The International Film and Sexual Diversity Festival CINHOMO accepts LGBTIQ-themed films of all nationalities, which will be eligible in the various sections of the festival: Fiction Feature Films, Fiction Short Films, Documentary Feature Films and Documentary Short Films.
The works must not have been exhibited in commercial theaters, broadcast on TV or be available to the public on the Internet or any other platform in Spanish territory prior to the celebration of the festival and must be copyrighted after 01/01/2023. Feature films must be unpublished in the Community of Castilla y León; in the case of short films it will not be exclusive but it will be positively valued. The organization reserves the right to include in the out-of-competition program films that do not meet these conditions.
15th Medium-Length International Film Festival LA CABINA, taking place in València (Spain) between 8th and 18th November 2022.
(Association for Independent Audiovisual Production and distribution registered in the National Register of Associations: 1/Sección Group: 1 / National Number 596006 and registered in the Register of Companies Audiovisual de Catalunya, under audiovisual production with the number 2409 , established in Rosellón Street, 120, 4 º 2 ª, 08036 Barcelona.
FEST - NDNFF #22
20th-28th of June of 2026 | Espinho, Portugal
FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival is an all-encompassing celebration of the new tendencies of world cinema. The event focuses on a competitive and non-competitive showcase of the most promising new figures and works from around the globe.
The 22ndedition of the festival will take place between the 20th and the 28th of June 2026, in the seaside town of Espinho (Portugal).
The selection is divided into several categories which include Feature Film and Short Film competitions in the Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental Non-Narrative formats, as well as content adequate for children and teenagers. The event also includes non-competitive sections that range from retrospectives to feature length and short film showcases.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are accepting films under the following formats:
A) Fiction and Non-Fiction feature films (minimum length is 55 minutes) from directors who are on their first or second feature-length project, regardless of age.
B) Fiction, Documentary, Animation, and Experimental Short films (up to 54 minutes of duration) from directors who have completed no more than two feature films, regardless of age.
Candidates must choose one of the available submission categories. Do not worry if your film fits different categories (Ie: Hybrid productions), as all submissions will be considered for the different competitions. If your film is also eligible for the NEXXT competition (focused on academic productions) but you wish the film to be considered for all other competitions please mention in the comment section of the submission the academic institution where the film was produced. If you have any doubts at all please do not hesitate to contact us at films@fest.pt.
Throughout the years' FEST has selected for its feature film competitions films such as Celine Song’s “Past lives”; Ainhoa Rodríguez´s "Mighty Flash"; Teodora Mihai´s “The Civilian”; Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid with "Enforcement"; Julie Lecoustre, Emmanuel Marre´s “Zero Fucks Given”; P.S. Vinothraj “Pebbles”; Eugen Jebeleanu´s “Poppy field”; and Valdimar Jóhannsson´s “Lamb”, all of this on the fiction side, then in the Documentary side, Karima Saidi´s "A way Home", Michał Edelman´s "Last Knights Of The Right Side", Franz Böhm´s "Dear Future Children" among many others.
FEST’s Short Film sections are known for its wide variety of styles and filmic visions, having been throughout the years a platform for the launch of new artists such as Govinda Van Maele (Luxembourg), Christos Massalas (Greece), Mati Diop (France), Lukas Dhont (Belgium), Adriano Valerio (Italy), Patrick Vollrath (Germany), Ninja Thyberg (Sweden), Manuel Abramovich (Argentina), Daria Belova (Russia), Simon Mésa Soto (Colombia), Aga Woszczynska (Poland), Jela Hasler (Switzerland), as well as hundreds of other up-and-coming filmmakers.
FEST also includes a series of other activities that run parallel to the festival, in particular, FEST – Training Ground (one of Europe’s largest film forums) and FEST – Pitching Forum (film project competition), and others. For more information please visit our website at www.fest.pt
AnimArte is an international festival of animated films made by children and youth, and made for children and youth.
The AnimArte Festival is just for Animated Short Films!
The maximum duration of each film is 15 minutes.
In 2025 will be held the 18th edition of AnimArte and the festival will take place in October!
For International Students (students from around the world), there are two competitive categories (only for animated short films): Maxi (18 years or over) and Mini (under 18 years).
For International Professionals there are two categories: "Environmental films", and "World Cultures" .
The selected animations will be projected following the program prepared by the Festival's organization board.
If the film has dialogues in language other than Portuguese, it will be necessary the sending of a text file with the dialogues of the film in English (if possible, with the time code) to the email: animarte@vouanimarte.com.br.
A version of the film with English subtitles is welcome to facilitate the work of translation and subtitling for the Portuguese, but the version that will be shown at the festival must be submitted without subtitles.
There are also 2 exclusive categories (only for Animated short films) just for students who are enrolled in educational institutions in Brazil: Maxi (University Students) and Mini (High School Students, and Students of Elementary Education).
CineCapsule, organize a special event for all film addicts! The event takes place at L'espace Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement of Paris and offers a series of performances in collaboration with the artists and designers of the Espace Voltaire. The objective is to highlight video productions that follow an imposed theme. We will find three themes, different each quarter:
- Eternal Circle: "Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed". (Lavoisier)
- I Don't Wanna Be Me Anymore: From Shadow to Light
- Same Love: "Loving is half the battle of believing." (Hugo)
The ACCIONS 3E Non-Profit Cultural Association is convening and organizing the 29th SUNCINE International Environmental Film Festival, to be held on November 2-10, 2023.
SUNCINE, formerly known as FICMA, was first held in 1993 and is positioned as the oldest Environmental Film Festival in the world; it is a reference in its genre.
SUNCINE is a multi-screen festival (in-person, online and televised). Its primary objective is to promote, disseminate and publicize environmental audiovisual works to raise awareness about the state of the environment, biodiversity and the planet’s sustainability.
Cactus International Children’s and Youth Film Festival is a film festival that collects and screens high quality fiction and nonfiction feature films and short films, in every genre, dedicated to children and kids.
The CIFF 2021 edition only accepts Short Films whose running time is less than 15 minutes in length, opening and end credits included.
ITA - Il Cactus International Children’s and Youth Film Festival è un festival cinematografico che raccoglie e proietta lungometraggi e cortometraggi di alta qualità, fiction e non fiction, di qualunque genere, dedicati al pubblico dell’infanzia e della prima adolescenza.
L’edizione di CIFF 2021 accetta esclusivamente cortometraggi della durata massima di 15 minuti, titoli di testa e di coda compresi.
The Esoteric International Film Festival collects the best esoteric films from around the world, which were created both by professionals and by enthusiasts, and helps to get them across to the Russian audience.
We admit only the esoteric films, both modern and historical ones. As well as those films, where esoteric world is an important part of the synopsis.
Esoteric International Film Festival invite filmmakers who make films and documentaries about ghosts and spirits, brownies and witches, fairies and sorcerers, exorcism and parapsychology, telekinesis and transmission of thoughts at a distance, prophetic dreams and premonitions, alchemy, amulets, amulets, non-traditional religious cults, voodoo religion, animism, shamanism, theosophy and anthroposophy, the hidden edges of reality and other dimensions; self-discovery, the search for the meaning of life, the search for yourself in this world and your mission, life after death, human energy, chakras, aura, meditation, yoga, retreats, spiritual practices, spiritual teachers and ashrams, reincarnation and the recollection of past lives, the power of thoughts and the work of the subconscious; alternative medicine and non-standard methods of treatment, the universal mind, the energies of the new time, high vibrations, etc.
All films must be in English (orRussian). Alternatively, have the English or Russian subtitles (with the exception of all films without words), regardless of the country of production.
All best films that were selected for the vscreening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on February 07-08, 2026 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best Esoteric film". As well as for the oteric in the standalone nominations.
SIETAR España FILM FESTIVAL SEFIVAL es una muestra cinematográfica online Bi-Anual celebrada en Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga y Pamplona (España).
Nace para favorecer la interculturalidad creando consciencia sobre los problemas sociales, económicos, culturales y de derechos humanos usando la herramienta del cine.
Pretende favorecer la difusión y promoción de la educación, formación e investigación intercultural, fomentando el cine intercultural. Ser un referente nacional e internacional en el ámbito de la promoción del cine enfocado a temas de culturas, interculturalidad, diversidad/Inclusión, derechos humanos y contribuir al desarrollo de SIETAR España.
"So You Think You Can Act" is a competition exclusively targeted to recognize the talent of actors and actresses, stunt and fight performers, impersonators, standup comedians, and much more from around the world. Actors simply submit their reels or featured movie clips to the competition for consideration of their acting skills in many genres from drama to comedy. Or, for the multi-faceted actor, combination genre clips may also be submitted.
What makes So You Think You Can Act unique from other actor-oriented competitions? In order to insure that each submission is studied and rated on an individual basis, SYTYCA has instituted a system to insure that entries do not compete against each other, but instead are recognized for their own individual merits. For all intents and purposes, they compete against themselves: each entry is judged on individual merits and scored on an inherent value system. We want to insure that the judges focus is on you when it is your turn to be evaluated, not on all the other actors that are in cue: this insures that they will not have comparisons going on in their minds when they should be focusing entirely on YOU.
Your performance submission clips (s) will be posted screened on WRPN.tv for general audience judging. When that stage is over, they will be moved to a panel of independent judges.
Awards are given based on a combination of points from judges and audience plus special suggestions given by judges, so, the audience alone is not a definite winning point. You could win a top award without audience rating. Judges score entries on a performance scale and winning entries are recognized and awarded.
LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers is Germany’s oldest festival for young audiences and is organized by DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum.
Within the competition sections in the age categories 8+, 13+ and 16+ | Youngsters, LUCAS festival puts its focus on outstanding, international productions of children and youth films, including all filmic forms from fiction, documentary, to animation and experimental formats.
For the short film competition in the sections 8+ and 13+, we accept productions with a length of max. 30 minutes. In addition, the film has to have its German premiere at LUCAS. We accept submissions for the feature film competition only in exceptional cases.
During the festival week, filmmakers, producers, film literacy experts and professionals from all over the world meet in Frankfurt, Wiesbaden und Offenbach, attend the festival program together and discuss the films with the young audience. Under the heading “Get Involved!” LUCAS invites young film lovers to actively participate: They are part of the festival juries, host the Q&As, present films as patrons, and document the festival.
Festival Inclús is a festival of audiovisual productions, both documentary and fiction centered on the theme of physical and mental disabilities. It is an initiative Associació Inclús and conducted by Fish Muvi.
The aim of Festival Inclús is to give visibility to audiovisual works produced around the theme of disability with a different point of view. The goal is to provide a deepest perspective of the reality of disabilities, whether the production is carried by entities directly involved in the world of disability, or other persons or groups.
We also are an inclusive festival that is why we have two new sections: Inclus values, cinema for kids and teens about social issues and Sing Language cinema, movies in sign language.
The Festival will be held in December 10 to 16, 2025, close to the International Day of Disability December 3rd. The Audiovisual material of the finalists will be played during this day according to the different categories. There will be awards for the best submittals. Inclús focuses on audiovisual productions, but it also has other artistic and commercial activities and disciplines in order to give visibility to this sector.
Shorty Week International Short Film Festival aims to:
- To promote the short film as a means of expression, and therefore part of our culture.
- Provide opportunity for the dissemination of the work of new talent.
- Zoom to the public world of the film through different activities.
- Facilitate, through this format, the contribution to improving the world we live in.
- Enjoy what we do.
The X International Shorty Week 2023 Short Film Festival will take place early September in Santa Catalina´s Castle, Cadiz. There, the public will be able to attend the screening of the short films of different competitive sections and the awards ceremony.
The cinema we defends :
Sans Raison seeks to gather films from urgent desires and without concessions. Oftently, these films are marginal, out of the norm for institutions that prefer to put consensual forms in the spotlight. The others film occupy only the narrow circle of cinephilia.
If Sans Raison is placed at the heart of this cinema unknown to the general public, which disturbs because it shake up the codes, it's also to take it out of its niche.
The open call :
We will seek in each film sent to find the sincere and personal vision, which makes your work something unique before being categorise in a genre, a current, a fashion, an influence.
We’re finally looking for you.
If we have named this first call for projects « Catch the invisible » it's because we think that cinema is a very nice way to make feel the invisible worlds that surround us. The cinema is able to suggest them as to affirm them, even to demonstrate their existence. Any poetic, experimental and sensory approach are welcome.
Popularization of the cryptocurrency’s philosophy, ideas and technologies via such a universal artistic form of communication as film-making is the main goal of Crypto Film Festival. By bringing the best films of the Cryptocurrency Theme from all over the world to the international audience, the CFFest Team hopes to contribute to a better understanding of the cryptocurrency, its role and place in our daily life, present and future.
A dream for filmmakers
SCPSFF is a festival dedicated to the Veer Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj of Maharashtra and is imprinting its shadow since 2 years to the hearts of Film Makers around the World. Till now 598 films have been submitted from around the globe. Mr. Aniketji Mahadik has started this festival since the year 2019 who got inspiration from other film festivals and arranged a board under him to assist him with the film festival. SCPSFF has awarded many enthusiastic filmmakers around and was successful even during tough times of COVID19.
submissions at peak
space for filmmakers
SCPSFF gives spaces to Short Film producers to make and show their talent and skill to the world through screening and also to the festival to find and celebrate movies and create filmmakers. Our Jury group is searching for potential movies and producers for screening their films in our film festival. SCPSFF will have screening occasions at the Pune Location with post-screening Q&A with executives, makers and entertainers and the open door for them to coordinate with industry experts at our networking occasions and workshops.
Calling all independent filmmakers! Screamfest® Film Festival is back for its 25th annual 10-day event, showcasing the best in horror cinema from around the world. Held this October at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Los Angeles, our festival is a must-attend event for horror fans and industry professionals alike.
Don't just take our word for it - some of the biggest horror publications have dubbed us the 'Sundance of Horror.' Our festival has also been featured in 2024 New York Times at Top 5 Halloween Festivals Worth Traveling For. Moviemaker Magazine's lists of 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee for 2023, 50 Best Genre Fests in the World 2021, 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee & 13 Film Festivals to Die For, and 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World 2019.
As the largest and longest-running horror film festival in the United States, we have a proud history of discovering and showcasing groundbreaking films. Paranormal Activity, for example, was discovered and premiered at our festival in 2007.
Join us for a spine-tingling lineup of new genre films and premieres, including past hits such as Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, Dead Ant, Trick 'r' Treat, 30 Days of Night, The Human Centipede, and American Mary. And don't forget to check out our YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/2MYvdFt, where you can view past Screamfest® short films. Submit your work now for your chance to be a part of the legacy!
