DUBBING GLAMOUR FILM FESTIVAL
8th Edition (15th ActorsPoetryFestival)
International Call 2026 — Filmmaker | Actors | Authors
Genoa, June 15 – July 5, 2026
Already supported by the MIC Ministry of Culture - Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual, the Liguria Region, and the Municipality of Genoa, the Dubbing Glamour Film Festival opens Call 2026 with a first: for the first time, the festival is combining the established competition for actors and authors with an international competition for filmmakers.
Each culture carries within itself a founding imaginary — myths, archetypes, figures that cross generations and borders. Cinema is where this imagination lives, transforms, and speaks in many languages at once.
The Dubbing Glamour Film Festival takes its name in Portofino, after 7 editions since 2012, on the Ligurian coast, where the Mediterranean begins its long journey to other seas, other civilizations, other stories. From the Pillars of Hercules to India and beyond: this is the geographical and cultural horizon of our festival. How archetypes leave the screen and enter reality with the transition from myth to collective behavior — for a festival on the political function of the imaginary.
In 2026, in collaboration with Disney, the DGFF inaugurates its first international competition dedicated to directors — with particular attention to emerging voices: directors under 35, their first or second feature film or short film, and Italian directors over 35.
The project invests in the audiovisual sectors —cinema, TV series, dubbing, audiobooks, script adaptation and screenplay— with a large program of screenings, masterclasses, round tables and speed dates with productions.
SECTION A — FILMMAKER COMPETITION
Purpose
The competition promotes international cinema in all its forms, with particular attention to the works of young authors under 35 in their first or second production and to directors from Italy and the Mediterranean area. The festival favors works that express original poetic, visual, or narrative value, regardless of genre and format.
Sections in competition
Short film (under 50 minutes)
Feature film (over 50 minutes)
Animation
Video Art
AI & Generative Cinema
Films out of competition may be hosted at the discretion of the art direction.
Selection
The artistic directorate appoints a selection committee responsible for choosing the works in competition. A high-profile international jury awards the category prizes and the Grand Prix. Participants will be notified of the selection outcome by June 10, 2026. Selected works may not be withdrawn under any circumstances. The DGFF does not correspond screening rights for films in the official selection.
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SECTION B — ACTORS AND AUTHORS COMPETITION
Registration via www.teatrogag.com — info@teatrogag.com
Recipients
Participation is open to actors (professional and emerging) and adult performing authors of any nationality. For minors, please refer to the Regulations.
Actors Sections:
Live Performance
Audiovisual (Cinema, Dubbing, Audiobooks, Video Acting)
Speakers
Companies
Authors:
Poetry Section (dialogists, screenwriters, poets)
Participation in the Dubbing Battles is open only to the finalist actors in the specific Section.
On the border of Europe and Asia, in the 300-year-old city called the "Russian Manchester" in the middle of the Ural Mountains —
we organize an International Short & Debut Film Festival with a quarterly Official Selection and Live Screenings every summer, autumn, winter and spring.
NOW OPEN: Submissions for the IV Ural Shorts 2026/2027
Grand Prix: $1,000.
Ural Shorts is an IMDb Qualifying Award Event.
All Ural Shorts Winners of the Year — both films and filmmakers — are granted dedicated pages on IMDb, the world's leading film database. For those already listed on IMDb, their Awards section is updated to reflect their Ural Shorts win.
Ural Shorts consists of four Seasons and Annual Award Event.
Every Season the selection committee watches privately the submitted short films and chooses the Official Selection for the Short Film Section. All selected films enter the competition for the Season Awards.
Within 10 days after the Official Selection list is published the jury announces the Season Winners. The winning short films enter the Screening Program in cinemas and on television for all to see.
In the Feature Film Section, a yearly shortlist is selected. All Season winners in the Short Film Section and shortlisted feature films enter the competition for the Annual Awards. And receive an invitation to the Annual Award Event.
The Annual Event takes place in August in the 300-year-old city of Nizhny Tagil, on the border of Europe and Asia, which is called the "Russian Manchester" in the middle of the Ural Mountains. The winner of the Grand Prix will receive a statuette, a diploma and a cash prize of 100,000 rubles. The Annual Award Event consists of a cultural and educational program, the annual awards ceremony, screenings, TV interviews, workshops, and other activities.
From seven continents.
From countless languages, memories, and myths.
One shared human pulse.
At the 7CIFF, films are judged continent-wise. The 7Continents International Film Festival is not just a celebration of cinema—it is a meeting of worlds. Across borders drawn by history and erased by imagination, filmmakers arrive with stories shaped by their soil, their silence, their storms, and their dreams.
Here, cinema travels freely—
from frozen landscapes to burning deserts,
from crowded cities to forgotten villages,
from intimate personal truths to bold global questions.
This festival exists to listen.
To amplify unheard voices.
To challenge familiar narratives.
And to remind us that while our cultures may differ, our stories breathe the same air.
Welcome to a festival without borders.
Welcome to 7 Continents International Film Festival
where the world watches itself, one film at a time.
7CIFF offer a valuable opportunity to attract viewers to your movie, showcase the talents involved, and open up possibilities for the film success. In 7CIFF Awards Judged Continent-Wise
At the 7Continents Film Festival, we are committed to empowering filmmakers and amplifying their voices. We provide a platform for emerging talents to showcase their work alongside industry veterans, fostering a community of collaboration, innovation, and artistic excellence. Through panel discussions, workshops, and networking events, we facilitate meaningful exchanges between filmmakers, audiences, and industry professionals, sparking dialogue and inspiring new collaborations.
Seven Continents. One Screen.
Jha Jha International Film Festival brings to its audience, acclaimed documentary works from across the world of different region. Audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away.
From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #JhaJhaIFF brings the Nouthern and Southern hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders. The focus is to showcase unseen stories from across the regions to our viewers.
The Polbert International Touring Film Festival announces its 2026 edition, which will take place on September 25 - 26 - 27, 2026, at the Municipal Branch Office of Bibione, (VE).
The Festival is organized by Polbert Cinema, with over 10 years of experience in the film festival industry.
The Festival was created with the aim of promoting national and international independent cinema, highlighting high-quality works, new talents, and contemporary cinematic languages.
PROGRAM PITFF:
Friday, September 25 – Past
The festival will open with an immersion into the past: the day will begin with a press conference, a moment of meeting and discussion with the media, followed by the official Festival opening and the presentation of archival materials in collaboration with the Veneto Film Archive. The evening will be dedicated to the first competition screenings, offering the audience the opportunity to discover the stories and talents that will bring this edition to life.
Saturday, September 26 – Present
The second day will place the audience at the center of contemporary cinema: competition and non-competition screenings will take place throughout the day, allowing attendees to fully experience the selected works. The evening will offer networking opportunities and additional competition screenings, creating occasions for interaction between professionals, authors, and passionate viewers.
Sunday, September 27 – Future
The third day will be entirely dedicated to the future: the evening will begin with an introduction by the presenter, who will open the panel and introduce the moderator. This will be followed by a discussion with Nicolò Gallio and Mateusz Miroslaw Lis, accompanied by slides and the trailer of Il Diario di Sisifo. Then, there will be a session with experts and authors, during which several short films on artificial intelligence will be screened. Each screening will be followed by Q&A sessions, first with the moderator and the creators, and then with the audience, offering a unique opportunity for reflection, discussion, and active participation. This will be a moment designed to inspire thought and creativity, celebrating cinema as a bridge toward the future.
Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) was established in 2006. The founder and organizer is “Batumi Art-house ARGANI". BIAFF is an annual event held in second half of September in Batumi (Georgia).
Festival is focusing on art-house cinema. BIAFF festival’s major sections include - International Competition (Feature, Doc and Short sections), Retrospectives, Meet the Jury, Master Collection etc. Beside film screenings, festival program includes various workshops, master classes and industry events.
India Cine Film Festival has its roots almost a decade back in northern India. The festival was launched in Meerut and was concluded successfully in Noida with participation from almost 18 countries. In year 2014 the Miniboxoffice has adopted the festival officially from its organizers and Indian Cine Film Festival are now moving with passionate minds of Miniboxoffice. The ICFF-26 aim is to give momentum to the independent cinema.
The ICFF objective is to create a platform for the meeting, sharing & development of great cinematic ideas. The festival along with international competitive films screenings also holds a film market & industry oriented master classes & discussions. The festival will provide a central point where industry people can share business and new opportunities shall be created for new talent.
The 14th edition of Indian Cine Film Festival is aimed to set new milestone and it’s an endeavor of Miniboxoffice to make it relevant for each & every participant. With this I welcome you all & see you at ICFF-26 with your cinematic craft.
Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is an independent NGO that works for the defense of human rights all over the world. Through our field researches, conscious raising campaigns, petitions and letters, and public human rights advocacy, we work for a world in which every human being is entitled to the rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other international texts.
Accordingly, our campaigns focus on themes such as the liberty of expression, women’s rights, children’s rights, refugees and migrant’s rights, discriminations, impunity, the death penalty amongst others.
Cinema has always been and will always be a way in which human rights violations can be exposed and denounced. For that, Amnesty International France is pleased to announce the opening of submissions f edition of its annual cinema festival “Au Cinéma pour les droits humains” (To Cinema for Human Rights), which will take place in March 2019. The festival takes place each year in different cities of the south of France and with last year’s edition having had more than 3800 members at the audience. Therefore, we are searching for different entries for our festival. We are searching for films that touch on one or several human rights issues that are connected to any of our campaigns, such as the liberty of expression, women’s rights, impunity, and discriminations amongst other things.
If you feel that your film speaks of one or several major human rights issues, and you wish to submit it for selection, then please do send us a link this address in order to review it: acdhamnesty@gmail.com Also, please make sure that the film contains FRENCH SUBTITLES OR IS IN FRENCH LANGAGE. Once our selection committee has a decision, then we will notify you as soon as possible
Benin City Film Festival 2026
Theme: Stronger Together – The Power of Collective Filmmaking
The Benin City Film Festival (BCFF) 2026 is dedicated to fostering unity, collaboration, and Co-productions within the global film industry. Under the theme "Stronger Together: The Power of Collective Filmmaking," this edition highlights the significance of teamwork, industry solidarity, and the transformative power of storytelling when filmmakers join forces.
As one of Nigeria’s leading film festivals, BCFF serves as a platform for emerging and established filmmakers to connect, share ideas, and build meaningful partnerships. Through screenings, workshops, industry panels, and networking events, the festival aims to bridge gaps between filmmakers, producers, distributors, and other key players in the industry.
Whether you're an independent filmmaker looking for collaborations, a producer seeking co-production opportunities, or a storyteller passionate about uniting voices through cinema, BCFF 2026 is the space to connect and create.
Join us in Benin City from October 29 – 31 2026 as we celebrate the power of collective filmmaking and shape the future of cinema—together!
Benin City, Nigeria
Submit your films now on Festhome!
The "Golden Flower Award" Beijing International Children's Film Festival, supported by the Children's Science and Education Committee of China's largest Children's Culture and Arts Promotion Association, was held in 2018. Now it has become the largest children's film festival in China. Partners in the Asian market are invited to recommend excellent films to promote cultural exchanges, cooperation and distribution. This year, we will expand the number of screening and forum exchange activities of young filmmakers to other venues on the basis of past successes. Launch richer and more meaningful new projects, such as public services in mountain villages and campus screening.
The Beijing International Children's Film Festival is a non-profit film festival supported by the Red Cross Foundation of China. open to films from all over the world. More than 200 films were screened every year, with more than 5 million young people and children watching online. "Child friendly" offline screenings were held in Chinese cinemas, schools and art centers. At the same time, round tables, art exhibitions, drinking parties and other activities were held
Public services: The expenses of the film festival are used for organizing activities, and in cooperation with the Red Cross Society and other foundations, the festival donates film watching activities and cultural facilities for disabled children and left behind children.
the BRICS competition unit will be added, which will be supported by TV BRICS. BRICS countries will select 5 awards and hold special screening activities
For more information, please find on the official website: gfa-beijing.com
From November 3 to 8, Anfibia Festival turns Madrid into the capital for discovering new narratives and exploring the creative potential of adaptation.
#AnfibiaFest is a space for connecting audiences with new creative universes and diverse origin formats.
The registration period for audiovisual works will be open from July 22 to August 24, 2026. Fiction or non-fiction audiovisual works, series, and animations adapted from any narrative format—such as novels, short stories, graphic works (such as comics or manga), stage plays, video games, journalistic reports, digital content, or other narrative media—are eligible to participate.
The fifth edition of Anfibia Festival will take place in November 2026 in Madrid.
The FICINDIE Festival is based on publicizing the importance and relevance of independent and auteur cinema worldwide, and the importance and need to have the Canary Islands, and specifically the municipality of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, as a World Heritage Site and the Canary Islands as an relevant place to make independent Cinema, as a natural and ideal setting for this type of story, due to its characteristics and aesthetics, as well as the variety of professionals from the independent audiovisual sector who reside here. This Festival is made up of artists, producers and professionals from indie cinema, to give it value and show its importance.
SUSPENSE Film Festival is an international festival of genre cinema dedicated to films that work with audience attention, atmosphere, anticipation, conflict and emotional involvement.
The festival is open to audience-driven genre and hybrid films of different directions: from psychological drama, mystery and thriller to horror, supernatural cinema, sci-fi, noir, dark comedy and auteur works that exist between genres.
We are not simply looking for films that follow genre rules. We are looking for works that use genre consciously as a storytelling tool: films that hold attention, build tension, involve the audience and create a powerful screen experience.
The main festival event will take place on September 12, 2026 in Tyumen, Russia. The competition program will be formed through a curated selection process, and the best works will be evaluated by a professional jury.
Beyond Limits
The Next AI Film Festival is here!
Beyond the limits of imagination and expression, and beyond the boundaries of genre,
a new platform is taking shape to showcase diverse works and discover new voices in AI filmmaking.
As an intimate and distinctive AI film festival,
we aim to provide a space to explore emerging trends in AI filmmaking from Korea and around the world, while examining the cultural and industrial potential of AI content.
Going beyond AI as merely a technical tool,
the festival seeks to explore the nature and creative possibilities of AI as a medium.
We invite creators to join us on this journey!
■ Festival Overview
- Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026
- Venue: A CGV theater in Seoul, South Korea
- Program: Approximately 40 films from Korea and around the world
- Hosted by: Impact Station
- Organized by: Next AI Content Festival Organizing Committee
■ Awards
- Grand Prize: KRW 3,000,000
- Best Film: KRW 1,500,000
- Special Jury Prize: KRW 500,000
- Audience Award: KRW 500,000
■ Benefits
- Certificate of Official Selection for all selected films.
■ Sections
- Competition: Next Choice
- Korean Non-Competition: Next Vision / Next Prism
- International Non-Competition: Next Universe
■ Festival Programs
- Creators’ Day: A networking event for participating creators
- Forum: Exploring the cultural and industrial potential of AI content
- Market: Exploring distribution opportunities for AI content
- Closing Ceremony: Awards presentation for outstanding works
Each section will feature Q&A sessions with filmmakers.
International film festival of entertaining, fantastic and arthouse free genre films.
The Obscura Filmfest was founded by David Ghane in 2016 and has been run by him alone ever since. He is a passionate genre film fan since 1996, attends several film festivals per year since 2004, sometimes helps out there, acts as an extra in horror films and is an extreme film collector.
The Obscura Film Festival specializes in entertaining and fantastic films, big and small, films that almost never get a regular screening. The films shown there are mostly mainstream blockbusters or arthouse films that can be found at most other regular film festivals. Even comparable festivals are expanding their programmes to include more and more arthouse. Those who instead like entertaining, smaller and special independent films, but can also imagine bigger productions from far away countries, will find what they are looking for at the Obscura Filmfest: Films that are fun with rough edges, raw and uncompromising; from nasty little horror films to Asian battle epics, there is something for every fan, just no boredom.
It started with small, offbeat, trashy and depraved underground grindhouse films, meanwhile the Obscura also screens commercial, mid-sized films that are traded on the big film markets.
Highlights of the previous festival editions included the German premieres of the Argentinian fantasy sci fi cyberpunk action film "Daemonium", the Ukrainian thriller "Egregor", the Filipino zombie shocker "Day Zero", the Danish horror film "Finale", the ghost comedy "Deadtectives" and the two Backwoods films "What the Waters Left Behind" and its sequel "Scars" 5 years later.
The European premieres of the Indonesian comic superhero film "Valentine" and the Backwoods film "Drifter" were also screened.
Another highlight was the crazy Japanese splatterfest "Kodoku - Meatball Machine" which can look back on a long festival history including the biggest festivals of its kind, as well as the Universal/Blumhouse production "The Hunt".
With "Redbad" and "The Great Battle", two big battle epics were also screened at the Obscura.
The German premiere of the hard-hitting exploitation film "Trauma" in Hanover was even attended by visitors from the Ruhr area.
After its international premiere at the Obscura, the cowboy backwoods film "Lasso" was shown a few months later at the famous british Frightfest.
In 2022, the Obscura had its first two feature-length film world premieres with "All through the Hall" and "Hidden in the Woods II".
At every Obscura filmfest there were film guests who introduced their film in person and were available for a Q&A. They came from Ireland, UK, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Hungary, The Netherlands, USA, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and of course Germany.
In 2024, there was a record number of guests from 7 different countries, as well as "The Witch. Revenge," a Ukrainian war horror film that was shot during and about the current war.
WE CAM FEST is the first inclusive film festival in Colombia. It brings together the cinematographic content related to disability in the world. An innovative proposal that, in addition to showing other perspectives of life through cinema, seeks to be a platform for the creation of content made by and with people with disabilities, in order to recognize their contribution and talent for the environment and society.
Since 2019, the FICC - International Cannabis Film Festival - has put the theme of cannabis on the table through cinema and culture, helping to break down prejudices regarding its different uses, providing information and contributing to access to more rights.
The Festival takes place in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and the incorporation of Brazil for our next edition.
The FICC grows in public, alliances, support and exposure in the media, achieving, between face-to-face and virtual spectators, an audience of more than 4,000 people.
With different categories of national and international competition with cash prizes, specialized juries and a public award chosen by the vote of the viewers through our website: www.ficc.ar
Our intention is to provide information through cinema, as a trigger to debate, break down taboos, normalize regulation, from its medicinal, recreational, industrial, cultural, educational and social aspects, without promoting consumption.
Thematic Festival of Police, Military, and Crime Short Films
We seek stories that explore the human, technical, or social aspects of those who live "in uniform" or on the fringes of the law (police officers, military personnel, agents, or criminals). The festival is open to works of any film genre (action, thriller, drama, comedy, horror, sci-fi, etc.), as long as the central theme of the story corresponds to the proposed theme.
A departure from the usual archetype we've become accustomed to seeing on screen.
