Organizer of 20min|max is the public charity Von der Rolle e.V. – Film Culture Association, and Stadttheater Ingolstadt in cooperation with Audi Repertory Cinema and the Museum of Concrete Art Ingolstadt. 20minmax is considered as venue for filmmakers and those interested in short film and visual art. The Festival provides time and place to engage in short films, meet film producers and discuss their ideas. For the eleventh time we announce this international competition for cinematic expressivity, autonomous formal style, impressive stories – ergo: artistic synthesis of direction, montage, sound and light will be presented and awarded. 20minmax film competition is open to all genres of shortfilm: animation, fictional film, documentary, experimental film and video art, music clips etc.
As regards content, the festival programme is carried out by the organisers of 20minmax, supported by a jury. The festival screenings will take place at Audi Repertory Cinema, Museum of Concrete Art and Stadttheater Ingolstadt.
KloosterKino is the place to be for animated shorts in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Three times a year we show the best animated shorts from all over the world in a friendly setting. The screenings take place in a historic cloister, which dates back to 1909, and are not subject to admission.
KloosterKino shows work by young filmmakers, but also pays attention to classic animated film. Throughout the year we also work with other festivals and cultural organizations to arrange screenings of animated shorts.
But why animated shorts? Well, first of all, because we love them! But also because too few animated shorts are shown theatrically in the Netherlands. KloosterKino wants to show animation in all its diversity: from stop-motion to CGI, from narrative to abstract, homegrown and from far away. In doing so, we hope to aid in the diffusion of the artistic animated short.
We intend to be an alternative to the larger animation festivals by offering screenings which are both accessible and challenging. We stand for high quality animated film in welcoming surroundings. Our target audience is not just the animation aficionado, but also those who normally don’t watch animation, but are open to a surprising and stimulating program of films.
KloosterKino is a nonprofit foundation, that depends on volunteers and gifts.
Filmfest homochrom is the LGBT festival in Germany’s gay capital Cologne and in Dortmund (the biggest city in the metropolitan area Rhine-Ruhr).
Filmfest homochrom is one of the youngest LGBT film festival in Germany, but it is already one of the biggest, too. That’s why we are giving our best to establish an outstanding programme.
We are very honoured and proud that audiences have heartily embraced our first film festivals, and that we were able to show so many great premieres (about 70% of the films were German premieres in 2014).
Filmfest homochrom 2015
13-18/10/2015, Cologne
20-25/10/2015, Dortmund
O objetivo principal do Festival é abrir diálogos sobre questões de contingência através do cinema como plataforma de mediação e engajamento, na Província de Colchagua, assumindo também o papel de expositor do cinema nacional e latino-americano e obras independentes de diferentes partes do mundo.
Nossa motivação para esta versão 2021 reside nas transformações sociais focadas nos direitos humanos e na conservação do ecossistema, bem como na disseminação e valorização do patrimônio, a fim de consolidar o Festival Internacional de Cinema de Colchagua como espaço de intelectuais, políticos e culturais Turbulência.
An organization dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, CineKink is seeking films and videos that explore and celebrate the wide diversity of sexuality for our annual NYC-based festival.
Scheduled for its 12th annual appearance in February 2015, the specially-curated CineKink NYC will include a short film competition, audience choice awards, an adult industry showcase, presentations, parties and a gala kick-off, with a national screening tour to follow.
Cutting across orientations, topics covered at CineKink have included — but are by no means limited to — BDSM, leather and fetish, swinging, non-monogamy and polyamory, roleplay and gender bending, sex work and sex geekery. We’re looking to blur some boundaries and will be considering offerings of any length and genre drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, with works ranging from documentary to drama, camp comedy to artsy experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit — and everything in between. Basically, as long as it involves consenting adults, just about anything celebrating sex as a right of self expression is fair game. (Far be it from us to define “kink” — if you think your work might make sense in this context, please send it along!)
ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival proudly provides the platform for independent filmmakers to express authentic, cinematic storytelling in the most compelling ways possible.
As one of the world’s most recognised independent film festivals in the world, ÉCU embraces innovation and creativity and allows directors in competition to showcase their films to audiences who love and appreciate independent cinema. Filmmakers who are selected into ÉCU’s Official Selection join an active community of creatives who are continually pushing the boundaries of independent cinema.
Since its inception in 2006, ÉCU has forged a path for independent film and the scope of its presence has grown to a global scale with the festival often being referenced as the European equivalent of Sundance; an honour that we don’t take lightly.
"Paris has become my second home, and ÉCU my creative family. Mr.Scott Hillier is now the father of my independent spirit. I’m deeply honored and grateful for the Audience Award, and truly moved to see my film open the official 2025 trailer. Thank you from the bottom of my heart." Fumitaka Otoguro producer of Tokyo Strange Tale winner of the Audience Award 2025
"This festival is an outstanding, welcoming, and attentive event for independent film lovers, catering to both the audience and filmmakers. It devotes considerable attention to the presentation and dissemination of films and their creators, and also meticulously analyzes film themes and content. The team of festival organizers is exceptional, demonstrating great care and responsibility. We are very happy that our film PURGA was featured in this festival. Highly recommended!" - Gintare Valeviciute Brazauskienė, Co-director of PURGA, the winner of the Best European Independent Animation award 2024
"Great opportunity for independent filmmakers around the world, the festival has values and I like the way people engaged and watched all the films with passionate." - Abdulmohsen Almutairi, director of Memories from the North, ÉCU 2023 Official Selection
"It is always an absolute joy to present one's work at ECU. The team are fantastically helpful, the jury extremely competent, and the selection of the highest quality. I would recommend participating to anyone who's in love with indie filmmaking!" - Celina Liesegang, producer of Viscera: Autopsy of a (non)human body, ÉCU 2022 Official Selection
"It was an absolute privilege to be part of the ÉCU Film Festival and in the company of so many incredible and high quality independent films! What truly fantastic programming and as a filmmaker you are really made to feel part of a passionate global community of people who really believe in the same values around story telling and visual expression. Thank you to the whole team behind the scenes." - Karina Astrup, producer of MORGANA, ÉCU 2021 Official Selection
Each year, our festival takes place in Paris during the springtime, which is not only a beautiful season but also an exciting time of year for ÉCU, because that is when we showcase roughly around 60 of the World’s very best independent films. Although ÉCU emphasises European talent, it also recognises the genius of international filmmakers with several categories allocated to non-European films.
The next ÉCU, the 21st edition, will take place on April, 2026 in Paris, France.
ÉCU isn’t just about screening an amazing slate of films over its three-day event in Paris. There are also professional workshops led by experts in the industry, Q&A’s held with the attending filmmakers after every screening session and a chance to network with fellow filmmakers, producers, agents, industry representatives, prospective film buyers and, of course, the cinema-loving public. At ÉCU, there is a dialogue focusing on celebrating but also critiquing the world’s best indie cinema of today.
Though ÉCU’s main event IS the three-day festival in Paris each spring, there is even more! Thanks to our 50+ partner festivals, partner organisations, film centres and film commissions, ÉCU goes on an annual world tour called ÉCU-On-The-Road. This gives award-winning films (as well as many of the Official Selection films) the opportunity for their films to reach a broader, global, international audience.
ÉCU-On-The-Road showcased films in over 80 countries around the globe in 2016 to 2025 at special ÉCU mini-festivals, partner festivals, cultural institutions and film schools, including an amazing seven day special festival in São Paulo, Brazil. The event was made possible through the support of Caixa Cultural, São Paulo and was a huge success. ÉCU also held special events in Berlin (Germany), Atami (Japan) and was part of festivals in Lebanon, Italy, Russia, USA, Romania, Austria, Denmark and other countries. This gives ÉCU filmmakers great exposure to audiences that they may never have reached otherwise.
Since 2006, ÉCU has helped the careers of hundreds of independent filmmakers, actors, DPs, editors, screenwriters and we are honoured to give aspiring film directors the chance for their voices to be seen and heard.
Above all, we are proud to be a filmmakers’ festival!
The first AfryKamera Film Festival was organized by FilmGramm Foundation in cooperation with the South African Embassy during the months of April-June 2006. It aimed to use cinematography to bring Africa to the attention of the Polish public. The 1st AfryKamera premiered in Warsaw and also ran in Krakow, Poznan, Lodz, Torun and Konin. The unbelievable media interest and good ticket sales during the first festival in 2006 confirmed our belief that Africa is a theme of immense interest to a growing number of people. Since the very 1st edition, AfryKamera has been well covered in the Polish media, which confirms the great marketing potential of such an event for Africa in general, as well as, for sponsors and patrons.
As it stands AfryKamera is the first African Film Festival in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the largest African-themed event in Poland and the wider region.
AfryKamera has managed to occupy a niche in the film festival market – although there are many international film festivals, they generally show a limited range of African films. AfryKamera is therefore the only festival in Poland dedicated purely to films from the continent. In the past few years the festival has decided to explore new avenues not only in the art of cinematography, but also in the presentation of African art, music, and culture.
The main events of the African Film Festival AfryKamera take place in Warsaw, Poland, traditionally in either Kino Luna or Kinoteka, the capital city's premier arthouse cinemas. The event in 2018 will last 10 days and presents 15-25 full length features and documentaries as well as some 20 short films from around the continent and from the African diapora. The key motto of the festival is "Made in Africa", as the focus is put on the quality of moviemaking on the continent and the enhanced capacity to make world-class movies.
O Cryptshow Festival é uma iniciativa que promove o gênero de fantasia e terror. Todo mês de julho preenche Badalona de Zumbis, alienígenas, vampiros e assassinos em série mais infames. E muito horror... o horror!
Luxor African Film Festival is organized by Independent Shabab Foundation, which is a civil and nonprofit organization cooperates with the culture developed fund & other entities . The festival is organized under the auspices of significant Egyptian Ministries and other organizations.
- The first festival for African Cinema in Egypt since the start of the film industry
- The first international film festival in Upper-Egypt
- The first festival featuring outdoor screenings in Upper-Egypt
- The first festival fully organized by an Egyptian civilian NGO
- The first festival featuring the participation of all African countries and hosting more than 100 guests from Africa, Europe and the Americas
It is one of the biggest festivals of horror movies from the Amazon.
Reaching its second edition, even more frightening.
Straight from the heart of the Amazon forest, fear will arise and reward the best horror films in the world.
Welcome to our nightmare
O Festival Internacional de Cinema Animal e Ambiental (FICAA) da Cidade do México recebe você em sua 6ª edição, onde, como todos os anos, aceitamos filmes dos cinco continentes.
Nossa missão no Festival é promover valores, causas e lutas ativistas por meio da arte, abrindo várias janelas de oportunidade para mostrar o trabalho de cineastas talentosos. Ao longo do ano, realizamos uma variedade de eventos culturais, incluindo Debates Cinematográficos em parceria com o Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Instituto Politécnico Nacional), Cinema Móvel e colaborações com espaços governamentais que abrem suas portas para essa divulgação.
Os vencedores que aceitarem os termos terão seus filmes exibidos por um mês na plataforma “Nuestro Cine MX” do IMCINE, concedendo-lhes exposição nacional.
Os três temas deste ano são:
ANIMAL
AMBIENTAL
CINEMA FEMINISTA
Aceitaremos:
Animações
Curtas-metragens
Longas-metragens
Documentários
Microfilmes
Vídeos de música
Como um festival dedicado à conscientização sobre questões animais e ambientais, com a causa convidada deste ano sendo “Cinema Feminista”, todos os projetos receberão um prêmio de participação reconhecendo a arte e o esforço envolvidos, mesmo que não façam parte da vitrine final. Além disso, a Seleção Oficial receberá um laurel da Seleção Oficial e um diploma enviados por e-mail.
Os vencedores finais receberão o troféu FICAA 2025, junto com louros digitais e um diploma.
A cerimônia de premiação acontecerá em dezembro, onde convidados de vários países e regiões do México se reunirão para coletar suas estatuetas.
O Cultural Británico cumprimenta você cordialmente e abre a chamada para inscrições para o “XII FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA INFANTIL, CINI 2026”, que será realizado em Lima, Perú, de 4 a 8 de fevereiro de 2026.
Este festival é realizado nos auditórios do Centro Cultural Britânico, localizado nos distritos de Surco, San Miguel, San Borja, Pueblo Libre, San Martín de Porres, Santa Anita, San Juan de Lurigancho, Camacho e Miraflores.
Todas as exibições a serem realizadas durante o “XII FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA PARA CRIANÇAS, CINI 2026” serão gratuitas para o público em geral.
SR films are of socially relevant content and concentrate on character-driven situations and good storytelling instead of relying on gratuitous violence, crime, and so-called selling points for box office success.
SR Film Festival New York and its Industry Panels focus on Socially Relevant film content and nurture filmmakers who develop human interest stories with Socially Relevant themes.
SR is a festival and film development lab that aims to satisfy a market need concentrating on everyday positive human stories while offering a financially viable alternative to the proliferation of violence & crime in today’s movie industry.
The festival and industry panels event provides filmmakers & festival attendees with the best of both worlds: finished films and projects/scripts in development.
Lançado em 1980, nosso festival, o primeiro de sua categoria na Coreia do Sul, cresceu e evoluiu do Festival Coreano de Curtas-Metragens para se tornar o Festival Asiático de Curtas-Metragens de Busan em 2000 e, eventualmente, o Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Busan em 2010 (www.bisff.org).
Realizado no final de abril no Busan Cinema Center, o BISFF entrega uma dúzia de prêmios em três seções competitivas (Competição Internacional, Competição Coreana e Operação Kino), além de apresentar várias seções curadas e não competitivas, incluindo: País convidado, curtas coreanos, curtas asiáticos, prisma, cinema 3D, etc.
BISFF é membro da Short Film Conference (http://shortfilmconference.com/) e da NETPAC (Rede para a Promoção do Cinema da Ásia-Pacífico https://netpacasia.org). Em 2018, tornou-se o primeiro festival de qualificação para o Oscar® da Coreia do Sul.
Crypticon Seattle Film Festival is in it's eighth year.
The first four years Crypticon presented films and shorts for fun. We now have an official film festival and have had great fun presenting original and interesting horror features and shorts.
The conventions attract thousands every year.
It is the premier horror convention in the North Western United States. Pulling people from all the states in the area. It is held on Memorial Day weekend in the beautiful Hilton Seatac.
It is a great weekend of fun and frights!
If you are a NW Filmmaker contact us for a submissions waiver. NW films can submit with no fee. Your film must have been shot in Idaho, Oregon, or Washington to qualify for this waiver.
BERLIN UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2015
The Berlin Underground Film Festival is part of a series of online film festivals created by the Clockwork Film Institute. Its main goal is to embrace all that is considered subversive, controversial and eccentric when it comes to underground filmmaking.
BUFF’s awards will be divided between four categories: Official; Press; Internet and Popular Jury.
All of the awards will be posted in the mail and will be provided by the festival (including postage).
Welcome to Berlin Underground Film Festival, it will be a great pleasure considering your film for our festival and eventually helping it be known by filmmakers and film lovers around the world.
A PANSPORT Cinema e Esporte Ltda. promove e organiza o FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE FILMES DE ESPORTE (FIFE), que terá lugar na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, no período de 9 a 15 de setembro de 2015, com entrada franqueada ao público.
A Mostra Curta Vazantes: cinema em comunidade, pretende contribuir para a inclusão e a promoção social e cultural dos moradores da Comunidade de Vazantes, distrito de Aracoiaba, Ceará (Brasil) e, localidades vizinhas a partir da exibição de filmes produzidos em qualquer parte do mundo com a ideia de compreender, observar e fazer visível os processos sociais e culturais que se desenvolvem tanto no sul como no norte do planeta.
O Azure Lorica International Film Fest é uma celebração de filmes estrangeiros.
