Sleeping Owl Film Fest event which aims to discover and recognize new talents from all over the world. It was created in order to support short filmmakers providing a critical evaluation of their work.
What makes a short film a great film it's not how ambitious the story is, but the way the story is being told. The ingredients to have a great short film are a great script, directing,camerawork, lighting and editing.
There are a lot of films that are interesting, but have a careless sound. Every filmmaker must care about the sound before the shooting, it's one of the most important cinematic elements. Catch great actors, not models! It's another advise we provide so that stories can be told in a real way, not in a theatricality way.
"The Inédit Festival: A Year in One Evening" invites you to tell the story of the seasons through cinema. The concept is simple: four seasons, an emotional journey through an entire year.
We are looking for films that explore, either literally or symbolically, the spirit of spring, summer, autumn, or winter. The seasons may represent emotions, transformations, memories, encounters, or new beginnings.
The Central American Film Festival in Vienna has become a firmly rooted tradition, establishing itself as a key cultural event in the city.
Vienna, recognized as one of the world's most important cultural hubs, provides an ideal and prestigious platform to showcase the increasingly innovative and notable productions emerging from the Central American region.
This year, the festival returns from November 15 to 21, 2026, with the hope of once again welcoming our loyal audience, who will have the opportunity to enjoy the latest and most outstanding works of Central American cinema.
The program includes the categories of Feature Film, Short Film, Documentary, and Animation, along with several non-competitive parallel sections, including: "Pioneers of Central American Cinema," "Works in Progress," "Guest Film," "Bonus Films," and "Latin American Perspective," the latter dedicated to works portraying contemporary life in Latin America. All details are specified in the official festival regulations.
FESTIVAL VISION
We want to bridge emerging voices worldwide with Nigeria's creative ecosystem. More than a screening event, this festival is a visibility accelerator and a networking platform crafted to connect your work with a passionate audience and industry professionals
Exclusive Benefits for Submitted Projects
We want to ensure your project gains visibility the moment your submission is confirmed, regardless of the official selection results.
Personalized Social Media Campaigns
If you opt-in, we will promote your project across the festival's official profiles, free of charge.
Campaign Content
Dedicated posts featuring your official poster, synopsis, and director/writer credits.
Industry Reach
Your work will be showcased to an international network of filmmakers, agents, and industry press.
World-Class Projection & Venue Partnership
We know how much precision, color grading, and sound design go into your final cut. Your work deserves to be experienced exactly as you envisioned it.
Professional Live Execution
While our team brings over 6 years of international festival organization experience to curate and manage the event, the live projections and venue operations are handed over directly to Mcrystal Cinemas.
By partnering with an established, high-end theatrical exhibitor like Mcrystal Cinemas, we guarantee:
State-of-the-art projection technology calibrated for optimal brightness and color accuracy.
Immersive audio systems delivering crisp dialogue and rich sound design.
A seamless theatrical environment run by seasoned cinema staff dedicated to flawless live playback.
You focus on bringing your story to Lagos; we—along with Mcrystal Cinemas—ensure a flawless big-screen premiere.
19th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF THE EAST IN CONCEPCIÓN
Vitascopio 2026 Open Call: 2026 Inter-University Audiovisual Showcase
WE ARE LOOKING FOR STORIES MADE BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FROM COLOMBIA AND AROUND THE WORLD.
Reaper Film Festival is not a theater full of strangers politely clapping. It is a full night of horror, filmmakers, costumes, music, networking, movies, awards, giveaways, drinks, and dark cinematic energy in Los Angeles.
Built by working filmmakers for filmmakers and horror fans, Reaper takes over The Earl for one night with horror short films, immersive horror themed decor, a red carpet, secret costume contest, audience participation, industry guests, creators, press, filmmakers, actors, producers, distributors, and passionate genre fans.
During the screenings, you are encouraged to react. Laugh. Scream. Talk back to the screen. Cheer for the filmmakers. Horror is better when the room is alive.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Come early and make a night of it.
Grab a drink. Walk the red carpet. Meet filmmakers, actors, creators, producers, distributors, press, industry guests, and fellow horror fans.
Then settle in for three blocks of horror films packed with live audience reactions, scares, laughs, prizes, surprises, and a room that is encouraged to get loud.
And when the movies end, the night is not over.
That is when the party really gets going.
Stick around for drinks, music, networking, filmmakers, actors, creators, industry guests, horror fans, new connections, and late night energy through 2:00 AM.
THE NIGHT INCLUDES:
• Three horror short film screening blocks
• Red carpet photography
• Secret costume contest with prizes
• Giveaways throughout the night
• Reaper Film Festival awards
• Drinks and music
• Filmmaker and industry networking
• Horror creators, podcasters, influencers, press, actors, producers, distributors, and special guests
• Audience participation during the screenings
• A festival wide toast
• Immersive horror themed decor and atmosphere
• A late night party after the screenings through 2:00 AM
SECRET COSTUME CONTEST
Come dressed to kill.
Reaper will hold a secret costume contest during the night, with prizes for standout looks.
There is no separate registration. Just show up in costume and you may be selected.
No masks are allowed. Your face must remain visible inside the event.
BUILT FOR FILMMAKERS
Reaper was created by working filmmakers for filmmakers and horror fans.
Every Official Selection receives a live Los Angeles screening, a Reaper trophy, an Official Selection laurel, and non exclusive worldwide distribution through Bloodstream TV, while retaining ownership of their film.
This is about putting filmmakers in front of a real audience and letting them hear and feel the reaction to their work.
INDUSTRY AND HORROR COMMUNITY
Reaper is presented by Bloodstream TV, with Studio Dome as a development and distribution partner.
Reaper Film Festival is also working with Women In Film and Women In Media in support of the Scythe Award, honoring female horror filmmakers.
Our judging community includes:
Marcus (Terrifier)
James Cullen Bressack (Darkness of Man, Hot Seat, Fortress)
Gigi Saul Guerrero (V/H/S/85, Satanic Hispanics)
Jesse Kove (Cobra Kai, D-Day, Magnum P.I.)
Kimberly Skyrme (House of Cards, Deep Impact, The Pelican Brief)
Jason Neese (The Umbrella Academy, UnREAL, Dear White People)
Additional industry judges and special guests will also be announced.
WHO SHOULD COME?
Filmmakers. Screenwriters. Actors. Producers. Distributors. Horror press. Podcasters. Influencers. Creators. Photographers. Horror fans.
Come to meet people. Come to make connections. Come to discover new filmmakers. Come to drink, watch horror movies, react with a live crowd, and then party with everyone after the final screening.
Walk the red carpet. Grab a drink. See something scary. Meet someone interesting. Watch the films. Then stay late when the party really gets going.
Thursday, October 22, 2026
6:00 PM to 2:00 AM
The Earl, Los Angeles
Admission is free, but RSVP is required.
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This artistic-cultural mediation initiative seeks to bring cinema closer to people with a physical/ mental or neuro-atypical disability. As part of this festival, several documentary films (short and medium-length films) will be broadcast in connection with the experiences of these people.
Festival President and Artistic Director Gabriel Daniel Dorobantu is having the pleasure of welcoming you to The Third Edition of The Moonlight Online International Film Festival which is organized and administered by the Swedish creation, production and distribution company Dorobantu Film & Television.
The Festival aims to promote original feature films and short films of high artistic quality and to support independent cinema worldwide.
In addition to the awards, both among the films submitted to the Festival but not selected and among the films selected for Festival participation, feature films and short films with high market potential may also be selected for film sale and / or distribution agreement proposals. (In such cases, the rights holders of the respective films will be contacted by the festival management office within three months after the festival.)
The Mairena del Aljarafe Short Film Festival, Mairena Film Festival (here in after MAIFF) will be a cultural event with a program that will host different activities (meetings with industry professionals, 36h short film making rally, projections of the official section...). The festival will be held from October 9 to 17, 2026
in the Seville town of Mairena del Aljarafe.
You are invited to participate in the first *Revista El Coloso* micro-cinema festival. The event will take place on Saturday, September 26. In the days leading up to it, a poster will be released featuring the names of the selected participants, the venue, the time, and all relevant details. A brief tribute to the life and work of the great Tim Curry will also be held.
VIII INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF FILM AND SCIENCE 2026
The International Exhibition of Cinema and Science is an event that will take place at Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo (Santander, Spain), between the 10th and 13th of November, 2026. Is admitted any work of any genre related to science and scientific divulgation.
The objective of the exhibition is to promote the production and divulgation of works that foster the positive and progressive values of science and technology, and that serve as a consultation for any type of audience. The subject is totally free and can refer to own or other people's research, hot topics in the society or scientific community, personal scientific-technical passions, basic science concepts, scientific milestones, historical figures, the science of the future or past, etc.
17th Piélagos Short Film Festival "Piélagos en Corto"
The Piélagos City Council presents the 17th edition of its film festival, a showcase for local and international talent. Featuring competitive categories for Cantabria, Spain, International films, and the UNESCO Costa Quebrada Geopark, the event celebrates the finest in short filmmaking (fiction, up to 30 minutes).
Official selections will compete for awards such as Best Cantabrian, National, and International Short Film, alongside technical category recognitions and the prestigious Geopark Award, which honors works highlighting this natural heritage site.
Submissions are open until December 20, 2026, exclusively via Festhome.
The closing gala in 2027 will feature screenings, networking events, and accommodation for nominees.
An unmissable gathering for emerging cinema, where landscape and storytelling converge!
Objective
Marere Film Festival main objective is to promote and screen feature films related to art in any of its major artistic forms (cinema, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, literature, and their derivatives), as well as other audiovisual and cinematic works that bring culture closer to the public.
Dates and Venue
The second edition of Marere Film Festival will be held from March 17 to 22, 2026, in Jávea. The central location will be the Jayan Cinema, located at C/ Santísimo Cristo del Mar 14, CP 03730 Jávea (Alicante).
The Huarte Tipu Films film festival aims to promote short films and establish the medium-length film as a film format in its own right, by providing a dedicated platform for screening and promotion that supports emerging filmmakers.
WHERE HUMAN DREAMS MEET
Upstream Film Festival is an Estonian experimental film festival exploring how artificial intelligence is changing cinema. It is taking place in Tallinn, Estonia, for the first time.
This year is experimental for us, just as AI is for the world today, so for our first year, our mission is simple: to introduce high-quality AI short films of various genres to Estonian audiences.
We live in an era of rapidly changing visual effects, where it is becoming harder to tell what is real and what is generated. However, the human remains the creator, deciding what the films of the future will ultimately look like.
We are open to discussion: is AI just a tool, or can it be a creator too?
Join us to test these new possibilities and bring your wildest dreams to the big screen!
BOYERIS International Film Festival is an independent international film festival founded in France and open to filmmakers worldwide.
BOYERIS celebrates bold works that expand cinematic language through new forms, storytelling, technology and ways of seeing. The festival is interested not simply in which tools are used, but in what new cinematic possibilities appear on screen.
The 2026 inaugural edition is held online and features five competition categories: New Cinematic Forms, AI-Assisted Cinema, Hybrid & Experimental, Vertical Cinema and Social Vision.
Filmmakers do not need to choose a competition category when submitting. Each work may be considered in one or more categories by the BOYERIS selection team.
The inaugural 2026 edition is free to enter. The Official Selection will be announced on December 6, 2026, and the awards will be announced on December 28, 2026.
The 2nd “Raíces Film Fest” Audiovisual Competition aims to identify, showcase, and celebrate the creativity of young creators connected to rural areas. We are looking for audiovisual works that explore, question, or reinterpret contemporary rural life from a free, critical, and artistic perspective, across any audiovisual genre.
LANZAROTE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2027
National Fiction Shorts
International Fiction Shorts
Animated shorts
Short Documentaries
Canary Shorts
Children's Shorts
