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.
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
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.
The Villammare Festival Film & Friends is organized by the Villammare Film Festival-Golfo di Policastro Association. The competition between short films was the beginning and is still the backbone of the Villammare Festival. The attention to the short genre wants to be an opportunity to give space to experimental cinema, to young talents, and to the evolution of cinematographic languages. The Villammare Festival Film & Friends wants to be an opportunity for international filmmakers and an occasion to contribute to the cultural liveliness and the promotion of the territory south of Salerno in a wider context.
It includes a competition between short films, one between feature films, meetings with personalities from the world of culture and cinema, attention to soundtracks and environmental themes, debates, in-depth analysis, shows and tasting moments after watching the film.
TRAVEL FILM International Film Festival collects the best travel, outdoor, nature and adventure films from around the world, which were created both by professionals and by enthusiasts, and helps to get them across to the Russian speaking audience.
All best films will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on February 20 - 21, 2027 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best travel film". As well as for the prizes in the standalone nominations.
Founded in 1973, Curtas Festival do Imaxinario is the oldest festival and the largest event dedicated to fantasy, science fiction and horror cinema in Galicia. Located in Vilagarcía de Arousa, the festival is a must-see for enjoying the premieres of the best genre feature and short films, as well as a wide range of parallel activities that include exhibitions, meetings, presentations, workshops, concerts, international guests, and much more. All artistic expressions of the fantasy genre converge in the International Fantastic Film Festival of Galicia. Recognized as one of the best genre festivals on Earth by Dread Central, the world’s leading horror media outlet with millions of monthly readers. And proud member of the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF) presents the Melies d'Argent award for best European Fantastic short film.
The festival aims to promote cinematographic culture through short films.
The Friends of Ribadesella Cultural Association was born in 1986, with the vocation of disseminating culture among the citizens of Ribadesella and its council, its statutory objectives being very broad (giving conferences, organizing exhibitions, publishing books, protecting cultural and historical heritage , artistic, ethnographic, natural or scientific of the town; also activities of a sporting or social nature) currently having about a thousand members, who support our cultural trajectory.
13th edition of the RIURAU FILM FESTIVAL
Requirements:
-Production date after 01/01/2023.
-Duration of short films: less than 20 minutes.
-Only fiction short films.
-Subtitles in English, Spanish and Valencian according to rules.
Categories:
-Dance Film (multiperspective+fragmentation+continuity)
-General Fiction (free themed)
-Social Diversity Fiction (cultural, functional, gender, sexual, age...)
-Sustainability Fiction (environmental, economic, socio-cultural)
-Ficció in Valencià (free themed)
-Fiction El Nostre Cinema (linked to La Marina Alta region in Alicante)
€4,100 in prizes: 8 monetary rewarded prizes and statuette + 1 specific prize for Short Film directed by a woman + 7 Diplomas
This is an excerpt from the bases. Consult the complete rules in the call and also on the website: riuraufilmfestival.com
Feelmotion UDIT International Short Film Festival is a shortfilm festival for university students organized by UDIT University in Madrid.
Originally conceived as a film festival for university students, the festival celebrates its first edition in 2012, born from the initiative of the students and Raúl San Julián, director of the festival and professor at UDIT. Since then the festival has celebrated a total of twelve editions, with more than 3000 participating short films from over 50 universities in 33 countries around the world and a total of more than 5000 university students who have participated or collaborated with the festival.
Thanks to the support of our partners, our finalists have been able to use Feelmotion to give themselves momentum and reach such important festivals as the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the New York International Independent Film & Video Fest or the 3D Wire.
Among the outstanding participants are our alumni Diego Porral, nominated for the Goya Award for Best Animated Short Film 2018 for "Un día en el parque" which was selected as Best Feelmotion Short Film 2017 and currently has more than 40 awards and 200 nominations; and José Herrera, winner of the Goya Award for Best Animated Short Film 2019 for "Cazatalentos".
In each of its editions, Feelmotion has relied on a large team of professionals and volunteers from the student body to organize both the contest and its corresponding awards gala and the numerous thematic events of each edition. In total, more than 200 students from different UDIT grades have collaborated with their efforts to make Feelmotion happen.
Feelmotion has also counted on great professionals from the film industry to be part of the juries that each year choose the winners. Professionals such as directors and screenwriters Juan Carlos Rulfo, Borja Cobeaga, Paco Martínez Velasco, Hector Hercé, María Pérez Sanz or Alex Rodrigo; producers and academics Marichu Corugedo, Txepe Lara, José Nolla; actors Tristan Ulloa, Natalie Poza, Olivia Molina, Ana Arias or Jon Viar among others; and a long list of journalists, technicians, academics, etc.
THE FESTIVAL: MOVEMENT OF CULTURE
The Festival was born with a very specific mission: it aims to stimulate public attention towards an open and wide representative space, such as the rural environment, makes its outdoor projections, open to all, the best exponent. Youth and adults, generations separated by years and experiences, gather around a screen, which is the focus of the light of a past and a future: culture is timeless, culture unites, and film language will be the link common to temper emotions and feelings, to treasure memories, to provoke lively gatherings.
In this way, all attendees of the event can enjoy a heterogeneous and dynamic speech. Through this cultural impulse, the different currents of creativity allow viewers to move and explore new and old codes in a public space, creating community.
EMERGING SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL (FECICAM), oriented towards new producers, supports independent films and fosters alternate author’s films, thus contributing to development of cinematography. Among its basic objectives is spreading and promoting makers in Castilla-la Mancha, Spain, and Europe.
The first and the most important Freak Festival in Spain. We also accept horror and fantastic film. With an audience of 2.000 people every day from monday to friday and we would love to screen your shortfilms.
Inclús is a festival of audiovisual productions, both documentary and fiction, focused on the theme of disabilities. It is an initiative of Associació Inclús, organized by the audiovisual company Fish Muvi.
The aim of Festival Inclús is to give visibility to audiovisual works about disability with a different point of view.
The 14th edition of Inclús, Barcelona International Disability Film Festival will be held from November 21 to December 1, 2026, in Barcelona. The audiovisual material of the finalists will be screened during this festival, according to each different category. There will be one award for the best submittals of each category.
The 6th Quillota International Film Festival is a film festival that, in its sixth edition, includes three short film competitions. Through film, the festival carries out training, production, and distribution activities in the city and province of Quillota throughout 2025 (April 20 to December 30). Its objective is to professionally promote high-quality cinematic content in various public spaces, cinemas, cultural centers, and schools in the province of Quillota, Valparaíso Region, Chile. This year, the festival again includes the final screening at the Leopoldo Silva Cultural Center in the city, screenings at the Health and Culture Promotion Center, and outdoor screenings and exhibitions in public spaces throughout the city of Quillota.
Whiphay! Itinerant Animated Film School is one of the projects that has won the National Competition for Cultural Management Projects for Audiovisual 2022, of the Directorate of Audiovisual, Phonography and New Media, of the Ministry of Culture. Whiphay is a project of the Ajayu Film Association and has the objective of generating a meaningful experience, enhancing creative skills, cultural knowledge and awareness of the environment in childhood with an intercultural and community focus. It is the first edition of this project and offers training workshops by specialists in the area of animated cinema, drawing, interculturality, pedagogy, cultural management, native music, script and sound for facilitators from different parts of Peru, who will complete their training process and, After an evaluation, they will be able to accompany boys and girls from the department of Puno and Arequipa in the making of animated film projects. Wiphay will also hold film screenings in different parts of the country.
O VIII Curta Lages Festival Internacional de Cinema promove uma ampla programação, plural e de dimensão internacional, realizando mostras competitivas e não competitivas de filmes de curta e longa-metragem de todos os formatos e gêneros.
8 JANUARY - 12 JANUARY 2027, JAIPUR, INDIA
The 2026 edition of the Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) was organized for the first time in Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
Now, the 18th edition of the festival will be held in Jaipur.
The Delhi edition was more successful than expected, with thousands of filmmakers participating and making it a remarkable cinematic celebration.
History
The Cinematic Olympics - Unborn
JIFF is the World's Biggest Competitive Film Festival (in fiction films).
The Jaipur International Film Festival, the world's fastest growing film festival, is held every year in January in Jaipur.
Launched in January 2009, Jaipur International Film Festival -JIFF became expanding establishing name in organizing world film festival every year in Rajasthan.
The purpose of this film festival is to promote new movie makers, exchange of knowledge, information, ideas & culture between India & other nations in context of their social and cultural ethos. JIFF also promotes friendship and co-operation among people of the world through the medium of films & documentaries.
Though the film festivals have became a regular affair in most countries yet most of them cater only to selected audience as well as entertain the commercially successful film makers and related personalities. However, JIFF intends to organize a festival that connects the film fans & movie goers with the world, especially the serious filmmakers & their associates so as to bring about greater understanding of the art of film making.
The Eighteenth JIFF 2026 received 3096 films from 90+ countries and 508 films nominated.)
The Seventeenth JIFF 2025 received 2408 films from 88+ countries and 241 films nominated for screening.
The Sixteenth JIFF 2024 received 2971 films from 82+ countries and 329 films nominated for screening.
The Fifteenth JIFF 2023 received 2205 films from 63+ countries and 282 films nominated for screening.
The Fourteenth JIFF 2022 received 2100 films from 52+ countries and 279 films nominated for screening. (COVID 19 - Hybrid Edition)The Fourteen JIFF 2022 received 2100 films from 52+ countries and 279 films nominated for screening. (COVID 19 - Hybrid Edition)
The Thirteenth JIFF 2021 received 2121 films from 85+ countries and 266 films nominated for screening. (COVID 19 - Online Edition)
The Twelfth JIFF 2020 has received 2411 films from 100+ countries and 240 films nominated in competition for screening.
The Eleventh Aryan JIFF 2019 has received 2221 films from 103 countries and 232 films nominated for screening.
The Tenth JIFF 2018 has received 2019 films from 100+ countries and 136 films nominated for screening.
The Ninth JIFF 2017 has received 2004 films from 100+ countries.
The Eighth JIFF 2016 has received 2176 films from 100+ countries.
The Seventh JIFF 2015 has received 1807 films from 100+ countries.
The Sixth JIFF 2014 has received 1587 films from 90+ countries.
The Fifth JIFF 2013 has received 1397 films from 90 countries.
The Fourth JIFF 2012 has received 902 films from 70 countries.
18000 film lovers and film makers visited the festival.
The third JIFF 2011 was held with overwhelming response & it was a feather in crown.
The second JIFF 2010 was held with overwhelming response & it was a feather in crown.
The first JIFF 2009 was a first milestone towards success.
We are a new horror film festival situated in the heart of Derbyshire, UK in the historic town of Wirksworth. Selected films will be shown at one of three venues situated in the town. All are unique, ranging from a large barn space at the back of a pub to a smaller gallery space.
Wirksworth is a thriving arts town and welcomes horror filmmakers to submit their work from round the world.
Selected Films will be screened over a two day period (Weekend) in July 2024
Our Judges are all filmmakers who have a avid interest in the horror genre.
The National and International Film Festival of Los Llanos, reaches its 12th edition after having started in 2011, today it continues with its main objective, to seek and strengthen spaces for the diffusion and Venezuelan cinematographic training, incorporating for the first time in this denomination to the set of Latin American and Ibero-American cinematographies.
Deadline: April 19, 2024
