Hungry Minds Film Festival è un evento unico nel suo genere che celebra la relazione tra cinema, cultura, cibo e sostenibilità. Questo evento unisce mondi affascinanti, offrendo al pubblico l'opportunità di esplorare il connubio tra la settima arte e la passione per il cibo in tutte le sue forme, con un focus particolare sulla sostenibilità e la condivisione.
Il Festival si propone di presentare una selezione accurata di film e cortometraggi, nei quali il cibo è il fil rouge; dai documentari che esplorano le sfide ambientali legate all'industria alimentare ai film che raccontano storie appassionanti incentrate sulla cucina locale e sostenibile, l’Hungry Minds Film Festival offre una visione diversificata e coinvolgente del rapporto tra cibo e sostenibilità.
Ogni film selezionato avrà un legame diretto o indiretto con il mondo gastronomico, offrendo al pubblico un'esperienza cinematografica che stimola la mente e soddisfa il palato. Gli spettatori saranno immersi in storie che esplorano il modo in cui il cibo potrà diventare motore per il cambiamento, generando riflessioni su consapevolezza ambientale e partecipazione attiva nella creazione di un futuro più sostenibile.
Attraverso proiezioni di film, dibattiti interattivi, degustazioni e incontri con registi, chef e esperti del settore, l’Hungry Minds Film Festival ambisce a creare un'atmosfera vivace e stimolante.
The Fine Shortfilm Festival is a non-competitive shortfilm event, hosted in São Paulo, addressed to the works of the new generations of Brazilian filmmakers.
Only for films produced in Spain or Portugal.
A leading short film festival in the Iberian Peninsula, showcasing the work of Spain and Portugal's most prominent filmmakers over the last quarter of a century. Preselection festival for the Goya Awards.
One-minute short film festival that aims to promote awareness and social commitment, using audiovisual language.
It is a citizen participation tool, where participants express their point of view on the great challenges we face, such as hunger, poverty, climate change or the defense of Human Rights.
The (new) Melbourne Underground Film Festival
MUFF, Year Zero (2023)
We want films that are strange, daring, experimental, avant-garde and indefinable, radical, subversive, transgressive, unorthodox and weird.
If you’ve got one of those you could lend us for a night that’d be great.
The Melbourne Underground Film Festival takes place in September. We’ll be showing short films only in our first year. Up to 30 minutes, and completed any time since 1/1/2021.
See below and on our website for more details.
Welcome to the African Indigenous Language Film Festival, a dynamic platform celebrating Africa’s rich storytelling heritage.
Founded in 2023, our festival showcases films that honor, preserve, and promote indigenous languages while addressing vital social and global issues.
We are dedicated to amplifying indigenous voices in cinema through a carefully curated selection of feature films and documentaries, believing in the power of film to bridge cultures and challenge perceptions.
Mansfield Town Film Festival 2024
#MansfieldLovesFilm #MTFF #MTFF24
Celebrate the silver screen as Mansfield Town Film Festival returns in 2024.
Bringing together a stunning mix of filmmakers with a strong focus on diverse, working-class talent from across the country, and internationally, enjoy three electric days of incredible short films shown in the beautiful Mansfield Palace Theatre - perfect for those with a love of film.
Featuring an array of short films, music videos, documentaries, and animation as well as international shorts, our film festival offers three days of unique programming, entertainment, and fresh perspectives.
Complete with an opening ceremony, live screenings, an in-person awards evening, masterclasses, Q+As, and more! There’s plenty to enjoy or simply soak up the atmosphere in the thriving heart of our town.
During our inaugural year, MTFF welcomed hundreds of filmmakers from all over the world to the Mansfield Palace Theatre for three days of incredible films. Our festival was opened by Palme D'Or winning filmmaker Ken Loach who will be attending MTFF24.
We aim to move our Islamic values to the agenda of young and professional filmmakers to ensure the production of films which have ethic, esthetic and technical integrity all over the world.
The awareness which we want to create with our young colleagues aim to contribute to community awareness with the films containing our core values.
We want to describe Islam in a correct and understandable way with a new cinema language by subjecting 7 saints of 7 cities with aggregating filmmakers from many countries in the same frame.
Television and cinema are the producing and transporting instruments of the global culture today.
We want to have our next generation filmmakers to produce films through the architects of our root paradigms and values with 7 Saints 7 Cities Short Film Festival.
We would like to open a new perspective for our young colleagues with this awareness which we want to create with our festival.
We have the honor of making 7 saints of 7 cities a cinema theme with adhering to Islamic decency and share the enthusiasm of our young colleagues of whom we hope will produce films and scenarios with the same decency.
Cassette Audiovisual International Fest is a celebration of musical audiovisual and cinematographic projects: Videocilp, Musical Short&Feature Films, Rockumentary, Videodance, Mashup, Experimental Music Film.
The festival activities will take place in the month of May, we will carry out face-to-face in Mexico City and streaming.
We receive cinematographic and audiovisual works that address the following musical concepts. The extension is free as well as the genres: fiction, non-fiction, animation, experimental and hybrids.
International categories
Videoclip
Under 10 minutes
Fiction, animation, experimental and hybrid genres
Monoaural
Musical shortfilm
Under 30 minutes
Fiction and animation
Rockumentary
No-Fiction musical shortfilm
Documentary
Under 30 minutes
Loop
Experimental musical shortfilm
Experimental, mashup, found footage
Under 30 minutes
Fantasound
Videodance, performance musical shortfilm
Under 30 minutes
Stereophonic
Medium and feature musical films
Fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and hybrid genres
Between 30 minutes and 130 minute
Only for Spanish Filmmakers.
LAZOS es un festival de cine surgido en la zona de Montes Torozos como una iniciativa para promover y divulgar el cine de provincias, alejándose del modelo industrial centralizado en las grandes ciudades.
RE-FRAME: Debut Film Festival Vienna is now open for submissions for its 2nd edition!
Last year we had a fantastic experience at Stand129 in Vienna! In 2024 we are expanding our horizons with extra screening days, more invited guests, free filmmaking workshops and… presenting selected films from both this and 1st edition in a special programme in Basque Country (Spain) and Italy.
We are inviting young international filmmakers from the FLINTA* community to submit their debut short films to us. Additionally, we focus on low-budget independent productions (films with a budget of less than EUR 7500) to give space to unconventional stories and artistic approaches to filmmaking.
The selected films for the Viennese edition will be screened in June 2024 at Stand129 on Viktor-Adler-Markt at Stand129. We invite all selected filmmakers to take part in the festival and present their works in person. RE-FRAME provides a limited amount of free housing options for whom it is necessary. Those who are not able to join in person are welcome for a post-screening discussion via Zoom.
Additional curated programs will be presented in Club Ricreativo Di Pignolo (Bergamo) and SAMA (Vitoria-Gasteiz).
RE-FRAME is initiated and curated by (ex)-volunteers of the European Solidarity Corps programme and participants of a Solidarity Project in collaboration with Stand129 and Kulturhaus Brotfabrik.
*The acronym FLINTA stands for women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people - all those who are patriarchally discriminated against because of their gender identity.
'Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ - James Joyce.
Ireland’s most literary film festival is back for its fifth year! The film festival was set up as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. The festival is run in partnership with the Bloomsday Festival & the James Joyce Centre and will run between the 11th - 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.
Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th - 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.
We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.
Montenegiran online smartphone international film festival (MOSIFF).
Provides new emerging film makers an international platform to showcase ideas, talents and creativity irrespective of the budget. Encouraging professionals, amateurs and aspiring film makers to share their stories shot on a smartphones, tablets, and webcams to be screen on the big screen.
MOSIFF a platform to showcase new talents using simple tools and readily available, that’s often overlook; The smartphone.
MOSIFF is an event that cannot be missed, honestly It is more than a film fest. It is a kind of life event.
January 31, 2027 Opening Date
February 1, 2027 Earlybird Deadline
March 1, 2027 Regular Deadline
April 29, 2027 Late Deadline
May 1, 2027 Notification Date
The best movie will be shown in live event in relaxing ambience.
Event Date: 25 May - 9 June 2027
Founded in 2018, the Almagro International Film Festival (AIFF) was created as a platform to support and promote the audiovisual industry. The Festival provides a space for the exhibition and promotion of audiovisual works while turning the historic city of Almagro into a meeting point for filmmakers, industry professionals and audiences, encouraging the exchange of ideas, new collaborations and the development of future projects.
AIFF showcases some of the most outstanding recent short films, with a strong commitment to quality, emerging talent and contemporary audiovisual culture. The Festival also embraces new forms of creation and distribution, supporting innovative formats and projects that reflect the ongoing evolution of the audiovisual industry.
DIGO – I International Film Festival on Gender and Sexual Diversity of Goiás, is the first film festival in the heart of Brazil to address issues such as Diversity, Gender and Sexuality, by showcasing contemporary audiovisual work and urging historical reviews. Our main goal is to raise awareness on this topic, in order to promote inclusion, social change and respect for others. As an international event, the DIGO team also believes in the importance of cross cultural communication.
Kultura Communication Desarrollo-KCD NGOD (hereinafter the holder or KCD NGOD, indistinctly) registered in the General Register of Associations of the Basque Country with Tax ID G-95550943, and address at Beurko Viejo 3, Pabellón 38, Oficina 12, BarakaldoBizkaia (Vizcaya) 48902, Spain, will hold a festival dedicated to screening diverse and
socially-committed films, films that are usually excluded from conventional screens.
KCD NGOD, organisers of the 19th International Unseen Film Festival “Film Sozialak” of Bilbao (Basque Country) and commissioned to organise the International Unseen Film Festival “Film Sozialak” is a non-profit organization whose aim, among others, is to promote Human, Intercultural, Equitable and Sustainable Development through
Communication and Culture.
The International Unseen Film Festival “Film Sozialak” Bilbao is an annual celebration dedicated to screening diverse film content that is socially committed, films that are usually excluded from conventional screens.
With the continuous work that is being done, the festival has become an indispensable meeting place for all those interested in communication for social transformation and the defence of human rights. The Festival is also a space of recognition of all those people who, through their audio-visual work, reflect different realities of humanity.
The Festival has 4 main lines of action:
Sustainability, Gender Equity, Interculturality and
Human Rights.
Since 2009 the Festival embraces diversity and equality as an essential part of our core values. For the Festival, the participation of people belonging to ethnic, religious, gender identity, cultural and other minorities is of utmost importance, since their participation in public affairs and in all aspects of political, economic, social and cultural life of their countries is essential to maintain their identity and fight against exclusion.
Since its beginning, the festival has applied parity quotas and positive actions for equality, both in the selection of the films, as well as in their dissemination, the presence of women filmmakers, and the selection of the people on the jury, as well as other actions.
The Festivaldistributes awards in 13 categories totaling 23,500 euros. This is a strategy, not so much to encourage competition, but to support social filmmakers.
The main venue of the festival is the Azkuna Zentroa Alhóndiga Bilbao and the Golem cinemas located there. The official dates are 14 to 21 October 2027, although promotional screenings will be held in August and September. These screenings will also enter the competition with the votes of the public. Films awarded at the festival will be
screened again at the end of October or the beginning of November. In total there will be
at least 30 screening venues of which 21 are mainstream education colleges in the Basque Country at secondary level and vocational training.
The Festival holds Cine Forum and for this purpose the organization invites filmmakers of Social Cinema from different parts of the world to come to Bilbao.
Since 2015, the Festival is also committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Goals proposed by the United Nations.
Al Este is a festival coming out from the french festival A l'Est du Nouveau. Present in Colombia since 2018, the mission of the festival is to promote film culture of the other Europe, that relegated to independent circuits, owning however, an invaluable wealth and tradition. Thus, Al Este - Colombia seeks to spread the filmography of Central and Eastern Europe into a profitable cultural exchange with South America.
BASIFF2026: A SPACE FOR DIALOGUE, MEETING, AND REFLECTION
Baños de Agua Santa International Film Festival reaches its fourth edition with the firm purpose of continuing to contribute to the exhibition, celebration, and promotion of universal cinema in all its expressions and trends.
We digitally award and certify feature films, documentaries, and short films in sections for professionals, amateurs, and students, expanding opportunities for both national and international participation. This year, works will be screened on our networks, provided the authors authorize their distribution.
In addition, we will hold the traditional online meeting of directors and film students, as a space for dialogue, reflection, and project negotiation.
BASIFF has consolidated and launched the Locations Films Service project; those who attend in person will be able to enjoy a tour of filming locations in our region.
BASIFF2026: GROWING TOGETHER WITH YOU
