Blog: Film festivals

Unique Location :

ONE Country ONE Film is a unique festival festival taking place in two different venues located in the same beautiful countryside area in the heart of France.

Unique Concept :

Every film selected is the sole representative of its country in each of the following categories : Feature Films, Short Films, Children Films. Every year a Country is honored and several films are selected from that country. Since its creation in 2010, ONE Country ONE Film has selected 120 countries.

Send your film (short or feature, animation, fiction, experimental or documentary) and be the only one to represent your country at ONE Country ONE Film 2027 -18th edition!!

In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.

It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is insofar as it proposes an interpellation to the little-known memoirs, disturbing present and (our) future in suspension. FIDBA will then be an approach not only among audiences, filmmakers and thinkers linked documentary but also in relation to the always stimulating possibilities that allow you to open this space to other border and heterodox expressions framed inside of what we would call "non-fiction" and that encourage us to dialogue with contemporary expressions that go beyond even the scope of the film.

FIDBA will pay special attention to those filmmakers for whom cinema is linked to a form of research and knowledge of the world that surrounds us as to the portrait of human beings whose conditions of life, in certain historical and social contexts, allow you to ask us about our. It is, therefore, authors who not only reflect reality but also ethical and moral relationship which involves filming the other.

FIDBA aims to become a point of support for filmmakers seeking to widen the perception of reality and to films which represent a step forward in the effort to understand it and anticipate it. So, it will make focus on films whose aesthetic originality put at risk not only an idea of the documentary but also a thought about the same film and its possibilities. Since this focus implies questioning the status of the real front of the camera or of the film in relation to reality, this is as inseparable from the mediations that arises.

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.

The "Aniwow" is the core activity of China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival, which aims to encourage young animators to adhere to their artistic ideals, discover and cultivate new animators, cartoonists and new media artists with creative passion, original spirit and good artistic cultivation. The festival builds a bridge for students from different countries who love animation to exchange ideas, discuss academics and pass on friendship on a larger scale and at a higher level, and creates a new platform for international animation academic exchange with multiple interactions.

The competition comprises four categories: Animation, Comics and Picture Books, Digital Art, and Digital Games. The jury will comprise renowned professionals and scholars in animation, comics, digital art and games, as well as senior representatives of relevant institutions. Works will be assessed on their ideas, originality and artistic quality, in accordance with the principles of fairness and impartiality.

Tlanchana Fest, Film and Digital Art Festival is realized by Tlanchana Cultura Audiovisual A.C., in order to create a space for exhibiting the emerging talents of Mexico and the world, by uniting the elements that forms the basis of cinematographic creation in conjunction with the new media and digital art.

The eleventh Edition of Tlanchana Fest will be held from July 7 to 11, 2027 and will feature a series of screenings, conferences and workshops, as well as facilities and other activities that will be carried out virtually and in person and that will serve as an incentive for the work in cinematographic and digital art matters.

MADE is a project to promote corporate heritage, aimed at enhancing its historical memory and operational dimension through the use of a variety of languages and innovative forms. It focuses on the world of manufacturing, understood as an expression and synthesis of the culture of work, and aims to represent, narrate and disseminate the cultural heritage of business in a perspective that extends from the local area to international dialogue.

This year, for the 44th Rencontres du Cinéma Latino-Américain, a festival organized by the association France Amérique Latine in Bordeaux, The cinema team would like to propose for the 5th consecutive year an official competition of short films.

These 10 films selected by the employees and volunteers of the association will be presented to students who will award different prizes and use the short films as a study support.

The scholar work on and with the short films will start in september: the final answer of your participation in the official competition will be given at the beginning of december.

The Award winners will be notified after the Festival is concluded.

Information
The Festival reserves the right to place entries into alternative categories if they feel it is to the benefit of the title. Each submission must be entered separately and it cannot be withdrawn.

By submitting, you agree not to withdraw your film from the festival after it has been accepted by the selection committee. If your film is selected, the festival holds the right to show your film at a time and date of its choosing.

Project Drama is a curated online destination for compelling independent drama films from around the world. We showcase powerful stories, memorable performances and films that deserve to find a wider audience.

We welcome drama films that have completed their festival circuit, were overlooked by traditional festivals, or are ready to reach viewers online. Selected films will be featured on the Project Drama YouTube channel and supported with professional packaging and promotion.

Project Drama — where great drama lives.

RTV International Film Festival celebrates bold, original and emerging voices in filmmaking from around the world. Founded in Canada, the festival welcomes independent filmmakers, students and creators working across traditional and new forms of visual storytelling.

The inaugural 2026 edition will be held online. Selected films will receive recognition through RTV Official Selection, Finalist and Winner laurels, with selected projects also eligible to be featured on RTV.com for international discovery and promotion.

CIFF – Cittadella International Film Festival is an international film event held in the stunning medieval town of Cittadella (Padua, Italy)—a walled city rich in history, culture, and architectural beauty.

The festival is dedicated to promoting independent cinema from around the world, giving space to emerging filmmakers and established artists who craft stories that move, challenge, and inspire.

The prestigious Malta’s Tower Award (Premio Torre di Malta) is the festival’s top honor, awarded to the film that best exemplifies narrative innovation, visual impact, and artistic excellence. The award is named after the historic "Torre di Malta," a medieval landmark that stands as a symbol of the city’s cultural heritage.

CIFF welcomes short films, documentaries, feature films, experimental cinema, and animation, across all genres and languages. Screenings take place in spectacular historic venues, offering a cinematic experience deeply rooted in place and tradition.

CIFF is more than a festival—it’s a hub for exchange, with masterclasses, industry panels, Q&A sessions, and networking opportunities designed to connect creators and audiences worldwide.

LIVE SCREENINGS August 13-15 2027

“Actors must act, writers must write, filmmakers must make films… directors, producers, and audiences will come. That’s Entertainment.”

BRIFF – Bistrița Romania International Film Festival is now open for submissions for its 5th edition, taking place in August 2027 in Bistrița, Romania.

BRIFF continues its collaboration with ArtCastle Festival, a celebration of music, exhibitions, workshops and poetry held at the historic Teleki Castle, while remaining dedicated to bringing cinema into vibrant, unconventional and atmospheric spaces.
Over the past four editions, BRIFF has welcomed filmmakers from around the world and created opportunities for their films to be discovered and presented to audiences in unique locations.
Beyond the main festival screenings, BRIFF has also presented retrospective screenings of outstanding films from previous editions at venues including Gallery Garden, Soho Music Hall, the County Art Museum, and Ivory Restaurant & Lounge.
For 2027, our commitment remains the same: to discover distinctive voices, powerful stories and films that deserve to be seen — not only during the festival, but also through year-round screenings and special events.

All selected films will receive official BRIFF laurels.
Award-winning films and filmmakers will receive official Winner laurels and a Certificate of Achievement.
We welcome filmmakers, directors, producers and film teams from around the world to submit their work and become part of the 5th edition of BRIFF.

Submit your film and join us in Bistrița, Romania, August 13–15, 2027.

The Ibiza-based cultural association Mal del Cap, Cultura Mal Dita is opening the call for entries for short films competing as part of the “12th Mal del Cap International Short Film Festival”, one of the activities included in the “12th Mal del Cap Festival, Narratives Mal Dites”, which will take place in Eivissa from 28 November 2026 to 20 March 2027.

The “12th Mal del Cap International Short Film Festival”, hereinafter referred to as the Short Film Festival, will take place from 15 to 20 March 2027 in different cultural venues across the island.

The submission period will run from 7 September to 11 October 2026, both dates inclusive, and is open to creators from all over the world. Works must be submitted in digital format and may be fiction, documentary or animation.

All works will initially be submitted to the Official Competition Section. Once the submission period has ended, the Festival Organisation and its Selection Committee will determine which works are selected and, according to their characteristics, which sections they may be screened in and which awards they may be eligible for.

“Once again, we are looking for bold stories and ways of telling them that break away from the conventional, works that connect with people and are not afraid to experiment,” explains Pedro López, vice-president of Mal del Cap and co-director of the event. “This festival is an open space for free creativity, for sharing and for building connections between the most underground proposals on the international scene.”

Once again, this festival, which began in 2014 and is one of the longest-running festivals in the Pityusic Islands, features several sections and awards, with a total of €900 in prize money: the 1st Official Competition Award, the Youth Section Award — awarded by young students from Ibiza —, the Sebas Parra Award for the best socially themed short film — courtesy of the La Guerrilla Comunicacional association from Girona —, the Malalt Award — reflecting the association’s wildest spirit —, the Best Catalan-language Short Film Award, and the Audience Award.

For more information about the rules, technical requirements and submission form, please visit the official website at www.maldelcap.com or contact festival@maldelcap.com

THE DATES ARE APPROXIMATE, THE DEFINITIVE DATES FOR THE FESTIVAL CELEBRATION WILL BE COMING SOON

inDOCumentari is a film festival fully dedicated to the documentary genre, held in the city of Sabadell. Its mission is to promote and showcase documentary cinema as a tool for artistic expression, social reflection, and critical observation of contemporary reality.

The festival presents a diverse selection of short and feature-length documentaries from around the world, fostering cultural exchange and dialogue among filmmakers, audiences, and audiovisual professionals.

The Short Short Story Film Festival is a competitive international festival of films that tell a story in under six minutes.

For 2026, the 19th edition of the festival returns with a unique closed event. The festival celebrates brevity in film-making, with films from across the globe, both live-action and animated.

The festival consists of two programs, Heartstrings and Headtrip, each with a distinctive tone yet wide-ranging styles and topics.

Festival exclusively in Spanish.

FilmAmo Awards – International Independent Feature Film Festival is an international online festival dedicated to independent feature films, with a special focus on genre cinema and hybrid storytelling.

The festival is part of the FilmAmo ecosystem, a platform and community devoted to discovering, sharing and promoting cinema. FilmAmo is an international social network for cinema, bringing together over 1 million film lovers, film influencers and cinema communities worldwide.

FilmAmo Awards aims to create a concrete bridge between independent films, audiences and new distribution opportunities, offering visibility to works from all over the world with a strong cinematic identity, a distinctive voice and a real potential to connect with viewers.

The Official Selection is dedicated to international independent feature films and will be divided into five competitive sections, each corresponding to a major genre area. The festival welcomes horror, thriller, crime, science fiction, fantasy, independent drama, comedy, romance, dark comedy, hybrid works and films that do not easily fit into a single category.

FilmAmo Awards is not intended to be only a symbolic recognition, but a path of discovery, promotion and possible distribution. Selected films will be presented to the FilmAmo community through a dedicated online festival window, while category winners may access a FilmAmo Distribution Opportunity: the possibility of entering an On Demand distribution path on FilmAmo Watch, according to terms to be agreed with the rights holders.

The festival is addressed to producers, directors, distributors, sales agents and independent filmmakers looking for a context capable of giving value to their films not only in front of a jury, but also in front of a real, active and engaged audience.

The first edition will take place mainly online, with a final awards event planned in a cinema in Rome, one of the world’s most iconic cities for cinema, art and culture. The specific venue will be announced at a later stage.

Where independent films meet their audience.

The 3rd Seoul Hangang International Film Festival (SHIFF) is an international short film festival held in Seoul, South Korea.

SHIFF aims to discover and introduce emerging filmmakers and distinctive short films from around the world. The festival celebrates creative storytelling, cinematic originality and diverse artistic perspectives through an international competition and curated screening programs.

The 3rd edition welcomes short films from filmmakers of all nationalities and provides an opportunity for selected films to be presented to audiences and film professionals in Seoul.

We invite filmmakers from around the world to participate in the 3rd Seoul Hangang International Film Festival.

Todo es Prompt is an international online film festival for short and feature films created with artificial intelligence. This AI 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 at a moment of transformation in cinema. For years, many creators depended on funding, open calls, juries, and lengthy validation processes that left more projects out than in. Meanwhile, technology was quietly advancing. Today, AI filmmaking tools allow ideas, prompts, and screenplays to be transformed into cinematic visuals.

Today an idea can become a scene.
Today a text can become a movie.
Today the act of directing can begin with a simple instruction: a prompt.

Todo es Prompt emerges at this turning point in AI-generated cinema, where creators can produce audiovisual works without traditional industry barriers. The festival celebrates cinema made with AI, from experimental works to narrative short films created using AI video generation and AI storytelling tools.

We invite filmmakers, digital artists, and experimenters worldwide to submit their AI short and feature films and join an international community that is exploring the future of cinema.

We believe in human authorship amplified by artificial intelligence tools.

We believe technology does not replace vision: it expands it.

We don't wait for our turn to create.

We don't ask for permission to make our cinema.

IA Play International Film Festival is an international audiovisual competition made up of a network of festivals where, each year, audiovisual works from around the world compete in iconic international cities, connecting culture, technology and creativity. Through local screenings, audience voting and a professional jury, together with an International Grand Final, the Festival aims to promote, recognize and reward audiovisual creation that explores new forms of expression arising from the use of artificial intelligence.

The Festival invites creators, digital artists, filmmakers and experimenters from around the world 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.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

The purpose of the IA Play International Film Festival is to provide a competitive platform for the exhibition, dissemination and evaluation of audiovisual works that incorporate artificial intelligence as a relevant element of their creative proposal. It also seeks to foster development, innovation and reflection on the use of new technologies within the audiovisual industry.

The Festival is conceived as an audiovisual, cultural, artistic, industry and educational platform aimed at supporting new talent and promoting emerging works internationally.

Following the success of its inaugural edition, the D Golden Protagonist Short Film Festival proudly returns for its second year, continuing its mission of bringing filmmakers together in a spirit of collaboration, creativity, and mutual support. More than just a festival, D Golden Protagonist is a platform where emerging and established filmmakers can connect, share their work, exchange experiences, and celebrate the art of storytelling. We believe that the growth of the film industry depends on a strong and supportive community, where artists inspire one another and create opportunities together.

For this second edition, the festival is introducing two exciting new categories. The first is Premiere Short Films, dedicated exclusively to films making their official debut at our festival. This category aims to celebrate fresh storytelling and provide filmmakers with a distinguished platform to unveil their work to audiences for the very first time. The second new category is Films Qosra bil-Malti, created to recognise and promote films produced in the Maltese language. Entries in this category are not required to include English subtitles, encouraging authentic Maltese storytelling and supporting the growth of local cinema while preserving and celebrating our linguistic and cultural identity.

Together, these additions reinforce our commitment to championing both new voices and Maltese filmmaking, while continuing to foster a welcoming environment where filmmakers support, inspire, and learn from one another.