GIGGLE FILM FESTIVAL - the biggest comedy short film festival in London!
We screen the funniest comedy short films around from the UK and International filmmakers to our lively audience in a huge 500-seat converted warehouse venue in North East London.
We're seeking the best and funniest short films around, from live-action to animation, dark comedy to slapstick, and everything in between!
This is a chance to screen your comedy film to a whole new audience, whether your film is hot off the press or has previously done the festival circuit, we'd love to see it.
Giggle Film Festival is run by filmmakers, for filmmakers.
The CINALFAMA FILM OBSERVATORY, held in a historic neighborhood, emerges as a transformative cultural initiative that strengthens the community network. By showing independent films, the project not only widens access to alternative and innovative narratives but also stimulates cultural engagement among residents, fostering a sense of identity and belonging.
This regular event, which takes place at Museu do Fado Auditorium, becomes a meeting point where generations cross paths, sharing experiences and reflections that transcend mere film viewing. In addition, by being located in a neighborhood with a rich historical heritage, the observatory revitalizes the urban space, attracting visitors and enhancing the appreciation of the local heritage, generating a very positive cultural dynamic
The Cinalfama Film Observatory is a regular cinema competition in January, April, and October.
The winning films of each of the three editions (Jan, Apr, Oct), will be showcased in our annual outdoor cinema event, Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Festival.
New York Short Film Tuesdays OFFERS GREAT SCREENINGS TO SHORT FILM LOVERS in Brooklyn, New York.
One of our new venue is in Downtown , Brooklyn. It is a perfect venue and artsy area in the heart of New York City.
We have more than 70 seats and Huge SCREEN.
DO YOU WANT TO SCREEN YOUR SHORT FILM in NYC ? IF SO, SUBMIT TODAY. INVITE YOUR CREW AND FRIENDS. IT IS A GREAT PLACE TO SEE ALL INDIE SHORTS.
NY Short Film Tuesdays has been organized since 2014 and each month we have more than 9 films have been screening at the festival.
We have reached to our 135th Event recently and we screened over 1.400 short films.
We do a Q & A session with filmmakers who is in attendance for their film screenings.
ALL GENRES WELCOME. - FİCTİONS- DOCUMENTARİES- ANİMATİONS- EXPERİMENTALS AND MUSİC VİDEOS. No year & No country limitation.
All COUNTRIES & LANGUAGES ACCEPTED!
See you at the screening with all film lovers!!!
New World AI Film Festival(NWAIFF) is a global, international platform dedicated to creators of AI-driven films and videos, providing an independent space to showcase innovative work from around the world.
We welcome AI films of all genres, styles, and formats, embracing diversity and creativity without limitation. From narrative storytelling to experimental works, from short-form videos to hybrid creations, all forms of AI-driven expression are encouraged.
There are no boundaries to imagination, we invite creators to push the limits of creativity and bring entirely new worlds to life through AI.
The Latin American Women Filmmakers Observatory (Observatório Latino-Americano de Realizadoras, OLAR) is a platform that fosters dialogue between critical thought and audiovisual production across Latin America through a gender perspective. It supports initiatives dedicated to the circulation, preservation, and memory of films made by women, non-binary, and trans filmmakers from all countries and territories of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The third edition of our biennial festival, OLAR 3 – Latin American Women Filmmakers Observatory, will take place in November 2026 as an in-person event in the city of Carpina, Pernambuco, Brazil. The program will include open-air screenings, cinema screenings, school screenings, as well as educational activities and panel discussions.
OLAR does not provide airfare for participating filmmakers. However, we will seek to host filmmakers who are in Carpina during the festival screenings.
We invite you to participate in the 14th Navarra, Land of Cinema Short Film Contest — the festival that challenges your creativity in our natural filming locations.
Your originality could win one of six awards, along with accommodation, filming insurance, production support, distribution opportunities, and more...
What are you waiting for to put yourself to the test? Send us your script by August 10th and become one of the 10 finalist teams selected for the filming phase.
8th Ooty Short Film Festival (Ooty SFF)
December 25-27, 2026
The NilgirisNext Foundation for Arts & Culture (NXF), formerly known as Nilgiris Film Club (NFC), is thrilled to announce the 8th edition of the Ooty Short Film Festival (Ooty SFF), scheduled to take place from December 25th to 27th, 2026. We cordially invite filmmakers from across the globe to join us in celebrating the art of independent short films in the picturesque mountains of the Western Ghats.
About the Festival
Since its inception, Ooty SFF has grown into a vibrant platform for showcasing exceptional short films. Our carefully curated sections feature some of the most remarkable experimental and artist-made short films, ensuring a diverse and inspiring cinematic journey for all attendees.
In 2026, we are excited to announce an initiative: Citizen Jury, A citizen jury at our short film festival evaluates films from a public perspective, offering a crucial non-industry viewpoint.
Our Vision
At Ooty SFF, we strive to curate a program that embodies unique and original artistic visions. Our focus is on short films that boldly push the boundaries of both form and concept, opening up numerous avenues for interpretation and understanding.
We have a special interest in works by emerging filmmakers and artist-made shorts, believing that these voices bring fresh and innovative perspectives to the cinematic landscape.
Opportunities for Filmmakers
Ooty SFF is more than just a screening platform. We provide filmmakers with:
* A platform to share their work with a discerning audience
* Exposure to diverse filmmaking styles and narratives
* Opportunities to be part of a growing community of independent filmmakers
* Recognition through our Golden Elephant Awards for Indian filmmakers and digital awards (NFTs) for international filmmakers, ensuring both physical and modern digital forms of recognition
Submit Your Film
We welcome submissions from filmmakers of all backgrounds and experiences. If you have a short film that challenges conventions, explores new territories, or tells a compelling story in an innovative way, we want to see it!
Join us for the 8th Ooty Short Film Festival and be part of a celebration of cinematic creativity in the heart of the Nilgiris.
The Ooty Short Film Festival is produced by the NilgirisNext Foundation for Arts & Culture (NXF), formerly known as Nilgiris Film Club (NFC).
NewBorn Short Film Festival Berlin showcases outstanding short & Features Films from around the globe.
NewBorn Short Film Festival will always be proud to treat films with the highest regard and to give a home to new projects for audiences to discover and celebrate!
MISSION STATEMENT
The Beverly Hills International Film Festival® is where Hollywood legacy meets global innovation. Now celebrating 27 years of cinematic excellence, BHFF is dedicated to championing bold storytelling, elevating visionary filmmakers and screenwriters, and creating unforgettable moments at the intersection of art, culture, and industry.
Set in the heart of one of the world’s most iconic cities, our mission is to spotlight powerful voices from around the globe—connecting them with influential leaders, creative collaborators, and new audiences. We’re more than a festival; we’re a movement of creativit,opportunity, and impact.
Through eight days of world-class screenings, industry panels, red carpet premieres, and glamorous celebrations, BHFF offers a launchpad for careers and a stage for stories that matter. Join us and be part of the future of film—in Beverly Hills, where legends are honored and new voices rise.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Beverly Hills International Film Festival®️ is proud of its rich tradition of honoring the art of cinema. From showcasing the first-ever film shot in Hollywood, In Old California by D.W. Griffith, to unveiling Federico Fellini’s final masterpiece, La Voce Della Luna (Towards the Moon with Fellini), starring Fellini himself and Roberto Benigni, the festival continues to celebrate both the greats of the past and the rising stars of the future.
Widely regarded as one of the most prestigious and exclusive film festivals in the world, the BHFF takes place in one of the most iconic cities globally—Beverly Hills. Over the course of an intimate five-day event, the festival attracts more than 55,000 attendees and hundreds of media professionals from across the globe, generating over 4.5 billion media impressions annually and growing.
The BHFF serves as a dynamic bridge between world-class cinema and the distinguished Beverly Hills community, featuring exclusive screenings at renowned venues such as AMPAS, the Writers Guild Theater, and the TCL Chinese Theater. In addition to screenings, the festival hosts expert panel discussions, workshops, and VIP theme parties. Charity benefit events culminate in a grand, black-tie awards ceremony—offering unrivaled networking opportunities for industry professionals.
As we mark our 27th Anniversary, we invite filmmakers, screenwriters, and the broader Beverly Hills community to join us in celebrating the timeless beauty of film, art, and culture in this globally celebrated city.
In a world saturated with noise, algorithms, and repetitive formulas, we still believe in something simple and powerful: creating art is worth it.
From Morelos, a region with a long tradition of artistic, cultural, and cinematic expression, a new chapter for emerging cinema begins.
El Film del Mundo (EFM) is the natural evolution of the Festival Universitario de Cine Morelense (FUCM), a project that laid the foundation for promoting new cinematic voices from the state to a broader, global conversation.
Today, that vision grows.
What began as a university space for exhibition and connection has evolved into an international festival dedicated to emerging cinema, new voices, and perspectives that do not ask for permission to exist.
The development of this new chapter has been strengthened through the support of the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico (PECDA), making it possible to establish a cultural platform focused on the exhibition, education, and promotion of contemporary audiovisual talent.
We are not looking for technical perfection or large budgets. We are looking for vision. Risk. Voice. Stories that resonate with authenticity.
We believe cinema is an act of creative resistance.
That is why El Film del Mundo invites emerging filmmakers from Mexico and around the world to take part in its first edition.
Because when everything seems to be falling apart, making films is also a way to survive.
CALL FOR ENTRIES OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this call for entries is to bring together an international selection of emerging audiovisual works that reflect a diversity of voices, cinematic languages, and perspectives.
EFM seeks to support new generations of filmmakers and audiovisual creators by providing a platform for exhibition, recognition, and meaningful exchange among local, national, and international talent.
We are looking for works with identity, artistic sensitivity, and an authentic cinematic vision.
We are not looking for perfect cinema. We are looking for living cinema.
PARTICIPATING CATEGORIES
Official Competition:
• Fiction Short Film
• Documentary Short Film
• Animated Short Film
Special Screenings:
• Debut Fiction Feature
• Debut Documentary Feature
• Debut Animated Feature
• Music Video Showcase
Special Selection:
• Morelos Selection (works directed or produced in Morelos)
• LGBTQ+ Narratives
Welcome to our WINTER Season that runs Monthly from January thru March 2027.
NewFilmmakers NY is New York's longest running year round Film Festival. Throughout it's thirty year run NewFilmmakers has provided a platform for first time and veteran filmmakers.
We have taken an exciting new direction with NewFilmmakers called NewFilmmakersPlus which will move our festival into the digital age and allow us to reach international audiences.
While theaters have been closed, our online audiences have greatly exceeded those in theaters. With NewFilmmakers Plus we have added the missing audience participation to our online screenings.
Now filmmakers, cast, and crew as well as audience members can create interactive video screening rooms while watching a film. Just by pushing the START A GROUPVIEW button to the right of the film they can invite up to six people to talk about the film in a video conference. It’s almost like watching side-by-side in real life — without having to share your popcorn.
In addition our films will now be available for one month and screenable any time of the day instead of only one night. This allows more people to see our films and makes it easier to set up a screening event with friends and colleagues. As requested we are switching to filmmaker hosted files utilizing unlisted YouTube links which will eliminate the need to transcode and to send us large files as well as giving filmmakers control over their film.
In today’s world online screenings give filmmakers worldwide audiences instead of limited local ones. With NewFilmmakers Plus filmmakers not only reach worldwide audiences but can interact with them as they would at a traditional theater.
SUSPENSE Film Festival is an international festival of genre cinema dedicated to films that work with audience attention, atmosphere, anticipation, conflict and emotional involvement.
The festival is open to audience-driven genre and hybrid films of different directions: from psychological drama, mystery and thriller to horror, supernatural cinema, sci-fi, noir, dark comedy and auteur works that exist between genres.
We are not simply looking for films that follow genre rules. We are looking for works that use genre consciously as a storytelling tool: films that hold attention, build tension, involve the audience and create a powerful screen experience.
The main festival event will take place on September 12, 2026 in Tyumen, Russia. The competition program will be formed through a curated selection process, and the best works will be evaluated by a professional jury.
The children's curtmetra show "FolletVisió" is intended to promote and disseminate children's and youth cinema linked to the world of fantasy, follets, fades, folklore and comes from all over the world. It seeks to promote cinematographic creativity among the most petits and offer a platform for the dissemination of emerging filmmakers in this field.
*International Horror and Dissidence Film Festival Monstrua*
The International Horror and Dissidence Film Festival Monstrua is in its second edition and celebrates its first edition in the format of a film festival. Its first gathering took place at the Centro Cultural Elefante, and in this edition the festival consolidates its base in Santiago as a critical platform for the articulation of creators, researchers, audiences, and specialists linked to horror cinema.
Since its inception, the festival proposes horror as an aesthetic and political device to address dissidence. Understood as bodies, identities, memories, and narratives that escape the norm, with a particular focus on the experiences of the LGTBIQA2S+ community, the genre unfolds in Monstrua as a territory for discomfort, alterity, and the questioning of hegemonic imaginaries.
The program for this edition brings together a selection of national and international works that interrogate the limits of the genre and its capacity to push against the monstrous, the abject, and the forbidden. The screenings will be held at the historic Teatro Comunitario Novedades on Thursday, December 3, from 17:00 to 21:00 hours.
Perspectives – Montluçon International Film Festival is an international feature film festival dedicated to emerging cinematic creation. We are looking for bold and innovative films from both France and abroad.
The festival will take place at the Le Palace cinema in Montluçon, in the Allier region of France.
In addition to the competition, the festival also features two retrospective sections, showcasing films produced between the 1990s and 2010s.
We're tired of participation trophies and lukewarm reviews. You spend months on a film (sometimes years) and the only feedback you get is a rejection email. If you're lucky. Most festivals don't even bother with that.
Roast Film Fest exists to break that cycle. We created a festival where the feedback is the product. Not vague, not diplomatic, not designed to protect your feelings. Real critique, specific, actionable and delivered with the kind of wit that makes it impossible to ignore.
The format borrows from the American comedy tradition of the roast: you submit your work, you sit in the hot seat, and you hear exactly what's wrong with it. But underneath the humor, there's genuine respect for your ambition. We roast because we believe you can do better.
We don't hate your film. We just love cinema too much to let you get away with mediocrity.
Every major filmmaker was told their work wasn't good enough at some point. The difference between those who made it and those who didn't? They had someone honest enough to say it and they listened.
The festival circuit gives you silence. We give you fire.
SciFiBCN is the International Science Fiction Film Festival of Barcelona. The festival aims to promote and showcase new perspectives on the genre, offering a platform for filmmakers from around the world to present their work. It features a competitive short film section, recognizing productions that stand out for their originality, artistic quality, and ability to push the boundaries of science fiction.
Introduction
The Panda Vision International Film Festival (PVIFF) was founded in 2025 at Cogdel School Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Born out of a passion for storytelling, creativity, and cultural exchange, the festival was designed to give middle and high school filmmakers a global platform to showcase their cinematic vision. The name “Panda Vision” pays tribute to Sichuan’s most iconic symbol, the giant panda - representing curiosity, creativity, and global connection.
Mission
Since its founding, PVIFF has focused on nurturing the next generation of storytellers by:
• Providing an international stage for student films.
• Encouraging cross-cultural dialogue through cinema.
• Supporting young filmmakers with workshops,
panel discussions, and professional feedback
• Celebrating innovation across diverse film categories: Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, and Animation
Film Festival Organizing Committee
Cogdel School Chengdu
The period and location of the film festival are determined annually and are indicated in the rules section of the official website. Please note that there is no separate appendix; all relevant information can be found in the rules on the website.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the competition, filmmakers must meet the following requirements:
1. Be 19 years of age or younger at the time of their film's production.
2. Be enrolled in middle school or high school at the time of production.
Please note: College and university students are not permitted to participate.
Welcome to Indie House! We are an IMDb-qualifying international film festival focused on independent filmmakers, providing a unique platform for your work to shine. Our festival structure is designed to prioritize filmmaker recognition, with a higher percentage of nominations compared to other festivals.
What sets us apart is our inclusive approach. We believe everyone deserves the same opportunities, regardless of when they submit their project. We do not make selections until all entries have been received, ensuring that every submission has a fair chance. Additionally, we offer an “All Categories” option, which provides a cost-effective way for filmmakers to submit their projects, and as a thank you, we offer promotional posts on our social media channels.
At Indie House, we have no production year limit. We believe in second—and even third—chances, allowing filmmakers to submit older projects alongside their most recent work. We also support filmmakers who have their projects on YouTube or other online platforms, and this does not disqualify their film from the festival.
We understand the importance of communication, and our festival team is always ready to answer any questions or concerns. You can contact us via our festival email, and we will be happy to provide prompt responses.
Join us at Indie House, where your independent film will have the opportunity to shine on an international stage, and your creativity and passion for storytelling will be celebrated. Submit your project today and become part of our inclusive and vibrant festival community!
STATEMENT OF REASONS
The "Locos por el Cine" Association announces its Third Short Film Competition, aimed at promoting and introducing new authors to the audiovisual sector.
Our purpose is to stimulate and foster cinematic creativity as a form of cultural expression.
