Competitive festival of short films with a 2SLGTBIQ+ theme, produced in the 24 months prior to the event, held in the town of Sitges (Barcelona - Spain).
Patrofest is a film festival where you can participate to see your work on the big screen and spend a relaxing time talking about cinema. We want to give a push to young authors who are taking their first steps in this world.
The festival will be held in the emblematic modernist theater "El Patronat", located in the old town of Premià de Mar.
Discover Roma Film Corto, the international festival that celebrates innovation and creativity in the world of short films. Located in the heart of the Italian capital, the festival continues to be a point of reference for emerging and established directors, offering them a prestigious showcase in front of an international audience and industry professionals.
The festival offers international visibility thanks to the presence of a jury of experts and prominent guests, guaranteeing the selected short films a wide exposure. It represents an important networking opportunity, encouraging meetings between directors, producers and distributors to create opportunities for collaboration and professional growth.
The awards and recognitions range across different categories, enhancing every aspect of film production, from direction to screenplay, from editing to soundtrack.
Roma Film Corto is more than a festival, it is an immersive cultural experience. Participating means not only presenting your work to a qualified audience, but also experiencing an event that celebrates cinema and creativity in all its forms.
The Bola de Oro Neighborhood Association, in its annual agenda of cultural activities and in order to continue with the idea and intention of giving space and opportunity to different areas of artistic expression, invites all those who wish to participate in the Short Film Festival, "A Cinema Neighborhood".
After the success of the first, the second edition of the Viagrande Short Film fest starts. The festival aims to give light to emerging and non-emerging directors, with particular attention to independent and historical films.
The Quillota International Film Festival is a film festival that, in its fourth version, becomes a competitive event. A festival through cinema that carries out training, production and distribution activities in the city and province of Quillota during the year 2023 (June to December 2024). Its objective is to professionally mediate cinematographic quality content in various public spaces, movie theaters, cultural halls, and schools and colleges in the commune and province of Quillota.
The Trash Basté festival was born in 2021, thanks to our passion for the Trash and Gore genres. In its first edition we screened a sample of short films trash, gore, terror... and low budget. Due to the great reception of the public, we decided to make a second edition in 2022 transforming it into a festival, where we include a market with terrifying products and a final party concert with horror-punk and extreme metal bands, without forgetting a bar service at popular prices. In the third edition, apart from the usual exhibition, as a novelty we had a section with short films in competition that is here to stay.
Since our beginnings, we have been enemies of censorship and we like to project the most bizarre and bloody shorts we can find. So don't be shy, we're looking for you to send us those crappy shorts with blood made with your friends, without a budget and with grace, with a lot of blood and dismemberments... We like offensive shorts. It's all good for us if it's dark, bloody, terrifying, fantastic or trash.
SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
The Dystopia, film and environment festival of the Murcia region is a project that aims to disseminate, serve as a reference and raise awareness about environmental cinema, as well as support and disseminate both national and international productions on this subject.
Festival Description (Edition: 9)
Festival Start: May 30, 2025 Festival End: June 2, 2025
The F I C S J. (San Jorge International Film Festival) is an event that will take place from May 30 to June 2, 2025 in the cities of Pueblo Nuevo, Planeta Rica, Buenavista, La Apartada, Ayapel, Puerto Libertador, San José de Ure and Montelíbano, which make up the San Jorge subregion, located in the south of the department of Córdoba, Colombia. The main objective of this festival is to promote regional, national and international film production and to promote the region as an epicenter of the seventh art.
The festival seeks to promote the circular economy around audiovisual production, generating a greater supply of employment and economic development in the region. In addition, the F I C S J proposes new expressions of culture and folklore in the region, through the presentation of films that address issues related to the identity and cultural diversity of the region.
The event will have a varied program that will include the screening of national and international films, short films, documentaries, conferences, workshops, round tables and cultural activities in general. Competitions will also be held between filmmakers, with the aim of awarding the best audiovisual productions.
In short, the F I C S J is a film festival that seeks to promote audiovisual and cultural production in the region of Córdoba, Colombia, and contribute to its economic and social development.
In addition to promoting audiovisual and cultural production in the region of Córdoba, the F I C S J also has a social focus on different communities, through the strategy "The backpack of cinema." This strategy seeks to reach different sectors of society, including the rural student community, the religious community, the community of women heads of household, Afro-descendants, indigenous people, peasants, people displaced by violence and the disabled.
For these communities, audiovisual training workshops have been planned to allow them to learn new skills and develop their capacities in this area, as well as film screenings with motivating themes that relate to entrepreneurship to create a new socio-economic dynamic in the territory.
The purpose of the BAIFF (Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival) project is to showcase and celebrate the creative and innovative ways in which artificial intelligence is being used in the film industry. The festival features films that are created using AI, digital dramaturgy, or those that explore the topic of AI itself.
The festival aims to demonstrate how AI and digital scripting can enhance the creative process and lead to the creation of new and exciting forms of cinema. By using these technologies, filmmakers can access vast amounts of data and information, enabling them to develop more complex and immersive narratives that engage audiences in new ways. Moreover, the festival provides a platform for filmmakers to experiment with new techniques and approaches to filmmaking, leading to a new era of artistic expression and storytelling.
In addition to showcasing films that use AI and digital scripting, the festival also features films that explore the topic of AI itself. These films offer a unique perspective on the ethical and societal implications of AI, as well as the challenges and opportunities that AI presents to the film industry and society as a whole. The festival provides a forum for filmmakers, artists, and experts to engage in discussions and debates on these important topics, leading to a deeper understanding of the role of AI in our lives.
BAIFF also aims to promote the ethical use of AI in filmmaking and encourages filmmakers to consider the potential social and cultural impacts of their work. Through a series of workshops and discussions, the festival provides a forum for industry professionals, academics, and experts to discuss best practices and ethical considerations in the use of AI and digital scripting in filmmaking.
Overall, the BAIFF project seeks to promote the use of AI and digital scripting in filmmaking, to provide a platform for the development of new ideas and approaches to cinema, and to inspire a new generation of filmmakers to explore the potential of these technologies in their work. The festival is playing an important role in shaping the future of cinema, contributing to the advancement of technology and creativity, and promoting a deeper understanding of the role of AI in our lives.
We accept only films about the right to health and subtitled in Italian or English
The Premio Fausto Rossano Association announces the eleventh edition of the "Premio Fausto Rossano," which will be held in Naples, Italy, at the beginning of November 2025. The award commemorates the life and work of Fausto Rossano, a Jungian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who passed away in 2012.
The event aims to challenge the stigma and prejudices surrounding mental suffering and to highlight the importance of recognizing each individual's personal experience. Through cinema and dialogue with authors, professionals, and experts, the Festival seeks to promote social awareness on these critical issues.
The Festival is sponsored by the Premio Fausto Rossano Association
The International Festival of Intergenerational Short Films on the Elderly (FICMA) was born within the Federation of Associations of the Elderly of Salamanca (FAMASA) with the aim of providing a cultural offer that contributes to improving the quality of life of the elderly, even with dependence or disfunctions by bringing them closer to a full citizenship and offering the cultural heritage of which they are protagonists. It is celebrated every year between September and October since 2016 in the city of Salamanca, being a meeting of intergenerational culture
The Festival poses as a place of debate and discourse for questions such as: How has cinema treated old age? The reflection of the role of the elderly in the family, sentimental, emotional and social relationships. The positive or negative consequences of cinema into stereotypes and believings about the elder and even if it treats the same way both man and women.
The importance of dignifying the intergenerational relationships between youngsters and elderlies becames vital in order to find ways towards a better future.
OBJECTIVES
The goal of the FICMA is to achieve the people from Salamanca to be closer to the cinema from a third age perspective. This festival is a golden opportunity to offer a cinema party to the city and an active and positive vision from this part of the population.
The festival has as a goal to show the positive part of the elders and to reforce the intergenerationals relationships.
Cortoons Gandia is the International Animated Film Festival of Gandia, organized by Cortoons Festival, the city of Gandia, la Generalitat Valenciana, through the Institut Valenciá de Cultura (Culturarts), and the participation of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Campus de Gandia.
In the 2016, after 12 years of great success in Rome, Cortoons international festival of animated films, he moved to Spain in the beautiful town of Gandia in the province of Valencia.
The 21th Cortoons Festival Gandia edition will be a great festival of animated films for professionals, animation film funs and all the general public.
The competition categories are:
International animated short film from 1 to 4 minutes
International animated short film from 4 to 20 minutes
Spanish animated short film
Spanish animated short films produced in the
Valencian Community
Graduation animated film
Works may take place after January 1st, 2023.
The deadline is September 01, 2025
There is no entry fee
Contact us:
info@cortoons.es
www.cortoons.es
Antakya Film Festival, is an International, competitive festival. (AFF) is a major destination on the Festival circuit and recognized by the sinema Academy as a Qualifying Festival in all film categories. Antakya Film Festival, It is the first meeting point of this region for the international film and media industries.
Mission is to provide a public forum in Antakya in order to advance public interest in films and the independent production of films. To draw worldwide attention to Antakya as a center for cinema. To encourage the rights of all Antakya residents to access and experience the power of independent filmmaking, and to promote artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure.
In 2023, the Festival presented 800 films, representing work that was shot and produced in 45 countries. The event offers well rounded, and for many, career-establishing experiences. Submit your work before the final deadline!
The festival is for and by independent filmmakers. The organizers of Antakya Film Festival bring 10 years of festival experience to this annual event. Antakya Film Festival accepts submissions in six categories: Narrative Features, Documentary Features, Short Narrative, Short Documentary, Experimental, Short Student, and Animation.
Submissions are open from October to September of the year, the final selection of 150 + films is announced in September, and the film festival takes place in October. Selected films in each category are eligible for several awards. In addition to our lineup of films, the festival also hosts multiple filmmaker parties and networking events at venues around Antakya and Hatay.
International queer film festival Merlinka is organized every year from 2009 in Belgrade Serbia.
For five days we screen short, documentary and featured LGBT-themed films.
Only gay, lesbian, bisexual, trangender, transsexual-themed films.
LA PECCA -Small Environmental Film Contest- was born in 2007 by the DeFrente Association.
The main purpose of this project is to promote respect for sexual and gender diversity through cinema, contributing to the development of a plural and inclusive society.
Taking a quality film event as a vehicle, we show plural life stories and encourage people to visibly live their sexual and gender identity, to promote social awareness and claim at the same time the right of the LGTBIQ + community to be present in culture and in society equally.
We also give visibility and support to quality cinematography, promoting the discovery of new talents.
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ASOCIACIÓN DEFRENTE is a non-profit organization in Seville that was established in 2006. Since its inception, its objectives have been aimed at serving the lesbian, gay, transsexual and bisexual community in response to a social demand by being this group in a situation of marginalization and discrimination in many areas of daily life.
GO Film Goiânia Film Festival is a Festival for short movies done in the heart of Brazil. Its in the 6th edition with a competitive premiation with a special awards in many categories.
The festival offers a contemporary and liberal platform for the filmmakers of the World to exhibit the excellence of the film art form. The aim is mainly to contribute to the understanding and appreciation of cultures of different nations. We hope to present complex human situations of this rapidly changing world in the globalized era. The Festival Committee reserves the right to exclude films which are not in conformity with aims of the Festival, or which could offend the national feelings and susceptibilities of any participating country, or are likely to promote racial discrimination. Films not presenting sufficient technical qualities for good public screening can be refused after checking of the prints by the Print Checking Unit of the Film Festival Office. Date and Place: OCTOBER/NOVEMBER ANNUALLY IN ABUJA
9rd Morce-GO Vermelho - GOIAS HORROR FILM FESTIVAL - is a film festival in the heart of Brazil, which will have contemporary audiovisual works and historical recovery linked to the themes of horror, suspense and horror. The Festival may have fiction productions, experimental and animation as well as workshops and debates.
The aim is to encourage and promote local productions, Brazil and all over the world for lovers of moviegoers horror movies, suspense and horror featuring some of the most creative in independent productions of short films in competitive shows and feature films in the programming.
