ScreenNow Horror Fest
The Global Haven for Cursed Cinema
ScreenNow Horror Fest is an annual international, festival exclusively dedicated to horror cinema in all its forms. ScreenNow Horror Fest is an active member of the Etrerum Festival Network.
We accept films of any length and any year of production, as long as they belong to the horror genre. From micro-shorts to cult features, from found footage to experimental animation—if it scares, it belongs here.
BEST TRAILER OF THE MONTH
All submitted films are automatically entered into the Best Trailer of the Month competition, announced on the 3rd of each month.
Trailers are evaluated based on:
Number of views
Number of likes
Total watch time on our official YouTube channel
SPECIAL CATEGORIES – SCREENNOW HORROR
In addition to the official awards, the festival features two exclusive categories:
Best Short Film on the ScreenNow Horror channel
Best Feature Film on the ScreenNow Horror channel
These categories are reserved for films selected to be part of our digital distribution network.
Selected films:
Do not pay any submission fee
Receive a distribution contract
Earn 50% of the revenue generated from online exhibition
Cannot be withdrawn from the channel until the final awards ceremony in June 2026
IN-PERSON AWARDS CEREMONY – JUNE 2026
The official awards ceremony will take place in person in Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico), in June 2026, with filmmakers, press, and key figures of the independent horror scene in attendance.
DISTRIBUTION & PERSONALIZED GUIDANCE
The festival also offers individualized distribution support for selected films, helping each project find its best path to visibility and monetization.
OFFICIAL SECTION – COMPETITIVE CATEGORIES
Films may register to compete in the following categories:
Grand Prize – Best Film of the Year (Includes both shorts and features)
Cash Prize: 500 €
Best Horror Feature
Best Horror Short
Best Screenplay
Golden Scream Award – Best Acting in a Horror Film
Best Trailer of the Year
Jury Special Mentions
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION
By submitting to the festival, participants fully accept all terms and conditions described here.
Each film may enter as many categories as desired, with no limit.
Films selected for the YouTube channel may not be withdrawn before the official conclusion of the festival.
ScreenNow Horror Fest aims to become a key platform for emerging horror filmmakers.
This is not just a festival—it's a launchpad for the voices redefining fear.
Only for Colombian Film-makers. FESTIVAL LABERINTO is a film festival for those who live and breath cinema, wether as film critics, productors or cinephiles. We want to build new possibilities for audiovisual arts in general, so the inherent diversity of our ideas and sensibilities can be expressed. Open social environments are required to reach the objectives of this festival; our purpose is to create such environments, especially in Boyacá, and potentially in the rest of the country. Coming from a formative, divulgative and creative standpoint, we extend an invitation to all of the people interested in filmaking.
We want you to put your imagination in motion.
Bolder and more complex ways of living and exploring cinema are just around the corner. We would like to explore those new possibilities with you. Those who are interested in our event will be able to submit their work in the folllowing open calls.
The Puerto Aventuras International Film Festival (PAIFF) (@pafilmfestival) is entering its exciting third season after experiencing remarkable growth, with a 70% increase in film submissions from our inaugural year to year two, and a 45% boost in audience attendance. To date, we've proudly presented over 115 awards, including honors through our popular Early Bird Awards program.
Set in the breathtaking Riviera Maya community of Puerto Aventuras, Mexico, PAIFF is an IMDb-qualifying, destination-style 5-day international film festival renowned for its highly interactive environment and vibrant screening locations. At PAIFF, audiences don't just watch films—they become an essential part of our judging process, adding a dynamic layer to filmmaker recognition.
PAIFF provides a lucrative networking platform where filmmakers, industry insiders, and enthusiasts from around the globe converge to build lasting relationships, share insights, and celebrate outstanding cinema. Against the stunning Caribbean backdrop of pristine beaches and world-class amenities, our festival delivers an unforgettable experience designed to elevate filmmakers and connect powerful stories with appreciative audiences.
Join us for our third season—become part of a cinematic journey where creativity flourishes and meaningful industry connections are made!
Gandhara Independent Film Festival 2025, Edition 06 (Online)
STELLAR STORIES, ONE FESTIVAL
#GIFFEST2025 aims to showcase some of the most exceptional films from around the globe. GIFF began with its first virtual edition in 2020 to allow a larger audience to experience a diverse range of films, particularly the cinephiles in Pakistan who were starved of a curated lineup of films which exemplified stellar storytelling. For the last 5 years, GIFF has been providing filmmakers a chance to reach out to a global audience and showcase their talent internationally.
The 2025 edition is imminent, and GIFF is eagerly awaiting the submissions of your films. And we are looking forward to riding the waves of emotions brought forth through your remarkable stories.
*There is no submission fee to submit a film
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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.
This is our second year, and we have so much to be proud of from the first! We’re leveraging our experiences to enhance UnShushed! Film Festival 2025.
We’re excited to open submissions, review your films, and continue the celebration.
We are accepting the following submissions:
Feature-length films in the following genres: fantasy, horror, Southern Gothic, or Afrofuturism
Short films in the following genres: fantasy, horror, Southern Gothic, or Afrofuturism
Micro short films in the following genres: fantasy, horror, Southern Gothic, or Afrofuturism
This celebration comprise Screenings, Awards, Q&A, and Workshops, offering opportunities to network and enjoy great films.
Feel free to blend genres! And show us what you have.
We look forward to having our minds blown!
See you at the UnShushed! Film Festival 2025!
CBFF – Vigo International Film Festival is an international film event organized by the production and distribution company CityBlue Films. It will hold its 8th edition from December 1st to 7th, 2025, in the city of Vigo, Spain.
OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSE
It is a cultural and social event and a meeting place for the public, creators, film professionals, and representatives of the film industry.
CBFF – Vigo International Film Festival was created with the main objective of promoting culture through the promotion and dissemination of cinematographic works.
This festival was developed to support directors and producers by providing all filmmakers with a space to disseminate and promote their work to the general public.
It is an audiovisual, cultural, artistic, industrial, and educational platform, allowing the discovery of new talents and emerging films.
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.
Welcome to IMAGINATION FILMS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2026
"Imagination Films" one of the renowned film production company is going to organize it's 3rd international film festival. Imagination Films has produced feature film "Main vaada Nibhahu" and a short film "My Mother My World" which has received 22 awards, 19 official selection and 2 honorable mention in various film festivals. for more information kindly refer to our website www.imaginationfilms.in
The 1st Imagination Films International Festival 2024 was successfully conducted at Hotel Central Park, BHILAI on 25th August 2024 in which the festival has received 53 films from 25 countries.
The 2nd Imagination Films International Festival was conducted on 8th June 2025 at the same venue i.e. Hotel Central Park,Bhilai. This time the festival has received nearly 3 times the entries i.e. 147 entries from 40 countries.
The 3rd edition will also be conducted in Bhilai on 16th August 2026.
IFIF believes:
Let your imagination soar high & If you think you can, you can.
The objective of IFIF is to empower short films across the globe and to nurture the development of newborn filmmakers.
Along with Short Films, Short Documentaries, Music Videos, short Animation film will also be eligible to submit their creations.We have added Best AI Short Film in our 3rd edition.
IFIF is committed to nurture regional art and culture and we are providing equal opportunity to local artist to show their talent hence local film makers can submit their short film and music video in Chhattisgarhi language also without English subtitles.We have added one more category for Chhattisgarh i.e best animation short film (Chhattisgarh).
There are overall 21 categories !
GIGGLE FILM FESTIVAL - the biggest comedy short film festival in London!
We screen the funniest comedy short films around from the UK and International filmmakers to our lively audience in a huge 500-seat converted warehouse venue in North East London.
We're seeking the best and funniest short films around, from live-action to animation, dark comedy to slapstick, and everything in between!
This is a chance to screen your comedy film to a whole new audience, whether your film is hot off the press or has previously done the festival circuit, we'd love to see it.
Giggle Film Festival is run by filmmakers, for filmmakers.
The Shawna Foundation presents the Scandriglia Film Festival in honor of Massimiliano Scacchi.
Massimiliano was a wonderful husband, father and neighbor. He was also a visionary who created a display along Scandriglia’s Via Entroterra of old farming tools and machines from the rural civilization’s history.
There are over a hundred pieces that can be dated from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1950s, when agricultural mechanization began. Along with the display of the old tools, lights stream throughout Entroterra as ambient music accompanies the path.
Massimiliano also created and has on display a beautiful and intricate presepe (nativity in miniature) for the Christmas season. He created all this because of his love for Scandriglia and it was his way to help rebuild the historic center of his town.
It was all of this that drew the Shawna Foundation’s President of the Board of Directors, Anna Chinappi, and Executive Director, Skip Shea to Scandriglia, where they quickly became friends with Massimiliano, his wife Emanuela Torri and his wonderful family. And very soon, they learned of his love for cinema, which is why a decision to create a film festival there is an easy one and the best way to honor him.
Scandriglia is a 15th Century medieval hilltop village surrounded by the hills of Sabina where you will discover some of the best olive oil in all of the world.
It’s a beautiful and unspoiled historic rural mountain community, but only a 40-minute drive to Rome—the best of all worlds.
The festival will take place at the Teatro Sant'Antonio in the historic center of Scandriglia.
The Women's and Diversity Film Festival (FESTMYD), funded by the Audiovisual Promotion Fund through the Festival Programming modality with regional showcases in the 2025 call of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage, will celebrate its fifth edition this year.
The main goal of the festival is to give visibility to and promote national and international films with a gender perspective, directed by Latin American women filmmakers (cis/trans), trans men or transmasculine individuals, non-binary people, fluid gender, or intersex individuals.
This year, FESTMYD will take place in person in the regions of Coquimbo and Valparaíso, connecting movie theaters, cultural centers, educational institutions, social organizations, and film and audiovisual schools.
Vertical Shorts Festival is the first international film festival dedicated exclusively to vertical filmmaking (9:16 aspect ratio) — a bold and modern format reshaping how stories are told and experienced. We celebrate creators who embrace the mobile-first world and use vertical video not as a constraint, but as a canvas for innovation.
Whether it’s a gripping drama, a supernatural thriller, a heartfelt romance, or a daring documentary, we’re looking for bold voices and fresh perspectives across genres — as long as they’re vertical.
Our mission is to spotlight emerging and established filmmakers who are pushing visual storytelling forward. We welcome smartphone filmmakers, experimental creators, and anyone exploring this unique format with purpose, passion, and cinematic craft.
Join us and be part of a new movement in cinema — where your vertical vision takes center stage.
SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
The Dystopia, film and environment festival of the Murcia region is a project that aims to disseminate, serve as a reference and raise awareness about environmental cinema, as well as support and disseminate both national and international productions on this subject.
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.
film/Documentory/music vedio/Animation/VFX/CGI/2D/3D/other
*Mumbai Entertainment International Short Film Festival*
*Organized BY*
mumbai Entertainment
& Yogeshpatilfilms
*world all contries participated now*
FeCiSor is the exclusive festival for the promotion and exhibition of productions in sign language or with the participation of deaf people in them, as well as a space for visibility and promotion of cinematographic and audiovisual production by professionals and other deaf workers in the sector in Colombia, also being a platform for the training of audiences in the cinematographic art.
Join us in celebrating the art of filmmaking!
We believe that film is not just entertainment; it is a powerful medium for artistic expression that challenges norms and inspires change. We are committed to highlighting films that push boundaries, utilizing innovative film language to create immersive experiences that resonate deeply with viewers.
Join us in this dynamic journey as we celebrate exceptional filmmakers who pour their heart and soul into their work, ensuring that every frame is a testament to their vision. Our screenings will not only feature unique films but also include interactive Q&A sessions, discussions, encouraging an ongoing exchange of ideas between creators and audiences.
Be a part of our community, where every film is a conversation starter and where every voice matters. Together, let’s explore the transformative power of cinema and elevate the artistic narrative in our culture!
Short Film Festival
Nature & Imagination Theme
This is a mini-film festival project organized around a call for short films on the themes of nature and fantasy:
strange, creative, offbeat, poetic, supernatural, experimental, visual... depending on the perspective of the filmmakers who submit their works.
The GEH Short Film Competition is a short film competition on human rights held in different localities of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country).
This competition is part of the global project human rights Giza Eskubideak Herrira (Bringing human rights to the people.). The GEH is a human rights awareness project created by the dar-dar Productions cooperative in 2015. The first editions were based in Ordizia. In 2023, the festival has developed and extended to several towns in Gipuzkoa (Euskal Herria).
The main objective of this competition is to raise awareness and educate on human rights. Because this short film contest is a window that we open to the world, and from that window we can see the different realities that people live in different parts of the planet. In view of these realities, we intend to encourage reflection on human rights violations in different parts of the world.
