MosFestFilm is an annual international film festival founded in 2020.
The 2026 competition program will feature feature-length and short fiction films, animation, documentaries, music videos, experimental and student works. Both classical and original scripts, as well as familiar and entirely new cinematic techniques, will be presented.
The festival hosts three competitions: the Main Competition (for professional filmmakers), the Student Competition (for students, recent film school graduates, and independent filmmakers), and the Screenplay Competition (feature-length and short screenplays).
From September 22 to 27, 2026, films selected for the program will be screened in Moscow’s cinemas. The festival will also feature Q&A sessions with directors and creative teams, as well as interviews and masterclasses.
The Busan International AI Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing films created using artificial intelligence technology, serving as a platform for presenting creative content produced through AI.
We aim to provide opportunities to artistically experience new forms of art and diverse genres of films created by innovative AI technologies. Additionally, we offer a stage for filmmakers who challenge themselves with creative work through AI, thereby uncovering and supporting new talents.
• Dates: December 4-6, 2025
• Venue: Busan Cinema Center, Small Theater, Sky Theater
• Awards:
·Best AI Creative Film Award: 1 film
(USD 10,000)
· AI Art Innovation Award: 1 film
(USD 5,000)
· AI Technology Advancement Award: 1 film
(USD 4,000)
· AI Social Impact Award: 1 film
(USD 3,000)
• Opening Ceremony/Performance
• Closing Ceremony
• Screening of invited films
• Screening of 15 finalists
• Conference
• Content Showcase
• Eligibility: Open to all individuals and teams, domestic and international
(one • entry per person)
• Programs: International Competition
(short films, feature films, documentaries,
animations, etc.)
• Theme: Open theme
• Submission Criteria:
· Films utilizing AI technology (partially or entirely)
· Running time: 3-15 minutes
· Films completed from 2024 onwards
• Submission Method : biaif.dureraum.org
Responding to a changing world, show that your work rises to the challenge. Selected films are announced and promoted to distributors prior to the festival. Also all film submissions have the option to get distribution at inspire-tv.com with beneficial terms.
"The Best of the 1st!"
Cyprus International Film Festival's mission is to support the first shown filmmakers with their first short or feature film, to meet and exchange cultures for the further development of Cinematographic Art in Cyprus, to promote our historical and cultural heritage,to upgrade our tourism product and to internationally promote our alumni participants.
Cyprus International Film Festival (CYIFF) is holder of the EFFE label, Europe’s quality stamp for remarkable arts festivals attributed for their work in the field of the arts, community involvement and international openness. It takes place annually with live screenings and parallel events on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Cyprus but also with various partnerships at Athens, Cannes, New York and Los Angeles.
Cyprus International Film Festival (CYIFF) is under the umbrella of Cultural International Festivals -a non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting and supporting independent films and filmmakers that embody diversity, innovation and uniqueness of vision-. The main location of the event is Nicosia the capital of Cyprus. The festival celebrates once more the rising film stars and several artistic events will take place during the festival. The Pegasus Cinema Lab workshop is very popular and we produce a short film during the Festival which will be screened at the Awards Ceremony. A Table Read with chosen scripts is held during the festival.
You can express your interest and apply with your artistic proposal regarding the "Goddess Aphrodite" and "Peace" theme categories to ciffprogram@gmail.com
History: The festival was inaugurated on March 23, 2006 by the Cypriot Minister of Education and Culture Mr Pefkios Georgiades and was held in three cities, Larnaca, Limassol and Nicosia with the cooperation of K-Cineplex.
The Cyprus International Film Festival is the biggest of artistic high value independent cinema event of the whole region, spilling over Cyprus boundaries and spreading over the whole region with repercussions reaching worldwide. CYIFF is the first internationally oriented film festival which offers new and upcoming directors in multiple sectors of entertainment (such as feature films, short films, animations, music videos, dance, experimental films and video art) the opportunity to showcase their talent in front of a jury of internationally acclaimed cinema experts, directors and actors. CYIFF has a competitive section.
Films produced the last 36 months, by emerging directors are selected for the screening program.
-Women filmmakers (director and/or producer) can submit their film to compete for the Aphrodite Cinematic Award. There is no restriction regarding the production year, the genre of the film in this specific category.
-"50/50" is a category with film credits 50% men and 50% women. No restriction in genre.
Highlights video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYLfPp0qorI
REVIEWS:
Tiago Carvalho:
Lost Records was selected but we could be present unfortunately. But the online version of it was very professional and rich. Just by watching it, you can confirm that they are very concerned by the quality and importance of the festival, and the respect they have for the filmmakers.
Keith Barnfather:
Great festival, with a fantastic selection of films on show!
Christina Zorich - The Abolitionists:
Petra is awesome; she runs a terrific film festival! We were honored to be included.
Chao Wang:
An excellent and memorable film festival. Although I missed the festival because of my carelessness, I still appreciate the professional spirit of the film festival. It is my honor to be shortlisted.
DARWIN REINA:
This festival is one of the best festivals out there now days!! they organizers are just AMAZING this festival is the one that makes me do films every year!!! so I can submit to Cyprus International Film Festival! Thank you so much for the everything!!! and to RECAP all...THIS FESTIVAL IS AMAZING...Period! and 1 more thing a great place to make international connections!
Alain Deslongchamps:
Thank you Cyprus International Film Festival! Your Team did a.great job!
Alberto Zúñiga:
One of the best film festivals of the world. We really love CYIFF!!! Congratulations for the past edition. You really rock, people!!!
Gang Zhao:
Great film festival, thank you for choosing my film. Thank you!
KOSTAS LENIS:
Very good organization with a selection of excellent films. I believe we will be close in time.
Note: In 2025, the 20th Cyprus International Film Festival is scheduled to hold both of live and online screenings and events.
Creemos fundamental el apoyo y la difusión de la educación ambiental en la sociedad. Es por ello que hemos decidido impulsar la realización de un festival cinematográfico anual que refleje distintas temáticas relacionadas con el ambiente natural, las problemáticas que lo aquejan y las diferentes miradas y posturas sobre estas.
El objetivo de FICAUSH es acercar a la comunidad filmes que pretenden hacer una diferencia en lo que a ambiente respecta, retratando a través del audivisual diferentes aspectos de la vida en nuestro planeta, y de cómo ésta se ve afectada por la intervención de nuestra especie.
The Liège International Comedy Film Festival explores daring, popular and unifying cinema, through a unique competition: it is the only festival in Europe to program international comedies (and sentimental, dramatic, social or horrific). The only one, also, to reward them with a Golden or Crystal Bull. Every year, since 2016, it has presented nearly twenty feature films and around thirty short films, from the four corners of the world.
International Environmental Film Festival is a festival dedicated to short films (Ficton & Documentary) which treat the subject of the environmental such climate change, global warming, extinction of species...Peace Corps actions....Activism...
We are 100 % environmental film festival and our goal is to educate through entertaining and to raise awareness, using audiovisuals as a tool and language.
The IEFF is an annual film festival which takes place in Sidi Wassay-Massa village in the South of Morocco (60 km far from Agadir City).
DICFF is about celebrating comedy in film.
So often comedy is overlooked in favour of drama. Drama is in fact easier to write, direct and perform.
Comedy is much more difficult and you know if you've succeeded or failed by how many laughs you get!
So, DICFF is here to ensure comedy gets it's due. We want to support our comedic storytellers and celebrate your craft.
The INterioriza-te Association invites creators, dreamers, and storytellers to take part in the Short Film Festival, featuring a public screening as part of the event’s program on September 13, starting at 9 PM, in the scenic Mata das Alminhas, in Nelas.
This festival was created with the aim of promoting the creation and sharing of short films, encouraging artistic expression, critical thinking, and community involvement. In a relaxed setting, under the stars and among the trees, cinema becomes a meeting point between those who create and those who watch.
The open call is open to anyone aged 16 and over, whether amateur or professional, working individually or as a team. The theme is open, allowing total creative freedom.
Participation is free and aims to celebrate a diversity of perspectives, voices, and styles. All selected short films will be screened in a public open-air session, turning the forest into a collective screen of imagination, talent, and emotion.
The Aguilar de Campoo Short Film Festival is consolidated as one of the most veteran and relevant film citations in our country in its genre. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts of Spain, includes it as one of the key festivals for the selection of short films that will compete in the Goya Awards. Throughout the last editions the festival has been making important decisions that commit it to the cinema of our country. In his thirteenth edition he published his manifesto where he exhibited his philosophy and commitment to film. He made the decision to pay for selection to the selected short films thus eliminating economic competition in order to encourage artistic creation and production. Its screening rooms are open to international cinema including all genres, fiction, documentary animation and experimental cinema. In 2016 the festival received recognition from the AIC (Short Film Industry Association). This certificate is an annual distinction to differentiate and reward festivals that perform an exemplary role in the dissemination, protection and professionalization of cinema and its industry, and especially of the short film. This is the first time this certification has been granted and is the result of more than a year of work tables and conversations with festivals, filmmakers and other professionals from across the country in order to develop a guide to good behaviors towards the short film and its creators. The basic objectives of this distinction are to educate new generations of filmmakers and protect model festivals, recognizing their dedication and rigor. We seek the encounter and exchange between professionals and the public as a form of cultural enrichment.
This short films contest up in order to motivate people to convey their ideas through cinema.
The theme that identifies it is based on the idea of "slowness" or "slow life", what we understand as a bunch of actions (respect for the Environment and people, responsible consumption, defense of culture, decrease, life and leisure alternative, cooperation, food sovereignty, social economy ...) that make individuals improve their quality of life, control their time and be critical of the current economic and social system.
9th Pilar de la Horadada International Film Festival - CORTOPILAR | PILAR AWARDS
The International Film Festival "Piriápolis de Película" is an event that has consolidated itself as an essential space for the meeting of the independent production of national and international filmmakers. It is characterized by exhibiting, completely free of charge, a selection of outstanding audiovisual productions, short, medium and feature films of all genres. It also has an Iberoamerican Short Film Contest, whose objective is to stimulate and disseminate the production of short films in the region and the continent, adorned by an outstanding international jury.
FRAME Film Festival es un festival de cortometrajes itinerante, sin una única ubicación, que se celebrará en la provincia de Tarragona.
El FRAME Film Festival consta de dos fases.
• FASE CLASIFICATORIA
• FASE FINAL
El objetivo principal es difundir y promover la cinematografía en general y el cortometraje en particular, apoyando a las directoras y los directores de cortometrajes y creando un espacio donde puedan dar a conocer sus trabajos.
Pero sobre todo trabajamos para que las y los cineastas se sientan acogidos y vivan la experiencia de visitarnos cómo si estuvieran en familia. LA GRAN FAMILIA DEL CORTOMETRAJE!
Otro motivo es ampliar la oferta de acontecimientos culturales para hacer llegar el cortometraje a a poblaciones que no tengan la oportunidad de disfrutar de nuestro cine en formato CORTO.
En el FRAME Film Festival queremos darle al público que sigue y disfruta los cortometrajes, la oportunidad de decidir sobre la selección de las películas que pasarán a la FASE FINAL para recibir los premios TALENTO FRAME.
If you love spending time with your pets and making films this is the right film festival for you.
Our unique annual collection of shorts about animals will celebrate filmmakers who have,pets, work in pet industry, support causes, or simply love animals.
In addition to our live festival, FRFF has recently acquired a Roku channel dedicated entirely to films about animals. Top 200 shorts will be featured on our channel throughout the year in different programming slots. We hope to promote veterans and also open the door for pet owners/ animal lovers who want to try their hand at something more professional.
Fur Reel Film Festival will launch with a screening (top 30 films) at Laemmle Noho 7 in North Hollywood, in association with The Valley Film Festival.
Expect a one day event with animal themed screenings, panels from industry professionals and charities, a reception with awards and prizes.
We advise everyone to get their submissions in early to give us / yourselves as much time as possible. We are looking for creativity in their story telling. If you are going to use your cell hone please shoot in 4k.
Franzi Shorts is an international competition for short film screenplays. The winning script will be brought to life with full financing and production by Franzi Films, in partnership with Simple Rent.
We’re inviting applicants from around the world to submit their short film idea.
What You’ll Get if You Win:
- Full development support with our directors and producers
- The film will be produced in Copenhagen by our crew
- An invitation to Copenhagen to join us either on set during production or at the film’s premiere.
- Festival submissions handled by us
- A premiere screening in Copenhagen
Every script is reviewed by our executive producers and directors.
We select 10 finalists for a personal feedback call to:
- Share creative feedback
- Talk about your story’s potential
- Discuss next steps
1 winner will move into full production, starting with revisions and ending with a finished film.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
To enter Franzi Shorts, please submit one of the following:
A short film script
or
A treatment describing the story and main characters
We’re open to any genre or style.
Applicants may submit multiple stories, but a separate submission fee applies for each one.
ABOUT FRANZI
Franzi is a production studio based in Copenhagen, with a roster of directors and DPs. Their work has earned major recognition, with films featured at festivals like Sundance, SXSW, and TIFF, alongside three Cannes wins and two Royal Television Society Awards.
ABOUT SIMPLE RENT
Since 2017, SimpleRent has been supplying production equipment to both Danish and international industries, supporting various creative projects. The team is made up of film and AV professionals dedicated to making filmmaking more accessible and efficient, focusing on providing filmmakers with the tools they need, whether they’re working on small independent films or larger-scale productions.
Terra di Siena International Film Festival, now in its 29th edition, invites directors, actors, producers, and distributors to participate in the upcoming edition of the Festival, which will be held in Siena from October 7 to October 11, 2025. The Festival aims to promote film culture, to offer a meeting moment through screening high-quality films and a dialogue between industry professionals and the public.
For this edition, the Festival Jury has chosen not to assign specific themes for the entry call. However, it wishes to remind participants that in the awards category (point 3), there are long-standing recognitions for audiovisual works that aim to raise awareness on issues such as the environment and sustainability, with an eye towards the future.
Andre Film Festival – November 2025 La Plata, Maryland
Brought to you by Andre Video Production
The Andre Film Festival invites filmmakers from all walks of life to showcase their creativity and storytelling in the heart of Washington, D.C. This exciting event celebrates the power of cinema across a diverse range of categories, including Narrative shorts, Documentary shorts, Local shorts, and Student shorts (high school level). Giving a platform to voices from both emerging and established filmmakers.
This festival is committed to highlighting the best in independent filmmaking, with a focus on community, artistic expression, and elevating the work of local and student filmmakers. The festival aims to be an inspiring experience where creativity flourishes, providing both the opportunity for public screenings and meaningful recognition for all participants.
We’re excited to bring together a passionate audience and talented filmmakers to connect, celebrate, and champion the art of storytelling. Whether you're a filmmaker, student, or cinephile, the Andre Film Festival is the place to discover the future of film.
Stay tuned for the announcement of our venue and lineup!
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Local Shorts
Local Shorts are films created by filmmakers who reside in the DMV area (Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia). These works can be either narrative or documentary in nature and must be Under 30-Minutes in length. We are excited to showcase stories that reflect the unique perspectives and experiences of our local community.
Student Shorts (High School Level)
Student Shorts are films produced by high school students, allowing young filmmakers to express their creativity and storytelling skills. These films must be between 2-15 minutes long and can encompass any genre or subject matter. We aim to provide a supportive platform for emerging talent to share their voices and perspectives.
Narrative Shorts
Narrative Shorts are fictional films that convey a story within a shorter format, lasting between 2 - 30 minutes. These films can experiment with various storytelling techniques, genres, and themes, showcasing the creativity and innovation of filmmakers in a condensed timeframe.
Documentary Shorts
Documentary Shorts are non-fiction films ranging from between 2 - 30 minutes that explore real-life subjects, events, or issues.
These films focus on concise storytelling, offering insights or perspectives on a specific topic while engaging the audience in a meaningful way.
AI Film Festival Japan (AI-FJ) is Japan’s first international film festival dedicated to the creative collaboration between human storytellers and artificial intelligence.
Taking place on November 21, 2025, in the heart of Tokyo at Tokyo Innovation Base, AI-FJ brings together pioneering filmmakers, technologists, researchers, and audiences from around the world to explore the evolving possibilities of AI-driven cinema.
The festival features a curated selection of long and short films, animations, documentaries, experimental works, and student films that leverage artificial intelligence in their creative process—whether through writing, visual generation, sound design, or thematic exploration.
With screenings, artist talks, panel discussions, accessibility programs, and an awards ceremony, AI-FJ is more than a showcase—it’s a global platform where the future of storytelling begins.
We champion diversity, equity, and inclusion, and actively encourage submissions from underrepresented creators, women, and emerging artists from around the world.
