Join us April 23–25, 2027 for the 21st West Chester Film Festival! Experience a full weekend of events, parties, pop-ups, workshops, and more in scenic West Chester, PA, just a short ride from Philadelphia.
Films will be shown at our main venue, the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center.
Short films, up to 30 minutes in length, by independent filmmakers from around the world are accepted. Submissions are juried by a panel of industry professionals and winners are chosen according to content, innovation, and technical execution.
The Fest weekend includes Filmmaker Workshops presented by filmmaking professionals, Meet & Greets, networking opportunities, and parties! Known as a Filmmaker Friendly Festival, it is a great way to join a community of filmmakers and celebrate a shared love of short film.
Welcome to the Genoa International Film Festival: where Independent Cinema meets the Italian Riviera!
We are a new, yet ambitious, international film festival, now working on its second edition, born to provide a high-quality platform for independent cinema. We invite you to join us in Genoa - the heart of the beautiful Italian Riviera - for four days of screenings, talks, and networking, all hosted in a historic cinema within the medieval city center.
For our 2027 edition, we are open to short films of any genre (including documentaries and animation), with a maximum runtime of 40 minutes, completed from 2025 onwards, and feature films up to 120 minutes.
We are incredibly proud of the achievements of our inaugural edition: we received over 300 submissions from more than 60 countries and welcomed people from all over the world over the span of three days. The program featured distinguished titles and filmmakers including Pantyhose (Oscar 2026 Shortlist); Ocean of Mothers (from Netflix director Leticia Prisco); I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (winner of the Palm d’Or for Best Short Film) as well as many more short film coming from Clermont-Ferrand, TIFF and other successful film festivals.
At GIFF, we truly care about filmmakers and their work. To show our support, we offer a transparent and straightforward submission model: a single entry allows your film to be considered for every main award category. No more multiple submissions or exorbitant fees. We do our best to stand by your side.
All selected films will be screened during the festival. The director, along qith one additional crew member, will receive full access to all festival events (screenings, networking events and caterign) as well as provided accommodation.
If your project focuses on specific themes — such as Environment, Gender Equality, or Youth & Education — you can submit to the dedicated category to compete for an additional award. This special focus adds an extra opportunity for your work without changing your eligibility for all other festival prizes. In other words: you don’t need to pay twice.
We are also proud to support new talent and our local film community through the Best Student Short and Best Italian Short Film categories. For both, the same rule applies: by entering the specific category, you receive a dedicated spotlight while remaining in the running for every single award the festival offers.
Send us your best work: GIFF is waiting for you!
FRAME-SE Resende is a national pocket film festival focused on boosting, broadcasting, and awarding audiovisual productions created exclusively through mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. The event consolidates itself as a major competitive showcase and a hub for fostering the creative economy, encouraging filmmakers, independent collectives, and producers from all over Brazil to submit their works and compete for recognition on the big screen.The backbone of the project is its National Competitive Showcase, which takes over the professional theaters of Cine Show for 7 weeks of public screenings. There, films compete for outstanding official awards for the best works across various technical and artistic categories, culminating in a glamorous Grand Gala Night complete with a red carpet. Aligned with its role of social impact, the festival actively drives audience development by engaging the region's school ecosystem (both public and private networks). This synergy opens space for the Student Parallel Showcase, an exclusive window that offers students the unique opportunity to experience hands-on production and exhibit their original creations within the official programming of a major film festival.
FRAME-SE Resende is a national pocket film festival dedicated to fostering and rewarding the creativity of filmmakers from all across Brazil through films shot on mobile phones. With a 7-week Competitive Showcase on Cine Show screens and a major awards ceremony at the Gala Night, the festival also drives audience development and cultural inclusion, bringing students from public and private schools to an exclusive Parallel Showcase. It is mobile technology at the service of the power of independent cinema.
Director General's Statement"The smartphone that isolates today will be the lens that connects the filmmaker to recognition and the celebration of their art on the big screen tomorrow." The central focus and raison d'être of FRAME-SE Resende is to reward independent creative excellence and encourage those who produce cinema using the technology they carry in their own pockets. Our main course is the festival itself, its national competitive showcase, and the major awards that celebrate the talent of filmmakers from all over the country. Our great cherry on top is utilizing this driving force to invite schools—regardless of whether they are public or private—and fulfill the indispensable role of audience development. Through a Student Parallel Showcase, we give students the chance to get hands-on and see their creations included in the rigor of a true film festival, while maintaining absolute neutrality and focusing entirely on the transformative power of art.
— Edgar Ziler Freitas, Director General
Baba Yaga International Horror Film Festival (Baba Yaga Horror Film Fest) is an independent international film festival dedicated to showcasing bold and high-quality horror cinema from around the world.
The festival focuses on strong genre storytelling — from atmospheric and psychological horror to intense, audience-driven films. We welcome both arthouse and mainstream approaches, as long as the film delivers a compelling and authentic experience.
The project is built around the idea that horror is a safe space to confront fear:
“Let fears exist only in cinema.”
The festival operates primarily in an online format, featuring quarterly selections and an annual final round. All films are reviewed by the festival team and jury through private screenings.
Selected films will be included in the Official Selection and may be considered for future offline showcase events.
We aim to support filmmakers who are passionate about the genre and open to different forms of horror expression — from minimalistic indie projects to visually striking works that leave a lasting impact.
Asha Ereal Media was founded in the year 2011 by a group of cultural enthusiasts, who make their hobbies available to a wider audience in Acting, Anchoring, Direction, photography and other cultural activities.
We are now one of the leading film festival (CINEMASCOPE AWARDs) in the world. Our motto is to promote talented artists/Filmmakers around the globe through our festival. IISFF provides a platform for Young, Students & Professional Filmmakers to show their talents within a very short time span and express their views & Ideas to the wider audience all over the world as well as they can convey any social message to the society.
INDIAN INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL(IISFF) "CINEMASCOPE" where the various Short Films, Documentaries, Animation Films from the country and the world will be screened and awarded. This year we also have various attractions. This time the number of CINEMASOPE AWARDS is higher than ever, which has given our film festival at the highest level.
The presence of renowned public figures of various cultural aspects will add flavor to this festival.
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We welcome all the dedicated people to join us in our festival and make this festival grand success years by years.
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Algeciras Fantástika is a multidisciplinary cultural event specialized in matters of fantastic nature, suspense, terror and science fiction, organized by Algeciras City Council and the University of Cadiz.
Oaxaca Sports Film Festival 2027 - Where Film and Sports Inspire the World
Welcome to the Oaxaca Sports Film Festival 2027, an international event dedicated to celebrating the power of film to tell the stories that arise from sports.
Based in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, our festival brings together filmmakers, athletes, producers, and lovers of cinema to screen works that explore the discipline, passion, resilience, and social impact of sports on the lives of individuals and communities.
We believe that sports are much more than just competition: they are a tool for transformation, inclusion, identity, and hope. That is why we seek films that inspire, move, and provoke reflection—ranging from widely recognized disciplines such as soccer, boxing, and track and field to emerging and extreme sports, as well as traditional sporting expressions from different cultures.
Our goal is to provide a platform for emerging and established filmmakers from around the world, promoting stories that connect with diverse audiences through the universal language of sports.
Whether your film explores personal growth, teamwork, inclusion, high performance, health, or the challenges athletes face both on and off the field, the 2027 Oaxaca Sports Film Festival is the place to share it.
Hello! We are BARCIFF • Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival, an international film festival with screening events in Barcelona, Spain, and a member of IBERIFF • Iberia Indie Film Festivals. IBERIFF celebrates independent artists and showcases new productions from across the globe in Barcelona (BARCIFF), Madrid (MADRIFF), València (VALÈIFF), Seville (SEVIFF), Lisbon (LISBIFF), and Montpellier (MONTIFF).
BARCIFF shares the mission of its associate festivals in supporting emerging talents, encouraging artistic exploration, fostering networking, promoting cultural exchange, engaging with the local community, and providing a platform to celebrate and showcase the work of independent filmmakers.
Fiction, animation, documentary, and experimental films of any genre or subject are welcome!
Rural FilmFest, member of Green Film Network (GFN) and Pantalla Federation, is an international itinerant film festival, which offers a current overview of international documentary film, fiction and animation in a short, medium and long format related to the rural world, ecology, sustainability and natural and cultural resources. Rural FilmFest is not a common film festival, it is a unique and unrepeatable event. It is a summer camp, with excursions, multi-adventure, geocaching awards ceremony (Yes, you read that right. As a filmmaker you will have to find your trophy at the closing gala via GPS coordinates), international coexistence, dance, party and lifelong friendships. It is the experience of your life and if you attend, you will not want it goes over and you will want to return next year... Just read the reviews to discover the opinions of other filmmakers who have attended the Rural FilmFest. If you have a fiction film, animation or documentary whether it is a short film or a feature film, do not hesitate to submit.
Cinema 4L was created with the intention of bringing the best short format cinema to the smallest towns and rural areas of the Valencian Community.
A Film Festival that selects independent films that would otherwise be inaccessible to the public of these locations.
Outdoor screenings from our 4L with the highest quality, where the audience will decide with their vote the best short film.
ondon ArtHouse Film Festival (LAHFF)
The London ArtHouse Film Festival (LAHFF) is an international combined arts festival dedicated to celebrating independent storytelling, artistic excellence and creative innovation.
Held in London, one of the world's most diverse cultural capitals, LAHFF provides a platform for emerging and established filmmakers, artists and creatives from around the globe to showcase their work, exchange ideas and connect with new audiences.
Now celebrating its 6th Edition, LAHFF continues to champion originality, inclusivity and the power of storytelling through film, photography, music and emerging creative technologies. Guided by the 2027 theme, "Inclusivity – Every Story Matters," the festival embraces diverse voices and perspectives while fostering meaningful cultural dialogue.
Beyond film screenings, LAHFF offers a dynamic programme of educational and industry events, including workshops, presentations, networking opportunities and LAHFF Conversations—an annual series exploring the future of storytelling, creativity and the creative industries.
The festival welcomes submissions across a broad range of categories, including Feature Films, Short Films, Documentaries, Animation, Music Videos, Student Films and AI Films. Every Official Selection is automatically nominated for the LAHFF Awards, with winners revealed exclusively during the Closing Night Awards Ceremony. In recognition of outstanding artistic achievement, the jury may also present Jury Recognition to exceptional works that cannot be included in the official screening programme due to programming limitations.
LAHFF is committed to creating an inclusive, accessible and inspiring environment where creativity flourishes, new collaborations begin and every story has the opportunity to be seen, heard and celebrated.
Every Story Matters.
7th Erotic and Post-Porn Film Showcase of Bogotá
More of a faggot is the one who does not love.
We are Love, we are Counterculture.
Since time immemorial, humanity has felt its emotions on the surface and in a visceral way; we have felt love and hate voraciously toward others and toward ourselves. Wars have been fought for love and crimes have been committed out of hate—hate for what we do not understand and with which we do not agree or have not shared.
As humans, we have shaped the narrative of different periods as we have seen fit; after all, history is written by the winners, and those who win are rarely fair to those who are not on their boat.
Although it seemed that the days of hate, double standards, and intolerance had been left behind, the news and headlines speak to a completely different reality. Increasingly, cases of harassment and hate crimes against members of the LGBTIQ+ community are heard of and witnessed, and worse still, the pressure of traditional powers against us is felt more and more.
While we have to endure harassment and violent behavior disguised as satire or humor, while we have to endure explicit hatred and contempt in their communications, intolerance toward our very existence resurfaces from the darkness where those who once suffered it had managed to banish it, and it takes aggressive and violent form against us, threatening our well-being.
When the heteronormative, patriarchal political and religious world creates laws that exclude a part of the population; when it is frowned upon for two men to walk down the street holding hands and they are confronted by generally conservative, God-fearing adults; when hate crimes are committed against trans people or anyone considered different from the social canon of man or woman, it is necessary that we draw the line and not allow apathy, hatred, and cruelty to continue unchecked toward a future in which exclusion once again becomes the norm, in which loving becomes a crime again.
That is why we call on the excluded, the queer, lesbians, gays, trans people, intersex people, transvestites, drag queens and drag kings… the maricas, hermaphrodites, putos, the members of the alphabet, muff-divers, faggots, butterflies, benders, and many more names we have been called over time,
Come and hang out,
Come and show your way of loving,
Come and let us celebrate the fact that we continue along this path for which many gave their lives, and for which we cannot allow it to have been in vain.
In times of hate, loving is revolutionary.
Murud janjira beach festival (Murud janjira paryatan mahotsav) is held every year in murud janjira.
this festival is celebrated with enthusiasm for last 20 years. This year we are including a film festival for the first time.
this is our effort to take the film festival to the same level as the Murud beach festival.
Janjira International Film Festival will be conducted in the 4th week of December every year at the picturesque and adorable city of Murud - Janjira in Maharashtra, India .being one of the most beautiful tourist destinations, Murud-janjira sets the right arena for JIFF. JIFF welcomes film makers, artists and technical crew, journalists and all those are associated with film industry and film making to come and participate in this festival.
ARS GRATIA ARTIS WORLD FILM FESTIVAL is an exclusive film event organized and administered by the Swedish Creation, Production and Distribution Company Dorobantu Film & Television.
FESTIVAL CONTACT:
Dorobantu Film & Television, Ars Gratia Artis, Box 14, SE-73221 Arboga, Sweden.
E-Mail: film.submission@ars.dorobantu.biz
Telephone: +46 (0)760 880 550
The aim of ARS GRATIA ARTIS WORLD FILM FESTIVAL is to offer its audience a top showcase of exquisite feature films and short films which fit the creative concept Art for the Sake of Art (meaning original and innovative films which do not have commercial entertainment as a main goal but try to bring a serious creative contribution to the development of The Seventh Art).
ARS GRATIA ARTIS WORLD FILM FESTIVAL is a competitive event – offering trophy, diploma, and cash awards.
ALL feature films and short films submitted to the festival (not just the ones selected for a festival participation) will also be considered for possible film sale / distribution agreement proposals – within a parallel selection process (here below called Market Selection), trying to identify artistic films with a high market potential.
ARS GRATIA ARTIS WORLD FILM FESTIVAL will take place in Arboga, Sweden, at the Medborgarhuset Cinema Hall.
The first edition of the festival will be held between 16 and 18 July 2027.
The Reloncaví International Film Festival (FICRELONCAVÍ) is a cinematic event organized by the Fundación Cinematográfica del Territorio Sur de Chile, created with the aim of strengthening the circulation of independent cinema, promoting new perspectives on territories, and contributing to audience development in the Los Lagos Region.
Its first edition will take place from November 12 to 15, 2026, in the city of Puerto Montt, featuring a programme that brings together national and international films, cultural mediation activities, educational initiatives, filmmaker encounters, and community screenings across a variety of cultural and educational venues throughout the region.
FICRELONCAVÍ defines itself as a festival of "Cinema from the Edge", a curatorial approach that brings together films exploring life on the margins: the edge between sea and land, urban and rural environments, memory and the present, peripheral territories and major audiovisual production centers.
Rather than a geographical boundary, the "edge" represents a point of view from which to observe the world. It is a space where stories connected to territorial identities, communities, coastal and island cultures, processes of social transformation, the relationship between nature and society, childhood, memory, cultural heritage, and new ways of inhabiting territories come together.
The festival aims to establish itself as a permanent platform for the promotion of auteur cinema, exchange among filmmakers, cultural decentralization, and audience development, fostering connections between national and international creators and the communities of southern Chile.
NaNo Film Market is the industry section of the NaNo Film Festival 2026, now in its second edition, designed to guide authors and producers from project development through to their encounter with the audiovisual market. The program is structured into two parallel tracks:
- NaNo Development Lab, dedicated to 6 unreleased short films (3 Fiction, 3 Documentary) in the writing phase, featuring intensive training and a pitching day in front of producers and distributors; each selected project may be represented by up to two people, in any combination of director, screenwriter, and producer;
- Industry Showcase, reserved for short films in advanced post-production or already completed (5 in total) seeking festival distribution or rights acquisition from sales agents, buyers, and networks; each selected project is granted a single accreditation.
Participation is required for the full duration of the program: both tracks are preceded by an online Meet To Match session, designed to best prepare participants for meetings and pitches.
SANFIC, Santiago International Film Festival, represents a film platform with educational, cultural, artistic and industrial purposes, as well as a prime symbol of the Chilean capital city and the whole country.
We are celebrating the tenth edition of the Ciutadà Compromés Film Festival, organized by ACICOM.
Faithful to the initial project, we want to bring Valencian audiovisual productions closer to the public, which is why we project on multiple screens counting on the synergies of social entities and organizations. We will have civic and social, institutional and commercial rooms.
We value, with their exhibition, Valencian audiovisual productions, those that bring us a committed look. Our environment, social, territorial, economic, human rights, relationships, etc. is treated in these works. Some audiovisuals with a restless look.
We are a festival away from the red carpet, and more identified with the people and organizations we care about and work to improve society.
The “Memorables Film Festival” is a film festival and competition created with the aim of showcasing and promoting the creation and dissemination of short films about Alzheimer’s and its effects on patients and their families.
In this new edition, the festival broadens its scope to include all neurodegenerative diseases, while maintaining its social mission of raising awareness and sharing knowledge about the impact these conditions have on individuals, families, and society.
It is organized by CIEN (Center for Research on Neurological Diseases) and the Reina Sofía Foundation Alzheimer Center.
CIEN presents the “Memorables Film Festival” as a film festival with the purpose of giving visibility to neurodegenerative diseases and how they affect different aspects of our lives. Likewise, the short film competition encourages the creation and creativity of audiovisual content that contributes value to dissemination, knowledge, and social awareness surrounding these diseases.
