Here is the official presentation for FILC-VILA 2027 in English:
II Edition of FILC-VILA 2027
International and Local Short Film Festival of Viladecavalls
On behalf of the La Cort dels Miracles Association, we are delighted to present the II Edition of the International and Local Short Film Festival of Viladecavalls (FILC-VILA 2027), which will take place on May 28 and 29, 2027.
We return with a renewed proposal designed to establish Viladecavalls as a vibrant meeting point for filmmakers, students, film lovers, and the general public. Our goal is to offer a showcase for a diverse range of perspectives from all over the world, while boosting audiovisual creation in our language and fostering artistic expression within the local educational environment.
For this second edition, FILC-VILA is structured into two main submission categories along with new opportunities for recognition:
Official Section: Open to productions from anywhere in the world, regardless of origin or language. All selected films will be screened in Catalan or subtitled in Catalan (a service provided by the organization for films that do not already have Catalan subtitles).
Commitment to the Catalan Language: Within the Official Section, we reinforce our support for national cinema by awarding a Best Short Film in Catalan Language Award (€200), which can be combined with the Festival's Best Short Film Award (€200).
School Section (CRP Vallès Occidental II): We are opening a special free category for educational centers in Terrassa, Viladecavalls, Matadepera, Ullastrell, Rellinars, and Vacarisses, aimed at promoting young talent and the use of audiovisual language in the classroom.
"La Mostra" (Out of Competition): We are incorporating a non-competitive parallel section to provide space and visibility for works that stand out for their high social, thematic, or cultural value.
The submission period will open on November 1 on the Festhome platform (and via web form for the School Section) and will close on March 15, 2027.
We invite you to be part of this new edition, share your stories, and celebrate short films together in Viladecavalls!
The Festival is organized by the CinemArt Association of Pineda de Mar, it is an international festival with the aim of promoting a specific space for the discovery, screening and dissemination of short films.
The main thematic axis of the festival is that of comedy; however, the theme and genre of the productions is free. Quality and originality will be prioritized as the main objective, and that the production is unprecedented.
From a remote village on the banks of the Lérez River, this family film festival was born, aiming to bring cinema to rural areas, promote audiovisual talent, and help the local school's Parents' Association (ANPA) raise funds for activities with its students.
Organized by the production company Digital Monster Collective, in collaboration with the ANPA of the CEIP Pedro Antonio Cerviño school and the Campo Lameiro Town Council, this festival will take place in several screenings at different locations around the village, including the Community Center and the primary school.
The following awards will be presented:
•Silver Pedrolo for Best Fiction Short Film - Presented by Digital Monster Collective (€300)
•Silver Pedrolo for Best Animated Short Film - Presented by Digital Monster Collective (€300)
•Gold Pedrolo for Best Feature Film - Presented by the Campo Lameiro Town Council (€1000)
•Bronze Pedrolo - Audience Award in the Short Film Category - Presented by the Campo Lameiro Town Council (€200)
•Bronze Pedrolo - Audience Award in the Feature Film Category - Presented by the Campo Lameiro Town Council (€300)
In addition, there will be a non-competitive section for film, acting, and animation schools.
The CINEHasta en las Aulas International Film Festival (FILMS in Class & Beyond) was created to recognize, showcase, and celebrate audiovisual talent generated within the educational and social spheres.
FILMS in Class & Beyond provides a space where teachers, students, people with disabilities, and at-risk communities can share their stories, learning experiences, and perspectives on the world, using film as a pedagogical, artistic, and inclusive tool.
FILMS in Class & Beyond understands audiovisual language as a powerful medium for learning by doing, communicating through feeling, and transforming through creativity.
This festival takes place in person in A Coruña and Madrid (Spain) and throughout Latin America, allowing for open and international participation without geographical or physical barriers.
This initiative originated in Maturín, Venezuela, in 2009 through audiovisual production training provided by a group of filmmaking specialists. This training led to the first "CINEHasta en las Aulas" (FILMS in Class & Beyond) festival, held in 2010, which has had seven editions. Now embarking on its international journey, this festival is supported by the Ibero-American film company Films Austères Europe SL.
GO Film Goiânia Film Festival is a Festival for short movies done in the heart of Brazil. Its in the 6th edition with a competitive premiation with a special awards in many categories.
Mostra Dr. Mabuse is an international short film festival taking place in Barcelona for three days. It is conceived as a festival open to new artists as well as experienced. A jury consisting of professionals in the audiovisual world, teachers and students of film festivals and other collaborators carry out the selection of films to be screened in the three sessions that are scheduled during the month of June in Barcelona. The project was initiated twenty years ago and has been growing and multiplying the number of films screened and registered, having received works of relevant directors such as JA Bayona, Nacho Vigalondo, Mateo Gil or Kike Maillo. Instead of just being an audiovisual festival, Dr. Mabuse is intended to be an homogeneous and free event, in which everyone can have a good time enjoying theater and cinema.
The "Horror Mountains Film Festival" stands as a vibrant annual cinematic event taking place in differents cities of the state of Veracruz, and the main venue is on the picturesque city of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
This captivating festival draws filmmakers, cinema enthusiasts, and horror genre devotees from around the globe. It spans several days, occupying various venues within the city.
In its lineup, the festival unveils an eclectic selection of films covering the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and suspense. From world premieres and independent productions to revered classics and internationally significant works, the film offerings cater to the discerning tastes of horror fans. Screenings encompass a broad spectrum, ranging from chilling ghost narratives and serial killer stories to the portrayal of supernatural creatures and paranormal events.
Beyond film screenings, the "Horror Mountains Film Festival" enriches attendees' experience with a series of complementary activities and events. These include roundtable discussions and panels featuring directors, writers, and actors, providing a space to explore the creative and technical aspects of horror cinema. Additionally, question-and-answer sessions are organized after screenings, offering a unique opportunity to interact directly with filmmakers and the cast.
The SilverVox Film + Music Festival returns to Frederick, Maryland, for its second year, May 6–9, 2027!
Our first festival, held in June 2026, brought filmmakers, musicians, artists, and audiences together for four days of independent films, live music, discussions, and special events throughout historic Downtown Frederick.
The festival was a great success, receiving excellent reviews from filmmakers and local media.
2026 FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE
More than 150 films
Over 40 live music performances
12 festival venues
Films from 27 countries
Filmmaker Q&As, panels, workshops, and parties
A welcoming, walkable downtown festival
FILMS WE ARE LOOKING FOR
SilverVox welcomes films from around the world, including:
Narrative features and shorts
Documentary features and shorts
Animation and experimental films
Music documentaries, music videos, and performance films
Horror, midnight, and genre films
Student films
Films that explore new ideas and creative approaches
We welcome both new and experienced filmmakers. We value original stories, creative filmmaking, and films that encourage audiences to think, feel, and discuss.
Every submitted film is reviewed by our screening team. We work to create interesting film programs that bring filmmakers and audiences together.
MORE THAN A FILM SCREENING
SilverVox is more than a place to show your film.
We encourage filmmakers to attend screenings, meet audiences, participate in Q&As, join discussions, and connect with other artists.
Our goal is to make filmmakers feel welcome and to create opportunities for new friendships and professional connections.
Filmmaker Rick Kain, a 27-year veteran of the film and television industry, wrote:
“I have attended hundreds of film festivals ... and SilverVox Film and Music Festival rates at the top of the list.”
Filmmaker Ian Scott Pullens said:
“If you are a filmmaker selected for this fest, you are treated like royalty by the team.”
FILM AND MUSIC TOGETHER
Music is an important part of SilverVox.
The festival combines film screenings with live concerts featuring local, regional, and national musicians. Our first festival included special performances by Cults and DIIV, along with many other artists.
Music documentaries, music videos, and films about musicians are an important part of our programming.
We believe film and music can inspire each other and create new connections between artists and audiences.
A FESTIVAL THROUGHOUT THE CITY
SilverVox takes place in Frederick, Maryland, approximately one hour from Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.
The festival uses several venues throughout historic Downtown Frederick, including the beautiful Weinberg Center for the Arts and New Spire Arts.
Frederick offers restaurants, galleries, shops, music venues, and welcoming public spaces, all within a walkable downtown area.
Following our first festival, The Frederick News-Post published an article titled “Thank You SilverVox.”
Arts editor Lauren LaRocca wrote:
“For four days, the city felt like a carnival of delights for the arts community.”
JOIN US IN 2027!
SilverVox welcomes filmmakers from every country and background. We want to discover new voices, share great films, and bring people together through creativity.
Whether you are making your first short film or your latest feature, we invite you to submit your work and become part of SilverVox.
Submissions open October 17, 2026.
Festival dates: May 6–9, 2027.
Produced by SilverVox, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization.
The festival aims to promote independent filmmakers and innovative work, to take risks and move the frontiers from the boring and most of the times empty conventional to the artistic initiating strong emotions and out of the box exceptional. It equally aims to give the opportunity to independent filmmakers to showcase their work free of commercial constraints.
"0+" International film festival is aimed at:
1. promotion and popularization of high-quality films, which foster a positive, creative and formative worldview in children and young people, strengthen common human values like family, childhood, friendship, kindness, nature, love for a profession, etc.
2. integration of cinema and education by creating a collection of value-oriented films for carrying out educational screenings in schools and social institutions of Russia.
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.
One of the few Sci-fi and Fantasy Film Festivals in Eastern Europe, that brings a fresh concept of gathering together, through live video streaming, the film crew and the film consumers. The festival has film screening, conferences, debates and happenings. It will have Jury Awards and Popular Awards, for four categories (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Animation, Comedy/Parody, Documentary, AI film) for short and feature films.
Following the success of its first three editions, we are now organizing the 4th edition of the Majadahonda International Social Film Festival (MISFE’27). The festival is founded on the belief that cinema can be a powerful tool for social transformation and that, by encouraging the circulation of high-quality, thought-provoking films, we can help educate and raise awareness within the community about important social issues.
MISFE’27 continues to establish itself as a showcase for filmmaking talent that addresses and brings attention to relevant social issues. We believe that films can serve as educational tools and as catalysts for dialogue around subjects that matter.
The festival also aims to contribute to the cultural development of Majadahonda and to broaden and enrich the town’s cultural programme. The diversity of films presented at MISFE enhances the cultural life of the community by exposing local audiences to different stories, perspectives and forms of artistic expression.
We believe cinema has a unique ability to move us emotionally and awaken empathy. The festival therefore gives us the opportunity to connect more deeply with stories that reflect the diversity of our experiences and inspire us to understand and appreciate the richness of the human condition.
Through the short films taking part in this fourth edition, we will explore and celebrate diversity in all its forms — cultural, social, racial and beyond. By bringing diverse narratives to the forefront, the festival seeks to promote inclusion and mutual understanding, building bridges between communities.
The selected films will not only entertain, but also inspire and provoke thought. Through stories of resilience, social awareness, activism and positive change, the festival will provide a space for sharing ideas and opening conversations.
For this fourth edition of MISFE, we are continuing our parallel School Cinema section. During the first three editions of the festival, the “Sonsoles San Román” Award was presented to the Best School Cinema Short Film. This year, we want to increase participation from primary and secondary schools, sixth-form colleges, vocational training institutions and specialist educational centres.
For the first time, MISFE will also introduce a Best Documentary category, as we believe documentary filmmaking is particularly closely connected to the festival’s social focus.
Philosophical Film Festival / Филозофски Филмски Фестивал is a unique film festival that lives on the crossroads between philosophy and film and is held annually in Republic of N. Macedonia. On one side, the festival tries to promote the idea of film as a medium which can provoke philosophical thought and illustrate philosophical ideas. On the other, it aims to trigger aesthetical analysis’ and investigations into film language as a form sui generis and empower young filmmakers and film workers to reflect on key concepts, questions and ideas in order to translate them into the visual language of cinema. It is a pioneering festival of the kind in Macedonia and the region, and one of few in the world connecting film and philosophy.
Newcastle International Short Film Festival or NiSFF is an IMDb registered short film festival open to submissions of short films in multiple genres and categories from international, Australian and regional New South Wales (NSW) film-makers. Finalists for the best film in their regional category will be screened at the Royal Exchange Hybrid Performance Space/Cinema in Newcastle Australia in mid November each year. The overall Best Short Film winner will be selected from all the various category winners regardless of its length.
No screening fees are paid to selected films and no DCP is required. If your film is understandable for a mainly English speaking audience without subtitles then English subtitles are not required.
UMOREA LAB is a short film laboratory and forum organized by Lanbarri Association within the framework of the Arrigorriaga Short Film Festival “Humor en Corto”.
Looking through the eyes of directors from all over the world is the goal of our Festival.
A global vision on free and independent cinema, without genre limitations and any form of censorship. The creator of the project is producer and director Luigi Pastore, already artistic director of the Italian Horror Fantasy Fest, who proposes a new concept of Festival capable of creating interaction between the authors and the public.
PUFA (Pucela Fantástica) is an international fantastic and horror Film Festival that takes place in Valladolid (Spain), open to short films of less than 30 minutes and feature films of more than 60 minutes, from each country (with synchronized subtitles in Spanish or English), of the fantastic genre, science fiction, horror, fantasy, thriller/suspense...
TerraLenta Film Fest is an international film festival dedicated to environmental documentaries. The Festival is based in Pignola (PZ) in Basilicata, Italy.
The aim of the Festival is to promote independent and author documentary cinema, raise public and community awareness of environmental issues, foster cultural spaces for dialogue and learning, support multimedia research, and encourage eco-sustainable actions. TerraLenta is the intention to bring original artistic forms and offbeat culture, the experimentation of new ways of disseminating environmental issues through art and research. We believe that it is necessary to give space to a different form of divulgation, so critical, innovative and far from formalising; that's the reason why we set ourselves to support subjects with authentic contents and modes of expression.
The Festival was founded in 2024 as the evolution of a long-standing experience in the dissemination of cinema on environmental themes through independent film review in the high mountains (OasiCinema Festival), in order to promote the symbiosis between visual art and environmental research in unusual contexts, deliberately different from urban spaces.
TerraLenta Film Fest will take place in July, from 1 to 5, 2026. This will be its second edition, offering a unique opportunity to explore the world of cinema with a focus on environmental themes. The festival will take place in several fascinating locations, such as the historic center of Pignola (PZ), where the screenings will be held outdoors, and some historic buildings, including Palazzo Gaeta, which will serve as the festival's main headquarters.
In addition to the film screenings, the event will feature important moments of insight, such as seminars and educational workshops centered on the environment and related themes. The guests of the festival will have the opportunity to present their works and engage in discussions with the audience. The official festival program will be made available on May 18, 2026, allowing participants to learn about the scheduled events in detail.
This is an unmissable occasion for film enthusiasts and those interested in ecological and sustainability issues, set in the charming context of Southern Italy.
Bayelsa International Film Festival - BIFF is established with aim to engage filmmakers, artists, performers, academics and members of the creative community to unravel the delicacies of diversities and locate common grounds across cultures and societies.. To provide an exciting, educative, and information oriented Film Festival.
Bayelsa International Film Festival - BIFF is established with aim to engage filmmakers, artists, performers, academics and members of the creative community to unravel the delicacies of diversities and locate common grounds across cultures and societies.. To provide an exciting, educative, and information oriented Film Festival.
Bayelsa International Film Festival - BIFF is established with aim to engage filmmakers, artists, performers, academics and members of the creative community to unravel the delicacies of diversities and locate common grounds across cultures and societies.. To provide an exciting, educative, and information oriented Film Festival.
BIFF is designed to be an intimate and eloquent filmmaker festival where film enthusiasts can get first hand insights from directors, writers, actors and producers from the premiering films. With commitment, BIFF will be presenting an annual film festival and art exhibition to provide both professional and amateur filmmakers with a space for display and dissemination of their works. At the same time, a strong focus on the BIFF as a place for the world to discover recent talents in African films and filmmakers. The event also offers master classes, panel discussion and workshop to augment this diverse programming.
