Anatomy Crime – Horror International Film Festival (A.C.H.I.F.F.)
The Anatomy Crime – Horror International Film Festival (A.C.H.I.F.F.) is an annual international showcase dedicated to independent filmmakers. Founded in 2017 by THE BASEMENT, a nonprofit Cultural and Educational Organization (B.C.E.O.), the festival was built by creators, for creators.
In a film industry dominated by studios and massive budgets, independent voices often struggle to break through. A.C.H.I.F.F. exists to change that. We provide a platform where filmmakers with limited resources — but powerful stories — can share their vision with a global audience.
At A.C.H.I.F.F., every participant receives recognition. Gold and Silver winners are honored with official certificates, while all filmmakers — regardless of category or distinction — receive personalized poster‑awards. With numerous award categories spanning narrative, performance, technical craft, and visual identity, the festival ensures that every creator leaves with something meaningful, and the celebration of cinema becomes a rich tapestry of many prizes. In addition, winners, nominees, and finalists have the option to acquire handcrafted bust‑awards, made from mineral‑based material and hand‑painted, offering a tangible keepsake of their achievement.
Why Submit to A.C.H.I.F.F.?
A Proven Legacy: For 9 years, we’ve screened hundreds of films, from 4‑day to 11‑day events, always spotlighting originality and bold storytelling.
A New Monthly Format: Starting this year, A.C.H.I.F.F. becomes a monthly festival. Each month, one film is awarded Best of the Month. The 12 monthly winners then compete at Halloween for the ultimate honor: Best Film of the Year.
Faster Recognition: Immediate selection and award notifications mean your work gets the attention it deserves without long delays.
IMDB Verified & International Prestige: A.C.H.I.F.F. is an IMDB‑verified festival, ensuring that every official selection and award is formally recognized.
Over the years, we have attracted submissions from filmmakers whose works have been screened at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals and awards, including the Academy Awards (U.S.), Sitges, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Cannes, Sundance, and Tribeca.
This growing network of creators highlights the festival’s reputation as a trusted platform for independent voices in horror, crime, and beyond.
✨ Submit your film today and join a festival that celebrates bold storytelling, nurtures independent talent, and brings unforgettable visions to the screen.
The municipality of Gravina di Catania and the cultural associations “Gravina Arte” and “No_Name”, organize the event “Via dei Corti” – 12th edition of the Independent Short Film Festival.
Algeciras Fantástika is a multidisciplinary cultural event specialized in matters of fantastic nature, suspense, terror and science fiction, organized by Algeciras City Council and the University of Cadiz.
IFF ZOOM - ZBLIZENIA (Jelenia Góra) is one of the largest and most important independent cinema festivals in Poland. Its aim is to present the author's cinema, ambitious, high artistic value, moving independent and original subject matter, as well as promotion of independent film art.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, we would like to inform you that the Russian films which will be submitted to the 30. IFF ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA 2027 will not be eligible for competitions.
The GEH Short Film Competition is a short film competition on human rights held in different localities of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country).
This competition is part of the global project human rights Giza Eskubideak Herrira (Bringing human rights to the people.). The GEH is a human rights awareness project created by the dar-dar Productions cooperative in 2015. The first editions were based in Ordizia. In 2023, the festival has developed and extended to several towns in Gipuzkoa (Euskal Herria).
The main objective of this competition is to raise awareness and educate on human rights.
Because this short film contest is a window that we open to the world, and from that window we can see the different realities that people live in different parts of the planet. In view of these realities, we intend to encourage reflection on human rights violations in different parts of the world.
Rueda Libre (Freewheel) is the official call of shortFilms to Cine Libre FilmFestival, we take for symbol THE WHEEL that evokes the hills of Fredonia where children running down with wheels and tires. Now cinema is taken Fredonia and the concept of roll changes cinematically .
A premier International Film Festival in Kathmandu Nepal. Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival is running since 2010. This year the 14th Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival will be organized from 27 November to 1 December 2026.
Over 60 selected films from around the globe made on human rights issues will be screened during the festival. Some screenings will be followed by a discussion on the film with the filmmakers.
The films will be screened under the following sections:
- Competition section
There will be competition section for both Nepali and International films. Films produced during 2024-2026 will be eligible to participate in this section. The films need to be based on at least one aspect of human rights. They could be both fiction and documentaries. The films need to fulfill all the criteria set by the organizing committee to be eligible for competition.
- Special Screening
Special films that could not fulfill all the criteria of the competitive section but are important in raising the human rights issues will be screened in this section. This section will also cover such films, which may not want to compete under the other section. Films from partners of the NHRIFF, which are qualified for being selected for the festival but could not participate in the competitive section due to the conflict of interest, will also be screened under this section.
- Yesteryears Eyes
Classics from the yesteryears, which deal with human rights issues, will be screened under this section.
- Partners' Panorama
This section will screen the films produced by organizations, who are partners of the 12th Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival. These films will not be recognized as official entries to the festival. But the festival will only provide a platform for the partners to showcase their works.
IMPORTANT REMINDER
****THE FESTIVAL WILL BE PHYSICAL****
****WE DON'T PAY SCREENING FEE FOR THE SELECTED FILMS*****
The Barcelona Olympic Foundation, with the support of the Barcelona City Council, organizes the BCN Sports Film 2027 – 17th BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL FICTS FESTIVAL and forms part of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE 2027.
The BCN Sports Film 2027 will take place in Barcelona on dates yet to be determined during February of 2027. In this seventeenth edition, the festival will have a competitive nature.
The seventeenth edition of the festival will have a hybrid format so, there will be face-to-face screenings and online screenings. The rights that the authors assign, therefore, are both for the face-to-face sessions that are held in the official venues of the contest, as well as for the sessions that will be held online through an online platform.
These Rules & Regulations have been approved by the BCN Sports Film 2027 Organising Committee. Your taking part in BCN Sports Film 2027 implies the total acceptance of these regulations.
TAFIC is one of the most important short film festivals in Argentina.
The International Film / Short Film Festival of Tapiales is a film event of important social and cultural impact, not for profit, organized by JC Films OFCT, which takes place in the town of Tapiales, a town belonging to the La Matanza party, located in the Buenos Aires province.
Tapiales Cine / Corto is also a competitive event, where the selected short films that later receive the Aboriginal Prize are screened according to the decision of the honorable jurors.
The event is carried out under the premise of exalting the popular, free and open-air character, summoning an approximate amount of 3000 spectators per edition over three days. Tapiales Cine / Corto also proposes parallel activities, such as training spaces, talks and special shows outside the competition.
The objectives of the Festival are to stimulate the increase in the quality and quantity of national short film productions aimed promptly at popular sectors, promoting the dissemination and national and international exchange of audiovisual works that account for the cultural diversity of the villages. The Tapiales Film Festival project determines its short and long term goals: In the short term, the project is limited to a period of one year, time that passes between one edition and another. During this period, the objective to be fulfilled is to provide the highest possible number of audiences with free cultural film programming, promote the production of audiovisual short films and the exchange between filmmakers from abroad and the country and carry out parallel activities that encourage people's interest in cinema and audiovisual art in general.
This edition also adds the generation of a direct containment and expression space for at-risk youth living in the La Matanza party, developing parallel activities specially aimed at them, such as a short film making workshop whose result can be exhibited. Festival days.
In the long term, the objective is more ambitious and consists of educating the public, awakening cultural interest and improving the social and professional development of the community. A long and continuous project because for the La Matanza party this is more than the realization of a film event, it is part of an event that leads to the democratization of our society and equal opportunities for all inhabitants. Before a film festival was an elitist concept, linked and reserved only to culturally elevated cities.
In our town this project encourages the development of many professionals who begin to realize their first jobs, of young people who need to expand and find a space to make their creations appreciated and of a general public that receives entertainment, content of decent quality if appreciated even outside our borders.
POST MORTEM International Horror & Bizarre Short Film Festival is a meeting point for the darkest, strangest, and most provocative visions in cinema. A space where creators and lovers of the genre come together to celebrate, challenge, and expand the limits of horror and the bizarre.
OMOVIES 19
XIX EDITION • 2026
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION REGULATIONS
LGBTQIA+ Audiovisual Works
Submission deadline: September 30, 2026, 11:59 PM (CEST)
Festival dates: December 7–14, 2026 • Naples and online platform
Organized by: i Ken APS ETS Association
Article 1 — Introduction and Purpose
On the occasion of the 19th edition of OMOVIES – International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, the i Ken APS ETS Association announces an international competition for audiovisual works exploring sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, bodies, relationships, families, communities, and LGBTQIA+ cultures through free, pluralistic, and intersectional perspectives.
Particular attention is given to questioning, understood not as an incomplete or merely transitional condition, but as a legitimate experience of self-exploration, reflection, and self-determination. OMOVIES recognizes every person's right to question their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression; to take time before adopting a definition; to change, over time, the language used to describe themselves; or to choose not to adopt any label at all. Cinema has the power to restore dignity to these journeys by freeing them from the pressure of certainty, from pathologization, and from representations that reduce them to confusion, fragility, or merely a transitional stage toward a supposedly definitive identity.
The Festival also recognizes queer cultures as a diverse heritage of memories, artistic practices, languages, forms of resistance, care, kinship, and community building. From this perspective, queer represents not only an identity category or an umbrella term, but also a critical lens through which what is presented as natural, universal, or immutable can be questioned. The Festival therefore welcomes works that expand the boundaries of visibility and storytelling, challenge binary thinking, stereotypes, hierarchies, and power structures, and explore the intersections between gender, sexual orientation, origin, racialization, disability, age, social class, faith, and migration, without reducing the complexity of human experience to new rigid definitions.
The Festival is scheduled to take place from December 7 to 14, 2026, in a hybrid format, featuring both in-person screenings and events in Naples, as well as an online programme. Festival venues, schedule, and access procedures will be published on the official website www.omovies.it.
International, Ibero-American, and Chilean filmmakers submitting short films (4 to 30 minutes) to the following sections:
Chilean Short Film Competition
Ibero-American Short Film Competition.
International Short Film Competition.
International Short Film Showcase (2024-2026).
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF SHORT FILMS MADE WITH AI
COMPETENCIA REGIONAL DE CINE DE REGIÓN DE VALPARAÍSO 2024-2026.
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 One Shot Terrassa City of Film is a film festival that takes back the old Sequence Shot Contest organised in Terrassa between 2004 and 2012. It came last year again, and we're following the success. So this is the 16th Edition of the festival.
The particularity of this festival is that ONLY ACCEPTS ONE SHOT FILMS. What does it mean? As is well known, is about telling a story - at least 3 minutes long - in just a single shot, that is: no cutting or image editing.
In 2017, Terrassa was selected as a "Creative City of UNESCO in Film", a recognition that only 17 cities in the world have. This leads to recover a past that it is what brought us this present.
The festival will take place during the week from November 26th to 28rd 2026.
To have some historical background, it all started in 1967 when Societat Cultural Joventut Terrassenca - known in Terrassa as "Coro vell" - organized the "Rotllo" film competition with this same idea. Now, Societat Coro Vell, with the support of the Terrassa Audio-visual Board and within the activities of the Terrassa City of Film UNESCO, as well as with the participation of those companies and people who collaborate on this event, wants to recover this current year the tenth edition of the "Concurs del Pla Seqüència", from now called "One Shot - Terrassa City of Film".
For any doubt or concern contact us at oneshot@oneshot.cat.
The 8th edition will take place November 6–8, 2026, at the Community Center of Yucca Valley, CA. It will be in person.
In 2025, the Yucca Valley Film Festival was featured in more than 480 news outlets across North America:
https://yuccavalleyfilmfestival.com/assets/
We feature the longest red carpet in the Hi-Desert, measuring 20 feet.
The Yucca Valley Film Festival is the official festival of the Town of Yucca Valley since 2019.
The Yucca Valley Film Festival and its participants have been recognized as a Cultural Contributor by:
– The U.S. Congress
– The California Senate
– The California Secretary of State
– The County of San Bernardino
– The Yucca Valley Chamber of Commerce
– The Basin Wide Foundation
In 2025, our Masterclass headliner, James Morrison (24, Twin Peaks), was honored by both the Secretary of State of California and San Bernardino County:
https://yuccavalleyfilmfestival.com/2025/11/28/james-morrison-honored-after-headlining-the-8th-yucca-valley-film-festival/
Pictures from 2025 and previous editions can be found here:
https://yuccavalleyfilmfestival.com/gallery-2025/
Masterclasses
– 2025: James Morrison
– 2024: Shane Stanley
– 2023: Rosanna Arquette
– 2022: Brent Huff & Mina Sundwall
– 2021: Michael Dante
– 2020: William Baldwin
– 2019: John Stanier
State of Hollywood and other industry events:
https://yuccavalleyfilmfestival.com/state-of-hollywood-2024/
2026 Anticipated Program
Friday 11/6
Red carpet, Mayor’s welcome and opening speech, opening films, Q&A, photobooth, popcorn and picture signing, launch party.
Saturday 11/7
Screenings, Kids Section, State of Hollywood panel with guests, screenings, Q&A, picture signing, photobooth, Saturday party.
Sunday 11/8
Brunch and Industry Event Mixer, screenwriters’ roundtable, screenings, awards distribution and pictures with the Miss Yucca Valley Court, closing speech by the Mayor.
Meet & greets will also be included in the program at different times.
2025 program page for reference:
https://yuccavalleyfilmfestival.com/detailed-program-yvff-2025/
Each filmmaker’s presentation will include a short introduction, film screening, and an opportunity for a brief Q&A with the audience.
Introduction
Yucca Valley is the economic hub of the Morongo Basin and the natural gateway to Joshua Tree National Park, which received 2.9 million visitors in 2024.
The town lives to the rhythm of artists and creative minds who come to Yucca Valley in search of the perfect place to create and find a receptive audience.
The festival started in 2019, generating strong local interest with packed screening nights and red carpets, attracting international filmmakers, and benefiting from extensive press coverage.
The Yucca Valley Film Festival has become a recurring, family-friendly annual gathering for the Hi-Desert community, film lovers, and art lovers. Our screenings are attended by engaged audiences eager to watch and support your film.
Yucca Valley also has a rich movie heritage, including the historic movie sets of Pioneertown. In 2016, Tim Burton filmed scenes of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children on Old Woman Springs Road. More than 50 titles list scenes shot in the area on IMDb.
In 2025, the three-day festival welcomed close to 1,500 attendees. We are a small festival, but our community truly loves movies.
Local Filmmakers
Local filmmakers can submit for free.
More details: https://yuccavalleyfilmfestival.com/submit-2
Retama, Latin American Film Festival, was born in search of an intermediate and nodal space that reflects on the forms of representation of territories, social and ethnic groups from the cinematographic perspective, as well as as a place of vanguard of the most daring contemporary Latin American cinema. daring and innovative.
Being an exhibition showcase, as well as a training point from observation for local filmmakers in search of their own perspective.
Aynimation Festival 2026
The Aynimation Festival is an animation festival whose mission is to promote the development of animation by decentralizing access to education and culture in its various forms, while fostering connections between artists, the industry, and the community. Through this competition, we seek to showcase innovative works, encourage the exchange of ideas, and recognize the creative talent and diversity of perspectives that this art form offers.
The festival organization reaffirms its commitment to cultural decentralization and the national and international promotion of animation, offering participants the opportunity to share their projects with new audiences and be part of an event that connects the industry and the community in the city of Trujillo.
The Aynimation Festival opens its call for submissions for the Official Competition Selection, inviting animation filmmakers and creators from Peru, Latin America, and around the world to take part in this fourth edition in 2026.
Only for Spanish Filmmakers.
-----------
El festival de cine Ópera Prima “Ciudad de Tudela” es un certamen especializado en primeros largometrajes nacionales.
Es un proyecto organizado por la EPEL (Entidad Pública Empresarial Local) “Tudela-Cultura” en colaboración con el Cineclub Muskaria, colectivo que cuenta con más de 50 años de trayectoria en la ciudad.
El Festival Ópera Prima de Tudela (Navarra), que este año celebrará su edición número veintiséis, es un certamen de cine dedicado a la exhibición de largometrajes de origen español que supongan la primera dirección. Esta característica dota al certamen de un perfil distintivo y, además, fue pionero dentro del panorama nacional.
Se trata del único festival nacional que apuesta exclusivamente por este tipo de cine, lo que dota al certamen de una particularidad que ha sido destacada en numerosas ocasiones por personalidades del mundo del cine español.
Además, otra peculiaridad destacada del certamen es que es el público quien otorga el mayor premio del festival, el de mejor película, con sus votos.
El tema de las sesiones para centros educativos también nos parece un rasgo importante a destacar, así como los homenajes a directores nacionales consagrados con la proyección de su primera película.
También hay que destacar que las proyecciones de todas las películas se realizan en el cine Moncayo, una sala que se encuentra ubicada en el barrio de Lourdes de la ciudad.
Entre los objetivos del festival destacan los siguientes:
• Impulsar la carrera de directores/as noveles para que sigan aportando su creatividad y trabajo al servicio del cine.
• Involucrar a directores/as, actores y actrices consagrados/as y otros profesionales relacionados con el mundo del cine. El jurado de este festival está formado por este perfil de profesionales que, de esta manera, se vinculan de manera directa con el proyecto.
• Crear un espacio de diálogo, conocimiento y cercanía entre directores/as noveles y profesionales con amplia trayectoria. De esta manera, se fomentan lazos de unión y se generan posibles sinergias y viveros de creación.
• Establecer un diálogo y feedback entre el público y el mundo del cine, a través del debate y charla que se realiza en la sección “Mi Ópera Prima”.
• Creación de nuevos públicos, poniendo especial hincapié en los jóvenes.
• Además de estos objetivos, es importante destacar que se pretende que Tudela se convierta durante una semana en una “Ciudad de Cine”, en la que la población de Tudela, su Comarca y Navarra sean protagonistas del certamen junto a los directores/as, actores y actrices y demás personalidades del mundo de la cinematografía.
• Fomentar el cine europeo, a través de la sección (fuera de concurso) “Mi Ópera Prima Europea”, en la que se proyecta un primer trabajo de un/a director/a europeo/a.
La Sección Oficial a concurso es la principal sección del Festival, en la que se invierte la mayor parte del trabajo. La Sección Oficial consta de la exhibición y concurso de siete largometrajes españoles que suponen la primera película de su director/a, seleccionados por el Cineclub Muskaria entre todos los participantes.
Además, el festival organiza otras secciones que la complementan y que hacen más atractiva su oferta, dotándole de mayor calidad e interés cultural y cinematográfico:
• Sección Juventud: durante la semana del Festival, además de los horarios de tarde para el público general, las películas se exhiben en horario matinal y escolar, para estudiantes de bachillerato de centros educativos de Tudela y la ribera. Esta sección tiene el objetivo de acercar el cine menos comercial a la población joven, de manera que se vaya creando un público crítico y con sensibilidad cultural y despertando el interés por el cine. Esta sección tiene la particularidad de que tiene un premio propio, el premio de la Juventud, que otorgan los/as estudiantes a través de la votación de todas las películas.
• Sección “Su Ópera Prima”: esta sección supone uno de los momentos más emotivos del Festival, puesto que se proyecta una película que, en su día, fue la ópera prima de alguna persona con una larga trayectoria dentro del cine español. Además de la exhibición de la película, se realiza un homenaje al/la directora/a, con la presencia de personas estrechamente vinculadas al/la mismo/a y un diálogo con el público. Esta sección ha acogido en los últimos años a personalidades de la talla de Mario Camus, Ana Diez, Francisco Regueiro, Pedro Olea, Javier Aguirre, Jaime Chávarri, Julio Diamante, Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Pilar Miró o Carlos Saura.
En el año 2021 se incorporó la novedad de proyectar en sesión matinal las primeras películas de grandes directores para estudiantes de centros educativos de la ciudad. Ese fue el primer año que Su Majestad la Reina visitó el Festival para participar en este acto de homenaje que rindió homenaje a tres grandes del cine clásico español: Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga y Fernando Fernán Gómez. Esta sesión de homenaje se desarrolló por la mañana y a ella asistieron unos 200 estudiantes de los distintos centros educativos de la ciudad
• Sección Ópera Prima Europea: los actos del Festival comienzan en la semana previa al mismo y entre ellos destaca esta sección, en la que se exhibe el primer largometraje actual de un director/a europeo. La selección corre a cargo del Cine Club Muskaria y su objetivo es dotar de un carácter más internacional al Festival. También pretende difundir el cine europeo y los directores noveles, de manera que, en base a la misma filosofía que la sección oficial, se fomente un cine de calidad que tiene pocas posibilidades de ser exhibido y visualizado en salas comerciales. El éxito de esta sección se entiende en el contexto de la trayectoria del Festival y de la fidelidad de un público con gran interés en este tipo de propuestas.
• Sesión de Clausura: el día de la entrega de premios y previo a la ceremonia, se exhibe una película fuera de concurso. Esta película se selecciona intentando que sea una propuesta atractiva y de calidad, que dote de una nueva propuesta cinematográfica al acto de entrega de premios
• Sección Nuestros clásicos: en 2025, para acoger la visita de S.M la Reina Doña Letizia, quien no pudo participar en las fechas del Festival de cine Ópera Prima, se organizó este ciclo fuera de las fechas del festival, en homenaje a Alejandro Amenábar. Los actos se celebraron los días 24 y 25 de noviembre en el cine Moncayo. Este pequeño ciclo contó con dos jornadas: el lunes, 24 noviembre, a las 19:30 h., se proyectó la primera película de Alejandro Amenábar “Tesis” y se organizó un coloquio con los tres protagonistas: Ana Torrent, Eduardo Noriega y Fele Martínez. Este acto fue con entrada gratuita.
El Festival Ópera Prima es un evento totalmente consolidado, que lleva celebrándose desde el año 2000 (ininterrumpidamente salvo la edición 2020 debido al COVID) y que se ha convertido en uno de los eventos culturales más importantes de Tudela y, por extensión, de toda Navarra. El paso de los años ha supuesto la consolidación del Festival y, sobre todo, ha constatado la inmejorable respuesta del público ante un evento que es parte de su identidad cultural.
Este festival está dirigido por Luis Alegre, escritor, profesor, cineasta y colaborador de numerosos medios de comunicación y se celebra en el cine Moncayo. Este cine está ubicado en un barrio de la ciudad, lo que permite que el Festival se celebre en el corazón de Tudela. Su ubicación hace que la celebración del festival tenga un atractivo e impacto social mayor.
También hay que destacar de este Festival las personalidades que han visitado la ciudad a lo largo de su historia, tanto invitados de las películas seleccionadas a concurso como jurados de la talla de Rafael Azcona, José Luis Borau, Álex de la Iglesia, Agustín Díaz Yanes, David Trueba, Antonio Gasset, Jordi Bosch, Natalie Poza, Carmen Puyó, Verónica Sánchez, Montxo Armendáriz, , Juan Cruz, Ángeles Caso, Nativel Preciado, Ángel Sánchez Harguindey, José Luis García Sánchez, Ángeles González Sinde, Raúl Arévalo, Alberto Rodríguez, Borja Cobeaga, José Luis Cuerda, Fernando Méndez Leite, Pilar Palomero, Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Verónica Forqué, Carla Simón o Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
