The closing date for the festival registrations is extended to July 31, 2025, the official selection notifications will be sent on August 31, 2025, the list of finalist films will be published on September 15, 2025, The Sports Cinema Week will take place in Palermo from December 1 to 7, 2025.
Here are the prizes awarded in each edition. Four main categories: best Olympic film, best Paralympic film, best football film and best E-Sport film. The awarded sections are for best feature film, best short film, best documentary, best fiction, best direction, best actor, best sports protagonist, best editing, best screenplay, best sound, films are also awarded with special prizes: Distributor award, social award, jury award, Other Cinema award (non-sporting subject) and the “School & University” award. All the films that have been selected will receive an participation plaque during the final ceremony of the festival.
The Shorts Costa Rica International Film Festival is an initiative dedicated to promoting and celebrating the richness of short films, their diversity in themes, styles, and voices, and the outstanding national and international talent behind their creation.
Under the concept of “stories that connect us,” the festival embraces the power of cinema to bring people together, build bridges between different realities, and create shared experiences through stories that resonate with our emotions, contexts, and identities.
The festival aims to strengthen cinematic diversity through the exhibition, education, and promotion of Costa Rican talent, as well as through the participation of international works in the country, bringing audiences closer to the best of short-form cinema.
Our proposal offers both emerging and established creators the opportunity to generate impact within the film landscape, activating a presence in movie theaters and alternative venues across the seven provinces of Costa Rica, as well as in other cities around the world. We recognize the importance of short films as a cultural expression capable of reflecting who we are and how we relate to one another.
We invite you to be part of this platform that promotes and celebrates stories that, from diverse perspectives, connect us.
The Shorts Costa Rica International Film Festival will celebrate its fifth edition in 2027, continuing to establish itself as a platform for showcasing audiovisual talent, fostering connections among filmmakers, and expanding audience access to contemporary short films.
The festival will take place across five stages: CR Shorts Lab, Identidades Competition, Shorts Costa Rica Festival, Shorts Communities, and SHORTS+, offering a comprehensive experience that combines training, exhibition, competition, and distribution.
The 2027 edition will be held from April 14 to April 24, 2027.
Shorts Costa Rica is now open for submissions to its three official competitions: National, Central American, and International.
ELIGIBLE CATEGORIES
Fiction
Animation
Documentary
Music Video
Experimental
COMPETITIONS
NATIONAL COMPETITION
Eligible films must have a director or production originating from Costa Rica.
CENTRAL AMERICAN COMPETITION
Eligible films must have a director or production originating from a Central American country.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Open to short films from all countries worldwide, except Costa Rica and Central American countries.
SUBMISSION FEES
Submission fees vary depending on the category.
A fee waiver option is available for filmmakers facing financial limitations.
Founded within the cultural heartbeat of Jadavpur University, Chhayanat has evolved into India’s largest student-run film and theatre festival — a platform where art and rebellion, screen and
stage, intellect and emotion converge.
Over the years, it has hosted National Award–winning filmmakers, international screenings, industry panels, and global student collaborations — from France to South Korea, Brazil to Spain —
making it a truly cross-continental dialogue on storytelling and truth.
At its core, Chhayanat stands for freedom of expression and the power of collective imagination. It celebrates the voices that resist convention, amplify diversity, and reflect the changing faces of our society. Each frame, each performance, each conversation here becomes part of a larger movement — one that reminds us that stories can still move nations, minds, and markets alike.
In 2026, as Chhayanat enters a new chapter, we invite our partners and patrons to become part of this living, breathing cinematic revolution — where every reel, every note, every act becomes a
memory that outlives the screen.
Fourth 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.
Within the framework of the multiple activities presented and organized by Andares: Cinematographic Actions, we are pleased to present the fourth edition of our Contemporary Film Festival. Another short, careful and compact edition to celebrate cinephilia in the peruvian fall.
Any genre: Drama, Action, Comedy, Horror, Animation, Music Video, PSA, or other. Film must be no longer than 60 seconds, including credits.
After years of experience in the independent music industry, the European Indie Music Network is launching the Euro Indie Film Fest to discover the best talents from around the world and showcase their works during a special gala night on the Euro Indie Music Chart TV, a cable TV channel broadcasted worldwide! A special award will be given to the winner!
The winner could receive a special prize that includes international visibility for their film, with a broadcast on Euro Indie Music Chart TV, along with media coverage on platforms associated with the network. An official trophy and networking opportunities with professionals in the independent film and music industries.
The Butoni Fest is an international cultural festival that will be held in Valencia on September 12 to September 20, 2026.
The main objective of Butoni Fest is to be a festival for everyone, a festival of synergies, a meeting place where young filmmakers project their works together with established filmmakers from the industry and exchange concerns, where emerging musicians share their music supported by illustrations by young people. artists, where children who dream of being actors learn how to make a movie. A place where present and future go hand in hand. That's Butoni Fest.
In addition to providing an opportunity to different artists in other cultural branches: musicians, actors, writers, painters, sculptors... for the exhibition, recognition, dissemination and enhancement of their works.
The festival, founded in 2021, is directed by Javier Guillot and organized by Butoni Films, with the support of the IVC, Ajuntament de Manises, Diputació de València and a selected group of private sponsors.
The Soul Center of Art & History is partnering with AfriSoul Education Center to celebrate BIPOC women in film for International Women’s Day .
the Soul Center Film Fest was created to:
1. Showcase a diverse array of films that expand our understanding of the world, confront critical social justice issues—like racial equity, immigration, public safety, and environmental justice—and delve into the dynamics of human relationships.
2. Amplify the voices and stories of Black and Brown filmmakers, both emerging and established.
3. Encourage dialogue, collaboration, and action by connecting filmmakers, activists, and audiences.
4. Foster a space for critical reflection and empathy through the art of storytelling.
The FICAH MEXICO will be held annually and its main objectives are to promote and promote the production, completion and exhibition of independent cinematographic works.
There are four themes
1) works of a social nature or focused on the theme of the female condition
2) work on the theme of comedy in all its facets
3) "No Language" jobs
4) works on the environmental theme with shorts or documentaries
FICDH is a cultural project that invites people to discover how cinema can raise awareness and commitment to the defence of human rights. Founded in 1997, it is a space open to the exhibition and dissemination of recent audiovisual productions that promote inclusion, equality, multiculturalism and respect for diversity.
In 2025, the 21st FICDH focuses on the concept of BORDERS, conceived not only as geographical or political limits, but as spaces of struggle, resistance and redefinition of power relations. In this sense, the festival focuses on how borders, in their multiplicity and expansion, are spaces where the dynamics of domination, exploitation and dispossession are intensified, but also on how they are, at the same time, the territories where the resistance and struggles of peoples are born.
In 2018, Almagro International Film Festival -AIFF- born with the aim of establishing a useful platform for the promotion of the audiovisual industry: a space and time for dissemination and promotion of audiovisual content, transforming the city of Almagro into a meeting point for filmmakers, favoring the exchange of initiatives and promoting a market open to the development of new projects.
AIFF will provide a showcase for the most interesting short format projects done within the last recent months, constituting an standard of quality and high level of commitment to the society & culture of Audiovisual Arts. In addition, the Festival has opened an important window to formats created for online distribution, bringing support to one of the most active and emerging sectors of the audiovisual industry: Internet.
Bref International Short Film Festival is the first festival dedicated to short films in Valle d'Aosta regione (Italy). Organized by AIACE VDA, a cultural association founded in 2020 in Aosta and dedicated to cinema in every form that organizes several events, workshops, school labs all over the year.
The idea of the festival is not only to be a showcase for the best contemporary films and new authors, but has also many special programs in order to put the attention on stories that matters. Inclusivity, human and civil rights, transfeminism, antifascism and resistance are themes that will have a lot of space both in the competition and in the special programs.
We accept all kind of shorts: fiction, animation and documentaries.
The festival will have several programs but all films will compete for all awards (except for the SAVT award that is tied to the theme of labour rights)
Set in Valle d'Aosta, a region at the border with Switzerland and France, the festival have also a strong intention to create bridges with those countries in an Industry section and with a special francophone program.
The competition is addressed to filmmakers from all over the world who produce short films and documentaries.
Its purpose is to appraise short films and documentary-films whose goal is expressiveness and cultural disclosure starting a cinematographic event throughout Val d’Intelvi.
The Umbria Underground Film Festival is dedicated to independent and experimental cinema. We are looking for shortfilms out of the mainstream either in its style, genre or financing. The festival is organised by Ospizio Giovani Artisti of Rome (also organizer of the (S)exhibitions, on Festhome), in its space in Umbria. The intention is to offer the opportunity to visual artists and filmmakers to show their works in a context that stimulates reflection and free artistic expression. With a curated selection of films that challenge conventions and expectations, the festival celebrates the variety of cinematographic languages and welcomes proposals ranging from narratives through experimental films, to postporn cinema.
After the success of the previous editions, sealed by the presence of the art director Roberto Faenza, Giuseppe Piccioni, Marco Risi, Ettore Scola, Alessandro Haber, Alessandro D’Alatri, Giò Giò Franchini, Mimmo Calopresti, Daniele Luchetti , Marina Confalone, Cristina Donadio, Marco Mario de Notaris, Guido Lombardi, Nunzia Schiano, Nandp Paone, and Enzo Decaro as chairpersons of the jury, Ignazio Senatore, psychiatrist and film critic, will conduct the annual Festival of Short Films “I Corti sul lettino – Cinema e Psicoanalisi” aimed at Italian and foreign filmmakers. This festival is reported on IMDB.
Pimp My Movie is a festival aimed at young filmmakers (under 30) who want to improve their short films. The Cinémergence association supports the filmmakers by giving them access to more technical, logistical and financial resources. The aim is to help them improve their films through post-production aid.
The shortlisted films will be presented to a jury of industry professionals at our festival in spring 2026. The winners will receive one of our 3 prizes to support them in post-production and pimp their films!
The EITA! Ceará event invites artists to submit their works to be included in the exhibition that will take place at the Casa da Cultura de Sobral, with the aim of valuing contemporary artistic production and encouraging experimentation in different artistic languages. 50 artists will be selected, 30 from Ceará, 10 from other states and 10 international.
27th International Izmir Short Film Festival
Izmir International Short Film Festival has been holding its place as being one of the greatest events in the field of movie in Turkey and it will meet its audience for the 27th time this year. The festival is the first film festival that gave awards to the international short films in Turkey. It began to show its films in 2000 and since then it has been one of the most esteemed festivals between film lovers.
