The Sail Pensacola Film Festival showcases films about sailing, sailors, and the new technology of high-performance sailing. Based in charming Pensacola on the Pensacola Bay, festival attendees will be treated with abundant dining, beach, and water sport activities to fill their days when not spellbound by festival entries. In addition, film-makers will be enlighted by the on-water workshops covering the technology and methods involved in capturing boats and their crews while underway. The Pensacola Sailing Film Festival will be the epicenter of sailing film for years to come so join the fun on the inaugural event!
Let's take a shot with shorts!
The best film festival from Moscow, Russia supported by Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and city authorities.
"Short Shot" - Monthly Awards and Screenings.
Festival is dedicated to filmmakers from all over the World.
Sending us your artwork is not sending it to a Black Hole.
We consider each film, each video!
Each director has a chance to introduce himself and his artwork and greet audience through our social media pages!
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Все русскоязычные фильмы могут участвовать в фестивале БЕСПЛАТНО.
Ищите соответствующую категорию и подавайте ЛЮБОЙ фильм в любом жанре!
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We are creators as well and we watch artworks with passion and professional interest.
We believe, that each film, each creator, each director deserve confession!
We are creating community of film lovers and filmmakers.
We communicate a lot, we discuss a lot in our social media!
Join us and be part of Short Shot Fest family!
Our jury selects every month the winning short films for each category:
Best Short Film
Best Short Comedy
Best Short Drama
Best Short Horror
Best Short Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Best Narrative Short
Best Student Short
Best Animation Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Experimental Short
Best Music Video
Best Mini Short
Best Mobile Phone Short (incl vertical)
Best Series (Web/TV)
Best Fashion Short
Best Commercial/Ad/TVC
Also, we provide chance for MOSCOW film creators to take a chance in showing our beautiful city in their movies.
How we do?
Choose one or more categories and submit your short film.
Usually, our submissions start on 1th-4th of the month and end on the same day next month.
EACH submitted film will receive a short review from our judge team (on request)
PLEASE NOTE: We don't screen the films online! The members of the jury watch the films online and they choose the Official Selections.
In 5-7 days after the deadline day for submissions we publish the Official Selections list and we notify the filmmakers via e-mail.
During the next 5 days our members of the jury decide the winners for each category.
After that we publish the Winners list and we notify filmmakers by e-mail. The lists are published on social media and on our dedicated website: shortshotfest.com
In the last week of the month we screen the awarded films in art - center "Efir" in the heart of Moscow.
From August, 2024 we are OPEN for new season 2024/2025!
The Grand Finale 2023/2024 will be held in August, 2025 in Moscow.
International judge team, great networking and friendly atmosphere — that’s Short Shot Fest.
Stay tuned and check our website: shortshotfest.com
Holland Film Festival 2024 is open for submission. The festival accepts all genres and styles as long as they are short. (max 30 min.)
Hollan Film Festival takes place in the beautifull town of Bergen north of Amsterdam. It is a small yet prestigious and well visited festival. We love fresh, new and original films of high quality.
The 15th edition of Arraial Cine Fest will be held from February 17th to 21st, 2025 online on the festival's official website.
Celebrating Outstanding Filmmakers and Writers from all over the world
The Bollywood USA International Film Festival is a highly esteemed and prestigious event that celebrates the vibrant, colorful, and diverse world of cinema from around the globe. This remarkable festival is an essential platform for filmmakers, talented actors, and industry professionals to come together and showcase their outstanding work. It features an array of films, including captivating feature films, thought-provoking documentaries, engaging short films, inspiring music videos, creative screenplays, and even novels that have been adapted for the screen.
This festival promotes cross-cultural understanding and encourages the appreciation of cinema internationally. The event attracts a diverse audience, allowing viewers to experience a rich tapestry of storytelling that transcends geographical boundaries. By highlighting various cinematic styles and narratives, the Bollywood USA International Film Festival plays a crucial role in fostering dialogue among different cultures and paving the way for future collaborations within the global film industry.
Don’t forget feedback, which is the one element most festivals ignore.
We don't just charge you a fee and ignore you if you're rejected.
With us, rejected films have access to feedback, the one element most festivals ignore.
Instead of paying submission fees and getting nothing in return, EVERYONE who submits to BUIFF will receive EITHER OF TWO benefits:
Either 1) your film is already competition caliber and becomes an Official Selection,
OR 2): You’ll receive a letter outlining exactly what prevents it from being accepted.
If you can make corrections, you can resubmit for FREE.
First-time filmmakers: when have you ever received a letter and had the festival explain WHY your film was rejected?
Much less let you resubmit for FREE, even the following season (In case you did not have enough time to fix it)
TAXCO Mexico, light city and Magic Town, one of the most impressive locations in the world, invites you to the 10th EDITION OF TAXCO FILM FEST.
The Human Rights Film Festival Brazil is an international festival of short films of up to 25 minutes that address the theme of Human Rights in their plot. Whether it is the fight to guarantee the rights of humanity or denouncing disrespect for these universal rights.
The Garanhuns Film Festival – Affective Territories will be held in May 2025, in the city of Garanhuns, in the state of Pernambuco. The festival aims to promote independent audiovisual productions, focusing on short films, both national and international, that explore the theme "Affective Territories."
The Oniros Film Awards® is an International Monthly IMDb Qualifying competition with a public Screening Event held in New York City every three months, celebrating films and filmmakers from all around the world. Our mission is to discover high quality and ambitious films, to promote filmmakers’ works and to be the next step in their career. The Oniros Film Awards® is all about Dreams (ὄνειρος = oneiros, Dream in Ancient Greek) and is conceived by Dreamers for Dreamers. Dream Big, always!
(Oniros Film Awards® is a registered Trademark - All Rights Reserved 2017-2025)
80 years Atomic Bomb - 15 Years International Uranium Film Festival / One year before the Fukushima reactor exploded, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) was founded in 2010 in Santa Teresa, the famous artist quarter in the heart of Rio de Janeiro. The first Uranium Film Festival then was held in May 2011. Main venue is the Cinematheque of Rio de Janeiro's Modern Art Museum (MAM Rio). The festival is dedicated to all films about nuclear power and the risks of radioactivity, from uranium mining to nuclear waste, from atomic bombs to nuclear power plants, from Hiroshima to Fukushima. It throws light on all nuclear issues.
With a selection of the best films the festival travels also to other cities and countries. Until today more than 80 Uranium Film Festivals took place in more than 40 cities and seven countries like Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Jordan, Portugal and USA. Since its first edition in Hollywood in 2016, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) is also known as The Atomic Age Cinema Fest.
We are Cinedeporte Sports Film Festival a film festival dedicated to promoting the finest independent sports films that create memorable portraits of athletic heroes and stories of triumph. Our purpose is to increase the exposure of independent filmmaking, its creation and reproduction.
This year we are accepting only the top 10% of the films submitted to the festival.
Join our audience of film lovers and sports fanatics, for our 7rd year of screenings in the beautiful Oaxaca, Mexico. During the film festival we will host conferences about filmmaking, Q and A’s with the filmmakers, parties, and more!
If selected you will receive your selection laurel, you will access the screenings and if you do visit Oaxaca we can hook you up with some good deals for your staying.
We beleive that film can change the world.
We beleive we can be THE film festival to for filmmakers to go to.
we beleive in the power of film
we beleive in collaboration
we beleive in invovation
we believe in creativity and uniqness
Founded in 2003, IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival is dedicated to short films, new media and digital arts. Originating as a competitive forum for student films, it has grown to be a recognized platform for the expression of both young artists and established professionals – the only one of its kind in Bulgaria serving this particular sector of contemporary culture, and one of the oldest short film forums on the Balkans.
IN THE PALACE is a Goya Awards qualifying festival, Student Academy Awards® qualifying festival, and an Academy Awards®/OSCAR® qualifying festival for shorts in the categories of Best Animation, Best Fiction, Best Documentary, and Best National Film. IN THE PALACE is a member of the international network of festivals and institutions serving the short film sector – the Short Film Conference.
23rd IN THE PALACE will take place in the Palace of Culture Pernik (Pernik, Bulgaria) from June 27th until July 4th 2026.
IN THE PALACE is an established international festival dedicated to short films and digital arts and also presents special competitive programs for feature films and film series.
The program consists of several main components:
• International and national, professional and student competitive programs in fiction, documentary, animation, experimental - for short and feature films and series
• ON FOCUS film programs & screenings
• Q & A sessions
• FILMER FORGE: industry market, industry meetings, film pitching session, educational program
• International Interdisciplinary Science Conference
• Video library
• Film events and initiatives for general audience
• Parties
IN THE PALACE takes place over a week and offers a range of events, activities, and programs for both - local and international film industry and audience. IN THE PALACE is a cultural meeting point of film industry, artists, students, educational institutions, and the general public, that provides access to the latest trends, developments, and learning in the arts and culture through screenings, training and interdisciplinary exchange. Since 2018 the Festival has organized the International Interdisciplinary Science Conference.
Festival accepts movies of interest for gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersexual and transexual people. To participate in the competitive section (prizes), these films should have not been programmed on TV, screened in comercial venues or another spanish festival excluding the organized by Fundacion Triangulo. In any case, copyleft or copyright should be later than 2022.
The Festival de Cinema de Terror de Sabadell, celebrates the Sixth Edition of our Fiction Short Film Competition.
They have space for all the short films of Terror, Gore, Thriller, Fantastic, Science-Fiction, Dark Humor or Freak, in all their meanings and variants.
The Museo do Pobo Galego (Museum of Galician People) organises the Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnográfico - Ethnographic Film Festival. 20th Mostra de Cinema Etnográfico Museo do Pobo Galego will run 12-16 March, 2025 in Santiago
de Compostela.
Call for entries from December 4,2024 to December 30,2024.
We understand ethnographic cinema in a broad sense; it refers to those productions
whose main aim is to show different aspects related to sociocultural realities as well as
a community’s way of life. It comprises films with the main focus on people, social groups and relevant historical processes that are related to anthropology and ethnography.
GOSH! A DAMN GOOD FILM FESTIVAL
Independent & International Film Festival in Paris, GOSH! is dedicated to international short films screenings. The festival aims to bring to Paris films loved all around the world or brand new talents!
GOSH! loves all genres of independent cinema: short films, documentaries, animations, any language and any genre accepted. All equal for good cinema.
IMDB certified and screening to our usual audience, each edition GOSH! tries to provide a unique experience to the audience.
- IMDB certified awards
- Media partner "Cinéma des Potes" reporting the event
- International jury, lead by wellknown artists such as Pierre-Emmanuel Barré, Vikash Dhorasoo or Laura Satana
- Text interview for winners, on our website
- original certificate for award winners
- Individual feedback for all the movies in competition
- French subtitles by GOSH! (if English SRT file available)
- A damn cool festival!
PROCESS
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Each film is seen and rated by a committee of three persons, including Gosh Film Festival organizers: Magali Souart and Fabio Soares.
All the movies are seen by the committee, there is no “pass by” accepted.
Members of the committee can’t be involved in any way, in movies taking part of the official selection.
JURY
The jury is composed by professionals from TV & Cinema, the list and CV of GOSH! Jury are available on our website.
The jury takes in Paris and decide about the awards, except the audience award, given by the audience.
GOSH! Film Festival organizers do not take part to the jury and respect their final decisions.
MEDIA
GOSH! Film Festival screening is covered by our media partner "Cinéma des Potes", and several media with special accreditations.
FILUMS - International Film Festival, hosted annually by the LUMS Media Arts Society (LMA), is one of the largest film festivals in Pakistan. FILUMS has evolved to become a benchmark in the filmmaking industry, also crediting itself to be the largest film festival in South Asia and is on its way to becoming an independent nation-wide event. This mega event provides a platform for independent filmmakers from around the globe to come and showcase their film expertise. At FILUMS, the passion of films and the art of making them is celebrated, attended by people whose proficiency in this area is vast – including, but not limited to, renowned and capable producers, directors, actors, and camera operators. The media coverage, celebrity attention and foreign participation FILUMS receives is testament to the festival’s success and current standing. Despite its accomplishments, with every passing year, FILUMS aims to grow more, and surpass the success of the previous years in all aspects – media coverage, workshops, and audiences.
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Submissions at FILUMS are open in 7 categories this year, namely Shorts, Feature Films, Documentary - Short, Documentary - Long, Music Video, and Animation. A new addition to our traditional categories is the introduction of Student entries in the category: Rising Youth Films.
There are two stages of scrutiny before the films received at the festival can claim awards. Each entry is initially examined to be shortlisted among the best entries which are screened at the festival. These selected films are then forwarded to an external jury specially formulated for each category, and the final awards are given on the basis of the judgment given by the judges who are experienced, well-acclaimed, and considered to be the best authority in their respective fields.
One of the most important components of FILUMS is the workshops that are conducted by qualified professionals, many of whom have achieved a celebrity status. Such celebrities not only recount their learning experiences but also offer invaluable assistance in the form of well-seasoned advice. Workshops previously held at FILUMS have included a wide variety of topics, ranging from pre-production, post-production, film marketing to biographical accounts of members of the Pakistani Film Industry. We hope that such interactions will help several budding filmmakers and artists get access to bright opportunities in media and entertainment, while enabling others to find a direction to hone their creativity and skills.
Works premiered at FILUMS have gone on to earn special recognition such as ‘Seedlings’, which won the best film award at the NYC Film Festival, ‘Sapola’, a film made by Aleem Bukhari which has won the best foreign film award at the Lisbon International Film Festival, ‘Children of the Taliban’, ‘Like A Good Kid’, ‘Made in Pakistan’, ‘Kashf’, ‘Zibahkhana’, ‘Shanu’, ‘Taxi’, ‘Zindah Lash’, and many others.
Imagine a film you created being played in the esteemed halls of Lahore’s cultural district in an event that collaborates with Lahore’s own Art council and is attended by the very best in the field.
FILUMS continues to expand its horizons with each passing year. Its journey spans from a small initiative 12 years ago, with around 50 regional participants, to an international platform of its current standing, with a record number of entries (more than 250 international and 500 national) in initial years and a total of over 300 entries in last year alone. Each year, the talent and creativity presented at FILUMS far exceeds that of previous years, and it is with such a pace that this nascent film festival is progressing towards its aim of becoming the central hub of a cinematic revival in Pakistan and abroad.
This year FILUMS will be hosting 3 categories on the LUMS Campus to promote local filmmakers, and the nature of the event being held locally will induce nationwide participation, bringing diversity and a cultural kaleidoscope of genres and films.
