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Now, that the line between regional and exterritorial content is getting blurred, the time is ripe to create a platform to bring independent voices in cinema to the mainstream audience. Aao TV Creative Collective Short Film Festival is the first step in this journey.
A story told meticulously, mirrors reality and fills the audience with inundated emotions. If your story has translated into a film, then we give you the platform to showcase it. Participate in Aao Creative Collective Short Film Festival and win cash prizes worth Rs. 2 lakhs.
No entry fee, language no barrier. Simply download and subscribe to Aao TV app. Your Subscription ID is your ticket to entry.
Animadooo is a Festival of Animation short films dedicated to all types of animation and filmmakers.
There are 3 categories: - General = Fiction Animation shorts of all themes and all directors
- Kids for Kids = Animation Short Films made by children up to 12 years old intended for children also
- Adults only = Animation shorts with an indicative age above 18 years.
"NOS VEMOS EN 16:9 - BOGOTA HOMEMADE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL" is made to reactivate the audiovisual production in Bogotá city (Colombia) and with this new announcement, we are looking to encourage the creation of shortfilms made at home by professional artists and new creators, while setting colaborating networks and audiovisual academic encounters, so we all understand the artist's perspectic about the current pandemic, testing their recursiveness and show original and creative stories, while complying with all sanitary measurements stablised because of COVID-19.
This announcement is intended for promote audiovisual artists to their gradual comeback to labor through a promotion campain of their shortfilms under all biosecurity protocols provided by the Motion No. 666 of 2020 by the Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social.
One of the few Sci-fi and Fantasy Film Festivals in Eastern Europe, that brings a fresh concept of gathering together, through live video streaming, the film crew and the film consumers. The festival has film screening, conferences, debates and happenings. It will have Jury Awards and Popular Awards, for four categories (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Animation, Comedy/Parody, Documentary, AI film) for short and feature films.
The AX International Audiovisual Short Film Show aims to disseminate short films (documentaries, fiction, animations and experimental) for all ages, children and adolescents, young people and adults, which present as a central or relevant element such as gender relations and sexualities. Thus, short films that show intertwining between gender and sexualities with other markers such as social class, race and ethnicity, generation, disability, migration, are very welcome.
The Show also includes a multitude of themes that can cross issues such as life trajectories, violence against women, masculinities, fatherhood, motherhood, eroticism, corporeality, LGBTQIAphobias, sexual exploitation, sexual and reproductive rights and processes of resistance and struggle of women and subject LGBTQIA +, as well as a multitude of fields of sociopolitical life such as the State, capital, coloniality, politics, human rights, education, work, health, culture, public policies, among others.
In recent editions, many short films have been produced and selected that portray more general themes, of collective interest, in the field, for example, of indigenous rights, land, housing or the defense of democracy. So this year, realizing that such productions only enrich, densify and pluralize our Curta o Gênero, we formally opened for submissions of short films of this nature, which will be produced in specials.
¡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!
This competition has been created by renowned ICART school, teaching cultural mediation since 1963.
This school located on the Champs-Elysées is also based in New York city and Shanghai.
Each year, fifth year students organized a short films contest, in order to discover current or future cinema talents.
One thousand and five hundreds euros are awarded to the winner. A professional jury will examine the films received, after a first selection by the students.
Apart from the "Grand prix", there are also five other prizes (best script, best music, best actor or actress, and a special prize given by the students themselves).
The award ceremony will take place on the 25th of February, on the famous Le Lincoln theater, which frequently welcomes big events such as the "CEFF" (festival de cinéma des Champs-Elysées).
Prokuplje Short Film Festival, founded in 2011, is the youngest film festival in Serbia. In Prokplje is event where audience can see the best from the field of documentary, experimental, animated and fiction from around the world. Thousands of films from all over the world arrive at the festival's address, and it has been reflected by the numerous audiences in Prokuplje, but also in other cities in Serbia and the region,because the team organizes Tour in which the best films are presented in over 30 cities. The lack of the Cinema, as well as the lack of a movie as a subject at school, prevents young people from learning about this art.
In order to see something of this content, the young people must go to Nis, or even to Belgrade. This is an opportunity to see the latest short film achievements from all around the world in Prokuplje. In recent years, according to research, there is a decline in audience attendance at the festivals all over the world. So because of that and because of the introduction of the film to young people, we brought the work with them, in all primary and secondary schools, which are potential audiences and will be animated by the presentation of festival films and the discussion on the significance of the Festival. In addition to work with young people in Prokuplje,the Film Club Prokuplje is the first to start animating the audience from the rural areas, which are completely excluded from all events, especially cultural events.
The Museo do Pobo Galego (Museum of Galician People) organises the Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnográfico - Ethnographic Film Festival. 20th Mostra de Cinema Etnográfico Museo do Pobo Galego will run 12-16 March, 2025 in Santiago
de Compostela.
Call for entries from December 4,2024 to December 30,2024.
We understand ethnographic cinema in a broad sense; it refers to those productions
whose main aim is to show different aspects related to sociocultural realities as well as
a community’s way of life. It comprises films with the main focus on people, social groups and relevant historical processes that are related to anthropology and ethnography.
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The “Cachinus de Cine” Festival is organized by the Cultural Association of Cilleros (A.C.D.C.) and the Town Hall of Cilleros.
The festival "Cachinus de Cine" was born with the hope of bringing the seventh art to the children and youngest so that they have the posibility to learn trough this art to know and understand better the world around them. Also to get the posibility to express their concerns through the images.
It will take place at the beginning of May in Cilleros, a town located in "Sierra de Gata" in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, at the East of Madrid (Spain).
An enclave that are still preserving his nature and tradition over the years.
It is surrounded by rivers of crystal clear water, natural pools and mountains that invite you to explore their paths.
We wish this festival to be a meeting point where we can meet people and cultures from all over the world and get to know ourselves too.
Exchanging concerns and experiences with all the participants is also part of the dream with which this festival is born.
The Saturnia Film Festival seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from around the world and to introduce audiences (members of the industry and film lovers) to their new work. The Artistic Commettee of the Saturnia Film Festival will consider projects that tell stories about universal themes driven by an individual and authentic voice.
The Saturnia Film Festival takes place for five days, from 28 to 31th July 2022 in the square of Sorano, Manciano, Montemerano, and the Terme di Saturnia (Grosseto, Italy).
Initiated in the backdrop of 60th year of India's Independence, CHINH INDIA KIDS FILM FESTIVAL and FORUM is an initiative to celebrate knowledge,ideas and perspectives on culture, development and education in context of children programming.
The objective of the CHINH INDIA KIDS FILM FESTIVAL is to inculcate taste for quality children programme and to generate awareness about new genre, innovations, and formats linking education with culture & development issues among children.
The highlight of CHINH INDIA KIDS FILM FESTIVAL is intelligence exchange sessions of children with experts to share, voice and express their views.
In CHINH INDIA KIDS FILM FESTIVAL, childrens' opinion matters and they decide the winners.
The video clippings of the children jury and judgement process is uploaded on www.chinh.in
*** Submissions for the 2024 Short Film Slam, presented by The Madlab Post will be opening in the Spring. If you are interested in submitting your live action, animation, documentary or experimental film, Sign up for our waitlist to be the first to hear about the Call for Entries for our 2024 season - https://cinema.madlabpost.com ***
The Short Film Slam is a bimonthly competition presented by The Madlab Post that focuses on providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers to showcase their work. Each round, a selection of up to twelve short films will be screened for local audiences who get to cast a vote for their favorite film. The highest rated film at live screenings will be declared "Movie of the Month" during the following month. The highest rated "in-competition" films from each live and online screening room will advance to the final round. All finalists get to compete for a total of $1,000 in prize money during the final round and festivities preceding the 2023 shnit Cinemas screening in Philadelphia.
Since 2012, The Madlab Post has promoted community outreach and engagement through film, screening dozens of exceptional short films from around the world to local audiences; including the Academy Award nominated short film A SINGLE LIFE, Clermond-Ferrand International Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner THE BATHTUB and Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Et ta prostate, ça va? (HOW'S YOUR PROSTATE). Main venues include the historic Bok building and Taller Puertorriqueño's state-of-the-art El Corazón Cultural Center.
Flikkers Queer Film Festival was established in 2020 during the Coronavirus pandemic by a small team of volunteers with the aim of bringing LGBTQ+ community members together to watch Queer films. As we are often misrepresented in the media, the team at Flikkers aims to provide a platform for films that are representative of our fantastically diverse community.
For our first festival in 2021, we will be going virtual due to the pandemic with the hope of holding our first physical event in 2022.
Flikkers 2021 will be free to attend.
Our festival seeks to strengthen and revitalize the native languages of Peru and Latin America through the exhibition and creation of audiovisual works in native languages. We are an independent festival, we believe that the audiovisual language is a great ally for the preservation of our languages, memory, identity and cultural heritage of our Latin American peoples. We are the only Film Festival in Peru dedicated to cinema in native languages. Welcome.
The festival will take place from April 8 to 12, 2024 in person and online, and is organized by the production company Moche Films in collaboration with various groups, people, schools, institutions, associations, groups and platforms at a national and international level. international. The festival will organize film screenings, artistic activities and Community workshops in different indigenous towns and cities in Peru and Latin America.
Muestra de Cine Social
Luminiscence.
Presentation
The Social Film Festival organized by Luminiscence Studio since 2013 has no competitive character, our intention is to screen projects with a clear social commitment, bringing the works presented to the public closer so that a link can be created between filmmakers, the public and organizers.
Festival only for Spanish speakers: Spanish and Latin American productions.
Traditionally, Queens World includes a well-attended multi-day annual film festival, year-round screening opportunities for QWFF alumni, special events to bring the Indie film community together and an educational initiative for youth and seniors. Just like everyone else, we are keeping it fluid and responding to the needs of the Indie Film community.
The 10th Annual Fest was scheduled to March 19 - 29, 2020 at the Museum of Moving Image and the Zukor Theater at Kaufman-Astoria Studios. When we were closed on March 16, we changed course and opened on time - online - with 191 films from 32 nations which garnered over 30,000 views.
After the festival Queens World poduced Wednesday Nights @9, 19 live weekly broadcasts that identified individuals and organizations as our 'Hero of the Week'. In their honor, we curated a block of films by filmmakers working in similar themes which ran from Sunday to Sunday on Vimeo. On Wednesday nights we gathered the Heroes and the Filmmakers of the Week to discuss their work. We ran for 19 weeks and gathered over 19,000 views.
In preparation for Q11, we are working with our venues and our partners to maximize all available resources for the festival. We will use our signature thematic programming, grouping films together to create specific cinematic experiences and each screening event will be accompanied by Filmmaker Q&As. Our plans for June 2021 include both a virtual and a live event with some very exciting global elements that we will share with you at a later date.
While this is a tough time on our planet, now is not the time to stop communicating, to stop looking for what will heal us, or to stop gathering. Queens World remains focused on ideas, stories with heart, films with a point of view and artists who challenge..
This year we are concentrating on HOPE as our theme.
H - Healing
O - Opportunities
P - Promote
E – Equity
We are interested in films that examine, explore, defy, contradict and support our theme. The very act of making and completing a film is hopeful.
Show us what you believe in.
Bring your craft and let's see what you got.
Bring it.
From April 23 to 27, 2025, the 54th edition of the Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, one of Europe's largest festivals for up-and-coming filmmakers, will take place in Potsdam. It offers up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world a platform to present their work to a wide audience and make contacts in the industry. Started in the 1970s as a GDR film festival for young filmmakers, Sehsüchte has established itself over the decades as an internationally important film festival and has become an integral part of Berlin and Brandenburg's cultural landscape.
Sehsüchte sees itself as a place of encounter and creation, as an event of cultural diversity and a celebration of cinema, today and tomorrow. The organization and implementation of the festival is entirely in the hands of students from the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. This enables a dynamic exchange between young talents, media makers and researchers.
Motto: beyond
The motto of the Sehsüchte film festival in 2025 is beyond. The motto is intended to emphasize the diverse and profound aspects of the festival that go beyond the ordinary and connect both the past and the future of filmmaking. beyond embodies the idea of building a bridge between nostalgic elements and modern innovations.The focus is on the synergies that arise when different generations and perspectives, young filmmakers and industry experts, come into contact and learn from each other. beyond reflects the diversity of stories that are to be told at Sehsüchte. In an increasingly polarized social climate, we position ourselves as willing to listen to all voices and remain open. Regardless of origin, financial means, level of education, gender and our other differences, we want to offer everyone a chance for a platform. We want to think our festival beyond boxes, borders and barriers.With beyond, we invite our audience to broaden their own horizons and explore new ideas and concepts. The aim is to overcome cultural, geographical and ideological boundaries in order to create a platform for a diverse narrative.
Sections
● Fiction Film
● Documentary
● Engaged Film
● Focus: Animation
● Future: Kids
● Future: Teens
● Virtual Reality
● Exhibition - Beyond the Screen
● Schreibsüchte (Script)
● Retrospective
● Showcase
● Genre Film
