Jha Jha International Film Festival brings to its audience, acclaimed documentary works from across the world of different region. Audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away.
From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #JhaJhaIFF brings the Nouthern and Southern hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders. The focus is to showcase unseen stories from across the regions to our viewers.
The Festival Napoleon is held at one of Paris's most iconic movie theaters, the Cinéma Club de l'Étoile. Located at the corner of Champs Élysées Avenue, this movie theater is right at the corner of the Arc de Triomphe. The film submission is intended to be awarded at the in-person ceremony in February 2027. All film types and languages are welcome. We will screen several of the awarded films.
Welcome, filmmakers, to the Festival Napoleon of Paris. We are excited about our fourth edition. The award ceremony will also honor prominent figures in the cultural world.
The Film Festival was created by David Serero, who has produced film festivals worldwide for over 10 years.
IMPORTANT: The Festival Napoleon is in partnership with the City of Paris.
India’s rich artistic and cultural heritage has always found a powerful voice through cinema. As a universal language, film connects cultures, preserves stories, and inspires generations across the world.
HIFA International Film Awards (HIFA), launched in 2026, is an international platform dedicated to celebrating cinematic excellence and discovering new voices in global cinema. The festival brings together filmmakers, film professionals, critics, students, and cinema lovers from around the world to honor creativity, storytelling, and innovation.
HIFA supports independent and emerging filmmakers by providing recognition, visibility, and opportunities for cultural exchange. Along with film screenings, the festival features discussions, workshops, and masterclasses focused on filmmaking and film appreciation.
We invite the global film community to be part of HIFA International Film Awards and celebrate the art of cinema beyond boundaries.
The Girona Independent Film Festival is a platform for directors and authors of independent fiction feature films without a distributor. The festival aims to promote these productions by providing an opportunity for their exhibition and commercial distribution.
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As part of Multicultural Youth Leadership Day, Utah high school students in grades 9–12 are invited to participate in a short film competition focused on this year’s theme: Tell Your Story, Shape Your Future.
Students are encouraged to create a short video (3–5 minutes) that shares something about their story — their culture, family, community, challenges, goals, or experiences that have shaped who they are and who they want to become. The goal of the film competition is to give students a platform to share their voice, reflect on their experiences, and inspire others.
Finalist videos will be shown during Multicultural Youth Leadership Day at the Utah State Capitol on May 11.
Film Topics
Students may choose to create a short film about topics such as:
• A challenge you have overcome
• A person who inspired you
• Your culture, family, or community
• A problem you want to help solve
• What leadership means to you
• How your story has shaped your future
Students are encouraged to be creative.
Films may be interviews, personal stories, documentaries, spoken word, animation, or other creative storytelling formats.
Vltava Short Film Festival is an international annual film festival based in the heart of Prague, Czech Republic. Dedicated to discovering bold storytelling and emerging cinematic voices, Vltava Shorts serves as a prestigious gateway for independent filmmakers, students, and visual artists to showcase their work in one of Europe’s most iconic cultural capitals.
Hosted under the newly established festival domains www.ki-filmfestival.eu and www.ai-filmfestival.eu, the event creates a unique platform bringing together national and international filmmakers, technology enthusiasts, and lovers of the arts.
From Wednesday through Sunday, AI-assisted films from around the world will be presented, ranging from short experimental works to feature-length productions of 5 to 60 minutes. The festival is conceived as both a complement to and an extension of the Biberach Film Festival, offering a vibrant space for dialogue, curiosity, and innovation.
“Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we tell stories at an extraordinary pace,” says Corinna Palm, theatre director, film enthusiast, and owner of the Stadtbuchhandlung. “With the AI Film Festival, we want to demonstrate that technology and art are not opposites, but forces that can inspire and enrich one another.”
The festival was initiated by Palm together with Uli Stöckle, film producer and filmmaker.
The curator is Marcel Barsotti, one of Europe’s pioneering AI filmmakers and an acclaimed film composer.
The festival will be hosted and moderated by Tobias Meinhold, former chairman of the Biberach Film Festival.
Dokumentala was born to show, through the language of cinema, the transforming power of support between people.
That is why the thematic axis of the proposals to the competition will be to make visible support relationships that can occur in society and that generate positive changes in people, in groups and in municipalities.
Argia Fundazioa, opens the Call for the SIX Edition of the dokuMentala 2022 Festival.
Argia Fundazioa is an entity that supports people with a diagnosis of mental illness to improve their quality of life and the image that society has of this group.
dokuMentala 2025 was born in 2019 to show, through the language of cinema, the transforming power of support between people.
The Call for the Festival for the year 2025 is made public, which will be governed by the rules detailed below.
The Festival Internacional de Cine de León (FICL) is an international film festival held in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, dedicated to showcasing independent cinema, emerging filmmakers, and powerful storytelling from around the world.
Through film screenings, special programs, and conversations with filmmakers, FICL aims to create a vibrant cultural space where audiences and creators can connect through cinema. The festival highlights works that explore diverse perspectives, artistic innovation, and stories that resonate with contemporary audiences.
FICL seeks to strengthen León’s growing cultural scene while providing a platform for Mexican and international filmmakers to share their work with new audiences.
FRAME Film Festival es un festival de cortometrajes itinerante, sin una única ubicación, que se celebrará en la provincia de Tarragona.
El FRAME Film Festival consta de dos fases.
• FASE CLASIFICATORIA
• FASE FINAL
El objetivo principal es difundir y promover la cinematografía en general y el cortometraje en particular, apoyando a las directoras y los directores de cortometrajes y creando un espacio donde puedan dar a conocer sus trabajos.
Pero sobre todo trabajamos para que las y los cineastas se sientan acogidos y vivan la experiencia de visitarnos cómo si estuvieran en familia. LA GRAN FAMILIA DEL CORTOMETRAJE!
Otro motivo es ampliar la oferta de eventos culturales para hacer llegar el cortometraje a a poblaciones que no tengan la oportunidad de disfrutar de nuestro cine en formato CORTO.
En el FRAME Film Festival queremos darle al público que sigue y disfruta los cortometrajes, la oportunidad de decidir sobre la selección de las películas que pasarán a la FASE FINAL para recibir los premios TALENTO FRAME.
The Fine Shortfilm Festival is a non-competitive shortfilm event, hosted in São Paulo, addressed to the works of the new generations of Brazilian filmmakers.
Would you like to discover brand new forms of storytelling? Are you interested in topics such as transmedia, videogames or other innovative media linked with audiovisual field? This is your festival.
The “Piedra del Diablo” Short Film Festival of Parets del Vallès is an annual short film festival that will take place in Parets del Vallès from July 9 to 11, 2026.
The aim of the festival is to promote new talent, bring cinema to new audiences, foster gender equality, and give visibility to different communities, thereby contributing to the enrichment of the country’s cultural and audiovisual landscape.
With this project, we aspire to create a meaningful cultural experience, establish collaborations with other agents in the sector, and consolidate a proposal with continuity and growth.
Casilino Cinema Fest – Visioni Fuori dal Mondo is an independent, experimental and underground film festival held in Rome.
The summer edition takes place at Casilino Sky Park, an open-air arena in the heart of the eastern suburbs — a cultural space dedicated to new languages and youth creativity.
The festival showcases short films, debut features, web series, music videos, short documentaries, animations, video art, mockumentaries, and everything that moves beyond conventional formats.
“Visioni Fuori dal Centro” is not just a geographical reference — it’s an attitude.
It’s a gaze that rises outside institutional, academic, or commercial systems. We value hybrid languages, poetic visions, and raw yet authentic gestures.
The festival is accompanied by live performances, installations, and moments of real exchange with the local community.
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Open to filmmakers from all backgrounds, Casilino Cinema Fest aims to be a cultural space where art meets the street, technique meets instinct, and cinema becomes a collective experience
This is a new film festival established by former staff members of the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, one of Japan’s most historic film festivals.
In 2023, a small-scale precursor to this festival was launched and held in three towns across Hokkaido.
In 2024, it officially launched as the “Hokkaido International Film Festival” and embarked on an ambitious challenge to tour seven towns across Hokkaido.
Over 900 films were submitted from around the world, and carefully selected works were screened at each venue, attracting many film industry professionals.
Following meticulous preparations in 2025, the 2nd Hokkaido International Film Festival received over 1,100 submissions and was held from January to March 2026, touring three towns in Hokkaido.
And now, it has been decided that the 3rd Hokkaido International Film Festival will be held in 2027!
It will take place at three locations across Hokkaido during the beautiful season of May and June.
There is no other film festival in Hokkaido that is held on such a large scale and across such a wide area.
Hokkaido’s breathtakingly beautiful scenery, the warm hospitality of its people, and its delicious cuisine are waiting with open arms for filmmakers from around the world!
El Garaje del Actor is a theatrical space opening up to the audiovisual world. "El Garaje del Cine" was created as a festival designed to bring together filmmakers, audiences, and various figures from the audiovisual industry.
OPEN YOUR MIND
WELCOME to NRFF Dreamers of Dreams. As we embark on a new era of technological and scientific discovery, this festival will spark your imagination and inspire you to think beyond the limitations of everyday life. We are inviting filmmakers to submit shorts and features with a SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, EXPERIMENTAL, SPIRITUAL/PHILOSOPHICAL or a ART/MUSIC theme. This can be a narrative story, a documentary, a dance or music video or, an animation. The festival will take place in London, UK, in April 2027.
NRFF has screened world and UK premieres and films that went on to win an Oscar!
OUR CURATION: ARTISTICALLY-DRIVEN FILMS, INSPIRING STORIES
Film is a unique medium, and NRFF’s mission is to support and champion inspiring, independent artists and storytellers. This includes experimental work, emotional drama, music, dance and emerging talent.
Our festival is built around ARTISTS and their STORIES. By doing so, we aim to establish an international COMMUNITY of inspiring storytellers. We are not interested in following current fashions or being politically divisive. We seek out stories that are genuinely imaginative, emotional and life-affirming. At the heart of what we do is our passion to tell great stories.
PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF REALITY
During the festival we hope to screen a wide variety of stories that celebrate and reflect on the human condition, human invention and imagination, and our desire to explore new and uncharted territory.
Visit our Instagram for highlights of the previous programmes
or go to: www.dreamersfilmfestival.co.uk
The screenlights Film Festival is a dynamic and evolving cinematic celebration now entering its THIRD year. Founded by filmmakers and visionaries Dinkar Jadhav and Omkar Jadhav, the festival aims to provide a platform for both emerging and established filmmakers to showcase their work. With an emphasis on innovative storytelling, diverse genres, and creative expression, the festival is quickly becoming a hub for independent cinema enthusias
Cittador International Film Festival in Vienna is a festival for independent films. It takes place annually over a week and presents international, European, and Austrian feature and short films. CIFF understands film as an expression of a personal vision and promotes independent films outside the mainstream. Another important aspect is the diversity of all genres that CIFF celebrates and showcases.
The Cittador International Film Festival accepts feature films up to 120 minutes and short films up to 30 minutes running time. CIFF is aimed at all filmmakers who love inspiring, high-quality, captivating, original, and imaginative films.
