SHORT/AGE - Shortfilms for a New Age is a Portuguese cinema project created to promote, consolidate and strength short cinema in its different dimensions: filmmaking, production, screenwriting, and the ideas they inspire.
This effort began in 2012 with the first edition of the festival.
Since then, our team has organised almost 250 film screenings, showcasing more than 900 short films from around the globe, cultivating a loyal audience in the small but charming city of Viseu, in the center of Portugal.
The physical presence of the directors it's what distinguishes these sessions, as well as the relevant and full-of-content Q&A.
We have already welcomed more than 500 guests from the film crews.
Every year we honor the Best Portuguese Film and the Best International Film screened at our competition sessions, which take place throughout the year.
In 2020, responding to the growing audience demand and the need to broaden our scope, we started the promotion of screenwriting with 'Novos Argumentos' which invited 24 renowned authors to write and publish their scripts, accompanied by original illustrations and soundtracks.
Recently, we opened the 2026 edition and expect to receive more than 100 submissions from screenwriters nationwide.
This unparalleled initiative's results are published both online and in physical book form, providing a platform for fresh and diverse voices in Portuguese cinema.
Beyond all this projects, we maintain a comprehensive directory of over 200 Portuguese short films available for free viewing at shortfilmsforanewage.com
Our podcast, Conversa Curta, regularly produces episodes that offer continuous and enriching access to the thoughts and visions of guest filmmakers.
Each phase of our journey has built upon the last, culminating in a vibrant, multifaceted festival that celebrates the richness of short cinema.
We invite filmmakers and producers worldwide to join us, share their stories, and become part of our thriving cinematic community.
8th Prize for short fiction films in Catalan. Only works in their original Catalan-language version will be accepted. Films without dialogue are not eligible.
FICAS is now FICSA.
In 2026, the Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental e Sustentabilidade presents a renewed identity and becomes FICSA – Festival Internacional de Cinema, Sustentabilidade e Ambiente
This is a rebranding of the existing festival, preserving its history, mission and commitment to environmental cinema while creating a broader programme structure.
Specific objectives:
To screen and award fiction, animation or documentary films by filmmakers that promote debate on the preservation of regional, national and international forests or other relevant themes: climate change, biodiversity, conservation, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, among others.
Films that promote environmental awareness and inspire positive change.
Catergories:
1-Short fiction film
2-Documentary short film
3-Animated Short Film
4-Sustainable Short Film
Lens Dans is a Video Dance Festival dedicated to promoting, cultivating, and celebrating video dance projects created by artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds.
Lens Dans brings together screenings of selected video dance projects from our open call, live performances, workshops, conferences, open mics… AND MUCH MORE!
The first edition took place at La Vallée in Brussels on 11, 12, and 13 June 2021, becoming one of the first cultural events to take place after lockdown. Since then, Lens Dans has continued to grow, with three more editions held across Brussels and Barcelona!
For our 4th edition we are coming back to Barcelona, Spain from November 12-14th, 2026 and Brussels, Belgium on the 28th of November!
This year, we are launching OPEN CALLS for VIDEO DANCE and LIVE PERFORMANCE projects. The festival will feature selected film screenings, live performances, music, creative exchanges, conferences, and more.
APPLY and COME JOIN US for Lens Dans 2026!
For our guidelines and more information about how to register and submit your video dance projects, please visit our website: www.lensdansfest.com
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2027 CALL FOR ENTRIES
My First Festival #12 - Solar Edition
A film festival to imagine sustainable futures from childhood
My First Festival (MPF) is the first international film, audiovisual, and new technologies festival for children and youth in Peru. We sow a love of cinema as a tool for social transformation through audiovisual and media literacy. Working with, by, and for children, as agents of change, allows us, through a coordinating role, to contribute to the development of society.
Our cross-cutting theme is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), using a community-based approach to build a sustainable present and future with a positive social impact.
MPF invites you to participate in its 11th edition, which will take place throughout 2026 in different regions of Peru. Building on our first event in Lima, which will take place from February 21 to 28, 2026, both in person and virtually in public spaces and cultural centers, with an innovative proposal that includes 100% solar-powered film screenings.
The festival will reach urban, rural, and hard-to-reach areas of Peru, with open, free screenings and the active participation of children, adolescents, teachers, families, and indigenous communities.
The theme is open, and films from around the world are accepted on our platforms.
24·90 FC is a film festival devoted to football, in Medellín, Colombia. Cinema for football people, football for cinema people.
Four days in a city where football plays at home on every corner, devoted to football cinema from around the world. One condition holds the programme together: football must be present, whether as the core of the story, as its trigger, or as the setting where it unfolds. Format, running time and cinematic language are free.
Organised by Corporación Cinéfagos, 15 years running film festivals in Antioquia.
National short films up to 15 minutes. Free entry for works from Argentina (Check IG: @fic_ve).
International short films up to 15 minutes.
National feature films over 31 minutes long. (Check Instagram: @fic_ve)
International feature films over 31 minutes long.
ECOS: dedicated to environmental topics.
The 4th International Film Festival on Aging: Glimpses Through Time is a university initiative organized by the Interdisciplinary Center for Aging (CIEn) at the University of the Republic, with support from the Center for Critical Studies in Contemporary Culture (CECRITICC) at the Autonomous University of Querétaro, Mexico. It involves collaboration with various universities in the region and government agencies related to older adults from different countries.
The Festival aims to draw attention to themes related to aging and old age as part of our vital and socio-historical time. We start from a paradigm that considers that the images and representations of older adults—including those in audiovisual productions—affect how we live in relation to aging, how we perceive ourselves as aging individuals, and how we interact with older adults. We believe that the construction of collective spaces to think about aging process can contribute to build non-stigmatized social representations.
We invite you to make or present short films that, through their narratives, characters, and/or language, contribute to exploring, understanding, and/or portraying aspects of aging on individuals, populations, institutions, etc., and/or intergenerational relationships.
The festival takes place in person simultaneously at various locations in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain and Mexico, as well as online via YouTube.
Five edition of the Rural and Mountain Festival of Cervera de Pisuerga.
This festival was born out of the need to give visibility to rural and mountain works. To value the natural environment from a rural, ethnographic, sporting and heritage value point of view.
Call for Fiction and Documentary Short Films for the 13th Edition of the Cap Spartel Film Festival
This Year’s Theme: Cinema: A Mirror of the World
Cinema acts as a powerful mirror of humanity, reflecting social changes, fears, hopes, and the contradictions of our societies throughout the ages. Much more than mere entertainment, it shapes our perception of the world, documents history, and explores the human condition, capturing the complexity of reality.
Edition 1 — Gran Canaria, Spain · March 17–21, 2027
NO FUTURE Film Festival celebrates bold independent cinema capable of moving audiences and generating meaningful conversations.
NO FUTURE Film Festival is an international touring short film festival that celebrates independent cinema as a force for dialogue, awareness and social change.
The first edition (2027) will take place across four European cities:
• Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
• San Marino
• Pontedera, Tuscany (Italy)
• Málaga (Spain) – Grand Final
Each city hosts its own Official Selection, International Jury and Awards Ceremony. The winners of the first three editions automatically become part of the Grand Final in Málaga.
We welcome short films of every genre and style. What matters most is the ability to tell authentic stories with artistic quality and emotional impact.
NO FUTURE is more than a film festival. It is a cultural project created by Asociación Proyecto Habla to promote cinema as a tool against bullying, violence and social exclusion.
A significant percentage of the festival's net proceeds supports Fundación Olivares (Málaga), helping children affected by cancer and their families.
If you believe cinema can leave a lasting impact beyond the screen, we would be honoured to discover your work.
Toronto Shorts International Film Festival is the largest short film festival in Canada.
Toronto Shorts is a non-profit organization that provides a showcase for the best short films from filmmakers around the world.
We believe that short-form cinema and its creators should have their own premier film festival in Toronto deserving similar recognition given to the feature film.
Toronto Shorts is where films from all genres intersect. The heart of the festival is the quality and scope of extraordinary film programming which consists of a wide spectrum of categories from high to low budget films under 45 minutes.
Now in our 15th year, the festival has become a career stepping stone, establishing a tradition of discovering and promoting filmmakers who have gone on to Academy Awards Nominees, including :
2021 Oscar Nominee 'The Present' by Farah Nabulsi
2019 Oscar Nominee ‘Weekends’ by Trevor Jimenez
2018 Oscar Nominees 'Watu Wote - All of Us' (Germany) and 'The Eleven O'Clock' (Australia)
Toronto stands as the largest media market in Canada, it boasts the world-renowned Royal Ontario Museum, the massive Art Gallery of Ontario, the Soulpepper Theatre Company, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Toronto Shorts international Film Festival.
We showcase the best short films and its filmmakers from around the world.
The Amiens Festival of Film on Affective and Sexual Education (FFEVAS), organized by La Fabrique d’Images, will hold its second edition from May 10 to 14, 2027.
As the first festival in France dedicated to affective and sexual education through cinema, it presents an international selection of short films (fiction, documentary, animation) addressing themes such as consent, gender equality, sexual and gender diversity, sexual health, STI prevention, and the fight against gender-based and sexual violence.
Selected films will be screened before professional juries as well as youth juries. Several awards will be presented.
HARD:LINE International Film Festival aims to present the various faces of extreme cinema.
The question as to what is meant by the term “extreme” can be understood by looking at the content of our wide selection of fantastic films. “Extreme” is often defined by an explicit splatter aesthetic but it can also be represented by unusual story-telling methods or an exotic visual language. Thus, we are meticulously selecting such examples that could be important in the future of the genre. We have not set any boundaries in our search and whether a film is a pearl of the independent scene, fun splatter or no-brainer, H:LIFF loves special films!
HARD:LINE International Film Festival is no warehouse festival where the priority is to show as many films as possible but rather concentrates on presenting a few glowing examples of everything that extreme film can be.
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A FILMMAKER!
You and your work are the reasons why we do exist!
Now in its fifteenth year, the Northeast Film Festival showcases top independent films from filmmakers, as well as new talent. The diverse array of films, selected by a committee, includes features and shorts from all genres, as well as documentaries and screenplays. The festival is hosted in Teaneck New Jersey at the historic Teaneck Cinemas; with planned parties to kick off the festival in style and spirit. In addition, we offer an atmosphere for the film enthusiast to interact with filmmakers as well as filmmakers being able to interact and network with each other and industry professionals.
The festival includes after parties, to offer opportunities for interacting and networking with other filmmakers, actors, and film festival goers. In past years, Harry Lennix, Lloyd Kaufman, Danny Roebuck, Matthew Modine, Vinnie Pastore, David Harris, Robert Clohessy, Brian O'Halloran, Fatima Ptacek, Gianni Russo, Duane Whitaker, Jefferson White, producers from NBC, among many others attended the festival's after parties (and festival).
KYIV INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (KISFF) is largest short film festival in Ukraine.
Our festival features a diverse range of short films created by emerging and accomplished filmmakers, including film school students and independent creators from all corners of the world. Our goal is to showcase the most stirring, inventive and distinctive films while promoting Ukrainian cinema, encouraging communication and exchange of experiences between Ukrainian and international filmmakers and artists, and providing a safe and welcoming space for our audience.
The Fútbol Cine Festival is a community gathering point created in February 2022 in the Antofagasta Region. Its mission is to promote unity between two of the most enriching activities for humankind:
SPORTS and CULTURE.
The International Film and Sexual Diversity Festival CINHOMO accepts LGBTIAQ-themed films of all nationalities, which will be eligible in the various sections of the festival: Fiction Feature Films, Fiction Short Films, Documentary Feature Films and Documentary Short Films.
The works must not have been exhibited in commercial theaters, broadcast on TV or be available to the public on the Internet or any other platform in Spanish territory prior to the celebration of the festival and must be copyrighted after 01/01/2024. Feature films must be unpublished in the Community of Castilla y León; in the case of short films it will not be exclusive but it will be positively valued. The organization reserves the right to include in the out-of-competition program films that do not meet these conditions.
Disturbia: Beyond Realities
Step into the Unknown. Break the Rules of Reality.
Are you a creator who refuses to be bound by the laws of physics, time, or ordinary human experience? Do you build worlds from ink, pixels, and pure imagination? Welcome to DISTURBIA: Beyond Realities, the ultimate playground for the next generation of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Comic-inspired cinema.
Disturbia is not just another film festival; it is a high-energy launchpad for bold visual storytellers. We are looking for commercial-grade thrillers, mind-bending cyberpunk, epic high-fantasy, and visual narratives heavily influenced by comic book culture and graphic novels. If your film challenges the status quo, features cutting-edge visuals, or grips audiences with untamed imagination, our screen belongs to you!
We bridge the gap between independent visionaries and mainstream, hype-fueled audiences of young adults and genre enthusiasts. Show us what lies Beyond Realities.
Why Submit to Disturbia?
Massive Cult and Exposure: Screen your film before an energetic, packed audience of young adults, pop-culture fans, and professionals scouting for the next big thing.
The Ultimate Award: Winners will take home The Disturbia Prism, The Vortex, or The Portal.
A Marketing Machine: Selected filmmakers get heavy promotion across our digital networks, including trailer features, director spotlights, and social media hype tailored to maximize your film’s footprint.
