Voted Best Film Festival in New Jersey, The Monmouth Film Festival, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) New Jersey non-profit organization designed to promote and connect filmmakers from all over the state, Country, and across the globe! The festival is more than an opportunity for artists to have their work showcased, it is a forum for educational opportunities through workshops, networking, Q&As and special panels with industry guests; that provide insight, growth, and inspiration. Our unique platform strives to create an atmosphere where filmmakers of all levels, including high and low budget works, can be seen, heard and interact with movie-goers, promoters and other artists. Each year esteemed industry guests from New York City, New Jersey, Los Angeles (and all regions of the world), from great media companies including Netflix, ABC, Disney, Nickelodeon, Viacom, Backstage, and more attend the Monmouth Film Festival to engage with filmmakers. Don't miss out on the opportunity to submit to and attend New Jersey's critically acclaimed, top-rated film festival!
Returning May 29th-31st, 2026 at Bell Works in Holmdel, New Jersey.
Welcome to the Singularity Film Festival created and organized by HUGO LEDUC.
Immerse yourself in the heart of Paris, where the Singularity Film Festival opens the doors to a universe where science fiction and fantasy come to life like never before.
Discover short films and series pilots ranging from 5 to 30 minutes, crafted by bold filmmakers — both emerging and established — ready to surprise and captivate you.
The festival is divided into two categories:
Out of Competition, dedicated to works screened freely, celebrating creativity and discovery without constraints;
In Competition, where films are subject to an official submission and evaluated by a professional jury.
Each edition begins with a signature short film — an immersive experience that instantly transports you into extraordinary worlds.
Open to all, the festival celebrates the richness and diversity of talents, styles, and imaginations, offering a vibrant and captivating spectacle.
Through the competitive selection, IMDb qualification, and personalized support for filmmakers, each project gains increased visibility and recognition.
Screenings, networking sessions, discussions, and an awards ceremony make the Singularity Film Festival an unmissable event for cinema lovers and fans of fantastical worlds.
WHO IS HUGO LEDUC? (Organizer)
Author and director, Hugo Leduc develops a universe anchored in thriller, science fiction and anticipation, through works with metaphorical dimensions exploring humans, time, memory and death. His work is distinguished by demanding stories,
carried by an immersive staging and marked twists and turns. He collaborates with actors such as Tom Vallejo, Benjamin Cotte, Marine Arlen, Jean Rigal, Paola Marques Dos Santos and Éloïse Le Baud.
Strengthened by this background and confronted with the limits of diffusion of these genres in traditional circuits,
he founded the Singularity Film Festival, with the ambition of broadening the visibility of science fiction, fantasy and thriller cinema, and of offering a structuring platform to emerging talents, of which he himself is a part.
El Festival de Cine Curto de Ribadeo es un festival de cortometrajes que nace con el propósito de promocionar los proyectos audiovisuales propios de A Mariña Lucense y, por extensión, las Comunidades de Galicia y Asturias, o que tengan miembros participantes relacionados con dichas zonas. La 5a edición del Festival tendrá lugar en Ribadeo durante la segunda semana de agosto en varias localizaciones de este municipio.
The Jacovella da Celano Film Festival is a festival dedicated to short films, established to celebrate the art of storytelling through exemplary narratives. Inspired by the historical figure of Jacovella da Celano—a woman who symbolizes courage, culture, and leadership—the festival aims to promote positive values and raise awareness on crucial issues such as gender-based violence and addiction.
The Changuito Film Festival is an international short film festival centered on childhood, held in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and organized by Fundación Changuito Visual.
The festival is rooted in an anti-adultcentric approach. It does not position children as passive audiences or future promises, but as present, active, creative, and political subjects. It opens the screen to films created for, with, and by children, as well as works that invite reflection on their meaningful participation in social, educational, family, and community spaces.
Changuito is a decentralized festival. Screenings take place across multiple territories, activating community dialogue, collective learning, and cultural circulation beyond traditional cinema venues. In addition to film exhibitions, the festival highlights educational and community-based audiovisual processes, understanding cinema not only as an artistic language but as a transformative tool capable of reshaping perspectives and strengthening children’s agency.
More than a screening event, Changuito is a cultural platform that fosters participation, exchange, and collective imagination around childhood.
TITAN International Film Festival is a competition of films from around the world, celebrating cinema and its creativity, its art and its freedom.
We are a festival registered as a Not-For-Profit with the Australian government and are IMDB qualified, running competitions throughout the year, which ends with the Annual Gala in Sydney, Australia.
TIFF is a challenge for all filmmakers to produce and promote the cinema of the future.
The Festival takes place 4 times a year and registration is always open. This increases the chances of winning for filmmakers. At the end of the year, our jury will select the best film of each category amongst the four edition winners.
XI edition of the Zinetxiki Zinemaldia - International Film Festival for Children and Youth, organised by the cultural association Begira Elkartea, will take place in Bilbao and other Basque cities and towns from 12 to 27 December 2026.
Zinetxiki Zinemaldia aims at offering worldwide quality audiovisual contents to a family audience. Through the projection of selected works in several competitive categories, the festival seeks to promote the audiovisual education and the creation of new audiences.
The FINECAA is an animation film festival dedicated to new experiences/ new technologies. It welcomes any animated short film - partially or entirely produced in animation - which will have participated in renewing the cinematographic genre, whether from a technological point of view, in its format, its storytelling, its narrative construction, the production methods or its relation to the public.
Grief Fest™: The Grief Film Festival - Intro Video (1 Min):
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BOCS7VUFZB8
About:
Grief Fest™: The Grief Film Festival — Films About Love, Loss and Healing Thru the Lens
Grief is one of the most universal human experiences—and one of the most powerful stories a filmmaker can tell.
The Grief Film Festival (“Grief Fest™”) is a new international film festival dedicated to films that explore grief in all its forms: love, loss, remembrance, transformation, resilience, and healing. We invite filmmakers of all experience levels, from first-time creators to established studios, to submit films of any duration and any genre that engage with the subject of grief in authentic, meaningful, and human ways.
This is not Cannes—and we are proud of that.
While many outstanding festivals focus on innovation, technical perfection, and industry prestige, Grief Fest is a community-powered festival. Our films are not judged by red carpets or elite panels alone, but by the soul of the community. We celebrate how effectively a filmmaker connects with real people—how the story lands, resonates, opens dialogue, and creates shared understanding around grief.
What Makes Grief Fest - The Grief Film Festival Different
Honoring:
Grief Fest honors the many talented filmmakers worldwide whose work has been inspired and/or impacted by grief; including the many who are no longer with us today. One of the inspirations for the creation of Grief Fest: The Grief Fest Film Festival came from one very talented filmmaker out of Boston, Massachusetts whose work and life were deeply impacted by grief - Enrique Oliver (1958-2026).
Community-Centered Storytelling:
Our focus is on impact, emotional truth, and connection—not just production value.
Street-Level Audience Insight:
Filmmakers, distributors, and investors gain real-world audience perception and reactions to films addressing one of humanity’s most shared experiences.
Inclusive & Accessible:
All filmmakers are welcome—students, independents, collectives, nonprofits, and studios of all sizes. Grief Fest welcomes all films, and the festival is an all-inclusive, non-religious, LGBTQ+ friendly, and all-welcoming film festival.
Any Duration, Any Format: Shorts, features, micro-films, documentaries, narratives, experimental works, poetry readings and hybrid forms are all encouraged.
Global Perspective:
Grief transcends culture, language, and borders—and so do the stories we seek.
Why Submit
Grief Fest offers something rare: authentic audience engagement.
Selected films will be screened:
Screenings of the selected films:
The in-person and virtual screenings of the selected "Grief Fest™" films will take place during the 2026 year-end holidays. The community screenings will take place during the Thanksgiving (November 25 - 29), and Christmas/New Year's (December 24 - January 3) holidays. The hybrid festival format expands reach beyond the in-person screening thru the Grief Fest Screening Room in the Film Festival Plus Platform (https://tgff.filmfestivalplus.com). This hybrid experience provides filmmakers with valuable insight into how their work resonates across different communities and platforms—information that is meaningful for future distribution, development, and investment conversations.
The 2026 Grief Fest Films
Every film selected for the 2026 Grief Fest is, in our eyes, already a film of distinction. Each represents courageous storytelling and a meaningful contribution to how we understand, express, and navigate grief together.
At the close of the festival year, we will share the "2026 Grief Fest - Top Honors Films" per category. The 2026 Grief Fest Honors recognize the films that resonated most deeply with both our community audience and festival jury. These films will be announced on the main festival website (GriefFest.com) on New Year’s Eve (12/31/2026) and will also be highlighted in the Grief Fest Screening Room on the Film Festival Plus platform.
We celebrate every filmmaker whose work is part of Grief Fest. The films receiving Top Honors this year exemplify storytelling that connected with particular depth and clarity, reflecting creative approaches that moved audiences and jurors alike. While each selected film has made a meaningful impact, these “Top Honors” recognize those works whose resonance rose to an exceptional level — offering insights that may help shape and inspire the future of grief-centered storytelling.
Our Mission
Grief Fest exists to create space—for stories, for conversations, and for collective healing. We believe film can:
Normalize conversations around grief
Build empathy and understanding
Strengthen community through shared experience
Transform personal loss into collective meaning
If your film explores grief not just as an ending, but as a journey—through love, loss, memory, and healing—we want to experience it with our community.
Submit your film.
Share your story.
Join the conversation.
Welcome to GriefFest™ - The Grief Film Festival
Films about love, loss and healing through the lens....
XVI Piélagos Short Film Festival "Piélagos en Corto"
The Piélagos City Council presents the 16th edition of its film festival, a showcase for local and international talent.
With competitive categories for Cantabria, Spain, International, and the UNESCO Costa Quebrada Geopark, the event celebrates the best in short films (fiction, up to 30 minutes).
Selected films will compete for awards including Best Cantabrian, National, and International Short Film, along with technical recognitions and the prestigious Geopark Award, honoring works connected to this natural heritage.
Submissions open until December 20, 2025 via Festhome.
The 2026 closing gala will feature screenings, professional meetings, and accommodation for nominees.
An essential event for emerging cinema, where landscape and storytelling come together!
Welcome to the My Name is Climate Film Festival - MNICFF is IMDb Qualified Festival.
Our festival is dedicated to promoting positive change on a global scale, focusing on critical issues such as climate change, human and animal rights, and social and cultural matters. We believe in the transformative power of film to raise awareness and inspire action in these key areas.
At MNCFF, our mission is to provide independent filmmakers with a unique platform to showcase their work and receive well-deserved recognition. We champion creative freedom and aim to support filmmakers in expressing their individual visions without the pressures of commercial expectations.
Our goal is to guide independent filmmakers in overcoming challenges and unlocking their full potential. Through our thorough review process, networking opportunities, and dedicated marketing support, we aim to empower filmmakers and help navigate the complexities of the industry.
To facilitate a smooth selection process and offer timely feedback, we conduct monthly editions of our festival. Filmmakers will receive prompt notifications if their work is chosen, with our team of industry professionals consistently reviewing and evaluating their submissions.
We highly value the distinctiveness of each entry and prioritize the impact and message conveyed in the film or documentary. MNCFF is focused on building a robust global network of filmmakers, producers, and distributors to encourage collaboration and create avenues for development.
We are eagerly anticipating the creative ingenuity and talent showcased in your films.
MY NAME IS CLIMATE FOUNDATION is officially registered charity from Netherlands.
Join us in celebrating the art of filmmaking!
We believe that film is not just entertainment; it is a powerful medium for artistic expression that challenges norms and inspires change. We are committed to highlighting films that push boundaries, utilizing innovative film language to create immersive experiences that resonate deeply with viewers.
Join us in this dynamic journey as we celebrate exceptional filmmakers who pour their heart and soul into their work, ensuring that every frame is a testament to their vision. Our screenings will not only feature unique films but also include interactive Q&A sessions, discussions, and encourage an ongoing exchange of ideas between creators and audiences.
Be a part of our community, where every film is a conversation starter and where every voice matters. Together, let’s explore the transformative power of cinema and elevate the artistic narrative in our culture!
We eagerly invite submissions every month through Festhome. Whether it's Short, Feature, Experimental, Animated, or Documentary films. We want to see your creativity come to life!
WAVES International Short Film Festival – Goa 3.0 (WISFF) is a vibrant platform that celebrates the best in independent and world short cinema. WAVES is more than a festival, it is a movement to empower emerging voices and spotlight diverse stories. After successfully organising two editions in Goa, with over 500 short film entries and around 250 curated screenings, WISFF has also hosted four editions of a 60-hour filmmaking challenge. Growing beyond borders, WAVES is now expanding nationally; in 2025, the festival reached Dehradun in Uttarakhand, marking the beginning of its journey to multiple cities across India and soon, to global destinations as a truly international celebration of short films and creative storytelling.
"We particularly value highly artistic and aesthetic films—short and feature, documentary and narrative—that explore various aspects of life. Above all, we have a deep appreciation for catharsis."
Film Award is organized by the MYTH Foundation, an international cultural community that supports Ukraine's resistance through art. The Foundation is a non-profit, apolitical non-governmental organization. Its primary goals are the promotion of Ukraine abroad, supporting the morale of the Ukrainian people, creating professional national cultural products, and developing cultural diplomacy and cooperation with Ukrainian and international institutions in the fields of culture and cinema.
The MYTH Social Impact Film Award is an international platform that amplifies the voices of artists and projects standing in solidarity with Ukraine. The award focuses on films about the war, the lives of civilians in combat zones, acute social issues, justice, resistance to Russian propaganda, as well as works documenting or highlighting human rights violations during the war.
On November 15, 2025, the MYTH Foundation launched and held the first MYTH Social Impact Film Award, bringing together participants from 33 countries of the free world to support Ukraine. The "Madonna and Child in a Shelter," the main award and symbol of the film prize, found its home in London and Rome, Berlin and Paris, Istanbul and Warsaw, New York and Delhi, Toronto and Kramatorsk—becoming a fond memory of Ukraine and a symbolic talisman for filmmakers worldwide.
The 2nd Film Award is dedicated to the strength of the human spirit and the unwavering will to live. We present works centered on themes of humanity and struggle, freedom and love. Our country is enduring a horrific war, yet it continues to love, live, hope, and fight. Now more than ever, there is a need for life-affirming, powerful stories—dramatic and comedic, quiet and loud—diverse in their essence.
The main theme is: "Love for Life – Against All Odds." This theme unites national and international films of various genres around humanistic values, maintaining a focus on the Ukrainian experience of war while offering the audience a sense of hope and support from around the world.
The Film Award is scheduled as a tour across Ukraine in June 2026, with main events in Kyiv and screenings for regional audiences in Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk.
The 2nd Film Award will feature the following Main Sections, including both narrative and documentary projects:
National Feature Film
National Short Film
International Feature Film
International Short Film
Join us to strengthen this voice of truth and become a part of the cinematic resistance.
If you have any questions, please contact the following person:
Kristina Velychko Assistant to Festival Director Rodion Volkov
velychkokristina4@gmail.com
The New York Short Film Festival is New York's largest festival for short films, showcasing the best of short filmmaking from around the world.
Running annually for 11 years with consistantly sold-out screenings at the iconic Cinema Village in downtown Manhattan, NYSFF celebrates independent films and filmmakers from around the world who push the boundaries of storytelling within the short format.
Our festival brings together a diverse community of creators, industry professionals, and film enthusiasts to experience compelling narratives, innovative techniques, and unique voices in contemporary cinema.
For any questions, email us on info@newyorkshort.com
Our association aims to create a film festival celebrating emotions to complement and revitalize the cultural offerings in rural areas, rooted in
its territory of Remiremont and the Vosges Mountains.
Surprise, fear, sadness, anger, joy... Cinema is characterized by these words, these EMOTIONS; everyone has film memories, powerful moments, personal or collective, touching, experienced thanks to cinema.
What a surprise it was when we realized that
EMOTIONS didn't have THEIR OWN Festival!
Emotions are at the heart of our lives; they speak to everyone, regardless of age or background. It's about telling the world in our
way, succeeding in making others visible and making them understand that we share a common humanity with them—this is the very heart of the project. This festival aims to be welcoming, accessible, open to a wide audience, and participatory;
exchange is its essence. In short, a festival that makes you feel good.
