TerraLenta Film Fest is an international film festival dedicated to environmental documentaries. The Festival is based in Pignola (PZ) in Basilicata, Italy.
The aim of the Festival is to promote independent and author documentary cinema, raise public and community awareness of environmental issues, foster cultural spaces for dialogue and learning, support multimedia research, and encourage eco-sustainable actions. TerraLenta is the intention to bring original artistic forms and offbeat culture, the experimentation of new ways of disseminating environmental issues through art and research. We believe that it is necessary to give space to a different form of divulgation, so critical, innovative and far from formalising; that's the reason why we set ourselves to support subjects with authentic contents and modes of expression.
The Festival was founded in 2024 as the evolution of a long-standing experience in the dissemination of cinema on environmental themes through independent film review in the high mountains (OasiCinema Festival), in order to promote the symbiosis between visual art and environmental research in unusual contexts, deliberately different from urban spaces.
TerraLenta Film Fest will take place in July, from 1 to 5, 2026. This will be its second edition, offering a unique opportunity to explore the world of cinema with a focus on environmental themes. The festival will take place in several fascinating locations, such as the historic center of Pignola (PZ), where the screenings will be held outdoors, and some historic buildings, including Palazzo Gaeta, which will serve as the festival's main headquarters.
In addition to the film screenings, the event will feature important moments of insight, such as seminars and educational workshops centered on the environment and related themes. The guests of the festival will have the opportunity to present their works and engage in discussions with the audience. The official festival program will be made available on May 18, 2026, allowing participants to learn about the scheduled events in detail.
This is an unmissable occasion for film enthusiasts and those interested in ecological and sustainability issues, set in the charming context of Southern Italy.
Bayelsa International Film Festival - BIFF is established with aim to engage filmmakers, artists, performers, academics and members of the creative community to unravel the delicacies of diversities and locate common grounds across cultures and societies.. To provide an exciting, educative, and information oriented Film Festival.
Bayelsa International Film Festival - BIFF is established with aim to engage filmmakers, artists, performers, academics and members of the creative community to unravel the delicacies of diversities and locate common grounds across cultures and societies.. To provide an exciting, educative, and information oriented Film Festival.
Bayelsa International Film Festival - BIFF is established with aim to engage filmmakers, artists, performers, academics and members of the creative community to unravel the delicacies of diversities and locate common grounds across cultures and societies.. To provide an exciting, educative, and information oriented Film Festival.
BIFF is designed to be an intimate and eloquent filmmaker festival where film enthusiasts can get first hand insights from directors, writers, actors and producers from the premiering films. With commitment, BIFF will be presenting an annual film festival and art exhibition to provide both professional and amateur filmmakers with a space for display and dissemination of their works. At the same time, a strong focus on the BIFF as a place for the world to discover recent talents in African films and filmmakers. The event also offers master classes, panel discussion and workshop to augment this diverse programming.
The International Unseen Film Festival 'Social Films' from Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) is organized by Kultura, Communication y Desarrollo KCD NGOD; Organization dedicated to promoting a human, intercultural, equitable and sustainable development through Communication and Culture.
The International Unseen Film Festival 'Social Films' from Bilbao is an annual celebration dedicated to show a cinema full of diversity and social commitment, a cinema that is usually excluded from commercial screens.
The Festival is centered on four major themes: Sustainable Development, Human Rights, Interculturality and Gender Equity.
With its continuous work, it has become an indispensable appointment for all those interested in communication for development and social transformation.
The Festival is also a recognition of all people who make a communication that allows to reflect through their audiovisual works all those different causes and problems of humanity.
The purpose of the festival refers to awareness of both the external filters on the screen, including censorship (commercial, ideological, aesthetic), and the internal filters of screen perception and projection, including self-censorship. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is an exploration of aestheticization and commodification in art. The next aim of the festival is to expose the complexity, manysidedness, and variety of filmmaking.
NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino) is a film festival that is held by the Short Movie Club, the platform for cinematic projects. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is ADAMI Media Prize qualified festival. The International Film Studies Conference is held at the same time as the film festival. In this way, film theory and practice are integrated together at the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO.
Originally the festival was held in Belarus, but because of political repression and publicly stated anti-war stance, screenings and events can be held in different countries. First of all in Poland (Warsaw), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg), Lithuania (Vilnius). For example, the 11th and 10th Nefiltravanae Kino took place in Warsaw, Berlin, Hamburg, Vilnius and Helsinki. The content of past years' film programs can be found on the website https://shortmovie.club/programmes/
The festival will be held in a hybrid format. We will have a part of live screenings and online screenings on a video platform https://film.nofilterkino.org/ . The video is cryptographically secured. In addition, we pay attention and promote films from our previous years that are released to the public on the Internet after their festival curcuit.
Nefiltravanae Kino involves theater, artists to interpret symbols and history. We work with the audience's reaction and participants' as well.
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The concept of the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino):
ALIENATION PROBLEM
We live in a world of malls and cinema multiplexes. We see that indie cinema and non-commodity art go to the periphery of public attention. Primitive attractions replace the cinematography. The escape audience is alienated behind the big screen. So modern mainstream cinema is part of a manipulating tool that leads to the society of alienation. Thus the tendency is that indie cinema becomes more unreadable for the wide audience. We should understand the context of the filmmaker to understand the independent cinema. That is why the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO concept implies the physical presence of filmmakers.
FILM SELECTION PROBLEM
Filmmakers shoot millions of movies. And thousands of short film festivals organize screenings all over the world every year. On average, several thousand films are submitted to a film festival. So various good films can be neglected for whatever reason. Often selecting probability is like winning a lottery. As a result, filmmakers are left with no feedback. It is a paradox that no one can hear you in the age of the Internet! The mainstream culture prefers attractions and casual viewing.
Also, this idea is based on the film selection problem. Perhaps it’s no surprise one person, i.e. programme director at best, or even students of film schools make a preliminary decision to select a movie. Сoncordance of judges or previewers is more seldom thing than the difference of background, tastes. So selection or judging can be one-sided or perfunctory. It is not bad as the programme director has a good taste and aesthetic sensitivity, of course. But we’ve discovered another conception of “unfiltered cinema”. We matched it against “the best of the best” way. This way aids to perceive cinematic idiom without the dictate of art-curators.
CELEBRATION OF INDIE CINEMA
So the NoFilter Kino tries to avoid “the best of the best” way but it does not ignore it completely, sure. The festival selects fiction, animation, documentary, experimental and virtual reality sections. A jury awards the best film in every section. The festival holds the screenings at cinema theatres, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, and art-spaces.
Our aim is to gather people in art, to have a dialogue to be happy with smart communication. Cinema is art but not sport. The key point of our project is to establish communication between the filmmaker and the audience.
Please, read about the festival history through the link to the festival's website. http://shortmovie.club/history/
Art District Radio & 20MAX TV organize its 9th edition of its short movie festival named "Festival du Court d'Art District" around a free theme this year that will take place on March 20, 2026 at Cinema L'ENTREPOT in Paris, France in partnership with Festhome.
This festival will accept any short movie from 1 to 20 minutes filmed after January 1, 2023. Any genre of films is accepted such as fictional or animated ones or short documentary. Those films could be made using cameras or smartphones and in French language or subtitled in French. At least one representative must be attended the festival if selected.
The nineteenth version of the Muestra Cine + Video Indígena, organised by the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, opens its call for entries from 21 November to 7 March 2026 to films by indigenous and non-indigenous filmmakers whose central theme is indigenous peoples, especially in Latin America.
The curatorial committee of the festival will place special emphasis on selecting works that portray cultural and territorial aspects of these nations, such as: processes of safeguarding cultures, protection and defence of territories and the environment, human rights, identity tensions and political reflections. In addition, works spoken in indigenous languages and which have been made in a participatory manner with indigenous communities or through the training processes of indigenous film schools will be highlighted.The nineteenth version of the Muestra Cine + Video Indígena, organised by the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, opens its call for entries from 30 November to 7 March 2025 to films by indigenous and non-indigenous filmmakers whose central theme is indigenous peoples, especially in Latin America.
The curatorial committee of the festival will place special emphasis on selecting works that portray cultural and territorial aspects of these nations, such as: processes of safeguarding cultures, protection and defence of territories and the environment, human rights, identity tensions and political reflections. In addition, works spoken in indigenous languages and which have been made in a participatory manner with indigenous communities or through the training processes of indigenous film schools will be highlighted.
We are excited to announce the second open call for short films based on celluloid film with no boundaries on genre. Experimentations, found footage, archive's creative use and mixed media are welcome, as well as any language that challenges the orthodoxy.
AdriatiKino is a screening organized by local filmmakers in collaboration with Luma Experimental Film Lab and Teatro Nuovo di Capodarco in Fermo (Italy), close to the Adriatic Sea. Inspired by its historical spirit of connecting cultures, Adriatikino aims to be an encounter to nourish a film lover community, to promote interchange between filmmakers and film lovers, as well as to spread analog film practices.
The event includes screenings and workshops. The movie theater Teatro Nuovo di Capodarco is the main venue for an open air digital screening (inside screening if raining) where there will also be an informal dinner.
Luma experimental Film Lab is a second venue for an analog projection (Super 8 and/or 16 mm) and a film workshop promoting dark room experience.
We are seeking short films that use celluloid film, no longer than 15 min, and should be submitted digitally with a link to an online screener.
Screening dates: 29 - 31 May 2026
Venues: Cortile Clareni at Nuovo Teatro di
Capodarco, Capodarco di Fermo (FM), Italy
Luma Experimental Film Lab, Fermo (FM), Italy
Ostia International Film Festival 2026
promotes and spreads all the activities relating to the world of Cinema, including through TV, Streaming, Theatre, the Web, and Social Media.
Purposes:
In collaboration with public and private entities, the promotion and spreading of culture, cinematographic and artistic production, and of the audiovisual works submitted every year to the Festival;
organize happenings, shows, events, and exhibitions related to the Audiovisual, Artistic, and Cultural sector at national and international levels through the Festival;
bring together and promote the training of people and artists of any age and social background involved in creative film and audiovisual production;
Create works connected to the world of Cinema, Art, Photography, and Culture in general.
ORGANIZERS
Cultural Association Time & Memory organizes the fourteenth edition of the Short Film Festival called "SHORT TO SOUTH", to be held in Polla (SA)ITALY from the 20 - 21 June 2026 at the Auditorium "Holy Nicolicchio".
“RIETI & SABINA Film Festival”
2026
The “RIETI & SABINA Film Festival” aims to provide an opportunity for audiences to discover talents, Authors, Actors, Directors, and Filmmakers, to foster synergies between Film Professionals and emerging talents.
FEMCINE was created to discover and support the work done by female filmmakers and to share films with gender-based subjects with a broader audience. FEMCINE invites female directors from Chile and the rest of the world to participate in one of its three competition categories: International Feature Length Competition, International Short Film Competition, and the Chilean Film School Short Film Competition.
Brèves d’Images, the International Short Film Festival of Francophone Youth, dedicated to young people in Occitanie!
The festival highlights emerging talents aged 3 to 22, offering them real visibility for their short, original, and socially engaged works.
Brèves d’Images encourages both individual and collective projects, allowing young creators to explore every step of the filmmaking process: scriptwriting, shooting, editing, sound mixing… It also serves as a genuine springboard for aspiring filmmakers.
Every year, the festival begins with a call for projects.
Once submissions close, all received films are viewed and preselected. This preselection is far from trivial: it can lead to increased visibility on the festival’s social media, publication on the official YouTube channel, and sometimes even screenings during special sessions.
A jury composed of professionals from the fields of cinema, culture, and audiovisual media then meets to view the preselected films. This jury establishes nominations in various categories (Best Directing, Best Screenplay, Best Music, etc.) and determines the final awards.
Each year, activities related to filmmaking are offered for both young participants and the general public.
The highlight of the festival is the closing day, a key moment of sharing and celebration. During this festive and friendly event, the award winners are honored in a prize ceremony and invited to speak with the audience about their experiences as young directors, screenwriters, and actors.
We are an independent festival dedicated to bring together established musicians and filmmakers in a forum to celebrate the short films. Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival celebrates the artistic, educational and historical importance of short films and music. It gives independent film artists a platform for sharing their work and creating a dialogue with the community. It promotes the discussion and study of filmmaking.
DISFMF is the largest independent short film festival in Ireland, in 2026 we are celebrating the 15th anniversary.
In 2025 we selected over 90 short films from all over the world, the festival has brought established, emerging and award-winning filmmakers to the public attention.
Back in the cinema, the festival took place at the Cineworld, the biggest cinema in Ireland and The Sugar Club for the awards ceremony night.
DISFMF is conducted from the independent film maker point of view.
Director and producer from each film selected will benefit free entry to all the venues and screenings.
All kinds of short films are accepted. Here are some examples: Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Advertising, Animation, Art-house, Black Comedy, Children/Family, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Experimental, Fantasy, Historical, Melodrama, Crime & Gangster, Biopics, Film-Noir, Road Films, Super-Heroes, Super-Natural, Mockumentary, Independent, Music Video, Musical, Reality, Religious, Romance, Science Fiction, Silent, Sport, Student, Thriller/Suspanse, TV, Ai and more.
Los Angeles CineFest is an international event. We accept local, national and international films and scripts. Film industry specialists watch films and videos, read scripts, give notes and scores.
Once a year we screen selected work at the live event in Los Angeles.
Categories:
Short Film
Short Documentary
Web Episode
Trailer
Feature Film
Feature Documentary
Animation
Student
Film about Cosmos
Music Video
Experimental
Drone Films
Web/New Media
Screenplay (Short Films)
Screenplay (Feature Films)
Television Script
Film Score
Photography (any topic, photo from the set included)
Poster (any poster, film poster included)
The Fashion Cinema Festival was created to shine a spotlight on the art of costume design—an essential element in the magic of filmmaking—and to celebrate the unique connection between fashion and the cinematic world.
Every garment tells a story. Costume design reveals the essence of each character, transforms actors, and brings to life the worlds that only cinema can imagine.
At our festival, we honor the brilliant creators behind costume design and offer experiences, encounters, and activities that showcase the extraordinary work of these artists.
Fashion takes center stage in this section, illuminated through a truly cinematic lens.
We are the Tequisquiapan Film Festival - FICTX, and we promote emerging cinematic talent to bring love to movie theaters. We believe in the power of narratives and their messages to transform lives and strengthen faith. We train and interact with emerging and professional filmmakers with a common purpose: to multiply love through film and bring to life stories that touch the heart of the world.
Our vision is to make the Tequisquiapan International Film Festival an international benchmark for purposeful cinema with a positive message that impacts lives.
The entries must meet every requirement as below.
○ Pre-condition: the first or second feature-length film of the director(s)
○ Running Time(including credits): longer than 40-minute
length
○ Date of Completion: after January 2025
○ Premiere status: at least Asian premiere (For films made in Asian countries, the exception is granted if it hasn’t been screened in an Asian country other than the home country.)
For this 3rd edition of Festi’Ciné Junior, we are delighted to continue the adventure and offer you an event entirely dedicated to young audiences’ cinema.
We have designed for you a weekend devoted to short films and documentaries specially created for children.
The Production Ciné Junior Association invites you to come with your family to discover these little films and share warm moments together. We will be delighted to welcome you and experience, by your side, an edition full of emotions and beautiful memories.
Arizona Underground Film Festival is Arizona’s only premier underground cult film festival! Celebrating our 18th year, we make it our sole mission to showcase the work of filmmakers with defiantly independent visions. We are on a quest to represent every genre of independent film from across the world celebrating the artist, and their work. We will cover categories from Narrative, Horror, Documentaries, Experimental, Animation, and Exploitation. Join us in the underground!
Many of the films that have screened at the festival over the years have gone on to receive distribution from the festival screening, or attention from press and other festivals. We have been the World Premiere for many films over the past 10 years, and we will continue to premiere films, and showcase the best of independent cinema.
WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT AZUFF
“It’s got the vision and confidence of fests that have been around a lot longer.” - Filmmaker Magazine
“Prestigious festival” – The Huffington Post
“Unbeatable!” - Arizona Daily Star
“Truly Amazing” - Tucson Citizen
“AZUFF shed(s) light on the underground network… bringing independent films into the lime-light” - Yahoo News
“A Top-Notch Film Festival” - Trashwire
“A Real Powerhouse of a Festival” - Underground Film Journal
“A Wild Ride to the Edges of Visionary Independent Cinema” - Film Festival Examiner
Cinematic Luxe's Indie Showcase is more than just a festival, it's a movement. In its exciting inaugural year (February '26"), we’re shining a spotlight on the most daring, beautiful, and resonant indie films from around the world. Held every couple months, this fully digital festival celebrates creators, encourages honest feedback, and prioritizes the power of community.
Submit Your Film/TV Or Web series Episode Now!
All accepted films/episodes receive:
- guaranteed digital screening in The Weekly Cinematic Spotlight, a dedicated space for all films.
- The chance for a Free professional condensed review from our partner Narrative Insights Review Co.
- Eligibility for multiple awards/merch
- Audience and/or filmmaker feedback
- social media/website promotion
Filmmaker Voting & Award Eligibility
To maintain a festival built on fairness, collaboration, and creative appreciation, every accepted filmmaker must participate in peer voting (In order to be eligible for awards.) This ensures that creators uplift creators, emerging voices get heard, and no film is overlooked.
Voting Requirements for Filmmakers:
Every accepted filmmaker must vote on at least 2 films during the voting window but may vote on 10 different films to support fellow creators.
Directors MUST vote outside their own category.
Directors may NOT vote for themselves or anyone in their personal cast, crew, or production team.
Voting is required to remain eligible for ALL awards (except Audience Choice, which is open to the public).
(All Filmmakers have the right to vote on any category they so choose as long as it's not the one they're submitted for)
Voting Deadline:
All votes must be submitted before the final week of the festival (we'll email you several different times to remind you), no exceptions.
This ensures:
Filmmakers watch peers' films
Voting happens close to final curation decisions
All scoring stays fresh, relevant, and fair
At Cinematic Luxe, we believe community is currency creators uplifting creators, learning from one another, and keeping independent cinema alive with authenticity, collaboration, and respect.
Submissions open year-round. Each season features new films, new voices, and a fresh wave of creativity.
Please note that, in order to maintain the highest level of quality and exclusivity, only the top 20 films in each category will be selected for the main festival. This ensures that every chosen film receives the attention it deserves and is showcased alongside the most exceptional works in indie cinema. Each main showcase is only viewable during the festival window after that; it is removed from public access.
HOWEVER
Even if your film doesn’t land in the main festival’s Top 20, EVERY ACCEPTED FILM (Beginning the same week our main festival's final submission deadline opens) gets featured, in our weekly spotlight showcase. This rotating gallery, categorized by genres keeps your film alive and discoverable week after week.
Why This Exists?
Because Cinematic Luxe values fairness, transparency, and opportunity, the Weekly Spotlight ensures:
Every accepted filmmaker gets screen time
No film is overlooked, even if it doesn't make the Top 20
Underrepresented voices still reach viewers, not bots
The festival stays alive between seasons, building hype and community
This is not a “consolation event.”
It is a creative runway, and many filmmakers can use it to build real momentum.
Here, every film matters.
Here, every filmmaker is seen.
Here, your work has a genuine shot at impact.
Questions?
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