Boitatá, Baetatá, Baitatá, Batatá, Boiguassu, Maetatá e Mboi-Tatá. Popularmente, na lenda tupi-guarani, é uma serpente de fogo que perambula sem direção. Tal transformação acontece por meio encantatório, permitindo atormentar e afugentar das matas os humanos profanadores.
O “fogo que corre”: o 1º BOITATÁ – FESTIVAL PARANAENSE ITINERANTE DE CINEMA DE HORROR espalhará o seu fogo fátuo pelo interior do Estado do Paraná, incendiando as mentes e roubando os olhares às cidades de Matinhos, Marechal Cândido Rondon, Rolândia e União da Vitória. Seu caráter itinerante busca promover acesso democrático à cultura, difundindo o cinema de horror nacional pelo estado, além das cidades de grande porte.
O festival será de acesso gratuito e contará com mostras de longas, curtas-metragens e curtas universitários, assim como, uma sessão especial apresentando clássicos do gênero. Todas as mostras contarão com produções realizadas em território brasileiro e não terão caráter competitivo. Além disso, o evento promoverá oficinas, palestras e mesas redondas contando com palestrantes convidados.
Assim como o monstro, serão exibidos, sob a tela de cinema, filmes que revelam aqueles que se apropriam de olhares sobre a cultura brasileira.
9th Babul Eco Film Fest 2025 has both competitive and non-competitive sections.
1) Short Film Contest-SFC: Duration below 5 minutes on any topic of ENVIRONMENT
2) Green Film Screenings-GFS: Duration above 5 minutes below 60 minutes.On any topic related to Environment, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, Climate action etc.,
The main festival happens in Hyderabad, Telangana India during June 2025 and later travels to different places.
After this some films will have repeat screenings at different venues based on the themes as per the date and audience suitability.
Nambrocorto is the short film festival of Nambroca, a town located in the province of Toledo, Spain and its general objective is to promote artistic creation, the seventh art and audiovisual culture among the inhabitants of our town and visitors. Its main objective since 2016 is reward the creativity and art of all those who participate in the call for the short film contest.
This is an event with great opportunities for growth and cultural projection of the local and regional area. Facing its ninth consecutive Edition, it presents a response from the attending public, with a strong growth in its 8 previous editions, what has started as a local exhibition of short films, has grown exponentially demonstrating the acceptance and interest of the inhabitants in the seventh art and this type of cultural initiatives feeling involved in the regional cultural scene.
Celebrating its 13th anniversary this year, Tangier Film Festival has firmly established itself on the regional film fest circuit as one of the most reputable african and arab film festivals.
Offering an impressive selection of competitive Features, Fiction shorts, animation shorts and documentary shorts with the presence of very important distributors and festival agents from around the world.
This year, Tangier film festival is inviting filmmakers from around the world to submit their films to get a highlighted news feature by participating for free (if you are selected) at the Tangier Film Market network and have the opportunity to meet many importants producers, buyers and distributors and get your film featured on the Market platform website and promoted to all our members worldwide.
Brainwash, since 1995, has delighted audiences with a selection of the bizarre, the unique, and just plain old well-made movies from independent producers all over the world. With an eye toward the abstract, the innovative and the weird, Brainwash saluted it's 25th Silver Anniversary in the 2019 season, and, we're still going strong. We have consistently attracted entries we curate to be able to display some of the most cutting edge cinema from up and and coming directors, actors, producers and crews consistently year after year. So please send us yours this year!
ASUFICC - International Contemporary Film Festival of Asuncion is an event born with the aim of bringing contemporary cinema from around the world, through unique authors with works that take risks and invite reflection. Emphasizing social issues that empathize with the Asuncion and Paraguayan society, it seeks, through a program of cinematographic excellence, to form spectators with greater sensitivity and greater awareness of the cinematic experience and the problems of society. Likewise, it seeks to be a space for meeting and promotion of national creators.
International Brightlight Film Festival - Hollywood - The festival's goal is to introduce and reward independent filmmakers from all over the world and become a tool to open the way in the cinema industry. In order to encourage participants to trust themselves more, we offer prizes to best works.
Main Categories
- Best Short Film
- Best Animation
- Best Feature Film
- Best Student Film
- Best Documentary
Sub Categories
- Best VFX
- Best Director
- Best Original Music
- Best Cinematography
- Best Male Performance
- Best Student Filmmaker
- Best Female Performance
The Zaragoza Film Festival, with a great track record behind it, decides through its Cultural Association, promoter of the FCZ event itself, to go one step further and create in 2018 a series of International Thematic Conferences, between the that there is a Social Theme, where it is intended through the audiovisual medium, that different social problems that surround us, can approach the public and therefore we become aware of the different realities.
The Other Looks section was born with the commitment to be a screen that makes visible different social realities; promoting values such as solidarity, tolerance and education, among others. Social diversity depends on three universal human realities: each individual is
unique, different and with common experiences. People are interrelated and
interdependent and societies and cultures are dynamic, changing and adapting to the
new situations.
Likewise, we support the different social groups, so that they can show their work
audiovisual and in this way their projects can be known by the general public.
In addition, we believe in cinema as an educational tool to make young people aware of the current social issues reflected in the works presented at the Festival.
FICSEM is a new Social and Ecological Film Festival, which was going to see the light of day for the first time in 2020, in the Mediterranean area.
For major reasons, and having been immersed in a situation in which we have all been affected, we have decided to adapt to the current situation, and give a new focus to our festival. Maintaining the enthusiasm and passion we feel for the artistic world.
Our festival is aimed at the dissemination and promotion of film authors related to topics of social and/or ecological value.
Because we believe in the power of art as a transformative medium, our contribution from this festival is to give visibility to projects that address environmental and social changes in which we are immersed. We are an international festival because we understand the world beyond barriers, and because we are moved by the need to get to know other cultures and share the best of ours, as it contributes to any improvement in any corner of the world.
The Mediterranean is the climate that surrounds us, and we feel identified with it. In terms of warmth, closeness and transparency. We are a festival that is starting strong, with a large number of committed artists who share our cause, and the desire to share.
And that is why we are not afraid to break the most classic festival patterns. So much so, that in the award for best actor and/or actress, the recognition of the award falls on their social and/or ecological work... And not only on their skills.
Despite having firm ideological foundations. We open ourselves to other artistic areas and initiatives.
Enrolled films (short films and feature films) may participate as long as they fit into one of the following film genres: animation, drama, fiction, action, thriller, comedy, horror or children.
Only for Colombian Film-makers. FESTIVAL LABERINTO is a film festival for those who live and breath cinema, wether as film critics, productors or cinephiles. We want to build new possibilities for audiovisual arts in general, so the inherent diversity of our ideas and sensibilities can be expressed. Open social environments are required to reach the objectives of this festival; our purpose is to create such environments, especially in Boyacá, and potentially in the rest of the country. Coming from a formative, divulgative and creative standpoint, we extend an invitation to all of the people interested in filmaking.
We want you to put your imagination in motion.
Bolder and more complex ways of living and exploring cinema are just around the corner. We would like to explore those new possibilities with you. Those who are interested in our event will be able to submit their work in the folllowing open calls.
For its second edition, the Humour en court festival offers 3 days of festival combining short film competition, show and ceremony with great pomp. With, of course, humor in all its forms as the only watchword
Dona i Cinema aims to generate a live space of artistic and social creation and investigation. A space led by women, which divulgates their works and productions, promoting equal opportunities in Performing Arts and fostering the end of discriminative practices towards women.
For this reason since 2011 we run the International Biennal Dona i Cinema – Mujer y Cine – Woman & Film, a week dedicated to cinema made by and for women, with the exhibition of a selection of features, shorts, documentaries, animation and video art. All made by women.
Celebrating 12 years the Toronto Shorts International Film Festival is the largest short film festival in Canada.
Toronto Shorts is a non-profit organization that provides a showcase for the best short films and its creators from around the world, annually in the heart of Toronto.
We feel that short-form cinema and its creators should have their own premier film festival in Toronto deserving similar recognition given to the feature film and its creators.
Toronto Shorts is where films from all genres intersect. The heart of the festival is the quality and scope of extraordinary film programming which consists of a wide spectrum of categories from high to low budget films under 45 minutes.
The festival has become a career stepping stone, establishing a tradition of discovering and promoting filmmakers who have gone on to be Academy Awards Nominees, including :
2021 Oscar Nominee 'The Present' by Farah Nabulsi
2019 Oscar Nominee ‘Weekends’ by Trevor Jimenez
2018 Oscar Nominees 'Watu Wote - All of Us' (Germany) and 'The Eleven O'Clock' (Australia)
Toronto stands as the largest media market in Canada, it boasts the world-renowned Royal Ontario Museum, the massive Art Gallery of Ontario, the Soulpepper Theatre Company, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and now includes a premier international short film festival.
We showcase the best short films and its filmmakers from around the world.
CreaSport is a short films contest that have to do with the beauty of sport activities, their stories, their moments of glory or failure, their educational wealth… highlighting the capacity of penetration of physical activity in society.
