Monstro – 6th Jacareí Fantastic Film Festival is an event dedicated to celebrating fantastic cinema in all its forms — horror, fantasy, science fiction, surreal, experimental, and beyond. Held in Jacareí, in the Vale do Paraíba region (São Paulo State, Brazil), the festival has established itself as a platform for exhibition, discovery, and appreciation of films that explore imagination, the uncanny, and the extraordinary.
In its 6th edition, MONSTRO reaffirms its commitment to aesthetic, cultural, and narrative diversity, welcoming local, regional, national, and Latin American productions, while encouraging emerging talents and promoting representation within the genre.
More than a festival, MONSTRO is a meeting point for filmmakers and audiences passionate about cinema that provokes, disturbs, and expands boundaries.
The 2026 Rio LGBTQIA+ is the 15th official international film festival of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, showcasing LGBTQIA+ themed fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films in all formats: feature, medium-length, short and micro-length.
Cassette from the Parent Shelf is an international youth film festival born from a free and generational spirit.
It offers young creators a platform to present honest, bold, and sometimes unconventional works.
Blending nostalgic aesthetics with new voices, it explores identity, memory, and the present moment.
More than a competition, it is a meeting space where young cinema finds its audience and community.
The fifth edition of ICOFF-GASTEIZ, the 5th International Short Film Festival of the Capital of the Basque Country, will be held in Vitoria-Gasteiz from May 18 to 23, 2026.
Distribute Your Film to the World from Guadalajara
The city of Guadalajara is not only one of the most cinematic places on the planet — it is now one of the most dynamic production hubs in the Americas.
The International Guadalajara Film Awards (IGFA) is not just a festival: it's a direct gateway to international distribution.
In collaboration with Dark Eyes Pictures S.A. de C.V., selected films gain access to real distribution deals through global streaming platforms, festivals, and curated industry networks. This is not just an award — it's a concrete opportunity to take your work to market.
Every two months, our jury — composed of film industry professionals — privately reviews all submissions. The best films from each bimonthly cycle are announced as Official Selections and compete for a place at our Annual Awards Ceremony, held each May in Guadalajara, Mexico.
We welcome films and screenplays of any genre and length, from anywhere in the world. If you have a story that deserves to be seen, we can help you bring it to the international audience.
Founded in Beijing in 2016, MAiNframe has grown into one of the most dynamic meta-media film festivals for both emerging and established filmmakers seeking to expand their impact in the industry. It remains a highly anticipated event—and a standout highlight—on the indie film calendar.
Celebrated as a cutting-edge platform for creative voices from around the world, MAiNframe showcases a diverse lineup of innovative work—from narrative and experimental films to music videos, animation, A.I. and beyond. The festival welcomes a wide spectrum of genres, including drama, comedy, action, science fiction, horror, and films that explore Asian themes and cultural perspectives.
Following the success of The Bite Size Film Festival, The Big Short Film Festival brings another essential evening of curated short films to the heart of Shoreditch. Championing independent filmmakers, this event provides a fantastic opportunity to network with industry professionals and to showcase your work on the big screen, perhaps for the first time ever!
Hosted by London’s intimate Close-Up Cinema, The Big Short Film Festival is open to all filmmakers from around the world, from any background or level of experience. Selected filmmakers will be invited to attend the screening event on April 30th in Shoreditch. Attendance is not mandatory, but if we loved your work, we would love to meet YOU.
Open to all genres of short film, we are looking for stories that inspire, shock, move and enthral us. Films that are personal to you, or ones that capture the universal human experience. Both narrative and documentary shorts will be accepted, with the screening hoping to incorporate a mixture of both.
Doors will open at 6pm. Following the screening, there will be an opportunity to network with fellow filmmakers at a local venue (TBD). The Bite Size Film Festival will also return in October for another Halloween spookfest. Submissions open May 1st.
FESTIVAL ECRÃ is an Experimental Art and Cinema event that, through experiences that question the notion and production of the moving image, seeks to stimulate audiovisual culture. By showing Films, Games, Installations and Videoarts, ECRÃ encourages new formats for the production and exhibition of these works.
This project arose in 2016 from the desire to question the film industry and its “primordial elements” and to give space for filmmakers and artists to experiment freely in audiovisual production and thinking.
Over the years we have works from all parts of the world and presence of names like James Benning, Luis Grané, Ken Jacobs, Paula Gaitán, Julio Bressane, Luiz Rosemberg Filho, Seyeong Yoon, Gastón Solnicki, Geraldo Sarno, among others veterenas and new creators.
THE BUDDHA International Film Festival's main objective is to provide the opportunity for filmmakers from all over the world to excel, and to have the best work selected and showcased in a celebration of cinema, as well as to give filmmakers a platform to network amongst fellow professionals and cinematic artists.
Buddha Fest / TBIFF is looking forward to fostering these relationships and to helping extraordinary filmmakers get their projects seen by global audiences. TBIFF unites cinematic, cultural, educational more over Inspirational objectives by presenting its film discoveries.
The TBIFF is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative films while fostering the next generation of filmmakers. It is a strong advocate for social change, and encourages cultural diversity and understanding between nations. It strives to foster the movie art of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema and promoting meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.
The BUDDHA International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the spirit, passion, and skill of the best new filmmakers from around the world for audiences around the world.
We are also including and actively supporting not only the finest examples of classic moviemaking, but works that are experimental, breaking ground in new non-narrative forms and crossing over into the video arts. All films will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the best in each category will be chosen to screen at the festival. A jury of industry professionals will then view the finalists and choose the winning selections.
Filmmakers planning on attending should notify the film festival as soon as possible, so their names may be listed in the scheduled program at the venue where their film will be shown.
The Festival de Cine de Madrid - PNR is organized by Plataforma Nuevos Realizadores (PNR), a non-profit association founded in 1987 by emerging Spanish filmmakers, producers, and technicians. For nearly forty years, the association has championed the creation and production of audiovisual works in Spain and promoted their exhibition in movie theaters and other distribution channels.
PNR’s long-standing commitment to film and audiovisual production is renewed each year with the celebration of the FCM-PNR, through which the association seeks to fulfill several of its founding objectives.
Film submissions may be made via Festhome from February 2 to April 1, 2026, at 11:59 PM.
"0+" International film festival is aimed at:
1. promotion and popularization of high-quality films, which foster a positive, creative and formative worldview in children and young people, strengthen common human values like family, childhood, friendship, kindness, nature, love for a profession, etc.
2. integration of cinema and education by creating a collection of value-oriented films for carrying out educational screenings in schools and social institutions of Russia.
FEATURE FILMS
The Official Section. All feature films whose content might be considered as belonging to such the horror or fantastic genre can take part in the competition.
SHORT FILMS
Participation in the competition is on an international level.
Only one work per director will be accepted. Short films must not exceed 20 minutes in length (including credits).
All Short films must have been produced after January 1st 2025.
All films must be presented in their original language, with spanish subtitles. By "original language" is meant the language in which a film is or will be exhibited in its country of origin.
Shorts made with AI are not accepted.
We organize this festival in order to create a new reason to produce and introduce films and any other work of art that concentrate on the world’s problems and riches, and to pioneer the creation of a free platform and reward these works. We live in an era where too much information, and input that cannot be considered as information flow at a disconcertingly rapid pace in every plausible channel. We organize this festival so that we could all seek what is more local and smaller, and more importantly the one that is true and genuine together.
The ecological problems are increasing and becoming more and more varied; however, we also witness hope-inspiring developments. We organize this festival in order to create a platform that nurtures this hope. We hope that through our festival, the residents of Bozcaada, farmers, producers, scientists, artists, and all our guests will be informed about the current technological developments, environmental disasters and innovations, the most recent documentary techniques and also about each other’s existence. We hope that our festival will contribute to nurture solidarity.
PASTURAS. International Film Festival on Pastoralism and Transhumance. PASTURAS aims at raising awareness on the ancestral culture of transhumance through cinema, showcasing fiction and non-fiction films with a focus on this issue, facilitating communication between filmmakers and the audience, and providing learning opportunities to contribute to the development of this culture and the promotion of all audiovisual work around the issue.
WAVES International Short Film Festival – Goa 3.0 (WISFF) is a vibrant platform that celebrates the best in independent and world short cinema. WAVES is more than a festival, it is a movement to empower emerging voices and spotlight diverse stories. After successfully organising two editions in Goa, with over 500 short film entries and around 250 curated screenings, WISFF has also hosted four editions of a 60-hour filmmaking challenge. Growing beyond borders, WAVES is now expanding nationally; in 2025, the festival reached Dehradun in Uttarakhand, marking the beginning of its journey to multiple cities across India and soon, to global destinations as a truly international celebration of short films and creative storytelling.
Ametlla Film Fest is a National Film Festival whose objective is to showcase new and emerging filmmakers.
The official program is selected based on artistic, technical, and screenplay criteria.
The Girona Independent Film Festival is a platform for directors and authors of independent fiction feature films without a distributor. The festival aims to promote these productions by providing an opportunity for their exhibition and commercial distribution.
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The Creative Minds Film Festival is a prestigious platform that celebrates and honors outstanding achievements in the realm of filmmaking. Our event is dedicated to fostering connections between industry professionals, emerging talents and students who share a passion for the art of storytelling through film.
“From the roots to the flower” is this year's slogan of the first edition festival Ilinden Days. We started the creation of our film program from the roots of the Bitola's film tradition, the one of the Manaki brothers – the first cinematographers in Macedonia and in the Balkan, who left us invaluable testimonies of the everyday life and the great events of their time, engraved on the film tape. They actually made the first ethnographic documentaries.
It was natural that the Festival Ilinden Days, which has risen to international level, to include in its rich program a festival of ethnographic films. Then the creation of new customs and beliefs. All covered by the artistic passion of the artists, who follow the need to leave indelible traces with their cameras.
In addition to the high cinematographic quality of the films, during the selection we were guided by their capacity to convey important messages, which justifies their selection. We hope that our program will succeed to attract and surprise the festival's audience, because these are strong films, which can surprise us, disturb us, soften us, make us happy, provoke us to think, change our view, oppose us, therefore after each screening we will be able to exchange opinions about each of the films.
In 1971 in Macedonia a great idea was born, a wish of a group of professionals, enthusiasts, dreamers, visionaries, an idea which became reality. A springhead, a glowing heart of a cultural organism has been created. A heart which beats, motivates, initiates, boosts, educates.
In 1971 in Bitola was established the International Festival for folk songs and dances “Iliindenski denovi” in Bitola. The name of the Festival is symbolical, its mission is generous while its goals and criteria are deeply integrated and conceived. This festival is dedicated to most hardworking people and their creations which endured the criteria of value through time. This is e Festival which presents, promotes and documents the deed of priceless folk cultural tradition. Thousands of folk artists, millions of visitors, numerous photos, audio, video documents, telegraphed materials, documents for the next generations. On all four parts of the world, the Festival realized its mission, sent messages, thus attracting a great number of authentic values of the cultural heritage fans.
Nevertheless, after all these years the beginning is here, since the new generations should also learn about and as well dance “Teskoto”, “Kopacka”, “Nevestinsko”, Komitsko”…
Every generation implements its own rock in the priceless mosaic of the Festival, a monument, a textbook…
This text is just sparkle from the great fire, a small stone in the mosaic. It has been written with lots of love, respect, and a wish for this Festival to continue.
Creative Creeds International Film Festival is an annual event that showcases films from all around the world.
The festival is open to filmmakers of all levels, and aims to provide a platform for diverse voices and perspectives to be heard.
The festival showcases a wide range of genres and styles, including narrative features, documentaries, animations,
experimental films, and music videos. The selection of films is carefully curated to highlight innovative storytelling,
artistic vision, and technical proficiency.
