The festival aims to promote cinematographic culture through short films.
The Friends of Ribadesella Cultural Association was born in 1986, with the vocation of disseminating culture among the citizens of Ribadesella and its council, its statutory objectives being very broad (giving conferences, organizing exhibitions, publishing books, protecting cultural and historical heritage , artistic, ethnographic, natural or scientific of the town; also activities of a sporting or social nature) currently having about a thousand members, who support our cultural trajectory.
INSÓLITO Fantastic Film Festival is the most important consolidated event of genre cinema (horror, fantastic, science fiction, exploitation, trash and similar) in Peru and is currently in its ninth edition.
Since its creation, the Festival has sought to vindicate unconventional ways of making films, including national and international proposals in its exhibitions and competitions, disseminating the best films that have been made worldwide on this topic.
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The festival will take place in person in Lima from October 31st to November 15th.
This year we burn away fear and celebrate the extraordinary.
BIO FILM FESTIVAL (2026)
Agricultural and environmental biodiversity is an invaluable heritage, entrusted to us and essential for the future of our planet. It is deeply connected to the health of ecosystems, but also to our cultures, economies, and ways of living. Now in its fourth edition, the Bio Film Festival 2026 continues its commitment to raising awareness about biodiversity and fostering a shared responsibility for its protection.
Building on the path traced in previous years, the festival further explores ecological regeneration as both a necessity and a possibility. Through a curated selection of films that address the fragile balance of natural systems, the consequences of climate change, and regenerative practices in agriculture and land stewardship, the Bio Film Festival invites audiences to reflect, connect, and imagine alternative futures. Cinema becomes a tool for observation, dialogue, and transformation.
Set in the evocative province of Belluno, surrounded by the Dolomites—recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site—the festival takes place in the village of Sospirolo. Here, an open-air cinema immersed in nature offers a powerful and immersive viewing experience, where landscape and storytelling resonate with one another.
The Bio Film Festival 2026 presents documentaries, short fiction films, and animated works from around the world, each offering a unique perspective on biodiversity and environmental sustainability. Together, these films form a collective narrative that speaks to urgency, resilience, and hope. Awards will be presented during the closing ceremony for Best Documentary, Best Short Film, and Best Animated Short, honoring filmmakers whose work engages with environmental and social challenges.
The festival’s logo—depicting a child bringing life back to a grey, depleted world—remains a strong symbol of regeneration, care, and future possibility. The Bio Film Festival 2026 reaffirms itself as a space for encounter, education, and creative action, dedicated to nurturing a deeper relationship between humans and the living world.
The Córdoba International Horror Film Festival is a cultural event positioned as one of the leading platforms in Argentina and Latin America for the exhibition, training, and development of genre cinema. Its 11th edition, to be held in August 2026, will present a comprehensive program that combines screenings, educational activities, professional development opportunities, industry spaces, and events open to the community.
We love horror and we're very excited to watch your films!
The Dark Scream Film Festival (DSFF) is an international festival seeking for the best horror films.
The Selected films will be recognized and awarded in various categories.
DSFF has made a point to keep our entry free as to give everyone the chance to enter, and we offer number of award categories!
DSFF's panel of judges is set in different parts of the world and comes with a variety of horror film expertise.
Your drive, your vision and the often seemingly insurmountable challenges that you face bringing your ideas to life are what makes us proud to champion your films and bring them in front of a highly appreciative audience.
Submit your film to us today and let us help and support you to gain true recognition and become a celebrated winner of the Dark Scream Film Festival.
We're very excited to see your creations!
FanCineQueer, the International LGBTI Film Festival of Extremadura, celebrates this year its 29th edition between the 6th and the 15th of November launching its traditional Short Films Call with the purpose of recognising, visibilising and fostering the production and dissemination of recent or unreleased LGBTI works.
The Kohinoor Film Festival was founded with the vision of creating a stage for filmmakers who dare to dream. Just like the Kohinoor diamond, we believe every story has brilliance waiting to be revealed. Our talented solutions ensure success across diverse sectors by addressing your unique challenges and opportunities
The Last Hope International Film Festival is an inclusive platform for both emerging and established filmmakers. Taking place in the dynamic coastal city of Da Nang, Vietnam, the festival is dedicated exclusively to short narrative (fiction) films from around the world.
Debut works, student films, and independent productions are welcome — provided they were completed on or after January 1, 2024. The festival accepts short fiction films only. Documentary, animated, and experimental films are not eligible.
English subtitles are required for all non-English-language films.
We celebrate creativity, diversity, and powerful storytelling in contemporary short cinema. Join us to showcase your vision and become part of an international celebration of film.
Since 2013, the International Human Rights Film Festival – Colombia has offered audiences an audiovisual, cultural, and academic program that contributes to audience development, the strengthening of the film and cultural industries, the creation of spaces for dialogue around life, reconciliation, the promotion and defense of human rights, and the construction of ideas for peace.
The Festival is the ideal platform for Colombia’s and the international film community committed to storytelling with a human rights perspective. It serves as a key space for the promotion, circulation, distribution, and exhibition of audiovisual works with limited commercial demand due to their social and thematic focus.
The Festival takes place simultaneously in the cities of Barranquilla, Medellín, Cali, Bogotá, Manizales, Pereira and Quibdó, as well as in about twenty municipalities across the country.
Diversity Short Film Festival- Argentina
LGBT VIDEO ART- Anniversary Edition- 16 years
2027
Edition 16
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The 16th edition will include a non-competitive exhibition dedicated to LGBT+ shortfilms from Asia.
HALO International Film Festival is festival with live screenings. Every season we're selecting best works that will run in program and screened in the famous cultural space of Machty in Sevkabel port, St. Petersburg
On May 19, the Halo Festival will host a screening in Sevkabel port, Saint-Petersburg and on 23 May in Monkey Space, Orenburg
The main goal of the Halo Festival is to create a space for introductions and future collaborations.
We want viewers and filmmakers to meet in person, so every season we hold Q&A sessions with the authors of the films. And after the screenings, we organize after-parties, where you can socialize and make new connections in an informal atmosphere.
Submit your applications and we'll see you at the festival!
IMDb Qualifying Festival
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0032078/2023/1
Let's take a shot with shorts!
The best film festival from Moscow, Russia supported by Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and city authorities.
"Short Shot" - Monthly Awards and Screenings.
Festival is dedicated to filmmakers from all over the World.
Sending us your artwork is not sending it to a Black Hole.
We consider each film, each video!
Each director has a chance to introduce himself and his artwork and greet audience through our social media pages!
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Все русскоязычные фильмы могут участвовать в фестивале БЕСПЛАТНО.
Ищите соответствующую категорию и подавайте ЛЮБОЙ фильм в любом жанре!
Фильмы должны быть с субтитрами на английском языке! Без субтитров фильм не будет принят к рассмотрению!
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We are creators as well and we watch artworks with passion and professional interest.
We believe, that each film, each creator, each director deserve confession!
We are creating community of film lovers and filmmakers.
We communicate a lot, we discuss a lot in our social media!
Join us and be part of Short Shot Fest family!
Our jury selects every month the winning short films for each category:
Best Short Film
Best Short Comedy
Best Short Drama
Best Short Horror
Best Short Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Best Narrative Short
Best Student Short
Best Animation Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Experimental Short
Best Music Video
Best Mini Short
Best Mobile Phone Short (incl vertical)
Best Series (Web/TV)
Best Fashion Short
Best Commercial/Ad/TVC
Also, we provide chance for MOSCOW film creators to take a chance in showing our beautiful city in their movies.
How we do?
Choose one or more categories and submit your short film.
Usually, our submissions start on 1th-4th of the month and end on the same day next month.
EACH submitted film will receive a short review from our judge team (on request)
PLEASE NOTE: We don't screen the films online! The members of the jury watch the films online and they choose the Official Selections.
In 5-7 days after the deadline day for submissions we publish the Official Selections list and we notify the filmmakers via e-mail.
During the next 5 days our members of the jury decide the winners for each category.
After that we publish the Winners list and we notify filmmakers by e-mail. The lists are published on social media and on our dedicated website: shortshotfest.com
In the last week of the month we screen the awarded films in art - center "Efir" in the heart of Moscow.
From August, 2024 we are OPEN for new season 2025/2026!
The Grand Finale 2025/2026 will be held in August, 2026 in Moscow.
International judge team, great networking and friendly atmosphere — that’s Short Shot Fest.
Stay tuned and check our website: shortshotfest.com
International guitarist festival, for original composed guitar music, featuring its video or film. For one man band to orchestra.
We like unique melodic harmony compositions, no matter of genre, from classic to shredding.
So, we want original composed music (in video), no matter of style, no matter of expensive studios or masterng. Just submit it.
The SilverVox Film & Music Festival is set to make an exciting debut in Frederick, Maryland, marking its inaugural year with a bold and vibrant celebration of cinematic and musical artistry. Spanning multiple days and venues, the SilverVox Fest promises a dynamic blend of film screenings, live music, and immersive events that will transform the city into a creative hub for both local residents and visiting artists.
With a diverse lineup of feature-length and short films from around the globe, the SilverVox Fest will showcase the talents of emerging and established filmmakers. Audiences can expect a rich array of genres and styles, highlighting the best in local, national, and international cinema. From emotionally resonant dramas to thought-provoking documentaries and boundary-pushing experimental works, the festival aims to engage viewers with stories that spark conversation and inspire connection.
The heart of the festival will beat strongest at the historic Weinberg Center, where most of the marquee screenings and programs will take place. However, the SilverVox Fest is a truly city-wide experience, with additional screenings and events hosted across various Frederick venues, creating a festival atmosphere that spills into the streets and engages the broader community.
Beyond the films themselves, the festival offers a packed schedule of music and interactive events. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to meet and mingle with filmmakers during panels, Q&A sessions, closed-captioned films, and intimate gatherings. These moments provide a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process and foster exchanges between artists and audiences. Live music performances will be interwoven throughout the festival, featuring both local bands and visiting acts, ensuring that the soundtrack to the SilverVox Festival is as exciting and eclectic as its film lineup.
Produced by SilverVox.org. A 501(c)(3) Nonprofit.
Creativity Connects Us
SAN BENEDETTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ( Terms, Rules, prizes and motivations can be translated in 22 languages visiting our site https://www.sanbenedettofilmfest.it)
"MAGICSCREENPLAY" ( Terms, Rules, prizes and motivations can be translated in 22 languages visiting our site https://www.sanbenedettofilmfest.it/magic-screenplay/)
We built a festival in total freedom, without any external conditioning. An International Short Film Competition. A window on cinema from a privileged viewpoint: the city of San Benedetto del Tronto. Born in 2017, the SBFF has become one of the leading international events for the Adriatic Riviera and the Piceno region. The events will take place at the Palazzina Azzurra in San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) on Viale Buozzi 14.
"MAGICSCREENPLAY" - (Collateral Event to the SAN BENEDETTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL) was born from the need to combine the scenic, architectural and natural beauties of the Marche Region in syncrasia with the cultural, social heritage and identity need of the places and the human and professional resources that come from them, evolve and hope for an ever-increasing expansion of training, skills and abilities.
The Contest was born within a strategy of discovery and promotion of national and international emerging talents and represents the exclusive context to select, through a Quality Jury, the best pitch, with a predefined theme, to be declined into a consequent script.
After the selection, the one deemed to perform best will be subjected to development through the creation of a short film with a total length of no more than 15 minutes, produced by the Associated Professionals Association of Art & Management "IL SERPENTE AUREO," in collaboration with and with the support of the FILM COMMISSION MARCHE, the MARCHE REGION and under the patronage of the City of San Benedetto del Tronto.
ARTIST'S VISIONS - VISIONS FROM THE WORLD
- " There is no art form like cinema to strike the conscience, shake the emotions and reach the secret rooms of the soul" Ingmar Bergman
- " Life in the depths is completely different from life on the surface and has mysterious and terrifying aspects" Dario Argento
- " I am not an artist but a craftsman" "The heart must mediate between the brain and the hands" Fritz Lang
- " I steal from every single film ever made. If I like things I mix them together. And if people don't like it, then don't go see it.... I steal from everything.... Great artists steal not make homages" Quentin Tarantino
- " No matter where the world goes, even if I can't speak a foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of the earth as my home. "Akira Kurosawa
- " An essential element of all art is risk..." Francis Ford Coppola
- " Cinema is a mode of expression that allows one to express all the nuances of a thing and its opposites..." Catherine Breillat
- " Unlike all other art forms, cinema is able to capture and render the passage of time, to stop it almost to possess it in infinity. I would say that film is the sculpture of time. "Andrei Tarkovsky
- " I am just a storyteller and film seems to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in motion, enhances it ... it is my way of telling a story. "Federico Fellini
- " The art of film can only really exist through a highly organized betrayal of reality" François Truffaut
- " I work with my dreams or nightmares" David Cronenberg
- " If I can't get the characters to talk, then I give up " Quantin Tarantino
- " The poet stretches out his hand to lead us beyond the last horizon, beyond the top of the pyramid, to that land that extends beyond the true and the false, beyond life and death, beyond space and time, beyond reason and fantasy, beyond spirit and matter." Alejandro Jodorowsky
- " Cinema is the 'only art form in which the works move and the viewer remains motionless " Ennio Flaiano
- " Cinema is a cultural industry. Making films also means assuming a social and moral responsibility. Therefore, we should not produce what we can sell, but sell what we want to produce " Franco Cristaldi
- " I think that scandalizing is a right.... " Pier Paolo Pasolini
- " To act is to listen... " Pupi Avati
- " I think the past affects the ability to tell stories" Joel Coen
- " Cinema is beautiful if it can read reality " Ettore Scola
- " Cinema consists of two things: a screen and chairs. The secret lies in filling them both " Roberto Benigni
THE FESTIVAL: MOVEMENT OF CULTURE
The Festival was born with a very specific mission: it aims to stimulate public attention towards an open and wide representative space, such as the rural environment, makes its outdoor projections, open to all, the best exponent. Youth and adults, generations separated by years and experiences, gather around a screen, which is the focus of the light of a past and a future: culture is timeless, culture unites, and film language will be the link common to temper emotions and feelings, to treasure memories, to provoke lively gatherings.
In this way, all attendees of the event can enjoy a heterogeneous and dynamic speech. Through this cultural impulse, the different currents of creativity allow viewers to move and explore new and old codes in a public space, creating community.
ORIGEN International Short Film Festival is held in Orce (Granada, Spain), a unique archaeological site internationally recognized for its relevance in the study of human origins.
The festival aims to promote short films as a creative tool to explore identity, memory, territory, roots, and heritage, while supporting emerging filmmakers and decentralizing cultural access in rural environments.
Aware of the importance of audiovisual media in Spanish society today and, trying to make them both a comunication and education media, to promote values of solidarity and tolerance, the International Social Film Festival of Castilla-La Mancha was born and it will be held in Toledo, It will continue in Toledo, Torrijos, Cuenca, Olías del Rey...
In this Festival are invited to take part to public and private entities that share the same concerns.
The Festival consists of several sections, including a contest of short and documentaries, social issues include: xenophobia, generational conflict, child labor, domestic violence, social roles, ecology, children´s rights, coexistence, etc.
Discover the Magic of the Abia International Film Festival (ABIFF)!
Launched in June 2024, the Abia International Film Festival (ABIFF) made a powerful debut with its inaugural edition held from 20th to 22nd December 2024 in Umuahia, Abia State. The festival brought together filmmakers, actors, industry stakeholders, and creative enthusiasts from across Nigeria and the diaspora in a vibrant celebration of storytelling, innovation, and cultural identity.
ABIFF 2025 – A Remarkable Second Edition
Building on the success of its inaugural outing, ABIFF 2025 recorded a significant milestone with over 1,243 film submissions from filmmakers across Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia — positioning the festival as one of the fastest-growing film platforms in West Africa.
Highlights of the 2025 edition included:
Carefully curated international and African film screenings
Intensive youth training workshops in screenwriting, acting, video editing, and film production management
Industry panel discussions and masterclasses facilitated by seasoned professionals
A glamorous Awards Night celebrating excellence in filmmaking
The highly anticipated All Abia Nollywood Artists Night, uniting Abia-born creatives and industry icons
The festival further strengthened its mission of empowering young creatives, with structured training programs aimed at equipping thousands of Abia youths with practical media and film production skills.
ABIFF 2026 – Bigger Vision, Global Impact
The upcoming ABIFF 2026 edition is projected to be even more expansive and globally connected. Expectations include:
Increased international participation and cultural exchange partnerships
Expanded film categories, including AI-driven storytelling and emerging media
Certification-backed training programs in collaboration with accredited institutions
Industry marketplace sessions connecting filmmakers with distributors and investors
Strategic partnerships with global film festivals and training academies
A stronger focus on youth employment, entrepreneurship, and creative enterprise development
ABIFF 2026 will continue positioning Abia State as a rising hub in Africa’s creative economy while fostering cross-border collaboration and innovation.
Partnership and Collaboration
We warmly welcome partnerships and collaborations from individuals, organizations, film institutes, embassies, and cultural bodies committed to advancing the creative industry. ABIFF provides a dynamic platform for:
Youth empowerment
Talent development
Cultural preservation
Investment in Africa’s storytelling economy
Cultural Uniqueness of Abia State
Abia State remains a treasure trove of cultural heritage, rich traditions, entrepreneurial excellence, and artistic brilliance. ABIFF proudly showcases the identity of Abia — from indigenous storytelling traditions to modern cinematic expressions — projecting the state’s creative spirit onto the global stage.
Institutional Endorsements
ABIFF continues to receive recognition and endorsement from key government bodies, including:
The Abia State Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy
The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Entertainment and Tourism
These endorsements affirm ABIFF’s growing role in cultural diplomacy, tourism development, and economic transformation within Abia State.
Why You Shouldn’t Miss ABIFF 2026
-Unforgettable Experiences: World-class workshops, masterclasses, and engaging conversations with industry leaders.
-Creative Inspiration: Powerful films that educate, entertain, and inspire.
-Global Networking: Connect with filmmakers, actors, producers, distributors, and investors.
-Youth Empowerment: Be part of a transformative initiative equipping Abia youths with employable creative skills.
-Grand Celebrations: Awards Night and the All Abia Nollywood Artists Night.
-Creative Economy Gateway: Experience how ABIFF is redefining Abia as a destination for film, tourism, and innovation.
ABIFF is not just a festival — it is a movement shaping the future of African storytelling.
Whether you’re a filmmaker, actor, writer, investor, cultural enthusiast, or film lover, ABIFF offers the ultimate platform to immerse yourself in the magic of cinema while contributing to meaningful impact.
Visit: www.abiafilmfestival.org
Email: abiainternationalfilmfestival@gmail.com
Phone: 07033556445
Together, let’s continue making history and elevating Abia’s creative voice to the world stage.
