You’ve chosen to film. Chosen to put together a visual piece of art if we may say so. Today when anyone with a camera can, in theory, make a film... how will you make your short film stand out? What you intend to do with your film is what the Bengaluru International Short Film Festival is all about. We will be what you create.
After the tremendous success that was BISFF 2024, we are all set to host the 15th edition. Just as every year, this is an attempt to understand the medium a little better and go a little further in inventing new forms of storytelling as filmmakers.
This year the Festival will be a HYBRID Version, having both Online and Venue Screenings. Online Screenings will be only for INDIAN Geography
The festival showcases shorts from across the world, creating a physical space for a great audience experience and bringing together a keen audience for the filmmakers. BISFF also exhibits works by past masters who have dabbled in short filmmaking that today is viewed as an art form that needs a unique approach. Additionally, the festival presents talks and panel discussions with leading thinkers and industry practitioners, enabling budding makers to interact with the best in the industry. BISFF also includes hands on learning experiences in workshops and demonstrations by professionals, putting together an exclusive audience experience and perhaps space for makers to find what they are looking for.
Krew! Is the first film Festidrag in the world. It will take place during the month of October 2024, in the city of Monterrey Nuevo León, Mexico at the Cineteca Nuevo León.
General Information:
Krew! Is an International Drag Film Festival with stories starring Drags artists, which brings together audiovisual material from all over the world to exhibit it in movie theaters and reward the best productions with an awards ceremony night.
The origin of the name:
“Krew!” backwards is “Werk!” and this is an expression used by the Drag and LGBTTTIQ+ community that means "To get going, work or execute something so well and with so much swaying, using all possible skills and tools to transmit something with such precision and security that no one would be able to criticize you, shade you, decipher you or read you.” In addition, the word Krew! directly resembles the word Crew, which refers to the team that makes up the production of a film or a Festidrag.
Festival Start: November 21,2024 Festival End: November 24,2024
FICEM is an artistic project and international film dissemination carried out from an Afrodiasporic reading in San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia, a corner of Africa in America and declared cultural and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO.
The festival takes its name from the first Afro-Colombian film actor Evaristo Márquez, a participant in films such as La Quemada (1969) alongside Marlon Brando and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo among others.
FICEM continues with the conviction of continuing to be one of the most suitable strategies for the conservation of heritage, history, but above all the construction of a more conscious mentality with the capacity for analysis and reflection, both in the youth and adult populations of the Afro communities and the world in general, through cinema and socio-cultural initiatives.
The festival slogan: "On a wave of emotions!" reflects the concept: cinema should evoke the emotions of the viewer. The festival prefers films that catch and make us laugh, cry, deeply empathize. These are films with a strong catching story.
Feature shorts of all genres (up to 40 min) and documentary films - from all over the world are considered.
Every year three unforgettable days of the sea shore velvet season await participants and guests of the festival. Cinema, emotions, the sea, the sun and live music. The festival is held in the famous art gallery "Green Pyramid", which is a stone's throw from Chersonesos - the historical center of Sevastopol.
The competition is judged by international jury.
The Places of Culture Film Festival, by CCBB Educativo, seeks to build a window for works that address the audiovisual universe, celebrating the transformative power of education and cinema.
The Banco do Brasil Cultural Center Rio de Janeiro (CCBB) is one of the largest cultural centers in Latin America, with more than 1.5 million visitors per year.
BPFF2024's program consists of a competitive section called 'Blue Planet Award' and various non-competitive programs.
Competition for films on climate crisis or related to the environment in a broad sense. Works selected for the finals after preliminary screening will be screened at BPFF2024.
Dokumentala was born to show, through the language of cinema, the transforming power of support between people.
That is why the thematic axis of the proposals to the competition will be to make visible support relationships that can occur in society and that generate positive changes in people, in groups and in municipalities.
Argia Fundazioa, opens the Call for the THIRD Edition of the dokuMentala 2022 Festival.
Argia Fundazioa is an entity that supports people with a diagnosis of mental illness to improve their quality of life and the image that society has of this group.
dokuMentala 2022 was born in 2019 to show, through the language of cinema, the transforming power of support between people.
The Call for the Festival for the year 2022 is made public, which will be governed by the rules detailed below.
From March 19 to May 30, GENERAMMA, Festival de Cine Realizado por Mujeres - Chiclana, opens its call for entries for short films directed by women from Spain, Europe, Latin America & Caribean, for its fifth edition from September 9 to 13, 2025.
GENERAMMA is a festival with a NON COMPETITIVE international showcase of feature films, and a COMPETITIVE official section of short films that offers its audience the best of cinema made by women.
GENERAMMA is a festival organized by the Andalusian Association of Women in Audiovisual Media (AAMMA), which brings together more than 250 film and audiovisual professionals.
The Ciné-Beyrouth Festival is an annual festival dedicated to Oriental cinema and Lebanese international society.
The Ciné-Beyrouth Film Festival aims at challenging filmmakers through short films fiction and documentary.
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Festival of Future Storytellers has been one of the most important festivals for young filmmakers worldwide since 1981. Each year, it offers young filmmakers from all over the world a platform for presenting their own short films and exchanging ideas about filmmaking. Each November, Munich becomes the focal point of up-and-coming international filmmaking — a place for lively exchange, networking, and discussion.
The short fiction, documentary, and animated films screened in international competition are eligible for valuable prizes, which are awarded by an independent festival jury. In addition, Festival of Future Storytellers presents a DACH Short Film Competition, in which short films from the DACH region will be programmed. An extensive supporting programme with panels and masterclasses complements the film programme.
OJO DE PESCADO International Film Festival for Children and Youth is an annual event in Chile that gathers the most recent and exclusive film and TV contents from all over the world aimed at children and youth.
The Festival is organized by the OJO DE PESCADO CULTURAL CORPORATION, an exploration and action platform that, through the exhibition of films and the promotion of audiovisual creation, aims to help guarantee the right of children and young people to the integral education and communication and expression of their opinions.
The 11th edition of Ojo de Pescado Film Festival will take place online through the entire Chilean territory and in person only in the Region of Valparaíso (if the health situation allows it) between november 5 and november 15, 2024,
Competition Categories are:
- Short films for children.
- Television or web series for children.
- Feature films for children and adolescents.
- “Young Filmmakers” (short films made by children or young people).
The MALDITO Videopoetry Festival is organising this competition with the aim of making visible two disciplines that, both together and separately, are much more distant and forgotten than we would like them to be. If experience tells us that both disciplines are minority and marginal in large European capitals, let alone the desert in which they find themselves in provincial capitals, where the circuit for their dissemination is practically nil.
We, as lovers of poetry, image and the expressive possibilities of their symbiosis, propose a line of action, encouraging the approach of the general public to the Festival and trying to make it grow from the first edition.
Our wish is that MALDITO reaches as many people as possible, with a growing presence and repercussion in the media and social networks.
MALDITO seeks to vindicate videopoetry as an art that connects people, that transmits feelings and promotes original or different ways of seeing the world, to try to be a grain of sand that makes any kind of visual or poetic art stop being marginal and cursed.(* The Spanish word for damned is MALDITO).
We expand sections by adding International Poetic Film Showcase.
IX Santaella Short Film Festival October 26, 2024.
Organize and Collaborate:
Celluloid Film Association
Santaella Town Hall and Campiña Cathedral.
Junta de Andalucía, Department of Tourism
Film Festival Ponferrada renews its objectives to specialize in the dissemination and promotion of short films anywhere in the world without taking into account its production, distribution, exhibition, category, gender or theme format.
We also want to value the short film as an audiovisual, current or historical document, which reflects the cultural, social and linguistic diversity of any region of the world as part of the memory of the most unknown universal audiovisual heritage and heritage.
Welcome to the Northstar Filmfare International Film Festival—an avant-garde cinematic journey that extends beyond traditional boundaries. Focused on empowering emerging filmmakers in the dynamic world of cinema, NFIFF emphasizes globally showcasing your work, securing press coverage, and fostering connections with influential figures in the industry.
At NFIFF, we warmly embrace filmmakers from around the world, anticipating films that embody courage, determination, and unique voices. Our commitment extends to supporting content creators and cultivating an environment where creativity thrives.
In the realm of NFIFF, the spotlight illuminates filmmaking every month. Winners receive an exclusive laurel and certificate, tangible recognition of their accomplishments. Submit your masterpiece today and explore new horizons in the world of filmmaking with NFIFF.
The Cittador International Film Festival in Vienna is an annual event that presents international, European and Austrian independent feature-length film and short films. Our festival is addressed to all filmmaker who love inspirational, high quality, engaging, original, and imaginative films.
Our Film Festival was created with the goal of showcasing emerging film talent, inspiring and entertaining audiences, as well as motivating filmmakers and inspiring film lovers. We aim to discover and highlight current cinematic themes and endeavors worldwide in film.
Therefore, we show films as a palette from all film genres, so that a comprehensive cinematic picture can be created for the film audience.
Cittador International Film Festival considers feature-length up to 120 and short films up to 30 minutes running time.
The live cinema screenings of the winning films with a live award ceremony will take place at the Lugner Kino in Vienna, Austria.
SCREENINGS
The screening will take place from December 14 to 21, 2025, either as a live screening in the cinema or as an online screening. This means that all best-of awarded short films will be shown in the cinema and all best-of feature-length films will be shown online. The full schedule will be published on the CIFF website.
After the screenings in the cinema, filmmakers, crew, cast members, and film enthusiasts in attendance will be invited to participate in video interviews. These videos will be featured on our website under “Cittador’s Talks” and shared on social media. Please note that the festival does not cover travel and accommodation costs for attending the screening.
LIVE AWARD CEREMONY
The award ceremony will take place live at the Lugner Cinema on December 14, 2025. During the ceremony, the award-winning films will be presented, filmmakers will be invited to make a statement, and the official certificates will be handed out.
Filmmakers are requested to confirm their attendance at the award ceremony via email after the jury’s decision to ensure they are included in the program. Please note that travel and accommodation costs for attending the screening will not be covered by the festival.
Those filmmakers who cannot be present will be asked to send a video message (max. 2 minutes) to be shown during the ceremony.
The first part of the screening will follow immediately after the awards ceremony. As the festival also serves as a networking opportunity for industry professionals, a meet-and-greet will take place after the screening. During the meet-and-greet, filmmakers, team members, and film enthusiasts will be interviewed on video. These videos will be published on the CIFF website under the “Cittador’s Talks” series and shared on social media.
Filmmakers will receive further details about the awards ceremony via email, so we kindly ask you to ensure your contact details remain up to date.
La Asociación Cultural Cinergias, con sede en Madrid, España, organiza la Edición Lanzamiento de Cinergias Festival de Cine Iberoamericano, que tiene como objetivo la promoción, difusión y reconocimiento de cineastas iberoamericanos para dar impulso a los jóvenes talentos con la divulgación de sus obras en formato corto, o de sus óperas primas de largometraje.
En esta primera edición de 2024 el festival busca generar una programación a partir de la reflexión, la multiplicidad de voces y discursos, y la diversidad de miradas.
El festival quiere constituirse en un espacio trascendente para un cine que sea relevantemente contemporáneo y que no tenga miedo de mirar al pasado ni al futuro.
Se trata de un festival no competitivo en su sección oficial de cortometrajes y largometrajes que pone el foco en una cuidada programación representativa de Iberoamérica y, en lugar de un premio único para uno de los participantes en la sección oficial, propone el pago por selección de 200 € a cada una de las películas seleccionadas.
El nombre de Cinergias surge de la combinación de las palabras cine y energía en su sentido de eficacia y virtud para obrar. Y a la vez alude al término sinergia, como la unión de varios elementos para obtener un resultado mayor al de esas partes por sí solas.
In a great theatre at 10 mn from Champs Elysées in Paris France the second edition of the new international film festival dedicated to the new génération of actors and actress.
During 8 days a presentation of films from all regions of the world and open to all themes, including at least one main role in the film played by a young person under 27.
Welcome to Paris. All films selected in competition will be presented by the director and an actor invited by the festival.
A film festival organized by french directors and producers.
To participe all the films must have minimum one lead actor or actress under 27 years old in the cast.
A festival that aims to be a meeting and exchange point between different generations.
An annual meeting place for young and professional actors.
A festival aimed at all audiences.
A red carpet for everybody.
The festival is organize in cooperation with great famous feature film institutions and important broadcast channels.
Important amount of prizes.
3 selections in competition.
BIG SCREEN : feature films.
INDEPENDENT : feature films.
SHORT : short films.
The Kursaal Film Festival San Sebastián (KFFSS) is an international short film festival that stands out for promoting the talent of filmmakers.
The "Filmmaker's Dragonheart Award" is recognized as the award for the talent and courage of filmmakers who, through their efforts, have managed to realize their dream.
