Festival Description
CULTURAL DISRUPTORS – Film Festival is an international platform dedicated to works that explore the boundaries of conventional narrative and challenge established consensus. We distance ourselves from closed schools of thought and from culture used as a tool for ideological dissemination.
We understand that traditional analytical frameworks have lost their relevance in explaining the complexity of the present. In an environment saturated with predictable narratives and uniform discourses, this festival was born to offer an alternative grounded in creative autonomy.
Our programming prioritizes cinema that challenges standards:
We reject official discourses, the moralization of art, and the pursuit of audience complacency. We seek films that operate in the space of friction, that contradict their own premises, and that understand culture as a process of constant questioning, not as a finished product.
CULTURAL DISRUPTORS is not a place for the confirmation of certainties, but for the discovery of new perspectives.
We champion ambiguity over dogma, contradiction over simplification, and risk over uniformity.
Here, cinema doesn't seek audience tranquility; it seeks to provoke thought and strengthen critical thinking.
FINCI 2026
ONLINE | IN-PERSON FORMAT
June 2026
FINCI 2026 proposes the following main theme:The Truth
today everything moves very fast, where filters are all around, where there is an excess of information everywhere, it's necessary, I would say almost urgent, to encounter our true selves and what we feel that connects us to the simplest things. ¿What is our truth? ¿How do we connect with our essence? ¿How do we connect with what represents us and what doesn't? ¿What place do we give to that? When we connect with our true selves, it has an impact on the collective, on all of us together.
There are truths that are urgent to show, to speak, both individual and collective. ¿What is our truth? ¿How do we allow ourselves to be flexible when we are infant of something new? ¿How are we honest with ourselves? ¿How do we connect with our desires and are we sincere with them?
This year, the International Festival of New Independent Cinema (FINCI) will be a hybrid event.
It will be held in person in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Mexico City, and online for all of Latin America and Europe.
80 projects will be selected for the online portion. A total of 10 projects will be selected per country for the in-person portion.
Categories:
Feature Films (Fiction)
Short Films (Fiction and Documentary)
Feature Documentaries
Erotic Cinema
Vertical Cinema
Women's Cinema
LGBTQ+ Cinema
Animated Cinema
Special attention will be given to emerging filmmakers presenting their debut features.
Corti in Movimento. Discover the Wonder of Your City
is designed for students and young filmmakers with a clear and meaningful goal: to explore and tell the story of the city of Pescara through the most widespread and immediate tool of our time—the smartphone.
Launched in 2013, the LakeCity International Film Festival (LCIFF) held in Mumbai was founded to showcase the emerging talents and the leaders in contemporary film making, and aims to exhibit the most captivating and innovative content.
Festival Mission:
Serving as a Premier Film Festival, LCIFF's mission is to present quality films from around the world as well as support, recognize and honor indie film makers. These films will be organized thematically, in hopes of representing the full range of the human experience as reflected by our chosen filmmakers. LCIFF will also be a vital showcase for indie short film makers as the festival has a PSA Films Category in addition to its competitive sections revolving around a theme and have a strong social message.
Welcome to the Tadeus Film & Music International Festival
The Tadeus Film & Music International Festival is an international film and music festival in rapid expansion—an independent space where authorial vision, artistic sensitivity, and creative freedom find their own voice.
Following a highly impactful first edition, the festival selected works from Spain, Russia, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and the United States, consolidating its growth and identity within the global circuit of independent film and music festivals.
Tadeus positions itself as a carefully curated festival, attentive to new voices and contemporary languages. It brings together filmmakers, musicians, and independent artists from around the world—both emerging and established—without restrictions of genre or format, prioritizing originality, identity, and the expressive strength of each work.
The festival stands out for its commitment to projects that generate emotion, reflection, and impact, addressing themes such as social justice, our relationship with living beings, identity, resilience, and personal transformation. It also includes a dedicated category for works created with Artificial Intelligence, reaffirming its place as a contemporary festival, attentive to the technological and artistic evolution of audiovisual expression.
In a constantly evolving cultural landscape, the Tadeus Film & Music International Festival is gaining recognition within the worlds of cinema, music videos, and music, distinguished by its sensitive curation, artistic vision, and sustained growth.
To be part of Tadeus is to join a festival that grows with discernment, builds community, and champions art with identity and purpose.
If you have a work that deserves to be seen, heard, and recognized, this is your place.
THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL OF CALAHORRA, THROUGH THE YOUTH DEPARTMENT, ANNOUNCES THE 27TH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL “¡¡CORT...en!! 2026”, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING RULES.
The Messina Opera Film Festival is a meeting and discussion place for delving into the relationship between cinema and opera through various artistic perspectives and trends. The Messina Opera Film Festival is the only event in the Italian cinematic landscape that addresses this interaction and offers the public a diverse cultural program consisting of screenings, concerts, presentations, and exhibitions. The entire program is exclusively dedicated to the relationship between the Seventh Art and one of the greatest Italian cultural traditions, Melodrama. There are non-competitive sections and a section dedicated to short films, which is competitive in nature. The competition is thematic, and only works with a maximum duration of 15 minutes (including titles) are admitted, which must feature stories inspired by operatic works or their characters, or that include music or arias from operas, or a setting in an opera theater.
The festival will offer diverse program, featuring films of the famous directors, debutants and animation students from various countries, many of whom were awarded at numerous international animation festivals.
International Animated Film Festival "Tindirindis "- is not a commercial film scene. The festival's mission - to deliver the widest range of the animation world: the different styles, the schools work, to show the animation, which encourages creativity.
Artistic animation, author retrospectives, the films, which stimulate creativity. 22 years festival is running every year in Lithuania, showing the best non-commercial animation works from around the world. Competition programs include short and feature films for children, adults, experimental, student, debut, and music clips. Since 2018 new nomination - "Best Animadoc". From 2019, a new nomination "For the Best Work of Applied Animation" will be introduced, with the aim to introduce new animation forms: performances, interactive media works, applications, installations, advertisements, educational works, works of virtual reality. The purpose of the festival is to reveal the wide variety of animation, diversity and perspectives. During the festival we present retrospectives of animation masters, organizing meetings with viewers, animation workshops, Master classes for students and industry employees with famous animation creators from abroad and Lithuania.
Participation Rules
The IV FANTLLANES, to be held from April 16th to 18th, 2026, in Llanes, aims to promote and recognize creativity and talent within the fantasy film industry, providing a distribution platform for filmmakers in this genre.
Key Dates
Submissions open: Starting February 10th, 2026.
Submission deadline: March 22nd, 2026.
Festival dates: April 16th to 18th, 2026.
Eligibility Requirements
National and international short and feature films belonging to the fantasy genre in any of its variants (science fiction, horror, thriller, etc.) are eligible to participate.
General Conditions
Each participant may submit up to two works.
Works must have been produced within the last two years.
Short films previously submitted to past editions of FANTLLANES will not be accepted.
Format and Submission
Short films must be submitted in digital format.
Submissions shall be sent via a download link or through online platforms.
Selection and Jury
A selection committee will evaluate the entries and choose those that will move on to the competition phase.
The festival jury will consist of professionals from the film and culture industries.
Awards will be granted in various categories, to be announced soon.
Exhibition Rights
Participants grant the organization the exhibition rights for the selected works exclusively for their screening during the festival.
Acceptance of Terms
Participation in the IV FANTLLANES implies full acceptance of these terms and conditions.
The Bola de Oro Neighborhood Association, in its annual agenda of cultural activities and in order to continue with the idea and intention of giving space and opportunity to different areas of artistic expression, invites all those who wish to participate in the Short Film Festival, "A Cinema Neighborhood".
Welcome to the 3rd Edition of ABCDETC Int'l Arts Festival!
The Festival has been established in 2025 as an indie artsy event taking place in an exquisite location Bucharest, a powerful celebration of creativity and unicity.
For the second edition we are gladly accepting entries in the following categories: short movie (under 15 min), micro movie (under 5 min), student movie (under 15 min), music video (under 15 min), fashion film (under 15 min), smartphone film (under 15 min), TV/WEB episode (under 15 min).
Also we are accepting screenplays (feature, featurette, short, micro, student), theatre plays, short stories, novels, poetry, essays, movie reviews, photography.
Good luck in the contest!
UNTHINKABLE is a Hull based film festival now in its fourth year. We are a charity that creates unique viewing opportunities for the local audience in partnership with other arts organisations and charities, including Hull Truck Theatre and Hull Independent Cinema. We aim to encourage local filmmaking talent in the region and to provide a platform for films from around the world.
At our heart, we champion originality. We all know that film is considered the seventh art, so in addition to film, we celebrate all the other art forms that film touches upon, including, but not limited to—music, performance, design, and fine art. Keeping up the relationship between the gallery and the cinema. Our festival also coincides with Hull Fair, the largest travelling fair in Europe, providing all our attendees with a feast for their filmmaking senses.
SUBMISSIONS: There is no set genre or requirement for submissions, except that the project must be under 25 minutes. Production value is of absolutely no importance to us, we value simple original ideas that challenge people's opinions and expectations, embracing the absurd, the experimental and the all around wacky. Stories are always an asset, but alway necessary. We encourage filmmakers to submit in the category they feel best represents their film. Unthinkable may consider your film for additional categories if we feel it fits elsewhere.
PATRONS: The festival is honoured to have a selection of local creative experts involved as patrons, including Mark Herman (Director), Vincent Ragan (Actor) and Richie Culver (Artist and Musician). They will assist the judging panel and give performances.
Screenings will take place primarily between 7th - 11 October 2026, with additional festival events before and after.
Please follow our Instagram, @unthinkable.hull and website to receive updates on specific dates, times and locations closer to the Festival!
The only film festival in the world held in the impressive setting of the dome of the UNLP Planetarium.
The Gritos en el Planetario festival was born in 2022 with the conviction of promoting and disseminating Latin American production of genre films, while also bringing teenagers and young people closer to the world of scientific outreach, such as the university planetarium.
In its 2025 edition, the festival will take place from October 30 to November 1
at the UNLP Planetarium.
For more information, please visit https://gritosenelplanetario.com.ar/
"Georges Méliès rocket reached the moon, Felix the cat hit the road, and the great journey continues." Anthony Haden-Guest
WE HAVE ROLLING DEADLINES. If we are in between seasons on the FESTHOME platform
(PROJECT SUBMISSION IS FREE. We have ROLLING DEADLINES for project submission.) Please see our Rules & Terms.
EVENT DATES
- Aug - Jul | Animation Nights New York curated monthly screening events
- May | ANNY Cannes Program
- Nov / Dec | ANNY Best of Fest (Season Festival / Conference)
- Ongoing | Additional Opportunities
- Ongoing | ANNY Exchange Talent Connect (https://annyexchange.com)
(Please note: Animation Nights New York (ANNY) has ROLLING DEADLINES. If you have not received a notification it means your film is still in the running to be screened at one of our monthly events!)
Animation Nights New York is a competitive films festival. We host monthly screening events of our in-competition films in venues around NYC. Admission is Free.
The ANNY Cannes Program is an additional opportunity for our filmmakers. Working with the Cannes Marché du Film and Short Film Corner we shortlist qualifying films & filmmakers and then select 20 films to be showcased in our ANNY Cannes Program. Filmmakers receive limited festival accreditation and participate in both a market screening and industry events as part of ANNY Exchange.
ANNY Best of Fest is a conference held annually in NYC. The two day festival features animation screenings, virtual reality animation experiences, art installations, professional panels, and industry events.
ANNY Exchange connects animation talent to AR/VR/Traditional projects.
HISTORY
Animation Nights New York was founded by Yvonne Grzenkowicz. On September 9, 2015, Little Water Radio invited us to use their old space at 207a Front St in the back of Fulton Stall Market for our premiere “NY Independents” screening. The program was curated by Yvonne Grzenkowicz (Animation Nights New York) and Robert Lyons (ASIFA East). We had about 45 attendees. We soon outgrew the space! (Thank you, Little Water Radio and Fulton Stall Market!)
Jan-April 2016 we were in residency with the Third Annual Out to See Festival at 192 Front St (Jan-Apr) in the South Street Seaport. We were the premiere event for this winter festival hosted by Little Water Radio and sponsored by the Howard Hughes Corporation. Animation Nights New York continued to grow.
In May 2016, Animation Nights New York relocated to the beautiful 180 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038 with support from Anderson Contemporary, MHP, Clarion Partners, and Maiden Lane Hospitality. We could finally accommodate our growing regular attendance!
Animation Nights New York now holds screening events around NYC. Besides 180 Maiden Lane, we’ve held screening events at the One World Trade Observatory, the Arts Brookfield Terrace at Brookfield Place, and The Gutter Spare Room in Williamsburg Brooklyn. We’ve held workshops and VR pop-up events at The Capitale and The Hideaway Seaport.
We’ve had over 11000 films submitted from all around the world. The work is beautiful and inspiring and the events have fostered a sense of community and exchange.
We’ve had tremendous support from ASIFA, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH, NYWIFT, Women in Animation, and the animation community at large. Animation Nights New York programs have included work by award winning animators such as Bill Plympton, George Griffin, Joanna Quinn, John Dilworth, Signe Baumane, Michael Sullivan, Dustin Grella, AthanassiosVakalis and Tiny Inventions among others.
Animation Nights New York had our First Annual ANNY Best of Fest on September 29-30, 2016. Our panel judges selected 20 films from the 200 screened Sept 2015-July 2016. The ANNY Best of Fest featured Animation Screenings, VR Animation Experiences, Art Installations, Industry Events, Artist Booths, and Professional Panels at 180 Maiden Lane and venues around the Seaport District of NYC.
Our goal is to strengthen the animation community and ensure filmmakers are rewarded for their efforts. We are looking to partner with companies who are naturally aligned with our mission to promote the arts. A huge thanks to everyone who helped us get this started.
Keep supporting independent animation. We hope to see you at our next event!
One of the main events dedicated to the promotion of contemporary production of Ibero-American animation cinema reaches its 18th edition punctuated with attractions, in addition to the already traditional parade of the main animated productions in Portuguese and Spanish.
At B-Retina Festival we want to become a platform for B-Movies of all kinds, from guerrilla trash cinema to unclassifiable cult masterpieces; therefore, emergent talents, consecrated artists and difficult to classify characters will show us how they understand and see the world around us using their inventiveness and boldness.
During the days of the festival, we will become a showcase for a variety of classic films, premieres, shorts, web series, talks, interviews, and many surprises.
The festival has several sections:
-International competition in the official FEATURE FILMS section
-International competition in the official SHORT FILM section
-Retrospectives
-Free outdoor shows
-Screenings for all audiences
-Talks
