MAFIC: “Málaga International Film Festival”: A space for training, business, appreciation, and awards.
It showcases new audiovisual, artistic, and cinematic works and hosts academic laboratories; it serves as a fertile ground for networking, forging partnerships, and developing projects across the regional, national, and international industries.
MAFIC comprises four experiences designed as follows:
REMA: “Málaga Exhibition Route”: Dedicated screening venues throughout the province featuring the latest international, national, and regional audiovisual and cinematic productions.
MAM: “Málaga Audiovisual and Art Marketing”:
Offers opportunities to expand your professional network and gain insight into the regional, national, and international audiovisual market across various artistic fields (cinema, theater, music, design, visual arts, costume design, set decoration, comics, etc.).
LAFAMA: “Málaga Audiovisual Training Laboratories”:
Research and knowledge-sharing laboratories where distinguished and renowned figures present detailed information on film industry topics to general or specialized audiences.
PAM: “MAFIC Actor Awards”:
A range of awards, statuettes, and commemorative plaques presented to investors and artists from the local, national, and international audiovisual community.
The festival has been held for more than twenty years in the Russian Far East.
Amur Autumn is one of the region's major cultural events.
The festival includes two film competitions and one theatre competition.
Film Competitions
Feature Narrative Competition
Short Narrative Competition
Whenever possible, filmmakers are invited to attend the festival and present their films in person. The festival covers most of the participants' travel expenses.
Each competition is judged by an international professional jury.
Screenings take place in a cinema, where the jury watches the films together with the audience.
To be eligible for participation, films must have Russian Premiere status.
The festival's main award is the Amur Crane.
The Grand Prix in both film competitions also includes a cash prize.
Each year, the festival receives more than 1,000 submissions.
In accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, films with LGBTQ-related themes cannot be screened at the festival.
In 2024, the Indian film The Unyielding Girl won the festival's top prize. Other award-winning films came from Russia, Chile, China, Turkey, France, Kazakhstan, Iran, and Switzerland.
In 2025, the Chinese film Strangers We Do Not Know won the award for Best Feature Film. Other prize-winning films came from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and South Korea.
The 2025 competition programmes featured 37 films from 21 countries.
After the stunning success of our inaugural Susquehanna Film Festival - the 1st festival of its kind to be held in historic Williamsport, Pennsylvania by founder Tim Yasui (a career Hollywood based film producer and film distributor who was originally born and raised in Williamsport)- we return even bigger & better in 2026!
Our Festival will celebrate not only international films, but also regionally-produced feature films and short films from Williamsport, PA and the Greater Pennsylvania region. We will encourage all film makers and young students also who are studying Film to submit their films which otherwise might be ignored by the national festivals. Minimum film lengths are 20 minutes for short films and student films and 30 minutes for Animation.
Festival Description (Edition 1)
Festival Start: September 3, 2026 Festival End: September 6, 2026
Our call for entries is open to individuals, collectives, agencies, showcases, or production companies holding the rights to short-form audiovisual works—including documentaries, fiction, experimental films, music videos, and video art—produced in film, video, or animation formats.
For its inaugural 2026 edition, FICAE will take place in Aguachica, a municipality in the southern part of the Cesar department, Colombia.
Awards and Distinctions
Cash Prizes: $1,000,000 (National Award)
$500,000 (Local Award)
A curatorial committee will select the works to be screened. From this selection, some will compete in the following categories:
Best Local Short Film: For works produced in Aguachica, Cesar, and the surrounding region (such as Southern Bolívar and Southern Cesar) by filmmakers born in or residing in that area.
Best National Short Film: For works produced by Colombians anywhere in the country.
Best International Short Film (certificate awarded)
Nominated works will compete for the “Pájaro Chau Chau” statuette.
The Ames International Children's Film Festival is back, an event that wants to make children dream, think, smile, and awaken emotions, consciences, and illusions. It will be held from November 12 to 15, 2026.
This year's edition will take SCIENCE as a cross-cutting theme. This theme will be complemented by film screenings of works that explore and popularize science.
Let the rattles ring and the spinning tops spin, the 9 International Children's Film Festival of Ames begins.
We are celebrating the tenth edition of the Ciutadà Compromés Film Festival, organized by ACICOM.
Faithful to the initial project, we want to bring Valencian audiovisual productions closer to the public, which is why we project on multiple screens counting on the synergies of social entities and organizations. We will have civic and social, institutional and commercial rooms.
We value, with their exhibition, Valencian audiovisual productions, those that bring us a committed look. Our environment, social, territorial, economic, human rights, relationships, etc. is treated in these works. Some audiovisuals with a restless look.
We are a festival away from the red carpet, and more identified with the people and organizations we care about and work to improve society.
Singur International Film Festival 2026
Special Announcement
In its fifth year, the 2026 Singur Film Festival turns international. In addition to its existing national competition section, this year's international, non-competitive short film section will be a great addition to the program. We hope this will bring a broad cultural perspective and a deeper understanding of world cinema to local filmgoers, enthusiasts, and filmmakers.
Consequently, the Singur Film Festival will henceforth be known as the Singur
International Film Festival.
CINETORO 2026
Converging Boundaries
#MIRAYESCUCHADIFERENTE
Under the concept of Converging Boundaries, CINETORO 2026 proposes a curatorial framework inspired by the force of tectonic collision. Just as, in geology, a convergent boundary is the space where two plates collide to destroy the old and raise new mountain ranges and volcanoes, this edition seeks films in which the impact between languages generates new ways of seeing and hearing. We move away from the static reading of maps — those arbitrary divisions of dots and lines — to focus instead on the energy that emerges within the zone of contact, where the friction between the human and the non-human, or between the here and the elsewhere, constructs new narrative geographies.
CINETORO 2026 calls for works that explore processes of collision and emergence. We seek films that use experimentation as a tool to blur political and social boundaries, proposing perspectives that recognize the continuity of the jungle or the vastness of the desert beyond geographical fictions. How does perception transform when cinematic form itself becomes the result of a clash of forces?
In this edition, the border is not an impenetrable wall, but a living zone of creation; a space of formal risk that challenges pre-established categories and allows us to understand, through cinema at the margins, what new unions emerge when we dare to inhabit the liminal state. We seek films that inhabit the interstice: the space that exists precisely in the middle of the line, inviting audiences into a cinematic experience where genres do not simply intersect, but transform one another. We are interested in a cinema of hybridization where documentary, animation, and fiction function like tectonic plates in constant motion.
This is an invitation to a cinema unafraid of crossing and dissolving boundaries; a cinema that inhabits the periphery and the frontier in order to raise, from the margins, new and necessary mountains of imagination.
#ConvergingBoundaries #TheLiminal #Cinetoro2026 #SeeAndHearDifferently #CrossTheBoundary #ExperimentalFilmFestival #HybridCinema #ExperimentalCinema #ExperimentalNarrative
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL FILM FESTIVAL OF CATALONIA has as his basic aims the dissemination and promotion of films that contribute to the knowledge of world cinema Social Film, on Human Rights and Civil Rights
Founded in 1973, Curtas Festival do Imaxinario is the oldest festival and the largest event dedicated to fantasy, science fiction and horror cinema in Galicia. Located in Vilagarcía de Arousa, the festival is a must-see for enjoying the premieres of the best genre feature and short films, as well as a wide range of parallel activities that include exhibitions, meetings, presentations, workshops, concerts, international guests, and much more. All artistic expressions of the fantasy genre converge in the International Fantastic Film Festival of Galicia. Recognized as one of the best genre festivals on Earth by Dread Central, the world’s leading horror media outlet with millions of monthly readers. And proud member of the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF) presents the Melies d'Argent award for best European Fantastic short film.
The Viña del Mar International Film Festival
is a municipal event that dates back to 1963. It is the oldest in the country and the second oldest in Latin America.
It was founded as an initiative of filmmaker and physician Aldo Francia and the Viña del Mar Film Club. It was the birthplace of the New Latin American Cinema and the New Chilean Cinema.
TAF, Thessaloniki Animation Festival is an international Animation Festival in Greece which promotes the art of animation through its annual gathering in October. The festival was founded, established and directed by ADDART; a non profit organization that "adds" art & culture everywhere. The creators of the festival are artists themselves, filled with love for the art of animation. Based in the heart of Thessaloniki, TAF aims to encourage and promote all aspects of creativity by hosting local as well as international events and activities for kids and adults alike!
TAF is the only Animation festival in town and every year it grows bigger. We like to showcase innovating films, guests, workshops and Master Classes to Thessaloniki in a great venue and award them for their inspiration and technique!
TAF is a festival free of entrance with a no-fee policy for the filmmakers.
Acocollona’t, Girona Fantasy and Horror Film Festival, has been held since 2011 as a key meeting point for fans of the genre. For one week, the festival fills the streets and venues of Girona with fantasy and horror cinema, along with dozens of related activities that turn the city into a true hub for genre culture.
Over its 15 editions, more than 600 short films have been screened, consolidating Acocollona’t as a major event within the fantasy and horror film circuit.
El Festival Itinerante Cine en Mi Barrio – FICEMB es un escenario de encuentro, circulación cinematográfica y diálogo cultural que desde hace trece ediciones descentraliza el acceso al cine en contextos urbanos y rurales del departamento del Cauca, Colombia. Concebimos el quehacer audiovisual como un motor de transformación social, memoria colectiva e identidad ciudadana, priorizando discursos que discutan realidades contemporáneas y procesos comunitarios.
La XIII edición se desarrollará de forma presencial del 25 al 29 de agosto de 2026 en la ciudad de Popayán. La convocatoria oficial convoca a cortometrajes nacionales e iberoamericanos con el propósito de integrar una programación diversa que fomente el pensamiento crítico y el intercambio territorial.
Requisitos de Elegibilidad y ReglamentoFormatos y Géneros: Se admiten obras de Ficción, Documental, Animación, Experimental y Cine Comunitario. Duración Estricta: Cortometrajes con un tiempo de ejecución mínimo de siete (7) minutos y máximo de treinta (30) minutos, créditos incluidos. Año de Producción: Obras terminadas a partir del 1 de marzo de 2024. Derechos y Titularidad: Los postulantes deben certificar la titularidad de los derechos de exhibición pública, incluyendo música, archivos y derechos de imagen.
Restricciones: No se admiten películas postuladas en versiones previas del festival. Costos de Inscripción: Exenta de pago (Gratuita) para cortometrajes de origen colombiano y proyectos comunitarios. Las obras iberoamericanas se rigen por los cargos operativos de la plataforma Festhome.
Cronograma: Apertura de postulaciones el 25 de mayo de 2026 y cierre definitivo el 5 de agosto de 2026. Uso de Material: La selección otorga los permisos para exhibiciones oficiales dentro del marco del FICEMB 2026. Se faculta el uso de fragmentos (máximo 1 minuto) e imágenes para divulgación en prensa y medios digitales sin que esto signifique una transferencia de derechos patrimoniales.
Categorías de Competencia Relatos Nacionales: Cortometrajes colombianos que propongan lenguajes estéticos y narrativas de vanguardia.
Miradas Regionales: Producciones gestadas en el departamento del Cauca o la zona suroccidental y del pacífico colombiano, vinculadas a la identidad local.
Vientos del Sur: Cortometrajes de países iberoamericanos que examinen realidades sociales y dinámicas humanas regionales.
Cine Comunitario: Piezas realizadas por colectivos sociales, comunidades indígenas, afrodescendientes, campesinas o de comunicación popular.
Efímera Itinerant Film Festival at the Southern End of the World is a festival that seeks to contribute to the exhibition and promotion of national, Latin American, and Caribbean audiovisual works in the Aysén Region, Chile. From this, its inaugural edition, the film festival is dedicated to the regional public, with the primary purpose of reaching rural areas lacking infrastructure for artistic and cultural development. The festival is managed by local audiovisual professionals native to the region.
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The 13th Torino Underground Cinefest will take place in late September 2026 at the splendid "Cinema Baretti", in the heart of "San Salvario", one of the city’s most vibrant districts. Once again, this edition confirms the partnership with the distribution company "Piano B", which will ensure theatrical and television distribution of selected feature films and documentaries deemed most suitable for commercialization. Thanks to the collaboration with "Streeen!", several selected titles will also have the opportunity to be distributed via streaming.
Cash prizes will be awarded for Best Feature Film, Best Short Film, and Best Documentary. In addition, special awards will be presented for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Sound Design. An Audience Award and mentions from our media partners are also planned.
The festival is supported by media partnerships and cultural organizations from the region.
*IMPORTANT:* *FOR SALES AND VARIOUS CATALOGUES: NO SCREENING FEES ARE EXPECTED!*
“It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky
XXI International Film Festival WON TOGETHER named after Vladimir Menshov is a cultural platform for documentary filmmakers from Russia and the world, united by the themes of victories in various spheres of life and the search for new artistic solutions.
We invite films revealing the problems of society and man, overcoming difficulties by the collective and personality in various spheres of life — social, economic, cultural, sports.
The Festival's program is a kaleidoscope in which every facet sparkles with fortitude, courage to move forward, and a thirst to make yourself better and transform the world around you.
The demonstration of films at the festival has an educational and cultural mission, is conducted on a non-commercial basis with the approval of the rights to screenings with the copyright holders.
Films produced in 2025-2026 are invited to participate in the Film Festival.
Bajo Nuestra Piel International Film Festival on Human Rights is a non-profit organization that aims to generate a debate and reflective space on Human Rights topics through the artistic representation in documental, fiction and animation format, of critical, socially compromised and quality cinema.
TU PUOI, the film festival for young people under 35, the second edition of the Grosseto Film Festival.
A festival to promote the talent of young artists, this is our mission.
The idea was born from festival creator Sendy Giamattei, who wants to give a voice to young people whose voices are being taken away.
A festival for young people, created and conceived by young people.
