door to a different world of unusual poetics again this year, come to PSSST! where the art of silent film lives on.
