The Avignon International Short Film Festival Fenêtre Sur Courts aims, in a spirit of friendship and conviviality, to highlight quality short films with a view to promoting cinema and increasing the visibility of short film, to raise awareness among the public, particularly young people, about the process of cinematographic creation through screenings, debates and meetings with authors and professionals.
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)
The CINALFAMA FILM OBSERVATORY, held in a historic neighborhood, emerges as a transformative cultural initiative that strengthens the community network. By showing independent films, the project not only widens access to alternative and innovative narratives but also stimulates cultural engagement among residents, fostering a sense of identity and belonging.
This regular event, which takes place at Museu do Fado Auditorium, becomes a meeting point where generations cross paths, sharing experiences and reflections that transcend mere film viewing. In addition, by being located in a neighborhood with a rich historical heritage, the observatory revitalizes the urban space, attracting visitors and enhancing the appreciation of the local heritage, generating a very positive cultural dynamic
The Cinalfama Film Observatory is a regular cinema competition in January, April, and October.
The winning films of each of the three editions (Jan, Apr, Oct), will be showcased in our annual outdoor cinema event, Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Festival, in July 2025.
Black Oaks Pictures and Materiali Sonori Cinema present the third edition of Sentiero Film Factory, a Festival based in Florence - Tuscany for short films and short screenplays.
Sentiero Film Factory is open to Italian and foreign directors, filmmakers, producers, authors, writers and film school students.
The Festival also offers a market and networking events designed for professionals of the film industry, such as panels, workshops and forums.
VeCine - Social and community film festival, was born with the initiative of promoting the circulation and appreciation of short films of Colombian production with their public exhibition, sowing the seed of cultivating the viewer's gaze and strengthening the formation of audiences, decentralizing the vision of art in the city and circulating the works through vital spaces that allow listening, reflection and community participation of those stories that explore relevant social issues through audiovisuals.
Announcement
In this first version, the festival will be held in the south of the city of Bogotá, Colombia, between February 23 to March 3, 2024, with the support of the Scholarship for the strengthening of cultural and creative projects in the town of Tunjuelito - It's Local Culture Fourth Version.
Registration of audiovisual works for the competition and official selection will be open from Wednesday, January 10, 2024 to Wednesday, January 31, 2024 through the Google Forms registration form https://forms.gle/aNXM7KrhxWDxYME56
Participation categories
Film minutes / short films of 3 to a maximum of 20 minutes in length of any genre (fiction, documentary, animation and/or experimental) completed or released as of January 1, 2021, of Colombian production or directed by Colombian filmmakers / creators, can participate. in any of the following thematic selection categories:
• Conflict, memory, peace and/or reconciliation
• Women and gender.
• Environment and/or climate change.
• Stories of the territory. (Works made, produced or inspired in the town of Tunjuelito)
• Childhood and adolescence. (Works aimed at children: boys, girls and/or adolescents)
Madero City International Film Festival (FICCMA), opens admissions for international producers and filmmakers to submit their short films to the festival's 8th edition, which will take place from November 21 to 24 of 2024.
The International Animal and Environmental Film Festival (FICAA) of Mexico City welcomes you to its 6th Edition, where, as every year, we accept films from all five continents.
Our mission at the Festival is to promote values, causes, and activist struggles through Art, opening various windows of opportunity to showcase the work of talented filmmakers. Throughout the year, we host a variety of cultural events, including Film Debates in partnership with the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (National Polytechnic Institute), Mobile Cinema, and collaborations with government spaces that open their doors for this dissemination.
Winners who accept the terms will have their films featured for one month on IMCINE’s platform “Nuestro Cine MX,” granting them nationwide exposure.
The three themes for this year are:
ANIMAL
ENVIRONMENTAL
FEMINIST CINEMA
We will accept:
Animations
Short Films
Feature Films
Documentaries
Microfilms
Music Videos
As a festival dedicated to raising awareness about Animal and Environmental issues, with this year’s invited cause being "Feminist Cinema," all projects will receive a participation laurel recognizing the art and effort involved, even if they are not part of the final showcase. Additionally, the Official Selection will receive an Official Selection laurel and a diploma sent via email.
Final winners will receive the FICAA 2025 trophy, along with digital laurels and a diploma.
The awards ceremony will take place in December, where guests from various countries and regions of Mexico will gather to collect their statuettes.
Al Este is a festival coming out from the french festival A l'Est du Nouveau. Present in Peru since 2008, the mission of the festival is to promote film culture of the other Europe, that relegated to independent circuits, owning however, an invaluable wealth and tradition. Thus, Al Este seeks to spread the filmography of Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Agenda Brasil is now in its 11th edition and will be held in Milan. Film screenings will take place at Spazio Oberdan, whereas other cultural events will be held in different locations in Milan.
Agenda Brasil is the most important event related to Brazilian culture in Italy. Every year it shows the best of contemporary Brazil through film, music and literature. The program consists in several feature films and documentaries (not yet released in Italy, in original language with Italian subtitles) as well as literary cafés, musical aperitifs, concert, meetings and debates with directors. During the event the public can get closer to Brazilian culture, going beyond any stereotypes.
The CalellaFilmFestival is a festival dedicated to all those Low Budget films of national or international production, with the aim of rewarding and promoting films made with few media but with high artistic value.
The CalellaFilmFestival has two sections:
"Low Budget" section
The selected feature films will compete as best productions of the year in the national or international scope, with an investment of less than 500,000 euros.
Section "Creative Rosebud Awards"
All those productions that throughout the year have stood out for their creativity and originality, both in the field of national and international production, with an investment exceeding 500.00 euros will compete.
Read the bases to register your movie.
The festival will be held from november 2 to 4, 2024 in Calella de Mar (Barcelona) in the Sala Mozart and other rooms attached to the festival. For schedules, passes and more information go to the festival website.
www.calellafilmfestival.com
LIMA ALTERNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is a Peruvian film event that disseminates the best alternative, independent and auteur cinema from all over the world. It invites Lima's audience to discover the current panorama of cinema at a global level in the different filmmaking aspects that are being developed.
The Futbolero World Film Festival seeks to promote football as a space for intercultural dialogue and heritage of humanity, through the meeting of different actors in this social phenomenon. It proposes as axes of work: Audiovisual Media, Conversations, Sports Practice, Literature and Diploma Training.
About the festival:
The International Short Film Festival "Movie Mouse" is an ANNUAL short film competition with an official award ceremony for the winners.
The festival organizers reserve the right to hold the award ceremony in any format, including physically at the venue, online, or as a simple announcement of the results on the festival's website and mailing diplomas and awards to participants.
The festival was created to identify talented filmmakers and promote short films.
The organizers of the festival are the film company "Mouse and Husband production" / https://www.mimproduction.info/
The date of the THIRD SEASON of the festival is January 10-12, 2025*
APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED UNTIL December 01, 2024
, the date of announcement of the results for the stages
THE OFFICIAL SELECTION (LONGLIST), SEMIFINAL (SEMIFINAL) -
December 15, 2024.
*The date and venue of the next festival is indicated on the official website of the film festival and on the application platforms and can be changed by the organizers no later than 12/15/2024
Categories:
Feature films
Animated films
Documentary films
Trailers
Nominations:
1-DRAMA - The best feature film-drama (feature short film in the genre of drama/ melodrama/ psychological drama) lasting from 10 to 40 minutes
2-SUPER-SHORT is the best drama Feature Film (a short feature film in the genre of drama/ melodrama/ psychological drama) lasting up to 10 minutes.
3 - Best ACTION Feature Film (Detective/Horror/Action Short Film) - Category 18+
4- COMEDY - Best Feature Film-Comedy (feature short film in the comedy genre)
5-DOC - Best Documentary (documentary short film of any genre)
6-ANIMATION - The best animated film (animated short film of any genre)
7- DEBUT - The Best feature debut and student Film
8- CHILDREN - Best Short Film for children and teenagers (category 0+)
9- TRAILER - The best trailer of an existing short film (up to 2 minutes in length)
Additional nominations:
Best Director
The best scenario
Best Actor/Actress
Best Cinematography
The best technical solution (special award "KinoMuzH")
The audience voting prize (determined by the number of likes on the poster at 12:00 on the day preceding the day of the Closing Ceremony of the festival - voting takes place on the festival website)
* Submitted projects are reviewed and evaluated by a professional jury consisting of at least three Russian and international experts in the field of cinematography.
Stages:
All films sent by cinematographers are reviewed by the jury members, after which some of them separately in each category are included in the official selection (LONGLIST).
Depending on the number of films that have been officially selected, further selection stages are formed in each category – QUARTERFINAL, SEMIFINAL, final (SHORT LIST), nominees (NOMINEE) for the award, winner (WINNER) - the Grand Prix of the festival.
The organizers of the festival reserve the right to carry out the selection both sequentially in all stages, and skip some of them, depending on the number of participants in each category.
Semi-finalists in each category are invited to the award ceremony (if it is physically held) on the festival's website. All authors who have sent a film to participate in the competition program can also apply to the organizers of the festival to attend the official award ceremony.
The winner of the Grand Prix in each category (the winner in the nomination) is announced from among the nominees. Awarding in additional nominations is at the discretion of the organizers. (The organizers can choose the winners in all or in some categories at their discretion or not choose them at all).
If there is something we all have in common, it is movement. As Akram Khan put it: “Movement is the essential ingredient of how the world continues, or survives.”
When our body’s movement fuses with the cinematographical movement, one of the most original film genres is born: dance film. While words can mislead, the body language does not lie.
Choreoscope is the International Dance Film Festival of Barcelona. A unique event dedicated not only to those passionate about dance, but also to those who enjoy quality cinema. Born in 2013, with three full-house celebrated events, our goal is to promote the strong ties with art in general and with film and dance in particular.
Movies do not know any boundaries. Dance does not either. There is a common language joining them. The universal language of movement. Choreoscope ́s mission is to connect this fascinating language with an audience eager to experience something new, different, something special. Choreoscope Barcelona is the dance film festival of those who go one step further.
SAN BENEDETTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ( Terms, Rules, prizes and motivations can be translated in 22 languages visiting our site https://www.sanbenedettofilmfest.it)
"MAGICSCREENPLAY" ( Terms, Rules, prizes and motivations can be translated in 22 languages visiting our site https://www.sanbenedettofilmfest.it/magic-screenplay/)
We built a festival in total freedom, without any external conditioning. An International Short Film Competition. A window on cinema from a privileged viewpoint: the city of San Benedetto del Tronto. Born in 2017, the SBFF has become one of the leading international events for the Adriatic Riviera and the Piceno region. The events will take place at the Palazzina Azzurra in San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) on Viale Buozzi 14.
"MAGICSCREENPLAY" - (Collateral Event to the SAN BENEDETTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL) was born from the need to combine the scenic, architectural and natural beauties of the Marche Region in syncrasia with the cultural, social heritage and identity need of the places and the human and professional resources that come from them, evolve and hope for an ever-increasing expansion of training, skills and abilities.
The Contest was born within a strategy of discovery and promotion of national and international emerging talents and represents the exclusive context to select, through a Quality Jury, the best pitch, with a predefined theme, to be declined into a consequent script.
After the selection, the one deemed to perform best will be subjected to development through the creation of a short film with a total length of no more than 15 minutes, produced by the Associated Professionals Association of Art & Management "IL SERPENTE AUREO," in collaboration with and with the support of the FILM COMMISSION MARCHE, the MARCHE REGION and under the patronage of the City of San Benedetto del Tronto.
ARTIST'S VISIONS - VISIONS FROM THE WORLD
- " There is no art form like cinema to strike the conscience, shake the emotions and reach the secret rooms of the soul" Ingmar Bergman
- " Life in the depths is completely different from life on the surface and has mysterious and terrifying aspects" Dario Argento
- " I am not an artist but a craftsman" "The heart must mediate between the brain and the hands" Fritz Lang
- " I steal from every single film ever made. If I like things I mix them together. And if people don't like it, then don't go see it.... I steal from everything.... Great artists steal not make homages" Quentin Tarantino
- " No matter where the world goes, even if I can't speak a foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of the earth as my home. "Akira Kurosawa
- " An essential element of all art is risk..." Francis Ford Coppola
- " Cinema is a mode of expression that allows one to express all the nuances of a thing and its opposites..." Catherine Breillat
- " Unlike all other art forms, cinema is able to capture and render the passage of time, to stop it almost to possess it in infinity. I would say that film is the sculpture of time. "Andrei Tarkovsky
- " I am just a storyteller and film seems to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in motion, enhances it ... it is my way of telling a story. "Federico Fellini
- " The art of film can only really exist through a highly organized betrayal of reality" François Truffaut
- " I work with my dreams or nightmares" David Cronenberg
- " If I can't get the characters to talk, then I give up " Quantin Tarantino
- " The poet stretches out his hand to lead us beyond the last horizon, beyond the top of the pyramid, to that land that extends beyond the true and the false, beyond life and death, beyond space and time, beyond reason and fantasy, beyond spirit and matter." Alejandro Jodorowsky
- " Cinema is the 'only art form in which the works move and the viewer remains motionless " Ennio Flaiano
- " Cinema is a cultural industry. Making films also means assuming a social and moral responsibility. Therefore, we should not produce what we can sell, but sell what we want to produce " Franco Cristaldi
- " I think that scandalizing is a right.... " Pier Paolo Pasolini
- " To act is to listen... " Pupi Avati
- " I think the past affects the ability to tell stories" Joel Coen
- " Cinema is beautiful if it can read reality " Ettore Scola
- " Cinema consists of two things: a screen and chairs. The secret lies in filling them both " Roberto Benigni
Festival Ull Nu:
It is a space to encourage, spread and fertilize creativity, art, culture and young talent.
It is a meeting point, exchange and dialogue between young creators coming from all over the Pyrenees and professionals from the film and audiovisual industry.
It is an alternative, original and innovative leisure proposal that aims to promote and bring to Andorra new proposals and audiovisual trends.
It is a unique experience, a festival of cinema and audiovisual.
