In a world saturated with noise, algorithms, and repetitive formulas, we still believe in something simple and powerful: creating art is worth it.
From Morelos, a region with a long tradition of artistic, cultural, and cinematic expression, a new chapter for emerging cinema begins.
El Film del Mundo (EFM) is the natural evolution of the Festival Universitario de Cine Morelense (FUCM), a project that laid the foundation for promoting new cinematic voices from the state to a broader, global conversation.
Today, that vision grows.
What began as a university space for exhibition and connection has evolved into an international festival dedicated to emerging cinema, new voices, and perspectives that do not ask for permission to exist.
The development of this new chapter has been strengthened through the support of the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico (PECDA), making it possible to establish a cultural platform focused on the exhibition, education, and promotion of contemporary audiovisual talent.
We are not looking for technical perfection or large budgets. We are looking for vision. Risk. Voice. Stories that resonate with authenticity.
We believe cinema is an act of creative resistance.
That is why El Film del Mundo invites emerging filmmakers from Mexico and around the world to take part in its first edition.
Because when everything seems to be falling apart, making films is also a way to survive.
CALL FOR ENTRIES OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this call for entries is to bring together an international selection of emerging audiovisual works that reflect a diversity of voices, cinematic languages, and perspectives.
EFM seeks to support new generations of filmmakers and audiovisual creators by providing a platform for exhibition, recognition, and meaningful exchange among local, national, and international talent.
We are looking for works with identity, artistic sensitivity, and an authentic cinematic vision.
We are not looking for perfect cinema. We are looking for living cinema.
PARTICIPATING CATEGORIES
Official Competition:
• Fiction Short Film
• Documentary Short Film
• Animated Short Film
Special Screenings:
• Debut Fiction Feature
• Debut Documentary Feature
• Debut Animated Feature
• Music Video Showcase
Special Selection:
• Morelos Selection (works directed or produced in Morelos)
• LGBTQ+ Narratives
TRÂNSITO is an LGBT+ film showcase based in Pelotas, Brazil.
The name Transito refers to the right of bodies to move, exist, and occupy spaces. The festival celebrates LGBTQ+ stories and filmmakers committed to creating works around these themes.
The showcase is divided into three sections — International, National (Brazilian), and Regional (Rio Grande do Sul) — in order to embrace both local and global perspectives in cinema.
Through film screenings, talks, debates, and cultural activities, TRÂNSITO promotes inclusion, respect, diversity, and human rights, strengthening the local community and contributing to a more just, equal, and welcoming society.
THE SPARK THAT IGNITES CINEMA IN BOYACÁ
Guaque del Sol Open Call: July 1 to August 30, 2026.
10th FECISO: November 1–7, 2026, Sogamoso, Boyacá.
FECISO celebrates its tenth edition as a space for showcasing independent Colombian and international cinema, with a special focus on works that engage with memory, the armed conflict, violence, social struggles, the resistance of communities, the defense of territory, human rights, and the diverse realities of Colombia.
It is a vibrant and exciting celebration of the film industry whose main objective is to provide a platform for emerging filmmakers and encourage interaction between filmmakers and audience.
This annual event brings together industry experts and film professionals, with seventh art enthusiasts and movie lovers from the central zone of San Luis Potosí.
We strongly believe in the importance of giving young filmmakers a voice and visibility, providing an invaluable platform for these emerging talents to showcase their work.
In the official selection, there is a careful curation of the best contemporary Mexican and Latin American films.
The Arab Film Festival Zurich is organized every two years by the association IAFFZ . The next festival will take place from 02.02.2027 until 07.02.2027.
The focus is on films by Arab filmmakers that could not find their way to “commercial” cinema. The program includes short and full-length feature, documentary, animation and experimental films exploring social, cultural and political issues. Discussions with the invited filmmakers also offer the audience the opportunity to discuss films and topics further.
Please note that we can only accept movies from or about the Arab world. We define the Arab world in cultural terms. Unfortunately, we cannot accept movies from or about Iran or Turkey, except if they explicitly deal with issues related to the Arab world as defined above.
The Arab Film Festival Zurich is a place of encounters and dialogue between cultures. Through its internationally understandable language, film serves as a means of communication and understanding, and so the festival should make a contribution to a differentiated analysis of the Arab cultural area beyond media coverage.
The first edition of the festival in 2012 was well received by the audience and the media. Every two years, the Arab Film Festival Zurich presents a representative selection of outstanding current international films from various Arab countries.
The festival team consists of honorary board members of the association IAFFZ and the volunteers who share a great interest in film and in the Arab culture. The program is compiled by Aida Schläpfer Al-Hassani (filmmaker, president of the association IAFFZ and co-director of AFFZ) and Michel Bodmer (co-director of AFFZ).
The Dead And SudBuried Horrorthon began life way back in 2016 in darkest Suffolk in the small market town of Sudbury as a celebration of classic horror movies. Over just one day, seven such classics were thrown back on the big screen in the intimate venue of The Quay Theatre. Taking place in a town without an actual cinema to fulfil our dream to see these movies on a big screen, the first Horrorthon was planned around a birthday so just in case it failed to bring enough horror fans obsessed enough to sit and watch non-stop horror all day long, the event could be written off as a present to ourselves!
Fortunately, a small but perfectly formed crowd came, enjoyed and endured over 13 hours of wonderful motion pictures giving birth to our very own franchise! We believe that movies should be seen on a big screen with big sound and with a crowd to be truly enjoyed which is the real reason the Horrorthon keeps coming back every year!
We returned in 2017, 2018 and 2019 bombarding a growing crowd with more classic horror movies and adding giveaways, discounts from local businesses and more! Sadly due to Covid, our 2020 was postponed but we created a virtual event to bridge the gap to 2021 using the Eventive platform and a host of brand new movies and shorts over an entire weekend!
Returning to the real world after the pandemic, we brought in our biggest crowd yet for our fifth event to watch a weekend of 7 brand new features (2 UK premieres) including Wyvern Hill, It Came From Below, Alien On Stage, Sweetie You Won’t Believe It, Tales Of The Creeping Death, Werewolf Castle and Box with 4 live Director/Cast Q&A’s following the screening, 7 classic horror movies featuring The Lost Boys, The Changeling, The Howling, Pieces, Friday The 13th, Videodrome and [•REC] with video introductions from Joe Dante, Alex Winter and Sean S Cunningham plus 24 amazing shorts from all over the world.
The huge success of Horrorthon V led to an even bigger 3 day event for Horrorthon VI in 2022 featuring 8 classics including Deep Red, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue, Return Of The Living Dead, The Fog and The Beyond, 8 festival circuit movies including The Creeping, Night Shift, Powertool Cheerleaders versus The Boyband Of The Living Dead, Do Not Disturb, The Outwaters, Super Z, Anthropophagus II, Feed Me and 19 brand new shorts plus the addition of food trucks and merchandise!
The seventh Horrorthon, Taste The Blood Of Dead And SudBuried was the biggest event to date with a bigger crowd than ever before! The 3-day event featured classics like Train To Busan, The Haunting, Death Line and Motel Hell, brand new movies Eight Eyes, Beaten To Death, How To Kill Monsters, The Moor, The Black Mass, The Pocket Film Of Superstitions, Lore and Punch and 19 new horror shorts!
The Eighth edition expanded with an earlier start and more movies - 18 features including Protein, The Invisible Raptor, Straight On Till Morning, The Last Video Store, Bogieville, Cara, The Well, Scared Shitless and Members Club plus 18 shorts, more Q&A's, more food trucks - just more everything!
Year nine delivered another sold out crowd from around the country, international guests and even bigger new movies like The Arbiter, The Rows, Kombucha, Pig Hill, Southern Nightmare, The Last Podcast, Death Cycle, The Caretaker and Redux Redux.
We celebrate our 10th anniversary in October 2026 with an even bigger event, stretching over four glorious horror packed days in the shape of When Dead And SudBuried Ruled The Earth/Horrorthon X at The Quay Theatre in Sudbury, Suffolk.
You should join us!
The aim of the ZOOM AWARDS is to promote and disseminate audiovisual content regardless of format, distribution channel or audience size.
The Official Section of the 24th edition is open to producers, broadcasters, students and independent creators from around the world who submit audiovisual content for all types of screens and that complies with the Awards’ rules.
The Zoom Awards also aim to be a meeting point between audiovisual professionals and students, as well as a platform for new talent.
The 24th edition of the Zoom Awards will take place on 21 November 2026 in Igualada (Barcelona).
We are the largest short film festival on the East Coast, featuring nearly 300 short films, special events, talks, retrospectives films, and tributes with honored guests, establishing New York Shorts International Film Festival as one of the finest exhibitions of short films in North America.
A non-profit organization that provides a showcase for emerging filmmakers from around the world.
New York Shorts is a qualifying film festival for the Canadian Screen Awards, presented by The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. We are the only short film festival in New York on the Canadian Screen Awards eligible festival list.
The festival has become a career stepping stone, establishing a tradition of discovering and promoting filmmakers who have gone on to become Academy Award® Nominees.
Previous film selections have included:
2024 OSCAR® NOMINEE Live-Action Short Film, ANUJA by Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai - Winner New York Grand Prize
2023 Student Academy Award® Duet by Lyuwei Chen - Winner New York Shorts Best Documentary
2023 OSCAR® NOMINEE Live-Action Short Film, The Red Suitcase by Cyrus Neshvad -Winner New York Shorts Best International Film
2022 OSCAR® WINNER Documentary, Short The Queen of Basketball by Ben Proudfoot
2020 OSCAR® WINNER Live-Action Short Film, "The Neighbors" Window" by Marshall Curry - Winner New York Shorts Grand Prize
2020 OSCAR® NOMINEE Documentary Short Subject The New York Times Op-Docs "Walk Run Cha-Cha" by Laura Nix and Colette Sandstedt
2019 OSCAR® NOMINEE Animated Short "Animal Behaviour" by Alison Snowden and David Fine
2015 OSCAR® NOMINEE "The Dam Keeper" by Robert Kondo, Daisuke Tsutsumi
2013 Student Academy Award® "A World for Raúl" by Mauro Mueller - Winner New York Shorts Best Drama
2012 OSCAR® NOMINEE & BAFTA Best Short Animation "A Morning Stroll" by Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe
2012 World Premiere "Derek" by Ricky Gervais - Winner New York Shorts Best Comedy and became a popular British television show picked up by Netflix.
New York Shorts International Film Festival is one of the largest showcases of short films in North America and an ideal platform for filmmakers to screen their films and gain recognition in New York City.
New York Shorts events include receptions, as well as workshops with industry experts and filmmaking professionals sharing their practical advice to attending filmmakers.
2024 Industry Events
How to produce on a micro-budget and work with SAG•AFTRA actors
Hosted by Jack Mulcahy SAGindie Film Committee for SAG•AFTRA
co-Chairman of the National Low Budget Film Committee
Speaker Michael Sládek, SAGindie NY Consultant
2023 Industry Events
Industry Master Spotlight w/ BAFTA Nominated Director Jon Amiel
Industry Master Spotlight w/ Academy Award® Winning Producer Andrew Carlberg
Industry Short Film Spotlight w/ Academy Award® Winning Director Chris Overton
2022 Industry Events
Tribute to legendary film director Bob Giraldi
Spotlight Screening from George R.R. Martin's (Game of Thrones creator)
Beyond The Screen with Ben Proudfoot (Oscar® winning documentary director)
Film Retrospective Kim Magnusson (producer/director of seven Academy Awards® nominations and two Oscar wins)
Film Tribute to cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
New York Shorts believes short-form cinema and its filmmakers should have their own premier film festival in New York deserving similar recognition given to feature films.
The heart of the festival is the quality and scope of extraordinary film programming to enthusiastic audiences in the vibrant filmmaking enclave of New York City.
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.
See you Around & Fest Regards
The festival aims to give a definitive boost to film production in the region by inviting national and international figures to spend a few days here, thereby raising awareness of the region, its people, and its culture. It will be a regional and local festival featuring national and international categories, transforming the region and its rural areas into movie theaters for four days.
The 2nd Miradas Mayores Film Festival is a space for dialogue, promotion, and reflection among filmmakers, their works, and audiences, with the aim of exploring the many ways of experiencing aging in contemporary society. Through the audiovisual medium, the festival seeks to bring forward stories that highlight the diversity of experiences, life paths, and realities of older adults, promoting a more human, inclusive, and respectful perspective on aging.
With a decentralized approach, Miradas Mayores brings cinema to different communities and regions, transforming each screening into an opportunity for community engagement and cultural participation.
The festival aims to challenge stereotypes that associate old age solely with dependency, illness, or unproductiveness, instead highlighting older adults as active participants in social, cultural, and community life.
Miradas Mayores is an invitation to build new narratives about aging, fostering recognition of the rights, dignity, and valuable contributions of older adults.
Through cinema, the festival seeks to contribute to a more inclusive society, where people's experience, memory, and diversity are valued as an essential part of our collective identity.
The purpose of the festival refers to awareness of both the external filters on the screen, including censorship (commercial, ideological, aesthetic), and the internal filters of screen perception and projection, including self-censorship. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is an exploration of aestheticization and commodification in art. The next aim of the festival is to expose the complexity, manysidedness, and variety of filmmaking.
NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino) is a film festival that is held by the Short Movie Club, the platform for cinematic projects. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is ADAMI Media Prize qualified festival. The International Film Studies Conference is held at the same time as the film festival. In this way, film theory and practice are integrated together at the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO.
Originally the festival was held in Belarus, but because of political repression and publicly stated anti-war stance, screenings and events can be held in different countries. First of all in Poland (Warsaw), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg), Lithuania (Vilnius). For example, the 11th and 10th Nefiltravanae Kino took place in Warsaw, Berlin, Hamburg, Vilnius and Helsinki. The content of past years' film programs can be found on the website https://shortmovie.club/programmes/
The festival will be held in a hybrid format. We will have a part of live screenings and online screenings on a video platform https://film.nofilterkino.org/ . The video is cryptographically secured. In addition, we pay attention and promote films from our previous years that are released to the public on the Internet after their festival curcuit.
Nefiltravanae Kino involves theater, artists to interpret symbols and history. We work with the audience's reaction and participants' as well.
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The concept of the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino):
ALIENATION PROBLEM
We live in a world of malls and cinema multiplexes. We see that indie cinema and non-commodity art go to the periphery of public attention. Primitive attractions replace the cinematography. The escape audience is alienated behind the big screen. So modern mainstream cinema is part of a manipulating tool that leads to the society of alienation. Thus the tendency is that indie cinema becomes more unreadable for the wide audience. We should understand the context of the filmmaker to understand the independent cinema. That is why the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO concept implies the physical presence of filmmakers.
FILM SELECTION PROBLEM
Filmmakers shoot millions of movies. And thousands of short film festivals organize screenings all over the world every year. On average, several thousand films are submitted to a film festival. So various good films can be neglected for whatever reason. Often selecting probability is like winning a lottery. As a result, filmmakers are left with no feedback. It is a paradox that no one can hear you in the age of the Internet! The mainstream culture prefers attractions and casual viewing.
Also, this idea is based on the film selection problem. Perhaps it’s no surprise one person, i.e. programme director at best, or even students of film schools make a preliminary decision to select a movie. Сoncordance of judges or previewers is more seldom thing than the difference of background, tastes. So selection or judging can be one-sided or perfunctory. It is not bad as the programme director has a good taste and aesthetic sensitivity, of course. But we’ve discovered another conception of “unfiltered cinema”. We matched it against “the best of the best” way. This way aids to perceive cinematic idiom without the dictate of art-curators.
CELEBRATION OF INDIE CINEMA
So the NoFilter Kino tries to avoid “the best of the best” way but it does not ignore it completely, sure. The festival selects fiction, animation, documentary, experimental and virtual reality sections. A jury awards the best film in every section. The festival holds the screenings at cinema theatres, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, and art-spaces.
Our aim is to gather people in art, to have a dialogue to be happy with smart communication.
Cinema is art but not sport. The key point of our project is to establish communication between the filmmaker and the audience.
Please, read about the festival history through the link to the festival's website. http://shortmovie.club/history/
FICSEM Festival, in the Mediterranean area.
For major reasons, and having been immersed in a situation in which we have all been affected, we have decided to adapt to the current situation, and give a new focus to our festival. Maintaining the enthusiasm and passion we feel for the artistic world.
Our festival is aimed at the dissemination and promotion of film authors related to topics of social and/or ecological value.
Because we believe in the power of art as a transformative medium, our contribution from this festival is to give visibility to projects that address environmental and social changes in which we are immersed. We are an international festival because we understand the world beyond barriers, and because we are moved by the need to get to know other cultures and share the best of ours, as it contributes to any improvement in any corner of the world.
The Mediterranean is the climate that surrounds us, and we feel identified with it. In terms of warmth, closeness and transparency. We are a festival that is starting strong, with a large number of committed artists who share our cause, and the desire to share.
And that is why we are not afraid to break the most classic festival patterns. So much so, that in the award for best actor and/or actress, the recognition of the award falls on their social and/or ecological work... And not only on their skills.
Despite having firm ideological foundations. We open ourselves to other artistic areas and initiatives.
We are a non-profit organization. Our mission is to provide workshops for production and distribution of films. Our goal is to enrich the talent of thriving filmmakers.
DUBBING GLAMOUR FILM FESTIVAL
8th Edition (15th ActorsPoetryFestival)
International Call 2026 — Filmmaker | Actors | Authors
Genoa, June 15 – July 5, 2026
Already supported by the MIC Ministry of Culture - Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual, the Liguria Region, and the Municipality of Genoa, the Dubbing Glamour Film Festival opens Call 2026 with a first: for the first time, the festival is combining the established competition for actors and authors with an international competition for filmmakers.
Each culture carries within itself a founding imaginary — myths, archetypes, figures that cross generations and borders. Cinema is where this imagination lives, transforms, and speaks in many languages at once.
The Dubbing Glamour Film Festival takes its name in Portofino, after 7 editions since 2012, on the Ligurian coast, where the Mediterranean begins its long journey to other seas, other civilizations, other stories. From the Pillars of Hercules to India and beyond: this is the geographical and cultural horizon of our festival. How archetypes leave the screen and enter reality with the transition from myth to collective behavior — for a festival on the political function of the imaginary.
In 2026, in collaboration with Disney, the DGFF inaugurates its first international competition dedicated to directors — with particular attention to emerging voices: directors under 35, their first or second feature film or short film, and Italian directors over 35.
The project invests in the audiovisual sectors —cinema, TV series, dubbing, audiobooks, script adaptation and screenplay— with a large program of screenings, masterclasses, round tables and speed dates with productions.
SECTION A — FILMMAKER COMPETITION
Purpose
The competition promotes international cinema in all its forms, with particular attention to the works of young authors under 35 in their first or second production and to directors from Italy and the Mediterranean area. The festival favors works that express original poetic, visual, or narrative value, regardless of genre and format.
Sections in competition
Short film (under 50 minutes)
Feature film (over 50 minutes)
Animation
Video Art
AI & Generative Cinema
Films out of competition may be hosted at the discretion of the art direction.
Selection
The artistic directorate appoints a selection committee responsible for choosing the works in competition. A high-profile international jury awards the category prizes and the Grand Prix. Participants will be notified of the selection outcome by June 10, 2026. Selected works may not be withdrawn under any circumstances. The DGFF does not correspond screening rights for films in the official selection.
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SECTION B — ACTORS AND AUTHORS COMPETITION
Registration via www.teatrogag.com — info@teatrogag.com
Recipients
Participation is open to actors (professional and emerging) and adult performing authors of any nationality. For minors, please refer to the Regulations.
Actors Sections:
Live Performance
Audiovisual (Cinema, Dubbing, Audiobooks, Video Acting)
Speakers
Companies
Authors:
Poetry Section (dialogists, screenwriters, poets)
Participation in the Dubbing Battles is open only to the finalist actors in the specific Section.
On the border of Europe and Asia, in the 300-year-old city called the "Russian Manchester" in the middle of the Ural Mountains —
we organize an International Short & Debut Film Festival with a quarterly Official Selection and Live Screenings every summer, autumn, winter and spring.
NOW OPEN: Submissions for the IV Ural Shorts 2026/2027
Grand Prix: $1,000.
Ural Shorts is an IMDb Qualifying Award Event.
All Ural Shorts Winners of the Year — both films and filmmakers — are granted dedicated pages on IMDb, the world's leading film database. For those already listed on IMDb, their Awards section is updated to reflect their Ural Shorts win.
Ural Shorts consists of four Seasons and Annual Award Event.
Every Season the selection committee watches privately the submitted short films and chooses the Official Selection for the Short Film Section. All selected films enter the competition for the Season Awards.
Within 10 days after the Official Selection list is published the jury announces the Season Winners. The winning short films enter the Screening Program in cinemas and on television for all to see.
In the Feature Film Section, a yearly shortlist is selected. All Season winners in the Short Film Section and shortlisted feature films enter the competition for the Annual Awards. And receive an invitation to the Annual Award Event.
The Annual Event takes place in August in the 300-year-old city of Nizhny Tagil, on the border of Europe and Asia, which is called the "Russian Manchester" in the middle of the Ural Mountains. The winner of the Grand Prix will receive a statuette, a diploma and a cash prize of 100,000 rubles. The Annual Award Event consists of a cultural and educational program, the annual awards ceremony, screenings, TV interviews, workshops, and other activities.
From seven continents.
From countless languages, memories, and myths.
One shared human pulse.
At the 7CIFF, films are judged continent-wise. The 7Continents International Film Festival is not just a celebration of cinema—it is a meeting of worlds. Across borders drawn by history and erased by imagination, filmmakers arrive with stories shaped by their soil, their silence, their storms, and their dreams.
Here, cinema travels freely—
from frozen landscapes to burning deserts,
from crowded cities to forgotten villages,
from intimate personal truths to bold global questions.
This festival exists to listen.
To amplify unheard voices.
To challenge familiar narratives.
And to remind us that while our cultures may differ, our stories breathe the same air.
Welcome to a festival without borders.
Welcome to 7 Continents International Film Festival
where the world watches itself, one film at a time.
7CIFF offer a valuable opportunity to attract viewers to your movie, showcase the talents involved, and open up possibilities for the film success. In 7CIFF Awards Judged Continent-Wise
At the 7Continents Film Festival, we are committed to empowering filmmakers and amplifying their voices. We provide a platform for emerging talents to showcase their work alongside industry veterans, fostering a community of collaboration, innovation, and artistic excellence. Through panel discussions, workshops, and networking events, we facilitate meaningful exchanges between filmmakers, audiences, and industry professionals, sparking dialogue and inspiring new collaborations.
Seven Continents. One Screen.
Jha Jha International Film Festival brings to its audience, acclaimed documentary works from across the world of different region. Audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away.
From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #JhaJhaIFF brings the Nouthern and Southern hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders. The focus is to showcase unseen stories from across the regions to our viewers.
