The Earth Film Festival – EFF is an international celebration of cinema at the convergence of art, activism, and environmental awareness, with a focus on innovation and sustainability. Held in the heart of the Amazon, the festival aims to serve as a creative platform to amplify urgent climate narratives, inspiring new perspectives and solutions to global socio-environmental challenges.
More than just an event, the Earth Film Festival – EFF is a cultural and educational movement that:
-It is aligned with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Celebrates visionary filmmakers who challenge paradigms and propose sustainable futures;
- Showcases short and feature films, documentaries, animations, and experimental formats;
- Prioritizes originality, thematic relevance, and emotional impact;
- Connects audiences and communities through panels, workshops, and immersive experiences.
THEME
17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The inaugural edition of the Earth Film Festival (EFF) is centered on the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — a global pact to build a fairer, more inclusive, and environmentally balanced future. To submit your film, it is mandatory to select* in the application form one or more of the 17 SDGs that your film addresses, creatively exploring topics such as poverty eradication, gender equality, climate action, protection of life below water and on land, responsible consumption and production, among others.
* To select one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that your film addresses, you must indicate your choice in the submission form available at https://bienalamazonia.org/earth-film-festival.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
1. No Poverty – End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
2. Zero Hunger – End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
3. Good Health and Well-being – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
4. Quality Education – Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
5. Gender Equality – Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
6. Clean Water and Sanitation – Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
7. Affordable and Clean Energy – Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth – Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure – Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
10. Reduced Inequalities – Reduce inequality within and among countries.
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities – Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
12. Responsible Consumption and Production – Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
13. Climate Action – Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
14. Life Below Water – Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
15. Life on Land – Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.
16. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions – Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
17. Partnerships for the Goals – Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
EVENTS HIGHLIGHTS
- Official Screenings: 10 finalist films presented in different cities and streamed live to audiences worldwide.
- Expo Pavilion: Showcase of climate technologies, green innovations, and sustainable art.
- Keynote Lecture: Dr. Louis Ventura, Ph.D. – Economist and Cultural Strategist.
- Awards Ceremony: Live in Belém during COP30.
- Community Showcase: Programming dedicated to students, teachers, and grassroots leaders.
- Post-Event in New York (2026): Special screening and networking session with international stakeholders.
ATTENTION:
To submit your film to the Earth Film Festival, you must complete two steps: first, register through the Festhome platform; then, fill out the submission form at the link: https://institutobienalamazonia.org/earth-film-festival/
#VIEWCONFERENCE is the premiere International event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, Animation, VR/AR, Games, VFX and immersive storytelling.
VIEW CONFERENCE è un evento internazionale a cadenza annuale incentrato sulla computer grafica, le tecniche interattive, il cinema digitale, l’animazione, i videogiochi, gli effetti visivi, Realta' Virtuale e aumentata e storytelling immersivo.
1) VIEW AWARD: First Prize is 2000 Euros
2) ITALIANMIX: First Prize is a RenderMan license
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Main Program (International competition), which will regularly feature films from all over the world from among a director’s first and second feature films. The idea is to promote new filmmakers who are making a debut or are only just starting their careers.
This program’s goal is to identify and promote relatively unknown filmmakers’ new film stories, giving them a chance at the beginning of their film careers.
The idea for this film festival emanated from the dire need for a wider space to present debut films by many new filmmakers from the region and all over the world.
The International Film Festival KineNova Skopje, therefore, includes activities such as promotion, support, incentives, exchange of experiences, and film awards. It is a venue for new filmmakers to showcase new stories and offer a fresh perspective of humanity and the world we live in.
The festival and the city of Skopje have the honor to be the meeting point for new filmmakers and a springboard for their respective career paths.
Algeciras Fantástika is a multidisciplinary cultural event specialized in matters of fantastic nature, suspense, terror and science fiction, organized by Algeciras City Council and the University of Cadiz.
The Visual Anthropology Laboratory “Fiorenzo Serra” - the operational headquarters in Sassari of the Cagliari Cultural Services Center of the Humanitarian Society - Cineteca Sarda (hereinafter called “Cineteca”) relating to the Department of History, Human and Educational Sciences of the University of
Sassari (hereinafter called “Department”) as part of the project to enhance the figure of the filmmaker and ethnologist Fiorenzo Serra, he is announcing the competition for ethnographic film productions, named Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival, for the year 2025.
The theme of this eighth edition of the competition for the section “Fiorenzo Serra” is “MASKS, BEYOND THE HUMAN, RITES AND ETHNOGRAPHIC TRADITIONS”
In this third edition of the International Diverse Film Festival, we pay tribute to the deep roots and unstoppable strength of the Trans community, using the yellow oak and the purple oak—two iconic trees of Barranquilla—as our emblem. Like our stories, they resist and flourish even in the harshest terrains.
Each story, though considered “basic” by others, is a vital seed for our cinema and our collective memory. Every trans narrative deserves its space, its light, its recognition. This year, our roots intertwine with the hope for a Comprehensive Trans Law and with the urgent call for justice, visibility, and dignity.
The festival is a garden of voices—of necessary stories—where each film is a new sprout that challenges the norm and beautifies our social and cultural landscape.
accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival welcomes films and filmmakers from all over the world, to share the art of independent short films with the local audience, to entertain and enlighten festival attendees, to provide filmmakers the opportunity for professional networking and development, and to encourage cultural tourism and film industry development in Naples and the surrounding area in Campania.
accordi @ DISACCORDI (Consonances and Dissonances) is an audience-friendly festival that focuses on quality programming of all genres of seventh art from comedy to drama, animation to documentary, and art to experimental movies. In addition to the film program, attendees can enjoy talks, Q&As, laboratories, workshops, exhibitions, seminars and conferences; the entrance to cultural events is free of charge. We want to give a heightened sense of the experience to all who participate and attend.
International Short Film Festival celebrates its 22nd anniversary on November 3-9, 2025.
Submit your film to be in with a chance of screening at our International Short Film Festival and this could be your chance to win a nice acrylic or wooden plaque!
A short film festival that will take you by surprise. Cross the green carpet... Win the Brame du Cerf! - Submit your short film of 15 minutes maximum. The theme "Metamorphoses", Propose fictions, documentaries, animations, the subject of which provides a look at all forms of initiatives and actions that everyone, as a citizen, or organization can undertake to contribute to make our societies more sustainable, in terms of the environment and also living together.
The Chevreuse Valley Film Festival is a short film competition organized by the ALC. The 2025 theme of films to be presented at the FFVC is “METAMORPHOSES”.
A selection of around 20 films will be publicly broadcast during a screening at the FFVC on October 18, 2025. The finalists will be able to win one of the following prizes: Screenplay Prize, Directing Prize, Animation Prize, Female Actor Prize, Best Actor Prize, Male Interpretation, Audience Prize, Jury Prize (“Brâme du Cerf”), Youth Prize.
Emergente! Designed for up-and-coming creators from Spain and Latin America with fiction, documentary, animation, or experimental projects in development, it aims to become a vibrant meeting point for new producers and storytellers. Its mission is to showcase emerging Spanish-speaking talent to the world and boost the international short film industry through development, financing, and co-production opportunities.
Salut! We are MONTIFF • Montpellier Indie Film Festival, an international film festival with screening events in enchanting Montpellier, France, and a member of IBERIFF • Iberia Indie Film Festivals. IBERIFF celebrates independent artists and showcases new productions from across the globe in Montpellier (MONTIFF), Madrid (MADRIFF), Barcelona (BARCIFF), València (VALÈIFF), Seville (SEVIFF) and Lisbon (LISBIFF).
MONTIFF shares the mission of its associate festivals in supporting emerging talents, encouraging artistic exploration, fostering networking, promoting cultural exchange, engaging with the local community, and providing a platform to celebrate and showcase the work of independent filmmakers.
Fiction, animation, documentary, and experimental films of any genre or subject are welcome!
During the month of November, the Anfibia Festival turns Madrid into the capital for discovering new narratives and explores the creative potential of adaptation.
#AnfibiaFest is a space for connecting audiences with new creative universes and diverse and diverse origin formats.
The registration period for audiovisual works will be open from August 21 to September 18, 2025. Fiction or non-fiction audiovisual works, series, and animations adapted from any narrative format—such as novels, graphic novels, illustrated works, stage plays, video games, journalistic reports, digital content, or other narrative media—are eligible to participate.
The fourth edition of the Anfibia Festival will take place in November 2025 in Madrid.
¡Hola! We are VALÈIFF • València Indie Film Festival, an international film festival with quarterly screening events in València - Spain, and member of the IBERIFF • Iberia Indie Film Festivals, which celebrates and showcases new productions and independent artists from all over the world in Madrid (MADRIFF), Barcelona (BARCIFF), València (VALÈIFF), Seville (SEVIFF), Lisbon (LISBIFF) and Montpellier (MONTIFF), that you can also find them here, in Festhome!
VALÈIFF shares the mission of its associate festivals of supporting emerging talents, encouraging artistic exploration, fostering networking, promoting cultural exchange and engaging the local community by providing a platform to present the work of independent filmmakers.
Fiction films, animation, documentary and experimental works of any genre and subject are welcome!
HELLÍN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL,
with this V edition, it becomes a cultural consolidation in the Spanish cinematographic universe. A festival that brings together not only cinema, during November 15 and 21, Hellín will host personalities from the world of cinema, training courses, conferences, location routes, concerts, wine tastings, galas, and etc.
Welcome to FECHE.
The topic of the work will be the violence of gender, in any of its manifestations, its prevention and sensitization against it, being able to present documentaries and short films of plot fiction.
The jury will have special consideration for those works that address this issue by focusing on the youth world.
The festival champions great films but is particularly seeking work from those filmmakers who might not yet have had a prestigious public screening of their work.
Screening in the heart of London UKFF welcomes films of all types from all over the World - connecting up-and-coming filmmakers with more established names such as Judi Dench, Dustin Hoffman, James Corden, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Steven Berkoff and most recently Willem Dafoe.
Category awards are given for Best Feature Film; Best Feature Documentary; Best Short Documentary; Best Animation; Best Music Video; Best British Short; Best International Short; Best Student Film; as well as special awards for excellence.
Mat Kirkby, Oscar Winner and Director at Ridley Scott Associates states that "The UK Film Festival is the most focused, passionate and quality driven film festival in the UK. Their invaluable support helped get me to the Oscars in 2015, where I won the Academy Award for best short film."
With a programme that showcases new talent alongside established directors, filmmakers and actors UKFF is a lively networking hub. Over the last 7 years UKFF has quickly become a career stepping stone, establishing a tradition of discovering and promoting films which have gone on to be Oscar and BAFTA nominees and winners. The script competitions have also made a big impact - five scripts have been optioned and three have been produced and gone on to win multiple awards and gained prestigious worldwide distribution deals.
Led by a jury of well respected professional filmmakers and as a member of Universal Films and Festivals Organisation we ensure a fair selection and judging process.
Our exciting screening events have created a networking hub that continues to connect new filmmakers to industry including television exposure by leading British broadcaster, Channel 4.
Kumar Aadarsh, founder and Ashok Khullar, President, welcome you to the UVT Standalone Film Festival & Awards (UVTsffa). This is a unique kind of film festival for independent filmmakers/content creators where there are no barriers to borders, languages, genres, etc. Based in California, USA, this festival is having an online Award Nomination Festival, live screenings, and Standalone Award Show in Los Angeles.
SFFA is consolidating filmmakers around the world for a wonderful presentation of cinematography and the unveiling of new talents. A committee comprising members from the film industry preview submitted films and select good works of motion pictures for the Award Nomination Festival.
The selected films participate in The Awards nomination Festival which is held for 4 months between Dec-March.
Films screen through this secure server screener where visitors and guests from around the world can witness and vote for the film. On the basis of viewers' choice and votes, films nominated for 42 categories of Awards which screen live in Hollywood and to honor filmmakers, actors, technicians at The UVT Standalone Awards Show in Los Angeles on the Last day of live screenings.
Theatre venue is in the heart of Hollywood. We will screen all nominated films here as well as look forward to create year-round screening, filmmaking, and writing opportunities and to that end we are launching new festivals as part of the UVT Standalone Film Festival & Awards.
UVT SFFA Submissions are for feature narratives, Short films, Shows, Series, documentaries, and animation as even experimental films and music videos.
The Hon. City Council of Doña Mencía, through its Departments of Youth and Tourism, together with the “Cinema and Rural Environments” Association, and with the sponsorship of the Regional Government of Andalusia and the Provincial Council of Córdoba, hereby announces the rules and guidelines for the 1st Edition of the Doña Mencía Short Film Contest, “MENCITOPÍA”.
Yecla en Corto is a film festival dedicated to showcasing short films as a platform for social reflection and youth engagement. With a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, the festival seeks to highlight fresh voices and support filmmakers who explore human and social issues through a young and innovative lens.
The Kampala Slum Mobile Cinema Outreach is a dynamic project aimed at bringing entertainment, education, and cultural exchange opportunities to underserved communities in Uganda.
Currently, operating in 2 slums in Entebbe and 3 slums in Kampala, our custom-designed Mobile Cinema Truck equipped with high-quality projection equipment and a sound system serves as the centerpiece for our activities.
Our main project activities include 50 Free open-air film screenings (documentaries, fiction films, and shorts), all centered around human rights-related themes relevant to the residents of the slums.
Following each screening, we facilitate engaging debates and discussions to encourage dialogue and community participation, serve to empower individuals with knowledge and advocacy tools, amplifying the voices, and fostering dialogue in marginalized groups for a more equitable and inclusive society where rights are respected and upheld.
