LANZAROTE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2027
National Fiction Shorts
International Fiction Shorts
Animated shorts
Short Documentaries
Canary Shorts
Children's Shorts
The UNICINE International Film Festival celebrates national and international cinema with the aim of recognizing, promoting, and supporting audiovisual creators, as well as strengthening the dissemination, awareness, accessibility, and understanding of diverse themes of social and cultural interest among a broad and diverse audience.
The festival represents an innovative initiative designed to offer quality entertainment with social consciousness, fostering dialogue, reflection, and diverse perspectives through the language of cinema.
The festival will take place as an in-person event, enabling the participation of filmmakers, producers, students, and audiovisual professionals from various regions of Bolivia and around the world.
Registration for and participation in the Festival constitute full acceptance of these guidelines, rules, and terms established by the organizers.
All expenses incurred by participants in attending the festival, taking part in in-person activities, receiving accolades, or collecting prizes—including transportation, accommodation, meals, and other associated costs—shall be borne exclusively by the individual participants.
Once prizes have been awarded to the winners, neither the festival organizers nor the jury shall bear any responsibility regarding the use, transport, preservation, or disposal of the awards granted in each category.
Prizes will be presented during the festival's official closing ceremony; the venue, date, and time will be announced in due course via the Festival's official channels and social media platforms.
Any situation not covered by these guidelines will be resolved by the Festival organizers, whose decisions shall be final and not subject to appeal.
Since its first edition, the Santo Domingo Global Film Festival (FCGSD) has taken firm steps to grow both nationally and internationally while remaining true to its mission. The festival aims to offer Dominicans, as well as all visitors to the country during the event, the opportunity to access the unique perspective that cinema provides on "global issues" through "personal stories." In doing so, it seeks to foster learning and adaptation in a world driven by knowledge and globalization.
The festival’s mission remains to bring the best international narrative and documentary films to a diverse audience, advancing the understanding of the global challenges we face. Beyond this, it has contributed—whether significantly or modestly—to enhancing cinematic culture in the Dominican Republic and increasing interest in an industry that holds great potential for the country in the 21st century. The FCGSD serves as a platform that supports, among other areas, both local and international film production within the Dominican Republic.
Objectives:
Utilize cinema to strengthen the country’s economic development.
Enrich the cinematic culture of the Dominican Republic.
Screen films that entertain while deepening the understanding of global issues.
Attract people from different sectors and social classes to experience and reflect on films.
Increase the international visibility of the Dominican Republic in the global press.
Showcase a wide variety of films that are not usually accessible to the Dominican public.
Present films that resonate with youth while expanding their appreciation of cinema.
Promote the Dominican Republic as a desirable and viable option for the global film industry.
Bring a modern cinematic culture to schools in the Dominican Republic, using film as a tool to understand global issues, propose solutions, and foster individual opportunities.
CALL FOR ENTRIES 4RD
LESFEST LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF PERU
LIMA - PERU, 2027
COMPETITIONS
Lesfest features five competitions:
- International Feature Film Competition: Productions from any country worldwide with a running time of over 60 minutes are eligible. These films must have been produced after January 1, 2025.
- International Short Film Competition: Films from any country worldwide with a maximum running time of 30 minutes are eligible. These films must have been produced after January 1, 2024.
- Lesbination – International Animation Competition: open to animated films from anywhere in the world with a maximum runtime of 30 minutes. These films must have been produced after January 1, 2025.
- International Series Competition: Series from any country worldwide with a minimum running time of 1 minute and a maximum of 40 minutes in various production formats are eligible. The episodes must have been produced after January 1, 2024.
Peruvian Competition, open to peruavian films with a maximum duration of 30 minutes. These films must have been produced after January 1, 2025.
The Layar Lokal Film Festival (LLoFF) is an annual short film festival in Indonesia focused on the development, appreciation, and strengthening of the local film ecosystem. Initiated by the Sidoarjo Filmmakers Association (ASFIS) under the auspices of the Delta Citra Sinema Foundation, the festival has evolved from a regional appreciation space into a national-scale platform that bridges the works of independent filmmakers with the general public, while also bringing together various creative sectors such as art, culture, and tourism.
Theme & Spirit of the 7th Edition
The 7th Layar Lokal Film Festival (LLOFF 7) is a cinema event that consistently serves as an epicenter for appreciation, exhibition, and distribution for alternative cinematic works, particularly in East Java and Indonesia. Carrying the grand theme "Suara-suara Baru" (New Voices), this festival acts as a space for young filmmakers and fresh perspectives that dare to push the boundaries of conventional narrative. The festival is scheduled to take place over 4 days, from December 11-14, 2026, at Rumah Budaya Malik Ibrahim, Sidoarjo.
Below is an explanation of the programs included in LLoFF 7:
#Screening Programs
This program is divided into several competition and non-competition categories:
- Layar Delta (Competition): A specific competition category to appreciate the local uniqueness, issues, and filmmakers of the East Java region.
- Layar Nusantara (Competition): A national-scale short film competition category that captures the representation of contemporary Indonesian dynamics.
- Layar Asia (Competition): A regional Asia-level competition category that presents a variety of aesthetic and cultural perspectives from various countries in Asia.
- Layar Wani (Non-Competition): A screening program that curates selected short films with artistic courage and unique narrative exploration.
- Special Screening: A special screening of exclusive selected films outside of the festival's main competition program.
#Non-Screening Programs
In addition to film screenings, the festival provides educational and networking spaces for cinema enthusiasts:
- Camera Workshop: An educational technical class regarding cinematography and the utilization of the latest camera technology.
- Jatim Film Dialogue: A panel discussion space that maps the ecosystem, funding, and existence of local East Javanese cinema.
- Tamasya (Excursion): Informal networking activities between communities and delegates at selected destinations.
All of these activities are designed to create an intimate and sacred festival atmosphere, combining the historical-cultural values of Sidoarjo with the contemporary cinematic ideas brought by the participants.
Hope and Impact
The 7th Layar Lokal Film Festival is committed to being more than just a venue for film screenings; it aims to be a vibrant public space. The festival is expected to spark the emergence of new talent in the Indonesian film industry, strengthen the position of community cinema as a pillar of culture, and drive the local creative economy in a sustainable manner.
“Let’s celebrate our stories, because local cinema is the face of our nation’s identity, one that never ceases to shine.”
The Arara Azul Brazilian Film Festival is a festival dedicated to promoting Brazilian culture and cinema in Italy. It will take place in the beautiful city of Prato, near Florence, a city devoted to art and multiculturalism. It is directed by Anastásia Vulgaris, filmmaker and screenwriter, and by the deputy director Patrizia Morandini, opera singer and vocal coach, both of Brazilian origin.
The selection is open to films, documentaries, short films, and screenplays of any length produced and/or filmed in Brazil and/or dealing with themes related to Brazil. Priority will be given to world, international, and European premieres.
Screamiverse Expo is a horror, sci-fi, and arts convention taking place in Roanoke, VA on Saturday April 10th and Sunday April 11th 2027, our third year.
As part of our programming, we created a screening room where we will feature our 3rd annual film fest and showcase. Last year we were able to present 4 features and 18 shorts, and are excited to bring it back. Our goal is to make Screamiverse Expo a new annual tradition for fans of genre film—horror, sci-fi, cult classics, and everything in between, here in the heart of Appalachia.
Our film fest will take place all day Saturday and Sunday in Parlor A of the Berglund Center, marathon style. Then on Saturday there will be an awards ceremony on our main stage. Winning films do not need to be on site, we will mail you the awards at our expense.
If you want to attend the event and promote your project, we have vendor space available. We'll have a limited number of gratas booths available for filmmakers, and additional tables for sale in our main vendor hall.
Again, you do not have to be present to have your project showcased.
Founded in 2000, the Fiaticorti Film Festival is one of Italy's earliest national festivals dedicated to short films. Every summer, it takes place in the enchanting grounds of Villa Lattes in Istrana, near Treviso (Italy).
The name chosen for the event carries a dual meaning: on one hand, 'fiato corto' (out of breath/shortness of breath) is the result of a short-term physical exertion (much like short films are brief in duration); on the other hand, a film with a maximum running time of 20 minutes can evoke powerful emotions in the viewer, leaving them literally 'breathless'.
Over its more than twenty-year history, Fiaticorti has stood out for the international reach of both the works submitted and the guests hosted throughout its editions. At the same time, it maintains a strong focus on the local area and the creativity of regional talent, showcasing the artistic and cinematic potential of filmmakers from the Veneto region.
From 2000 to the present day, Fiaticorti has reviewed and received over 7,000 audiovisual works from more than 120 countries, building a high-quality historical film archive dedicated to short cinema.
Starting in 2026, the Municipality of Istrana has entrusted the artistic direction of the 24th edition to Andrea Grespan—who previously played a key role in the festival's organization—alongside Sara Ricciardi and Livio Meo, representatives of Cineforum Labirinto, an association with extensive experience in organizing film events across the province of Treviso.
ESPIELLO, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY is organized by the Service of Culture of the Comarca de Sobrarbe (an institution that it groups to 19 town halls) along with a wide participation of neighbors of the zone who form the Permanent Commission of the festival. It is celebrated during March and April in Boltaña, a small population of the Pyrenees of Huesca (Spain).
Espiello is the only festival with this specialization in the country. It has an international competition of ethnographic documentary and some different sections out of competition and other activities whith topics related to the documentary and the visual anthropology.
DUBBING GLAMOUR FILM FESTIVAL
8th Edition (15th ActorsPoetryFestival)
International Call 2026 — Filmmaker | Actors | Authors
Genoa, 12-27 september, 2026
Already supported by the MIC Ministry of Culture - Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual, the Liguria Region, and the Municipality of Genoa, the Dubbing Glamour Film Festival opens Call 2026 with a first: for the first time, the festival is combining the established competition for actors and authors with an international competition for filmmakers.
Each culture carries within itself a founding imaginary — myths, archetypes, figures that cross generations and borders. Cinema is where this imagination lives, transforms, and speaks in many languages at once.
The Dubbing Glamour Film Festival takes its name in Portofino, after 7 editions since 2012, on the Ligurian coast, where the Mediterranean begins its long journey to other seas, other civilizations, other stories. From the Pillars of Hercules to India and beyond: this is the geographical and cultural horizon of our festival. How archetypes leave the screen and enter reality with the transition from myth to collective behavior — for a festival on the political function of the imaginary.
In 2026, in collaboration with ROY FILM and the project on Disney, the DGFF inaugurates its first international competition dedicated to directors — with particular attention to emerging voices: directors under 35, their first or second feature film or short film, and Italian directors over 35.
The project invests in the audiovisual sectors —cinema, TV series, dubbing, audiobooks, script adaptation and screenplay— with a large program of screenings, masterclasses, round tables and speed dates with productions.
SECTION A — FILMMAKER COMPETITION
Purpose
The competition promotes international cinema in all its forms, with particular attention to the works of young authors under 35 in their first or second production and to directors from Italy and the Mediterranean area. The festival favors works that express original poetic, visual, or narrative value, regardless of genre and format.
Sections in competition
Short film (under 50 minutes)
Feature film (over 50 minutes)
Animation
Video Art
AI & Generative Cinema
Films out of competition may be hosted at the discretion of the art direction.
Selection
The artistic directorate appoints a selection committee responsible for choosing the works in competition. A high-profile international jury awards the category prizes and the Grand Prix. Participants will be notified of the selection outcome by June 10, 2026. Selected works may not be withdrawn under any circumstances. The DGFF does not correspond screening rights for films in the official selection.
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SECTION B — ACTORS AND AUTHORS COMPETITION
Registration via www.teatrogag.com — info@teatrogag.com
Recipients
Participation is open to actors (professional and emerging) and adult performing authors of any nationality. For minors, please refer to the Regulations.
Actors Sections:
Live Performance
Audiovisual (Cinema, Dubbing, Audiobooks, Video Acting)
Speakers
Companies
Authors:
Poetry Section (dialogists, screenwriters, poets)
ACTORS:
Participation in the Dubbing Battles is open only to the finalist actors in the specific Section.
ARANIFF – Vielha International Independent Film Festival is an international independent film festival held in Vielha, Val d'Aran, dedicated to independent cinema, emerging filmmakers, creative freedom and cultural diversity.
The Inflamável Festival is an annual event dedicated to experimental cinema created on analog film formats. Focused exclusively on Super 8 and 16mm filmmaking, the festival celebrates artistic experimentation, materiality, and the creative possibilities of photochemical cinema.
Part of the Strangloscope Platform, the festival brings together filmmakers, artists, researchers, and audiences interested in the preservation, reinvention, and future of analog moving images. Since its creation, Inflamável has screened hundreds of films from Brazil and around the world, becoming an important meeting point for contemporary experimental film practices.
The 6th edition of the festival will take place from December 10–13, 2026, in Florianópolis, Brazil.
We welcome works that explore the expressive potential of film through experimental approaches, expanded cinema practices, hand-processing techniques, direct animation, found footage, abstraction, personal cinema, hybrid forms, and other innovative audiovisual languages.
PRESENTATION
The TUWUN concept represents the Mapuche territorial origin, which together with KVPALME, the family origin, represent the Mapuche identity rooted in the LOF, a territorial space that in turn is the basis of the ancestral territorial structure of a broader space, the WALLMAPU, the entire Mapuche territory.
This concept of Mapudungun, the Mapuche language, gives rise to TUWUN Muestra de Cine Indígena de Wallmapu, created with the aim of making known through cinema, that identity and the realities related from ancestral knowledge and the way in which it is understood. life from the vision and relationship of each people with their environment, with their territory, with their own history, culture and spirituality and, therefore, from their own perspective.
In this sense, we believe that the TUWUN exhibition represents a valuable opportunity to learn about the way in which life is understood from the indigenous peoples' own culture and an important space to share the perspective and reality expressed from their own representative voices, through of the cinema. In addition to contributing to the decentralization of cinema and culture, generating a process of circulation at the territorial level and taking the traveling exhibition and its complementary activities to a wide and diverse public, in urban and rural areas, with the exhibition of the participating works in various spaces, such as Mapuche communities, schools and cultural centers in towns that generally have difficulty accessing the cinema because they are far from large urban centers, also generating Nvtram (conversation) spaces around its contents.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
TUWUN is an indigenous film exhibition that consists mainly of the realization of a Itinerant Exhibition, which covers various places in Wallmapu, the Mapuche ancestral territory (southern Chile and Argentina) and is held from the november month until June of the following year, where for the Mapuche people The cycle ends and begins again with the celebration of Wiñoy Tripantu (Mapuche New Year).
COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES
Within the framework of TUWUN, we develop various complementary activities during the traveling exhibition. Among them, a TRAWUN (meeting), special screenings by guests of indigenous peoples and the Mapuche people, NVTRAMCINE (cinema forums), TUWUN screenings inserted in other film and culture competitions, screenings for schools and communities, special cycles in the summer season . And a workshop for the appreciation of cinema with identity, which we have designed for training and mediation with different audiences, such as children and young people of school age, adults, leaders of organizations, Mapuche communities, etc.
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
TUWUN Muestra de Cine Indígena de Wallmapu, is coordinated and produced by ADKIMVN Cine y Comunicación Mapuche, with the collaboration of a network of organizations, cultural centers, municipal departments of culture, Mapuche communities and educational centers.
SÁFIC@S International Film Festival: Queer, Non Binary and Lesbian cinema in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
We showcase short films created by members of the lesbian, transvestite, transgender and non-binary community on Argentinian screens.
By watching films from around the world, we can see, hear, reflect on and experience how love is expressed and how female characters relate sexually and emotionally.
Honouring Sappho's heritage, we ask ourselves as a community what does Sapphic mean today?
We will be screening films during Pride Month in Argentina, June 26 -28th, in Rosario (Santa Fe) and Buenos Aires.
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES
The deadline for submitting exhibition material is Sunday, September 6, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.
Do you remember the first film you saw on the big screen as a child?
For thousands of Mexican girls and boys in vulnerable situations, this question has no answer. For this reason, and for them, the Churumbela Children's Film Festival was created, inviting all children of Mexico, Spanish speakers, and speakers of other languages to experience cinema in an inclusive, playful, and entertaining environment.
It brings cinema closer to all children, with a special focus on girls and boys in vulnerable situations, people with disabilities, and families from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Through accessible and inclusive programming, the festival promotes film as a tool for expression, identity, and cultural formation, ensuring that children from diverse realities have access to enriching and participatory cinematic experiences.
The 10th Churumbela Children's Film Festival takes place in person with film screenings and activities in Mexico City and in Yucatán, where we not only program film screenings but also offer workshops and talks led by industry professionals.
The 10th Churumbela Children's Film Festival promotes creativity, dialogue, the seventh art, and artistic expression as tools for social transformation, and all of its activities are offered free of charge.
In this effort, this year the festival calls on filmmakers, girls, boys, and young people from Mexico and around the world to take part in its tenth edition. This call unifies all of the festival's sections into a single open submission process, aimed at facilitating participation and expanding the festival's reach in a decade of cinema for children.
This edition of the festival will take place in Mexico City from Wednesday, November 18 to Sunday, November 22, 2026, and in Yucatán from Friday, December 4 to Sunday, December 6, 2026.
The festival is nonprofit, and its goal is to bring valuable stories to many girls, boys, and young people to serve as inspiration, a mirror, a source of empathy and awareness, and to build confidence in themselves.
To find out about the venue-by-venue program of shorts, films, activities, and workshops that will be offered in person and online, visit our official site: https://www.churumbelafest.com
CONTACT:
Email: festivalchurumbela@gmail.com
Phone: 5551586814
Website: www.churumbelafest.com
On the border of Europe and Asia, in the 300-year-old city called the "Russian Manchester" in the middle of the Ural Mountains —
we organize an International Short & Debut Film Festival with a quarterly Official Selection and Live Screenings every summer, autumn, winter and spring.
NOW OPEN: Submissions for the IV Ural Shorts 2026/2027
Grand Prix: $1,000.
Ural Shorts is an IMDb Qualifying Award Event.
All Ural Shorts Winners of the Year — both films and filmmakers — are granted dedicated pages on IMDb, the world's leading film database. For those already listed on IMDb, their Awards section is updated to reflect their Ural Shorts win.
Ural Shorts consists of four Seasons and Annual Award Event.
Every Season the selection committee watches privately the submitted short films and chooses the Official Selection for the Short Film Section. All selected films enter the competition for the Season Awards.
Within 10 days after the Official Selection list is published the jury announces the Season Winners. The winning short films enter the Screening Program in cinemas and on television for all to see.
In the Feature Film Section, a yearly shortlist is selected. All Season winners in the Short Film Section and shortlisted feature films enter the competition for the Annual Awards. And receive an invitation to the Annual Award Event.
The Annual Event takes place in August in the 300-year-old city of Nizhny Tagil, on the border of Europe and Asia, which is called the "Russian Manchester" in the middle of the Ural Mountains. The winner of the Grand Prix will receive a statuette, a diploma and a cash prize of 100,000 rubles. The Annual Award Event consists of a cultural and educational program, the annual awards ceremony, screenings, TV interviews, workshops, and other activities.
The purpose of the festival refers to awareness of both the external filters on the screen, including censorship (commercial, ideological, aesthetic), and the internal filters of screen perception and projection, including self-censorship. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is an exploration of aestheticization and commodification in art. The next aim of the festival is to expose the complexity, manysidedness, and variety of filmmaking.
NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino) is a film festival that is held by the Short Movie Club, the platform for cinematic projects. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is ADAMI Media Prize qualified festival. The International Film Studies Conference is held at the same time as the film festival. In this way, film theory and practice are integrated together at the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO.
Originally the festival was held in Belarus, but because of political repression and publicly stated anti-war stance, screenings and events can be held in different countries. First of all in Poland (Warsaw), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg), Lithuania (Vilnius). For example, the 11th and 10th Nefiltravanae Kino took place in Warsaw, Berlin, Hamburg, Vilnius and Helsinki. The content of past years' film programs can be found on the website https://shortmovie.club/programmes/
The festival will be held in a hybrid format. We will have a part of live screenings and online screenings on a video platform https://film.nofilterkino.org/ . The video is cryptographically secured. In addition, we pay attention and promote films from our previous years that are released to the public on the Internet after their festival curcuit.
Nefiltravanae Kino involves theater, artists to interpret symbols and history. We work with the audience's reaction and participants' as well.
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The concept of the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino):
ALIENATION PROBLEM
We live in a world of malls and cinema multiplexes. We see that indie cinema and non-commodity art go to the periphery of public attention. Primitive attractions replace the cinematography. The escape audience is alienated behind the big screen. So modern mainstream cinema is part of a manipulating tool that leads to the society of alienation. Thus the tendency is that indie cinema becomes more unreadable for the wide audience. We should understand the context of the filmmaker to understand the independent cinema. That is why the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO concept implies the physical presence of filmmakers.
FILM SELECTION PROBLEM
Filmmakers shoot millions of movies. And thousands of short film festivals organize screenings all over the world every year. On average, several thousand films are submitted to a film festival. So various good films can be neglected for whatever reason. Often selecting probability is like winning a lottery. As a result, filmmakers are left with no feedback. It is a paradox that no one can hear you in the age of the Internet! The mainstream culture prefers attractions and casual viewing.
Also, this idea is based on the film selection problem. Perhaps it’s no surprise one person, i.e. programme director at best, or even students of film schools make a preliminary decision to select a movie. Сoncordance of judges or previewers is more seldom thing than the difference of background, tastes. So selection or judging can be one-sided or perfunctory. It is not bad as the programme director has a good taste and aesthetic sensitivity, of course. But we’ve discovered another conception of “unfiltered cinema”. We matched it against “the best of the best” way. This way aids to perceive cinematic idiom without the dictate of art-curators.
CELEBRATION OF INDIE CINEMA
So the NoFilter Kino tries to avoid “the best of the best” way but it does not ignore it completely, sure. The festival selects fiction, animation, documentary, experimental and virtual reality sections. A jury awards the best film in every section. The festival holds the screenings at cinema theatres, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, and art-spaces.
Our aim is to gather people in art, to have a dialogue to be happy with smart communication.
Cinema is art but not sport. The key point of our project is to establish communication between the filmmaker and the audience.
Please, read about the festival history through the link to the festival's website. http://shortmovie.club/history/
In Leda's Monologues we put our focus on Film Monologues and Special Short films with a distinctive voice.
We particularly welcome works that explore identity, human relationships, social questions, women’s perspectives, experimental forms and new approaches to storytelling.
