15. Mittleres internationales Filmfestival LA CABINA, das zwischen dem 8. und 18. November 2022 in València (Spanien) stattfindet.
Das 11. Bangalore Shorts Film Festival-22 ist eine Bewegung, um die Arbeit junger und erfahrener Filmemacher aus ganz Indien und der Welt zu erkennen und zu popularisieren. Die bescheidene Reise von BSFF hat im Jahr 2012 begonnen, um die 100-jährige Feier des indischen Kinos zu feiern und den Beitrag der Kannada-Filmindustrie zur Entwicklung des Kinos in Indien zu begrüßen. Das Festival bietet aufstrebenden und professionellen Filmemachern eine Plattform, um ihr Talent mit Networking- und Marketingmöglichkeiten in der Filmindustrie zu präsentieren.
Ziel des Festivals ist es, Kurzfilmkultur in Indien zu schaffen, kommende Filmemacher zu fördern, Einnahmequellen für Kurzfilme zu entwickeln und Kurzfilme zu einem kommerziellen Unternehmen zu machen. Die BSFF-2012-2021 war großer Erfolg mit großer Beteiligung von Filmemachern aus dem ganzen Land und Ausland.
Ziel der BSFF-22 ist es, mit der Teilnahme von Filmemachern noch größer und besser zu sein. In diesem Jahr wird das Festival weitere Workshops und Meisterkurse vorstellen. Der Miniboxoffice Film Market wird das Highlight für jene Filmemacher sein, die sich in die Spielfilmproduktion wagen wollen. Der Kurzfilm-Wettbewerb und das Festivalprogramm werden die Freude sein, es zu behandeln.
Das Malta Short Film Festival ist jetzt in seinem 13. Jahr, und es wird von einer Jury urteilt. Dadurch können Filmemacher und Zuschauer den Produktionswert jedes Eintrags und seine Fähigkeit, mit dem Publikum zu kommunizieren, verstehen
Das abschließende Programm besteht aus einer Preisverleihung.
Festival hat ein breites Publikum, 30.000 +
Montecatini Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, promosso dalla Federazione Italiana Cineclub (Fedic), con le sue 68 edizioni è uno dei festival di cortometraggi più longevi in Europa.
All'inizio, era principalmente destinato alle opere nazionali, ma a partire dagli anni '90, quando il concorso Nazionale spostato in un'altra piccola città della Toscana, San Giovanni Valdarno, Montecatini si è affermata come vetrina di riferimento a livello internazionale, desiderosa di presentare un panorama di nuove produzioni incentrate su diversi generi e tendenze.
L'obiettivo principale del Montecatini Festival Internazionale del Cortometraggio è quello di dare una visione completa del corto nel panorama cinematografico internazionale, nella sua estensione più ampia, puntando sempre alla qualità dei film e non all'aspetto glamour offrendo una bellissima Lage in Toscana dove discutere e magari trovare collegamenti per lavori futuri.
Ogni anno il Presidente della Repubblica italiana concede la sua adesione e la sua medaglia al Festival Internazionale del Cortometraggio di Montecatini.
Ultimo ma non meno importante: registi come Franco Piavoli e Nanni Moretti sono da segnalare tra i registi emergenti nei primi 60er Jahre a Montecatini International Short Film Festival.
Since 2003 the international Festival SIGNES DE NUIT is active in Paris, Berlin, Saarbrücken and with special screenings world wide. The festival in Paris actually presents around 300 films coming from around 50 countries at different places in Paris. In Berlin the festival will be performed in the legendary cinema Babylon.
The International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT based in Paris is made up of films, which reflects new views, original imagery and critical approach to the crucial points of the modern human existence. It is a place for cinema that expands its own boundaries, that is astonishing, different, potentially free from the pressure of tradition, ready to give itself to the unpredictable experimentation.
The minor costs of digital production makes an independant- from comercial influences and any kind of censorship- production possible. These independant productions create an alternative, an artistic space very subtle and accessible to all, in contrast to what mass media offer.
This opposition and the preservation of the free cultural space is the goal of the International Festival Signes de Nuit, which has realized screenings and interventions in 29 different countries including Algeria, Australia, Chile, Cuba, Lebanon, Lithuania, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Peru, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States beside the screenings in main festival in Paris.
The nominated director (producer, or another designated representative from the production team) will be invited to Washington, DC to attend a 4-day festival and other related activities including a post-screening Q&A with the audience and filmmakers’ forum and discussion panel. The festival committee will provide accommodation and food subsidies for the duration of DCCFF to the best of its ability. Finalists are independently responsible for obtaining a visa for travel to the U.S. and travel insurance.
2nd edition
Aug 04 - Sep 12, 2014
München, Germany
Open Call Open to Public Competitive Market Special Fees
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Any type, Animation, Docu-feature, Documentary, Experimental, Hybrids, Industrial, Multimedia, Narrative fiction, Student, Web
Film length Full length, Mid-length, Short
Genre Adventure, Alternative, Art, Avantgarde, B-Movie, Biography, Burlesque, Classics, Comedy, Crime, Culture, Dance, Dark comedy, Drama, Environmental, Fantastic, Fantasy, Film noir, Hip Hop, History, Horror, Human rights, Independent, LGBT, Live Action, Microcinema, Mockumentary, Musical, Mystery, , Parody, Post modern, Realism, Reality, Road Trip, Romance, Science fiction, Silent movie, Surreal, Transgender, Underground, Urban
Mission / description MUFF:
The Munich Underground Film Festival, MUFF began in December 2012, when two college friends Heike Mohler & Erika Rahner, decided to organize a totally independent festival in Munich and the two organizers had internet creativity and only then decided to put together a team of friends and some German filmmaker and made MUFF first in 2013, totally haphazardly and rebellious spirit that caused controversy and some processes. The festival takes place every year. Through the festival's official website, online, group discussion and interaction among participants. Through the controversies that hovered the festival, the impact was so great that several support and partnerships were closed with the festival organization. The MUFF is consolidated in the second edition as one of the most respected underground film festivals in Europe.
Die Ayerbe Film Festival Association startet diese zweite Phase des „Villa de Ayerbe International Short Film Festival“.
Seit der 18. Ausgabe wollen wir dem Festival mit neuen Mitgliedern in der Organisation einen großen Schub geben. Zusätzlich zum internationalen Wettbewerb haben wir einen neuen Bereich für Wissenschaft und Forschung eingerichtet, um der Veranstaltung mehr Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken. Ab dieser Ausgabe heißen die Auszeichnungen nun „CAJAL Awards“.
Wir wollen die Idee der Zusammenarbeit mit Nachbarstädten fortsetzen.
Diese Zusammenarbeit wird auf folgende Weise durchgeführt: Alle ausgewählten Kurzfilme können gleichzeitig mit der Entwicklung des Festivals vor Ort gezeigt werden. Ihre Stimmen dienen der Vergabe des Publikumspreises.
Regierungsorganisationen und das weltweit erste Festival für Filme junger Regisseure über internationale Entwicklung.
Ziele des Festivals
Ermutigen Sie Filmemacher/Kreative, zusammenzuarbeiten, um das Bewusstsein für die Drei Säulen der Freiheit zu schärfen, indem Filme zu diesen Themen gezeigt werden.
Die drei Säulen von Freiheit und Umwelt
* Freiheit von Not: Durch die Erreichung der UN-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung
* Freiheit von Angst: Durch Bemühungen um kollektive Sicherheit und Frieden.
* Freiheit, in Würde zu leben: Durch die Anwendung von Gerechtigkeit für alle gemäß der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte.
Entwicklung: Armut, Obdach, Gesundheitswesen, Bildung, Gender, Regierungsführung, Finanzen
Menschliche Sicherheit: Konfliktprävention, Konfliktlösung, Friedenssicherung, Obdach, Migration
Menschenrechte: Gender, Bildung, Würde, Partizipation
Umwelt: ökologische Fragen, Vorbereitung auf und Folgen von Naturkatastrophen, Nachhaltigkeit, neue Technologien
Kurzfilme: einer der oben genannten
Junge Filmemacher: unter 25 Jahren
IMAGINARIA ist das erste und einzige internationale Animationsfilmfestival der Region Apulien.
In seiner Geschichte ist Imaginaria enorm gewachsen und hat eine wichtige künstlerische und gesellschaftliche Position im internationalen Festivalsektor erworben.
Festival der „Menschen und Orte“, Imaginaria schafft es, eine familiäre Atmosphäre unter der Öffentlichkeit und Profis, die in Open-Air-Kinos von Conversano kommen zu schaffen. Imaginaria, die durch die Bedeutung von „Zahlen“ und die ausgezeichnete Qualität von Tausenden von Werken von internationalem Rang gekennzeichnet ist, ist ein Projekt zur Förderung, Verbreitung, Filmausbildung, das darauf abzielt, die unabhängigen Autoren von Animationsfilmen zu fördern. Imaginaria beabsichtigt, in einer langfristigen Perspektive alle möglichen Synergien in der Gemeinschaft auszulösen, die dazu beitragen, sozioökonomische Chancen in der Region zu schaffen und gleichzeitig die Kultur der Animation zu fördern. Das Festival ist daher ein Projekt, das darauf abzielt, die Nutzung und das Wissen von Animationsfilmen nicht nur während der Veranstaltung zu verbreiten, die jedes Jahr in Conversano stattfindet, sondern auch an Orten und Zeiten des Jahres mit verschiedenen Netzwerken, bestehend aus anderen Festivals und Ausstellungen (national und international), zu denen Imaginaria beteiligt sich oder die es ist der Veranstalter.
Das 35. Internationale Festival Message to Man für Dokumentar-, Kurzspiel-, Animations- und Experimentalfilme findet vom 17. bis 25. Oktober 2025 in St. Petersburg, Russland, statt.
Im Laufe der Jahre hat das Festival herausragende Persönlichkeiten des Weltkinos empfangen, darunter Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Claude Lanzmann, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Paolo Sorrentino, Alan Berliner, Eric Roberts, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abdellatif Kechiche, Udo Kier und viele andere.
Message to Man blickt auf drei Jahrzehnte der Kinoentwicklung zurück und wurde 1989 in Leningrad vom Filmemacher Mikhail Litvyakov gegründet, der heute als Ehrenpräsident des Festivals fungiert.
2010 übernahm Alexei Uchitel, ein renommierter Regisseur von Dokumentar- und Spielfilmen, die Rolle des Präsidenten des Festivals.
Das Festivalprogramm umfasst drei Wettbewerbe: internationale, nationale und experimentelle Wettbewerbe. Sie bieten sowohl Langfilmen als auch Kurzfilmen eine Plattform, um um den Grand Prix des Festivals zu konkurrieren. Message to Man zieht jedes Jahr Tausende von Kinoliebhabern nach St. Petersburg.
Im Jahr 2024 zog das Festival über 10.000 Zuschauer an, und in seinen Wettbewerben und Programmen außerhalb des Wettbewerbs waren rund 200 Filme aus der ganzen Welt zu sehen.
„Das Festivalteam war angenehm überrascht vom Erfolg der Message to Man im letzten Jahr. Es ist nicht nötig, offenkundig zu machen, dass wir in jeder Hinsicht in einer herausfordernden Zeit leben. Das Kino hat als verbindende Sprache und als Möglichkeit, aufeinander zuzugehen, zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen.
Wir glauben, dass dies der Grund war, warum das Festival so viele Zuschauer anzog. Als sich die Leute also bemühten, Tickets für die Vorführungen zu bekommen, war das, ehrlich gesagt, sehr herzerwärmend und wichtig. Es ging nicht nur um die ausverkauften Tickets, sondern auch um Solidarität.
Unser Team ist der festen Überzeugung, dass gutes Kino immer eine Einladung an die Menschheit ist „, sagt Mikhail Ratgauz, Programmdirektor des Message to Man Film Festivals.
The Balkan Film Food Festival is not a festival only about Food and Culinary. The Balkan Film Food Festival is about Balkan Film Production. The Festival intent is to create a climate of understanding of friendship and collaborations among Balkan countries. All guests sit on a common table and taste our common Balkan culinary drink the same wine.
Cuisine is part of this event and it aims at having better friendly contacts among the participants.
Learn more at http://www.miragefilmfest.com
Film Competition Categories
FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS
The Festival welcomes submissions for feature films in narrative and documentary categories. All selected features will participate in the festival’s MAIN EVENT competition. Entering all films into the MAIN EVENT puts everyone on an even playing field in the completion and recognizes the best from across all different styles and genres in the independent film community. In addition, Mirage Film Festival offers several competitive sub-categories designed specifically to recognize excellence within various genres and help promote the various styles, methods and techniques that populate the ever expanding world of cinema.
Main Event - main competition program for all eligible feature-length films
Darkest Before the Dawn - dedicated to showcasing feature length genre films
Cinema Mavericks - feature-length films with budgets less than $1.5 million USD
Newcomer - available exclusively for first-time, feature-length directors.
WorldCine - feature-length films which were financed and filmed outside of North America
The Dockect - non-fiction feature-length documentary films
SHORT-LENGTH FILMS
The Festival offers a robust competition program for short films, divided into institutional and non-institutional categories.
Institute Of Cinema - highlighting the very best in student produced short films
School Of Hard Takes - giving independently produced short films a voice of their own
NEW MEDIA MARVELS - NEW MEDIA/WEBISODE COMPETITION
New Media Marvels is designed to recognize and reward exceptional work in the expanding new media landscape. With the increasing number of success stories of TV series, films and documentaries being developed and produced based on new media content, the Festival's New Media Marvels program provides a solid forum for these new age filmmakers to showcase their stories and network with distributors, producers and industry executives.
Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) is an award winning organization with its mission being to foster appreciation for different cultures by exploring the lives of people around the globe through independent film. In 2014 AIFF was awarded the Community Recognition Award by the Arlington Martin Luther King Committee, in 2013 the Alan McClennen Community Arts Award by the Arlington Center for the Arts and the Gold Star Award by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Through the founding of AIFF, the mission has also focused on enriching the community and broadening the view of our world and ourselves. AIFF believes that the arts are here to connect us, to communicate across boundaries, and touch our common humanity.
AIFF is open to national and international filmmakers. Whether professional or a first time filmmaker, we welcome innovative, original films with unique perspectives. Many of our selected films have been nominated for Academy Awards; i.e. BOTSO: The Teacher from Tbillisi directed by Tom Walters, Elena directed by Petra Costa, and Documented directed by Jose Antonio Vargas. We Still Live Here directed by Anne Makepeace was chosen by the U.S. State Department to screen around the world.
The year 2015 by can be easily termed as the ‘year of intolerance ‘in Indian socio-political and cultural milieu. This was coming all the way from the time the right wing party was voted to rule the country. It began with re-writing Indian history and text books for schools, colleges and academic institutions, running down Gandhiji, the architect of free India as also the free thinkers, eliminating rationalist, outspoken intellectuals and scholars, isolating artists and film makers, taking control of Central Board of Film Certification by forcing the eminent men and women constituted that body to resign en-mass. The right wing people have taken charge of all public art and cultural organizations.
People from the minority communities have been lynched and killed for suspecting to have eaten beef. Cow slaughter has been banned in states like Maharashtra taking away food from the tables of minority communities as well as daliths and increasing the burden on the farmers already bending backward with debt and are committing suicide. Those who protested the beef ban have been beaten up in Kashmir, in Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi. When the public very clearly understood that the general response of the government to these problems were dismissive as something that is done by antisocial elements people began to take action. The prominent scholars, writers, poets, actors, film makers and theatre personalities started returning the awards they received from the government. There were protests across the country, from politicians and eminent citizens.
Another aspect of this intolerance is manifested in witch hunting NGOs like Green Peace for very prominently taking up environmental issues and challenging the implementation of economic projects without proper environmental impact assessment. Those NGOs on the hit list of the government is harassed in every possible ways including cancelling their FCRA numbers and freezing their accounts. Fortunately so far the justice system was very fair in their judgments which has given much relief to the NGOs under the government scanner. Generally NGOs these days are seen by the politicians as people ‘against development’.
These very arrogant postures of the government was downsized by the people of India through democratic resurgence. First they lost a very high pitched assembly election in Delhi to Aam Admi Party and later in another high pitched assembly election in Bihar the right wing lost to an alliance of democratic forces represented by Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar the local leaders. In all these instances the media was very pro-establishment. Were they too scared to investigate issues and inform the public?! While we hope that the people will elect democratic and secular parties in the Assembly elections happening now in April/May 2016,we need to nurture grass root level democratic practices which is one of the major objective of the festival. Whatever work we are engaged in now is from a very diminished public sphere. We do not know what the future holds for us but for now we belong to the breed of marginal citizens of this country.
As for our experience in this specific field is concerned, Bangalore Film Society was the South India coordinator of Tri-continental Film Festival "Human Rights in Frames from 2007 to 2009 organised by an NGO called Breakthrough. An average 5000 to 6000 people used to attend this festival in Bangalore in three days and the event had become very popular. Apart from this, we used to take these films to academic institutions as well as film societies in all South Indian States. However, the tricontinental film festival closed after 2009 and at present to the best of my knowledge we don't have a human rights film festival of that magnitude.
In the present Indian context, Bangalore Film Society wish to start an International Human Rights Traveling film festival from December 7th to 10th or from 9th to the 12th 2016 (depending on the availability of the auditorium) and organise a conference on freedom of speech and the right to dissent. The films selected will address major international human rights concerns such as refugees, lgbt sexuality, boarders, women, socio-political conflict, communal conflicts, child labour/abuse and so on The emphasis on the impact it should create. Once the festival is over these films will be circulated for screenings in educational, media institutions and film societies across India.
VERANSTALTER
Der Kulturverein Time & Memory organisiert die dreizehnte Ausgabe des Kurzfilmfestivals „SHORT TO SOUTH“, das vom 21. bis 22. Juni 2025 in Polla (SA), ITALIEN, im Auditorium „Holy Nicolicchio“ stattfindet.
