Artificial intelligence is changing how films are made. BAIFF (Bucharest AI Film Festival) is Romania's first festival dedicated to this shift. We bring together AI filmmakers and professionals from the film and advertising industries to screen international work, exchange perspectives, and take stock of where the craft is heading. Beyond the competition, BAIFF is a conversation between two worlds. If you're making films with AI, this is where your work belongs.
Festival that is celebrated in CIUDAD REAL from June 23 to 27 2026.
This year celebrates its 28th Edition. It is a Municipal Festival in which €12,500 in prizes are distributed.
The Official Section is made up of 15 works that compete for the different awards of the Jury and Public
The Parallel Section is made up of the works that will be screened during the first 3 days of the celebration and compete for four prizes from the public.
The projections are held outdoors in different spaces of the city with free admission where the public has a leading role since it awards half of the Festival prizes, 6 out of 12.
In addition to the prizes by modality, different special prizes are awarded such as:
Awards and Public Mentions in both Sections
Young Director Award for directors under 35 years of age
Best Director Award
"Ciudad Real Deporte" Award
Kicking + Screening Soccer Film Festival is the world's premier event series dedicated to the beautiful game.
Founded and organized by passionate soccer fans, we can't get enough of the game, its stories, and its storytellers. We live and breathe the soccer lifestyle, and we are dedicated to sharing it with others. That's why K+S is not only a festival, but also a gathering for the entire soccer culture community of North America -- and beyond.
The flagship festival in New York City is held every summer. It is our centerpiece and is a vital, circle-the-date part of the NYC soccer scene. More than just a showcase of soccer films, each K+S festival is a full cultural event, including film screenings, featured speakers, panel discussions, photography/art exhibitions, literary readings, and more.
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.
Only for Spanish Filmmakers
El Centro Cultural Coreano en España invita a cineastas y creadores de contenido de nacionalidad española a participar en su concurso de cortometrajes. El objetivo es fusionar la creatividad local con la esencia de la cultura coreana, creando un puente visual entre ambos países.
Requisitos Clave:
Elegibilidad: Directores de nacionalidad española.
Duración: Desde 30 segundos (formato short-form) hasta un máximo de 15 minutos.
Elemento Coreano: La obra debe integrar obligatoriamente cualquier elemento coreano (gastronomía, idioma, música, tradiciones, paisajes, etc.) durante al menos 3 segundos consecutivos o acumulados.
Género: Libre (ficción, documental, animación, ensayo visual, etc.).
Imaginary Realities II Film Festival for the town of Yecla (Murcia).
A festival aimed at secondary school students. For ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) and Bachillerato (Upper Secondary Education) students.
This festival is part of YECLA EN CORTO, which is held annually.
ORION International Film Festival is a curated international cinema event presenting narrative, documentary, experimental and emerging media works from filmmakers around the world. The festival focuses on strong visual storytelling, distinctive voices and films that explore culture, society, environment and the human condition.
The festival is committed to presenting thoughtful and engaging cinema through a carefully programmed screening event designed for attentive audiences. ORION IFF values originality, cinematic craft and meaningful storytelling across a wide range of forms and perspectives.
Selected films are presented within a curated programme that celebrates both emerging and established filmmakers. The festival brings together works that demonstrate artistic vision, cultural insight and a commitment to cinematic expression.
Festival Highlights
• International submissions from filmmakers around the world
• Curated screening programme in Australia
• Professional jury evaluation
• Awards recognising cinematic craft and storytelling
Awards and Distinctions
ORION IFF recognises selected films through the following distinctions:
Winner
Highly Commended
Nominee
Finalist
Awards reflect the outcome of jury deliberation and programming consideration.
The festival welcomes submissions across narrative, documentary, ethnographic, animation, experimental and new media forms, with categories recognising both film achievement and film craft.
Screening Event – 2026
The first screening event for the 2026 edition of ORION International Film Festival will present a curated programme of creatively fearless short films.
Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery
Queensland, Australia
Event details:
https://www.srag.org.au/events/orionfilm2026
CALL FOR ENTRIES 3RD
LESFEST LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF PERU
LIMA - PERU, 2026
COMPETITIONS
Lesfest features four competitions:
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, 2024.
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.
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.
Tributes and Focuses: films selected by the programming team without an open call for submissions.
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Cortoons Gandia is the International Animated Film Festival of Gandia, organized by Cortoons Festival, the city of Gandia, la Generalitat Valenciana, through the Institut Valenciá de Cultura (Culturarts), and the participation of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Campus de Gandia.
In the 2016, after 12 years of great success in Rome, Cortoons international festival of animated films, he moved to Spain in the beautiful town of Gandia in the province of Valencia.
The 22th Cortoons Festival Gandia edition will be a great festival of animated films for professionals, animation film funs and all the general public.
The competition categories are:
International animated short film from 1 to 4 minutes
International animated short film from 4 to 20 minutes
Spanish animated short film
Spanish animated short films produced in the
Valencian Community
Graduation animated film
Works may take place after January 1st, 2024.
The deadline is September 01, 2026
There is no entry fee
Contact us:
info@cortoons.es
www.cortoons.es
Moscow Indie Film Festival is easily one of the most filmmaker friendly independent film festivals screenings in a major entertainment city anywhere in the world. We know how painstakingly difficult it is to make a movie.
Moscow Indie Film Festival is about helping independent filmmakers gain the credibility and promotion they justly deserve. We are here to show your talent to the world.
The festival aims to bring to Moscow several films from all around the world, but very few times (sometimes never) screened in our great city.
The Accent Film Festival focuses on talent and projects made in Andalusia or by Andalusian creators. With an international look at other projects with roots.
Sweet Potato is a University Film Festival focused on animation, organized by students from the Animation Cinema program at UFPel (Federal University of Pelotas) who are members of GECA (Animation Cinema Study Group), coordinated by Prof. Gissele Cardozo.
The event is free of charge and will take place on May 13 and 14, 2026, at Cine UFPel, in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its goal is to promote and value local and national film production, strengthen the culture of the southernmost region of the country, and create a space for reflection and debate on Brazil’s social, political, and cultural issues.
The 35mm Film Festival was born in Milan from our desire to share our love of cinema. We wanted to create a platform for talent, and an opportunity for artists and film enthusiasts to meet. The second edition of the festival was held on the 27th and 28th of September 2025, at the ‘Wanted Clan”, and was a great success. We are therefore excited to announce the third edition of the Film Festival, which will be held in MILAN, on October 3rd and 4th, 2026.
The festival takes place over two consecutive days. The first day is dedicated to the SCREENINGS of the projects selected to participate at the festival, while the second is comprised of PANELS with the directors in competition, the screenings of 35’’ Film Contest* selection, and finally THE AWARD CEREMONY.
We accept short films from all over the world. Fiction, animation or documentary, of any genre and shot on all types of support, both digital and analog. Please reach out to us at info@35mmfilmfestival.com for further information.
The first and the most important Freak Festival in Spain. We also accept horror and fantastic film. With an audience of 2.000 people every day from monday to friday and we would love to screen your shortfilms.
El premio de cortometraje Arcoris se enmarca en un proyecto europeo transfronterizo entre dos festivales hermanos que son Festival Internacionale de Film d’Environement y el Festival Transhumant de cinema compromès.
El objetivo del premio es valorizar la producción cinematográfica basado en temas medioambientales de ambos lados de los Pirineos.
Un eje importante es la relación entre la humanidad, naturaleza y transición ecológica.
Enlace Transhumant Festival: https://www.transhumant.com/
Enlace Festival International du Film d’Environnement: https://lefredd.org/
The Crevillent Short Film Festival, organized by the Creadores de Crevillent Association, announces the call for entries to compete for the awards of its seventh edition, to be held on June 19 and 20, 2026.
The aim of the competition is to promote short films. Culture is considered a source of wealth and, in this sense, strengthening the local cultural offer also contributes to the economic and social development of our municipality. In this seventh edition there will be three different categories: Official Section, Local Section, and Local Youth Section.
The Windsor International Black Film Festival (WIBFF) celebrates Black stories from Canada and around the world. Our 3rd annual event will take place on August 14-16th, 2026, to celebrate the contributions of Black filmmakers and storytellers internationally.
Festival days will include film screenings and premieres of our major category winners, alongside immersive discussion panels, followed by a red carpet awards night. PLEASE NOTE THAT AWARD WINNERS THAT ARE NOT PRESENT WILL HAVE TO SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO PICK UP THEIR AWARD. OR MAKE ALTERNATE ARRANGEMENTS TO GET THE AWARD MAILED OUT.
The Oiasso Roman Museum and the City Council of Irun organize the International Archaeological Film Festival of the Bidasoa.
The aim of the Festival is to present archaeology to the general public, through the diffusion of audio-visual material resulted from the work made by archaeologists, assuring the promotion and the spreading of these films.
The Festival is being celebrated since the year 2001 and from the year 2004 it has four prizes: the Grand Prize of the Festival, the Special Audience Prize, the Educational Values Prize and Arkeolan Prize for Contribution to Science. Since 2006, it’s inside Fedarcine, the European network of Archaeological Film Festivals.
