Terror Frame Fest, one of the first horror festivals in the Community of Madrid, is back for its fifth edition, where we can enjoy HORROR and its endless variety of subgenres, such as A-list, B-list, and Z-list films, slashers, gore, atrocity, space horror, zombies, and fake trailers... In short: we love getting scared—and we also love laughing at your crazy ideas.
International Inclusive Film Festival ENTRE DEUX... CANNES
We accept films, that deal with themes of disability or Deaf culture, or about people who identify as 'disabled', 'people with a disability', or use terms like 'handicapped', 'functional diversity', or -abled'. We also welcome Deaf and neurodiverse people who do not identify with or use these terms.'
All the films need to be SUBTITLED IN FRENCH IN WHITE COLOR and in second line in English with orange color for them to be accepted on competition.
Our jury and the board of organisation is composed by valid and handicap persons.
DANA Film Festival is the UAE's premier platform celebrating independent cinema from the Arab world and beyond. Founded in Dubai and spanning across the Emirates, DANA is a festival dedicated to the art of storytelling — where every frame carries meaning and every story deserves to be seen.
Raw. Real. Reel.
In its landmark inaugural edition, DANA Film Festival 2027 brings together filmmakers, artists, and cinema lovers for a vibrant multi-city celebration of film. From feature films and documentaries to short films and experimental works, DANA welcomes stories rooted in humanity, culture, and creative vision.
What to expect at DANA 2027:
Official screenings across multiple Emirates including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah
Industry panels and filmmaker Q&A sessions
Networking events connecting regional talent with international industry professionals
Awards across key categories including Best Feature, Best Short, Best Documentary, and Best Arab Film
A festival built on cultural exchange, artistic excellence, and the enduring power of cinema
DANA Film Festival is a celebration of film in its most honest and powerful form. Whether you are a first-time filmmaker or an established director, DANA is your stage.
Submit your film. Share your story.
Lights. Camera. DANA — where cinema comes alive.
PAIFF PRAGUE AI FILM FESTIVAL is an international film festival dedicated to a new generation of filmmaking shaped by artificial intelligence.
PAIFF is not a festival about artificial intelligence. It is a festival about the future of filmmaking.
The festival welcomes filmmakers from around the world who use AI as part of their creative process — from AI-assisted production to AI-generated works — while placing artistic vision, storytelling and human creativity at the heart of every project.
The inaugural edition of PAIFF will take place on November 28, 2026, at the historic Lucerna Palace in Prague, Czech Republic.
Selected works will be evaluated by an international jury, with awards presented during the official festival ceremony in Prague.
PAIFF brings together film, technology and creativity in one of Europe’s most iconic cultural cities.
AI is not replacing filmmakers — it is expanding their creative possibilities.
The Chefchaouen International Environmental Film Festival is a film festival dedicated to film lovers and those concerned about the environment in Morocco and abroad, it is an annual event in the superb blue pearl of northern Morocco, the tourist and ecological city of Chefchaouen.
The 16th Edition of the Chefchaouen International Environmental Film Festival will be held from June 17 to 20, 2026on the occasion of World Environment Day.
The 15th Edition of the Chefchaouen International Environmental Film Festival will be held from June 16 to 19, 2027 on the occasion of World Environment Day.
A varied program, and a jury composed of internationally and nationally renowned film and environmental professionals will be responsible for designating the winners of the planned awards.
Calling all industry professionals and blossoming talent! Like the stars you are, it's your time to shine! Welcome to the premier VertiStar Vertical Film Fest. Created by industry professionals to feature the exciting, ground-breaking, and disrupting genre of vertical micro-dramas and creator content.
Our goal is to acknowledge and celebrate emerging talent and raise the standard of quality in this space.
VertiStar’s mission is to empower the next generation of storytellers, social media influencers, and artists by delivering cinematic short-form content through a mobile-first platform that fuses entertainment, commerce, and culture.
To this end we are only accepting vertical-format micro-drama features; any genre, but primarily: Romance, Drama, Thriller, Action, Comedy, Quick Reels, & All AI. Our audience and judges will decide the winners of these categories.
***EVERY VIEWER'S "LIKES" COUNT !!!***
This is a hybrid event with initial digital screenings and voting on the VertiStar.app followed by a day-long live event on July 24, 2026 featuring a networking event, breakout sessions, and showings of all the winning entries by category and laureled award recognitions.
Purchase Tickets at: https://vertistar.app/festival-attendees/#register
SOUS-SOL INTERDIT is an underground horror short film festival based in Paris, dedicated to bold, unsettling, and uncompromising cinema.
SOUS-SOL-INTERDIT will take place the October 31 2026. Screenings take place at the Théâtre STEPHANE GILDAS located at 16 rue Tolbiac, 75013 Paris.
Born in a literal basement, the festival embraces dark atmospheres, raw storytelling, and films that dare to cross boundaries, aesthetically, narratively, or emotionally. We are looking for horror in all its forms: psychological, visceral, experimental, strange, or poetic.
The first edition was sold out, with a packed room and a highly engaged audience. Our goal is not to become a massive industry event, but to remain a human-scale festival, where films are watched carefully, discussed passionately, and experienced collectively.
What we’re looking for :
Horror short films (fiction, experimental, animation, hybrid)
Strong visual identity and atmosphere
Singular voices and personal visions
Films that work on a big screen, in the dark, with an audience
Low-budget films are absolutely welcome, sincerity and creativity matter more than production value.
What selected filmmakers will experience
Selected filmmakers will be invited to take part in a unique, live cinema experience.
All selected films will be screened in a theater setting, in front of a real audience.
Films are discovered by the jury and the audience at the same time, during the screening.
After the projections, awards are decided live, including:
Jury Award
Audience Award
Filmmakers are warmly encouraged to attend the event to present their work, meet the audience, and take part in post-screening discussions.
While attendance is not mandatory, we strongly values the presence of filmmakers, as the festival is built around human encounters and shared cinematic moments.
Award winners will receive an official laurels pack and will be highlighted on the festival’s social media and website.
SOUS-SOL INTERDIT is a human-scale, underground horror festival that celebrates bold, dark, and original short films in a friendly and immersive atmosphere.
The Christian Faith International Film Festival (CFIF) is a premier platform dedicated to celebrating, showcasing, and elevating independent faith-based cinema from across the globe. Nestled in the vibrant cultural hub of Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, our mission is to empower independent filmmakers who use the power of visual storytelling to inspire hope, share diverse perspectives, and reflect Christian values and truths.
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*
GardenCity International Film Festival proudly brings the world of cinema to the IT city of India, Bangalore. We are happy to introduce the local audience to a range of most recent, cinematically daring and powerful filmmaking from around the globe. We want to be a festival that touches and teaches the audience, a festival that will drive creators to produce meaningful films, a festival that drives audiences from all walks of life and makes the week-end a deep experience that becomes a long lasting tradition.
From comedy to horror, drama to sci-fi, animation to docs, and everything in between, GardenCity accepts submissions of all genres, and looks for creative storytelling above anything else.
THE FESTIVAL WILL TAKE PLACE JULY 2027
The RUSH Youth Film Festival is back for another year of celebrating bold, innovative storytelling from the next generation of filmmakers! Taking place at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre and across St. Catharines, the festival is a platform for young creatives to showcase their work in front of live audiences, industry professionals, and fellow filmmakers.
ALSO CHECK OUT: RUSH AFTER DARK https://festhome.com/festival/rush-youth-film-festival
Now Accepting Submissions
We’re looking for short films from filmmakers aged 35 and under in all genres—live-action, animation, documentary, and experimental. Whether your film is deeply personal, wildly inventive, or pushing cinematic boundaries, we want to see it!
Festival Highlights
Beyond screenings, RUSH 2026 will be packed with opportunities for learning, networking, and creative growth:
Workshops with Industry Mentors – Learn from professionals in directing, screenwriting, cinematography, editing, sound design, and more.
Q&A Sessions with Filmmakers – Gain behind-the-scenes insight as directors, actors, and crew members break down their creative process.
Networking & Social Events – Connect with fellow filmmakers, industry insiders, and film lovers in a relaxed setting. Build relationships, find collaborators, and exchange ideas.
Panel Discussions – Explore industry trends, new technologies, and the evolving landscape of youth-driven storytelling.
Exclusive Festival Parties – Celebrate your work, unwind, and enjoy live music, entertainment, and awards presentations on closing night!
Don’t miss this chance to share your vision, connect with fellow creatives, and be part of an unforgettable festival experience. Submissions are now open!
Humor en Corto - Humor in Short
The XXIV edition of Arrigorriaga's humor short film festival, the oldest in Spain.
From December the 14th to the 19th, 2026, in Lonbo Aretoa, Arrigorriaga, Spain.
Galichnik Film Festival is small festival looking to leave big footprint in the sky full of festivals by providing platform for new filmmakers from the region and beyond. Galichnik is a village known for its well-preserved traditional architecture, including an amphitheater in the village square, where the festival audience will have the chance to see number of films in three competition programs: short fiction, short documentary and short animation.
The festival aspires to become a meeting point for film professionals from around the world to develop new ideas, collaborations and friendships. We are excited for the audience to be part of a unique cinema experience in an open air cinema at an altitude of 1500m.
Top 100 best rated and reviewed in the world and IMDb listed - Global India International Film Festival
IMDb QUALIFYING: https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0008445
Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam!! Yes the whole world is a one family; From the Spiritual soil of India. From the bottom of the heart, we believe that the whole humanity is a one family and an every individual human being is a beautiful character or a player with a supreme god particle, who perform his or her great role on this global prosperous World Stage.
We really wish to share international thinking which is developed in the form of films with the society and the young generation of humanity. Every human being has a unique story to tell, but few from them are capable to express their own to the world. But the Filmmakers are the great storytellers and world wants to watch their stories through films or digital media. Because they channelize & nurture these stories through films and our motto is to spread these stories from all across the world to the masses and especially to the youngsters. Filmmakers from all across the globe are respectfully welcome to share and submit your beautiful films into the GIIFF.
We understand that you understand the realm of understanding and so you have created your wonderful films with your conscious understanding.
Connecting World with India through Audio-Visual.
Films are really a strong medium to share, yes to share, but what creates a filmmaker is a sense of what to share. Through vantage point we see that entertainment is just the medium to share realm of life with film lovers. If we penetrate the meaning of life sometime we feel that there is no such meaning or purpose to life, yes! Sometime, but we must have to give a great meaning or purpose to life to create it more beautiful for the whole world as a one family. for whole humanity or for our next generation.
We are really very small people; please understand what we want to say. But the task or mission which we want to empower is very big. One can understand it by the example of river. The beginning or origin of every river is so small but her consistency with selflessness leads her towards more hugeness.
The International Film Festival of the Central University (FICUC) and the Central University’s film program are once again present to invite students, alumni, and the public to the ninth edition of FICUC.
This year’s vision will be an invitation to reflect on a cinema that embraces Latin American diversity, rather than pursuing a model tailored to satisfy those colonial perspectives that seek to dictate what cinema in our continent should be.
The ninth edition of FICUC opens its call for submissions to all types of national and Latin American short films created during academic periods at the undergraduate, graduate, master’s level, etc. Likewise, short films produced outside academic periods will be accepted, provided they are certified by the participants’ university (such as creation labs, research groups, etc.). In the same way, Colombian feature films that align with the curatorial line will also be accepted.
CINESTRO is the Horror Fiction Short Film Contest organized by Serendipia Cine Colima, with a national call open to filmmakers from any state in Mexico. It seeks original horror-fiction short films between 10 and 12 minutes long (including credits), produced between 2024 and 2026. Submissions must be delivered in Full HD 1920x1080 quality. Winners are selected by a jury external to the Serendipia Cine collective, with cash prizes: $5,000 MXN for first place, $3,000 MXN for second, and $1,500 MXN (in kind) for third. The awards ceremony and screening take place during a special public event. Now in its fourth edition, CINESTRO has established itself as a leading platform for horror cinema made in Colima and Mexico, backed by institutions such as INAH and the University of Colima.
The national-regional Festival "Corto Cortismo" of Miguelturra (Ciudad Real), aims to promote short films as a means of audiovisual expression, contributing to their recognition, dissemination and appreciation as an essential means of transmitting culture. Considering it at all times CINEMA with capital letters and taking this format as a fundamental and essential part of CINEMA, we encourage you all to participate in it, as a platform for the exhibition of good work, which is surely being done by many people who He loves CINEMA as a profession and as one of the means of projection of Culture.
Our Festival presents a double modality of participation: regional and national, this, in turn, divided into the section of adult fiction short films, and the modality of children-family animation short films.
The regional modality will host all those works that come to us from people or teams that, in some way, have links with the region of Castilla-La Mancha and have been carried out in the last year.
For its part, the national modality will exhibit those works that are presented and that have been made in the last two years and have not been presented in previous editions of this Festival.
Starting in 2026, SOCIALMED will focus on films made by and about women, highlighting in particular the situation regarding women's human rights as well as the fact that women remain a minority in the audiovisual sector in every corner of the world.
SOCIALMED VALÈNCIA was founded as the first Human Rights Festival of the Mediterranean, with a special focus on cinema and artistic creation related to social issues geographically and culturally linked to the Mediterranean Sea. The festival is based in València and holds its main event once a year in November.
Festival organizers: VSRIGHTS (Valencian Agency for Human Rights).
Festival sponsors and funders: Diputación de Valencia Provincial Council of Valencia.
This call for entries pertains to the festival’s competitive sections.
The Esteemed City Council of Doña Mencía, through its Departments of Youth and Tourism, the “Cine y Entornos Rurales” Association and the Provincial Council of Córdoba, with the collaboration of the Government of Andalusia, the Subbética Commonwealth and Selpillar Studios, hereby announce the rules for the 2nd EDITION OF THE DOÑA MENCÍA SHORT FILM COMPETITION
