It's an international short film festival that stands out for its socially oriented themes.
The short films participating in this festival have only one admission category related to social and solidarity themes. Since 2018, we've been using the Festhome platform.
In all these editions, the awarded short film categories have been:
Best Social Movie
Best Actor under 17
The first edition took place in September 2017, in the evocative location of the Santuario del Sacro Monte in Varese, with Silent Movie projections via headphones, directly in front of the church.
In the editions from 2018 to December 2025, we received more than 2,500 short films from approximately 50 countries around the world. 2025 editions has been held in Lecce, at the Biblioteca Ogni Bene, former Augustinian Convent. Here are the winners. for the final.
Matula Film Festival is a non-competitive festival and does not grant cash prizes or official awards.
Film selection is carried out through a curatorial process, based on artistic and thematic criteria, as well as the relationship of each work to the festival’s core focus.
Within its program, the festival may feature curated highlights and special screenings selected by the curatorial team.
Occasionally, institutional partnerships may be established to support special visibility and distribution initiatives for selected works, including collaborations with media outlets and audiovisual sector partners. Such initiatives will be formalized through specific regulations and announcements for each edition.
ImoIFF Creatives & Film Festival is a platform for films and filmmakers around the world that inspires the love for film, cinema, and the arts; and supports independent filmmakers. The festival is created to promote the local film industry both locally and internationally and to bring all the industry stakeholders together in a more focused and structured environment.
At ImoIFF, filmmakers are going to be seen, supported, and celebrated. The festival contributes towards the development of films in Imo State by showcasing the best film on the continent and worldwide. The goal of the festival is not only to celebrate arts but also to create an incubation space to encourage and grow young people in film and art, especially in the State. They do this by establishing systems through which continuing film education is sustained.
ImoIFF aspires to bridge the gap between Imo State filmmakers, Cinemas and the World, providing the best global film knowledge, skill acquisition, training, and global film distribution opportunities for independent and aspiring filmmakers. The festival is run by young people, for young people, and aims to celebrate the next generation of Film and TV talent and increase access for under-represented people to careers in the media. The festival creates a lucrative industry economically and socially to preserve our national values through film.
The festival also boasts a distinguished jury panel comprising luminaries from the global film community, including Kayode Kasum, Linda Obasi, Goodnews Erico, Ozioma Nwughalu, and Art Arutyunyan.
ImoIFF’s advisory board includes Dr. Victor Okhai, Queen B. Ebigieson, Okey Ogunjiofor, Dr. Chika Onu, Chris Odeh, Amayo Uzo Phillip, Osita Iheme, Dr. Gloria Ernest Samuel, Dr. Ken Obiakor, and Obinna Okerekeocha
Children's, Science, Nature & Wildlife Film Festival is an India’s independent film festival promoted by Miniboxoffice India. The Children's, Science, Nature & Wildlife Film Festival aim is to showcase & promote professionally made entertaining, enlightening & encouraging feature films, short films, animation & documentaries among target audience. The festival accept all genres of children’s, Science, Nature, Climate & Wildlife films be it a fantasy, motivational, drama, disability, educational, science fiction, adventurous, parenting etc.
The Children's, Science, Nature & Wildlife Film Festival is a boutique of children’s, Science, Nature, Climate & Wildlife films celebrating childhood & nature. The festival objective is to bring the world class cinema to the door step of children’s which provide alternate source of learning & help in understanding the culture of other nations and nature through the art of cinema. CSNWFF also giving exposure of film education through various workshops & master classes. At the same time providing platform to the filmmakers in reaching out wide audience through CSNWFF.
The festival helps in raising the standards of quality content for children’s & nature films and also helps to boost-up the film market. We hope that CSNWFF will prove a milestone for filmmakers in their career & a rich experience for audience as well.
The organizing body Miniboxoffice is India’s based global independent films marketing, distribution & film festival organizing company. The company aims to promote independent cinema across the world and realizing independent cinema as commercial enterprise. The company has established film festivals across India mainly in Delhi, Noida, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai & Kolkata, along with esteemed ‘Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival’. All the festivals are running successfully either in 15th or 16th year. Within a short span of time Miniboxoffice has earned reputation among filmmakers fraternity as more than 26000 films from more than 110 countries has participated in its film festivals. Brand Miniboxoffice is well known in industry & it helps extensively young & experienced participant filmmakers in getting recognition.
The Indian World Film Festival objective is to showcase best of world cinema which boost growth of industry, emerging & experienced talent. Exhibiting unprecedented stories and innovative narrations. The festival traverses across cultural boundaries in connecting filmmakers with audiences through the common language of film.
The Indian World Film Festival marks the milestone in cinematic history of Hyderabad, India. The Hyderabad- a culturally rich & heritage city is the hub of Telugu cinema & the destination of many budding filmmakers since past century. The festival is the tribute towards contribution of the Telugu film industry in the development of cinema in India.
11th Indian World Film Festival -27 will provide professional networking & film marketing opportunities to the filmmakers and also introduced them with current trends of cinema. The festival goal is to empower independent filmmakers and dedicated to become world’s finest festival which fosters the growth of independent filmmakers.
With this commitment, we invite all the filmmakers to participate in 11th edition of Indian World Film Festival.
Estranhos Encontros: São Paulo Independent Film Festival is a young festival that opens a new window for independent cinema in the cultural calendar of a city that is essential to Brazilian and Latin American film. We seek works that explore inventive strategies and approaches to filmmaking, especially those that creatively navigate production limitations. We are interested in filmmakers who engage with the history—or histories—of cinema without nostalgia, seeking ways to make the cinema of the future.
The festival is organized by a team of producers, programmers, critics, filmmakers, and other professionals deeply committed to discovering new films and new practices within the independent cinema landscape.
Koshur International Film Festival (KIFF) is a platform dedicated to showcasing powerful cinema from Kashmir, the Himalayan region, and across the world. The festival aims to promote independent films, documentaries, and stories reflecting culture, identity, and human experiences.
The Zaragoza Film Festival was born in 1995 to create a cinematographic activity in the city. In principle its main denomination was that of Young Directors. As of 2007, its official name became the Zaragoza Film Festival.
Festival with different Contests, of a general and national nature (although some of its Contests are International).
To mark our 30th anniversary, we are undertaking a renewal and update of the project.
Within the Official Section of our Festival, we are promoting the International Short Film Competition for New Latin American Talents.
This space seeks to foster artistic, cultural, aesthetic, and conceptual exchange between Latin America and Spain.
To promote the work and aesthetic vision of emerging Latin American filmmakers in Europe.
To recognize new forms of storytelling that challenge the boundaries of cinematic representation and strengthen ties between the audiovisual markets of the Americas and Spain.
HELLÍN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL,
with this VI edition, it becomes a cultural consolidation in the Spanish cinematographic universe. A festival that brings together not only cinema, during November 14 and 20, Hellín will host personalities from
the world of cinema, training courses, conferences, location routes, concerts, wine tastings, galas, and etc.
Welcome to FECHE.
The Produzioni Oriente association is pleased to present an exclusive film festival. This 2026 edition, in particular, is dedicated to international short films, a unique opportunity to explore the new frontiers of short cinema.
This selection offers an authentic and inclusive overview, bringing to the big screen, in the historical and architectural contexts of Otranto and Salento, stories of life, popular traditions, and artistic expressions across all sectors. Otranto also offers a glimpse into cinematic stories featuring the sea, in all its forms and locations.
From emerging talents to award-winning directors at major international festivals, each short will be a window onto the world, capable of telling a story in just a few intense minutes and lastingly moving us.
We invite you to Otranto in July 2026 for an exciting visual journey, an opportunity to discover cultures and traditions, but above all, life stories.
Why Submit to GIFF?
Guaranteed Full House: Thanks to our partnership with Institut Montilivi, we guarantee a vibrant, young, and engaged audience for our main screenings. Your film will be seen, debated, and celebrated.
A Prestigious Stage: Screen your work at the legendary Cinema Truffaut, the sanctuary of independent film in Girona, and walk the same streets that served as the backdrop for HBO’s Game of Thrones.
The "Montilivi" Audience Award: Win a unique accolade voted on by a young, diverse jury, giving you insight into how your storytelling resonates with the audiences of tomorrow.
Girona: A Legendary Cinematic Stage
Girona is more than just a city; it is a living film set that breathes history in every corner. Its breathtaking medieval architecture and the iconic Old Quarter (Barri Vell) captivated Hollywood’s biggest producers, serving as the primary filming location for Season 6 of HBO’s "Game of Thrones."
From the grand stairs of the Girona Cathedral—which witnessed the dramatic scenes of Braavos and King's Landing—to the labyrinthine Jewish Quarter where Arya Stark’s journey unfolded, the city has become a global icon of the silver screen.
Hosting the Girona Indie Film Fest (GIFF) here is a tribute to this audiovisual tradition. Our filmmakers don’t just screen their work; they showcase their vision in a city that has already been validated by the highest standards of international cinema.
Walk the streets where legends were filmed. Screen your vision where history was made.
INMATERIALIA FILM FEST – Provincia de Burgos
International Short Film Festival on Intangible Cultural Heritage
General Information
INMATERIALIA FILM FEST – Provincia de Burgos is an international short film festival organized by the Diputación Provincial de Burgos (Spain), dedicated to the promotion, dissemination and preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage through cinema.
The festival welcomes audiovisual works that portray living traditions, oral expressions, rituals, celebrations, traditional knowledge, craftsmanship, gastronomy and other forms of intangible cultural heritage from around the world.
The Santa Fe de Antioquia Film Festival Corporation decided, through the Festival, to turn the municipality of Santa Fe de Antioquia into a large movie theater and show open-air cinema, under the stars and framed in the colonial architecture of one of the Heritage towns of Colombia.
Over the years, the Santa Fe de Antioquia Film Festival has sought to bring cinema closer to the public through workshops, conferences, a central screening of films according to the theme, and training workshops. These activities are designed not only for the inhabitants of the municipality of Santa Fe de Antioquia, but also for inhabitants of Medellín and other inhabitants of western Antioquia and in general for university students, specialized journalists, filmmakers in training, film critics, producers, filmmakers and film lovers who for twenty-three years add up to an annual average of 15,000 festival attendees.
We live in a time that moves fast, where the visible is everything, simplicity prevails, and complexity disturbs. In this time, we choose short cinema. Not to simplify, but to condense. Not to explain, but to suggest.
Inferenze Short Film Festival is a space of passage, a crossing between the visible and the invisible, between memory and imagination. Here, each short film is a minimal gesture that digs deep. Each story is a layering: fragments of reality, visions, languages, sounds and silences. A thought settles into the image. An image awakens thought.
We chose an archaeological museum as our venue because the past, too, is an inference: we never see it completely, but we sense its form through ruins, through the traces that remain. Just like cinema, true meaning never reveals itself entirely, but emerges from nuances, unspoken moments, and the spaces between words.
The subtitle of this eighth edition, “Epiphanies of the Specter" points to a moment of revelation: when what is latent takes shape and becomes visible. The festival focuses on these apparitions, favoring works that question the image and challenge its boundaries, between presence and absence, reality and perception.
Inferenze is the festival that celebrates complexity, ambiguity, the question itself. We are not looking for easy answers, but new questions. We don’t offer pre-packaged visions, but invitations to think. This is our way of looking at the world. Beneath the surface, there is always something more.
The Calzada de Calatrava Film Festival opens its call for submissions in the following categories:
Short Films – "MADE IN CASTILLA LA MANCHA"
Official Competition – Short Films "Made in Castilla La Mancha":
Short films created by filmmakers who are either natives or residents of Castilla La Mancha; works that have used locations in this region; or productions involving companies with a registered office in Castilla La Mancha.
Official Competition – Short Films selected by CortoEspaña – Fugaz Awards:
National short films with free theme, genre, and technique, selected by CortoEspaña.
International Film Showcase:
Four feature films will be screened, selected by the festival organization from among the award winners at major international film festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, New York, Toronto, San Sebastián, Málaga, Seville, and Seminci.
Parallel Activities:
Exhibitions, workshops, conferences, special sections, gastronomy contests, film-themed routes, and film music concerts.
Oleaje Film Festival, organized by the Network of Museums of Manabí, invites filmmakers to participate in its first edition.
This festival aims to establish a platform for exhibition, training, and film production in the province of Manabí, promoting reflection on identity and territory through cinema.
In dialogue with its curatorial line, the 2026 edition, titled “Cinema is Alive!”, invites submissions of feature-length and short films—both fiction and documentary—that explore tangible and intangible heritage, such as gastronomy, music, festivities, traditional knowledge, the sea, and the ways of life that develop around it.
Special consideration will be given to works that examine how these cultural practices, together with the relationship to coastal and rural landscapes, shape memory, identity, and community, and that portray the life stories emerging from this territory between sea, mountains, and everyday life.
The Barcelona Olympic Foundation, with the support of the Barcelona City Council, organizes the BCN Sports Film 2027 – 17th BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL FICTS FESTIVAL and forms part of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE 2027.
The BCN Sports Film 2027 will take place in Barcelona on dates yet to be determined during February of 2027. In this seventeenth edition, the festival will have a competitive nature.
The seventeenth edition of the festival will have a hybrid format so, there will be face-to-face screenings and online screenings. The rights that the authors assign, therefore, are both for the face-to-face sessions that are held in the official venues of the contest, as well as for the sessions that will be held online through an online platform.
These Rules & Regulations have been approved by the BCN Sports Film 2027 Organising Committee. Your taking part in BCN Sports Film 2027 implies the total acceptance of these regulations.
AJR Vision is organizing the second edition of the AJR Vision Film Festival, an international short film festival whose goal is to discover, support, and connect emerging talent within the audiovisual industry.
The festival is part of the AJR Vision ecosystem, a digital platform that connects filmmakers, production companies, universities, and industry professionals, facilitating the visibility, distribution, and development of audiovisual works supported by AI.
AJR Vision Film Festival goes beyond exhibition: it is a gateway to real opportunities within the industry, including visibility, networking, and potential professional development.
VITAFEST, Vitacura International Short Film Festival is a festival dedicated to national and international short films and a meeting point for diverse agents of the Chilean audiovisual industry.
Now in its eight edition, VITAFEST has established itself as one of the main platforms for the short film format in Latin America, a meeting point for the various agents of the local audiovisual industry and an official showcase for the new local talented filmmakers.
