The International World Film Festival Monterrey is a monthly film festival that celebrates the diversity and cinematographic proposals of all the filmmakers in the world, where different categories are awarded each month, recognizing talent at its highest quality. We are a festival with a sensitive appreciation of cinematographic art, with juries of the highest rank to evaluate your film.
By participating in the International World Film Festival, you could be invited to a national exhibition in commercial movie theaters throughout Mexico.
Your work will be appreciated by the Mexican moviegoers.
The jury will select films from different categories, and from these at least one will be awarded per category each month. The winning films of the month will automatically qualify for the annual screening and are nominated for the prestigious International World Film Festival. The annual event will take place on November 28-30, 2025, a glamorous red-carpet premiere with press conferences and a gala party.
This festival accepts short films, medium-length films and feature films. Regardless of the subject matter, films from all over the world are accepted.
All titles submitted in the different categories must have subtitles in English or Spanish (in case their original language is neither English nor Spanish). For a winning film to be screened at the annual event, it must have Spanish subtitles, in case its native language is not Spanish.
Month after month, our judges will decide the selection of films, the nominated, and winners of the International World Film Festival, in its eleventh edition.
A film may win in different categories and may be re-entered in categories other than those in which it won.
There are 13 categories for the Film of the Month award (fiction, animation, documentary, environmental film, horror film, experimental film, family and children's film, student film, low-budget film, musical film, film about religion, best short film, and best trailer) and 10 Individual Categories for the awards of: Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Production Design, Best Editing, Best Sound Design, Best Feature Film Script, Best Short Film Script.
The Multicam Edit Competition celebrates the art of multi-camera editing, inviting professional filmmakers and skilled content creators to showcase their technical expertise and creative vision.
This inaugural competition seeks to recognise excellence in multicam post-production while building a community around this specialised craft.
We are proud to be partnered with the epic BELIFF Festival in London, now in it's 9th year! This partnership enables us to air the winning submissions to a live audience at the November BELIFF Festival in London.
Requirements:
Submit original multicam footage (minimum 3 camera angles)
Create a 60-second final edit demonstrating your best work
Include basic edit notes explaining key creative decisions (in English)
Judging Criteria:
Creativity & Innovation (35%):
Unique approaches to multi-camera filming and editing.
Technical Execution (30%):
Video quality, smooth transitions, and colour grading.
Storytelling (25%):
Narrative clarity and engagement.
Adherence to Guidelines (10%):
Proper submission format, metadata inclusion, and technical specs compliance.
Please visit our website for full details.
The "MIRA" LGBT+ Short Film Festival is a cultural and social initiative that seeks to raise visibility and celebrate sexual and gender diversity through the narrative power of cinema. Held annually in Alzira, the festival provides a platform for both emerging and established filmmakers and producers, from Spain and around the world, who explore LGBT+ themes, promoting dialogue, empathy, and understanding in society.
Our goal is to create a safe and enriching space where LGBT+ stories can be told, recognized, and appreciated, contributing to the fight against discrimination and to the building of a more inclusive society.
The festival is about bringing people together, behind the scenes and in the audience. While the project will be collaboratively executed, the organizing will also involve professionals who will share their skills, and sponsors who will contribute their resources. The event itself will provide a setting, much like peaceful campaign of film shows,cultural dance, music performance, games, and educational awareness where people regardless of their life experiences seat together, laugh together, cry together and exchange ideas as an audience.
STATEMENT OF REASONS
The "Locos por el Cine" Association announces its Second Short Film Competition, aimed at promoting and introducing new authors to the audiovisual sector.
Our purpose is to stimulate and foster cinematic creativity as a form of cultural expression.
Drag Me To Fest is the independent horror film festival that lights up Milan with a unique and engaging showcase. Founded in November 2021 through the collaboration of Joe Godoy Gonzalez, Art Director and creator of the horror site Non Aprite Questo Blog, and Chiara Natalini, filmmaker and curator of the Diaiaui series, the festival serves as a shining beacon for horror enthusiasts.
Located in the heart of Milan, Drag Me To Fest celebrates independent horror cinema by highlighting works from bold and innovative directors, both Italian and international. Aiming to rediscover and enhance the collective experience of cinema, the festival creates a unique environment where the magic of the big screen is shared and enjoyed live.
The festival takes place in an exceptional venue: Santeria di via Paladini 8, an iconic 500 sqm space in Milan featuring an outdoor courtyard, bar/bistro, record shop, bookstore, and a room dedicated to exhibitions, concerts, literary presentations, and, of course, film screenings. This vibrant and versatile setting provides the ideal context for an event that blends horror cinema with Milan’s cultural and artistic scene.
Sponsored by the clothing brand Taboo, the film label Rustblade Records, and the horror site NAQB, Drag Me To Fest is much more than just a festival; it’s a celebration of creativity and innovation in the horror film landscape. If you’re passionate about horror films and want to discover the latest trends in the genre in an inspiring atmosphere, don’t miss the chance to attend this unmissable event.
Since June 2024, we have been organising independent and international cinema screenings in Lisbon, its focus being short films.
Our festival's mission is to make culture accessible to everyone!
Curtas na Cesta is Shorts in the Basket in english because we dedicate our time into harvesting the best and freshest cinema out there.
The Asian Film Festival, Los Angeles Hollywood is a non-profit organization of the film industry in the United States, headquartered in Los Angeles, through various projects and activities, screening filmmakers around the world, filmmakers of outstanding works, help them to increase exposure, in the industry, docking resources.
The Asian Film Festival founded by Asian Film Festival Committee and American International Chamber of Commerce, we are international non-profit organization with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Beijing and other cities. Commissioners, writers & directors work with Asian Films because we know how to support creative people & deliver visionary films & television drammas.
The American International Chamber of Commerce has been a dedicated partner of Asian countries on diversified economic and cultural development and exchanges from the since the establishment in 1990.
In keeping with our long-term commitment, we encouragement and recognition that support from Asian entrepreneurs and investors, filmmakers ’s creativity and production and build strong, each institutions, production companies and studios will lead to greater economic opportunities in film industry for all Asian countries.
The AFF, Asian Film Festival is dedicated to strengthening Asian and Hollywood film and culture exchange and collaboration, promoting innovative development in film industry and fostering creativity in filmmaking in the world.
We believe film also in the future of Asian same as Hollywood as well. The American International Chamber of Commerce and Asian Film Festival reiterates its unwavering commitment to working with all Asian countries in film industry as they build a A brilliant, rich and successful future. We send our warmest wishes for continued prosperity and success of Asian Film Festival in the years ahead.
India is a land of art and cultural heritage and it is spread in various forms in our society whether it's dance, drama, music, films, painting, sports, etc. Being a global enterprise, Indian Cinema (Bollywood) is a remarkable example of our cultural diversity and it has the greatest influence on India's national identity. We always celebrate our art and one of the best ways is to do so is film festivals. There are many film festivals in Asia where filmmakers and film lovers alike can celebrate the best and the brightest. We are adding one more precious feather to it and that’s the BOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL (BIFF).
Launched in January 2020, Bollywood International Film Festival–BIFF is founded by some of the best-known actors, directors and film professionals. BIFF intends to provide a place that connects the film lovers and makers around the world.
This film festival promotes new movie makers, looking to get publicity for their films, exchange of knowledge, information, ideas, the culture of India and other nations in their social and cultural ethos.
The festival will host various forums for academic interactions on Filmmaking, Film Appreciation like seminars, Workshops, Master classes etc., for the benefit of film professionals, discerning audience and students on unique aspects of cinema.
We invite filmmakers, people from the film fraternity, film critics, journalists, discerning cineastes from amongst the public & International and National film Institutes; distribution agencies/organisations, to witness the glorious start of BIFF. We sincerely hope the film lovers will use this opportunity to enroll as delegates and enjoy the contemporary world cinema and the classics.
The Raul Ruiz School Film Festival has been progressively positioned in its three previous versions as the first experimental school film festival in the country, with an increasing reach in different regions of the country. This is a positive indicator of the impact that this initiative has had. In this sense, the described initiative has become a recognized window of diffusion for school cinematographic art. In addition, the possibilities of artistic exploration that the festival suggests through its categories and evaluation criteria have enabled the production teams to investigate and experiment with different film languages. In this sense, the new challenges that the festival offers in its third version are, on the one hand, to continue and strengthen the diffusion and appreciation of school cinema and, on the other, to advance in aesthetic reflection and exploration, as integral contributions to education, with an emphasis on creativity, the generation of projects and the experimentation of artistic languages.
This is why the IV Raul Ruiz School Film Festival is an opportunity to broaden the creative horizons of the diffusion of art and audiovisual culture in educational communities, promoting a creative framework through instances that aim to improve the quality of artistic teaching and to address the interests, social, cultural and economic contributions of the communities.
UNESCO is clear in pointing out that the objectives of development and improvement in the quality of education must be accompanied by a substantial change in the area of social development of the establishments. Educational improvement projects (PME) cannot always advance comprehensively towards the financing of instances for the diffusion, appreciation and creation of inter-school artistic projects.
In accordance with the achievement of these objectives, the Festival in its previous versions has been adding relevant actors from the educational and academic community. Today we are supported by the Schools to Film program of the Cineteca Nacional and the Sarmiento Ruiz Archive (letters of support are attached). Those who have joined have opened and strongly promoted the possibilities of this festival at a national level and with a strong content in experimentation, creativity and collaborative work in the field of learning for girls, boys and adolescents.
In this sense, the prospects have been auspicious, having as a background that in the first and second version we have been accompanied by the application of more than 80 films from all over Chile and the world.
“ZERO cinema” is an artisanal and experimental artistic approach that contrasts the assembly line of industrial film production; it is hyper-independent, produced or auto-produced by single artists or small groups (less than 10 people) with no commercial interests; it is made with common and easily accessible, or innovative and low cost, means of production.
“ZERO cinema” has a different attitude, adventurous or poetic, DIY or punk, anarchic or self-sufficient, to the video work; it speaks with a personal, intimate, courageous and autonomous voice.
“ZERO cinema” is, more than any other thing, a strong idea of cinema and artistic production.
3ª edition of horror and gore short film festival organized by Fester Entertainment.
A festival for lovers of horror and good rock, madness, dandruff and hooligan cinema.
FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES
The Festival is an international film competition with both live and online screenings and a final red carpet awards event to celebrate the best works of the year and will take place from 10 November to 14 December 2025.
The event will be preceded by a press conference on 9 November 2025.
From 10 to 17 November the 750 works will be screened online 24 hours a day on the two festival channels: Coliffe TV and Coliffe TV International, and the public will be involved with the online voting which will award 9 festival prizes.
From 22 November to 13 December in Sardinia will host all the screenings of the Festival. All 90 finalist works will be screened, i.e. the top 5 classified for each of the 9 categories after online audience voting and 5 chosen by the Festival Jury.
In parallel with the film programme, the Festival organises:
• a film MARKET
• a cinematographic FORUM
• a master class on docufilm.
One day of the Festival will be dedicated to the film MARKET, offering a space dedicated to the presentation of unreleased projects and works in progress, to encourage their development and realization, and the industry, media and accredited directors the opportunity to watch, learn and collaborate.
The opportunities include all subjects: young authors, new talents, professionals from the world of cinema, producers, distributors, agencies, training institutes, film festivals and Film Commissions.
News and insights on the market, production and distribution with a multimedia focus on new media.
Scripts, cinematographic works, projects, start-ups can take advantage of networking opportunities to develop and realize their expectations.
There will be the opportunity for one-to-one meetings between publishers and producers interested in the film adaptation of their catalogue.
On 14 December 2025 a work (feature film) will be screened as a national premiere and the 51 winning works will receive the "The Last Winner" award, which is the last award of the year 2025 worldwide. During the evening, 2 lifetime achievement awards and 2 awards will be given to people of the year in the world of cinema.
The awards will be given by members of the COLIFFE Honorary Committee and personalities from the entertainment, cinema and fashion world.
All activities will take place in Lanusei, Oristano, Iglesias & Elmas, in Sardinia island.
The objective of the festival is to promote international competitiveness through attractiveness, a theme that concerns territories not only for what they are but also for how they can be developed and communicated. A territory is social value, exchange value and experience value, but also cultural value and economic value.
The Coliseum International Film Festival is a fundamental resource for the film industry as it not only contributes significantly to the cultural, economic and social development of the territory in which it is held, but also constitutes an essential link in the ecosystem of the film industry.
The Coliseum International Film Festival is multi-mission, in fact:
• promotes the knowledge and diffusion of international cinema in all its forms of art, entertainment and industry, in a spirit of freedom, equality and equal opportunities;
• offers directors wider recognition for their work, spreading word of mouth among critics, cinephiles and audiences;
• discovers new talent and helps structure emerging production areas;
• creates business opportunities for films that have not yet obtained agreements for commercial exploitation or for certain territories.
The fourth edition of the Festival is defined as "social", that is, with the aim of enhancing the aggregation of all the protagonists of independent cinema and first works and the social values of cinema.
The fifth edition, like the third, can be defined as a GREEN FESTIVAL from all the following points of view.
mujerDOC - IX INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL ON GENDER, organized by the NGO Mujeres del Mundo and the Soria City Council, is a documentary screening platform created to contribute eliminating gender stereotypes and highlighting women's role in regional development.
The submitted works must address themes related to demands for equality and the feminist agenda. Documentaries must be produced after January 1st, 2023. There is no minimum or maximum length limit. They must be subtitled in Spanish and/or English. If a version with Spanish subtitles is not available, it is required to send a version with English subtitles and the SRT dialogue list in English.
The festival will take place in March 2026 in Soria (Spain). Should exceptional circumstances prevent the festival from taking place on these dates, sufficient advance notice will be given through social media and other media outlets.
The festival, through a Committee, will select the films that will be part of a single Official Section, with the following prizes:
- Women's Award: 3,000 euros (works with a female director will be eligible for this award)
- Long Film Award: 2,000 euros (for 60 minutes or more)
- Short Film Award: 1,000 euros (until 59 minutes)
- CIMA Award for Best Female Filmmaker (trophy and one year as a member of the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media of Spain).
Inside Nollywood International Film Festival and awards embodies the celebration and exhibition of Cultural heritage and values which was showcased through motion pictures. The Nigerian Film industry, also known as Nollywood which pioneered this initiative was at the forefront on this unprecedented festival.
Inside Nollywood International Film Festival and awards was hosted by the Capital City of Anambra state, Awka and this Officially made it the first ever Film festival that was held in Anambra State.
Apart from the Motion pictures that were rich in Culture, there were Masquerade displays, stage dramas that despicted the Igbo culture and VIP Tours for our guests and Empress Models, to different cultural sites within Anambra state.
INIFFAA as the Festival is abbreviated , will continuously be a haven for film practitioners, Entertainers and lovers of entertainment. We will continue to invent new ways of keeping our Followers engaged and excited.
The Festival was founded by Obinna Muoma, a prolific film maker and a Nollywood stake holder. He is the founder of Inside Nollywood.
From the creators of the Depth of Field International Film Festival, Docs Without Borders Film Festival, and the WRPN.tv Women’s International Film Festival (among a few other successful festivals) and, under the umbrella of the WRPN.tv Network we bring you the Hispanic International Film Festival (HIFF)
To ensure that each screenplay or film is read, studied, and rated individually,
HIFF has instituted a system in which entries do not compete against each other but are recognized for their merits.
They compete against themselves: each entry is judged on its merits and scored according to an inherent value system.
When it is your turn to be evaluated, the judges focus on your screenplay, not on all the other screenplays in the cue. This ensures that they won't have comparisons going on in their minds when they should focus entirely on you.
After successfully conducting the Siliguri International Short Film Festival in Siliguri for the last three years, we are planning to organise the 1st RAIGANJ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in the cultural city of North Bengal right from 2022!
Raiganj has a distinct a cultural legacy of it’s own.
There are many budding and aspiring filmmaker, actors and technicians in this town.
The history of Raiganj even boasts of it’s fight for freedom against the British rulers.
The police station was set up 125 years ago and railway connectivity reached the plan 115 years ago. The city hold the 106 years old Raiganj Coronation High School.
Raiganj is also known for Raiganj Wildlife sanctuary (also called the Kulik Birds Sanctuary), home to a large population of Asian openbills and other waterbirds and it is the largest bird sanctuary in Asia.
Raiganj can be a prime seat of the film tourism in near future.
Hence the idea of holding The Raiganj International Film Festival.
Utsav – Celebration or Festival
We have started this LGBTQ+ & Independent Film Festival for cinema lovers. This film festival will be a celebration of creativity and ideas. After a successful completion of the first edition of the festival, we are now ready for the second edition.
LGBTQ+ cinema globally as well as in India has become an important part of the film industry. OTT platforms have increased the reach of these films to a larger audience. Of course, these avenues are mostly for mainstream cinema and filmmakers. There are a lot of independent film makers who also have interesting stories to present. We hope that this festival will be a platform for these independent film makers and their wonderful stories.
Each film has various components – story, script, cinematography, editing, sound, music, acting – to name a few. In this festival, we wish to acknowledge all aspects of film making and creativity. Thus, we hope that film makers will be encouraged to submit their work to showcase any or all aspects of their creativity.
Not all film makers, particularly independent filmmakers, and students, have the luxury of large budgets and wonderful locations for filming. We appreciate these limitations and would like to provide a platform to these filmmakers. We would encourage first time filmmakers who would like to present their work to submit to the festival.
It is also important to learn from each other’s experiences. During the festival, we hope to have panel discussions with filmmakers, writers, editors, sound engineers, cinematographers, musicians, and audience as well. This healthy exchange will enrich the experience.
The first two days of festival will be for LGBTQ+ cinema, and the next two days will be for other independent films in this edition of the festival.
Come be a part of this ‘UTSAV’!
The FICAH MEXICO will be held annually and its main objectives are to promote and promote the production, completion and exhibition of independent cinematographic works.
