An unique film festival on Mental Health organised by SCARF.
Frame of Mind is a unique film festival on Mental Health organised by SCARF. The portrayal and interpretation of mental disorders in films vary according to the different cinematic traditions across the globe. The two main objectives of the festival are to improve awareness about Mental Health and beat the stigma attached to mental disorders and to stimulate & promote interest on Mental Health issues among filmmakers.
History (2006 – 2016)
Students and Future Filmmakers
The previous editions (2006 – 2016) of the festival have seen some very nice and promising short films from young and inspired persons most of them students and future filmmakers and has always been a great success. All the editions received great response from students, mental health professionals, the general public and the media
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (INDIA)
SCARF
SCARF is the acronym for the SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (INDIA), a voluntary, non-profit organization located at Chennai. Established in 1984, the main activities of SCARF are care & rehabilitation of the mentally ill and disabled, research, training and improving awareness about mental illness. SCARF is recognized by the WHO as a Collaborating Center for Mental Health Research and Training and is the only WHO collaborating centre in India for mental health. www.scarfindia.org
Open call for filmmakers!
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Breaking Walls Dance Films (BWDF) is the first Dance Film Festival in Egypt and the Region.
BWDF is an international event showcasing the best in dance film from around the world, which will take place in Cairo, in December 2023. We will host a special program of dance films alongside the festival's various programs of workshops and live performances.
Knowing that the application will be no later than November 5, 2023.
ON THE SIDELINES OF THE FESTIVAL:
- We welcome documentaries and feature films to be shown on the sidelines of the festival, provided that these films are dance-related.
- If the film includes non-English narration, English subtitles are required. English scripts are required for all films.
The Amphiteatrum Festival was born in the city of Santa Maria Capua Vetere (Santa Maria 'e Capua in dialect, also abbreviated as Santa Maria C. V. or S. Maria C.V.) is an Italian town of 31 868 inhabitants [1] in the province of Caserta in Campania.
It stands exactly on the ruins of ancient Capua, as attested by the numerous monuments of the Roman era - above all, the Campanian Amphitheater, second in size only to the Colosseum - as well as by the etymology of today's toponym. After the ancient glories, the city changed into a peasant village with the name of villa Santa Maria Maggiore (villa Sanctae Mariae Maioris) and became part of the universitas capuana.
City famous for the history of the great Spartacus, Rebel Gladiator
Precisely little is known about his youth, except that in all probability he was born in Thrace [1], at an unspecified place on the banks of the Strimone river (today's Struma river, in Bulgaria), between 111 and 109 BC about, in an aristocratic family belonging to the Maedi tribe. From an early age he served in the ranks of the Roman army, with which he fought in Macedonia, and, as reported by Plutarch, he was married to a priestess of his own tribe, dedicated to the cult of Dionysus.
Spartacus was not his real name, but a nickname, most likely given to him by Lentulo Batiatus, and possibly generated as a Latinization of Sparadakos ("famous for his spear") or Spartakos (which could perhaps indicate a particular place in Thrace or the very name of some legendary ruler of the region [2]) or, again, as a possible reference to the Greek city-state of Sparta, the warrior city par excellence in the ancient imagination. [3]
The iron Roman discipline that he had to endure within the militia convinced him, in the end, to desert and try to escape. As reported by Appiano of Alexandria [4], he was soon captured, judged a deserter and sentenced, according to Roman military law, to enslavement, probably together with his wife (which is not unusual). Appian also reports the theory according to which Spartacus was not enslaved for desertion, but because he was a prisoner of war as an ally, with his tribe, of Mithridates VI of Pontus during the war of the latter against the Roman Republic. [3] The strong knowledge of Roman legionary tactics demonstrated by Thrace during his revolt, however, has led modern and contemporary historians to favor his past as an auxiliary ex-legionary. [3]
Later, around 75 BC, he was destined to be a gladiator; Spartacus, in fact, was sold to Lentulo Batiato, a lanista who owned a school of gladiators in Capua. According to Plutarch, while he was in Rome waiting to be sold, one night a snake coiled around his face as he slept, which his companion prophetess would have interpreted as the omen of "a great fortune" or, according to another interpretation of the text of the Greek historian, of "a great misfortune".
In Capua, Spartacus was forced to fight inside the famous Campania amphitheater against wild beasts and other gladiators, as was the custom at that time, to amuse the people and the aristocracy.
The festival was born to reward Directors, Actors, Composers, screenwriters through their works
The Render University Film Festival is a space that was created in the classrooms, with the aim of strengthening and promoting spaces for training, creation, and cinematographic exhibition that allow students from different regions of Peru to develop their skills in the trade. audiovisual.
Consequently, as part of the activities carried out by the festival, which will take place between March 9 and 17, 2023, and through this, we open the call for our national short film competition, which consists of 3 categories that we will explain in the next section.
At Filmyway film festival , it is our ongoing mission to champion the work of writers and filmmakers, and this goal has never felt as urgent as it does today.
Filmyway film festival is an annual festival with award ceremony and a live show.
Mumbai is a hotspot for filmmakers who want to promote their independent project.
With so many awards, you have more chances to win! No budget? No problem.
We know how painstakingly difficult it is to make a movie, we even know how hard it is just to write a good script.
We know what it takes, and we're here to reward you so you can get real recognition for your work.
We want to help indie filmmakers find success by celebrating their achievements with a plethora of different awards.
MiTS (Movement & Social Transformation) is a Social Video-dance Festival which explores the interrelation between video and dance as a tool to bring about powerful discussions and visibility to all kinds of diversity: diverse identities, diverse bodies and territories to discover.
“RIETI & SABINA Film Festival”
25 NOVEMBRE 2025
https://www.rietiinternationalfilmfestival.com/
“RIETI & SABINA Film Festival“ aims to give a chance to disclose to the audience Talents, Authors, Actors, Directors, and Filmmakers with the purpose of creating synergies between Film Professionals and new Talents.
ISFFC is an international short film festival organized by the 1895 Film Society in Guangzhou. The festival showcases top films from renowned filmmakers worldwide while also providing a platform for emerging talent from across the globe.
As always, we take pride in welcoming submissions from both China and abroad. In our inaugural international short film competition in 2019, we meticulously screened over 1000 submissions to curate a selection of 50+ films. This lineup included works from prestigious festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, as well as contributions from Oscar® Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Emmy®, and Grammy® award-winning artists from various corners of the globe.
Unique Location :
ONE Country ONE Film is a unique festival festival taking place in two different venues located in the same beautiful countryside area in the heart of France.
Unique Concept :
Every film selected is the sole representative of its country in each of the following categories : Feature Films, Short Films, Children Films. Every year a Country is honored and several films are selected from that country. Since its creation in 2010, ONE Country ONE Film has selected 119 countries.
Send your film (short or feature, animation, fiction, experimental or documentary) and be the only one to represent your country at ONE Country ONE Film 2025 -16th edition!!
WomenTime! II Festival de cine Femenino de Canarias, is a film festival online (through FIlmin) and in person (Tenerife and Madrid), which aims to visualise women as filmmakers.
This project vindicates the current situation of gender inequality in our society by highlighting women as filmmakers. WomenTime! is a festival of short films, under 15 minutes long. Directed, produced or scripted by women. Short films with gender or feminist themes are accepted, but will not be entered into the competition. Accepted in all languages, but with Spanish subtitles for the screening (English subtitles are accepted). The selected short films will be screened for one month on the Filmin platform (during the duration of the festival).
Welcome to the five edition of Diminuto, International Minimal Film Festival, a celebration of short-films.
Diminuto comes from the Latin: extremely small. The minimal cinema is that tiny cinema, but immensely deep; brief, but extensive in possibilities; tiny, but capable of creating endless universes. Because we know that every second is important, this is a celebration of small short films, small projects that leave us with enormous emotions and diverse sensations. That is why we say that: The minimal cinema is the maximum.
Categories in competition.
In all categories we receive: fiction, documentary, fiction, animation, experimental and hybrids.
Zero: Under 59 seconds
One: 1 minute
Fractal: Between 1 and 3 minutes
Silent: Short without dialogues, between 1 and 3minutes
Vertical: Vertical shorts, between 1 and 3minutes
Tik Shorts: Shorts made by Tik Tok, under 3 minutes
Spot: Spot, under 5 minutes
Cassette: Videoclip, between 1 and 5minutes
Wide: Shorts between 3 and 5 minutes
XL: Shorts between 5 and 8 minutes
Non-competitive category.
For this category we receive fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and hybrids.
Alternative silms: Shortsfilms under 3 minutes, made by authors from Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela.
In this edition, it is contemplated that the works selected in the teen competing categories will be screened, scheduled and viewed in three modalities:
1. Screening of the official selection in at least four cultural spaces located in Mexico City.
2. The Official Selection will be hosted on the Retina Latina streaming platform, and Wahu Streaming.
The winning works of each category in competition will be screened in a cultural venue in Bogota, Colombia. Place and date to be confirmed.
The works selected in the Alternative Films will be programmed streaming on the festival's social networks and on Wahu, streaming platform.
The origin of Diminuto is referred to the online workshops: Short films taught in the last year by Aarón Álvarez, the director of the festival. In them, the concept of brevity and the ideology that allows highlighting the creative processes of the authors are promoted. Some works that were part of the Official selection and the Alternative films of the first edition were produced in these workshops.
Complementary to the exhibitions, programming and visualizations, the workshops will be given: Short films, short formats (level 1 and 2), there will be talks and master classes with specialists in cinematography, these activities will be carried out online, they are planned for the attendees and the interested public, seeking to promote new authors. Special online activities will be held for the authors of the winning short films in each category and the honorable mentions.
ASSERTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS is a project that has emerged from Festival de Málaga, Mabel Lozano (documentary filmmaker and collaborator of the Festival), and the Equal Opportunities Area of Malaga City Council as a protest tool. This section is created with the aim of exploring and dealing with issues that contribute to social awareness of women's rights each year.
This section of Festival de Málaga was born in 2008, this being its 18th edition. The project is conceived with a double purpose: to inform about the injustices that women still suffer in this century for the mere fact of being women, and to encourage and support the cinematographic work created by women.
PLAY is the first Portuguese film festival, exclusively dedicated to children and teenagers, determined to promote the access to culture for a younger audience through Cinema and screening films for audiences aged between 1 and 16 years old.
1. OBJECTIVES
The objectives of Festival de Malaga are to disseminate and promote Spanish films and their general cultural sphere. In this sense, the Festival is also a platform for Latin American film productions. Its functions include hosting an event for the different professional sectors of films in Spanish (construed as films produced in Spain and all of Latin America, including Brazil) to boost their development and promote international sales.
In compliance with these objectives, the 28th Edition of Festival de Málaga will be held from 14th to 23rd March 2025.
Original Version in Catalan
VOC Festival Òmnium de Curtmetratges és un projecte impulsat per Òmnium Cultural amb la finalitat d’estimular la producció de curtmetratges de qualitat en català, contribuir a la seva difusió i ampliar-ne el públic.
El VOC és un festival únic perquè arriba a més de 90 sales d’arreu dels Països Catalans simultàniament durant els mesos de febrer i març. És un punt de trobada entre creadors, públic i referents del sector, una oportunitat per compartir l’experiència del cinema en llengua catalana.
The LA MIRADA TABÚ film festival wants to motivate artists and creators to show their view of the “taboo” concept, which is broad and diverse, encompassing from the dreams, the unconscious, the mental worlds and the ghosts that populate them , the mystery, the magic, even the untold reality, the unsaid, "the clothes hanging", in the workplace, emotional, family, vital ... from a vision as polyhedral as human thought is: casual, humorous, dramatic, dreamlike ... always from respect for all ways of thinking and from creativity.
LA MIRADA TABÚ launches an invitation to bring to light the personal and non-transferable world of each creator, which, as we have been able to verify throughout the history of art and cinema, through great names in world cinematography, connects with the deepest, unknown and elusive imaginary of the spectators
Did you know each year a transformation happens in Los Angeles, CA? People from around the globe gather to attend the largest and most prestigious Black film festival in the United States. From 100 million dollar blockbuster premieres to newly emerging Hollywood talent, The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) showcases a broad array of Black creative works from the world over, highlighting those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes. Nowhere else can audiences find this unique opportunity to come together through film and art to explore new worlds, meet new people and acquire new information and ideas.
PAFF is designated as an official qualifying film festival for narrative live action and animated short films for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Venerated by tens of thousands every year, PAFF screens more than 175 new films across 6 screens in state of the art digital projection to the delight of an audience of sophisticated movie lovers. PAFF’s audience loves PAFF and PAFF loves them. Each year PAFF becomes a pilgrimage for attendees who hail from all over the United States and the World! Known for its industry panels, special events and great parties, we invite filmmakers to take this one-of-a-kind opportunity to connect to their core audience and experience the special magic of PAFF.
Did we mention celebrities? Celeb sightings: Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Danny Glover, Idris Elba, Mo’Nique, Kevin Hart, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Phylicia Rashad, Lou Gossett, Jr., Issa Rae, Taraji P. Henson, Trevor Noah, David Oweloyo, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Majid Michel, Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood, Kerry Washington, Nate Parker, Salli Richardson, Dorian Missick, Jesse Williams, Michael Ealy, Anthony Anderson, Omotola, Boris Kodjoe, Whoopi Goldberg, Omari Hardwick, Chadwick Boseman, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Shia LaBeouf, CCH Pounder, Omar Epps, Regina King, Sanaa Lathan, John Legend, Tika Sumpter, Tim Roth, Van Vicker, Gabrielle Union, Alfre Woodard, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Wesley Snipes, Meagan Good, Loretta Devine, Bill Duke, Lisa Raye, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Hill Harper, Mario Van Peebles, Eriq LaSalle, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Sharon Leal, Stacey Dash, Billy Dee Williams, Terrence Howard, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Omar Benson Miller, Isaiah Washington, Joy Bryant, Regina Hall, Jussie Smollett, Robert Townsend, Ja'Net Dubois, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Djimon Hounsou, Glynn Turman, Vivica Fox, Kimberly Elise, Don Cheadle and the list goes on and on.
In an ever-evolving film industry, MICA 3 is at the forefront of a new wave of exposure-focused film exhibits. We believe that films should be seen, celebrated, and shared—not locked away in traditional festival circuits.
By joining MICA 3, your work has the chance to shine on a screening event and to reach a global audience through our extensive online exhibit, amplified by three months of paid advertising.
At MICA, we believe that the future of cinema is yet to be found, and we are proud to support the seventh art through this transition. Thank you for joining our film exhibit as a platform for your work.
