International Film Festival "Prvi kadar"/First Frame is an important film event in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose mission is to promote film art of authors from all over the world. The Festival is of competitive character neither. Films compete in two categories: documentary and short films.
Fifteen editions of the festival, a large number of authors interested in the festival, proving that the festival recognized among artists all over the world, as an important and prestigious film event.
Festival selections confirm continuity, primarily artistic approach, on which is built the whole idea of the first frame. In considering the relationship between themes and ideas, stress is given to the author's attitude or an artistic idea.
Rich noncompetitive and competitive program of high artistic quality, educational programs, lectures DokMasterClass, Film Campus of art documentaries, exhibitions, promotion of book of film art, numerous guests from the world of film, proof that the festival from year to year expanding, enriching the content of the program. This years Festival will takes place from 20th to 24th November 2023 in East Sarajevo and Zvornik, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
SANFIC, Santiago International Film Festival, represents a film platform with educational, cultural, artistic and industrial purposes, as well as a prime symbol of the Chilean capital city and the whole country.
The Cultural Association Officina delle Idee intends to realize with the Patronage of the Municipality of Cittadella (PD), the Veneto Region and the Province of Padua the fifth edition of GEOFILMFESTIVAL - The Cinema of the Elements, "The Golden Earth" International Film Award, availing itself of the artistic direction of the director and actor Rocco Cosentino.
GEOFILMFESTIVAL wants to offer itself to all operators, filmmakers and the general public as competition and innovation for its theme: The Environment. Earth, Water, Fire, Air as objectives in the creation and production of medium-short films. So the Cinema of the Elements for which each of us is called to participate and make it a professional, social and moral goal.
The Cinema, once again, disseminator of news and civilization. Together with the cultural dissemination with the cinematographic projection, GEOFILMFESTIVAL - The Cinema of the Elements links its attention to the Environmental Problems of the World.
Description
Noir is elusive in nature, a label savoured by the most curious lovers of mystery.
Thriller, comedy, science fiction, horror…with a taste of Noir, Read rules.
Aim
“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
A.Hitchcock
The Ocejón Travel Film Festival was born in 2009 in two small villages in the Sierra Norte region of Guadalajara (Spain), promoted by a small group of neighbours concerned about attracting cinema to the rural environment, particularly the uncommercial and committed cinema that tends to have little distribution in normal theaters, but almost nothing in the villages or small towns. But also the organizers wanted the active participation of the neighbourhood, in addition to attracting the attention of people from other towns, regions and cities to know the place where we lived and share experiences.
For that reason from the beginning we tried to make it with the lowest possible budget to compensate the short economic resources with the courage and will of us and our neighbors, the human capital.
Nine years later, in 2018, the festival moved to another small town, Jesús Pobre, in the Marina Alta region (Alicante), however it retains the same spirit and original interests: we want to bring travel movies (any type) to the village.
Currently the organizers are integrated into the non profit association "La Jalea Cultural del Montgó". In 2018, coinciding with its tenth edition, it was celebrated for the first time in the skirt of the Montgó mountain.
The “Corto Helvetico al Femminile” cultural association are planning the 7th edition of “Corto Helvetico al Femminile - Women’s International Short Film Festival in Tessin (Switzerland) from September 27th to 29th. The awards ceremony will be held on September 29th 2019.
The International “Corto Helvetico al Femminile” Short Film Festival offers an invitation for female directors around the world. The male attendance is not excluded if the Short Film shows the female world and a woman as a main character.
Ibicine Asociación Cinematográfica de Ibiza (IACI) was born out of love for cinema and the island of Ibiza with the firm commitment to provide the island with activities related to cinema as well as a film programme that opens the range of cultural activities on the island to new audiences and thus turn Ibiza into a meeting point for the national and international film sector.
Ibicine, Ibiza Film Festival, is one of the annual activities of IACI, organized by the Association and by the production company Dicho y Hecho Porducciones.
Ibicine is a festival that is committed to emerging national, international and Balearic Island talent, which seeks to enhance emerging filmmakers and generate links with established talents, giving special importance to the short film and its technicians, rewarding by categories the technical and artistic aspects that have a place in these film productions with the Astarté awards. a statuette created and made in Ibiza in honour of the Phoenician goddess who left her mark on the island.
In addition to the Official SOC Short Film Section, the festival also has Parallel Sections, as well as the Official SOL Feature Film Section and the projects in development thanks to the creation of the Ibiza Film Market Project Forum, organized by BIAM (Balearic Islands Audiovisual Market) within the framework of the festival, to promote professional cinema on the island, so that a meeting point is generated with the national and international industry to generate and strengthen relationships within the sector: creators, producers, platforms, buyers, etc.
All these activities come together in Ibiza, a perfect place to disconnect from the routines and stress of the big cities and, in this perfect setting, synergies, new projects and learning take place, closing contracts and thus generating the film industry in an unparalleled environment.
Ibicine has been selected by UNESCO as the representative festival of Spain in the Movie Travel film tourism routes, has received recognition from the Consell d'Eivissa, has been awarded the Business Excellence Award as Best Festival in the Balearic Islands by Acquisition International magazine and Festival of the Year 2023 - Spain by LUXlife magazine.
Since 2022 the Festival has been a collaborator of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain, being part of the list of festivals that qualify for the Goya Awards, in the categories of Fiction, Animation and Documentary, in this 8th edition for the Goya Awards 2026.
In this way, the fiction, animation and documentary short films awarded with the Astarté for best fiction short film and with the Astarté for best documentary short film, will opt directly for nomination for the Goya awards, and those selected in the Official Section of Ibicine will be able to opt to enter the list of qualified for the Goya if they add, along with this selection, six other selections in festivals collaborating with the Academy. ***
To consult the rules of participation in the 39th edition of the Goya Awards
Click on the following link (short films on page 39) : https://www.premiosgoya.com/pdfs/bases-39-premios-goya/
To consult the list of festivals collaborating with the Goya awards:
https://www.premiosgoya.com/pdfs/listado-festivales-39-premios-goya/
In addition, the short film awarded with the Astarté for best fiction short film will be qualified for the Fugaz 2025 awards of Cortoespaña.
Ibicine's selection committee is made up of professionals from the sector from different guilds: editing, directing, scriptwriting, cinematography, acting and production; and works together so that the selection is careful and always responds to the criteria of professional quality, diversity, equality with varied themes and genres, to achieve an annual program that manages to take viewers to enjoy and learn from the seventh art through different stories and perspectives.
The jury of each edition of Ibicine is made up of an average of between five and seven professionals from the film sector, also representatives of the different guilds. The jury is chaired by a professional selected by the board of directors of the Association, who has the power to break the tie in the event of a tie, in addition to attending to the media on behalf of the rest of the jury, it is always made up of a large part of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain, as well as international members.
Ibicine has been sponsored in each of its editions by the actresses Paz Vega, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Nadia de Santiago, Inma Cuevas and Michelle Calvó and sponsored, since the first edition, by the actor and comedian Jon Plazaola, who accompanies us in each edition as a lifetime sponsor of the festival.
To date, we have celebrated and recognized the talent of national and international talents, rewarding their film careers with the Astarté de Honor award to: the actress Terele Pávez, the director Isabel Coixet, the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media CIMA, the actor and director Paco León, the actress Yolanda Ramos, the comedian Eva Soriano, the journalist and film disseminator Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, the international producer and screenwriter Axel Kuschevatzky, the co-founder of FILMIN Jaume Ripoll and the international actor Leonardo Sbaraglia.
Ibicine is possible thanks to the support of island institutions such as the Consell d'Eivissa, l'Ajuntament d'Eivissa, l'Ajuntament de Santa Eulària and l'Ajuntament de Sant Antoni de Portmany, as well as that of sponsoring companies, collaborators and the media dissemination of media partners such as IB3, Diario de Ibiza, TEF, Cadena SER and Periódico de Ibiza. It is thanks to them, the passionate team and the volunteers who join every year, that this cultural meeting in Ibiza is possible and has become an essential annual event for all film buffs.
International film festival of entertaining, fantastic and arthouse free genre films.
The Obscura Filmfest was founded by David Ghane in 2016 and has been run by him alone ever since. He is a passionate genre film fan since 1996, attends several film festivals per year since 2004, sometimes helps out there, acts as an extra in horror films and is an extreme film collector.
The Obscura Film Festival specializes in entertaining and fantastic films, big and small, films that almost never get a regular screening. The films shown there are mostly mainstream blockbusters or arthouse films that can be found at most other regular film festivals. Even comparable festivals are expanding their programmes to include more and more arthouse. Those who instead like entertaining, smaller and special independent films, but can also imagine bigger productions from far away countries, will find what they are looking for at the Obscura Filmfest: Films that are fun with rough edges, raw and uncompromising; from nasty little horror films to Asian battle epics, there is something for every fan, just no boredom.
It started with small, offbeat, trashy and depraved underground grindhouse films, meanwhile the Obscura also screens commercial, mid-sized films that are traded on the big film markets.
Highlights of the previous festival editions included the German premieres of the Argentinian fantasy sci fi cyberpunk action film "Daemonium", the Ukrainian thriller "Egregor", the Filipino zombie shocker "Day Zero", the Danish horror film "Finale", the ghost comedy "Deadtectives" and the two Backwoods films "What the Waters Left Behind" and its sequel "Scars" 5 years later.
The European premieres of the Indonesian comic superhero film "Valentine" and the Backwoods film "Drifter" were also screened.
Another highlight was the crazy Japanese splatterfest "Kodoku - Meatball Machine" which can look back on a long festival history including the biggest festivals of its kind, as well as the Universal/Blumhouse production "The Hunt".
With "Redbad" and "The Great Battle", two big battle epics were also screened at the Obscura.
The German premiere of the hard-hitting exploitation film "Trauma" in Hanover was even attended by visitors from the Ruhr area.
After its international premiere at the Obscura, the cowboy backwoods film "Lasso" was shown a few months later at the famous british Frightfest.
In 2022, the Obscura had its first two feature-length film world premieres with "All through the Hall" and "Hidden in the Woods II".
At every Obscura filmfest there were film guests who introduced their film in person and were available for a Q&A. They came from Ireland, UK, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Hungary, The Netherlands, USA, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and of course Germany.
In 2024, there was a record number of guests from 7 different countries, as well as "The Witch. Revenge," a Ukrainian war horror film that was shot during and about the current war.
CINEMA CLUB CONTEST
"An event created by filmmakers for filmmakers”
The Collective and In The Mirror Films are working together to create a short film contest where every month different directors will compete to win the session.
The winner of each session will be elected by the audience !
For every session, you receive feedback from an industry professional to help develop your art.
The wining shorts will go directly to the grand final that will happen the first week of June and the BIG PRIZE is the production of your next Short Film.!
A jury composed by teachers from The Collective school and a special guest from the movie industry will elect the winner of the big prize on the day of the Final.
Movies and Party!
After the presentation of the short films, the analysis if our specialised guests and the election of the wining short, each event will be followed by DJ set to make us feel like sharing more around a beer offered by our sponsor La Cervesera Artesana and get the opportunity to network ! Don't forget your business cards !
FanCineQueer, the International LGBTI Film Festival of Extremadura, celebrates this year its 28th edition between the 7th and the 16th of November launching its traditional Short Films Call with the purpose of recognising, visibilising and fostering the production and dissemination of recent or unreleased LGBTI works.
>>ALL THE COUNTRIES:
AND THIS YEAR WE HAVE LATIN AMERICA FOR THE FEATURE FILMS SECTION AND WITH ANY PART OF THE WORLD FOR THE AWARD OF "3 MINUTES OR LESS ON TECHNOLOGIES"
>>ONLY SPAIN:
COSTAFRITO IS A SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL: SHORT FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES AND PILOT SERIES / WEBSERIES,
Within the framework of the multiple activities presented and organized by Andares: Cinematographic Actions, we are pleased to present the third edition of our Contemporary Film Festival. Another short, careful and compact edition to celebrate cinephilia in the peruvian fall.
Do you have an audiovisual piece, short fiction, animation or documentary for kids? We are looking for your movies! During the Tral·larí: Family's Music Festival, we will have the opportunity to promote the audiovisual arts for children through a kid's cinema sessions. It will take place in Mataró (Barcelona) on September 14 and 15, 2019.
The projection room will be available at different times for the possibility of projecting a large number of pieces and guaranteeing their visibility. Do you want to sign up?
You have until June 1st, 2019 to send us your movies.
If your film gets selected we will contact you to get the projection copies and promotional material.
Busan International Art Film Festival(BIAFF) is established by a non-profit organization, Show-Must-Go-On,. based on Busan and attempts to reach out to as many filmmakers as possible.
BIAFF is officially sponsored by Busan Metropolitan CIty, Korean Film Council, Busan Cultural Foundation, Busan Cinema Center and Busan Film Commission.
Less is more when it comes to telling a complete and compelling story in a short amount of time. We provide filmmakers with an opportunity to connect to in audience using any genre so long as it is less than 40 minutes.
All submitted project will be reviewed by the BIAFF festival staff, a professor and current filmmakers around the globe at least three times before a decision is made in its inclusion
The Ciudad Madero International Film Festival (FICCMADERO) calls on Mexican and international producers and filmmakers to submit their short and feature films to the 99th Edition of the Festival, which will take place from November 19 to 22, 2025.
The shnit worldwide shortsfestival is a premier platform for the exhibition and promotion of short films. This festival is a unique transnational event held simultaneously in ten cities across five continents. The festival consists of three main segments:
▪ shnit PLAYGROUNDS* | Running until August 31st, 2025
▪ shnit EXPANDED | Running until September 30th, 2025
▪ shnit FINALE | Amsterdam – September 30th, 2025
The winner of the WORLDWIDE COMPETITION, as well as the shnit audience-nominated films of the WORLDWIDE & INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, will become eligible to enter the 2026 Oscars® in accordance with the rules of the 98th Academy Awards® [Cinematic release].
Over the past twenty-three years, shnit has evolved into a major international short film festival, continuously reinventing itself. Originally a local initiative, it is now a global event connecting and inspiring filmmakers and audiences from different cultural backgrounds. The festival promotes diversity, originality, and artistic exchange. With its high-quality cinematic selections, shnit attracts over 30,000 visitors, making it one of the leading short film festivals worldwide.
shnit is a non-profit organization, coordinated in collaboration with festival executives. The festival operates on principles of excellence and professionalism, fostering its international expansion.
* Planned PLAYGROUNDS for 2025
shnit worldwide shortsfestival takes place simultaneously in the several cities, the shnit PLAYGROUNDS, on five continents. The planned PLAYGROUNDS 2025 are:
▪ Buenos Aires [Argentina]
▪ Cairo [Egypt]
▪ Cape Town [South Africa]
▪ Goa [India]
▪ Hong Kong [China]
▪ Moscow [Russia]
▪ Sydney [Australia]
▪ San José [Costa Rica]
▪ Toronto [Canada]
▪ Bern [Switzerland] – shnit OPENING
▪ Amsterdam [The Netherlands] – shnit FINALE
The FIC Chihuahua aims to promote and boost the cinematographic talent of the north of the country by giving voice to local, national and international artists.
Our Festival celebrates creativity, effort, work and the value of filmmaking in the North of the Country. It plays a vital role in the promotion of emerging national and international talent.
