The SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is a specialized, competitive fantastic genre Festival in accordance with the regulations established by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations). The Festival has also been declared a “Qualified Festival” by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® in the United States. This means that those shorts winning the awards for “Best Short Film” in the Official Fantàstic Selection and “Best Short Film” in the Anima’t category will automatically be taken into consideration by the Hollywood Academy Awards® selection committee.
The Cultural Association “Orange Animation”, in collaboration with the traveling festival of auteur cinema and documentaries “D.O.C.”, is pleased to announce the first edition of the Orange International Film Festival – Ardizzone Gioeni 2025. The in-person screenings will be held from 18 to 20 September 2025 at the prestigious Palazzo “Ardizzone Gioeni”, located in Via Etnea 595, Catania. The streaming screenings of the works participating in the dedicated award will begin from 20 July 2025 on the Association’s private platform.
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The Inspired Screenwriting Competition is a new approach to the script contest game with a focus on amplifying bold and unique new voices and taking on disrupting the status quo of the film industry.
We’re looking for feature-length screenplays that stand out, break the mold, and connect with audiences in unforgettable ways.
The Inspired Screenwriting Competition was founded by experienced filmmakers and screenwriters who have had a long history in this business. Frustrated with what felt like a decrease in opportunities for newcomers and unique voices and an increase in the amount of organizations that were happy to take an entry fee and offer nothing in return, we felt it was time to take matters into our own hands.
Our mission is to shake up the industry by changing the kinds of scripts that make it to the screen. We feel that now more than ever, the film business needs to embrace new talent telling authentic stories from unique perspectives.
As writers ourselves, we also hate it when people try to put us in a box. And we don’t want to put you in a box, either. That’s why we don’t have separate genre categories.
When you submit, we’ll be assessing your story on its own terms, rather than through the lens of a specific genre.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR THE STRONGEST VOICES IN
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The only film festival in the world held in the impressive setting of the dome of the UNLP Planetarium.
The Gritos en el Planetario festival was born in 2022 with the conviction of promoting and disseminating Latin American production of genre films, while also bringing teenagers and young people closer to the world of scientific outreach, such as the university planetarium.
In its 2024 edition, the festival will take place from October 30 to November 2 at the UNLP Planetarium.
For more information, please visit https://gritosenelplanetario.com.ar/.
Do you love SciFi? We do too! The San Francisco SCIENCE FICTION SHORT FILM & TV AWARDS celebrate some of the most year's fascinating, creative and entertaining short films, online videos or streaming, television episodes, and directors. They honor great work and excellence.
The SF SCI-FI SFTA accepts short films and videos, television episodes and pilots, and poster art, and is dedicated to discovering and honoring the passionate and exciting film genre known as science fiction.
The San Francisco SCIENCE FICTION SHORT FILM & TV AWARDS ceremony takes place in one of San Francisco’s unique venues, and , and is an memorable evening bringing together short films, videos, director appearances, fans, and of course SCI-FI awards
Join us as we celebrate voices of recovery at the first Michigan RecoveryCon and Film Festival. This event combines resources, speaker panels, educational workshops, mutual aid groups, and a film festival. The Michigan RecoveryCon and Film Festival spotlights films on substance use disorder and recovery. Through artistic pursuits, including film, we are removing barriers and reducing the stigma surrounding substance use disorder.
The Michigan RecoveryCon and Film Festival aims to increase awareness of substance use treatment and recovery services while creating a space for individuals touched by substance use to engage with one another in a safe and positive way.
All erotic film are eligible, regardless of country, duration, or year of production.
The Nepal Culture and Film Center (NCFC) proudly presents the 7th edition of the Nepal Cultural International Film Festival (NCIFF), The festival will feature a grand inaugural ceremony, a closing award ceremony, panel discussions, master classes, and screenings of top-nominated national and international full-length films, human rights films, short films, documentaries, women's films, children's films and environmental films.
The NCIFF invites students and independent filmmakers to attend and learn from guest experts and judges about film making, related media, and the film business. Festival sponsorships will be used to produce the festival film and bring filmmakers and artists to the host city. Industry professionals are also invited to attend and share cultural diversity.
During the festival, there will be panel discussions on human rights, featuring human rights activists, filmmakers, organizations, experts, NGOs, and INGOs. A separate master class with international guests will be organized for national and international filmmakers. The selected films will be screened with Q&A sessions with filmmakers, directors, and producers.
The NCIFF aims to inspire young talent in film making and promote meaningful and inspirational children, women, cultural, and teen films globally. The festival showcases films from award-winning filmmakers around the world and sets the standard for good films that are entertaining, clean, inspiring, and filled with moral values.
The Gáldar International Film Festival (FIC Gáldar) is one of the most important film festivals in the Canary Islands, and has concentrated in each of its editions the very best of national and international cinema. Organized by the City Council of Gáldar through its Council of Culture since 2013, this festival proposes a live event with important health measures to ensure complete safety and confort.
Our event as of today will be hosted on the original intended dates. We are closely following the rules and regulations set by the government of Spain and, since our hope is that cinemas are allowed to full capacity before our event, we are also open to open our venues in a limited capacity if that was mandatory. If any plans change for our live event, we will notify all selected filmmakers with new dates.
The festival will take place in the city of Gáldar, on the island of Gran Canaria, in october 2025, and its philosophy focuses on the film as the only and great gravitational center, without losing sight of the creators, who deserve a parangonable respect for their works.
Thus, this festival will not make a difference between themes, formats or genres. Submissions are open to all types of feature and short films. We are looking to showcase the best in drama, comedy, horror, sci-fi/fantasy, thrillers/suspense, noir, both in fiction and documentary, both in life action and animation. Submissions are open to films from all over the world.
FIC is committed to cinema for cinema, to a true vision that does not respond to stringings neither social, nor ideological, nor formal. It is, at its core, a film festival without borders.
Finally, the festival will also pay homage to different personalities from the film industry and will organize workshops and parallel activities.
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.
This is film festival of underwater films, in city of Neum in Herzegovina (BA).
For the love of our nature, we started festival to promote all kind of underwater film's art, no matter what camera you use, no matter amateur or extreme proff - welcome.
Festival is place to meet face to face, authors, public, journalists, a few days in Neum in Herzegovina county.
Want to host all finalist 2 nights in Neum, that authors can notice how spectators enjoy watching underwater arts.
Please note, films must be shot at least 50% of the time underwater. Filmed in 2025, 2024, 2023.
The Belalcázar International Film Festival celebrates its third edition between August 5 and 8, 2025. Belalcázar is located in the north of the province of Córdoba (Spain), in the Pedroches Valley, a bordering enclave between the communities from Andalusia, Extremadura and Castilla La Mancha.
In this second edition, a call is made to filmmakers from all over the world, with works of less than 20 minutes that address any topic. There will be an official section, a comedy section and a children's/youth section. The filmmakers can present animated, documentary and fiction short films.
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.
Prokuplje Short Film Festival, founded in 2011, is the youngest film festival in Serbia. In Prokplje is event where audience can see the best from the field of documentary, experimental, animated and fiction from around the world. Thousands of films from all over the world arrive at the festival's address, and it has been reflected by the numerous audiences in Prokuplje, but also in other cities in Serbia and the region,because the team organizes Tour in which the best films are presented in over 30 cities. The lack of the Cinema, as well as the lack of a movie as a subject at school, prevents young people from learning about this art.
In order to see something of this content, the young people must go to Nis, or even to Belgrade. This is an opportunity to see the latest short film achievements from all around the world in Prokuplje. In recent years, according to research, there is a decline in audience attendance at the festivals all over the world. So because of that and because of the introduction of the film to young people, we brought the work with them, in all primary and secondary schools, which are potential audiences and will be animated by the presentation of festival films and the discussion on the significance of the Festival. In addition to work with young people in Prokuplje,the Film Club Prokuplje is the first to start animating the audience from the rural areas, which are completely excluded from all events, especially cultural events.
Chulpicine began its work in 2002 with the first ever Itinerant Children & Youth Film Festival in Quito. The warm welcome that the project received allowed the festival to become an annual event during the months of July to September, bringing an educational and entertaining event at no cost, to sectors with few cultural activities.
Thanks to the positive reaction, Chulpicine became a cultural and educational non-profit foundation in June 2004. After more than 10 years of experience, Chulpicine have reach a stable proposal and working methodology that has spread at national level. The Festival has promoted the creation of coaching staff; cultural managers working in different communities; and a large group of followers.
Chulpicine has designed a set of activities and workshops for institutions, community organizations or outreach workers to educate and train in different areas related to cinema, audiovisual, communication and Internet used as social intervention tools. These activities and workshops have been the beginning of a formation of learning communities by harnessing the capabilities of young people, as well as the setting up of an active and engaged network of social facilitators through the film and audiovisual work.
The Foundation carries out the following program lines: training; intervention; appropriation of public spaces; diffusion and production. This line of work is an alternative to foster community networks to develop communication skills, analysis and reflection in the various stakeholders of the community, thereby strengthening its organizational and self-development skills.
The foundation has a multidisciplinary team currently working on the projects. These people are responsible for different areas: there is a psychologist, a producer, a programmer, a communicator and an accountant.
In addition, every year about 12 people are hired to assist in the implementation of activities. This group is made up of people who have worked in the past in the festival and some new young people that wish to join the group. Also, each year we have the support of volunteers from different organizations.
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.
The 27th Kinoarte Film Festival, to be held from November 2nd to November 9th, is receiving applications for its competitive sessions of short films. Films up to 25 minutes long, produced from January 2024 may participate in the Ibero-American, National, Paranaense and Londrinense competitions.
The Butoni Fest is an international cultural festival that will be held in Valencia on September 13 to September 21, 2025.
The main objective of Butoni Fest is to be a festival for everyone, a festival of synergies, a meeting place where young filmmakers project their works together with established filmmakers from the industry and exchange concerns, where emerging musicians share their music supported by illustrations by young people. artists, where children who dream of being actors learn how to make a movie. A place where present and future go hand in hand. That's Butoni Fest.
In addition to providing an opportunity to different artists in other cultural branches: musicians, actors, writers, painters, sculptors... for the exhibition, recognition, dissemination and enhancement of their works.
The festival, founded in 2021, is directed by Javier Guillot and organized by Butoni Films, with the support of the IVC, Ajuntament de Manises, Diputació de València and a selected group of private sponsors.
In the historic enchanted village of Millesimo, in the province of Savona ( Italy ) and in a Theater Osvaldo Chebello in Cairo Montenotte the second edition of the "Millesimo Cairo Montenotte International Film Festival" will be held in September 2025.
The event will take place in 2 Venues: the the historic castle built by Enrico II Del Carretto in 1206 and Teatro Osvaldo Chebello in Cairo Montenotte (SV ) will feature the screening of short films from all over the world. An evening dedicated to art within a setting surrounded by greenery and full of tourists who populate this small diamond of the Bormida Valley every year, awarded as two of the most beautiful villages in Italy. Official certificate and screening for winners in all categories.
