GO Film Goiânia Film Festival is a Festival for short movies done in the heart of Brazil. Its in the 6th edition with a competitive premiation with a special awards in many categories.
The Cultural Department of the Guadalcanal City Council (Seville) announces: the 7th edition of the Guadalcanal Short Film Festival "Smile, Please," which will be held from October 23 to 25, 2025.
FesticineKids 27 is an international children's and youth film festival in Cartagena de Indias, it is a film competition that orients its efforts towards strengthening the production and distribution of Colombian, Latin American and world cinema for children and young people.
In 2025, FesticineKids reaches its 27th, edition with the same spirit of highlighting and celebrating cinema for girls, boys and young people. The phrase has been chosen as the slogan: OUR KIDS VALUES. From this concept it is intended to invite children and young people to be aware of the responsibility they have to be agents of change in their environments. Children and young people are the future that should encourage the care of our planet earth, the human beings that surround them, animals and plants, as well as the places they visit. The tendency to Afro movies and ones oriented to indigenous people.
In the construction of the profile of the FesticineKids 27, the screen is problematized as a point of confluence of girls, boys and adolescents. By postulating cinema as that scenario in which feelings, emotions and beliefs are expressed, it is intended that girls, boys and adolescents, understanding what the cinema evokes them, what they extract from it and its meanings, wonder about the place that cinema has in their lives, in their environment, in parallel to the place they want and dream of.
It is also an opportunity for adults, parents, teachers, cultural and cinematographic authorities, to think about the need to strengthen their capacities to be trainers in tension and interaction with the audiovisual media, especially the cinema.
DIGO – I International Film Festival on Gender and Sexual Diversity of Goiás, is the first film festival in the heart of Brazil to address issues such as Diversity, Gender and Sexuality, by showcasing contemporary audiovisual work and urging historical reviews. Our main goal is to raise awareness on this topic, in order to promote inclusion, social change and respect for others. As an international event, the DIGO team also believes in the importance of cross cultural communication.
The 18th annual LAICFF takes place March-May 2024.
Each year, presenting around 100 short films from around the world—animation, live action, and documentary films—at different venues and organized for different age groups. Free admission to screenings at WonderCon with WonderCon badge; free admission for everyone to all other screenings.
The festival has a history of showcasing talent and moving careers forward, with more than 35 of our animators and filmmakers going on to work for major studios, and more than 25 becoming part of Oscar-winning teams. We are very proud of our alumni!
Calling out to all Horror Film Developers, Students, and anyone who wants to be a part of the Horror Genre. The Second Annual CineXposé Independent Horror Film Festival presented byDead Talk Media, LLC , a revolutionary virtual film festival created with the purpose of exposing gifted autonomous filmmakers, is scheduled to take place from January 13-15 and 20-22, 2023. However, our film submissions process is officially open so we encourage all Indie Horror Filmmakers to submit their media projects as soon as possible.
The CineXposé Horror Film Festival will differ from other such events in that there are no fees or costs to filmmakers who submit their projects. Furthermore, our “by invitation only” film festival will not only be viewed by industry professionals, but also by our social media followers (over half a million). With our tradition of letting our audience choose the winners, the power of social media will be employed in choosing our CineXposé winners.
The Caracas Ibero-American Film Festival was born with a clear intention of serving as dissemination and recognition for any type of cinematic expression of Ibero-American directors or productions of first and second works, fiction and documentaries, feature films and short films, student and professional productions. All can be postulated at the festival that, beyond its competitive character, for the selection of the independent pieces of the current film scene.
The first initiative to create a Caracas Film Festival arose with its founding in 2003; however, it was suspended after five editions and has now been refounded again.
The Caracas Ibero-American Film Festival is part of the National System of Film Festivals and Samples in Venezuela (SNFMCV), independent association created under the authorization of the National Autonomous Film Center (CNAC). The Festival is an IMDB qualifying.
The Festival was refounded at the initiative of the writer and filmmaker Francisco Villarroel to promote independent cinema in the Ibero-American region, mainly from new filmmakers.
It is currently carried out in a non-face-to-face manner.
Focused since more than three decades ago on the discovery of new talents and the diversity of contemporary cinema, Granada Film Fest has a special interest in upcoming filmmakers of all nationalities, open to films decided to explore new audiovisual forms regardless of their definition, genre, format or duration.
Humor en Corto - Humor in Short
The XXIII edition of Arrigorriaga's humor short film festival, the oldest in Spain.
From November the 18th to the 23rd, 2024, in Lonbo Aretoa, Arrigorriaga, Spain.
The 15th edition of Arraial Cine Fest will be held from February 23th to 27st, 2026 online on the festival's official website.
2024 Festival 8-12 May. New entries 20th of Oct 2023 (FILM SUBMISSIONS OPEN)
____________________________________________________________________Västerås Film Festival is an international film festival held in autumn every year since 2015. The festival will be moved to April 2024. Västerås film festival shows films in different genres from around the world. We have prizes in different categories. The festival also contains workshops, lectures, debates, film cafés and exhibitions. Västerås Film Festival is one of the most interesting festivals in northern Europe.
Västerås Film Festival 2024 becomes a genre film festival, there will be changes in prices.
mujerDOC - IX INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL ON GENDER, organized by the NGO Mujeres del Mundo and the Soria City Council, is a documentary screening platform created to contribute eliminating gender stereotypes and highlighting women's role in regional development.
The submitted works must address themes related to demands for equality and the feminist agenda. Documentaries must be produced after January 1st, 2023. There is no minimum or maximum length limit. They must be subtitled in Spanish and/or English. If a version with Spanish subtitles is not available, it is required to send a version with English subtitles and the SRT dialogue list in English.
The festival will take place in March 2026 in Soria (Spain). Should exceptional circumstances prevent the festival from taking place on these dates, sufficient advance notice will be given through social media and other media outlets.
The festival, through a Committee, will select the films that will be part of a single Official Section, with the following prizes:
- Women's Award: 3,000 euros (works with a female director will be eligible for this award)
- Long Film Award: 2,000 euros (for 60 minutes or more)
- Short Film Award: 1,000 euros (until 59 minutes)
- CIMA Award for Best Female Filmmaker (trophy and one year as a member of the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media of Spain).
The Yebes City Council (Yebes, Guadalajara, Spain) and Mitad & Mitad Producciones organize 4661 FILM FEST, the IV Yebes-Valdeluz Space & Sci-Fi Short Film Contest, named in honor of the asteroid discovered by Miguel de Pascual Martínez on November 17, 1982, at Yebes Astronomical Center. The Film Festival wich will take place on the previous week of Expoastronómica 2023 fair.
EBROCORTO, the international festival of musical short films, will celebrate its seventh edition in 2024 in Miranda de Ebro.
The Festival offers, through the selected works, a different way of enjoying music.
The central theme of each work must be music in all of its ramifications. It can be any type of music or any discipline in which music plays a fundamental role or, barring that, any work in which music is a notable element of the narration.
EBROCORTO is a film competition organized by the Asociación Amigos de Rafael Izquierdo and has the collaboration and sponsorship of the City Council of Miranda de Ebro.
The "Gulf of Naples Independent Film Festival" is an event intended to serve as an international showcase for films of various types and gender, in order to promote and spread the art, auteur and experimental films that are not released in cinemas playhouses, to foster dialogue between different experiences and to create a meeting point for the support of cinema culture.
The Ensenada International Film Festival (FICE) invites you to participate in its 7th edition. It will take place in the City of Ensenada, Province of Buenos Aires on October, 2025.
FICE's search will focus on cinematographic works that address a critical, poetic or aesthetic reflection around water. In this sense, water may appear as a central or tangential element in the development of narratives.
Because we are inhabited, stirred and agitated by this river that feeds us, from the FICE, we are looking for those works that, like water, can poetically penetrate all the reality that we are able to cover.
INTERSECCIÓN - A Coruña International Film Festival is committed to the freest currents of auteur cinema. Its program welcomes independent films created from risk and innovation and offers the public the chance to see groundbreaking and vibrant works.
The festival explores new cinematographic languages and defends courage, diversity and curiosity in creation.
The eighth edition of the Ruta Maya Mexico International Film Festival will be held from November 1 to 4, 2022, in person in the city of Campeche, Mexico. Our motto is "Back to the Roots", that is, "Back to the Origins" that allows us to achieve new knowledge about the territory and its traditions, the city, its inhabitants, management and social innovation. This initiative, understood as the possibility of empowering ourselves as citizens from our origins.
OBJECTIVE:
Promote the culture, art and traditions of the Mayan Route through an international film festival in the State of Campeche, which seeks to be a meeting place between the audiovisual sector and the community, generating tourism, economic recovery and for this edition return to the origins.
BACKGROUND:
Since 2014, the festival began as the CAMPECHE FILM FESTIVAL, with a reception of 452 short films from around the world for its first edition and ending with more than 800 for the fifth. In 2018 the festival became what is now known as the RUTA MAYA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in which very marked lines of action are established for the support not only of the MAYA TRAIN, but also as a strategy for attracting regional tourism and local support. .
The fourth edition of the Pila Audiovisual Festival (FAP), produced by the Municipality of Pila and organized by the Padre Adolfo Anastasio Municipal Film Theater, will be held in person in Pila from August 28 to 31, 2025.
This festival aims to stimulate and facilitate meetings between members of the cinematography, promote the exhibition, production and reflection on audiovisual production in our locality, generate zonal ties, and present films of all genres, accompanied by their representatives, to
contribute to the development of culture and the progress and dissemination of the audiovisual industry.
