Berlin Revolution Film Festival is an annual event where we promote and celebrate films not tied to big production companies, institutions or TV stations.
We look for unconventional and underground films made with a personal voice and style. Simply put – we're looking for the next generation Art House!
We first and foremost seek bravery, a lust to experiment and express using the medium of Film, regardless if the film maker is an amateur starting out or an established professional.
Experimental, Fiction, Documentary, Animation and all sorts of genres – anything goes as long as the banner of Independence is held high. Attention in the selection process will be given to artistic originality and creativity.
Participating at the festival should be a valuable experience, and something film makers look forward to return to. To encourage and support this we provide accommodation to all selected film makers in Berlin for the Festival. And we have a category for previous participants where they have a carte blanche to screen their new films.
We also invite and pay for accommodation for film organizations attending the festival such as film critics, festivals, film clubs, producers etc that have focus on True Independent Cinema. All to make it a both friendly, relaxed and valuable experience for everyone attending.
So far we have screened hundreds of films from more than 50 different countries such as Brazil, Iran, USA, Russia, Sweden, Lebanon, Tunisia and of course Germany to name a few. We've also been blessed to have film makers visiting the festival from many of these countries.
We work to establish a platform that isn't than just a "one and done" event, but rather the opposite where the first experience with screenings, meetings, networking and fun is just the first of many to come. We work to make it a festival film makers return to - to show their new works but also to meet up with others they met the first time around, to see what they have done and to discover new films, meet new people to network and have fun with.
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Feedback, Review & Festival Consideration
It's frustrating to be declined and not get to know why. However, it can also be frustrating submitting to a festival and be forced to pay a higher fee because it includes feedback you're not interested in.
We work diligently, with care and dedication when putting the program together and when it comes to feedback for the submissions we do the same thing. This is why we divide our categories so that feedback is separate from the submissions and is an in-depth review rather than a small note.
Feedback is given by our head programmer Andrija Jovanovic and is an extensive analysis and review of the film and it's different components. Film language, dramaturgical storyline, pacing, technical aspects of grading, compositing and editing, acting etc. It's direct, honest and constructive.
If you wish to submit a film and also get feedback, please choose the matching category.
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We have no hard rules, but the following tend not to be a good fit for us:
- Films that seek to educate and teach the viewers
- TV-format films and headshot interview based documentaries
- Music videos and films solely driven by soundtrack
We spend months carefully watching and programming our festival selection. Presenting the best possible program we can is what our festival is built upon. Submitting to the festival is to pay to have the film considered and is not a guarantee to have it selected. We receive hundreds of submissions each edition and only around 5% are selected. Please make sure that you wish to submit before doing so.
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SCI-CINE is Sci-fi cinema event offering innovative film-makers the chance to have their work seen on the international stage and deliver some of the best new Sci-fi to fans from around the world. A selection of trailers and films will be available to view in our online screening room with the live screenings in October showcasing the best Shorts, Features and Animations in the Sci-fi & Fantasy genres.
Falcon International Film Festival is changing the way that people think of short films. We are looking for the very best short films that are entertaining and tell a story. The sort of short films that people want to watch. That makes them laugh. Or cry. That shock and surprise.
OFFICIAL IMDB QUALIFYING AWARD
The new season is now open!! Send your movie and win our trophy.
The FIFFLONDON is a monthly festival with yearly live screening in London that awards the best movies from every corner of the planet.
The winners of the monthly edition will automatically enter the annual competition, free of charge.
We strongly believe that every movie is the result of hard work and, as such, they deserve our jury’s full attention during the evaluation and the best works deserve our acknowledgment and appreciation.
The selected movies, as well as the winners, will receive a golden laurel wreath, which can be used in advertising material.
Winning films are announced on our website and our social media page.
FIFFLONDON is a monthly film competition. Each month, our Jury will award the best films through private screenings. The Best Picture monthly winners will compete in December 2021 for the Best of Fest award (best film of the year). FIFFLONDON’s annual judging team will select the winners in all the main categories, such as Narrative Film, Documentary and Animation.
As a part of this festival occurs every month, there are more chances to hang the golden laurel on your favourite movies!
Films entered in multiple categories may win multiple awards.
AGRinCORTO is the first short film festival to be held in Cinisello Balsamo and it organized with the support of the City Municipality. It aims to encourage and promote cultural exchange through the form of expression of video, with no restrictions of categories or genres.
Themes of the festival will be those that best represent identity and history of Cooperativa Agricola, the organization that manages the festival: environment, agriculture, work, ecology, economics solidarity.
A home for the biggest, baddest, in your face, down your throut, melt your brain Horror, Sci-fi , Action , Martial Arts , Exploitation , Mobsploitation , Sexploitation and everything-elsploitation. You will find no dramas, no rom-coms and no musicals ( unless totally twisted )
The best new Grindhouse movies are shown at an epic festival held at one of the UK's longest running entertainment venues - The Legendary Shed Venue.
What you will find at the Grindhouse Planet festival is a playlist of movies like no other. Each film is selected by a Panel of Grindhouse connoisseurs form around the globe. The festival is for film fans and filmmakers to meet like-minded people, have a drink, watch some movies, eat some Pizza ( for free!! ) and have a bloody good time. There is a movie stall hosted by The Cult Movie Store where some rare Grindhouse flicks can be purchased, along with lots of other stalls offering Grindhouse goodies.
There is also a chance to attend Q&A sessions with some of the planet's best Grindhouse directors and producers.
Want more?
There is more! Much more!! How about a music festival at the same time? You got it. As well as all of the awesome films, there are live bands playing throughout the day. From Thrash Metal and Punk to Acoustic & Electronic, there is something for everyone. You may even find your next Grindhouse soundtrack.
NEW - Check out Festival Teaser at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFmtGzNYuPM
Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest is monthly film competition focusing on international independent cinema. Our aim is to support new filmmakers and to promote the research and development of new means of expressivity through cinematography as art among diverse audiences.
BSCF is located in the Eastern Heart of Europe, Bucharest being one of the most beautiful and diverse cities in the world.
The film competition runs on a monthly basis. The final deadline for our next selection, as well as the notification date are posted in the right-grid competition timeline.
❗All Films accepted in the Official Selection will be given a benefits pack worth 350$:
✶ iPitchTV 3 months studio licence worth 117$
✶ Filmstro 1-Year Pro Licence Exclusive discount worth up to 125$
✶ DCP2GO Exclusive Discount for mastering services worth 125$
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✶ FREE Trophy + Screening + Certificate Award
✶ 5 FESTIVAL ENTRIES worth 115$
✶ WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION PACK from FILMHUB
✶ 90% DISCOUNT on DCP Mastering Services worth 300$ from KINOLIFE Distribution
✶ Filmstro Pro Licence discount worth 105$
✶ 1yr iPitchTV Studio Membership worth $299
All winners will receive online certificate awards and laurels will be offered to all participants who made it to the Official Selection.
Only films selected in the Competition will be showcased in the BscFest Official Screenings.
BSCF will be an outstanding event, where the audience can see new films, participate in workshops and meet filmmakers.
We guarantee that a jury of film professionals will view all submitted films. We encourage filmmakers who created their films with a low budget to enter their film to BSCF. The judgement criteria of the submitted films are new ideas, experimental cinematography, talented work of actors and an independent point of view.
Cityflix International Film Festival Toronto (CIFF) is dedicated towards promoting and championing the work of screenwriters, filmmakers, and every artist who use the language of film to tell a story.
Cityflix International Film Festival discovers outstanding, emerging filmmakers serving as a gateway for established and rising talent to further or launch their filmmaking career. Through Workshops, Conferences and master classes by Industry Professional, the festival provides development and outreach opportunities to writers and filmmakers.
Cityflix International Festival Toronto will be held from November
29 - December 01, 2019 in Toronto, Canada.
CIFF strives to serve the interests and needs of independent filmmakers. CIFF understands how important it is to hear and see the educated, entertaining and diverse stories of filmmakers from around the globe. We provide a platform so these voices can be heard and shared with audiences that want to be inspired
screening festival for features, shorts, docs, new media, local and International filmmakers.
CIFF is designed to showcase innovative works by emerging filmmakers from around the world, With red-carpet screenings, and special after-party that seamlessly integrates Hollywood pros with up-and-coming talents, CIFF offers an unforgettable festival experience that helps kick start the careers of emerging filmmakers. Each screening at CIFF is followed by a Q&A that directly connects directors with inquisitive and impassioned film lovers, resulting in countless opportunities for dynamic discussion. The festival dedicates time and attention to each of the films selected The festival is dedicated to giving each filmmaker the spotlight they deserve with press attention to match.
All filmmakers selected for the festival are guaranteed coverage from media outlets, invites emerging filmmaking talents from around the world to network with respected industry professionals, showcased filmmakers, and their audiences in Toronto.
CIFF is passionately committed to providing Audiences, Filmmakers, and Screenwriters around the globe with an excellent and unique cinematic experience.
SUBMISSIONS 2025
MI PRIMER FESTIVAL, 10TH EDITION
The call is open until November 30!
The international film festival for children and youth MI PRIMER FESTIVAL (MPF) that sows the love for cinema. It is in our hands to find ways to encourage and promote that girls, boys, adolescents and young people understand what is happening in the world and show them ways to initiate change.
MPF invites you to participate in its 10th edition, we will celebrate our first ten years, which will take place during 2025 in different regions of Peru, taking as a starting point our first event in Lima that will be from February 16 to 22, 2025 in person, thanks to different venues and cultural centers.
MI PRIMER FESTIVAL aims to create a space for the exhibition of national and international cinema and audiovisuals, framing our content around the Human Rights of NNAs established in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and in the General Law on the Rights of NNAs, which recognizes them as holders of their rights.
We are a festival focused on the care and agency of children's citizenship, from a decentralized vision that aims to ensure that our content reaches a diverse audience.
MY FIRST FESTIVAL, through audiovisual and new media, promotes reflection on the various rights of children and adolescents from the imagination and education, forming creative, flexible and safe future citizens.
The Kashmir International Film Festival is a not-to-profit, non-commercial & Kashmir’s only independent film festival, established in the year 2016 in Bandipora Kashmir with a mission to celebrate the cinema & work of aspiring, young, independent & professional filmmakers. Its aim is to recognize the enlightening, entertaining & progressive new age cinema of youth & experienced filmmakers.
Founded by the Wular Trust Bandipora, Kashmir International Film Festival-16 provides chance to filmmakers to showcase their creativity. While the festival is open to filmmakers of all age, we feel that just as it is imperative that we should support and encourage participation by filmmaking community members & professional, it is also important that we find and cultivate the future members of this creative industry.
The purpose of this film festival is to promote new movie makers, exchange of knowledge, information, ideas & culture between different nations in context of their social and cultural ethos. KIFF also promotes friendship and co-operation among people of the world through the medium of films & documentaries.
Our mission:
To recognise and honour experimental film
To educate the public in experimental film
To build a networking platform for experimental filmmakers
We support: the unrecognised, the progressive, the visionary. By submitting your film you: endorse our mission, embrace our philosophy, join our community, declare rightful ownership of your work, permit screenings, and the use of clips and images for promotion.
London Experimental Film Anti-Festival
Fluid and evolving
Promoting experimental film
Exhibits in a variety of alternative spaces
No programming
No competition or prizes
Random film selection
Free to watch
Unorthodox marketing
Only for Latinamerican film-makers // Solo para cineastas latinoamericanos y se abrió un capitulo para España y lenguas extrangeras con subtitulos en español para el 7º festival 2023.
The Fish&Chips Film Festival – International Erotic Film Festival wants to open, in Turin and in Italy, a window on film genre and create an opportunity to approach sexuality in a creative, free, innovative, lay, irreverent and intelligent way. The Festival aims to be a moment of liberation and expressive creation and it will take place in January 2020 in Turin, Italy.
We believe in eroticism as a basic need of human beings and we want to show sex from different points of view, be they psychological, physical or social, but in any case liberating and non-discriminatory.
We want to research and propose a quality cultural production, able to go beyond the simplistic and abused canonical approaches. We are going to select works with cinematographic significance, able to convey a unique vision upon a broad and varied world, ranging from love to eroticism and pornography.
The festival is meant to be a moment of reflection and enjoyment, which includes debates, exhibitions and shows. For our third edition, we welcome any experimentation, smashed peas, proposals and other pleasantries. We believe expression, sexual and thought freedom to be a key feature for the creation of a more challenging horizon.
Sex has always driven many of our decisions and that’s where we have decided to start from!
Corti a Ponte is a great little festival in the Venice area.
Films are screened in Italian or in original language with Italian or English subtitles in front of an audience from 3 to 99 year old.
The "Fiorenzo Serra" Visual Anthropology Laboratory, managed by the Department of History, Human Sciences and Education of the University of Sassari (from now on, called "Department") and the Società Umanitaria - Cineteca Sarda (from now on, called “Film Archive“), as part of a project aimed at enhancing public awareness of the director, filmmaker and ethnologist Fiorenzo Serra, announce for the year 2024 the Competition for ethnographic film productions titled “Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival”. The definition “film production" (from now on, “film”) means any audiovisual product, a documentary film, produced using analogue or digital technologies. The competition aims to promote the production of films that can contribute to the awareness of ethnographic cultural realities through the audiovisual medium and pursues the objective of protecting and implementing, in a scientific and systematic manner, national and foreign audiovisual productions concerning the ethnographic, archaeological, historical, cultural-linguistic and environmental heritages. The competition also has the function of better defining, within the framework of the theoretical-methodological debate of the demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines, not only the important role of visual anthropology, but also the objective of supporting the realization of audiovisual documentation concerning the identity and the cultural specificities of Sardinia, as well as the different national and international social realities.
The inaugural Balkan Nights Film Festival will take place for five nights, at selected rooftop bars in the centre of Melbourne, Australia. A pool of haunting, beautiful and uncompromising films and music videos from all Balkan nations will screen beneath the summer stars and moons before a large audience of artists, film buffs and inquisitive beings. The first of its kind, Balkan films are rarely given a chance to be seen in a country like Australia. We hope to see you at the festival. Tickets will be made available in November at participating venues.
The International New York Film Festival, (INYFF) is A SCREENING, AWARD and DISTRIBUTION Festival. First place GOLD AWARD will receive the INYFF trophy, certificate, screening and distribution deal! Opening reception at the Producers Club in NYC and award ceremony and photo op at the end of the INYFF. Distributors will be present at the INYFF! Most official selections will be screened and 2nd and 3rd place award certificates will be presented with laurels.
The INYFF is divided into two seasons per year with winners chosen in each and the festival and screenings taking place at THE PRODUCERS CLUB in NYC, Times Square area in June of.
In the INYFF first time filmmakers with no-budgets to seasoned pros with name talent and multi-million dollar budgets screen together in the most eclectic film festival anywhere in NY and the world. Submit today and become part of the INYFF family.
This year video interviews of our winners will be posted with reviews of their films.
Gold Award distribution winners have the option to accept or refuse the distribution deal. All deliverables must be met including a trailer and the film in a Prores HQ file.
The International New York Film Festival is seeking outstanding filmmakers of all ages. Innovative, creative, unique in their vision. All genre are accepted.
Unfortunately due to the importance of the film submission revenue in operating the Festival we are unable to offer fee waivers. Recognizing the funding challenges that filmmakers face we encourage you to take advantage of the EarlyEarly Bird Deadline and Earlybird deadline.
Bucharest Short Film Festival [BSFF]
Independent is the key word for Bucharest Short Film Festival [BSFF], as it is founded by independent film professionals and focuses on independent artists in cinema, from all over the world. Bucharest Short Film Festival aims at recognizing, showcasing and spreading-out the most professional, most innovative, and most interesting fresh short international films, while always prioritizing independent short films.
Bucharest Short Film Festival will showcase some of the finest short international film in Narrative, Animation, Student, Experimental, Documentary, Music Video and Human Rights. We take to heart the amount of work put into each film. Therefore, the festival rules ensure that each movie is reviewed at least two times and well-debated by our team. Some of the awarded films will also be screened at other international film festivals.
Independent artists and their short films will meet an effervescent, and a quite experienced with cinema and film festivals audience, ensuring quality networking, and engaging opportunities, while the selected films will be determined by a panel of industry experts.
Bucharest Short Film Festival is building a strong community of interest around international independent film professionals and film lovers, in the heart of one of the most interesting emergent capitals of arts and culture, a city that never sleeps – Bucharest.
The festival will run film screenings, preceded or followed by artists Q&A, or networking side events, and, surely, parties, that all take place in various conventional and unconventional stages around Bucharest, as in cinemas, open spaces, and even summer theatres. Bucharest, you’ve heard about it, eventually – a city for young people. Well known for different things – like “Old Paris” nickname, in its bourgeois times, before the communism decades, or the world’s biggest parliamentary building [and one of the largest buildings of any kind], from its communism times, new architecture, or the explosive contemporary art scene, and the also quite impressive underground arts and music and nightlife communities, in its current times.
The Festival is being organized by the management of City Montessori School in Lucknow, India.
The Festival aims at providing a common platform for the producers of Children films to project their views for proper development of children’s potential through meaningful educative films; and also for promoting friendship and co- operation among people of the world.
History
JIFF 2025 will be a Greatest Edition in the World Cinema History
JIFF is the World's Biggest Competitive Film Festival (in fiction films).
The Jaipur International Film Festival, the world's fastest growing film festival, is held every year in January in Jaipur, India
Launched in January 2009, Jaipur International Film Festival -JIFF became expanding establishing name in organizing world film festival every year in Rajasthan.
The purpose of this film festival is to promote new movie makers, exchange of knowledge, information, ideas & culture between India & other nations in context of their social and cultural ethos. JIFF also promotes friendship and co-operation among people of the world through the medium of films & documentaries.
Though the film festivals have became a regular affair in most countries yet most of them cater only to selected audience as well as entertain the commercially successful film makers and related personalities. However, JIFF intends to organize a festival that connects the film fans & movie goers with the world, especially the serious filmmakers & their associates so as to bring about greater understanding of the art of film making.
The Sixteenth JIFF 2024 received 2971 films from 82+ countries and 329 films nominated for screening.
The Fifteenth JIFF 2023 received 2205 films from 63+ countries and 282 films nominated for screening.
The Fourteen JIFF 2022 received 2100 films from 52+ countries and 279 films nominated for screening. (COVID 19 - Hybrid Edition)The Fourteen JIFF 2022 received 2100 films from 52+ countries and 279 films nominated for screening. (COVID 19 - Hybrid Edition)
The Thirteen JIFF 2021 received 2121 films from 85+ countries and 266 films nominated for screening. (COVID 19 - Online Edition)
The Twelfth JIFF 2020 has received 2411 films from 100+ countries and 240 films nominated in competition for screening.
The Eleventh Aryan JIFF 2019 has received 2221 films from 103 countries and 232 films nominated for screening.
The Tenth JIFF 2018 has received 2019 films from 100+ countries and 136 films nominated for screening.
The Ninth JIFF 2017 has received 2004 films from 100+ countries.
The Eighth JIFF 2016 has received 2176 films from 100+ countries.
The Seventh JIFF 2015 has received 1807 films from 100+ countries.
The Sixth JIFF 2014 has received 1587 films from 90+ countries.
The Fifth JIFF 2013 has received 1397 films from 90 countries.
The Fourth JIFF 2012 has received 902 films from 70 countries.
18000 film lovers and film makers visited the festival.
The third JIFF 2011 was held with overwhelming response & it was a feather in crown.
The second JIFF 2010 was held with overwhelming response & it was a feather in crown.
The first JIFF 2009 was a first milestone towards success.
NEW CATEGORIES:
Sridevi JIFF Indian Panorama (All submitted films will be included automatically in this panorama from India only without any additional fee or you can submit directly in this panorama only, made/produced in all regional languages) new from JIFF 2019
Focus Country, Guest Country, Tribute, Retrospective and more - By Invitation Only
NEW CATEGORIES:
(You can submit according to your submission eligibility or write us for any support at myjiffindia@gmail.com)
JAIPUR CRITICS – For feature fiction films only, best film award from film critics. Total nominations: Around 5 films.
HONORARY ASIA - We welcome you in JIFF 2024 as senior and experienced film producer and director. This category is only for Asian continent for feature fiction films, who have produced/directed minimum 5 films in their respective career, we request you please submit your film/s produced/released/un released after 1st Jan. 2022 or film in post-production. It is non-competitive international nominations category, in this category will screen top two or three films out of all submissions.
WELCOME REGARD - For directors and producers 1st feature fiction film, in other words this submission should be first project/film as a director or producer. It is competitive international nominations category, in this category will screen top two or three films out of all submissions.
THESE ARE DIFFERENT SUBMISSION BETWEEN MAIN SUBMISSION IN THE FEATURE FILM (FICTION) CATEGORY.
OLD IS GOLD - screenings (by invitation only)
Classic World (Classical films from India and the world) – By Invitation Only
Films made by Crowdfunding (mention in the submission form)
Films made by/with Co-Production (mention in the submission form)
Web Series (up to 30 minute/s)
Mobile Film Making on Social Issues (film should be shoot by mobile camera, up to 30 minute/s)
Submit Song/Ad Film//Music/Album/Poster/Live performance
Top 10 Dialogue.
NEW CATEGORIES FROM JIFF 2025:
Films Nominated at Oscar 2025 (Short Fiction/Live Action) - Official entry to the Oscars
Films nominated at Oscar 2025 (Short Documentary) - Official entry to the Oscars
Films nominated at Oscar 2025 (Feature Fiction) - Official entry to the Oscars
Films nominated at Oscar 2025 (Feature Documentary) - Official entry to the Oscars
Films nominated at Oscar 2025 (Academy Awards, USA)
from different countries as official entry to the Oscars and official nominations through various ways, will be directly part of the competition in JIFF 2025. The awards will be separate for these categories and will be finalized by international jury members (World cinema leaders). Few top films will be screened in JIFF 2025 for global audience. Other rules will be the same as film submission in JIFF 2025.
NEW - Check out Festival Teaser at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFmtGzNYuPM
Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest is monthly film competition focusing on international independent cinema. Our aim is to support new filmmakers and to promote the research and development of new means of expressivity through cinematography as art among diverse audiences.
BSCF is located in the Eastern Heart of Europe, Bucharest being one of the most beautiful and diverse cities in the world.
The film competition runs on a monthly basis. The final deadline for our next selection, as well as the notification date are posted in the right-grid competition timeline.
❗All Films accepted in the Official Selection will be given a benefits pack worth 350$:
✶ iPitchTV 3 months studio licence worth 117$
✶ Filmstro 1-Year Pro Licence Exclusive discount worth up to 125$
✶ DCP2GO Exclusive Discount for mastering services worth 125$
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✶ FREE Trophy + Screening + Certificate Award
✶ 5 FESTIVAL ENTRIES worth 115$
✶ WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION PACK from FILMHUB
✶ 90% DISCOUNT on DCP Mastering Services worth 300$ from KINOLIFE Distribution
✶ Filmstro Pro Licence discount worth 105$
✶ 1yr iPitchTV Studio Membership worth $299
All winners will receive online certificate awards and laurels will be offered to all participants who made it to the Official Selection.
Only films selected in the Competition will be showcased in the BscFest Official Screenings.
BSCF will be an outstanding event, where the audience can see new films, participate in workshops and meet filmmakers.
We guarantee that a jury of film professionals will view all submitted films. We encourage filmmakers who created their films with a low budget to enter their film to BSCF. The judgement criteria of the submitted films are new ideas, experimental cinematography, talented work of actors and an independent point of view.
