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.
L'Association du festival du film d'Ayerbe lance cette deuxième étape du « Festival international du court métrage de Villa de Ayerbe ».
Depuis la 18e édition, avec de nouveaux membres dans l'organisation, nous voulons donner un grand coup de pouce au festival. Outre le concours international, nous avons créé une nouvelle section dédiée à la science et à la recherche afin de donner une plus grande visibilité à l'événement. À partir de cette édition, les prix sont désormais appelés « CAJAL Awards ».
Nous voulons poursuivre l'idée de collaboration avec les villes voisines.
Cette collaboration s'effectue de la manière suivante : tous les courts métrages sélectionnés peuvent être projetés localement en collaboration avec le développement du Festival et leurs votes serviront à attribuer le prix du public.
Des organisations gouvernementales et le premier festival mondial de films sur le développement international réalisés par de jeunes réalisateurs.
Objectifs du festival
Encouragez les cinéastes et les créatifs à travailler ensemble pour faire connaître les trois piliers de la liberté en projetant des films créés autour de ces thèmes.
Les trois piliers de la liberté et de l'environnement
* Vivre à l'abri du besoin : grâce à la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable des Nations Unies
* Vivre à l'abri de la peur : grâce à des efforts visant à instaurer la sécurité et la paix collectives.
* Liberté de vivre dans la dignité : grâce à l'application de la justice pour tous, conformément à la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme.
Développement : pauvreté, logement, soins de santé, éducation, genre, gouvernance, finances
Sécurité humaine : prévention des conflits, résolution des conflits, maintien de la paix, logement, migration
Droits de l'homme : genre, éducation, dignité, participation
Environnement : problèmes écologiques, préparation aux catastrophes naturelles et conséquences de celles-ci, durabilité, nouvelles technologies
Courts métrages : n'importe lequel des films ci-dessus
Jeunes cinéastes : moins de 25 ans
IMAGINARIA est le premier et unique festival international de films d'animation de la région des Pouilles.
Dans son histoire, Imaginaria a connu une croissance considérable, gagnant une position artistique et sociale importante dans le secteur des festivals internationaux.
Festival de « personnes et lieux », Imaginaria parvient à créer une atmosphère familiale parmi le public et les professionnels qui viennent dans les cinémas en plein air de Conversano. Imaginaria, qui se caractérise par l'importance des « nombres » et l'excellente qualité de milliers d'œuvres de renommée internationale, est un projet de promotion, de diffusion, de formation cinématographique, qui vise à promouvoir les auteurs indépendants de films d'animation. Imaginaria entend déclencher, dans une perspective à long terme, toutes les synergies possibles au sein de la communauté contribuant à créer des opportunités socio-économiques dans la région tout en favorisant la culture de l'animation. Le festival, par conséquent, est un projet qui vise à diffuser l'utilisation et la connaissance des films d'animation non seulement pendant l'événement, tenu chaque année à Conversano, mais aussi dans les lieux et les moments de l'année en utilisant différents réseaux, composés d'autres festivals et expositions (nationaux et internationaux) auxquels Imaginaria participe ou dont il est le promoteur.
Le 35e festival international Message to Man de documentaires, de courts métrages de fiction, d'animation et de films expérimentaux aura lieu du 17 au 25 octobre 2025 à Saint-Pétersbourg, en Russie.
Au fil des ans, le Festival a accueilli de grandes figures du cinéma mondial, dont 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 et bien d'autres.
Fort d'une histoire de trente ans de développement du cinéma, Message to Man a été fondé en 1989 à Leningrad par le cinéaste Mikhail Litvyakov, qui est aujourd'hui président honoraire du festival.
En 2010, Alexei Uchitel, célèbre réalisateur de documentaires et de longs métrages, a assumé le rôle de président du festival.
Le programme du Festival s'articule autour de trois compétitions : internationale, nationale et expérimentale, offrant une plate-forme aux longs et courts métrages en lice pour le Grand Prix du Festival. Message to Man attire chaque année des milliers de cinéphiles à Saint-Pétersbourg.
En 2024, le Festival a attiré plus de 10 000 spectateurs et ses programmes en compétition et hors compétition ont présenté environ 200 films du monde entier.
« L'équipe du Festival a été agréablement surprise par le succès de Message to Man de l'année dernière. Inutile de dire clairement que nous vivons à une époque difficile, à tous points de vue. Le cinéma a acquis une importance croissante en tant que langage unificateur et en tant que moyen d'entrer en contact les uns avec les autres.
Nous pensons que c'est la raison pour laquelle le festival a attiré autant de spectateurs. Donc, lorsque les gens se sont empressés d'obtenir des billets pour les projections, c'était, honnêtement, très réconfortant et important. Il ne s'agissait pas seulement de billets complets, mais d'une question de solidarité.
Notre équipe est convaincue qu'un bon cinéma est toujours une invitation à l'humanité », déclare Mikhail Ratgauz, directeur du programme du Message to Man Film Festival.
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.
ORGANISATEURS
L'association culturelle Time & Memory organise la quatorzième édition du festival du court métrage « SHORT TO SOUTH », qui se tiendra à Polla (SA) ITALIE du 20 au 21 juin 2026 à l'Auditorium « Holy Nicolicchio ».
En 2007, Joaquín Ortega (réalisateur, acteur, cascadeur et coordinateur de cascades) a créé sous sa marque NOIDENTITY son équipe internationale de cascadeurs. En 2010, il a fondé la société de production indépendante NOIDENTITY Films et a déjà produit deux films en privé et un programme télévisé. En 2013, il poursuit son intention de créer une industrie cinématographique et organise le premier festival de films d'action en Espagne.
C'est ainsi qu'est né le NIAFFS (NOIDENTITY - Festival international du film d'action - Espagne), avec l'intention de créer une industrie cinématographique et de promouvoir les films d'action internationaux.
After five years of a successful run as the New York City International Film Festival and after many of our films got distribution, we decided to create NYCIFF-St. Lucia edition. We want to open another door for filmmakers from around the world, and establish St. Lucia as a center for the film industry, while highlighting unknown talents from the Caribbean.
Le 10e Festival du Film de Farinha est de retour ! ! ! Nous revenons avec la proposition d'allumer la flamme culturelle de l'échange et de l'apprentissage dans la culture cinématographique. C'est pendant le festival que les arrière-terres de Paraíba vivent des réunions de manifestations culturelles, à travers des expositions de productions audiovisuelles régionales et nationales, avec des espaces de rencontre pour la discussion et l'apprentissage, ainsi que des spectacles de films, des panneaux, des ateliers, des longs métrages et des spectacles.
This festival only admits submissions from SPANISH NATIONALS. No film-makers from any other nationalitiy will be allowed to submit their films to this festival.
