BAARIA FILM FESTIVAL is an international film festival focused on island cinematography of the world, showing the cultural diversity of island territories through cinema. This event is unique in its theme, in Italy, being the first film festival in the country that programs exclusively island cinema.
A great deal of space, of course, is devoted to Sicily, comparing it to other island territories, always using cinema as a means to explore and reveal the beauty and deep identity of the region.
The Marrakech Short Film Festival (MARRAKECHsFF) is currently accepting submissions for its sixth edition, scheduled 25-30 September 2026. We invite filmmakers from around the world to participate in our international, national and documentary competitions.
Submission Guidelines:
The Marrakech Short Film Festival (MARRAKECHsFF) is currently accepting submissions for its sixth edition, scheduled 25-30 September 2026. We invite filmmakers from around the world to participate in our international, national and documentary competitions.
Submission Guidelines:
Eligibility: Open to all filmmakers, with no restrictions based on age, country, or genre.
Running Time: Films must have a duration between 6 and 24 minutes.
Submission Deadline: Please submit your films by May 1st, 2026
The festival features four main selections:
-Moroccan Selection
Dedicated to Moroccan filmmakers, this section highlights national talent with awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Actor/Actress, in addition to Excellence Awards presented by the festival’s international professional guests.
-International Selection
Open to filmmakers from around the world, this section celebrates global storytelling through awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and a Coup de Cœur Award presented by the festival’s international professional guests.
-Documentary Section – Bridges of Reality
A curated programme dedicated to documentary films connected to the African continent. Open to African filmmakers and the diaspora, this section showcases narratives rooted in African realities and perspectives. It includes two Excellence Awards and one Jury Prize.
-Guest Country – Curated program
We look forward to receiving your submissions and celebrating the art of short film together in September 2026.
Submission Deadline: Please submit your films by May 1st, 2026
The festival features four main selections:
-Moroccan Selection
Dedicated to Moroccan filmmakers, this section highlights national talent with awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Actor/Actress, in addition to Excellence Awards presented by the festival’s international professional guests.
-International Selection
Open to filmmakers from around the world, this section celebrates global storytelling through awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and a Coup de Cœur Award presented by the festival’s international professional guests.
-Documentary Section – Bridges of Reality
A curated programme dedicated to documentary films connected to the African continent. Open to African filmmakers and the diaspora, this section showcases narratives rooted in African realities and perspectives. It includes two Excellence Awards and one Jury Prize.
-Guest Country – Curated program
We look forward to receiving your submissions and celebrating the art of short film together in September 2026.
A unique short film festival situated in the backdrop of a beautiful village in the north of Castellón: Herbers.
Promoting film talents that highlights the importance of repopulation, rural environment, biodiversity and diversity in the rural environment giving them the platform to showcase and promote their work.
ONED was founded in 2019, We focus on unconventional images, experiments, and extreme themes. From 2023 the official selection will be screened in China and France. We cooperate with China's largest experimental culture company, Toulouse Art Fair in France. Hope to normalize the unconventional
We cooperate with the Toulouse Experimental Exhibition in France, and it has now developed into the largest experimental film festival in China.This will be a great opportunity to showcase in front of China’s avant-garde artists and audiences
We have signed contracts with more than 40 livehouses in China, focusing on experimental and avant-garde images, combined with electronic music performances, to bring a different film festival experience to the new generation of creators.We hope that the world’s pioneers and experimental video creators, electronic music, VJ, and AI creators will join us and enjoy the future world together.
Are you ready? China's largest avant-garde image art promotion platform, ONED, has reached a cooperation with Midi Festival. Over 100,000 people have attended the event in 3 days. We are ready to welcome you with the most avant-garde image works from around the world.
Will include screenings, live music, alcohol duels, ancestor worshop, but all to unconventional extremes
We pay special attention to Horrors, experimentals, VJ ，electric music videos, SCI-FI, AI
ReelRaw Film Festival – 1st Edition
Official Description:
The first edition of the ReelRaw Film Festival celebrates the power of independent cinema in its purest and most authentic form. This virtual festival aims to give voice to creators who dare to present unfiltered stories, fresh ideas, and original visions of the contemporary world.
With a fully online format, ReelRaw offers an accessible and global platform for filmmakers, visual artists, and emerging storytellers who wish to share their work with an international creative community.
Our goal is to discover new perspectives, promote artistic freedom, and connect talents from around the world through the universal language of cinema.
Categories:
Fiction Short Films
Experimental Cinema
Independent Documentaries
Animation
Video Art & Digital Creation
Mission:
To promote alternative and experimental cinema by providing a space where raw, authentic, and bold works can be seen, appreciated, and shared with a global audience.
Format:
100% Virtual Festival — online screenings, discussion forums, and an online awards ceremony.
Motto:
“Unfiltered Stories. Unbound Visions.”
Special Section: Mobile Film Stories
The Mobile Film Stories section of the ReelRaw Film Festival celebrates the power of cinema in its most accessible and contemporary form — films shot entirely on mobile phones.
We believe that true creativity doesn’t depend on budget or equipment, but on the filmmaker’s unique vision.
This category is open to short films created entirely using smartphones or tablets, emphasizing imagination, visual storytelling, and authenticity in every frame.
From experimental pieces to fiction, documentaries, or hybrids, this section honors a new generation of filmmakers turning the everyday into cinema.
Maximum duration: 20 minutes
Format: shot entirely on a mobile device
Accepted genres: fiction, documentary, experimental, or mobile animation
Requirements: English subtitles (if the original language is not English or Spanish)
Cinema in your hands. Stories without limits.
SplashFest! is a multi-country festival celebrating creative storytelling about our oceans, lakes, rivers, and the wider world of water. From 5th to 8th June 2026, culminating on World Ocean Day, selected short films, illustrated tales, comics, and visual artworks will be showcased across Greece, Italy, the UK, and Germany.
SplashFest! is created and run by an international collective of creative professionals, filmmakers, writers, and educators united by one clear mission: to inspire children and families to care about our waters through powerful storytelling that sparks curiosity, imagination, and genuine environmental awareness.
We invite filmmakers, screenwriters, animators, illustrators, and visual artists to submit work that can captivate young audiences and open new ways of thinking about our blue planet. Whether your story is scientific, myth-inspired, humorous, adventurous, or wildly imaginative, SplashFest! is built for creators who want their ideas to ripple far beyond the screen or page.
Each festival location brings its own distinct character: Greek coastal culture and splendour, Italian lakeside creativity and energy, British storytelling charm and diversity, and Germany’s strong tradition of environmental education. Together, these parallel events form a single international platform for artists and storytellers who believe that water connects us all.
The International Unseen Film Festival 'Social Films' from Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) is organized by Kultura, Communication y Desarrollo KCD NGOD; Organization dedicated to promoting a human, intercultural, equitable and sustainable development through Communication and Culture.
The International Unseen Film Festival 'Social Films' from Bilbao is an annual celebration dedicated to show a cinema full of diversity and social commitment, a cinema that is usually excluded from commercial screens.
The Festival is centered on four major themes: Sustainable Development, Human Rights, Interculturality and Gender Equity.
With its continuous work, it has become an indispensable appointment for all those interested in communication for development and social transformation.
The Festival is also a recognition of all people who make a communication that allows to reflect through their audiovisual works all those different causes and problems of humanity.
Montenegrian Online Smartphone International Film Festival (MOSIFF) organisers are pleased to invite all filmmakers, entertainers, creative industry stakeholders, movie lovers and smartphone users to the prestigious festival.
MOSIFF provides new emerging film makers an international platform to showcase ideas, talents and creativity irrespective of the budget.
Encouraging professionals, amateurs and aspiring film makers to share their stories shot on a smartphones, tablets, and webcams to be screen on the big screen.
The festival's mission is to promote the importance of film music and its composers, as well as film sound, and filmmaking in general. The festival's goals are to originate and encourage discussions, connecting people, advising, and educating young composers and filmmakers, but also other people, through discussion panels, seminars, film market, and media publishing; we tend to start and maintain creative and constructive discussions about that indelible link between film and music.
The Crevillent Short Film Festival, organized by the Creadores de Crevillent Association, announces the call for entries to compete for the awards of its seventh edition, to be held on June 19 and 20, 2026.
The aim of the competition is to promote short films. Culture is considered a source of wealth and, in this sense, strengthening the local cultural offer also contributes to the economic and social development of our municipality. In this seventh edition there will be three different categories: Official Section, Local Section, and Local Youth Section.
Let's take a shot with shorts!
The best film festival from Moscow, Russia supported by Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and city authorities.
"Short Shot" - Monthly Awards and Screenings.
Festival is dedicated to filmmakers from all over the World.
Sending us your artwork is not sending it to a Black Hole.
We consider each film, each video!
Each director has a chance to introduce himself and his artwork and greet audience through our social media pages!
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Все русскоязычные фильмы могут участвовать в фестивале БЕСПЛАТНО.
Ищите соответствующую категорию и подавайте ЛЮБОЙ фильм в любом жанре!
Фильмы должны быть с субтитрами на английском языке! Без субтитров фильм не будет принят к рассмотрению!
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We are creators as well and we watch artworks with passion and professional interest.
We believe, that each film, each creator, each director deserve confession!
We are creating community of film lovers and filmmakers.
We communicate a lot, we discuss a lot in our social media!
Join us and be part of Short Shot Fest family!
Our jury selects every month the winning short films for each category:
Best Short Film
Best Short Comedy
Best Short Drama
Best Short Horror
Best Short Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Best Narrative Short
Best Student Short
Best Animation Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Experimental Short
Best Music Video
Best Mini Short
Best Mobile Phone Short (incl vertical)
Best Series (Web/TV)
Best Fashion Short
Best Commercial/Ad/TVC
Also, we provide chance for MOSCOW film creators to take a chance in showing our beautiful city in their movies.
How we do?
Choose one or more categories and submit your short film.
Usually, our submissions start on 1th-4th of the month and end on the same day next month.
EACH submitted film will receive a short review from our judge team (on request)
PLEASE NOTE: We don't screen the films online! The members of the jury watch the films online and they choose the Official Selections.
In 5-7 days after the deadline day for submissions we publish the Official Selections list and we notify the filmmakers via e-mail.
During the next 5 days our members of the jury decide the winners for each category.
After that we publish the Winners list and we notify filmmakers by e-mail. The lists are published on social media and on our dedicated website: shortshotfest.com
In the last week of the month we screen the awarded films in art - center "Efir" in the heart of Moscow.
From August, 2024 we are OPEN for new season 2025/2026!
The Grand Finale 2025/2026 will be held in August, 2026 in Moscow.
International judge team, great networking and friendly atmosphere — that’s Short Shot Fest.
Stay tuned and check our website: shortshotfest.com
Open from March 2 to May 1, 2026
Voces Contra el Silencio, Video Independiente A.C., the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, with the support of TV UNAM and the UNAM Film Archive, invite filmmakers to participate in the fourteenth edition of the Hispano-American Independent Documentary Film and Video Encounter: Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces, to be held from September 4 to 12, 2026, in Mexico City and in different states across the Mexican Republic, in a hybrid format.
The main objective of Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces is to serve as a window that brings together independent documentary cinema from Mexico, Latin America, and Spain, through free, accessible, and open spaces that embrace a diversity of perspectives, encourage collective action, and foster collaborative networks in support of the development of the documentary genre and the construction of a more just, equitable, and tolerant society.
Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces has explored new audiovisual exhibition alternatives, successfully reaching audiences it had never previously imagined. For this reason, in this thirteenth edition it has decided to maintain a hybrid format consisting of: in-person activities at various alternative film exhibition venues; on-demand content on the MXPLUS platform; and broadcasts on public television channels in Mexico City (Canal 11, Canal 21, Canal 22, and TV UNAM), as well as on public channels in other states across the country. Therefore, participation in this call implies acceptance that the documentary will be exhibited in these three formats during the fourteenth edition of the Encuentro Hispanomaericano de Cine y Video Documental Independiente: Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces
The Bogotá International Documentary Film Festival (MIDBO), organized by the Colombian Documentary Filmmakers Corporation ALADOS COLOMBIA, is a specialized event dedicated to nonfiction cinema. Over the past 27 years, it has established itself in Colombia and Latin America as a key platform for exhibition, dialogue, and critical reflection around documentary and audiovisual non-fiction practices.
For its 28th edition, MIDBO invites filmmakers and producers to submit their audiovisual works to the 2026 film call and to participate in the various training, discussion, and networking spaces that will take place both virtually and in person throughout the showcase.
The 28th edition of MIDBO will take place from October 28 to November 4, 2026, in Bogotá, Colombia. Throughout the year, the program will also travel to different regions of the country and will continue its ongoing MIDBO–ALADOS Tuesdays screening series in partnership with allied venues.
After 27 editions, MIDBO continues to foster an event grounded in reflection on documentary cinema and the many ways in which we approach and engage with reality. The multiple ways of recording and interpreting the world remain at the core of our interest. Committed to exploring the complexity of a reality that exceeds us, we continue each year to build a meaningful space for gathering and rethinking documentary practice.
For 2026, MIDBO reaffirms its commitment to supporting creation and recognizing the work of filmmakers through four competitive sections and two non-competitive sections:
Competitive Sections
Ibero-American Documentary Feature Competition
National Documentary Feature Competition
National Short Documentary Competition
Ibero-American Short Documentary Competition
Non-Competitive Sections
International Documentary Features
Colombian Films Produced Through Community-Based Processes
A main award will be granted in each competitive section.
Feature films must have a running time of over 60 minutes. Short films must have a running time of over 7 minutes.
The jury for each competition will be announced one month prior to the festival and will consist of three (3) artists, filmmakers, writers, critics, or cultural practitioners.
*** We are committed to being an inclusive event and will therefore give special consideration to films that incorporate audio description for blind or visually impaired audiences, as well as closed captioning or inclusive subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences. ***
The STUFF MX International Independent Film Festival in Mexico City celebrates its eleventh edition from August 22 to 30, 2026, and officially invites filmmakers, videographers, and audiovisual producers from around the world to submit all their film materials and music videos in all formats, genres, and categories of any length, including animation, documentary, and fiction. The call for entries will be open from September 1, 2025, until May 31, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. CST (Central Standard Time), Washington, D.C. time (CST), Mexico City time.
The main goal of Burgas International Film Festival is to develop a sustainable platform for presentation of feature and short movies by acquainting the audience with the contemporary cinema art.
The mission of The Festival is to turn Burgas into cultural venue of filmmakers and movie fans.
The main scope of the Festival is to present the current trends in the Bulgarian and international cinema practice and to provoke intercultural dialogue.
Our international jury has included György Pálfi, Andrea De Sica, Kamen Kalev, Ferenc Torok, Konstantin Bozhanov, Carlo Sironi, Paul Hamy, Viktor Bojinov, Stefan Bohun, Viki Reka Kiss, Patrik Chiha, Andre Marques, Bulut Reyhanoglu
Visceral, International Horror Film Festival, emerges as a project to showcase, disseminate, and promote genre cinema in the Biobío region. It provides an opportunity to bring cinematic works from around the world to the local audience, structured around a program that includes short film screenings, talks with filmmakers, and audiovisual workshops, with a cultural, artistic, and entertainment focus on horror and its various subgenres.
Among our objectives, we aim to position ourselves as a local, regional, national, and international reference within the genre festival circuit, offering a unique thematic experience for filmmakers who submit their films through the recognition of their work via selection and subsequent awards for the most outstanding pieces of each edition. We also seek to enhance the experience for our attendees, who will have the chance to watch, discuss, and share in a space dedicated to genre cinema, as well as participate as jurors through public voting.
Founded in 2023, the Art Movement Association aims to promote art and culture.
In its 1st edition, the Association aims to organize the Arara Azul Film Festival in June 2024, which will take place in beautiful Florence and aims to highlight Brazilian cinema. It is directed by Anastásia Vulgaris, director and screenwriter, and by the deputy director, opera singer and singing teacher Patrizia Morandini, both of Brazilian origins.
Films, documentaries, short movies and screenplay of any length produced and/or shot in Brazil or which deal with themes related to Brazil are eligible for selection. Priority will be given to world, international and European premieres.
