Organizing a festival dedicated to the theme of emigration in means giving voice to a wealth of stories, emotions, and memories that still inhabit the area today.
Through short films and documentaries from different parts of the world, the festival aims to build a bridge between the past and the present, between those who left and those who returned or arrived, between the roots and new identities that intertwine in border areas.
It's the desire to rediscover the memory of Friulian emigration, made up of departures, sacrifices, and hopes, and at the same time to reflect on contemporary migrations, which continue to transform communities and the way we look at the world.
In a natural and human context of great intensity, the festival becomes a moment of encounter and sharing, where authors, spectators, and inhabitants dialogue through the images, words, and emotions of cinema.
It's also an opportunity to promote independent filmmakers, authors, and productions that are capable of sensitively and originally portraying the many nuances of leaving, returning, and belonging.
Finally, the festival aims to strengthen the link between culture and territory, inviting the public to discover the discreet beauty of the villages and to experience community, memory, and cultural rebirth.
The 8th edition of the International Choreographic Festival of Blois will take place in Blois, France, in July 2027.
The Festival is dedicated to bringing the art of dance to France's Loire Valley region while making it accessible to a wider audience. Through performances, dance film screenings, masterclasses, creative workshops, and community outreach events, the Festival celebrates dance in all its forms and fosters meaningful connections between artists and the public.
For the 2027 edition, the Festival will present three film screening programs, each approximately one hour long, at Cinéma Les Lobis, located in the heart of Blois. We are currently seeking:
- Short films of up to 25 minutes in length.
- One feature-length dance film or documentary of approximately 60 minutes.
The Festival showcases choreography created for the camera, dance documentaries, and films in which movement plays a central role. We welcome submissions from filmmakers, choreographers, and artists whose work explores dance, physical expression, and movement in innovative and engaging ways.
We encourage all dance- and movement-related films to apply.
Kumaar Aadarsh, founder-Chairperson and Ashok Khullar, the President, welcome you to the UVT Standalone Film Festival & Awards (UVT-SFFA). This is a unique kind of film festival for independent filmmakers/content creators where there are no barriers to borders, languages, genres, etc. Based in California, USA, this festival is having an online Award Nomination Festival, live screenings, and Standalone Award Show in Los Angeles.
SFFA is consolidating filmmakers around the world for a wonderful presentation of cinematography and the unveiling of new talents. A committee comprising members from the film industry preview submitted films and select good works of motion pictures for the Award Nomination Festival.
The selected films participate in The Awards nomination Festival which is held for 4 months between Dec-March.
Films screen through this secure server screener where visitors and guests from around the world can witness and vote for the film. On the basis of viewers' choice and votes, films nominated for 42 categories of Awards which screen live in Hollywood and to honor filmmakers, actors, technicians at The UVT Standalone Awards Show in Los Angeles on the Last day of live screenings.
UVT STANDALONE is not only a festival but a marketplace where filmmakers earn money as well by distributing films through UVT and it's affiliated digital platforms.
Theatre venue is in the heart of Hollywood. We will screen all nominated films here as well as look forward to create year-round screening, filmmaking, and writing opportunities and to that end we are launching new festivals as part of the UVT Standalone Film Festival & Awards.
UVT SFFA Submissions are for feature narratives, Short films, Shows, Series, documentaries, and animation as even experimental films and music videos.
FRAME Film Festival es un festival de cortometrajes itinerante, sin una única ubicación, que se celebrará en la provincia de Tarragona.
El FRAME Film Festival consta de dos fases.
• FASE CLASIFICATORIA
• FASE FINAL
El objetivo principal es difundir y promover la cinematografía en general y el cortometraje en particular, apoyando a las directoras y los directores de cortometrajes y creando un espacio donde puedan dar a conocer sus trabajos.
Pero sobre todo trabajamos para que las y los cineastas se sientan acogidos y vivan la experiencia de visitarnos cómo si estuvieran en familia. LA GRAN FAMILIA DEL CORTOMETRAJE!
Otro motivo es ampliar la oferta de eventos culturales para hacer llegar el cortometraje a a poblaciones que no tengan la oportunidad de disfrutar de nuestro cine en formato CORTO.
En el FRAME Film Festival queremos darle al público que sigue y disfruta los cortometrajes, la oportunidad de decidir sobre la selección de las películas que pasarán a la FASE FINAL para recibir los premios TALENTO FRAME.
The STUFF MX International Independent Film Festival in Mexico City will hold its twelfth edition from August 21 to 28, 2027, and officially invites filmmakers, videographers, and audiovisual producers from around the world to submit their films and music videos in all formats, genres, and categories, regardless of length, including animation, documentary, and fiction. The call for entries will be open from September 13, 2026, through May 31, 2027, at 11:59 p.m. CST (Central Standard Time), Washington, D.C. time (CST), Mexico City time.
The II Autodisparo Film and Audiovisual Creation Showcase is organized by Liebre, a collective dedicated to creating and disseminating cultural projects outside mainstream circuits. The showcase aims to champion new voices in audiovisual creation, foster connections between creators and audiences, and support innovative projects and emerging talent.
Autodisparo was founded to create a space where cinema, audiovisual creation, and critical thought converge, encouraging dialogue, experimentation, and horizontal exchange. At Liebre, we champion works that explore new ways of seeing and are driven by a genuine artistic quest.
“ZERO cinema” is an artisanal and experimental artistic approach that contrasts the assembly line of industrial film production; it is hyper-independent, produced or auto-produced by single artists or small groups (less than 10 people) with no commercial interests; it is made with common and easily accessible, or innovative and low cost, means of production.
“ZERO cinema” has a different attitude, adventurous or poetic, DIY or punk, anarchic or self-sufficient, to the video work; it speaks with a personal, intimate, courageous and autonomous voice.
“ZERO cinema” is, more than any other thing, a strong idea of cinema and artistic production.
BLUE MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT INVITES filmmakers, videographers, and other audiovisual creators to submit their sports-themed works to the first edition of Energía: International Sports Film Festival. The festival will take place from June 14 to 18, 2027, at various venues in Mexico City.
The materials must be exclusively sports-themed.
Works in the categories of documentary, fiction, and animation in short and feature film formats, with no duration restrictions, produced from 2020 to date, are eligible to participate.
This includes works in progress, with priority given to materials that are unpublished or have not been released in Mexico.
REGISTRATION:
Works of any nationality may participate using the FESTHOME platform. Participants accept that the registration of their work does not guarantee its selection or screening, as it is not part of the official selection.
Participants must pay the corresponding registration fee.
If selected, the participant agrees to wait for the official selection email and not to publish the notification before ENERGIA makes its official selection public.
The Cremano Film Festival is organized by the Municipality of San Giorgio a Cremano and the Osservatorio Cinematografico Vesuviano Cultural Association. Massimo De Matteo serves as the event's artistic director. Its primary objective is to promote and showcase cinema, with a particular focus on exploring new forms of audiovisual language. The festival highlights productions by young or independent filmmakers that address themes of significant social and cultural value. The central theme of this fourth edition is "EMPAT-IA" (Empathy/AI). The aim is to showcase works that evoke "inner resonance," encompassing both projects created using traditional techniques and those produced with Artificial Intelligence, which are selected in separate categories.
INTRODUCTION
Kinemagik International Children’s Film Festival is an annual festival that strives to bring the most imaginative and delightful international & national children’s cinema to young audiences in Kolkata.
Children today watch and consume more audio-visual content than ever before. However, in the multitude of content that is created year on year, children very often cannot access films that are specifically made for them.
Kinemagik Film Festival is a platform that curates and distributes children's films made by filmmakers from across the globe and across time. It brings the magic of cinema to children and young audiences.
The festival in it's first edition is non-competitive and will present features, shorts, live action and animation films over two days of festivity.
OBJECTIVES
· To promote and distribute children's cinema and other audio-visual content that is created exclusively for children.
· To curate high quality, entertaining, multi-cultural cinema for children who otherwise don’t have access to such content.
· To cultivate understanding of human societies, cultures & experiences through cinema.
· To encourage children’s content that inspire humane values, provoke imagination and are educational in nature.
· To create space for critical appreciation and pursuit of cinematic art among children and youth.
· To support the works of talented and dedicated children’s film-makers and encourage the exchange of ideas and lived experiences of filmmaking among them.
ORGANISER
KINEMAGIK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL is organized by ABOA HASA Foundation – a non-profit company registered under Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt. India. committed to working with children, women and marginalised communities with the aim of nurturing through education and cultural exchange. Since its inception in 2019, Aboa Hasa has organised vocational training programs for women, educational workshops for children and advocacy campaigns for eco-sustainable menstruation.
Kinemagik Film Festival is an initiative by Aboa Hasa to promote the culture of cinema among children and youth.
A quinta edição do Festival de Cinema Latino-americano de Paris (CLaP) acontecerá entre 30 de março e 4 de abril de 2027. As inscrições de filmes para esta edição do festival estão abertas de 11 de setembro de 2026 a 5 de janeiro de 2027.
O Festival ClaP convida cineastas latino-americanxs a inscrever seus longas ou média-metragens, ficções ou documentários, em vista da seleção para a competição. O Festival CLaP acontecerá em duas salas de cinema de arte: L’Espace Saint-Michel (Paris) e Les Cinémas du Palais (Créteil).
São elegíveis filmes terminados em 2026 ou no começo de 2027 cumprindo as condições especificadas no regulamento abaixo.
Safari International Film Festival (SIFF) is a global celebration of cinema, storytelling, and cultural expression, created to connect African filmmakers with audiences, filmmakers, and creative voices from around the world.
Rooted in Africa and open to the world, SIFF provides a platform for bold, original, and meaningful films across diverse genres, cultures, and filmmaking traditions. The festival celebrates emerging filmmakers alongside established voices, creating opportunities for discovery, dialogue, collaboration, and professional growth.
Through film screenings, filmmaker conversations, workshops, networking opportunities, and industry-focused activities, SIFF seeks to create an environment where stories can travel beyond borders and filmmakers can build lasting connections.
At its heart, Safari International Film Festival believes that cinema is a journey—one that allows us to encounter different people, cultures, realities, and perspectives while reminding us of the experiences we share.
SIFF — Stories Without Borders.
2026 Jjalmak International Youth Film Festival (JIYFF)
Call for Entries – Advance Notice
Hosted by the Korean National Police Agency
Co-hosted by the Korea Association for Youth Service and the Korea Strategic Center for Police Science
JIYFF invites young creators to share their ideas for a safer and more sustainable future through films of 90 seconds or less.
Official website
https://jjalmak.org/
Contact
movie@k-scops.com
+82-2-564-2009
The American Motion Pictures Festival (AMPF) is a celebration of identity, movement, and memory, organized by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization — showcasing films that reflect the experience through the eyes of diverse creators. The festival provides a platform for voices that explore heritage, belonging, transformation, and the intersections of cultures.
Held Monthly and Annually in Greater Atlanta, the festival features a curated selection of narrative features, documentaries, shorts, and experimental films from across the United States and around the world.
Why is this the best and most effective film festival?
First and foremost, it is run by a non-profit organization. All your fees is spend to promoting your film.
American Motion Pictures Festival offers filmmakers a launchpad in the fast-growing place where multicultural narratives thrive amid world-class production capabilities.
Now Accepting Submissions
We invite filmmakers, actors, producers, and storytellers from all backgrounds to submit their works. Whether you're an emerging voice or an established artist, this is your opportunity to share bold, meaningful, and underrepresented stories with engaged audiences and industry professionals. We welcome films in any language, with a strong emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives, hybrid identities, and unique storytelling.
Selected films will be featured in a vibrant program including:
⦿ Screenings
⦿ Filmmaker Q&As
⦿ Panel discussions
⦿ Industry networking events
⦿ Community outreach
You are not submitting a film. You are submitting a screenplay.
The EvokeStory.ai International Screenplay Fund is an international screenplay competition built on one idea: a writer should not have to write in a borrowed language to be read.
Most international competitions ask for English. That single requirement filters out thousands of writers before a page is read, not for the quality of their story but for the cost of a translation. We removed that filter.
WRITE IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE
Entries are accepted in seven languages, each competing on equal footing: Turkish, English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese. Your screenplay is read and judged in the language you wrote it in, against entries in that same language only. Arabic is read in its own right-to-left screenplay format.
FOUR FINALISTS FROM EVERY LANGUAGE
Two short and two feature screenplays are selected in each of the seven languages, for a total of 28 finalists. Every finalist receives a one-year EvokeStory Pro plan, worth 359 USD, whether or not their project goes on to be funded.
TRANSLATION IS ASKED OF FINALISTS ONLY
You do not pay for a translation to enter. An English version of the screenplay is requested only once you are a finalist, together with your project file, so that the main jury can read all 28 finalists in a shared language.
TEN PROJECTS ARE FUNDED
From the 28 finalists, the main jury selects five features and five shorts. Each selected feature receives 10,000 USD and each selected short receives 5,000 USD: 75,000 USD in total, and more than 85,000 USD in total prize value once the finalist plans are counted. Finalists are announced on October 15, 2027 and the funded projects on November 20, 2027.
NO GENRE RESTRICTION, RIGHTS STAY WITH THE WRITER
We take no option, no percentage and no credit on your work. The award is a development grant. The Fund exists to move a screenplay one step closer to being made, not to acquire it.
OPENING WINDOW
Screenplays submitted between September 10 and October 1, 2026 carry no entry fee. Festhome applies its own submission fee, which is shown at checkout.
The Fund is run by EvokeStory.ai, a screenplay and story development platform available in the same seven languages, founded by film director, producer and screenwriter Burak Varlık, who also founded Beşiktaş Senaryo Ajansı, a screenwriting agency in Istanbul, and has worked with hundreds of writers in its workshops. Writing your screenplay on the platform is not required and gives no advantage in judging.
Evoke Your Next Story
www.evokestory.ai/film-fund
Festival Latinoamericano de Cortometrajes LAPACHO — 20th Edition
The LAPACHO Latin American Short Film Festival celebrates its 20th edition in 2026, organized by the Instituto de Cultura del Chaco, in the city of Resistencia, Argentina.
Founded in 2003, Lapacho was created as a space to bring new cinematic perspectives closer to the community and, throughout its history, has become a meeting point for the exhibition and circulation of regional and Latin American audiovisual production. After its last edition in 2023, the Festival returns in 2026 to reconnect filmmakers, students and audiences from the region.
The 20th edition will take place on October 29, 30 and 31, 2026, with the Complejo Cultural Provincial Guido Miranda as its main venue, alongside activities at the Club Social de Resistencia and the Centro Cultural Ercilio Castillo. All Festival activities are free and open to the public.
The Festival will feature three competitive sections: Latin American Competition, Regional Competition and University Competition, aimed at promoting the exhibition and circulation of short films and creating spaces for encounter and exchange between filmmakers, works and audiences.
As part of its training and development program, Lapacho also brings back the “Lapacho LAB” Project Incubator, dedicated to short film projects in development. Three projects will be selected to participate in a professional mentoring process focused on Directing, Production and Screenwriting, including exchange sessions and a final pitching session during the Festival.
Lapacho is a space to discover new voices, share perspectives and strengthen the circulation of Latin American and regional cinema.
October 29–31, 2026 — Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina.
FEST - NDNFF #23
19th-27th of June of 2027 | Espinho, Portugal
FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival is an all-encompassing celebration of the new tendencies of world cinema. The event focuses on a competitive and non-competitive showcase of the most promising new figures and works from around the globe.
The 23rd edition of the festival will take place between the 19th and the 27th of June 2027, in the seaside town of Espinho (Portugal).
The selection is divided into several categories which include Feature Film and Short Film competitions in the Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental Non-Narrative formats, as well as content adequate for children and teenagers. The event also includes non-competitive sections that range from retrospectives to feature length and short film showcases.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are accepting films under the following formats:
A) Fiction and Non-Fiction feature films (minimum length is 55 minutes) from directors who are on their first or second feature-length project, regardless of age.
B) Fiction, Documentary, Animation, and Experimental Short films (up to 54 minutes of duration) from directors who have completed no more than two feature films, regardless of age.
Candidates must choose one of the available submission categories. Do not worry if your film fits different categories (Ie: Hybrid productions), as all submissions will be considered for the different competitions. If your film is also eligible for the NEXXT competition (focused on academic productions) but you wish the film to be considered for all other competitions please mention in the comment section of the submission the academic institution where the film was produced. If you have any doubts at all please do not hesitate to contact us at films@fest.pt.
Throughout the years' FEST has selected for its feature film competitions films such as Celine Song’s “Past lives”; Ainhoa Rodríguez´s "Mighty Flash"; Teodora Mihai´s “The Civilian”; Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid with "Enforcement"; Julie Lecoustre, Emmanuel Marre´s “Zero Fucks Given”; P.S. Vinothraj “Pebbles”; Eugen Jebeleanu´s “Poppy field”; and Valdimar Jóhannsson´s “Lamb”, all of this on the fiction side, then in the Documentary side, Karima Saidi´s "A way Home", Michał Edelman´s "Last Knights Of The Right Side", Franz Böhm´s "Dear Future Children" among many others.
FEST’s Short Film sections are known for its wide variety of styles and filmic visions, having been throughout the years a platform for the launch of new artists such as Govinda Van Maele (Luxembourg), Christos Massalas (Greece), Mati Diop (France), Lukas Dhont (Belgium), Adriano Valerio (Italy), Patrick Vollrath (Germany), Ninja Thyberg (Sweden), Manuel Abramovich (Argentina), Daria Belova (Russia), Simon Mésa Soto (Colombia), Aga Woszczynska (Poland), Jela Hasler (Switzerland), as well as hundreds of other up-and-coming filmmakers.
FEST also includes a series of other activities that run parallel to the festival, in particular, FEST – Training Ground (one of Europe’s largest film forums) and FEST – Pitching Forum (film project competition), and others. For more information please visit our website at www.fest.pt
Interactive Festival where the public enjoys Short Films, theater, music and surprises.
The public participates in an active way during the event.
We accept any gender except Horror. Open to all types of filmmakers, whether professional or amateur.
The festival will be held in the town of Gavà, Barcelona (Spain), in mid-February. The X Edition will take place on Saturday, February 13, 2027.
