The Central American Film Festival in Vienna has become a firmly rooted tradition, establishing itself as a key cultural event in the city.
Vienna, recognized as one of the world’s most important cultural hubs, provides an ideal and prestigious platform to showcase the increasingly innovative and notable productions emerging from the Central American region.
This year, the festival returns from November 17 to 22, 2025, with the hope of once again welcoming our loyal audience, who will have the opportunity to enjoy the latest and most outstanding works of Central American cinema.
The program includes the categories of Feature Film, Short Film, Documentary, and Animation, along with several non-competitive parallel sections, including: “Pioneers of Central American Cinema,” “Works in Progress,” “Guest Film,” “Bonus Films,” and “Latin American View,” the latter dedicated to works portraying contemporary life in Latin America. All details are specified in the official festival regulations.
Le Festival du Cinéma d’Amérique centrale à Vienne est devenu une tradition solidement ancrée, s’imposant comme un événement culturel de référence dans la ville.
Vienne, reconnue comme l’un des centres culturels les plus importants au monde, offre une scène idéale et prestigieuse pour mettre en lumière les productions de plus en plus innovantes et remarquables provenant de la région centraméricaine.
Cette année, le festival revient du 17 au 22 novembre 2025, dans l’espoir d’accueillir à nouveau notre fidèle public, qui pourra découvrir le meilleur et le plus récent du septième art centraméricain.
Le programme comprend les catégories Long-métrage, Court-métrage, Documentaire et Animation, ainsi que plusieurs sections parallèles non compétitives, parmi lesquelles : « Pionniers du Cinéma Centraméricain », « Œuvres en Cours », « Film Invité », « Bonus Films » et « Regard Latino-Américain », cette dernière consacrée aux œuvres qui dépeignent la vie contemporaine en Amérique latine. Tous les détails sont précisés dans le règlement officiel du festival.
LesGaiCineMad Madrid International LGBTIAQ+ Film Festival is a LGTBI+ Film Festival in seen in Spanish Speaking countries. The inaugural edition was held in 1996. With an estimated audience of more than 10,000 spectators, it is a well attended festival by members of the Community of Madrid and is covered by the Spanish Press.
A STEP TOWARD THE OSCARS
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REVIEWS
"My favorite festival" Alex Proyas (I Robot, The Crow, Dark City)
"Other nominees included already famous people! It really was an honor to be nominated alongside such great nominees" Lisa Hurel.
“I truly cannot say enough good things about the Paris Art and Movie Awards. My experience with this event was easily the best and rewarding” - Ev Duran.
"One of the most organized and professionally run festivals I've been to! The official selections were of a high standard and the networking was incredible" - Jami Ramberan.
"One of the best festival experiences I've had. Magnifique!" Warren Paul Glover.
"The Fisherman's Diary" won twice at the PAMA in 2020, and is now selected to the 2021 , to represent its country.
"Game Changer" won an, his director Aviv Mano then worked on Disney’s COCO and TOY STORY 4 (2018).
"The Wishgranter" won an, an EMMY AWARD, and a (2016).
"Legacy of Lies" is distributed by Lionsgate (2020).
"Sgt Stubby", an unlikely hero, got a distribution deal at (2018).
"Curpigeon" got selected to, won the AMAZON VIDEO DIRECT Film Festival Stars (2016).
"Whisper" screened at FILMQUEST (2015).
"None of That" was STAFF PICK by (2015).
through the years included:
- John Lunn, 2 times Prime Time Emmy Award Winner, composer of "Downton Abbey"
- Monica Cruz, "Un Paso Adelante"
- Olivia Sandusky, journalist, NBC
- Mark Dacascos, actor, "John Wick III"
- Samuel Arnold, actor, "Emily in Paris"
- Patrick Fabian, actor, Emmy Award Nominee “Better Caul Saul"
- Claire Kopsky, Emmy Award-winning Journalist, CBS
- Jamie Campbell, producer, "Sex Education"
- Cindy Mollo, Eddie Award Winner, 4 time Emmy nominee, editor for "Ozark"
- Rena Owen, actress, "Star Wars Ep II" & "ep. III"
- Fola Evans-Akingbola, actress, "The Night Agent", "Siren", "Game of Thrones'
- Michelle Tesoro, SXSW winner, Eddie Award Winner, editor, "The Queen’s Gambit"
- Paz de la Huerta, actress, Boardwalk Empire
- Brent Huff, director & actor "The Rookie", 'The Rookie Feds", 'The West Wing"
- Max Markson -rep. A. Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, JCVD...
- Cole Sibus, actor "Stumptown', Olympic Gold Medal Athlete
- Mina Sundwall, actress, Netflix’s “Lost in Space”, DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow”
Our line up included through the years: Kirsten Dunst, Sam Rockwell, Vladimir Cosma, Kristanna Loken, Mark Dacascos, Caterina Murino, Andrew J. West, Hugo Becker, Jansen Panettiere, Leslie Bibb, Melanie et Alain Doutey, Macarena Gomez, French Prime Minister Edith Cresson, French Minister Frederic Lefebvre, Emma Bell...
We celebrate filmmakers and we focus on the humans making the movies : each director/attendee gets to talk about his movie.
You meet new audience, screen and show your latest work, connect with fellow professionals, share your passion with screenings and special events all over the city, including red carpets, movie premieres, parties, filmmaker’s networking, numerous Q&A's, international spotlights, industry talks and masterclasses, art performances and exhibitions, live music…
AN INDEPENDENT MOVIE FESTIVAL WITH
- Awards
- Photocall
- Artistic Recognition
- Networking
- award ceremony
Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) was established in 2006. The founder and organizer is “Batumi Art-house ARGANI". BIAFF is an annual event held in second half of September in Batumi (Georgia).
Festival is focusing on art-house cinema. BIAFF festival’s major sections include - International Competition (Feature, Doc and Short sections), Retrospectives, Meet the Jury, Master Collection etc. Beside film screenings, festival program includes various workshops, master classes and industry events.
In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.
It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is insofar as it proposes an interpellation to the little-known memoirs, disturbing present and (our) future in suspension. FIDBA will then be an approach not only among audiences, filmmakers and thinkers linked documentary but also in relation to the always stimulating possibilities that allow you to open this space to other border and heterodox expressions framed inside of what we would call "non-fiction" and that encourage us to dialogue with contemporary expressions that go beyond even the scope of the film.
FIDBA will pay special attention to those filmmakers for whom cinema is linked to a form of research and knowledge of the world that surrounds us as to the portrait of human beings whose conditions of life, in certain historical and social contexts, allow you to ask us about our. It is, therefore, authors who not only reflect reality but also ethical and moral relationship which involves filming the other.
FIDBA aims to become a point of support for filmmakers seeking to widen the perception of reality and to films which represent a step forward in the effort to understand it and anticipate it. So, it will make focus on films whose aesthetic originality put at risk not only an idea of the documentary but also a thought about the same film and its possibilities. Since this focus implies questioning the status of the real front of the camera or of the film in relation to reality, this is as inseparable from the mediations that arises.
Taipei Film Commission (“the Organizer”) is holding the 14th Taipei International Golden Short Film Awards (“the Event”) to promote close communication and exchange among industry, government, and academia and to help bring the energy of innovation to the film industry. The main goal is to discover TV and film talent from Taiwan and overseas, and enhance our international outlook by cultivating new film and TV talent through competition.
The festival has been held for over twenty years in the Russian Far East.
"Amur Autumn" is one of the major cultural events in the region.
The festival features two film competitions and one theatre competition.
The two film competitions are:
– Feature-length fiction
– Short fiction
Filmmakers present their works at the festival whenever possible.
Each competition is judged by an international professional jury.
Screenings take place in a cinema, and the jury watches the films in the theater.
To participate in the festival, the film must have Russian premiere status.
The festival prize is the Amur Crane.
The Grand Prix in both competitions also includes a monetary award.
Each year, the festival receives over 1,000 submissions.
In accordance with Russian legislation, films on LGBT themes cannot be screened in the Russian Federation.
In 2024, the Indian film The Unyielding Girl won the top prize.
Other winners included films from Russia, Chile, China, Turkey, France, Kazakhstan, Iran, and Switzerland.
A total of 37 films from 21 countries participated in the competition programs.
THE AWARD CEREMONY'S HELD ON 28th DECEMBER AT DOGUS UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL WITH A WONDERFUL AUDIENCE.
Check our web site for the winners of 2023 !
Digital Film Festival Istanbul (DFFI) is an international short film festival powered by the Digital Film Academy Istanbul.
DFFI aims to honor and make visible the work of creative and talented independent filmmakers with an entrepreneurial spirit. The focus of the festival is digitally shot films with a strong story. DFII supports digital film production and viewing forms in the digitalizing cinema sector with an innovative perspective, and supports and encourages all short filmmakers who have succeeded in creating strong stories and original works shot with any equipment having a digital camera.
DFFI accepts short films of all kinds, whether small or large-scale productions, independent short films, made by students, professionals, individuals, collectives or institutions from all over the world, and is proud to celebrate the sustainability and authenticity of cinema.
The submissons will be evaluated on yearly basis and the selections will be screened physically in Istanbul. The winners will be honored with a annual ceremony in Istanbul.
La muestra forma parte de las propuestas de difusión y fomento que apuntan a la difusión de la cultura audiovisual en la región norte de la República Argentina de Wayruro Comunicación Popular y de la Red Kalipa TV, y él cuenta con el apoyo del INCAA, de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Jujuy, entre otros, y cuenta con el acompañamiento de la Red Focos, el Espacio Norte Audiovisual y CONTAR.
The International Short Film Festival of Cali, with the opening of its call, is to be a space for the exhibition of professional and university short films from the city of Cali and the world to serve as a meeting point between the new filmmakers and the professionals of the short film.
The XVII International Short Film Festival of Cali will take place from september 23 to 27 of 2025, in the city of Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
The call for the competitive categories of the festival will be open from march 20 th of 2025 and we will close the registration period at midnight of 31 th may of 2025 Colombian local time (UTC-5).
Films sent to the following categories: National Official Selection, National Official University Selection, International Official Selection and International Official University Selection must have been completed after January 15, 2024.
The results of the call for the competitive categories will be announced on the festival’s official website www.cortoscali.com by july 31 th, 2025.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
From July 8th 2025 to September 8th 2025.
Do you remember the first film you saw on the big screen when you were a child?
For thousands of Mexican children in vulnerable situations this question has no answer. This is why Churumbela Children's Film Festival was created, inviting all Mexican and Spanish-speaking children to experience cinema in an inclusive, completely playful and entertaining environment.
The 9th Churumbela Children's Film Festival will take place in a hybrid format; where some of the activities, workshops and talks with industry professionals will occur online and some others onsite including film screenings in Mexico City and Merida City, Yucatan. It brings film culture to children and their families, specially those who are in any kind of disadvantage due to economic situation, or physical disability. The Festival enhance film as an expression tool, sense of self identity and cultural enrichment through an accesible and inclusive program.
"Colourful Mosaic" is the thematic axis of this edition, as an invitation for children to discover how the use of colour evokes feelings and sensations by building different atmospheres and unravel messages in every scene. Just like an actual mosaic art piece it is made by a variety of visual narrative elements , exploring film from a creative and sensorial perspective full of symbolisms.
This 2025 Churumbela Children's Film Festival will take place in Mexico City in October and Yucatán December Friday 5 - Sunday 7, with the support of the General Office of Cultural Promotion and Festivals of the Ministry of Culture, PROFEST 2025, The Mexican TV Cultural Channel, Canal 22 and other entities and the Mexican private initiative as well as nonprofit organizations.
The 9th Churumbela Children's Film Festival promotes creativity, dialogue, the seventh art and artistic expression as tools for social transformation, and all activities are completely free of charge.
Thanks to all the support we have received, it is possible to bring cinema to all children free of charge so that they can immerse themselves in the wonderful world of filmmaking.
LIMA ALTERNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is a Peruvian film event that disseminates the best alternative, independent and auteur cinema from all over the world. It invites Lima's audience to discover the current panorama of cinema at a global level in the different filmmaking aspects that are being developed.
The Zaragoza Film Festival was born in 1995 to create a cinematographic activity in the city. In principle its main denomination was that of Young Directors. As of 2007, its official name became the Zaragoza Film Festival.
Festival with different Contests, of a general and national nature (although some of its Contests are International).
As of our silver anniversary, we are carrying out a renovation and updating of the project.
As of our 28th edition and within the Official Section of our Festival, the Short Film Contest for New Latin American Talents was born, thanks to the collaboration with the Pampa Film Commission, from Argentina.
#BNHAF Awards and Festival is an international hybrid Awards and Festival, held round-the-year across continents. Bol-News Hybrid Awards Festival is an interesting mix of
1. Gala Physical Edition - India
2. Physical Editions - Across Continents
3. Hybrid Editions - Across Continents
4. One-on-One Awardee Editions - Online available worldwide
Set-up in 2021 to celebrate all artists that created exemplary work braving Covid-19, #BNHAF is the fastest growing Awards and Festival in the world. 2023 saw the launch of International Editions with 10th Edition held in the US and Australia.
#BNHAF and its' talent platform 'Talent Ka Maha Utsav' #TKMU have more than 1-billion impressions across various social media. List of Editions successfully executed since the launch:
Inaugural edition: Physical. December 11, 2021
2nd edition: Virtual. March 12, 2022
3rd edition: Physical. May 13, 2022
4th edition: Virtual. July 6, 2022
5th edition: Virtual. September 15 to September 19, 2022
6th Edition: Physical. October 10 to October 14, 2022
7th Edition: Virtual. November 10 to November 14, 2022
8th Edition: Hybrid. December 16 to December 18, 2022
9th Edition: Physical. January 18 to January 25, 2023
10th Edition: Physical. March 17 to March 19, 2023 Inaugural INTERNATIONAL EDITION. USA and Australia
11th Edition: Hybrid. May 27 to June 2, 2023
12th Edition: Hybrid. August 4 to August 7, 2023
13th Edition: Physical. September 15 to September 19, 2023. International Edition. Austria
14th Edition: Physical. October 14 to October 17, 2023
15th Edition: Gala Physical Edition. December 15 to December 18, 2023
16th Edition: Hybrid. January 31 to February 3, 2024
17th Edition: Physical. March 27 to March 30, 2024
18th Edition and 19th Edition: Physical. International Editions. 1st conjoined editions: month-long celebration of art and talent, held in the US, France and Switzerland from April 24 to May 24, 2024. Launch of #BNHAF Film Club.
20th Edition: Physical. June 15 to June 18, 2024
Notable AWARDEES @ #BNHAF and Talent Ka Maha Utsav:
Nyra Banerjee l Indian Actress. Flora Saini l Indian Actress. Phoebe Kemi l Actress and Model based in NYC walked the 'Big-4' NYFW, Paris Fashion Week, London Fashion Week, Milan Fashion week. Dorotea Saykaly l Multi-award winning dancer, choreographer and actress. Mekha Rajan l Indian Actress. Priyasha Bhardwaj l Indian Actress. Varsha Rajkhowa Miss Scuba International 2016. Jyoti Guptara, Published Author l Counted as '100 most important Swiss'. Pratham Khurana, director of 'Nauha', Official Selection at 75th Cannes Film Festival in La Cinef section
#BNHAF awards in the categories of film, media, entertainment and fashion.
Though health-care, hospitality, leisure, law, architecture, any other sector where a person has worked for societal significance can self-nominate themselves.
#BNHAF Showcase (Priced at US$ 5000) is an Exclusive Premier-Category for any film-maker or an artist to showcase their film, art or work:
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5. FREE non-exclusive representation at Marche du Film, Cannes Film Festival
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https://boxofficeworldwide.com/movies-latest-news/bnhaf-bol-news-hybrid-art-awards-festival-inaugural-edition-premieres-a-bouquet-of-cutting-edge-films/
https://localpostit.com/2023/01/19/grand-ceremony-of-9th-bnhaf-awards-festival/
https://9newsnetwork.in/3007
https://www.indianfilmhistory.com/news-articles/bnhaf-awards-and-festival-goes-big-with-the-8th-edition-celebrating-excellence-1
The Zaragoza Film Festival, founded in 1995 to create a cinematic activity in the city. At first his main title was the Young Filmmakers. Since 2007 its official name became the Zaragoza Film Festival.
Festival with various events, generalist and national character (although some of its events are international).
Starting in 2021, after celebrating the 25th edition of the Festival, we propose an evolution of the project.
Nambrocorto is the short film festival of Nambroca, a town located in the province of Toledo, Spain. Since its creation in 2016, its main goal has been to promote artistic creation, audiovisual culture, and a love for cinema among the town’s residents and visitors, by rewarding the creativity and talent of those who participate each year in its call for entries.
What began as a local festival has evolved, thanks to the enthusiasm of the audience and the commitment of its organizers, into a cultural event with great potential. Over its nine previous editions, Nambrocorto has experienced exponential growth in the number of participants, attendees, and activities, becoming a regional reference.
In its 10th edition in 2025, the festival reaffirms its role as a cultural event of regional and national scope, consolidating its expanded format with several days of screenings, workshops, talks, exhibitions, concerts, and interactive activities aimed at all audiences. Audiovisual professionals from all over Spain will once again share their experiences with the community in a participatory and welcoming environment.
Since launching its official website and digital channels in 2021, Nambrocorto has entered a new phase of expansion and visibility. These tools have allowed the festival to broaden its reach nationwide, with the aspiration of soon welcoming international participants.
Workshops, forums, educational activities, artistic showcases, social impact, and digital outreach are at the heart of this tenth edition, reaffirming Nambrocorto as a gathering place for emerging talent and quality cinema—while staying rooted in its community.
