AVANCA Film Festival was awarded first place in 2011 contest of the support film festivals sponsored by ICA / Ministry of Culture.
An additional thematic programming has happened over all these years, giving space to screening of significant works of contemporary cinema appropriately framed in concerns and / or well-defined objectives.
The AVANCA is known as a space for workshops led by personalities of world cinema, and being more than a "master class", has allowed a unique cinema practice. Every year we have workshops, bringing together participants from all over Europe. The media have written that this is the largest European area of professional workshops in the field of cinema.
AVANCA is the only festival that congregates a Cinema International Competition, works from the television area, video and new supports of multimedia, with a special concern of exhibit the best world productions done in each category.
Since the first edition, the festival only accepts unprecedented films in Portugal.
The World Premiere competition is unique in our country and was only possible because Avanca became a passage point of unpublished authors and movies with great quality. Films that have their world premiere in the festival, independently of the submitted category, are also participating in the World Premiere Competition.
AVANCA is the Portuguese festival with the highest percentage of worldwide unpublished movies that find here their first showing.
Since 2010, we have organized the international film conference AVANCA | CINEMA, becoming the most important conference in the field of cinema in the Iberian Peninsula. This conference brings together speakers and participants from around the world.
Thematic exhibitions, editions of books, bibliographic presentations and various projects have marked the last years of AVANCA with the quality that compels the festival and the participants obviously require.
This is a festival for creators of web series, in this festival producers of web series projects can participate, such as tv series, series pilots, we seek to be a window to expose the creations of filmmakers from all over the world from this important point of the world in the Central American isthmus
The Chefchaouen International Environmental Film Festival is a film festival dedicated to film lovers and those concerned about the environment in Morocco and abroad, it is an annual event in the superb blue pearl of northern Morocco, the tourist and ecological city of Chefchaouen.
The 15th Edition of the Chefchaouen International Environmental Film Festival will be held from June 17 to 20, 2026on the occasion of World Environment Day.
The 15th Edition of the Chefchaouen International Environmental Film Festival will be held from June 17 to 20, 2026 on the occasion of World Environment Day.
A varied program, and a jury composed of internationally and nationally renowned film and environmental professionals will be responsible for designating the winners of the planned awards.
At Corrosivo Film Fest, we are determined to give genre cinema the place it deserves in a country where an increasingly larger audience is open to everything that cinema from the other side of the spectrum has to offer. With this fourth edition, Corrosivo Film Fest consolidates itself as a space for those who enjoy genre cinema with popcorn on the big screen.
Our goal is to bring followers of the dark, bloody, and fantastic closer to new proposals that are not shown in commercial movie theaters, films that wander through the shadows of the best festivals to be exhibited in our country, at an event that everyone will remember.
Welcome to this festival, and let’s share together the love we have for these other stories through films, screenings, and activities.
Short and music outdoor. This is what is proposed Korterraza, a festival of short films that celebrate its SEVENTEENTH edition of June 24 to 27, 2026 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, and throughout the summer, the twelfth edition of Korterraza Araba.
Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival(UMFF) is the first international mountain film festival in South Korea, dedicated to presenting and promoting films & culture dealing with mountains, adventure, exploration, nature, and the environment. The festival also provides an opportunity for filmmakers and mountaineers to meet and exchange ideas through seminars, events, screenings, and social gatherings.
The 11th UMFF will be held in Ulsan & Ulju, South Korea in autumn, 2026.
Seoul International ALT Cinema & media arts Festival (NeMaf) is the annual festival that shows media-based art with innovative spirit in its themes and forms.
The types of works we show include single-channel video arts, media arts, documentaries, found-footage films, essay films, experimental films, and so on. It takes place at multiple cinemas around Seoul.
It has been founded and showcased more than 2,000 media-based works and discovered 1,000 artists since it was founded in 2000.
NeMaf now opens for submissions and seeks innovative films and media art works.
- Submission Deadline
MAY 16, 2025 11:59 PM (Korea Standard Time)
On May 22nd, a film festival will take place at the main auditorium of the Vila Real Municipal Theatre. The event will begin at 3:30 PM and will include talks by two Portuguese filmmakers, who will present some of their work and share their hands-on knowledge.
In addition, there will be an awards ceremony for the winners of the short film competition, previously selected by a jury.
Search Light International Film Festival-26 is a cinema movement built on discovery. Like a searchlight cutting through darkness, the festival exists to find, reveal, and elevate films that dare to see differently—stories that question, challenge, and illuminate the unseen corners of human experience.
The idea of Search Light goes beyond screening films—it represents discovery. Discovery of new filmmakers. Discovery of unheard perspectives. Discovery of cinema that dares to look deeper rather than louder. From independent shorts and feature films to documentaries, animation, and experimental works, SLIFF-26 embraces storytelling that expands the language of cinema.
At its heart, Search Light stands for visibility. It shines on independent creators, bold narratives, cultural diversity, and cinematic risk-taking, creating a space where discovery matters more than scale, and intention matters more than noise.
In an era where algorithms decide visibility, Search Light International Film Festival-26 chooses intention. It curates films with care, respects the filmmaker’s vision, and creates a space where cinema is experienced, discussed, and remembered.
The Garden-in-Movies Film Festival, founded in 2017 as part of the Radicepura Garden Festival, a biennial event dedicated to Mediterranean landscape design, has reached its fourth edition and will take place on August 1-3, 2025, at the Radicepura Botanical Park in Giarre (Catania, Italy).
At the heart of the festival is the intersection between gardens and cinematic storytelling, explored from a broad perspective that embraces fundamental cultural, political, social, and artistic values. The themes go beyond nature and landscape to include ecology, sustainability, education, culture, human rights, social engagement, and environmental awareness.
The Garden-in-Movies/ShortFilmFest International Short Film Competition is open to all works that, through cinematic language, highlight nature, the environment, landscape, ecology, and sustainability as key drivers of growth and cultural exchange. However, the "garden" is also seen as a metaphor for any place, context, dynamic, or relationship that fosters and nurtures essential cultural, political, social, and artistic values. Therefore, films that interpret the concept of "garden" from this perspective are also eligible for selection.
O Festival Internacional de Roteiros em Português (FIRP) é uma competição internacional Lusófona para roteiros de longa-metragem, curta-metragem, piloto de série, documentário, animação, roteiristas estudantes e roteiristas estreantes.
O FIRP celebra a criatividade narrativa em todas as suas formas, com uma programação dedicada exclusivamente a roteiros para cinema, televisão, plataformas digitais e formatos emergentes. Nossa missão é descobrir novas vozes, promover a diversidade de histórias e criar pontes entre roteiristas e a indústria audiovisual.
O FIRP não recebe nenhum patrocínio de empresas privadas, nem sequer outro tipo de patrocínio.
O resultado dos vencedores de todas as categorias, dos finalistas e semifinalistas, se fará em 24/05/2025.
MECAL PRO, the Barcelona International Short Film and Animation Festival, is a festival dedicated to short films, both national and international.
This year, we are launching the second call for applications for the Mecal Lab as part of the 28th edition of the Mecal Barcelona International Short Film and Animation Festival. One of its main objectives is the professional development of artists and filmmakers, understood as the process of growth, refinement, and consolidation of their professional profile within the audiovisual sector.
Celebrating its 12th year, the Immigration Film Fest (IFF) will be held in Washington, DC in Fall 2025!
The Immigration Film Fest is a festival hosted by KAMA DC, a volunteer-run nonprofit that is dedicated to promoting cultural exchange and celebrating the skills and stories of immigrants in the DMV area. We believe that immigrants bring unique perspectives and experiences that make our community stronger and more vibrant.
In the 12th year of the Immigration Film Fest, we seek thoughtful films that tell the stories of ordinary and extraordinary immigrants and refugees. The Immigration Film Fest is dedicated to bringing the power of film to spotlight and honor the stories of immigrants in society. We particularly encourage immigrant and student filmmakers to submit your films.
The 2025 Immigration Film Fest will be a hybrid festival with live screenings at DMV area venues and hosted online. Selected films will be provided exposure in Washington DC, where policy discussions about immigration are held by decision-makers, international media & thought leaders and where there is an enthusiastic audience for unique, creative films.
We appreciate your interest and encourage you to be part of the Immigration Film Fest in 2025.
We welcome you. Submit your film now!
Equinoxio University Film and Audiovisual Festival celebrates its 28th edition from September 18th to 26th, 2026, providing a space for encounter and reflection on student cinema and facilitating contact with the aesthetic vision of emerging talents, as well as with the artistic, social, and personal concerns of young filmmakers.
This year, the conceptual theme adopted, “I don’t accept the world as it is,” addresses uncertainty as an experience that particularly resonates with our generation: a youthful perspective that doubts both its present and its future, rejecting the world not from a certainty of knowing how it should be, but from the difficulty of inhabiting it as it is. Thus, uncertainty emerges as a collective symptom of our time, and in this sense, we have chosen to embrace it and find in it raw material for creation.
10th Babul Eco Film Fest 2026 has both competitive and non-competitive sections.
1) Short Film Contest-SFC: Duration below 5 minutes on any topic of ENVIRONMENT
2) Green Film Screenings-GFS: Duration above 5 minutes below 60 minutes.On any topic related to Environment, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, Climate action etc.,
The main festival happens in Hyderabad, Telangana India during June 2026 and later travels to different places.
After this some films will have repeat screenings at different venues based on the themes as per the date and audience suitability.
The festival was established by Education Expo TV in order to salute the great contribution of earlier filmmakers who have developed the cinema and considered as cinema fathers like Dadasaheb Phalke, Lumière brothers', Thomas Edison, Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, William Kennedy Dickson, DW Griffth, George Melies, Edwin S Porter and many others great visionaries of cinema. Cinema Father International Film Festival is a competitive festival of Feature, Shorts, Doc, Music Videos & Animation produced by worldwide professionals. The festival is celebrating the achievement taking place in cinema & honoring the innovativeness, effectiveness, creativity & new ideas globally.
The objective behind the festival is to recognize the best talent and setting new milestone in the most amazing indie cinema industry. The CFIFF is an India’s first independent films festival providing platform to showcases the work of aspirant, young & experience professionals globally. CFIFF is also providing platform for professional networking, sharing of ideas & knowledge. The CFIFF awards honor the groundbreaking films and talent. We extend warm invitation to participate in 2026 edition and hope it turns milestone in your film career.
