CALL FOR ENTRIES
The RODANDO Film Festival invites filmmakers to participate in the First International Showcase of its 14th Edition, to be held in the city of San Luis Potosí and the Magical Towns of Real de Catorce and Xilitla, Mexico.
INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE
FICTION FEATURE FILM
Fiction films from any country, completed between 2024 and 2026, will be considered.
The showcase is aimed at works with a strong authorial vision and social commitment that address contemporary cultural realities through themes such as: gender perspective, masculinities, childhood and youth development, migration, memory, community, as well as sexual, functional, linguistic, and ethnic diversity.
Selected films will receive official recognition from the Rodando Film Festival.
Now in its fourteenth year, the Northeast Film Festival showcases top independent films from filmmakers, as well as new talent. The diverse array of films, selected by a committee, includes features and shorts from all genres, as well as documentaries and screenplays. The festival is hosted in Teaneck New Jersey at the historic Teaneck Cinemas; with planned parties to kick off the festival in style and spirit. In addition, we offer an atmosphere for the film enthusiast to interact with filmmakers as well as filmmakers being able to interact and network with each other and industry professionals.
The festival includes after parties, to offer opportunities for interacting and networking with other filmmakers, actors, and film festival goers. In past years, Harry Lennix, Lloyd Kaufman, Danny Roebuck, Matthew Modine, Vinnie Pastore, David Harris, Robert Clohessy, Brian O'Halloran, Fatima Ptacek, Gianni Russo, Duane Whitaker, Jefferson White, producers from NBC, among many others attended the festival's after parties (and festival).
LUCES CAMEROS ACCION is a short film festival with two sections.
1 – “Rural World" Section
International section of short films in Spanish or Spanish subtitles.
Recorded in villages in rural areas or dealing with rural idiosyncrasies.
Premiered from January 1, 2025.
2 – “Cameros" Section
The works submitted will be original pieces that are not accessible through Internet.
With 30% of the "footage" recorded in recognizable places of Cameros (New and old Cameros located in La Rioja Spain).
Deadline for submission of works:
"Rural World" section: before April 16, 2026.
"Cameros" section: before July 21, 2026.
Screenings and Awards Ceremony:
18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 of August in villages of Cameros, La Rioja, Spain.
Ruido Interno, performing and visual arts, organizes the 4th Rural Film and Short Film Festival, which will be held in the town of Espinama, in the Camaleño Valley, Cantabria, from August 27 to 30, 2026.
The competitive section is announced according to the following rules:
Three categories are established:
. Fiction and animation short film section.
. Documentary section.
. Video art and other languages section (virtual reality, 360 videos, etc.)
Submissions may not exceed 30 minutes.
Each author may submit one entry in only one category.
All entries must refer to at least 70% of the rural and natural environment, environmental issues, and environmental awareness and conservation in their storytelling. Audiovisual productions that showcase or reflect on social, cultural, and anthropological aspects of the rural world will be considered.
All works produced after January 1, 2023, may be submitted. Any individual or group of individuals directly associated with the organization or sponsors are excluded. Likewise, productions with advertising or tourism content may not be submitted.
There are no language restrictions for submissions; Spanish subtitles are an essential requirement, whenever applicable.
Any genre: Drama, Action, Comedy, Horror, Animation, Music Video, PSA, or other. Film must be no longer than 60 seconds, including credits.
The San Diego International Kids' Film Festival promotes the idea of entertainment with education. Supported by many across the world, the festival supports the entertainment and education industries by showcasing international films, and gives young, aspiring filmmakers a channel to communicate to an international community. The resulting collaboration produces a unique multicultural experience, engaging young viewers with positive media, as a diverse education.
Vertical Shorts Festival is the first international film festival dedicated exclusively to vertical filmmaking (9:16 aspect ratio) a bold and modern format reshaping how stories are told and experienced. We celebrate creators who embrace the mobile-first world and use vertical video not as a constraint, but as a canvas for innovation.
Whether it’s a gripping drama, a supernatural thriller, a heartfelt romance, or a daring fantasy, we’re looking for bold voices and fresh perspectives across genres, as long as they’re vertical.
Our mission is to spotlight emerging and established filmmakers who are pushing visual storytelling forward. We welcome smartphone filmmakers, experimental creators, and anyone exploring this unique format with purpose, passion, and cinematic craft.
Join us and be part of a new movement in cinema, where your vertical vision takes center stage.
FILMOHZ 2026 aims to promote dialogue between architecture, the city, and audiovisual language through the selection, screening, and recognition of cinematic works that explore new forms of representation, interpretation, and narration of built space.
The festival seeks to establish itself as an international meeting point for filmmakers, architects, visual artists, researchers, and creators who understand architecture as a narrative, emotional, cultural, and social dimension.
Festival of Future Storytellers has been one of the most important festivals for young filmmakers worldwide since 1981. Each year, it offers young filmmakers from all over the world a platform for presenting their own short films and exchanging ideas about filmmaking. Each November, Munich becomes the focal point of up-and-coming international filmmaking — a place for lively exchange, networking, and discussion.
The short fiction, documentary, and animated films screened in international competition are eligible for valuable prizes, which are awarded by an independent festival jury. In addition, Festival of Future Storytellers presents a DACH Short Film Competition, in which short films from the DACH region will be programmed. An extensive supporting programme with panels and masterclasses complements the film programme.
Frontera Films Corporation from the city of Cúcuta is organizing the 8th International Film Festival of Norte de Santander.
Welcome to the participants of this edition in 2026. We are seeking enthusiasts and professionals in the audiovisual world who want to take part in the call for entries for the 8th International Film Festival of Norte de Santander.
The 9th International Film Festival of Norte de Santander is organized by Frontera Films Corporation. It emerges from the need to create a film industry in the region, from the Colombian-Venezuelan border and from an educational and training perspective. Our goal is to promote cinema in the department of Norte de Santander and the border region, making it the most important festival in the northeastern part of Colombia.
With the aim of showcasing Norte de Santander as a department that engages in audiovisual dynamics, we will have hybrid and semi-presential events in the cities of Cúcuta, Los Patios, Pamplona, and Villa del Rosario, as well as virtual events. Therefore, similar to last year, the festival will feature in-person screenings of short and feature films.
CONVERSATIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND JURIES:
There will be conversations, workshops, and talks with professionals from the national film industry.
The juries will consist of qualified individuals and professionals in the national film industry, as well as representatives from the festival organization.
More events will be announced soon.
Escenario: Cinema + Music, is the first musical documentary film festival in Argentina.
In 2026, it will mark its seventh edition and return with its international feature film competition.
CARDÓS FILM FESTIVAL 2026
International Mountain Film Festival
PRESENTATION
The City Council of Vall de Cardós, in collaboration with the Cultural, Civic and Sports Association of the Valls de Cardós, announces the celebration of the second edition of the CARDÓS FILM FESTIVAL that will take place from October 10 to 12, 2026, in Vall de Cardós (Pallars Sobirà) and will have, as a nerve centre, the historical Sociocultural venue La Boïga, in Ribera de Cardós, with complementary activities around the town.
We are pleased to announce an important novelty in this year's edition of our short film contest. With the aim of reflecting the richness and diversity of the mountain territories, the contest adopts a new official theme, opening the call for works that explore any aspect that revolves around the thematic axis of the mountains.
We want the contest to be a global showcase of mountain identity, without borders, convening this year's International Short Film Competition with the following TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
The International Fantastic and Horror Film Festival in Tàrrega - Galacticat, which is held every year since 2014, is the first and only fantastic and horror film Festival in the lands of Lleida, aimed at all moviegoers in general and lovers of science fiction and terror in particular and with a clear divulgative vocation. The Galacticat was born as an initiative to recover the universal Sci-Fi classics for the general public and to delve into this culture that has articulated the universe of cinema since its inception. Over the years, the Galacticat has grown, involving citizens more and more in this film festival, gradually increasing the programmed activities, parties, concerts, screenings, public attendance, industry activities and the response of the film industry.
FECIUCH is a public university film festival that seeks to promote audiovisual and cinematic culture at the national level, fostering the inclusion of regional schools and valuing audiovisual works not only for their artistic and social content, but also for their treatment of language, form, and critical perspective, created within student learning environments.
Through this festival, we aim to bring together a broad community of students, professors, and alumni, creating a diverse and open university meeting point—an artistic space for the community, an exhibition, discussion, and development for emerging voices and perspectives. We seek to promote contemporary cinema that, faced with the challenges of modernity and limited resources, embraces innovation and reinvention.
We believe in cinema that, far from replicating established formulas, dares to explore new perspectives, languages, and narrative forms. Cinema that, despite limited access to resources, amplifies the authenticity of its voices, creativity, and commitment to expression through learning and experimentation. This space seeks to showcase works born from the urgent need to create, engaging with the present and projecting the future of cinema from a student perspective, exploring and breaking down the established boundaries of the industry.
In this and future editions, we will work to expand our reach to promote and support the development of works at various stages of production, as well as serve as a bridge between university-based creative work and the industry. Furthermore, in this edition, we have partnered with UChile TV as a media partner and with the National School of Cinematographic Arts (ENAC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, thus beginning a process of international expansion. The first stage of this collaboration is being carried out through non-competitive screenings, with the intention of gradually incorporating these into the festival's competitive framework.
The Festival on the Cinema was born in 2020, when many actors and film directors were left unemployed or suspended from their work in the arts due to the crisis caused by the pandemic. That's when the project began, interviewing them via Zoom to learn a little about their activities, with the intention of supporting them during this difficult time and giving them the opportunity to showcase their work while we were all locked down during the crisis. Sharing something positive was always something that kept us hopeful that everything would return to normal.
Chulpicine began its work in 2002 with the first ever Itinerant Children & Youth Film Festival in Quito. The warm welcome that the project received allowed the festival to become an annual event during the months of July to September, bringing an educational and entertaining event at no cost, to sectors with few cultural activities.
Thanks to the positive reaction, Chulpicine became a cultural and educational non-profit foundation in June 2004. After more than 10 years of experience, Chulpicine have reach a stable proposal and working methodology that has spread at national level. The Festival has promoted the creation of coaching staff; cultural managers working in different communities; and a large group of followers.
Chulpicine has designed a set of activities and workshops for institutions, community organizations or outreach workers to educate and train in different areas related to cinema, audiovisual, communication and Internet used as social intervention tools. These activities and workshops have been the beginning of a formation of learning communities by harnessing the capabilities of young people, as well as the setting up of an active and engaged network of social facilitators through the film and audiovisual work.
The Foundation carries out the following program lines: training; intervention; appropriation of public spaces; diffusion and production. This line of work is an alternative to foster community networks to develop communication skills, analysis and reflection in the various stakeholders of the community, thereby strengthening its organizational and self-development skills.
The foundation has a multidisciplinary team currently working on the projects. These people are responsible for different areas: there is a psychologist, a producer, a programmer, a communicator and an accountant.
In addition, every year about 12 people are hired to assist in the implementation of activities. This group is made up of people who have worked in the past in the festival and some new young people that wish to join the group. Also, each year we have the support of volunteers from different organizations.
The Mairena del Aljarafe Short Film Festival, Mairena Film Festival (here in after MAIFF) will be a cultural event with a program that will host different activities (meetings with industry professionals, 36h short film making rally, projections of the official section...). The festival will be held from October 9 to 17, 2026
in the Seville town of Mairena del Aljarafe.
Atalaya is an international festival that aims to give a voice to films that deal with issues as important as social justice and Human Rights, covering topics such as inequality in all its forms, democratic memory, poverty, solidarity, education, health and well-being, peace, sustainability, and more.
It takes place in the autumn in the town of Casariche, located east of the province of Seville.
The SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is a specialized, competitive fantastic genre Festival in accordance with the regulations established by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations). The Festival has also been declared a “Qualified Festival” by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® in the United States. This means that those shorts winning the awards for “Best Short Film” in the Official Fantàstic Selection and “Best Short Film” in the Anima’t category will automatically be taken into consideration by the Hollywood Academy Awards® selection committee.
