About JSFF
JSFF is a 9 years lasting bi-City annual film festival recognized for its immersive themed cultural exchange platform premiering in Tokyo and Belgrade. This year, JSFF is part of the official ECoC (EU Capital of Culture) program at Novi Sad 2022, containing 6 days of condensed film and collateral art program, after which the screenings in Tokyo and Belgrade will be conducted. All authors of selected pieces will have the opportunity to be screened in front of a large audience under the light of ECoC in Novi Sad from November 5th – 10th.
JSFF 2022 THEME: CULTFRONTATION
"Space between two frames"
It is not wrong to say that the film industry as we know it today would not exist without the mutual influences of different cultures. Only one example of such artistic complementarity can be seen in the work of Fumio Kamei, who applied the editing techniques he acquired abroad in the format of haiku poetry, giving more importance and space to shots between the work itself.
In the spirit of the traditional concept of JSFF as a format of cultural exchange of film representatives of two cultures, CULTFRONTATION aims to further confront the author's views in the domain of the program category "Other? Europe". This category refers to the "culture of the different". By re-examining the dominant values in European culture and art, we come to the discovery of different, alternative, marginalized, minority, rebellious expressions.
For the first time since its founding, JSFF will expand the program into 3 categories united by the theme CULTFRONTATION:
1. JSFF - Will maintain the original selection of the films produced in Japan or Serbia (including conditional exceptions regarding the filming and crew background), which will present the views of authors on annual theme CULTFRONTATION, but also contemporary social phenomena in the spirit of "Other? Europe" program narrative of NOVI SAD 2022 - ECoC.
2. EAST ASIA – WEST BALKANS - According to the principle of traditional JSFF format, EA-WB will expand the field of CULTFRONTATION to the regional level which will screen works from the group of EA (East Asia) countries, as well as the countries of the Western Balkans.
3. JSFF - INTERNATIONAL - Global selection of films around the world that deal with the broader aspect of cultural confrontation. One of the terms of cultural confrontation implies confronting the values of an adaptable cultural environment with an extremely protective cultural environment. Also, every kind of re-examination of the canon, generalization, position in society, etc. it can be interpreted as a kind of CULTFRONTATION.
Special attention to:
- Premiere (All categories)
- ECOC Area background (JSFF INTERNATIONAL Category): 2023: Elefsina (Greece), Veszprém (Hungary) and Timisoara (Romania); 2024: Bad Ischl (Austria), Tartu (Estonia) and Bodø (Norway)
For three thousand years, the Jewish people have been scattered around the world. That is why Jewish cinema is created in many different countries, alongside with special festivals that select and showcase those films. The Jewish Film Festival® in Moscow became the first of its kind in Russia. It was founded in 2015 and has been held annually ever since.
What is the Jewish cinema, after all? It encompasses far more than films made by Jewish directors or films which star famous Jewish actors. The never-ending search for Jewish identity, assimilation of diasporas and philosophy of self-determination and separation of the Jewish people in a society, return to the past, glorification of national heroes and mourning of victims, challenges of today’s world and the problem of relevance and preservation of traditions - these and many other issues attract filmmakers of all countries and continents. By searching and selecting the best Jewish films during the course of the past year we have attempted to shape an answer to the question of what these rapidly changing ethnic-themed films really are. Moscow, a large metropolitan area, a place where many cultures and nationalities live side-by-side, is one of the world’s most fitting locations for a festival that represents a dialogue of national communities.
The MJFF holds screenings of the most important and resonant Jewish films of the latest years. At the centre of the Festival is the Feature Films Competition Program, which is complemented by screenings of documentary films, short films and documentary shorts (as part of either competition programs or special screenings), as well as by discussions with experts on different topics raised in films and critics who specialize in Jewish cinema.
CURT’ARRUDA - Arruda dos Vinhos Annual Film Festival aims to present national and foreign cinema, stimulating film production through the attribution of awards for best rural short film and the best short film from Arruda dos Vinhos.
CURT’ARRUDA is a film festival focused on rurality. It is organized by Cultura deGrau – Cultural Association.
The Belalcázar International Film Festival celebrates its third edition between July 22 and 25, 2026. Belalcázar is located in the north of the province of Córdoba (Spain), in the Pedroches Valley, a bordering enclave between the communities from Andalusia, Extremadura and Castilla La Mancha.
In this second edition, a call is made to filmmakers from all over the world, with works of less than 20 minutes that address any topic. There will be an official section, a comedy section and a children's/youth section. The filmmakers can present animated, documentary and fiction short films.
Inclús is a festival of audiovisual productions, both documentary and fiction, focused on the theme of disabilities. It is an initiative of Associació Inclús, organized by the audiovisual company Fish Muvi.
The aim of Festival Inclús is to give visibility to audiovisual works about disability with a different point of view.
The 14th edition of Inclús, Barcelona International Disability Film Festival will be held from November 21 to December 1, 2026, in Barcelona. The audiovisual material of the finalists will be screened during this festival, according to each different category. There will be one award for the best submittals of each category.
The Villammare Festival Film & Friends is organized by the Villammare Film Festival-Golfo di Policastro Association. The competition between short films was the beginning and is still the backbone of the Villammare Festival. The attention to the short genre wants to be an opportunity to give space to experimental cinema, to young talents, and to the evolution of cinematographic languages. The Villammare Festival Film & Friends wants to be an opportunity for international filmmakers and an occasion to contribute to the cultural liveliness and the promotion of the territory south of Salerno in a wider context.
It includes a competition between short films, one between feature films, meetings with personalities from the world of culture and cinema, attention to soundtracks and environmental themes, debates, in-depth analysis, shows and tasting moments after watching the film.
In the Castellón town of Tales, in the heart of the Sierra de Espadá natural area, the 2nd Espadá Rural Film Festival is being held, organized by CASDA, the Castelló Citizen Association against AIDS.
This festival has various awareness and dissemination activities both on the current environmental, ecological and social situation in the towns and in general in the world, as well as on the current social situation of people living with HIV. This year the novelty is that the theme of both the works and everything that is the festival will revolve around the figure of MOTHERS.
It will be through projections of documentaries and short films on social themes, as we have indicated, preferably on the theme of MOTHERS, and a Table for the Exchange of Experiences of different groups and associations that have participated in this project.
The screenings will take place over three different days, which will run from Thursday to Sunday.
Registration for the festival is completely free and must be done following the rules.
The Movie Mouse International Short Film Festival is an annual short film competition featuring an official award ceremony. The festival organizers reserve the right to hold the award ceremony in any format—whether in person at the festival venue, online, or simply by announcing the results on the festival website and mailing diplomas and awards to participants.
The festival was created with the objective of identifying talented filmmakers and promoting short films. The festival organizers are the film production company "Mouse and Husband Production" /
www.mimproduction.info.
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FIFTH SEASON OF THE FESTIVAL WILL
OPEN ON FEBRUARY 1, 2026*. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS NOVEMBER 1, 2026.
The result announcement dates (PUBLICATION ON THE OFFICIAL FESTIVAL WEBSITE) for the stages are:
OFFICIAL SELECTION (LONGLIST), SEMIFINAL (SEMIFINAL) — December 1 to 15, 2026.
FINAL (SHORTLIST), NOMINEES, WINNERS — December 15 to 25, 2026.
The date and location of the upcoming award ceremony (if held) are indicated on the official film festival website.
Categories:
Feature films · Animation films · Documentaries
Nominations:
1. DRAMA — Best short film of the drama/melodrama /psychological drama genre, with a running time between 10 and 40 minutes.
2. SUPER-SHORT — Best short film of the drama /melodrama /psychological drama genre up to 10 minutes in duration.
3. ACTION / COMEDY — Best short film of the detective/horror/comedy/action genre.
4. SPORTS — Best short film with a sports theme.
5. SILENT — Best short film of the SILENT CINEMA genre.
6. DOC — Best short documentary film of any genre.
7. ANIMATION — Best short animated film of any genre.
8. DEBUT — Best debut film and student feature film.
9. KIDS — Best short film for children and adolescents (0+ category).
10. RISING STAR — Best short film made by children and adolescents (0+ category).
Submitted projects are reviewed and evaluated by a professional jury, which includes at least three Russian and international film experts each season.
Stages:
1. All films submitted by filmmakers are reviewed by the jury members, after which some of them, separately in each category, are included in the official selection (LONGLIST).
2. Depending on the number of films that pass the official selection, additional selection stages are formed in each category: quarterfinal (QUARTERFINAL), semifinal (SEMIFINAL), finalists (SHORT LIST), award nominees (NOMINEE), and winner (WINNER) — Festival Grand Prix.
3. The festival organizers reserve the right to carry out the selection process sequentially through all stages, or to omit some of them, depending on the number of participants in each category.
4. Semifinalists and finalists in each category are invited to the award ceremony (if held in person), which will be announced on the festival website. All filmmakers who have submitted a film to the competition program have the right to request attendance at the official award ceremony from the festival organizers.
5. The Grand Prix winner in each category (the category winner) is announced from among the nominees.
Crossover Film Fest is a unique festival where we go further than a movie selection, here we make you live the movies.
Crossover is the perfect fusion between comercial and independent movies, offering all the public the best selection of both worlds and the opportunity to live incredible experiences outside and inside the movie theaters.
A grassroots festival run by and for young creatives, Little Wing is challenging barriers to film, amplifying diverse voices and redefining the conversation for a new generation of filmmakers. Where we want to see real change, we'll start with ourselves.
Exclusively screening films from students, recent graduates, and new filmmakers, we held the first Little Wing Film Festival in 2017 and have since partnered with the likes of BBC Films, Mayor of London, and the BFI to deliver curated prizes and opportunity pathways for emerging filmmakers. Alongside screenings, our events are rooted in supporting filmmakers development and highlighting the importance of film in our wider social narrative. We've organised networking pubcrawls, partnered with charities to present accessible screenings around disability and industry inclusion, supported campaigns for sustainable career standards for producers, and worked with grassroots organisations to create their own community cinemas to build community resilience and tackle isolation throughout COVID.
Film guidelines are broad and submission costs are as low. We want Little Wing Film Festival to be accessible and we understand that first projects aren't usually backed by big budgets. Whether your films be shorts or features, animations or documentaries; every story that is weird and wonderful, and your unique point of view, we want to see.
We are anticipating a 2022 hybrid festival so we can continue to reach audiences and filmmakers who aren't able to join us in person, but, like 2020, if COVID restrictions require us to move to an online platform, we're confident that we'll be able to once again deliver an event that is high quality, enriching, and personable. If you have any questions or concerns, write to us and let's chat.
Join us - be a part of a grassroots movement championing new talent and join our community of tight-knit, collaborative, and supportive filmmakers.
For more information visit www.littlewingevents.com or send us an e-mail at contact@littlewingevents.com
More about us:
Little Wing began as a response against the socioeconomic barriers facing young people trying to break into the film industry. When opportunities are too often chiselled out of unpaid internships and work experience, young people working to support themselves independently often get left behind. Started by young people, for young people, we want to create more sustainable and inclusive opportunities with awards that help facilitate future projects. We want to curate events and opportunities that shift us towards a future in film that we'd like to see for ourselves and encourage around us - a future that is inclusive, where opportunities aren't just reserved for those who can afford to work unpaid, and where talent isn't disadvantaged because it's new.
Mega Art Festival is one of the leading platforms of international musicians, filmmakers, dedicated to artists who embody diversity, innovation and creativity. MAF gives artists the original platform to express their vision of World celebrating based on their personal experiences and observations.
Whether you are a professional or art worshiper, you’ll be eligible to be part of the Mega Art Festival
Mega Art Festival is a global industry event held Online.
Mega Art Festival began in 2017.
Each year, the MAF brings to Audience projects from around the globe, and gives our audience unique opportunities to discover international Artists.
In A Minute Film Festival focuses on showcasing one minute films. We are located in a suburb of New York City (NYC), for easy access by all. All Genres are accepted, but the time limit is set. 1-minute. At the festival we nurture networking and audience encouragement of the hard work everyone has put in.
The In A Minute Film Festival was created to offer filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their ability to tell concise short stories in a 1-minute film, with the audience and support of fellow filmmakers.
The live screenings of the top films are concluded with a Q&A, so filmmakers can take pride in their work and meet like-minded filmmakers. We also will have an online edition with films, to be able to reach an international audience.
The RELLISQUÍN FESTIVAL is an audiovisual exhibition that wants to reflect on the relationship between the city and its neighbors. We look for projects that talk about life in cities: protest movements, struggles to preserve historical memory, urban transformations and changes, social demands and the experiences of neighbors with their environment.
We are looking for projects that understand the audiovisual as a tool of struggle, denunciation and testimony of realities in danger of disappearing. We want to vindicate the critical, committed and cooperative spirit, making known aspects that concern society and that are not sufficiently covered in commercial medias, cinemas and the usual distribution channels. We want to show national or international works about historical, social, political and activist consciousness, personal relationships and human rights in a city.
We present the 2024 edition of the Arcicorto Film Festival.
The Festival was born from the need and the desire to shorten the distance between cinema and spectator, thus favoring low and medium cost self-productions, in order to make the public participate as much as possible.
The Rabat Handifilm Festival is an annual artistic and socio-cultural event. In addition to promoting cinema through films addressing disability, it aims to develop a constructive approach to the representation of people with disabilities in film and art in general, and to foster a culture that embraces diversity.
By building communication, networking, mutual support, and partnerships with similar events both nationally and internationally, Handifilm works to raise awareness of Morocco, its unique characteristics, and its potential in cinema and culture as a whole.
The KURSAAL-ART of the "Kursaal Film Festival San Sebastián" (KFFSS) is an international short film festival that stands out for promoting the talent of filmmakers.
The "Filmmaker's Dragonheart Award" is recognized as the award for the talent and courage of filmmakers who, through their efforts, have managed to realize their dream.
