The 35th Message to Man International Festival of documentary, short fiction, animated, and experimental films will take place from 17 to 25 October 2025 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Over the years, the Festival has hosted distinguished figures of world cinema, including Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Claude Lanzmann, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Paolo Sorrentino, Alan Berliner, Eric Roberts, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abdellatif Kechiche, Udo Kier, and many others.
With its history spanning three decades of cinema development, Message to Man was founded in 1989 in Leningrad by filmmaker Mikhail Litvyakov, who now serves as the Honorary President of the Festival.
In 2010, Alexei Uchitel, a renowned director of documentaries and feature films, assumed the role of the Festival's President.
The Festival programme revolves around three competitions: international, national, and experimental, providing a platform for both full-length and short films to vie for the Festival's Grand Prix. Message to Man consistently draws thousands of cinema enthusiasts to St. Petersburg each year.
ITALIANO
Il CPIMFF è un festival cinematografico internazionale mensile nato a Salerno (Italia)
Fondato dal regista e produttore cinematografico Salvatore Martines, Il festival ha come unico scopo quello di valorizzare il cinema indipendente e le sue più larghe sfaccettature promuovendo tramite le competenze distributive della Corsenal Production i migliori progetti in gara.
Il festival, che si terrà mensilmente online sul sito ufficiale della ©Corsenal Production, selezionerà i migliori progetti per la cerimonia finale mensile, per poi premiare i più validi con premi dal valore di 60.000$, i premi infatti, prevederanno importanti contratti di distribuzione sulle migliori piattaforme streaming Tv come: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi Tv, Plex, Xumo, Filmzie e molti altri.
Ogni mese, ogni regista o produttore avrà la possibilità di vincere questi prestigiosi premi annessi ad essi la pergamena del CPIMFF che attesterà la vittoria del proprio film.
Il CPIMFF prevederà diverse sezioni:
°Feature Film (Per registi e Filmmaker di nazionalità italiana)
°International Feature Film
°Short film (Per registi e Filmmaker di nazionalità italiana)
°International Short Film
°Documentary
°Best Director
°Best Director of Photography
°Best Narrative Work
°Best Actor
°Best Actress
°Best Drama Film
°Best Comedy Film
°Best Horror Film
°Best Thriller Film
ENGLISH
The CPIMFF is a monthly international film festival born in Salerno (Italy)
Founded by the director and film producer Salvatore Martines, the sole purpose of the festival is to enhance independent cinema and its broader facets by promoting the best competing projects through the distribution skills of Corsenal Production.
The festival, which will be held monthly online on the official website of © Corsenal Production, will select the best projects for the final monthly ceremony, and then award the most valid with prizes worth $ 60,000. best TV streaming platforms such as: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi Tv, Plex, Xumo, Filmzie and many others.
Each month, each director or producer will have the chance to win these prestigious awards attached to them the parchment of the CPIMFF which will attest to the victory of their film.
The CPIMFF will have several sections:
° Feature Film (For directors and filmmakers of Italian nationality)
° International Feature Film
° Short film (For directors and filmmakers of Italian nationality)
° International Short Film
° Documentary
° Best Director
° Best Director of Photography
° Best Narrative Work
° Best Actor
° Best Actress
° Best Drama Film
° Best Comedy Film
° Best Horror Film
° Best Thriller Film
° Best Soundtrack
The "Golden Flower Award" Beijing International Children's Film Festival, supported by the Children's Science and Education Committee of China's largest Children's Culture and Arts Promotion Association, was held in 2018. Now it has become the largest children's film festival in China. Partners in the Asian market are invited to recommend excellent films to promote cultural exchanges, cooperation and distribution. This year, we will expand the number of screening and forum exchange activities of young filmmakers to other venues on the basis of past successes. Launch richer and more meaningful new projects, such as public services in mountain villages and campus screening.
The Beijing International Children's Film Festival is a non-profit film festival supported by the Red Cross Foundation of China. open to films from all over the world. More than 200 films were screened every year, with more than 5 million young people and children watching online. "Child friendly" offline screenings were held in Chinese cinemas, schools and art centers. At the same time, round tables, art exhibitions, drinking parties and other activities were held
Public services: The expenses of the film festival are used for organizing activities, and in cooperation with the Red Cross Society and other foundations, the festival donates film watching activities and cultural facilities for disabled children and left behind children.
the BRICS competition unit will be added, which will be supported by TV BRICS. BRICS countries will select 5 awards and hold special screening activities
For more information, please find on the official website: gfa-beijing.com
For the first time in Bihar we can do it and Kilkari is organizing Cinelerner International Film Festival 2022. This event is going to be two days. The aim of this festival is to bring together to showcase the outstanding work from young filmmakers from all over the world on one platform. Panel discussion, guest speakers, film production equipment gallery, relevent film books stalls by the regional books shops, cultural programme at night, all these things will augment our festival.
International Film Festival "Prvi kadar"/First Frame is an important film event in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose mission is to promote film art of authors from all over the world. The Festival is of competitive character neither. Films compete in two categories: documentary and short films.
Fifteen editions of the festival, a large number of authors interested in the festival, proving that the festival recognized among artists all over the world, as an important and prestigious film event.
Festival selections confirm continuity, primarily artistic approach, on which is built the whole idea of the first frame. In considering the relationship between themes and ideas, stress is given to the author's attitude or an artistic idea.
Rich noncompetitive and competitive program of high artistic quality, educational programs, lectures DokMasterClass, Film Campus of art documentaries, exhibitions, promotion of book of film art, numerous guests from the world of film, proof that the festival from year to year expanding, enriching the content of the program. This years Festival will takes place from 20th to 24th November 2023 in East Sarajevo and Zvornik, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
FRAME Film Festival es un festival de cortometrajes itinerante, sin una única ubicación, que se celebrará en la provincia de Tarragona.
El FRAME Film Festival consta de dos fases.
• FASE CLASIFICATORIA
• FASE FINAL
El objetivo principal es difundir y promover la cinematografía en general y el cortometraje en particular, apoyando a las directoras y los directores de cortometrajes y creando un espacio donde puedan dar a conocer sus trabajos.
Pero sobre todo trabajamos para que las y los cineastas se sientan acogidos y vivan la experiencia de visitarnos cómo si estuvieran en familia. LA GRAN FAMILIA DEL CORTOMETRAJE!
Otro motivo es ampliar la oferta de acontecimientos culturales para hacer llegar el cortometraje a a poblaciones que no tengan la oportunidad de disfrutar de nuestro cine en formato CORTO.
En el FRAME Film Festival queremos darle al público que sigue y disfruta los cortometrajes, la oportunidad de decidir sobre la selección de las películas que pasarán a la FASE FINAL para recibir los premios TALENTO FRAME.
11th NEZ International Film Festival (NIFF)
26th to 29th March , 2026
NEZ stands for simplicity of life and existence. NEZ is not a corporate, nor an NGO; in fact no standard term can describe NEZ. It simply is a platform for beings in this planet to come forward, and come together and explore their collective talents for the progress of the world and beyond. We have long enough thought about espousing our cause and ours alone. Now we think together. It is a platform to promote excellence in Education, Arts, Literature, Films, Medicine, Science, Research, Community Service etc. The philosophy at NEZ is very simple. We share collective fate. We seek new thought patterns that shall shape this world and the universe in times to come.
NEZ International Film Festival (NIFF) stands for best of world cinemas in the categories of Feature Films, Short Films, Documentaries Films and Ad Films. A platform of NIFF is meant for bringing undiscovered pure talents before a larger audience of the world.
NIFF is an umbrella; it is a conglomeration of niche festivals under one category. We treat the entire event as a visual carnival. The purpose of the festival is to celebrate everything the visual medium of cinema has to offer. We are now stepping into 3rd year of our Journey and proudly announce two more categories from this year.
1. “The Smart Phone Cinema”
NIFF always Endeavour to create something new, something Path breaking. It strives to recognize and to reward challenging aspects of cinema in all its forms. To celebrate the impact of cinema in modern age, NIFF is proud to announce a complete new category from this year “The Smart Phone Cinema”. We would be accepting movies in The Student Category and The Professional Category. The movie has to be a minimum of 4 minutes and maximum of 15 minutes. Every entry has to be accompanied by shooting Stills, substantiating the movie was indeed shot using the smart phone.
2. NIFF GREENS
That which is Paramount is also fragile. What better example we can have of this fact other than the Planets Eco System or the Environment. Sadly the most Paramount things behind the survival of humans are also most abused by the same humans. We stand at a dangerous point. Our Abuse of the Planet’s Environment is leading us to sure extinction. We need to raise awareness of that.
Here at NIFF, we understand the Issue so much that we have created a separate category under the main festival Titled “NIFF GREENS”. It will showcase, any movie, shorts feature or documentary that highlights the issue of Environment.
Cinema allows us to meet. The cinema makes it possible to travel kilometers in seconds, and move in time regardless of the time. Get to know other cultures, feel close despite the distances.
For 18 years, the Lapacho Latin American Short Film Festival has strengthened its roots with the exhibition of regional, national and international short films, sharing experiences and promoting meetings between filmmakers from the province of Chaco to the country and the world.
The 2022 edition will take place in mixed mode: in person and virtually simultaneously. In addition to the functions in the theater respecting the care and prevention measures, and for the third consecutive year, the Festival will take place virtually through the page www.cine.chaco.gob.ar, where the complete grid, talks, workshops will be available. and master classes.
As always we will try to promote the meeting between performers, their projects and perspectives towards the future. The actors and actresses, the producers, the technicians, and also the other arts integrated in various forms will have their space in this festival of cinema. And of course, the prominent place will always be for the public that joins us from their seats and from the comfort of their homes.
Girls Just Wanna Have FAN
IV WomanInFan - Sitges Fanlab Short Film-Teaser Creation Competition Call for Entries
The Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia presents its fourth call for entries to make a short film-teaser as part of the WomanInFan (Sitges FanLab) program. The objective of this initiative is to give visibility to female creators and incorporate them into fantastic genre filmmaking, proposing the creation of a piece destined to circulate around the audiovisual market, which will serve as a sample of an idea for a fantastic genre feature film.
WomanInFan expands its field of action to include film production in order to support the work done by female filmmakers within the fantastic genre industry.
The Evaluation Commission will select 10 projects from among all those submitted, out of which there will be one winner. The 9 runners-up and the winning project will have the right to participate in the Industry Sessions at the 58th Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia thanks to industry accreditation (except for private events).
WomanInFan - Sitges Fanlab Short Film-Teaser Award:
• Industry accreditation for 1 person.
• A 10,000 euro budget (VAT included), which will be allocated entirely to producing the winning short film-teaser.
• Support from the Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia in the project's production functions.
• Presentation of the project as part of the corresponding edition of the Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia in the Industry section and/or at those sections that the Festival considers most advisable, com Sitges FanPitch.
• 2 nights of accommodation for the winner in order to attend the Sitges FanPitch with their winning project in this competition (the representatives will cover travel and food expenses).
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III WomanInFan – Sitges Fanlab Residence Call for Entries
The Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia presents the III WomanInFan – Sitges FanLab training grant call for entries, as part of the WomanInFan program.
This Sitges Film Festival initiative for the visibility and incorporation of female creators in fantastic genre filmmaking proposes a new platform for female fantastic genre creators. It consists of a proposal for training in the through the residency format, which will take place during the 58th Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
The Grant Includes:
• Accommodation, travel expenses and per diems during the entire 58th Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
• Access to all Industry sessions at the 58th Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
• The selected applicants will receive intensive mentoring from leading experts in the film industry so that they can develop their projects in different facets. The mentoring and workshops will take place in Sitges during this year’s Festival.
• Training via mentoring, individual counseling from experts, screenings, Master Classes and workshops.
• The possibility of presenting the project as part of the corresponding edition of the Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia in the Industry section and/or at those sections that the Festival deems most convenient.
The "Corti di Mare" Festival focuses on the "sea" theme: sea as a source of life, nourishment, philosophy, history, peoples, danger, challenge, adventure, necessity, myth, well-being, border, legend, poetry.
Cheboksary International FIlm Festival has grown to become one of the most prestigious film festivals in Russia. Having existed for 13 years, it has grown to attract thousands of filmmakers, film enthusiasts and audiences from all over the world. It mainly presents films from and about Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America, It takes place every year for five days in Cheboksary.
The official selection includes 12 main competitions, International feature-length films, International short films, National feature-length films and National short films. Furthermore the festival organizes a non-competitive section, tributes and focuses.
Only for Colombian Film-makers. FESTIVAL LABERINTO is a film festival for those who live and breath cinema, wether as film critics, productors or cinephiles. We want to build new possibilities for audiovisual arts in general, so the inherent diversity of our ideas and sensibilities can be expressed. Open social environments are required to reach the objectives of this festival; our purpose is to create such environments, especially in Boyacá, and potentially in the rest of the country. Coming from a formative, divulgative and creative standpoint, we extend an invitation to all of the people interested in filmaking.
We want you to put your imagination in motion.
Bolder and more complex ways of living and exploring cinema are just around the corner. We would like to explore those new possibilities with you. Those who are interested in our event will be able to submit their work in the folllowing open calls.
We are a collective of filmmakers at Logroño, Spain, our target it is to fight against hate and racism with our festival, open to shortfilms and videoclips.
India is a land of art and cultural heritage and it is spread in various forms in our society whether it's dance, drama, music, films, painting, sports, etc. Being a global enterprise, Indian Cinema (Bollywood) is a remarkable example of our cultural diversity and it has the greatest influence on India's national identity. We always celebrate our art and one of the best ways is to do so is film festivals. There are many film festivals in Asia where filmmakers and film lovers alike can celebrate the best and the brightest. We are adding one more precious feather to it and that’s the BOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL (BIFF).
Launched in January 2020, Bollywood International Film Festival–BIFF is founded by some of the best-known actors, directors and film professionals. BIFF intends to provide a place that connects the film lovers and makers around the world.
This film festival promotes new movie makers, looking to get publicity for their films, exchange of knowledge, information, ideas, the culture of India and other nations in their social and cultural ethos.
The festival will host various forums for academic interactions on Filmmaking, Film Appreciation like seminars, Workshops, Master classes etc., for the benefit of film professionals, discerning audience and students on unique aspects of cinema.
We invite filmmakers, people from the film fraternity, film critics, journalists, discerning cineastes from amongst the public & International and National film Institutes; distribution agencies/organisations, to witness the glorious start of BIFF. We sincerely hope the film lovers will use this opportunity to enroll as delegates and enjoy the contemporary world cinema and the classics.
International Students Creative Award aims to discover and highlight young creative talent in the field of video production and digital content. It is dedicated to students specializing in arts and information media at universities, graduate schools or vocational schools around the world. The award consists of three categories: ‘Domestic Video Content’, ‘International Video Content’ and ‘Digital Content (Japan only)’. In the 2021 edition, we received 947 entries, including those from 75 countries across the globe.
The shnit worldwide shortsfestival is a premier platform for the exhibition and promotion of short films. This festival is a unique transnational event held simultaneously in ten cities across five continents. The festival consists of three main segments:
▪ shnit PLAYGROUNDS* | Running until August 31st, 2025
▪ shnit EXPANDED | Running until September 30th, 2025
▪ shnit FINALE | Amsterdam – September 30th, 2025
The winner of the WORLDWIDE COMPETITION, as well as the shnit audience-nominated films of the WORLDWIDE & INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, will become eligible to enter the 2026 Oscars® in accordance with the rules of the 98th Academy Awards® [Cinematic release].
Over the past twenty-three years, shnit has evolved into a major international short film festival, continuously reinventing itself. Originally a local initiative, it is now a global event connecting and inspiring filmmakers and audiences from different cultural backgrounds. The festival promotes diversity, originality, and artistic exchange. With its high-quality cinematic selections, shnit attracts over 30,000 visitors, making it one of the leading short film festivals worldwide.
shnit is a non-profit organization, coordinated in collaboration with festival executives. The festival operates on principles of excellence and professionalism, fostering its international expansion.
* Planned PLAYGROUNDS for 2025
shnit worldwide shortsfestival takes place simultaneously in the several cities, the shnit PLAYGROUNDS, on five continents. The planned PLAYGROUNDS 2025 are:
▪ Buenos Aires [Argentina]
▪ Cairo [Egypt]
▪ Cape Town [South Africa]
▪ Goa [India]
▪ Hong Kong [China]
▪ Moscow [Russia]
▪ Sydney [Australia]
▪ San José [Costa Rica]
▪ Toronto [Canada]
▪ Bern [Switzerland] – shnit OPENING
▪ Amsterdam [The Netherlands] – shnit FINALE
FESTIVUS nicknamed as the film festival for the rest of us is an international film festival with a focus on promoting films made by independent filmmakers from all over the world.. Our goal is to support and encourage awesomely badass, truly independent film. Festivus isn't for the deep-pocketed Hollywood type. We're here for the guy that pawned his car to make a film. That's what independent cinema is about. That's what FESTIVUS is all about. Festivus is for you, the truly independent filmmaker.
The task of the Festivus Film Festival is to create conditions for international and inter-regional contacts in the spirit of independent film production, to establish partnerships in the implementation of joint projects, including inter-regional and international levels.
The Festivus Film Festival is a competitive film festival and runs under the motto "Raw and Creative."
u22 Festival is the young film festival of Barcelona, the meeting and networking point for young filmmakers from all over the world. From 17th to 21th September 2025 at the Joan Miró Foundation of Barcelona, and online in Filmin.
Regulations for Submission to the Competition Section of the 8th Jeonju International Short Film Festival
The Jeonju International Short Film Festival is an annual event hosted by CineSoop, a non-profit organization under the Cultural Contents Research Institute.
The 8th Jeonju International Short Film Festival will be organized by the Festival Executive Committee.
The festival aims to contribute to the diversity of film and culture by introducing outstanding short films from Korea and around the world to audiences.
The 8th edition of the Jeonju International Short Film Festival will be held in Jeonju from September 25 to September 29, 2025.
