International Film Festival "Prvi kadar"/First Frame is an important film event in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose mission is to promote film art of authors from all over the world. The Festival is of competitive character neither. Films compete in two categories: documentary and short films.
Fifteen editions of the festival, a large number of authors interested in the festival, proving that the festival recognized among artists all over the world, as an important and prestigious film event.
Festival selections confirm continuity, primarily artistic approach, on which is built the whole idea of the first frame. In considering the relationship between themes and ideas, stress is given to the author's attitude or an artistic idea.
Rich noncompetitive and competitive program of high artistic quality, educational programs, lectures DokMasterClass, Film Campus of art documentaries, exhibitions, promotion of book of film art, numerous guests from the world of film, proof that the festival from year to year expanding, enriching the content of the program. This years Festival will takes place from 20th to 24th November 2023 in East Sarajevo and Zvornik, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Asian Summer Film Festival wants to present the Asian culture through the popular cinematography produced in the countries of the continent.
The Festival has several categories such as a competitive section, retrospectives, screenings for children and theme nights. Last year, 40 titles from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Corea, Japan and India were shown, some of them were World and International festival premieres, European festival premieres or Spanish festival premieres. The 18 films programmed in the official section competed for the Jury Prize, the Lucky Cat Award, given by the audience to the best film in-competition, and the Critics’ Choice Award.
El Festival internacional de Cine Opera Prima, único en Chile para primeras películas, nace con la vocación de reconocer y apoyar a los nuevos valores del cine que realizan animaciones, documentales y largometrajes, otorgándoles una pantalla profesional de exhibición a una labor indispensable en la cultura audiovisual.
La especialización del festival en operas primas es algo que lo convierte en una referencia total en el panorama de los festivales nacionales.
Dada la gran diversidad de públicos que atrae la atención de este certamen tanto en Chile como de los países participantes, se trata de uno de los novedosos y más importantes momentos en la dinamización de la vida cultural de Santiago, a la vez que trabajara con las escuelas e instituciones universitarias que imparten carreras de audiovisual, cine, animación y artes en general, así como de talleres y escuelas de comunicación comunitarias.
El Festival internacional de Cine Opera Prima convocara a los realizadores chilenos y extranjeros que envíen sus largometrajes en las categorías de Documental o Ficción. Todas las películas son de tema libre y tienen como principal requisito que tengan subtítulos en castellano para obras habladas en otras lenguas o idiomas y que sean aptas para todo público.
La convocatoria está abierta para realizadores audiovisuales cuyas operas primas no hayan sido estrenadas en el circuito comercial y que hayan sido realizadas en los años 2014, 2015 y 2016.
Con la proyección de una selección especial de las óperas primas de directores reconocidos mundialmente, el público asistente al Cine Arte Alameda podrá ver los primeros filmes realizados por directores como por ejemplo: Zhang Yimou, François Truffaut, Orson Welles, Spike Jonze, Sergei M. Eisenstein, o Alejandro Amenábar entre otros.
El jurado del Festival internacional de Cine Opera Prima estará formado por profesionales del sector audiovisual y será nombrado por la organización de este certamen quienes elegirán 3 lugares para cada categoría de este festival.
Los primeros lugares de cada categoría, podrán acceder, entre otros premios, a exhibir su filme en la cartelera regular del Cine Arte Alameda.
La programación del certamen estará conformada por 2 secciones:
Competencia Oficial Festival internacional de Cine Opera Prima
Culto a las Óperas Primas de Grandes Directores
Las fechas del Festival son del 1 al 7 de junio de 2017
Las bases y convocatoria estarán a partir de diciembre en la página www.centroartealameda.cl y las plataformas para envío de películas serán
https://festhome.com/f/2552
El plazo para postular es hasta el 15 de marzo
Contacto: festivaloperaprima@gmail.com
Have your film screened in NEW YORK CITY in the heart of the theater district! Film shorts accepted from around the world!
Children KinoFest is an annual international festival of films aimed at children and teenagers, founded in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2017.
The festival takes place at the end of May, and is held in various Ukrainian cities.
FRAPA – The Porto Alegre Screenwriting Festival – is the largest event focused in scriptwriting for television and film in Latin America. The 8th FRAPA will be held at Cinemateca Capitólio, from the 14th to 17th of July, 2020. Our aim is to discuss and strengthen the significance of screenplay writing in times of rising in TV and film production in Brazil and in the whole continent.
Inspired by similar festivals in the United States and Europe, FRAPA has grown in size throughout the years, organizing debate sessions, competitions, workshops, screenings, master classes and business rounds. We intend to make FRAPA a reference for the thought of audiovisual writing in Latin America. By encouraging the exchange of experiences between screenwriters and other professionals in the audiovisual market, we create an opportunity for qualification and celebrate new partnerships.
FRAPA has received many renown professionals throughout its three editions. To name a few: James V. Hart (Dracula, Hook, Contact), Bráulio Mantovani (City of God e Elite Squad 1 e 2), Fernando Castets (Son of the Bride), Marcos Bernstein (Central Station), Pablo Stoll (25 Watts and Whisky), Luiz Bolognesi (Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury), Lisandro Alonso (Jauja) and many others.
FRAPA. Great stories to come.
The InFest Film Festival is a 2-day freak short film Festival which is held in Rubí, a city of asphalt, industry and smoke located in the Valles Occidental, a region located near Barcelona (Spain).
The InFest festival emerges as a firm and clear proposal: that Rubí be known as the Rubiwood of the Vallés district. During the last 9 years, InFest has organized the best possible short film experience: outdoors screenings, concerts, bar service and all kinds of activities related to cinema. What else can we ask for?
The InFest is devoted to showcase new short films (produced after year 2020) showing Sci-Fi, Fantastic, Freak and Horror elements. Short films cannot exceed 15 minutes length (credits excluded). Foreign films MUST be dubbed or subtitled in Spanish or Catalan, or the film will not be accepted.
In 2025, InFest will celebrate its 10th annual edition. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the InFest was moved to the amphitheater of The castle of Rubí ("El Castell"), a defensive construction from the 13th century, which can host public events with more than 2000 people. The amphitheater features seats, stage and bar! Jury Prize and Audience Award will receive 1000 and 250 euros, respectively.
Menorca Film Festival (#EsFestival) is celebrated annually at the core of the Balearic Islands. It is a unique and essential film festival bringing together the best national and international contemporary cinema.
We provide an unusual overview of national and international productions, offering our residents and visitors a unique opportunity to enjoy high quality cinematic experiences and proposals from around the world.
Puerto Madero IFF is an online annual competition based of the technical execution of films.
All submission are evaluated on each technical category: Script, Cinematography, Sound, Acting and Direction.
At the end of each year we announced the official selection films based on their creativity and technical execution.
Our festival is ONLINE only at the moment, we are working hard to make an annual event with public screening.
All the Official Selections and Winner are posted in our Social Network with a growing audience of more than 4600 followers and also on our web site.
All Official Selection will receive laurels.
The winner film will receive a technical reviews and laurels.
The main cultural event for films at Hidalgo Mexico: The encounter of national and international filmmakers.
Muestra de Cortometrajes Casa del Reloj is an event that takes place in "Hospedería Casa del Reloj" of Campos del Río (Murcia), Spain, on May 18th, 2018. Is admitted any genre of short film, with a maximum duration of 30 minutes.
The 4th COLOMBIAN QUEER FILM FESTIVAL is an annual non competitive LGBT film festival created by Fundación Cineteca Pública de Santander, to reward and celebrate each films of Colombian and international filmmakers, who make visible an aesthetic-political nature with discussions on gender, diversity of sexual orientation and identity along with films in commercial circuits and festivals, to generate intercultural encounters and consolidate organization processes and self-representation.
Gender doesn't define us. The sexuality-gender-body relationship surrounds us with inexhaustible questions and reflections. That’s why in this fourth edition we adopt the proposal to explore the different possibilities that this relationship offers in Cinema. #GENDERisOVER
The International Tour Film Fest 2025 the international competition this year is open to shorts, medium-length, Vertical Movies, AI Shorts and feature films; The festival is sponsored and organized by the Cultural CivitaFilm, with organizational headquarters in Via Togliatti No. 12 -00053- Civitavecchia (Rome, ITALY), in collaboration with: Mibact, City of Civitavecchia, Regione Lazio and Enel.
The Roca Film Festival is a cultural project nonprofit organized in the village of Roca (Guitiriz), which is projected films, documentaries and short films themed music, outdoors, and in order to energize the cultural life of our village and its surroundings.
BOSIFEST is the International Festival Of Documentary Film for and by persons with disabilities, the only one of this kind in the Southeast Europe, which will be organized this year for the sixteenth time in Serbia by the Hendi Center Koloseum. As in past fifteen years, this year on the big screen a great number of films will be shown both in competitive and non-competitive part. So far visitors of the BOSIFEST had an opportunity to watch 850 films that had life of the people with disabilities as their subject or were created by the disabled authors.
In addition to film screenings, BOSIFEST offers additional programs in the form of workshops, panel discussions and roundtables.
Digital Griffix film awards changed a bit over the years and is now an IMDB listed international online awards competition taking place each three months.
Each three months our jury determines the best films in each category. Note that we do NOT screen films online or onsite. The films are screened privately by the jury. Our goal is to help filmmakers take the next step in their career. Our jury is composed of award winning filmmakers who perfectly understand the hard work put in independent filmmaking !
With so few spots available at the bigger film festivals, independent filmmakers struggle to get noticed. After all the hard work of making a movie, there's nothing like seeing it on the big screen. Sunset Film Festival seeks hidden gems bigger fests often overlook. Sunset Film Festival programmers are looking for visionary filmmakers with fresh voices to share with an audience hungry for independent film.
From 2nd to 6th October 2018, the cultural association Etranger, is proud to present the third edition of Etranger Film Festival. The aim of the event is to exploit the culture of diversity, encouraging global integration in respect of ethnical, cultural, social, religious, sexual and gender peculiarities, by means of cinematic expression. The festival's main goal is that of encouraging emerging authors who manage to distinguish themselves formally and stylistically
