26th International Short Film Festival “UNPRECEDENTED FILM”
The festival has been held annually since 2001.
Festival philosophy:
“Every film finds its audience.”
The 26th International Short Film Festival “UNPRECEDENTED FILM” will take place on 30–31 October 2026 in Tallinn, Estonia.
Organizer: Meksvideo Studio
Official festival website:
http://enff.eu/
See the world Indie Style! In a world divided by fear Independent Filmmakers from around the world join together in New York City for one week every year to share ideas, hopes and dreams. As the filmmaker's show their films, talk on panels and interact with fans, the world's similarities become obvious. Help the New York City Independent Film Festival provide a showcase for the best independent cinema, from New York City and around the world. The Festival offers the artisan filmmaker the potential for networking and distribution.
The New York City Independent Film Festival was just voted the second-best film festival in New York City by Secret New York https://secretnyc.co/best-nyc-film-festivals/. We are right behind the TriBeCa! With our budget being a fraction of TriBeCa’s this is a real honor. We are thrilled! We couldn’t do it without you and your films, so we thank you for your support.
New York City Independent Film Festival (NYCIndieFF) will celebrate the Independent Filmmaker, documentaries, short and feature-length films and animation. Whether a submission is comedic, dramatic, or something in between, The NYCIndieFF is eager to embrace fresh ideas and storytelling.
Home of the NYC Indie Awards the festival aims to discover the Artist Filmmaker, showcasing them to the entertainment industry and the NYC public. All NYCIndieFF screenings take place in the historic center of NYC, Time Square which is the perfect home for an event geared toward creating incredible opportunities for independent voices.
NYCIndieFF honors the Best in Category which includes Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Super Short, Best Covid Diaries, as well as Best Director and Best Screenplay.
NYCIndieFF provides a showcase for the best in independent cinema, including short films, feature films, music videos, and animated works. With panels, parties and a week-long gathering of fellow indie filmmakers NYCIndieFF is the place to be June 3 to June 6, 2027 This dates may move to accommodate any and all government regulations.
Submit now to be a part of all the excitement and join our community of Filmmakers from around the world. See you in NYC and in 2027!!
"Time of Cinema", the online magazine dedicated to cinema, will award at an event to be held at the end of the year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the best works presented.
Any film entered, whether selected or not, has the right to publish a promotional article of up to 500 words and 3 photos in "Time of Cinema.com". You can also buy useful reviews and interviews for any resume or press kit. You must send it via email and it will be published within 10 days. In many cases they will also be published on www.anticensura.com.
At the end of the year an event will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the best works presented will be awarded.
TAXCO Mexico, light city and Magic Town, one of the most impressive locations in the world, invites you to the 12th EDITION OF TAXCO FILM FEST.
The 360 VR and AR festival, the first Virtual Reality film festival held in Spain, will celebrate its 10th edition on October 14, 15, and 16, 2026, in which the quality and innovation of the films will be rewarded. national and international virtual reality short films.
The contest is organized by Mecal, which organizes Mecal Pro, the Barcelona International Short Film and Animation Festival.
We at Zero Degree Film Contest believe in the power of creativity, the scope of imagination, and the beauty of the art of storytelling. We strive to provide a creative space to filmmakers from all walks of life across the continents.
Being film lovers ourselves, we strongly believe in creating an environment where filmmakers and other creative crew members can participate in a wholesome exchange of ideas, thoughts and share their knowledge and experience through debates, discussions, and workshops.
Zero Degree Film Contest has bi-monthly physical screening in several districts of North India, India, including the metropolitan city, Chandigarh, and is free for all to attend.
OMOVIES 19
XIX EDITION • 2026
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION REGULATIONS
LGBTQIA+ Audiovisual Works
Submission deadline: September 30, 2026, 11:59 PM (CEST)
Festival dates: December 7–14, 2026 • Naples and online platform
Organized by: i Ken APS ETS Association
Article 1 — Introduction and Purpose
On the occasion of the 19th edition of OMOVIES – International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, the i Ken APS ETS Association announces an international competition for audiovisual works exploring sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, bodies, relationships, families, communities, and LGBTQIA+ cultures through free, pluralistic, and intersectional perspectives.
Particular attention is given to questioning, understood not as an incomplete or merely transitional condition, but as a legitimate experience of self-exploration, reflection, and self-determination. OMOVIES recognizes every person's right to question their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression; to take time before adopting a definition; to change, over time, the language used to describe themselves; or to choose not to adopt any label at all. Cinema has the power to restore dignity to these journeys by freeing them from the pressure of certainty, from pathologization, and from representations that reduce them to confusion, fragility, or merely a transitional stage toward a supposedly definitive identity.
The Festival also recognizes queer cultures as a diverse heritage of memories, artistic practices, languages, forms of resistance, care, kinship, and community building. From this perspective, queer represents not only an identity category or an umbrella term, but also a critical lens through which what is presented as natural, universal, or immutable can be questioned. The Festival therefore welcomes works that expand the boundaries of visibility and storytelling, challenge binary thinking, stereotypes, hierarchies, and power structures, and explore the intersections between gender, sexual orientation, origin, racialization, disability, age, social class, faith, and migration, without reducing the complexity of human experience to new rigid definitions.
The Festival is scheduled to take place from December 7 to 14, 2026, in a hybrid format, featuring both in-person screenings and events in Naples, as well as an online programme. Festival venues, schedule, and access procedures will be published on the official website www.omovies.it.
The festival was created in 2015 and has the goal to become a space for professional development for filmmakers and amateurs that are looking for a platform to show their films and do some networking.
It has different categories for competition open for high school and university students and international filmmakers. In addition, it has his own Videogame official Selection, where developers can use the festival as a platform to diffuse their games and get motivated to keep making videogames.
You can find more info in cchfilmfest.com
Call for Entries: 21st Korea University Film Festival (UNIFF 2026)
The 21st Korea University Film Festival (UNIFF 2026) is now accepting submissions from emerging filmmakers and student creators from Korea and around the world.
Under this year’s slogan, “THE NEXT FRAME BEGINS HERE,” UNIFF 2026 invites aspiring filmmakers to share their work and become part of a new generation of cinema.
Submission Period
June 16, 2026, 12:00 AM – September 10, 2026, 11:59 PM (KST)
Eligibility
* Current undergraduate or graduate students, including students on leave, from universities in Korea or abroad
* Individual filmmakers or filmmaking teams
* Films produced by students enrolled in film, media, visual arts, or related programs, as well as student film organizations
* Films selected through an open submission process
Eligible Films
* Narrative / Fiction
* Documentary
* Animation
* Experimental Film
* All other genres
There are no restrictions on genre or runtime.
Production Date
Submitted films must have been produced between June 2025 and the opening of the 2026 festival.
Festival Dates
November 6–8, 2026
Venues
* KU Cinematheque
* Seoul Film Center
Awards
* Grand Prize — KRW 1,000,000 + Award Plaque
* Best Film Award — KRW 500,000 + Award Plaque
* Best Director Award — KRW 500,000 + Award Plaque
* Best Actor Award — KRW 500,000 + Award Plaque
* Best Actress Award — KRW 500,000 + Award Plaque
* Technical Achievement Award — KRW 500,000 + Award Plaque
* Jury Special Award — Award Plaque
* Audience Award — Award Plaque, selected directly by the audience
Total Prize Money: KRW 3,000,000 (approximately USD $2,000, subject to exchange rates), plus trophies and other awards.
How to Submit
For submission instructions, eligibility requirements, rules and regulations, and additional information, please visit the official Korea University Film Festival website:
www.festhome.com
We welcome submissions from student filmmakers, emerging artists, and anyone passionate about film and visual storytelling.
THE NEXT FRAME BEGINS HERE.
http://uniff.kr
"Sezze Film Festival" is a cinema and entertainment event dedicated to Italian and foreign short films.
The Festival will be held in Sezze (LT) on 19-20 september 2026.
Prizes will be dedicated to the best works and their artistic and technical figures.
For information and applications:
sezzefilmfestival@libero.it
https://www.facebook.com/sezzefilmfestival/
It is a vibrant and exciting celebration of the film industry whose main objective is to provide a platform for emerging filmmakers and encourage interaction between filmmakers and audience.
This annual event brings together industry experts and film professionals, with seventh art enthusiasts and movie lovers from the central zone of San Luis Potosí.
We strongly believe in the importance of giving young filmmakers a voice and visibility, providing an invaluable platform for these emerging talents to showcase their work.
In the official selection, there is a careful curation of the best contemporary Mexican and Latin American films.
LA Underground Film Forum (LAUFF) is dedicated exclusively to independent, experimental, and auteur cinema. It focus on avant-garde, art-house, independent and no/low budget filmmaking.
Our program provides a venue for filmmakers to reinvent and explore new approaches, to foster new forms of media art and to build an audience for such work. We aim to present a wide range of work exploring the many definitions and interpretations of the concept of “underground”.
We’re looking for films made with passion, obsession and drive; films that go beyond expectations and genre; films, video and audio projects that strive to push the boundaries of accepted form and content. A strong sense of authorship is a must.
LAUFF accepts all forms and genres: from drama, documentary, experimental, cult, art-house, foreign language, comedy, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation, LGBT, indigenous, erotica to slow cinema and video art …
Film Education and Welfare Foundation Aurangabad Present, 7th Year, Roshani International Film Festival chhatrpati sambhaji nagar Aurangabad (M.H) INDIA uses media platform as a tool to connect audiences across cities, countries, and continents. With simultaneous screenings (OFFLINE FESTIVALS) and live Q&A’s, audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away. From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #RIFF brings the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders.
#RISFF established from pride of India, chh. sambhajinagar Aurangabad, Maharashtra. City of ancient 57th century Mughal Empires now beat with #Digitalindia in 2025 providing wide platform for students to professionals - preview their films on International Stage to prove themselves.
We conduct our Film festival from 22 sep - 09 aug every season with grand arrangements with respected jury board from different continent to judge your films and make Q&A session. Take a step and drop your films on our platform and make your self best.
The International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo is an annual festival held in Greece since 2007. The festival aims to provide a showcase for the work of new filmmakers from around the world and to promote the diversity and richness of the short film.
The festival is part of a project aiming to research, promote and develop the art of filmmaking. The festival program includes screenings of short films from Greece and abroad as well as audiovisual events, lectures, masterclasses, exhibitions, and live concerts. The quality of its screenings, lectures, exhibitions have managed to make it a reference point for cinephiles, filmmakers, professionals, and new artists. Each year the activities of the festival expanded, receiving more participation from different countries and getting bigger support from filmmakers and professionals.
The festival aims to travel across borders to develop a spirit of friendship and cooperation with international festivals and filmmakers from all over the world.
Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival is run by Kyklos a nonprofit organization based in Athens whose purpose is to promote actions relating to cinema and public awareness of environmental issues. ‘Kyklos’ in Greek means cycle and the vision of the cycle is the respect for fundamental rights including freedom equal opportunities and cultural diversity
ESPACIO ERÓTICO is a cultural initiative dedicated to promoting artistic works centered on the theme of eroticism. Through the featured works, the initiative aims to highlight diverse perspectives on the world of erotic culture.
The event will feature an exhibition of paintings, a performance piece, and a series of audiovisual screenings.
The festival will take place on September 19, 2026, at Tacha Galería in Buenos Aires.
Rueda Libre (Freewheel) is the official call of shortFilms to Cine Libre FilmFestival, we take for symbol THE WHEEL that evokes the hills of Fredonia where children running down with wheels and tires. Now cinema is taken Fredonia and the concept of roll changes cinematically .
Experimental Forum is an international film and video art festival showcasing experimental film and artists’ moving image from auteur filmmakers and innovative video artists from around the globe. Our aim is to provide a supportive platform for the exciting and challenging work that is outside the scope of mainstream film festivals and art galleries.
We welcome experimental cinema pieces (abstract, narrative or documentary), video art works, essay films, artists’ moving image and media art, as well as documentary and narrative films that seek to expand, redefine or reconfigure the means and ends of their respective fields. Experimental Forum exists to provide access to, and develop audiences for, artists’ moving image work and is committed to engaging local audiences with new and/or unheard voices in film.
We are particularly interested in works made by early stage filmmakers and artists whose work is underrepresented. We provide a collaborative platform for moving image works made for the gallery and for the cinema with the aim of building a community across disciplinary and institutional faultlines.
The Luz del Desierto International Festival is an audiovisual Festival that aims to promote cinema within the country and abroad. The festival will take place in october with competition for feature films and short films, both fiction, animation and documentary. There will also be talks and workshops.
Festival Structure
The American Golden Picture International Film Festival is an annual event. The festival's live screening takes place once each year in June or July.
On the Notification Date, the festival announces the films that have been Officially Selected for the annual live screening event.
On the second day of the Event, the festival announces the winners in each category. The results are published on the festival's website and social media platforms, and each winner receives a digital Golden Certificate.
Each year, our international judging panel evaluates all submitted films and selects the award winners in every category. From among the highest-scoring winning films, the festival's programming team selects the films to be presented at the annual live screening event. The selected filmmakers are notified by email.
Awards:
The American Golden Picture International Film Festival presents a digital Golden Certificate and a Gold Laurel to the winners in the following categories:
Best Feature Film
Best Short Fiction Film
Best Feature Documentary
Best Short Documentary
Best Animated Film
Best Music Video
Best Trailer
Special Jury Awards:
Filmmakers may also submit their films separately for the Special Jury Awards, regardless of genre or running time (Feature, Short, Fiction, Documentary, or Animated).
A digital Golden Certificate and Gold Laurel will be presented to the winners in the following categories:
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Editing
Best Sound Design
Best Lead Actor
Best Lead Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Child Actor
