Parrot Film Festival
Parrot Film Festival at Parrot Kino & Gaming Lounge
In Rome, among antiquity and antennas, ancient trees and skies filled with traffic, parrots have learned to fly free. Colorful, noisy, unpredictable, they have invaded the city like a small tropical miracle: green feathers between the buildings, exotic cries above the cobblestones, flashes of color in the urban grey.
From this spirit, the Parrot Film Festival is born: a festival dedicated to the bravest, most visionary and colorful films. Works that are not afraid to be noticed, to be strange, wild, luminous, ironic, or deeply free.
At Parrot Kino & Gaming Lounge, cinema, gaming, imagination and pop culture meet in a vibrant, unconventional space. Here, we celebrate films that dare to shift perspective, break the cages of narrative, and fly in unexpected directions.
Like the parrots crossing Rome without asking permission, the films of the festival bring color where there was none before: they invade the gaze, disturb the silence, and open new routes.
The films in competition will be evaluated by a jury composed of a large number of cinephile spectators through the INDI platform, which will allow them to vote and select the boldest, most original and most memorable films.
The festival prize is the Colorful Parrot Award, given to the films that distinguish themselves through creative courage, visual identity, expressive freedom, and the ability to leave a mark.
The Parrot Film Festival is not just a film showcase: it is a poetic invasion of images, sounds and colors. A place where cinema opens its wings, changes its feathers, and flies above Rome with all its wildest energy.
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Festival de Cine Parrot en el Parrot Kino & Gaming Lounge.
En Roma, entre antigüedades y antenas, árboles centenarios y cielos llenos de tráfico, los loros han aprendido a volar libres. Coloridos, ruidosos e impredecibles, han invadido la ciudad como un pequeño milagro tropical: plumas verdes entre los edificios, gritos exóticos sobre los adoquines, destellos de color en el gris urbano.
De este espíritu nace el Parrot Film Festival: un festival dedicado a las películas más valientes, visionarias y coloridas. Obras que no temen llamar la atención, ser extrañas, salvajes, luminosas, irónicas o profundamente libres.
En Parrot Kino & Gaming Lounge, cine, videojuegos, imaginación y cultura pop se encuentran en un espacio vibrante y poco convencional. Aquí celebramos películas que se atreven a cambiar de perspectiva, romper las jaulas de la narrativa y volar en direcciones inesperadas.
Como los loros que cruzan Roma sin pedir permiso, las películas del festival traen color donde antes no lo había: invaden la mirada, perturban el silencio y abren nuevos caminos.
Las películas en competición serán evaluadas por un jurado compuesto por un gran número de cinéfilos a través de la plataforma INDI, que les permitirá votar y seleccionar las películas más audaces, originales y memorables.
El premio del festival es el Premio Loro Colorido, otorgado a las películas que se distinguen por su valentía creativa, identidad visual, libertad expresiva y capacidad de dejar huella.
El Festival de Cine del Loro no es solo una muestra de cine: es una invasión poética de imágenes, sonidos y colores. Un lugar donde el cine despliega sus alas, cambia de plumaje y vuela sobre Roma con toda su energía salvaje.
This town is bewitched.
Fables of the Demons have taken deep root in the dark hearts of our followers both near and far, they come in droves to take in the horrors upon the silver screen.
Desmond District Demons is an annual independent film festival that takes place every October. We look to celebrate the dedication and passion of genre filmmakers from across the globe and especially in our locally grown talent in Michigan.
Our journey began with a shared vision among fellow filmmakers, a desire to create a platform where exceptional films could be showcased and appreciated for the artistry and dedication they embody.
Throughout our many seasons, we've been fortunate to witness the dark, twisted imaginations of filmmakers from every corner of the world to share with our audiences. Our communities shared devotion to genre cinema humbles us year after year.
Films from around the globe participate in a competition to win judged awards, as well as audience choice awards. (non-cash) We also like to bestow an award on our favorite Michigan filmmaker as well.
Michigan filmmakers submitting to the festival also have access to a special discount to encourage and help our local talent get their films on the silver screen in front of a live audience.
Planet Frame: International Youth Film Festival & Anthology
Planet Frame is an international youth film festival and creative platform bringing together filmmakers aged 12–24 from around the world. Based in Morganton, North Carolina, USA, the festival provides a space for a new generation to share its stories, perspectives, and creative visions through cinema.
One of Planet Frame's distinctive features is its outdoor public screenings on a large screen, where films by young filmmakers are presented to live audiences in the heart of the city.
Each season, Planet Frame invites young filmmakers to reflect on one question. The question for 2027 is:
What comes next?”
What lies ahead for us, our communities, and the world we share? What do we hope for, what do we fear, and what might we change?
This question is an invitation to reflection, not a mandatory theme. Every filmmaker is free to tell the story that matters to them.
Planet Frame welcomes fiction, documentary, animation, observational, experimental, and hybrid films. We value originality, artistic vision, creative storytelling, and the authenticity of each filmmaker's voice.
Beyond festival screenings and awards, Planet Frame aims to help young films reach new audiences. Through curated selections, filmmaker interviews, editorial features, educational screenings, and the **Planet Frame International Film Almanac**, selected works may find opportunities to be seen and appreciated beyond the festival itself.
Planet Frame is more than a film competition. It is a meeting place for emerging voices from different countries and cultures — a space where young filmmakers can share their perspectives, connect with audiences, and contribute to an international cinematic conversation.
Planet Frame 2027 takes place on September 18, 2027, in Morganton, North Carolina, USA.
We welcome young filmmakers from around the world to become part of Planet Frame 2027.
This call for entries governs participation in the section dedicated to the “Best School Short Film”, featuring fiction, documentary, or animation in the comedy genre. The competition is open to schools of all levels and will be organised in collaboration with ARCI MOVIE, which will provide technical and operational support.
The Windsor International Black Film Festival (WIBFF) celebrates Black stories from Canada and around the world. Our 4th annual event will take place August 12-15th 2027, a 4-day event to celebrate the contributions of Black filmmakers and storytellers both locally and internationally.
Festival days will include film screenings and premieres of our major category winners, alongside immersive discussion panels, followed by a red carpet awards night. PLEASE NOTE THAT AWARD WINNERS WHO ARE NOT PRESENT WILL HAVE TO SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO PICK UP THEIR AWARD. OR MAKE ALTERNATE ARRANGEMENTS TO GET THE AWARD MAILED OUT.
The Las Vegas Film Festival is an international cinema event from the entertainment capital of the world.
The festival showcases the best in independent, contemporary, and international cinema, bringing together filmmakers, audiences, and industry professionals for a dynamic celebration of storytelling.
Across eight days, the Las Vegas Film Festival presents more than 350 films through a curated program of screenings, premieres, filmmaker appearances, panel discussions, and special events. Audiences connect with filmmakers, artists, and industry professionals at Brenden Theatres at the Palms Casino Resort and venues throughout Las Vegas.
Extending beyond the annual festival, the Las Vegas Film Festival presents year-round screenings, film exhibitions, and cinematic experiences that inspire, educate, and entertain. Through ongoing programming and community engagement, the festival serves as a destination for independent film and global cinema throughout the year.
We are excited to announce our call for entries for the 2027 Adriatikino edition. We are looking for short films based on celluloid film or other analog media, with no boundaries on genre. Experimental work, found footage and mixed media are welcome, as well as any cinematic language that challenges the orthodoxy.
Adriatikino is an in-person screening organized by local filmmakers in collaboration with Luma Experimental Film Lab and Teatro Nuovo di Capodarco in Fermo (Italy), close to the Adriatic Sea. Inspired by its historical spirit of connecting cultures, Adriatikino aims to be an encounter to nourish a film-loving community, to promote exchange between filmmakers and film lovers, as well as to spread analog film practices.
The event includes screenings, workshops and other events. The movie theater Teatro Nuovo di Capodarco is the main venue for the screening. Luma Experimental Film Lab is a second venue and a film workshop promoting darkroom experience.
We are seeking short films that use celluloid film or other analog media, no longer than 15 minutes. Once again this year, we have a special category for super short films, with a duration of up to 1 minute.
The 7th Quillota International Film Festival, now in its seventh edition, features three short film competitions. The festival carries out initiatives related to film training, production, and distribution within the city and province of Quillota. Its objective is to facilitate professional-grade cinematic content across a variety of settings—including public spaces, movie theaters, cultural venues, and schools—throughout the province of Quillota, in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. In 2026, the festival will once again host screenings at the city’s Leopoldo Silva Cultural Center and at the Center for the Promotion of Health and Culture, alongside open-air, community-based screenings in public spaces across the city of Quillota (specifically in the Corvi neighborhood and the city’s main square, the Plaza de Armas).
ESTEKA, Euskal Film Laburrak Sustatzeko Elkarte Profesionala, convoca BIDEAN, la convocatoria de proyectos de cortometraje en fase de Work in Progress (WIP) del III Mercado del Cortometraje Vasco, que se celebrará los días 11 y 12 de diciembre de 2026 en el Palacio Villa Suso de Vitoria-Gasteiz.
La convocatoria tiene como finalidad apoyar la finalización y distribución profesional de cortometrajes que hayan completado su rodaje y se encuentren en una fase avanzada de montaje y postproducción, favoreciendo su encuentro con profesionales y agentes del sector audiovisual que puedan contribuir a su finalización, distribución y futura distribución.
De entre todos los proyectos recibidos, un comité de selección formado por profesionales del sector elegirá UN MÁXIMO DE SIETE PROYECTOS, que participarán el 12 de diciembre de 2026 en una sesión de visionados privados ante profesionales acreditados del sector.
Entre los profesionales invitados podrán encontrarse productoras interesadas en incorporarse a los proyectos en esta fase, distribuidoras, programadoras y programadores de festivales, y otros perfiles vinculados a la producción, postproducción, distribución y exhibición cinematográfica.
La asistencia a BIDEAN será obligatoria para la persona directora y la persona productora de cada uno de los proyectos seleccionados.
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Con el patrocinio de Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz, Diputación Foral de Álava - Arabako Foru Aldundia, Eusko Jaurlaritza / Gobierno Vasco, Rural Kutxa Gizarte Ekintza, Fundación SGAE y EITB. Con la ayuda de La Córnea Digital, iCOFF, Caostica, Epic Films Rental, Sonora, We Punk! Distributions y hazik, y la organización de esteka.
MiTS (Movement & Social Transformation) is a Social Video-dance Festival which explores the interrelation between video and dance as a tool to bring about powerful discussions and visibility to all kinds of diversity: diverse identities, diverse bodies and territories to discover.
The Globale Festival was born in Berlin (Germany) in 2003, from which it spread to cities such as Warsaw (Poland), Montevideo (Uruguay), and, since 2011, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Bogotá (Colombia).
Globale Bogotá Film Festival – Critical and emancipatory perspectives seeks to generate spaces for denunciation, dialogue, awareness, and analysis of reality based on the themes set for each edition. The initiative aims to materialize proposals for the transformation of prevailing cultural, social, political, and economic models by understanding documentaries as critical tools that foster reflection and screening rooms as workshops for ideas and social and political work.
Faced with the growth of fascism and its cultural war against life and bodies, Globale Bogotá wants to contribute to strengthening organization, struggle, and collective action to continue building free, autonomous, and rebellious communities.
Right-wing political forces continue to advance across the world, hate speech targeting women is increasing, the denial and dehumanization of trans and non-binary people are rising, racism is growing stronger, genocides are an everyday occurrence, and every night we go to sleep with the certainty that what is happening in Gaza will soon reach our territories. In this scenario, reacting to a structure that seems unstoppable, invincible, and global becomes more difficult and discouraging every day. However, there are thousands of stories of resistance, survival, and a dignified life that illuminate and open paths to freedom; these are precisely the stories we want to screen.
Therefore, for the 14th edition of the Globale Bogotá Festival, which we will celebrate in 2027, we invite you to submit documentaries about organization, struggle, and action for autonomy, freedom, and a dignified life in different parts of the world.
We want to learn about these experiences because we know that all struggles leave us with lessons, and at this moment every lesson matters and deserves to be remembered.
It does not matter if it is recent material or from decades ago, nor whether it is a localized and small struggle; we are looking for examples that allow us to strengthen ourselves and know that many people keep hope and resistance alive. We need to hold on to the experiences of organization, struggle, and action to inspire us, accompany us, and remember that, despite everything, other worlds are always possible.
Habitar el Cine, Caracas International Contemporary Film Festival, is an annual event that seeks to connect different audiences across the country with the best national and international films of the moment. The festival celebrates and promotes diversity in filmmaking, offering a wide range of programming, activities, special events, and discussion forums that bridge the gap between the work, the author, and the audience. More than a competitive event, it is designed to view, enjoy, and delve into cinema in a healthy way, far from the lure of the market and closer to discoveries and the avant-garde.
Goal: Select the program that will represent Spain in the World Contest of the International Film Union (UNICA) 2027, this year in Cannes (France).
Os Prémios Quirino surgiram em 2018 para reconhecer o talento da animação ibero-americana e estabelecer ligações entre a indústria de ambos os lados do Atlântico.
Dez anos depois, são o principal ponto de encontro do setor.
O que começou por ser uma gala reúne hoje uma cerimónia de entrega de prémios, um Fórum Internacional de Coprodução e Negócios e programas que abordam o futuro da indústria.
Todos os anos, Tenerife recebe profissionais da América Latina, Espanha, Portugal e Andorra durante três dias de gala, negócios e trabalho coletivo.
Em dez anos, os Prémios Quirino receberam mais de 2 200 obras candidatas, agendaram mais de 8 700 reuniões B2B e entregaram 85 prémios em 10 categorias a criadores de 23 nacionalidades ibero-americanas.
Assim, os Prémios Quirino prestam homenagem ao talento criativo ibero-americano.
FestiPREV is the International Festival of Prevention and Youth Citizenship Film, dedicated to young people aged 11 to 25. It takes place every year in May in La Rochelle, France.
This festival offers a unique platform to express ideas and engaged messages through short films.
Participants can submit works ranging from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, addressing various themes related to prevention and citizenship.
FestiPREV encourages creativity and dialogue among young people, while valuing their voices on contemporary societal issues.
Join us to make your story heard and contribute to a better future !
Napoli AI Film Festival (NAIFF) is an international festival dedicated to short film created with Generative Artificial Intelligence.
Based in Naples, Italy, the festival explores how AI is transforming filmmaking, visual storytelling and creative production, bringing together filmmakers, artists, creators and new voices experimenting with emerging technologies.
We welcome submissions across the following categories:
• Narrative Short Movies
• Commercial / Advertising
• Music Videos
• Naples-inspired Film
Submitted works must meaningfully incorporate Generative AI into their creative or production process.
Beyond the competition, NAIFF is designed as a meeting point for the emerging AI filmmaking community through screenings, conversations, workshops and creative experiences.
Naples is an essential part of the festival's identity.
Through a dedicated special award, we invite filmmakers from around the world to use AI to explore, reinterpret and imagine Naples, its culture, people, landscapes, stories and heritage.
Napoli AI Film Festival is presented by Creative Tech for Humanity, a non-profit organization promoting culture, creativity, education and responsible technological innovation.
Fotofilm Internatıonal Short Film Festival is an innovative concept that aims to shine a spotlight on new generation world-language filmmakers and to give internet users across the globe the chance to share their enthusiasm for world cinema.
Our mission is to promote films, and be another step up in the filmmakers' careers.
Fotofilm International Short Film Festival is a festival open to filmmakers and film lovers. Is festival of world cinematography, where short films, videoclips, webseries and video arts from all over the world come together to compete for the various prizes of the festival.
Submissions are now open for the Movie&Short Festival 2027, an international festival bringing together independent cinema, visual arts, technology, and new forms of artistic expression.
The call for entries covers two competition sections: the Movie&Short Competition 2027, dedicated to short films, and Art for the Future 2027, focused on visual arts. Both competitions are free to enter.
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