MosDocFest Documentary Film Festival is an international film competition with an annual awards event in Moscow.
MosDocFest is an organization devoted to showcasing the best and brightest documentary films from around the globe, advancing the careers of filmmakers through screenings, networking events, and various panel and forums.
MosDocFest is an avid supporter of local and international filmmakers representing cinematic productions that embody the true spirit of the art.
From classic or original scripts to new cinematography and film techniques, each and every piece is the result of true emotion and expression.
We're glad you're here! We can't wait to discover the amazing documentary films you create and the global community that you build.
All best documentary films that were selected for the screening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on December 01 - 07, 2025 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best Documentary Film". As well as for the prizes in the standalone nominations.
The Peripheral Visions Festival is a pioneering and unique project in Brazil that expands the spectrum of perspectives on Brazilian peripheral spaces through film screenings and a project development laboratory. The 19th edition will be held in 2026, from March 3rd to 8th, 2026.
The theme and concept of the Peripheral Visions Festival are reflected in its very name. Each year, the Visões program seeks to reflect the aesthetic power and diversity present in Brazilian peripheral areas through the eyes of filmmakers who experience the daily lives of these geographic, social, and existential territories. These qualities are fostered both in the curation of the film screenings and in parallel activities, most notably the Visões Lab, an audiovisual project development laboratory.
- Imaginary Frontiers (competitive): films up to 25 minutes long produced by independent filmmakers from across Brazil.
- Cinema da Gema (competitive): films up to 25 minutes long produced in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
- Panorâmica (competitive): films lasting at least 40 minutes (medium-length and feature-length films).
- Visorama (competitive): films up to 15 minutes long produced as part of audiovisual training projects for elementary, secondary, and/or third-sector education.
**This is not just another film festival. This is a statement.**
The Berlin International Underground Film Festival (BIUFF) is a movement, launching with a clear and powerful mission: to build a **true ecosystem** of support for independent and defiant voices. We are not here to sell awards; we are here to **discover talent and build futures**.
**Our Mission: Discovered in Berlin**
We are based in Berlin, a city where art sprouts from concrete and defiance is in its DNA, because we believe that true cinema is not manufactured—it is **discovered**. BIUFF is a global platform for all independent creators—filmmakers, screenwriters, and photographers who dare to be different. We are looking for personal stories, bold perspectives, and artistic honesty.
**The "4U" Philosophy**
At the heart of our festival lies an award that transcends all categories: **The Grand Prize, our "4U" Trophy**. This ultimate honor is bestowed upon only one work per edition that powerfully embodies all four of our foundational principles:
- **Uncensored**
- **Uncompromising**
- **Unconventional**
- **Unbound**
**Our Model: Hybrid & Supportive**
BIUFF is more than just a competition; it is a **hybrid festival** and a true connection point. While our initial judging is conducted online, the journey culminates in a **live screening and awards event in the heart of Berlin**.
And in our deep commitment to supporting you, we've simplified the process: **with one single entry, your project is automatically considered for all relevant awards.** This is your chance to connect with a network of like-minded professionals from around the globe, supported by the Kariz Creative Hub.
**Honoring the Unsung Heroes**
Finally, we proudly honor the true architects of defiant cinema. For the first time, a major international award will be dedicated to the **Line Producers and Production Managers** who, with the art of resistance, make the impossible possible.
In a digital landscape saturated with soulless competitions and hollow laurels, we rise on a different foundation: **authenticity**.
**Join us. Submit your work to the beating heart of European independent cinema and show your voice to the world.**
The festival aims to promote independent filmmakers and innovative work, to take risks and move the frontiers from the boring and most of the times empty conventional to the artistic initiating strong emotions and out of the box exceptional. It equally aims to give the opportunity to independent filmmakers to showcase their work free of commercial constraints.
8th Annabhau Sathe International Films Festival’ will be held from 26 to 28 December 2025 in NFDC- National film archive of India auditorium at Pune. law collage road. Government of Maharashtra and Nirmiti media’ has been organized this FESTIVAL. There will be an array of different programs in this 3-days festival. Being the 8th year of the festival will host programs like Panel discussion, workshops, Expert guidance in Film-making, discussions and your queries will be answered by famous filmmakers and producers. Sounds exciting? Well, there are lots more!
WINNERS of the feature and short film category will be honoured with a Cash prize, trophy, and Certificate.
To submit a film, connect to www.asfpunefestival.com or
Call for entries : contact: 8552829111
About Us
CINEMA is a reflection of the SOCIETY, human behavior and cultures, which are ever changing.
It’s been 122 years since the Lumière Brothers screened the first film in India and gave birth to Indian Cinema. We have come a long way since then, including The Golden Era of Indian Cinema (1940-1960).
The French New wave, which came along the 1950’s and the 1960’s, is regarded as one of the most influential movements in Cinema. Today, Cinema has evolved vastly with new camera techniques, lighting methods and above all, varied narratives that don’t necessarily adhere to the conventional story arc.
India is a country of great cultural diversity and, has a history of being one of the biggest contributors to the field of Art in the world. Moving to the present, we are situated in the heart of the Indian Film Industry, Mumbai, where the Star Culture is still prevalent in the Mainstream Cinema and most of the films thrive solely star power. Yet, there have been story tellers who have managed to break this mold and come out with amazing films in the recent past. The Parallel Cinema, a film movement that emerged as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Cinema, particularly in the latest era, characterized by its focus on REALISM, SOCIAL ISSUES and a rejection of typical Bollywood tropes like Song & Dance routines, is gradually taking a place in Indian Cinema. The key figures including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen & Ritwik Ghatak, etc who were initially based in Bengal & later gained their influence across India. While the Parallel Cinema was a distinctly Indian Movement, it was also influenced by the International Film Movements like Italian NEOREALISM.
We, as the Global Indie Film Festival of India (GIFFI-Hyderabad), have a fundamental belief that Cinema is a beautiful platform and storytelling is diversely serene.
We are at the end of the second decade of the 21st century and we believe that it’s the time that new age experimental story tellers and artists are given their rightfully deserved audience.
Our aim through this festival is to reignite the love for cinema which has somewhere been blurred due to the commerce of the trade. After all, DADASAHEB PHALKE did not make the first Indian film, RAJA HARISHCHANDRA with the purpose of earning money. Passion is what drives us, and we are looking to meet and celebrate passion through the medium of cinema.
Welcoming talented independent film makers from India and across the Globe to showcase their narratives, short films, long short films, feature films, documentaries, animation films, web series and music videos etc of any genre, any length, any medium of shooting, to come forward and submit your films with appropriate entry fees.
If your work has merit and you have passion, we have a platform for you. This Global Indie Film Festival of India (GIFFI-HYD) is a platform to provide an open environment for the producers, directors, writers, actors, technicians, film appreciation enthusiasts and anyone who has a zest for Cinema. Let’s network and talk about cinema and also let’s vow to bring another new wave through our work.
We have a Panel of Experts as the Board of Juries. They will scrutinize your films in all aspects and decide the official selections & and as well as Final Awards as per the required Categories.
The Screenings of officially selected films will be organized in various Theatres physically/an OTT Platform, that is associated with GIFFI-Hyderabad online.
We conduct the Final Award Ceremony, where all the Award Winners will be facilitated with Trophy & Certificate. The First, Second & Third level Winners of the Best Film Category will also be honored with CASH REWARDS on the same Dias.
We conduct this unique Film Festival twice in a year in the different Cities of India with maximum gaiety & color.
GIFFI-Hyderabad is a PROGRAMME, organized by HONOR HEIGHTS AWARDS & REWARDS PRIVATE LIMITED, duly registered with Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. (CIN: U82300TS2024PTC184552)
NRW Film Festival 2025
The NRW Film Festival is a brand-new platform dedicated to discovering and celebrating bold, original, and inspiring voices in cinema. Launched in 2025, the festival provides filmmakers from across the globe with an opportunity to showcase their work in North Rhine-Westphalia, one of Germany’s most culturally vibrant regions.
The inaugural edition of the festival will take place in December 2025, bringing together audiences, creators, and industry professionals for a unique celebration of short films. With a strong focus on emerging talent, the NRW Film Festival welcomes films up to 20 minutes in length across genres—ranging from social impact stories to commercial and entertainment-driven films.
In main event, selected short films will be chosen and featured as part of the festival’s rolling curation. These monthly selections will culminate in a grand annual screening event in December 2025, where the year’s most outstanding works will be celebrated on the big screen.
The NRW Film Festival strives to create a space where filmmakers can connect, exchange ideas, and inspire change through the power of storytelling. We ensuring that independent voices have a chance to be seen and heard.
19th Edition Ecozine Film Festival – International Socio-Environmental Film Festival of Zaragoza. April 2026. Organized by the Ecozine Cultural Association
ECOZINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – The International Socio-Environmental Film Festival, organized by the Ecozine Cultural Association, was founded in 2008 as a platform for social awareness and cultural promotion, advocating cinema as a tool for change.
Committed to showcasing and disseminating audiovisual productions with socio-environmental content.
The announcement of the international internet film festival "Diogenes 2025" for short films
Slogan: "New Horizons, Creative Boldness, and Innovation."
The short film festival "Diogenes 2025," which features innovative projects, represents itself as a festival with short films on the internet globally. It holds four seasons of screenings, each in four different countries - Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia and Israel. The innovation in Diogene's short film festival is the automatic submission of the film's announcement once, and the automatic participation in the festival in Diogenes four autonomous seasons -
1. "Diogenes Odesa"
2. "Diogenes Tbilisi"
3. "Diogenes Tallinn"
4. "Diogenes Haifa"
FRAME Film Festival es un festival de cortometrajes itinerante, sin una única ubicación, que se celebrará en la provincia de Tarragona.
El FRAME Film Festival consta de dos fases.
• FASE CLASIFICATORIA
• FASE FINAL
El objetivo principal es difundir y promover la cinematografía en general y el cortometraje en particular, apoyando a las directoras y los directores de cortometrajes y creando un espacio donde puedan dar a conocer sus trabajos.
Pero sobre todo trabajamos para que las y los cineastas se sientan acogidos y vivan la experiencia de visitarnos cómo si estuvieran en familia. LA GRAN FAMILIA DEL CORTOMETRAJE!
Otro motivo es ampliar la oferta de acontecimientos culturales para hacer llegar el cortometraje a a poblaciones que no tengan la oportunidad de disfrutar de nuestro cine en formato CORTO.
En el FRAME Film Festival queremos darle al público que sigue y disfruta los cortometrajes, la oportunidad de decidir sobre la selección de las películas que pasarán a la FASE FINAL para recibir los premios TALENTO FRAME.
The festival will take place in Alicante from December 9 to 13, 2025.
Only short films produced exclusively with a smartphone will be accepted.
Both national and international short films are eligible to participate.
The theme is open to all genres and subjects.
In the city of culture, art, and heritage. Yellowstone International Film Festival is dedicated to celebrating the world-class cinema. Yellowstone International Film festival is home to independent cinema from around the world.
YIFF puts filmmakers first and provides the opportunity for recognition and publicity for quality films and documentaries. Our aim is to be an advocate for filmmakers with a unique vision and to promote their work by showcasing it to a large audience. which is why our mission is to carefully consider and select a wide range of films to promote to the indie film-loving crowd.
YIFF will be a global adventure of the premiere, screenings, nightly red carpets, daring documentaries, eye-opening short films, We also focus films under special categories such as LGBTQ films, Women Empowerment films, environmental films, Students Films,
YIFF will be host to Opening & Closing Night Gale, Opening & Closing night Red Carpet , Press Interaction for participants, Official Portraits for nominated filmmakers, Festival Interviews of Nominated filmmakers, nightly parties, live music performances, filmmaker panels, award presentations, and an enhanced filmmaker hospitality program that includes city tours and more
We invite you to add your voice to the conversation. At YIFF, filmmakers are invited to the festival to participate in a variety of programs, Q&A sessions and a series of panel discussions, Press Conferences. masterclasses where filmmakers have the opportunity to discuss their work and careers with a new generation of content creators.
1) YIFF understands that independent films must get amplification. Two weeks before the festival begins, the YIFF PR team does Pre festival press release and post-festival press releases announcing winners.
2) We create numerous filmmaker's panels and masterclasses with industry professionals for filmmakers to take part in.
Dokumentala was born to show, through the language of cinema, the transforming power of support between people.
That is why the thematic axis of the proposals to the competition will be to make visible support relationships that can occur in society and that generate positive changes in people, in groups and in municipalities.
Argia Fundazioa, opens the Call for the SIX Edition of the dokuMentala 2022 Festival.
Argia Fundazioa is an entity that supports people with a diagnosis of mental illness to improve their quality of life and the image that society has of this group.
dokuMentala 2025 was born in 2019 to show, through the language of cinema, the transforming power of support between people.
The Call for the Festival for the year 2025 is made public, which will be governed by the rules detailed below.
We are LISBIFF • Lisboa Indie Film Festival, an international film festival with screening events from the enchanting Lisbon, Portugal, and member of the IBERIFF • Iberia Indie Film Festivals, which celebrates and showcases new productions and independent artists from all over the world in Lisbon (LISBIFF), Madrid (MADRIFF), Barcelona (BARCIFF), València (VALÈIFF), Seville (SEVIFF) and Montpellier (MONTIFF), that you can also find them here in Festhome.
LISBIFF shares the mission of its associate festivals of supporting emerging talents, encouraging artistic exploration, fostering networking, promoting cultural exchange and engaging the local community by providing a platform to present the work of independent filmmakers.
Fiction films, animation, documentary and experimental works of any genre and subject are welcome!
IMDb Film Festival.
In previous editions, we've hosted projects with major stars like Jeremy Irons, Robin Williams, Franco Nero, and Rauw Alejandro, as well as more than 3,800 projects from 76 countries.
We strongly believe in the power of exposure, as demonstrated by the fact that over the years we've promoted more than 1,600 projects on Instagram.
Our mission is to help you in every way, not only with the festival's exposure, but also with connecting with our more than 8,000 international contacts.
Only for Latin American filmmakers.
The production company ICELAND FILMS, based in the city of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, invites filmmakers, young producers, students, and the general public to participate in the following festival: Premios CortosFilmes, National and International Film Festival of Catamarca (PCF FNICC), held in the Province of Catamarca, Argentina.
Premios CortosFilmes celebrates national and international cinema with the dual objective of recognizing and supporting audiovisual creators, while also enhancing the dissemination, awareness, accessibility, and understanding of socio-labor issues among a broad and diverse audience.
Premios CortosFilmes,Film Festival of Catamarca is organized by the audiovisual production company Iceland Films, with the support of the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA), as well as cultural authorities of Catamarca and the Capital City Municipality.
FICPC is an innovative initiative aimed at offering quality entertainment with social awareness—a lucid and sensitive perspective on the world of work.
The organization of the festival is led by the audiovisual production company Iceland Films, based in Catamarca, Argentina.
Phare International Film Festival – Mauritius was established in 2020. It has been created by a talented group of local entrepreneurs and film-makers. After successfully producing their own productions, and entering festivals, they understood the need to enhance the local film industry.
Mauritius is paradise, and has been a location for many high profile documentaries, series and films – yet the impact on our industry locally was insignificant. We decided to create a platform that not only encourages local film makers but offers the potential to showcase their talent further afield. Likewise, showcasing International cinema, we promote the wonderful Island called Mauritius to the outside world.
Our philosophy is to showcase incredible talent along with high quality independent films to the audience of Mauritius, opening a door to a new potential market. We have adopted an informal and relaxed festival approach, with the glamour of much larger festivals.
TRANSCINEMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Transcinema is Peru's most important avant-garde film festival. It presents films that explore cinematic language and eschew thematic and formal clichés, with no length limits from all over the world and as exclusive premieres in Peru.
MAN!FEST is a unique film festival in Ciudad Real, inspired by the figure of Jorge Manrique and his famous "Coplas." Born in 2025 with a clear social and humanistic mission, it offers an open and free space that seeks the cultural transformation of the city, promoting equality and cultural plurality from its core, inviting reflection through short and feature films committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as zero hunger, health, quality education, gender equality, clean water, or sustainable communities.
