ORGANIZERS
XIII Corti a Sud festival
Cultural Association Time & Memory organizes the thirteenth edition of the Short Film Festival called "SHORT TO SOUTH", to be held in Polla (SA)ITALY from the 21 - 22 June 2027 at the Auditorium "Holy Nicolicchio".
"CORTI A SUD ", aims to promote and enhance the cinematography with particular regard
to research, experimentation, production of young and / or independent authors.
Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TINFF)
A Canadian Screen Award–Qualifying Festival
A Telefilm Canada–Qualifying Festival
One of Telefilm Canada’s 25 Approved Medium-to-Large Scale Film Festivals (2026–2027)
An Official IMDb Festival
The Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TINFF) is one of Canada’s leading multicultural film festivals—recognized nationally and internationally for championing diversity, inclusion, and global storytelling. TINFF is proud to be:
• A Canadian Screen Award–Qualifying Festival
• A Telefilm Canada–Qualifying Festival
• One of Telefilm Canada’s Top 25 Medium-to-Large Scale Film Festivals for 2026–2027
• An official IMDb festival
• A registered Canadian non-profit organization headquartered in Toronto
TINFF has earned its position as a premiere platform for diverse filmmaking, representing Canada’s cultural mosaic and its deep ties to African, Caribbean, Indigenous, and international cinema communities.
A Festival With Distribution Power: Cinematic Box Distribution Canada
TINFF proudly operates a subsidiary company, The Cinematic Box Distribution Canada, which is officially approved by the Canada Media Fund (CMF) as an eligible worldwide distributor for CMF-funded films—up to $3.5 million in licensing and distribution value.
This distinction positions TINFF and its industry ecosystem as a gateway for:
• Canadian filmmakers seeking broad domestic and international reach
• International filmmakers with co-production treaties with Canada
• Productions aiming to ensure that Canadian stories are amplified and accessible both nationally and globally
TINFF’s integrated festival + distribution model provides unmatched market access, visibility, and opportunity for creators.
Celebrating Global Cinema, Diverse Voices, and Innovative Storytelling
TINFF champions inclusive filmmaking with a strong focus on multicultural, African diaspora, BIPOC, Indigenous, and international creators. As the first Canadian festival with authentic Nollywood roots to receive national recognition, TINFF continues to elevate global perspectives while fostering talent development in Canada.
Our community partners include:
Canadian Heritage, Canada Media Fund, Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, and the City of Brampton, among others committed to industry growth and equity.
Canadian Screen Awards Eligibility
Under Academy rules, films selected by at least two Academy-approved festivals may qualify for the Canadian Screen Awards. As an approved festival, all TINFF Official Selections (past and future) may use TINFF toward their Academy qualification.
Eligibility: https://www.academy.ca/canadian-screen-awards/rules-eligibility/
Annual Festival Highlights
TINFF delivers rich year-round programming leading into its live festival celebration, including:
• Film screenings with Q&A sessions
• Industry conferences, seminars, and conversations
• Live performances, cultural showcases, and stage plays
• Workshops, training labs, and mentorship (through TINFF Film Academy)
• Pitch sessions and market development programs
• Red carpet and Awards Gala
• International filmmaker networking and collaboration opportunities
TINFF CBDF Market Summit (Canada Black & Diversity Film Market)
A signature component of the festival, the CBDF Market Summit provides:
• B2B & B2C market activities
• Distribution & acquisition meetings
• Co-production and cross-border collaboration opportunities
• Masterclasses, workshops, and pitch development
• Film market screenings, with one-on-one and group meetings
The Summit connects Canada with African, Caribbean, European, and global markets, building pathways for sustained industry growth.
TINFF Expansion into Brampton: The Launch of BINFF
TINFF has expanded its footprint into the City of Brampton with the creation of the Brampton International Nollywood Film Festival (BINFF)—a sister festival designed to expand opportunities for local and global filmmakers.
BINFF provides:
• A second annual platform for filmmaking excellence
• Greater access for Peel Region creators
• Additional screening opportunities
• A broader audience reach across Brampton and the GTA
• A powerful pipeline between Toronto and Brampton for diverse filmmaking communities
Submit to BINFF:
https://festhome.com/
This expansion strengthens TINFF’s commitment to regional growth, talent development, and international cultural exchange.
International Collaborations
TINFF partners with global festivals—including the Prague Film Festival (PFF)—to promote cross-cultural engagement and film exchange. Winners from each festival receive reciprocal screening opportunities abroad.
Join Us and Celebrate the Power of Storytelling
TINFF welcomes filmmakers, industry leaders, and audiences worldwide to experience vibrant, diverse, and globally connected cinema. Our annual Awards Gala honours outstanding achievements that promote cultural understanding, equality, and creative excellence.
Website: www.tinff.net
Social Media: @tinffestiva
The European Fantastic Film Festival SOMBRA is a project that aims to spread and serve as a reference to fantasy films produced in Europe, as well as support European, national and regional production of gender.
PASTURAS. International Film Festival on Pastoralism and Transhumance. PASTURAS aims at raising awareness on the ancestral culture of transhumance through cinema, showcasing fiction and non-fiction films with a focus on this issue, facilitating communication between filmmakers and the audience, and providing learning opportunities to contribute to the development of this culture and the promotion of all audiovisual work around the issue.
LIMA ALTERNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is a Peruvian film event that disseminates the best alternative, independent and auteur cinema from all over the world. It invites Lima's audience to discover the current panorama of cinema at a global level in the different filmmaking aspects that are being developed.
Ostia International Film Festival 2027
promotes and spreads all the activities relating to the world of Cinema, including through TV, Streaming, Theatre, the Web, and Social Media.
Purposes:
In collaboration with public and private entities, the promotion and spreading of culture, cinematographic and artistic production, and of the audiovisual works submitted every year to the Festival;
organize happenings, shows, events, and exhibitions related to the Audiovisual, Artistic, and Cultural sector at national and international levels through the Festival;
bring together and promote the training of people and artists of any age and social background involved in creative film and audiovisual production;
Create works connected to the world of Cinema, Art, Photography, and Culture in general.
GO Film Goiânia Film Festival is a Festival for short movies done in the heart of Brazil. Its in the 6th edition with a competitive premiation with a special awards in many categories.
Only for Spanish Filmmakers.
The Emerging Spanish Film Festival, dedicated primarily to new filmmakers, supports independent cinema to foster alternative auteur cinema, contributing to the development of filmmaking. Among its fundamental objectives is the dissemination and promotion of filmmakers from Castilla-La Mancha and Spain, but especially from the city of Albacete.
The NGO Rakonto is excited to announce the first edition of EC(H)O FILM FESTIVAL, aiming to promote the exhibition of short and feature films exploring how cinema and ecology can relate at every stage of the process of making and sharing movies.
Rooted in communal spaces of Laroin (South-West France), EC(H)O FILM FESTIVAL explores what it means to think about cinema ecologically and embracing a utopian thinking approach in a broad sense, moving beyond films that are simply about the ecological crisis to rethink the whole ecosystem surrounding cinema and positive alternatives: how we make, watch and share films, but also what we create around them. Cinema becomes a way to gather, create collectively, build relationships and care for each other and the places we inhabit.
The Evergreen Feature Film Festival celebrates big-screen storytelling across narrative, documentary, and experimental features, welcoming bold and original works from emerging and established creators in a state known for legendary storytellers.
Supported by partners like Big Vision, Mongo Media Solutions, Creative Handbook, the Digital Cinema Society, and Select Services Films Inc., the festival screens at the historic 1916 Alamo Theatre in Bucksport, Maine, equipped with digital projection and Dolby 7.1 sound.
The festival highlights innovative voices and fresh perspectives across all feature genres (45 minutes or longer), offering theatrical screenings with live audiences, post-screening Q&As, networking, and special recognition. Our evaluation panel, featuring industry partners and a Rolling Stone Culture Council writer, guides the selection process. For remote creators, digital spotlights and written interviews are also provided.
Rooted in vision, the festival serves as a collaborative space where new voices grow and cinematic impact endures.
All genres accepted.
The festival provides accommodation and internal transportation during the festival period.
The Alexandria short film festival ( Egypt ) was founded by Alexandria Art Circle Association in order to give a chance for filmmakers to present their work to the public and this in the heart of Alexandria to be a lighthouse of cinema in the world.The festival is held annually, and its first edition was in 2015.
The festival aims to provide a suitable atmosphere to exchange experiences between filmmakers from all over the world and give opportunities for short filmmakers to present their films whether narrative, documentary, or animation, in front of the audience, with the aim of conducting fruitful discussions between the filmmaker and the audience and providing a safe platform for presenting their work.
The festival aims to develop and advance short cinema.
1. OBJECTIVES
The objectives of Festival de Malaga are to disseminate and promote Spanish films and their general cultural sphere. In this sense, the Festival is also a platform for Latin American film productions. Its functions include hosting an event for the different professional sectors of films in Spanish (construed as films produced in Spain and all of Latin America, including Brazil) to boost their development and promote international sales.
Festival de Málaga is recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers' Associations (FIAPF) (www.fiapf.org).
In compliance with these objectives, the 29th Edition of Festival de Málaga will be held from 6th to 15 th March 2026.
Alassio Sea Cine Fest (ASCF) – Shorts By The Sea is a new showcase dedicated to contemporary short filmmaking, set to take place in the second half of June 2027 in the beautiful coastal town of Alassio, on the Italian Riviera.
The Festival explores the complex relationship between people, the sea, and coastal communities, welcoming fiction, documentaries, animation, and experimental visual works that engage, directly or indirectly, with environmental conservation, maritime traditions, adventure, and the emotions and imagery evoked by water.
Bringing together filmmakers, audiences, and jury members, ASCF places hospitality at its heart: all eight shortlisted directors selected for the competition will be hosted in Alassio free of charge for the entire weekend, including two nights of accommodation and official festival dinners, giving them the opportunity to present their films in person and take part in live Q&A sessions.
The selection criteria for the works are: those that promote human rights, peace and coexistence, or are related to sub-themes such as environmental rights, women's rights, the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community, Afro-descendant people, peasants, indigenous people, and people with disabilities.
Conceived within the cultural heartbeat of Jadavpur University, Chhayanat has evolved into India’s largest student-run film and theatre festival — a platform where art and rebellion, screen and
stage, intellect and emotion converge.
Over the years, it has hosted National Award–winning filmmakers, international screenings, industry panels, and global student collaborations — from France to South Korea, Brazil to Spain — making it a truly cross-continental dialogue on storytelling and truth.
At its core, Chhayanat stands for freedom of expression and the power of collective imagination. It celebrates the voices that resist convention, amplify diversity, and reflect the changing faces of our society. Each frame, each performance, each conversation here becomes part of a larger movement — one that reminds us that stories can still move nations, minds, and markets alike.
In 2026, as Chhayanat enters a new chapter, we invite our partners and patrons to become part of this living, breathing cinematic revolution — where every reel, every note, every act becomes a memory that outlives the screen.
The International Festival “Cinema Within Cinema” (FECIDECI) will hold its second edition on april 2027, with activities taking place across various venues in Peru.
This new cinematic event proposes a unique space dedicated entirely to films that reflect on cinema itself: its history, its creators, its audiences, and its power of representation.
The festival is conceived as a meeting point for filmmakers, researchers, students, critics, and lovers of the seventh art, and aims to foster dialogue on how cinema looks at itself, remembers itself, and reinvents itself.
Over the course of a week, screenings, talks, and masterclasses will be presented, all with free admission for attendees.
“I’m pleased to share some excellent news from Peru: ‘Cinema Within Cinema’ is a new festival focused on documentaries about film-related topics. Its production team is passionate about the stories behind movies, and I’m sure it will soon become an exciting meeting point for filmmakers from all over the world. — Alexandre O. Philippe, director of documentaries about cinema.”
The Val Ceno Film Festival is a short film festival that takes place in Varano De Melegari (PR), a medieval village dominated by the Pallavicino castle, located in the Ceno valley.
Epic ACG fest is a unique event showcase animation, comics and games. Though screening, exhibition and competition, bring together the creative elements, the artists and the general public from worldwide.
During the festival, EACG is also hosting the Live Demonstrations, Networking Receptions, Master Workshops, Panel Discussions, Business Symposiums, Recruiting and the Professional Exhibits offered throughout the event as well as the One-On-One Personal Consultations with creative professionals from top studios and educational institutions both local and international. The Award ceremony is a red carpet event that provides recognition and great memories.
Epic ACG fest will screening animations from worldwide.
ATHENS FILM FESTIVAL: WHERE CINEMA MEETS ITS PUREST AUDIENCE
A celebration of independent storytelling in America’s ultimate arts town.
The true power of cinema is realized when a film is met with an authentic, unadulterated embrace from a live audience.
Nestled in the creative heart of Georgia, Athens is legendary as an epicenter of indie music, culture, and boundary-pushing art. While the global circuit often prioritizes industry commerce, over 80% of our audience is our local community. Here, you screen to packed, electric houses of passionate cinephiles who lean in, react openly, and stay for every word of your Q&A.
PROVEN IMPACT: A TRUSTED CIRCUIT LAUNCHPAD
From our inaugural season, the Athens Film Festival established the curation, technical rigor, and hospitality of an established premier festival:
- 100+ Selections and 50+ Premieres Annually: We average 25 World Premieres and 25 U.S. Premieres every season, earning the early trust of visionary storytellers worldwide.
- The Circuit to the Shortlist: Our official selections build undeniable momentum, with alumni advancing onto the Academy Award® Shortlist and gaining significant ground across both the industry and independent circuit.
- Georgia’s Creative Core: Operating at the center of one of the world's most vibrant production hubs, we connect indie filmmakers directly with working industry leaders.
WHAT DEFINES THE ATHENS EXPERIENCE
- Thoughtful, Intentional Curation: Every block is curated with deep care to champion compelling global cinema while proudly elevating Georgia and local voices side by side.
- Aggressive Hospitality: You are welcomed directly into our creative community—with full access to the Filmmaker Lounge, private dinners, and collaborative events.
- Venues Steeped in Story: During festival week, Athens turns into a living cinema. We screen across indie theaters like Ciné, historic stages like the Morton Theatre, and iconic music venues that transform into full-scale movie houses.
- True Community Accessibility: Our commitment to the audience is reflected in our accessible ticket and pass pricing. We bring that exact same philosophy to artists, keeping our submission tiers fair and grounded.
RADICAL ACCESS
IMPORTANT: If a submission fee stands in the way of your ability to share your work—due to economic hardship, currency limitations, or global circumstances—please visit our website to request a confidential fee waiver. We want to see your vision, not your wallet.
Yuva International Short Film Festival proves as a global platform for youngsters and film aspirants in colleges to showcase their talents and compete with other professionals of the same age group. YISFF provokes a sense of great responsibility by providing a fun-filled and exciting learning experience. Through YISFF, the participants will get a chance to explore and learn the art of filmmaking from industry stalwarts.
YISFF’s objective is to bring into the limelight the talents of burgeoning film aspirants and bestow them with an opportunity to present themselves in front of the world. We encourage the participants and serve as a bridge to exhibit their one-of-a-kind competence in our festival and to reach a greater range of audience. I am taking pride in letting you know that, YISFF will also serve as a means to promote friendships and collaborations among fellow participants through healthy competition. As a token of appreciation and encouragement,
YISFF will award the winners of the competition under various relevant categories selected by the jury panel from the industry and academia.
YISFF is an inclusive event that values diversity. Films are accepted regardless of age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental challenges, ethnicity, and perspective.
