Drag Me To Fest is the independent horror film festival that lights up Milan with a unique and immersive program and takes place at the end of November. Founded in November 2021 through the collaboration between Joe Godoy Gonzalez, Art Director and creator of the horror website Non Aprite Questo Blog, and filmmaker Chiara Natalini, the festival is a shining beacon for horror lovers—an event that has become a unique point of reference for fans, filmmakers, collectors, and the entire Italian horror community, ready to drag you straight into horror.
Located in the heart of Milan, at WAO Romolo C30, Drag Me To Fest offers a celebration of independent horror cinema in a 480-square-meter space designed to host screenings, talks, and special activities in a single, atmospheric home for horror. With the aim of rediscovering and enhancing the collective experience of cinema, the festival creates a unique environment where the magic of the big screen is shared and enjoyed live. This partnership, strongly supported by WAO, seeks to open new and thriving horizons for culture and cinematic meeting spaces in the city of Milan.
Drag Me To Fest collaborates with sponsors and partners such as Midnight Factory (a label of Plaion Pictures), WAO, Taboo, Rustblade Records, Vagin Lover, Horror Park, Fulci, Mostro Production, Bloodbuster, Horror Italia 24, Horror Dipendenza, and Nocturno Cinema.
Drag Me To Fest is much more than just a festival: it is a celebration of creativity and innovation within the horror film landscape. If you are passionate about horror movies and want to discover the latest trends in the genre in a stimulating atmosphere, don’t miss the chance to take part in this unmissable event.
Our prize is the audience
Since its birth, Drag Me To Fest has embraced an ideology that abolishes the concept of awards—a system that pushes cinema to be seen more as a competition than as a “place” of intellectual and emotional encounter. This does not mean that we do not believe in the pursuit of quality, and for this reason we always work to guarantee a careful selection of the films that can access our festival. But we want to remove the idea of assigning hierarchical value to works and avoid rhetorical thank-yous and self-celebration, focusing instead on giving visibility to the entire crew and to the stories that led to the completion of each film. The only “prize” we aim to guarantee through our work is a high-quality audience.
Films taking part in the festival may be selected to be included in a DVD-format anthology distributed worldwide.
The Umbrales Film Festival opens its 2025 call for entries, inviting filmmakers, audiovisual artists, and emerging creators to participate with works that explore innovative narratives, perspectives, and formats in Mexican cinema.
For this second edition, only works in short film and cineminute formats will be accepted. The maximum running time is 20 minutes and 1 minute respectively, including credits. Winners in each category will receive the festival statuette, as well as honorable mentions.
Festival of fantasy and horror genre shorts, open to all types of filmmakers, whether professionals or amateurs. The festival will be held in the town of Roses (Spain), from November 19 to 22, 2026. We accept short films of the Fantastic, Horror, Animation, Gore, Freak and Trash genres.
La GEEK SHOCK CINEMA, on Sunday the 22th we will hold a marathon of short films, we are looking for underground, festival, comedy, gore and fantastic short films, fake trailers, so that the public can have fun, and shout at the screen, These short films that are selected WILL NOT ENTER THE COMPETITION, participation will be free, but we repeat, THEY WILL NOT ENTER THE COMPETITION, it will only be screened in said marathon, with a maximum of 15 minutes.
On November 27 and 28, 2026, the T-Short Festival will take place at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe cinema in Karlsruhe, Germany.
From November 30 to December 13, 2026, the festival films will be available online only for residents of Germany, as well as for festival participants and guests.
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T-Short Festival for professionals from all over the world and animated movie fans in Germany.
Only short films up to 15 minutes are presented at the festival, preferably without monologues and dialogues.
Films finished after January 1, 2024 are accepted for selection.
T-Short Festival treats any auteur animated films with trepidation, however, it prefers abstract, experimental, and surreal animated films.
T-Short doesn’t target children’s audience and doesn’t allow movies or series that target only for children’s audience.
The festival accepts the films for adult audience and films that will be interesting to both children and adults.
The festival is international and has no national awards.
National awards can only be presented by sponsors and partners of the festival.
Films are judged by our highly respected Jury.
Festival films can be watched both Online and Offline in the Cinema.
ONLY FOR SPANISH FILMMAKERS // SOLO PARA CINEASTAS ESPAÑOLES
El Festival PSICURT está organizado por el Colegio Oficial de Psicología de Cataluña, el Ayuntamiento de Reus y el Ayuntamiento de Tarragona.
El objetivo es dar a conocer los diferentes ámbitos de la salud mental (prevención, promoción e intervención) a través del cine. Un proyecto cultural, social y de salud que permita promover la creación artística y la sensibilidad del público con la salud mental.
The 2026 Rio LGBTQIA+ is the 15th official international film festival of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, showcasing LGBTQIA+ themed fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films in all formats: feature, medium-length, short and micro-length.
International Thai Film Festival a.k.a. ITFF is an internationally recognized film industry event and registered international (IMDb qualifying) film festival of Thailand. The event of ITFF is a film screening event and film entertainment industry expo, founded by S.E.G. Alongside screenings of a wide variety of films (Official Selection), there are Panel Talks session, networking opportunities and the ITFF Award Ceremony. ITFF brings together film, animation and entertainment industry professionals from around the world, celebrating and awarding the very best productions and artists, from emerging talents to seasoned professionals.
ITFF Competition is a film, animation and video competition for industry professionals and amateurs alike, who are passionate about filmmaking and wish to screen their work and compete for ITFF Awards to gain a wider recognition and reputation in the industry.
Entrants have a chance to win a trophy and prizes at ITFF. The selection of productions is executed by the ITFF Judging Board that includes established Thai film and entertainment industry professionals and guest judges from major studios, overseas. With their extensive industry experience and knowledge, each project submitted to ITFF Competition is viewed and studied closely, awarding creativity and the execution of their story regardless of the budget of their production. Submit your work and take us on a journey that surprises us, shocks us, melts our hearts, makes us laugh or simply entertains us.
Lifestyle Spectrum International Film Festival is a curated international film festival based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to independent cinema, visual storytelling, and author-driven films.
The festival focuses on strong cinematic vision, narrative identity, and bold creative voices from around the world. Our mission is to create an intimate and professional screening experience that connects filmmakers, audiences, and industry professionals in a meaningful way.
The festival includes official screenings, filmmaker discussions, and an awards ceremony, presented in a theatrical environment.
Now in our second year, the Inspired Screenwriting Competition is doubling down on our mission to amplify bold and unique new voices and disrupt the status quo of the film industry. In an effort to make this opportunity more accessible to everyone, we're lowering our entry fee and asking writers to submit only the FIRST 20 PAGES of their screenplays. After reviewing those pages, we'll reach out and request full scripts from everyone who advances to the second round.
We’re looking for feature-length screenplays that stand out, break the mold, and connect with audiences in unforgettable ways.
The Inspired Screenwriting Competition was founded by experienced filmmakers and screenwriters who have had a long history in this business. Frustrated with what felt like a decrease in opportunities for newcomers and unique voices and an increase in the amount of organizations that were happy to take an entry fee and offer nothing in return, we felt it was time to take matters into our own hands.
Our mission is to shake up the industry by changing the kinds of scripts that make it to the screen. We feel that now more than ever, the film business needs to embrace new talent telling authentic stories from unique perspectives.
As writers ourselves, we also hate it when people try to put us in a box. And we don’t want to put you in a box, either. That’s why we don’t have separate genre categories.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR THE STRONGEST VOICES IN SCREENWRITING.
We believe that it’s only through showing who you are with your writing can you truly reach your audience in a meaningful way.
So, send us your best. Send us your personal. Send us the crazy out-there ideas that could have only come from (insert your name here).
Because, whether it’s a high concept comedy, historical drama, elevated horror or something in between (if anyone has that script, btw, def send it our way), if it came from you, we want to read it.
And when we do find that special script? That script that blows our minds?
WE ARE GONNA WANT TO TELL EVERYBODY.
So, use your voice and shout it from the rooftops because…
We’re listening.
FILMETS Badalona Film Festival, is an international short film festival with 52 years of history. It is a reference festival in Catalonia awarded by the Barcelona Provincial Council and is a prescriber of the Goya awards.
Badalona celebrated the first edition of the old festival in 1971, on a biennial basis. The Amateur Cinema Section of the Museum was the entity that organized that international contest with the name 'Badalona World Amateur Cinema' and also held other contests such as Images (for members of the entity), the National Festival of Filmed Song (state wide) and the Religious Film and Human Values Contest (state wide). The entity collaborated with the main amateur film festivals in Catalonia, such as those held in Barcelona (Union of Amateur Filmmakers, the Catalonia Excursionist Center or the Barcelona Photographic Association) and others in Figueras, Terrassa, Valls, Mataró, Manresa, Vilanova i la Geltrú, etc.
These festivals screened films in 8 mm, Super8, Single 8 and 16 mm, where works by amateur filmmakers Tomàs Mallol, Rafael Marcó, Enric Menal, Miquel Esparbé, Jan Baca, Toni Garriga, Tomàs Freixas, Arnal S. Licer, Josep Parra, Enrique Montón, Agustí and Rafel Argelich, Joan Vidal, etc. At the end of the 1980s, a new association was created, with the name of Badalona Independent Filmmakers, which took charge of the new festival, the Badalona International Film and Video Festival, until the end of the 1990s.
In 2001, the Badalona City Council and Badalona Comunicació SA, with the support of historical members of the festival, launched the 27th edition of the new festival, under the name of FILMETS Badalona Film Festival. That new edition had 400 registered short films and 2,000 viewers and was the starting point and the new benchmark for short film festivals in Catalonia.
From then on, FILMETS Badalona Film Festival has been a benchmark not only for the short film festivals with the most international coverage and echo, but it is also a meeting point for filmmakers and, above all, for the most loyal public. Since its recovery, it has had the participation of the main short filmmakers from Catalonia and from the rest of the state and in its twenty-two years of the new stage, true film talents have participated who have subsequently stood out with the production of feature films with worldwide impact.
Some of the directors who have participated in the festival are Álex de la Iglesia, Fernando Trullols, Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Kiko Maillo, Judit Colell, Mar Coll, Javier Fesser or Àlex Pastor among others, as well as the participation of prominent international filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Pedro Almodóvar. It has also given way to the new current generations of short filmmakers such as Bill Plympton, JA Bayona, Ari Sandel or Carla Simón, among others. The international jury has been made up of people of recognized prestige in the audiovisual scene such as Manuel Huerga, Josep Maria Forn, Roland Nguyen, Joao García, Ventura Pons, Antoni Verdaguer, Lluís Marco, Roger Coma, Romà Gubern, Florence Keller, Judit Colell, Jaume Figueras, Llorenç Soler, Sílvia Quer, Carles Bosch, Albert Solé and Oriol Sala-Patau, among others. In recent years, professionals from the short film distribution sector have attended, such as Marvin&Wayne, Freak, Kimuak, Catalan Films, Agence du Court Métrage, Nikita Distribution, France TV, RTP, or festival programmers such as Medit, Mecal, Fec Cambrils-Reus , Cittadella di Corto, Biennale di Vicenza, Off Courts Trouville L'Alternativa, My first festival, OH, LA LA!, BCN Sports Film. They have also played an important role in the film schools of Catalonia (ESCAC, Bande à Part, CECC, 9 Zeros, ECIB, FX Animation, EMAV) or the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany, ESRA, ESMA, Arte FX, Les Gobelins of France USC California, etc.
The festival is also a platform for our filmmakers, since the presence of the festival in the main international markets (WSFF Toronto, Regard Saguenay Quebec, Short Film Corner Cannes, Tous Courts Aix -en-Provence, Off-Courts Trouville, Clermont-Ferrand , BISFF Brussel·les, etc) has made it possible for FILMETS Badalona Film Festival to be a catalyst for the genre, also promoting its own productions. Directors and producers of short films that have subsequently won the Oscar, or Goya, Gaudí, César, Donatello, etc., have attended and participated.
FILMETS Badalona Film Festival has maintained relationships and collaborations with the main festivals in the world since its origins, from the USC of Southern California, the New York Film Institute, the London Film School, among others, but mainly the most important producers and distributors of independent short films (Premium Films, European New Sales, Marvin&Wayne, Freak, Agencia du Cortmétrage, Interfilm Berlin, Kurtz Film Hamburg, Ouat Media, etc.)
In this regard, the festival is active throughout the year and beyond the dates of the celebration it has organized sessions all over the world, with anthological sessions in several European cities. FILMETS develops year after year a pedagogical work of the best cinema, with contents that have been carefully worked on by the programming team. At the same time, members of the organizing committee of the festival have actively participated in different conferences, round tables, professional meetings and as members of the official jury of the festivals: ImagineNative Toronto, WSFF Toronto, Regard Saguenay Quebec, Off-Courts Trouville/Deauville, Très Courts Aix -en-Provence, Short Film Corner Cannes, Huesca International Festival, Docs Barcelona, Cryptshow Badalona, BISFF Busan South Korea, Clermont-Ferrand, etc. On the other hand, they have also participated as speakers or moderators in: Short Film Corner, Clermont-Ferrand, Quebec, Trouville, and in different exhibitions and festivals in Catalonia, as well as a member of the short film commission of the Gaudí Award by the Catalan Cinema Academy.
FILMETS Badalona Film Festival has promoted all over the world not only the festival brand, but also the main short film festivals of Catalunya Film Festivals CFF (founding member).
The MAFF, the Moscow Asian Film Festival, has been launched to support independent filmmakers throughout Asia to display their unique ideas, to tell the stories deep down inside their hearts, and to inspire both audiences and other independent filmmakers.
The Moscow Asian Film Festival features work produced by filmmakers of Asian decent as well as stories about Asian culture and heritage. We will be accepting submissions from asian filmmakers, directors, writers, majority asian crew and/or asian stories.
The festival will primarily support Asian filmmakers to showcase their talents. The event will show short to full length movies and documentaries of Asian cultural, social and historical significance by Asian as well as non-Asian filmmakers. The festival will host filmmakers for a reception and audience engagement. The festival will be a marquee event for the city with support from Big Asia TV-chanel with the goal to promote asian films in Russia.
Festival features live screenings in Global Cinema in Moscow with six 100 – seat theaters with laser DLP projectors and JBL speakers throughout the venue, delivering top notch quality in an intimate screening environment. Filmmakers whose work is accepted into our festival will receive free passes to screenings, invitations to networking events and are eligible for awards consideration.
MAFF is organized and produced by Valery Shanin’s Film Club and Big Asia TV-chanel with generous financial support from private donors.
All best films that were selected for the screening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on September 02 – 05, 2027 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the “Best film”. As well as for the prizes in the standalone nominations.
Festival only for Spanish speakers: Spanish and Latin American productions.
Born in 2023 as a space for environmental awareness, Gamboa Zinemaldia has established itself as a meeting point between cinema, community, and sustainability. In 2026, we celebrate our fourth edition with a renewed commitment: to inspire, educate, and mobilize through the art of film.
From Ullibarri-Gamboa to the whole of Álava, the festival weaves connections between culture and territory, fostering a more respectful relationship with the natural environment. Gamboa Zinemaldia is not just an audiovisual showcase; it is a cultural movement that understands cinema as a tool for social and ecological transformation.
Each screening seeks to spark reflection; each story to open a conversation; each edition to leave a mark on the collective conscience.
“At Gamboa Zinemaldia, we don’t just screen films; we cultivate awareness and sow change through the art of cinema.”
In the 2026 edition of the Quibdó Africa Film Festival, we descend into a profound and resonant space where Africa and its global Diaspora converge under the enigmatic banner of NOIR. This festival is far more than a series of film screenings it is a transformative cultural odyssey featuring immersive workshops, critical dialogues, and artistic exhibitions. It is a journey through shadow and revelation, traversing time from the echoes of the past and the complexities of the present, into the speculative futures waiting to be imagined. This event is not merely about showcasing films; it is about navigating a space that embodies both deep memory and radical representation, a space that compels us to confront our histories and the multitude of identities we inhabit and forge.
The 2026 festival will convene a groundbreaking assembly of visionary Afro-diasporic filmmakers, representing a dynamic artistic vanguard that boldly reconfigures reality through the potent fusion of art, historical reclamation, and speculative fiction. These creators engage in a vital dialogue within this curated cinematic universe, challenging and transcending conventional narratives to illuminate the full spectrum of the Black experience.
At the pulsating core of our 2026 vision lies the afrodisruptive power of NOIR. This cinematic approach is designed to challenge, destabilize, and transform. It is potent, impactful, and intellectually thrilling. It seeks to disrupt the comfort of the status quo, to overturn simplistic narratives and reinvigorate our collective imagination. This revolutionary concept offers a 360-degree reexamination a critical and celebratory reinterpretation of traditions, identities, and futures through a distinctly Black lens.
In essence, the Quibdó Africa Film Festival 2026 is not merely an event; it is a cultural awakening. It is a deliberate plunge into the creative darkness where new light is forged, and a celebration of the relentless, transformative spirit of global Afro cinema and artistry.
We want to organize this FOURTH EDITION, a call for short and long films, where THE MEMORY are the main theme in the selected works.
¡Hola! We are SEVIFF • Sevilla Indie Film Festival, an international independent film festival in the city of Seville in Spain, and member of the IBERIFF • Iberia Indie Film Festivals, which celebrates and showcases new productions and independent artists from all over the world in Madrid (MADRIFF), Barcelona (BARCIFF), València (VALÈIFF), Seville (SEVIFF), Lisbon (LISBIFF) and Montpellier (MONTIFF), that you can also find them here, in Festhome!
SEVIFF shares the mission of their associate festivals of supporting emerging talents, encouraging artistic exploration, fostering networking, promoting cultural exchange and engaging the local community by providing a platform to present the work of independent filmmakers.
Fiction films, animation, documentary and experimental of any genre and subject are welcome!
The festival aims to promote cinematographic culture through short films.
The Friends of Ribadesella Cultural Association was born in 1986, with the vocation of disseminating culture among the citizens of Ribadesella and its council, its statutory objectives being very broad (giving conferences, organizing exhibitions, publishing books, protecting cultural and historical heritage , artistic, ethnographic, natural or scientific of the town; also activities of a sporting or social nature) currently having about a thousand members, who support our cultural trajectory.
INSÓLITO Fantastic Film Festival is the most important consolidated event of genre cinema (horror, fantastic, science fiction, exploitation, trash and similar) in Peru and is currently in its ninth edition.
Since its creation, the Festival has sought to vindicate unconventional ways of making films, including national and international proposals in its exhibitions and competitions, disseminating the best films that have been made worldwide on this topic.
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Web: insolitofestival.com
Ig: @insolitofest
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The festival will take place in person in Lima from October 31st to November 15th.
This year we burn away fear and celebrate the extraordinary.
