Film Invasion Lima showcases wonderful undiscovered films in one of South America's most dynamic cities! The team running FI-Lima is dedicated to bringing the same "filmmaker's first" festival experience to Peru!
FI-Lima embraces the work of filmmakers from diverse backgrounds and communities. It is our philosophy to honor their work as filmmakers and not place their work in separate categories based on race, sexual orientation, or gender identification. We have been proud to honor films from every community as Official Selections and Award Winners, honoring their work as filmmakers without being balkanized as "Black filmmakers" or "LGBTQ filmmakers" or "Women filmmakers." At FI-Lima, all of our filmmakers are filmmakers and we honor them equally.
The FI-Lima team is passionate about forming a community around the wonderful work discovered at the festival. We will invite alumni to return as jury members and we hold Filmmaker Mixers throughout the year to foster a creative community.
Podcast + TV Series
FI-LA/SOFF festival runner Jeff Howard established the "Discover Indie Film" podcast in 2017 and has had over 250 filmmakers sit for an in-depth interview. H intends to invite the great filmmakers discovered at FI-Lima onto the podcast as well! In 2019, the TV series "Discover Indie Film" premiered on Amazon Prime Video; DIF TV is an anthology of shorts handpicked from the festival circuit.
The Halloween Horror Festival
Prepare for a night of fear, suspense, and spine-tingling storytelling. This screening event showcases short films from across the UK—all 15 minutes or less—across a thrilling range of dark genres. Whether you’re into ghosts, psychological chills, or powerful dramas with a sinister edge, there’s a category for your vision.
Featured Categories:
Environmental Horror
Where real-world crises meet terror. These films tackle ecological nightmares—whether it’s nature’s revenge or the terrifying cost of human actions.
Zombie Horror
Apocalyptic chaos, flesh-eating undead, and a world in ruins. Classic or creative takes welcome—just bring the bite.
Suspense/Thriller Horror
Tension, paranoia, and the fear of the unseen. Your film might feature ghosts—or maybe the horror is all psychological. Either way, it’ll leave audiences unsettled.
The Spooky One
From haunted houses to eerie towns, these are the films that give us goosebumps. Expect the classic horror atmosphere—with a fresh twist.
Spiritual Horror
Good vs. evil, possession, rituals, and otherworldly forces at play. If your film explores spiritual dread or divine conflict, this is your category.
Expanded Categories (New for This Year):
Psychological Thriller
Diving deep into the mind, these films explore obsession, mental decay, and disturbing truths. Perfect for fans of tense, character-driven horror.
Dark Drama
Serious, emotional storytelling with a sinister or unsettling edge. Themes might include grief, revenge, or inner demons—grounded in realism.
Surreal Horror/Thriller
Stylized, dreamlike, or abstract. These films push boundaries and blur realities. If it’s strange and disturbing—we want it.
Period Horror or Thriller
Set in the past, filled with dread. Think candlelight, corsets, and creeping shadows—or haunting tales from historical moments.
Mind-Benders
Twisty, complex narratives that keep the audience guessing until the very end. Ideal for nonlinear timelines, unreliable narrators, or shocking reveals.
Folk Horror / Rural Thriller
Isolated communities, ancient rituals, or countryside dread. Where tradition turns terrifying and myths become real.
Sci-Fi Horror or Thriller
From alien invasions to dystopian futures and AI nightmares—if your horror or thriller is set in the world of science or space, it belongs here.
Screenings will take place at Cold Harbour Cinema in Brixton, London (UK).
For submission rules and full guidelines, please visit the “Rules” section on our website.
All films must be 15 minutes or less in length.
Selected filmmakers will only get one ticket per entry and will need to purchase additional tickets .
48-Hour Halloween Horror Film Challenge
The Halloween Horror Film Challenge is a 48-hour filmmaking competition.
Teams must register by Thursday 8 October 2026 through the Halloween Horror Film Festival website.
The Challenge begins at 8:00 pm on Friday 9 October 2026. Registered teams will receive the required Challenge criteria, theme and/or elements at this time.
All films must be written, filmed, edited and completed during the 48-hour Challenge period.
At the beginning of the finished film, teams must include a five-second blank gap, followed by a clear display of the required Challenge criteria/elements included in their film.
Final films must be submitted by 8:00 pm on Sunday 11 October 2026. Late submissions may not be accepted.
At the point of final submission, teams must pay the £25 Challenge entry fee.
Challenge films must follow all stated criteria, required elements and technical submission instructions. Films that do not meet these requirements may be disqualified.
The strongest completed Halloween horror shorts will be selected to screen at the Halloween Horror Film Festival. Selection is not guaranteed and all decisions remain at the discretion of the Festival judging panel.
If a Challenge film is selected for screening, the submitting team will receive one complimentary ticket to attend the Festival. Any additional tickets must be purchased.
19th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF THE EAST IN CONCEPCIÓN
Vitascopio 2026 Open Call: 2026 Inter-University Audiovisual Showcase
WE ARE LOOKING FOR STORIES MADE BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FROM COLOMBIA AND AROUND THE WORLD.
The ZAFIC International Film Festival (ZAFIC) is a cultural platform based in Mosquera, Colombia, that promotes cinema and audiovisual storytelling as tools for dialogue, community engagement, cultural exchange, and territorial development.
For its 9th edition, taking place from November 26 to 29, 2026, ZAFIC presents the thematic focus “Possible Futures / Futuros Posibles”, inviting creators from around the world to share stories that imagine, question, transform, and reimagine the future of our communities and territories.
ZAFIC welcomes short films and audiovisual works from any country and genre through three curatorial sections:
• Kids / Infancias
Works created for children, schools, and young audiences, encouraging imagination, creativity, learning, and intergenerational dialogue.
• Territory / Territorio
Works that explore identity, memory, heritage, community life, rurality, environment, cultural diversity, and social transformation.
• New Voices / Nuevas Voces
Works that present emerging perspectives, innovative narratives, new technologies, experimental approaches, or contemporary ways of understanding the world.
More than a film festival, ZAFIC seeks to connect cinema with communities, education, culture, and the future of territories through meaningful audiovisual experiences.
All submitted works must be spoken, dubbed, or subtitled in Spanish.
"PLUM!" is an animation festival that celebrates the art of animation in all its forms. It showcases work from both local and international artists, giving the people of Tafí del Valle access to productions they might not otherwise encounter, while also promoting cultural tourism in the region. The festival aims to be a vibrant platform for the exhibition and exchange of animated content—from short films to feature-length works, from traditional techniques to cutting-edge digital animation.
"PLUM!" fosters creativity, dialogue, and collaboration between artists and the broader community.
CINEMA26 – The 5th Córdoba Film Week aims to bring together a broad and diverse selection of the best Spanish films released during the final six months of the year, with a special focus on feature films and short films that involve Andalusian production or participation.
The 5th edition of CINEMA26 will take place from November 26 to December 3, 2026.
The "Le Matié" University Audiovisual Festival is conceived as an academic space to highlight and promote the audiovisual works carried out by students of Social Communication - Journalism of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and other academic institutions at a national and international level, conducive to sharing experiences of classroom, encourage originality and enhance the technical and conceptual quality of audiovisual products, thus encouraging the exploration of new ways of telling stories from real life or the product of the students' imagination, as well as news, reports and other narratives through of the audiovisual.
MONO NO AWARE is the annual exhibition of expanded cinema showcasing sculpture, installation, single-multiple channel durational projection, and performance art that incorporates the moving image on Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or as an altered light projection. (No DV)
This year's festival and screening will be part of MONO NO AWARE's twentieth annual festival, which includes screenings of works curated from artists around the world.
Submission is sliding scale by donation ($0-20 - pay what you wish) which allows MONO NO AWARE to provide travel stipends and lodging to presenting artists.
The festival is organized by the non-profit cinema-arts organization MONO NO AWARE.
MONO NO AWARE offers year-round analog filmmaking workshops to the community teaching: Super 8mm, 16mm filmmaking, 2-D animation and 3-D puppet animation, Production for Independent Film, Hand-processing, Alternative-processing and Non-toxic-processing Techniques, Film Preservation, Handmade Emulsion, Advanced Super 16mm filmmaking, a range of special workshops led by visiting filmmakers and more. As an extension of the educational initiatives, the organization rents analogue filmmaking equipment, makes Steenbeck flat-bed editing and JK or Oxberry optical printing facilities available to the public and we also import/distribute Color and Black and White film stocks. Through our outreach program we present these same workshops at numerous universities, film festivals, and institutions throughout the US. This year we have presented workshops at The Japan Society (Manhattan, NY) The Oak Cliff Film Festival (Dallas, TX) The Queens Museum (Queens, NY) and this August we’ll travel to the Thomas Edison National Park to conduct a re-imagining kinetoscopes workshop inside the historic Black Maria (West Orange, NJ). MONO NO AWARE presents a monthly screening series entitled CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA with visiting filmmakers and most recently a co-presentation of a three-day retrospective ‘Super 8 Poetics’ the works of Stephanie Gray at The Anthology Film Archives. We’ve also started a reference library with a focus on cinema history, theory and technical filmmaking texts and publications.
To learn more about MONO NO AWARE visit: www.mononoawarefilm.com
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
ESPIELLO, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY is organized by the Service of Culture of the Comarca de Sobrarbe (an institution that it groups to 19 town halls) along with a wide participation of neighbors of the zone who form the Permanent Commission of the festival. It is celebrated during March and April in Boltaña, a small population of the Pyrenees of Huesca (Spain).
Espiello is the only festival with this specialization in the country. It has an international competition of ethnographic documentary and some different sections out of competition and other activities whith topics related to the documentary and the visual anthropology.
CBF – Vigo International Film Festival is an international film event organized by the production and distribution company CityBlue Films. It will hold its 10th edition from December 1st to 5th, 2026, in the city of Vigo, Spain.
OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSE
It is a cultural and social event and a meeting place for the public, creators, film professionals, and representatives of the film industry.
CBFF – Vigo International Film Festival was created with the main objective of promoting culture through the promotion and dissemination of cinematographic works.
This festival was developed to support directors and producers by providing all filmmakers with a space to disseminate and promote their work to the general public.
It is an audiovisual, cultural, artistic, industrial, and educational platform, allowing the discovery of new talents and emerging films.
film/Documentory/music vedio/Animation/VFX/CGI/2D/3D/other
*Mumbai Entertainment International Short Film Festival*
*Organized BY*
mumbai Entertainment
& Yogeshpatilfilms
*world all contries participated now*
b’Ars, Barcelona International Arts & VFX Fair, is now accepting submissions for the third edition of the b’Ars in Short screening programme.
The aim of the programme is to promote and showcase the creativity and talent of young creators in the fields of animation and VFX, providing spaces where they can present their work and connect with the professional community.
The Utebo International Film Festival was created with the goal of promoting film culture, creating connections between filmmakers and other audiovisual professions, and establishing the town of Utebo as an annual meeting point, both for them and for the local residents. A town of Cinema, a united community.
Reaper Film Festival is not a theater full of strangers politely clapping. It is a full night of horror, filmmakers, costumes, music, networking, movies, awards, giveaways, drinks, and dark cinematic energy in Los Angeles.
Built by working filmmakers for filmmakers and horror fans, Reaper takes over The Earl for one night with horror short films, immersive horror themed decor, a red carpet, secret costume contest, audience participation, industry guests, creators, press, filmmakers, actors, producers, distributors, and passionate genre fans.
During the screenings, you are encouraged to react. Laugh. Scream. Talk back to the screen. Cheer for the filmmakers. Horror is better when the room is alive.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Come early and make a night of it.
Grab a drink. Walk the red carpet. Meet filmmakers, actors, creators, producers, distributors, press, industry guests, and fellow horror fans.
Then settle in for three blocks of horror films packed with live audience reactions, scares, laughs, prizes, surprises, and a room that is encouraged to get loud.
And when the movies end, the night is not over.
That is when the party really gets going.
Stick around for drinks, music, networking, filmmakers, actors, creators, industry guests, horror fans, new connections, and late night energy through 2:00 AM.
THE NIGHT INCLUDES:
• Three horror short film screening blocks
• Red carpet photography
• Secret costume contest with prizes
• Giveaways throughout the night
• Reaper Film Festival awards
• Drinks and music
• Filmmaker and industry networking
• Horror creators, podcasters, influencers, press, actors, producers, distributors, and special guests
• Audience participation during the screenings
• A festival wide toast
• Immersive horror themed decor and atmosphere
• A late night party after the screenings through 2:00 AM
SECRET COSTUME CONTEST
Come dressed to kill.
Reaper will hold a secret costume contest during the night, with prizes for standout looks.
There is no separate registration. Just show up in costume and you may be selected.
No masks are allowed. Your face must remain visible inside the event.
BUILT FOR FILMMAKERS
Reaper was created by working filmmakers for filmmakers and horror fans.
Every Official Selection receives a live Los Angeles screening, a Reaper trophy, an Official Selection laurel, and non exclusive worldwide distribution through Bloodstream TV, while retaining ownership of their film.
This is about putting filmmakers in front of a real audience and letting them hear and feel the reaction to their work.
INDUSTRY AND HORROR COMMUNITY
Reaper is presented by Bloodstream TV, with Studio Dome as a development and distribution partner.
Reaper Film Festival is also working with Women In Film and Women In Media in support of the Scythe Award, honoring female horror filmmakers.
Our judging community includes:
Marcus (Terrifier)
James Cullen Bressack (Darkness of Man, Hot Seat, Fortress)
Gigi Saul Guerrero (V/H/S/85, Satanic Hispanics)
Jesse Kove (Cobra Kai, D-Day, Magnum P.I.)
Kimberly Skyrme (House of Cards, Deep Impact, The Pelican Brief)
Jason Neese (The Umbrella Academy, UnREAL, Dear White People)
Additional industry judges and special guests will also be announced.
WHO SHOULD COME?
Filmmakers. Screenwriters. Actors. Producers. Distributors. Horror press. Podcasters. Influencers. Creators. Photographers. Horror fans.
Come to meet people. Come to make connections. Come to discover new filmmakers. Come to drink, watch horror movies, react with a live crowd, and then party with everyone after the final screening.
Walk the red carpet. Grab a drink. See something scary. Meet someone interesting. Watch the films. Then stay late when the party really gets going.
Thursday, October 22, 2026
6:00 PM to 2:00 AM
The Earl, Los Angeles
Admission is free, but RSVP is required.
www.rprff.com
PRESENTATION
The TUWUN concept represents the Mapuche territorial origin, which together with KVPALME, the family origin, represent the Mapuche identity rooted in the LOF, a territorial space that in turn is the basis of the ancestral territorial structure of a broader space, the WALLMAPU, the entire Mapuche territory.
This concept of Mapudungun, the Mapuche language, gives rise to TUWUN Muestra de Cine Indígena de Wallmapu, created with the aim of making known through cinema, that identity and the realities related from ancestral knowledge and the way in which it is understood. life from the vision and relationship of each people with their environment, with their territory, with their own history, culture and spirituality and, therefore, from their own perspective.
In this sense, we believe that the TUWUN exhibition represents a valuable opportunity to learn about the way in which life is understood from the indigenous peoples' own culture and an important space to share the perspective and reality expressed from their own representative voices, through of the cinema. In addition to contributing to the decentralization of cinema and culture, generating a process of circulation at the territorial level and taking the traveling exhibition and its complementary activities to a wide and diverse public, in urban and rural areas, with the exhibition of the participating works in various spaces, such as Mapuche communities, schools and cultural centers in towns that generally have difficulty accessing the cinema because they are far from large urban centers, also generating Nvtram (conversation) spaces around its contents.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
TUWUN is an indigenous film exhibition that consists mainly of the realization of a Itinerant Exhibition, which covers various places in Wallmapu, the Mapuche ancestral territory (southern Chile and Argentina) and is held from the october month until June of the following year, where for the Mapuche people The cycle ends and begins again with the celebration of Wiñoy Tripantu (Mapuche New Year).
COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES
Within the framework of TUWUN, we develop various complementary activities during the traveling exhibition. Among them, a TRAWUN (meeting), special screenings by guests of indigenous peoples and the Mapuche people, NVTRAMCINE (cinema forums), TUWUN screenings inserted in other film and culture competitions, screenings for schools and communities, special cycles in the summer season . And a workshop for the appreciation of cinema with identity, which we have designed for training and mediation with different audiences, such as children and young people of school age, adults, leaders of organizations, Mapuche communities, etc.
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
TUWUN Muestra de Cine Indígena de Wallmapu, is coordinated and produced by ADKIMVN Cine y Comunicación Mapuche, with the collaboration of a network of organizations, cultural centers, municipal departments of culture, Mapuche communities and educational centers.
Asociación Cinematográfica Ajayu (Ajayu Film Association) in co-production with Sapa Inti Studio invites national and international filmmakers to participate in the 10th Ajayu International Animation Festiva,l to be held from November 18 to 21, 2026, in Puno, Peru.
Now celebrating eleven years, Ajayu has become one of Peru’s leading festivals dedicated exclusively to animated cinema, as well as a vital space for the development, circulation and visibility of animated works from the southern Andean territories. Marking this milestone, the festival reaffirms its commitment to cultural decentralization by promoting a diverse, accessible, and identity-driven audiovisual industry.
This year’s central theme is “A Living Legacy: Stories of Our Grandparents”, a curatorial focus for part of the programming and will be highlighted in a special section in the general program. However, this theme is not a submission requirement, as the call welcomes animated works on any topic.
Ajayu continues to be a space for gathering, exhibition, and reflection on animation as an artistic language and a tool for social transformation. The selected works will be part of the festival’s official showcase and will actively contribute to a curatorial vision that celebrates eleven years of legacy.
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 October 27 - 31, 2026 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.
