Il Trivium Festival vuole sollecitare, valorizzare e rendere concreta l’espressione artistica in ogni sua forma. La kermesse, caratterizzata da un approccio multidisciplinare all’arte, vedrà il susseguirsi di differenti specializzazioni dal cinema alla musica, dal teatro alle performing arts. Il Trivium Festival è un concorso multidisciplinare aperto a tutte le realtà artistiche professionali (nazionale e internazionale), che operano nell’ambito del cinema,della musica e del teatro.
Il festival è promosso e organizzato dall’associazione culturale Teatro del Grillo con il patrocinio del Parco Nazionale del Cilento,che spazi Vallo di Diano e Alburni, noto per i suoi paesaggi suggestivi e incontaminati, ricchi di arte, storia e cultura, che farà da vetrina alle diverse realtà musicali, teatrali e cinematografiche iscritte al Festival.
Actrum is a non-profit association dedicated to artistic production and the dissemination of audiovisual content.
The board of directors convenes the first edition of the short film festival, which will initially be held online in the event that the situation caused by COVID-19 continues as before.
ShortsTV, the first and only global channel and network dedicated to short films and exclusive presenter of Oscar® Nominated Shorts theatrical releases, has launched and is accepting short films for the 2021 ShortsTV Worldwide Film Festival. ShortsTV remains steadfast in its advocacy for short-form filmmakers and emerging talent. The festival gives short filmmakers, throughout the United States, Europe, India and Latin America, the opportunity to submit their short films and the chance to be broadcasted globally on television in over 100 million homes through the ShortsTV channels. For more information on ShortsTV, please visit www.shorts.tv.
Good Luck! ¡Buena suerte! शुभ लाभ! Bonne chance! Succes! Καλή τύχη!
Feature and documentary film, animation, video art and experimental film
The filmzeitkaufbeuren is an open author's film festival that is deliberately not limited to any particular genre, topic or format. Fiction and documentary films, cartoons and animated films, art and experimental films with a maximum length of 40 minutes are presented.
Established in 2008, the Allgäu Authors' Film Festival has established itself in Germany and beyond as a small, fine film festival with a top-class jury.
With contributions at a consistently high level, sometimes soberly intellectual, sometimes serious and serious, sometimes funny, provocative or weird, but always touching and profound, the team would like to stimulate the dialogue on socio-political influence through the medium of film.
The closing date for the festival registrations is extended to July 31, 2025, the official selection notifications will be sent on August 31, 2025, the list of finalist films will be published on September 15, 2025, The Sports Cinema Week will take place in Palermo from December 1 to 7, 2025.
Here are the prizes awarded in each edition. Four main categories: best Olympic film, best Paralympic film, best football film and best E-Sport film. The awarded sections are for best feature film, best short film, best documentary, best fiction, best direction, best actor, best sports protagonist, best editing, best screenplay, best sound, films are also awarded with special prizes: Distributor award, social award, jury award, Other Cinema award (non-sporting subject) and the “School & University” award. All the films that have been selected will receive an participation plaque during the final ceremony of the festival.
Short films, either animation or live action, in the science fiction, fantasy or horror categories are desired. Films are typically from 5 to 15 minutes (as long as 20 minutes)in length.
Currently we plan on a live event from May 23-26, 2025 in downtown Baltimore, much like the events we have had for the past 50+ years.
Greek mythology Gelos is the divine personification of laughter, the most welcome of the gods, always owes its success to some novel subterfuge. This deity favourably and affectionately accompany everywhere the person who arouses and enacts his laughter, and he will never allow you to grieve in mind, but will implant continual joy on your countenance with his sunny elegance.
We hope you will join us in a days full of fun and endless laughs! We will highlight comedy short and feature films, web series, TV episodic, filmed sketch comedy, Dark Comedy, music video and animation with the goal of screening the best comedic content from around the world for a wide audience! Our dual emphasis is on “discovering” great comedic talent with the purpose of promoting it to both the entertainment industry and the Moscow public, as well as, showcasing the works of seasoned professionals and well-known stars. We are proud to showcase, connect and promote talented comedy filmmakers from all over the world.
Ichalkaranji, India's first grand and divine international short film festival in 2020
Now in the 3rd year after two successful International Short Film Festival in Ichalkaranji - Ichalkaranji International Short Film Festival in 2020 - 2020
Chief Organizer - Sanjeevani Arts, Sports, Cultural Arts Institute, Reg No. 34402 Maharashtra, Ichalkaranji
International Short Film Festival in Ichalkaranji.
The short film festival will be screening and awarding the best 777 short films in seven days.
Each screened short film will be given a certificate and a commemorative sign.
2024 Festival 8-12 May. New entries 20th of Oct 2023 (FILM SUBMISSIONS OPEN)
____________________________________________________________________Västerås Film Festival is an international film festival held in autumn every year since 2015. The festival will be moved to April 2024. Västerås film festival shows films in different genres from around the world. We have prizes in different categories. The festival also contains workshops, lectures, debates, film cafés and exhibitions. Västerås Film Festival is one of the most interesting festivals in northern Europe.
Västerås Film Festival 2024 becomes a genre film festival, there will be changes in prices.
To be considered for selection, kindly read the following rules thoroughly before submitting. Flouting any of the Eligibility Rules & Terms below may lead to a disqualification of your work. Please read before submitting:
General Rules
* BSIFF accepts films in the following forms: Features, shorts and episodic series.
* Feature-length, short films and episodic series must be at minimum Ghana premieres. This means, you should not have been screened publicly in Ghana prior to the 2024 Festival.
* Features and short films including episodic series must not be available online in any form, for any period of time at the time of submission.
* All films must be in English, subtitled in English or English versioned. Non-English language works must have English subtitles at the time submitted. Dialogue lists will not be accepted. Films that do not comply will be immediately disqualified.
* All films submitted must have been completed after January 2022. Any film created before the year 2022 will not be accepted.
* All films must not have submitted to the Festival previously in any stage of completion (i.e. films that were submitted in previous years will not be reconsidered. If you have questions, please contact bsiffsubmissions@gmail.com.
* If you are a student or representing a film school, you have to submit a soft copy of your Student ID or submit proof (an email confirmation from the Head of the Department of the film school via bsiffsubmissions@gmail.com ) that you are currently a student at that school.
* It is the sole responsibility of the applicant to secure clearance from all copyright holders of materials included in the submitted film. BSIFF will not be held responsible for the unauthorised inclusion of copyrighted materials within or relating to the submitted film. BSIFF reserves the right to disqualify any film with unauthorised copyrighted materials.
* You will be required to provide a properly completed and signed official BSIFF "Film Information Form” which will be provided by the Festival upon selection.
*Submission Categories*
Submissions to the Festival are divided into seven categories:
* Ghanaian Showcase (Odehye3): All fictional films (feature-length, short or episodic series) produced in Ghana and/or directed by Ghanaian filmmakers. The director must currently reside in Ghana or be able to provide proof of Ghanaian citizenship. If the film is co-directed, at least one of the directors must meet this criteria.
Please note: Animated films are not acceptable in this category. If you have an animated film, submit into the Animated Film category
* Africa Rising Showcase: All films (feature-length, short or episodic series) produced in Africa and/or directed by African filmmakers. The director/producer must currently reside in an African country. If the film is co-directed/produced, at least one of the directors/producers must meet this criteria.
Please note: Animated films are not acceptable in this category. If you have an animated film, submit into the Animated Film category.
* International Showcase: All fictional films (feature-length or short) produced outside of Ghana and Africa and/or directed by non-Ghanaians/non-Africans. Please note: Animated films are not acceptable in this category. If you have an animated film, submit into the Animated Film category.
* Documentary: A non-fiction film of any length about real events and people, often transcending traditional narrative structures. Documentary is the creative treatment of reality.
* Film School/Student category: Film must be made entirely by students in a film school with technical support from the school but without financial or technical support from broadcasters or production houses.
Please note: For this category, evidence of a student card and/or an email confirmation from the Head of the Department of the film school is a must and should be submitted to the Festival at the time of submission in order for the film to qualify. Failure to submit proof warrants an automatic disqualification.
* Animated Film: An animated film of any length (feature-length, short or episodic series) from Ghana, Africa and any part of the world.
* Music Film (Music Video): A music video with strong story-telling, conceptualization, and film production from any part of the world. Please note: Music Videos must be under 10 minutes and from any year, regardless of budget, popularity, or language.
*Fees*
BSIFF is a non-profit organization. Submission fees support administrative expenses related to cataloguing and previewing each film and for programming consideration.
Kindly note the submission fees into BSIFF:
* Early-bird entry fee = $25 dollars [December 15th - February 15th]
* Late submissions = $30 dollars [February 16th - April 30th]
* Film Schools/Students = $5 dollars
* Submission fees are non-refundable.
Programming Consideration
* BSIFF accepts Ghanaian, African and international films of all lengths and subject matter.
For the purposes of eligibility and program consideration, BSIFF uses the following definitions:
Feature-Length: 60 minutes or longer
Short: Less than 60 mins
Episodic Series: Episodic Series: Long-form fictional films that can't be told within the framing of a feature-length film and is therefore broken into episodes. No set runtime.
Programming Decisions
* All BSIFF screening programs are curated and all submissions will be considered by our programming team.
Applicants will be notified of programming decisions via email by August 2024. Final programming, categorization and slotting of films will be determined by the Festival programming team. Their decision is final.
*BSIFF is under no obligation to provide comments or feedback regarding the submitted film to the applicant or any other representative of the submitted film.
*BSIFF reserves the right to determine which award category and program the film will reside in if selected.
The National Film and Television Festival, the only Kermesse in Italy to combine the two macro-themes of communication, manages to connect, in a simple and direct way, but at the same time, criticism and analytics, themes and communication structures that accompany and sometimes affect the lives of everyone. Through stories, meetings, debates, screenings, shows, exhibitions and concerts, the greatest artists of the small and big screen are told captured by the emotion generated by the "climate" of magic that only the world of cinema and TV can give to a passionate audience of spectators.
The Courage Film Festival is aimed at all the filmmakers and scriptwriters who use their work to make a stand and to fight for what they believe is right!
All themes are welcome, covering topics such as women, immigration, the environment, family, equality, mental health, disability etc.
We are looking for films that spark discussions and debates and are the protagonists for positive change and development in the world. We want to hear your stories by giving you a platform to share them and to also discuss the issues portrayed in your film with other like-minded filmmakers.
The Courage Film Festival will feature films and scripts that fight for good causes and portray the struggles and adversity that people and groups face when trying to bring about positive change and influence in a world where you sometimes have to shout in order to make yourself heard.
People face challenges every day. Will your story ignite Courage in another human?
Let the Courage Film Festival be your platform to grab the world’s attention, to champion your cause and raise awareness.
There will be screenings and discussion with social organizations that support the event. There will also be organized workshops and discussions about the main themes of the festival.
International Shorts is a year round film festival which screens selected movies at the end of each season (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter). Best of the Festival films will be screened at Business Factory in Castelldefels, Catalonia, Spain
The 20th River Film Festival is an international film festival that will take place in Padua, Italy, from 3 to 20 June 2026.
The Festival is organized by the Cultural Association Researching Movies and is supported by the Padua City Council, the Veneto Region, and the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Padua has recently been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List thanks to Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel and the city’s 14th-century fresco cycles, making it a truly special art city that attracts tourists and creative minds from all over the world.
All screenings are free and open to the public — no ticket required.
The selected films will once again be screened on a floating screen placed in the middle of the 16th-century fluvial port at Porta Portello, the historic city gate once used for trade between Padua and Venice. This magical setting is just one of the many reasons why audiences return to RiFF year after year.
Over the course of the 18-day festival, directors and their crews will have the opportunity to present their films and engage in post-screening Q&A sessions with the audience.
The "Gulf of Naples Independent Film Festival" is an event intended to serve as an international showcase for films of various types and gender, in order to promote and spread the art, auteur and experimental films that are not released in cinemas playhouses, to foster dialogue between different experiences and to create a meeting point for the support of cinema culture.
Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games, now at its 41st edition, is one of the best known festivals on the Italian scene.
It is a remarkable window for animation, short films in particular, including fiction, educational, experimental, and computer graphic works, with a whole section solely dedicated to comics: Riminicomix.
The Festival features SHORT ANIMATED FILMS in various sections:
CARTOON CLUB AWARD, open to short animated films made by professional filmmakers and production companies.
SIGNOR ROSSI AWARD, open to animated films made by secondary school and university students, and by the students of animation film schools.
CARTOON KIDS AWARD, among the titles submitted to either Cartoon Club Award or to Signor Rossi Award, the Festival direction will select, at their own discretion, some short animated films aimed at a children’s audience. An all-children’s jury will select the winner among these films.
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA, a non-competitive section open to European and non-European animated short films.
CARTOON JUNIOR AWARD, open to short animated films realized within workshops for children, in Italy or abroad.
Furthermore, the festival features:
- exhibitions;
- educational and social projects;
- workshops in local schools;
- one of the most popular and entertaining Cosplay conventions in Italy.
- publication of books and catalogs.
The festival takes place in Rimini in various locations, from downtown to the beach, in the month of July.
The International Film and Sexual Diversity Festival CINHOMO accepts LGBTIQ-themed films of all nationalities, which will be eligible in the various sections of the festival: Fiction Feature Films, Fiction Short Films, Documentary Feature Films and Documentary Short Films.
The works must not have been exhibited in commercial theaters, broadcast on TV or be available to the public on the Internet or any other platform in Spanish territory prior to the celebration of the festival and must be copyrighted after 01/01/2023. Feature films must be unpublished in the Community of Castilla y León; in the case of short films it will not be exclusive but it will be positively valued. The organization reserves the right to include in the out-of-competition program films that do not meet these conditions.
Horrorant Film Festival ‘FRIGHT NIGHTS’ is an international horror film festival organised by a genre film distributor and held annually at the best equipped theatres in the heart of Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece.
Zabut Festival aims to have the ambition to achieve an international appeal, to propose a path of strong cultural innovation and to become a reference point for fans, insiders and audience of animation film.
Zabut shows special interest to the soundtracks of animation films and to “drawing” and aims to create an archive/museum of operas by directors, animators and designers selected by the Festival Committee.
Zabut was born in 2016 in the Savoca city center, a small Art heritage village in Sicily. In 2019, it moves to Santa Teresa di Riva.
Zabut is primarily an event that will connect space and community, people and places.
