About the Festival
accordi @ DISACCORDI – International Short Film Festival welcomes films and filmmakers from around the world with the aim of sharing the art of independent short filmmaking with local audiences, inspiring and engaging festival attendees, providing filmmakers with opportunities for professional networking and artistic development, and promoting cultural tourism and the growth of the film industry in Naples and the Campania Region.
Designed with audiences in mind, accordi @ DISACCORDI showcases a carefully curated selection of high-quality films spanning every genre of the seventh art—from comedy and drama to animation, documentaries, experimental cinema, art films, and music videos.
In addition to film screenings, the Festival offers a rich programme of filmmaker talks, Q&A sessions, workshops, laboratories, exhibitions, seminars, and conferences. Admission to all cultural events is free of charge, reflecting the Festival's commitment to making cinema an accessible and engaging experience for everyone.
The 23rd edition of accordi @ DISACCORDI – International Short Film Festival will take place in Naples, Italy, from November 9 to 15, 2026.
Submit your film for the opportunity to be selected for screening at the Festival and compete for one of the official awards, including a commemorative acrylic or wooden plaque.
Around International Awards ✈ Barcelona ✈ Paris ✈ Amsterdam ✈ Berlin.
Annual Independent event with 4 major programs for all Features, Shorts, Documentaries, Experimental, Commercial, Music Video, Animations, Student Films, TV, Series, and New Media. The international community evaluates the all-genre creations to serve ARFF Official Laurels and to certify the awarded filmmakers at the end of the annual festival run. Thus, all the ARFF Finalists will be mentioned multiple times to have the best out of the entire year altogether. Submit today to participate in all 4 programs, regarding the unique system of ARFF International.
Submissions made via Festhome are getting evaluated and selected, directly for the yearly festival run and participating in the Official Certificate Program exclusively. Monthly selection is available on other associated platforms. Regarding the Unification Program of ARFF International, all 4 editions will gather at Amsterddam November/December 2024, till then Barcelona, Paris & Berlin editions will take place online.
See you Around & Fest Regards
The festival will take place in Alicante from December 13 to 19, 2026.
Only short films produced exclusively with a smartphone will be accepted.
Both national and international short films are eligible to participate.
The theme is open to all genres and subjects.
We conceive IBZCF as a window into contemporary cinema, its new trends and creators who contribute new narrative paths to create vibrant, necessary, and modern films.
The 11th edition of IBZCF will take place in 10 venues across the island's five municipalities and online on the Filmin platform. Ibizacinefest renews its commitment to Ibiza and its culture through a program of national and international titles never before seen on the island, exclusive premieres in the Balearic Islands and Spain, activities aimed at professionals, short film sections to discover and promote local and Balearic talent, and our educational program with special screenings to create new audiences.
Reflection will also be given space through open discussions on the relationship between cinema and various current sociocultural issues.
Short films are once again the focus of IBZCF, once again as a qualifier for the Premios Goya,Forqué Awards, and the Fugaz Awards, collaborating once again with the European Film Academy on the Shortfilms on Tour program.
Xavi Herrero
Director and programmer IBZCF2-European Film Academy Member
The Xypher Film Festival is a global showcase celebrating bold short films and emerging storytellers from around the world. We provide a free, accessible platform for filmmakers to share their work, gain visibility, and connect with an audience that values fresh perspectives.
Selected films are premiered on our official YouTube channel and promoted across social media, with opportunities to win audience-voted and curated awards.
All genres, styles, and languages are welcome.
Submissions are now open for another edition of the Primeiro Plano Film Festival of Juiz de Fora and Mercocities.
You can submit your short film to the festival's competitive sections until July 31.
The Regional Competition is open to filmmakers from Juiz de Fora and the surrounding region. The Mercocities Competition is dedicated to first-time directors from across Brazil and South American countries.
In addition to screening selected films, the festival continues to encourage new productions and strengthen the independent audiovisual sector.
The festival takes place in November and features a diverse programme including film screenings, workshops, panel discussions, networking events, and special activities for both audiences and filmmakers.
Follow our social media channels to stay up to date with all the latest news about this year's edition.
Submit your film and become part of the history of Primeiro Plano Film Festival!
FRONTERA SUR, International Non-Fiction Film Festival, is a non-competitive event that exhibits a set of cinematographic, Chilean, Latin American and worldwide works related to the concept of non-fiction cinema.
The seventh edition of the FRONTERA SUR Festival will take place from May 26 to 30, 2026, in the Concepción city, Biobío Region, southern Chile.
The "MIRA" LGBT+ Short Film Festival is a cultural and social initiative that seeks to raise visibility and celebrate sexual and gender diversity through the narrative power of cinema. Held annually in Alzira, the festival provides a platform for both emerging and established filmmakers and producers, from Spain and around the world, who explore LGBT+ themes, promoting dialogue, empathy, and understanding in society.
Our goal is to create a safe and enriching space where LGBT+ stories can be told, recognized, and appreciated, contributing to the fight against discrimination and to the building of a more inclusive society.
The BELLAVISTA FILM FESTIVAL (BVFF) 2025 #BVFF25 seeks to inspire, empower, and unify our audience through cinematographic art of social impact.
The festival is a space in which the community and cinema converse through cinematographic works of art selected with great artistic value and a theme of representative and relevant social impact. Thus promoting social impact cinema as a tool to stimulate critical thinking and motivate social action to catalyze agents of change in their communities and beyond.
The BVFF will be held as an itinerant festival, bringing its screenings to the following cities:
- Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
- Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Los Ángeles, California, USA
- Panamá City, Panamá
- México City, México
- Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
- Bogotá D.C., Colombia
As a development of a social project for cultural growth, the festival seeks to promote exhibition spaces for the curated works, in addition to movie theaters, cinematheques and cultural institutions, also in neighborhood and rural locations and on an itinerant basis in representative cultural spaces in the rest of the country and Latin America.
We trust in the power of cinema as a commitment to social transformation and high-quality cultural reflection.
The second edition of the CORTONAOS FF La Palma International Short Film Festival will take place from August 3rd to 9th in the coastal town of Puerto de Naos. This initiative aims to raise awareness about respecting the ocean and the biosphere it harbors through audiovisual media. The festival's official selection will award prizes for the best national and international short film (including all short films submitted from outside the Canary Islands) and the best Canarian short film (for films shot in the Canary Islands).
The Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Festival is an annual outdoor event located in the heart of Lisbon's historic neighborhood, Alfama. For a week, we occupy the street with independent films from around the world.
OPEN CALL
We welcome submissions from independent directors, screenwriters, and composers who want to see their work screened at the white walls of Alfama.
ABOUT CINALFAMA
Cinalfama Lisboa International Film Festival celebrates the rich cultural and historical tapestry of one of the city's most iconic areas, providing a unique platform for independent filmmakers worldwide.
We aim to promote cultural and artistic diversity through cinema, highlighting works that address relevant, innovative, and provocative themes. With a carefully curated selection of films, our goal is to offer the audience an engaging and diverse cinematic experience.
To believe in an independent film festival in the streets of one of Lisbon's historic neighborhoods inevitably absorbed by gentrification is to persist and pursue a community utopia where cinema plays a restorative role.
In this context, Cinalfama has been developing a pilot program to collect stories and orality from residents and spaces in the neighborhood, in an attempt to rescue the essence of this population.
Several of the directors who make up the Cinalfama team, such as Pedro Costa, Leonor Teles, and Pedro Cabeleira, are taking part in this pressing project, whose collections are being screened at the Cinalfama Lisboa International Film Festival.
Cinalfama holds a second Open Call for the Film Observatory - regular competitive sessions three times a year (January, April, and October) - with different categories.
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.
World Smart Shorts Independent Panorama (WSSIPFest) is an international film festival dedicated to presenting ultra-short films created exclusively with smartphones, on any subject matter. The event celebrates formal minimalism and narrative maximalism while supporting independent creators working outside the mainstream film industry. The guiding motto of the Festival is: “One film – one minute – one smartphone.” Filmmakers from all over the world are welcome to participate.
The tenth edition of the International Festival of Socio-Environmental Cinema PLANET.Doc 2025 will take place from September 25 to December 25, 2025, in a hybrid format, with an extensive online program accessible throughout Brazil. The event presents a curated selection of international, Brazilian, and regional (Catarinense) documentaries, animations, and virtual reality films focused on socio-environmental and scientific themes.
In addition, the Festival will host the fifth edition of the PLANET.Doc Conference, which will bring together leading thinkers, scientists, journalists, and cultural agents from around the world in a major global conversation on sustainability. The conference will take place during the opening week of the festival and will be streamed to universities, schools, and the general public.
The event promotes an active dialogue between cinema, science, and society, offering film screenings and thematic discussions aimed at educational institutions, NGOs, and broader audiences across Brazil.
Submissions of documentaries, animations, and virtual reality works will be accepted until July 31, 2025, in the following categories:
SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTARY
NATURE DOCUMENTARY
ANIMATION
SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTARY
As a whole, the festival offers a remarkable showcase of some of the most relevant cinematic works about the Planet today—bringing together science, technology, nature, and society in a free, accessible experience for schools, universities, and cultural centers, primarily through digital platforms.
For more information, please visit the official website: https://www.planetadoc.com
1. ORGANISATION
The Salerno International Film Festival, with its registered office at Via Portacatena, 51 – 84121 Salerno (SA), tax code 80046160653, was founded in 1946 by CINECLUB SALERNO, and the Organising Committee (a non-profit organisation) is responsible for staging the annual editions.
2. OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSES
Since its inception, the Salerno Film Festival has distinguished itself as a competitive event for Italian and international productions, thereby fostering ongoing dialogue on developments in world cinema.
The Festival attributes an important social function to cinema, and its aim is to constantly adapt its approach in line with the evolution of technology and new ‘audiovisual’ media.
The Festival fulfils its original mission of promoting and fostering film literacy, in keeping with its tradition, with a particular focus on independent works and technical and artistic innovation.
3. PROGRAMME
The 80th edition of the Salerno International Film Festival will take place in the city of Salerno from 23 to 28 November 2026 at the Cine-Teatro Augusteo.
In addition to the competitions for the various film sections, the Festival also features film programmes, retrospectives and side events (exhibitions, conferences, round-table discussions, etc.) as a contribution to raising awareness of the history of Italian and international cinema.
On the closing night of 28 November 2026, prizes will be awarded to the winning films and honours bestowed upon prominent figures in the artistic, social and cultural spheres. The Awards Ceremony may also be split into two separate evenings: one dedicated to ‘Specialised Cinema’ (documentaries, cartoons, etc.) and another dedicated to feature-length films and various other awards.
The films will be screened at the Cine-Teatro Augusteo, with the schedule to be determined at the discretion of the Festival Management, subject to the date of submission and the standard film entry procedures.
Both the side events and the awards ceremony will be streamed on the Festival’s social media channels.
The theme of the festival will be “Transitions: Cinema that Regenerates the Future”.
The 2026 edition takes place against a global backdrop marked by profound transitions: climatic, energy-related, technological, social, economic and cultural. These transformations are changing the way communities inhabit their territories, create value, communicate, consume resources, perceive the future and construct collective imaginaries. In this context, cinema cannot merely record reality; it can become a language capable of anticipating, interpreting and questioning it, while making complex processes understandable and accessible to all. The ecological transition, in particular, does not concern only the environment in a technical sense, but implies a shift in the way we conceive of the relationship between humanity, technology, the economy and nature. For this reason, the Festival proposes a cultural interpretation of sustainability: not merely a reduction in environmental impact, but a transformation of our perspective, narratives and social practices. Cinema thus becomes a driver of awareness and a catalyst for new collective responsibilities. his topic will be considered a preference for selection purposes but is not binding.
3 bis. AUDIENCE IN THE THEATRE
Audiences attending screenings during the festival will have the opportunity to cast a rating vote for each film they watch (votes are cast on a scale of 1 to 5, with an arithmetic mean calculated). These votes will determine the winner of the Audience Award.
Dieciminuti Film Festival was created in 2005 by IndieGesta. It was able to quickly become one of the events dedicated to short films most important in Italy.
The Festival, whose first 21 editions attended by more than 20,000 short films involving a total of nearly 28,000 spectators, is structured in various competitive sections: Official Selection (for short films up to 10 minutes released after the 1st of January 2026), Extralarge (for shorts between 10 and 20 minutes released after the 1st of January 2026) Animations (animations for up to 15 minutes released after the 1st of January 2026), Doc10 (documentaries for up to 15 minutes released after the 1st of January 2026), Visti da Vicino (for short films up to 10 minutes released by directors coming from the province of Frosinone after the 1st of January 2026).
At the Competitive sections, joins the Dieciminuti Academy, a school of cinema that brings young people of our province to create from scratch a short fiction or animation. The thing that is unique about the festival on the national scene is to be a real school for young people who want to explore the world of cinema. It‘s also very much appreciated the Section Esplorazioni, which allows viewers to get in touch with the short film coming from a different country each year. During last years, the festival has hosted the short unpublished masters of Japanese animation by Studio Ghibli, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the animated short films of the Tehran Film Festival, the short films of Georges Méliès, the avantguardes, the web-series.
Cine Upar is an annual international and Colombian film festival that takes place in Valledupar in Cesar, with the aim of facilitating the circulation and exhibition of national and international film productions, while providing a screening sale for the cinematography made in Valledupar alluding to vallenato music and culture and that made by the ethnic groups located in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and in the Serranía de Perijá.
We value the creative freedom of national and international filmmakers, so in our selection there will be a space for films of any format, extension, genre or technique, as long as they are productions of quality, relevance and cinematographic relevance according to the criteria and bases of the festival. The viewing and deliberation of the films will be in charge of the Programming or Curatorship Committee, made up of a group of cinephiles, experts in cinematography and topics related to the theme of the section who share criteria with the artistic direction of Cine Upar.
The Busan International AI Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing films created using artificial intelligence technology, serving as a platform for presenting creative content produced through AI.
We aim to provide opportunities to artistically experience new forms of art and diverse genres of films created by innovative AI technologies. Additionally, we offer a stage for filmmakers who challenge themselves with creative work through AI, thereby uncovering and supporting new talents.
• Dates: December 4-6, 2025
• Venue: Busan Cinema Center, Small Theater, Sky Theater
• Awards:
·Best AI Creative Film Award: 1 film
(USD 10,000)
· AI Art Innovation Award: 1 film
(USD 5,000)
· AI Technology Advancement Award: 1 film
(USD 4,000)
· AI Social Impact Award: 1 film
(USD 3,000)
• Opening Ceremony/Performance
• Closing Ceremony
• Screening of invited films
• Screening of 15 finalists
• Conference
• Content Showcase
• Eligibility: Open to all individuals and teams, domestic and international
(one • entry per person)
• Programs: International Competition
(short films, feature films, documentaries,
animations, etc.)
• Theme: Open theme
• Submission Criteria:
· Films utilizing AI technology (partially or entirely)
· Running time: 3-15 minutes
· Films completed from 2024 onwards
• Submission Method : biaif.dureraum.org
Twelve years of Randfilmfest = Twelve years of wild and radical cinema, visionary film art, provocative themes and concepts, unusual screenings and strange formats.
This year, too, we want to lead our audience astray, plunge them into the abyss, set them on the wrong track, let them discover something new or open up unusual perspectives. Even after twelve years of festival work, we still love cinema, the big screen and unusual ways of seeing and listening.
