Dear all, we have introduced new norms and regulations for the upcoming season, so please read all the sections carefully before proceeding for the submission.
We believe that film is not just entertainment; it is a powerful medium for artistic expression that challenges norms and inspires change. We are committed to highlighting films that push boundaries, utilizing innovative film language to create immersive experiences that resonate deeply with viewers.
Join us in this dynamic journey as we celebrate exceptional filmmakers who pour their heart and soul into their work, ensuring that every frame is a testament to their vision.
Be a part of our community, where every film is a conversation starter and where every voice matters. Together, let’s explore the transformative power of cinema and elevate the artistic narrative in our culture!
Join us in celebrating the art of filmmaking!
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES
The deadline for submitting exhibition material is Sunday, September 6, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.
Do you remember the first film you saw on the big screen as a child?
For thousands of Mexican girls and boys in vulnerable situations, this question has no answer. For this reason, and for them, the Churumbela Children's Film Festival was created, inviting all children of Mexico, Spanish speakers, and speakers of other languages to experience cinema in an inclusive, playful, and entertaining environment.
It brings cinema closer to all children, with a special focus on girls and boys in vulnerable situations, people with disabilities, and families from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Through accessible and inclusive programming, the festival promotes film as a tool for expression, identity, and cultural formation, ensuring that children from diverse realities have access to enriching and participatory cinematic experiences.
The 10th Churumbela Children's Film Festival takes place in person with film screenings and activities in Mexico City and in Yucatán, where we not only program film screenings but also offer workshops and talks led by industry professionals.
The 10th Churumbela Children's Film Festival promotes creativity, dialogue, the seventh art, and artistic expression as tools for social transformation, and all of its activities are offered free of charge.
In this effort, this year the festival calls on filmmakers, girls, boys, and young people from Mexico and around the world to take part in its tenth edition. This call unifies all of the festival's sections into a single open submission process, aimed at facilitating participation and expanding the festival's reach in a decade of cinema for children.
This edition of the festival will take place in Mexico City from Wednesday, November 18 to Sunday, November 22, 2026, and in Yucatán from Friday, December 4 to Sunday, December 6, 2026.
The festival is nonprofit, and its goal is to bring valuable stories to many girls, boys, and young people to serve as inspiration, a mirror, a source of empathy and awareness, and to build confidence in themselves.
To find out about the venue-by-venue program of shorts, films, activities, and workshops that will be offered in person and online, visit our official site: https://www.churumbelafest.com
CONTACT:
Email: festivalchurumbela@gmail.com
Phone: 5551586814
Website: www.churumbelafest.com
Do you want to participate? CALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN until October 12
Launch of parallel activities related to the competition, focusing on Youth Mental Health and the audiovisual world.
Here is the information about the upcoming activities.
20th Edition Ecozine Film Festival – International Socio-Environmental Film Festival of Zaragoza. April 2027. Organized by the Ecozine Cultural Association
ECOZINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – The International Socio-Environmental Film Festival, organized by the Ecozine Cultural Association, was founded in 2008 as a platform for social awareness and cultural promotion, advocating cinema as a tool for change.
Committed to showcasing and disseminating audiovisual productions with socio-environmental content.
Welcome to the 2nd annual AI Film Festival Japan (AIFJ 2026) — Shaping the Future of Sight and Sound through Human-AI Co-creation.
Taking place on November 3, 2026, in the heart of Tokyo at the Tokyo Innovation Base (TIB), AI Film Festival Japan (AIFJ) stands as Asia's largest and Japan's first international film festival dedicated exclusively to the creative collaboration between human storytellers and artificial intelligence.
Our mission is to establish Tokyo as a global hub where pioneering filmmakers, musicians, technologists, and visionary audiences converge to explore the expanding frontiers of AI-driven cinematic arts. We champion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), actively seeking to empower creators from all backgrounds while rigorously navigating the ethical landscapes of generative technologies.
From the creators of the Depth of Field International Film Festival, Docs Without Borders Film Festival, and the WRPN.tv Women’s International Film Festival (among a few other successful festivals) and, under the umbrella of the WRPN.tv Network we bring you the Hispanic International Film Festival (HIFF)
To ensure that each screenplay or film is read, studied, and rated individually,
HIFF has instituted a system in which entries do not compete against each other but are recognized for their merits.
They compete against themselves: each entry is judged on its merits and scored according to an inherent value system.
When it is your turn to be evaluated, the judges focus on your screenplay, not on all the other screenplays in the cue. This ensures that they won't have comparisons going on in their minds when they should focus entirely on you.
LAKE VIEW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is open to all Organization /Agency /Independent /Producer/Directors.
Aiming to inspire, motivate and award the truly innovative and artistic geniuses of our time. Every independent artist hopes to one day emerge from the underground scene and share their talents with the masses.
Hopefully, the showcase platform we provide will help facilitate that dream. We’re excited to display a wide range of works from all genres that will have industry pros, filmmakers and filmgoers buzzing.
Our Judges will award the best films for each category. Every selected film will be given the distinction of an Official Selection of the event in which Judges will award the best films of each category. All official Selected films will be screened in the event. The event will be placed in Ludhiana.
All Official Selections, Nominees, and Winners will be announced on our website and via social media.
Asociación Cinematográfica Ajayu (Ajayu Film Association) in co-production with Sapa Inti Studio invites national and international filmmakers to participate in the 10th Ajayu International Animation Festiva,l to be held from November 18 to 21, 2026, in Puno, Peru.
Now celebrating eleven years, Ajayu has become one of Peru’s leading festivals dedicated exclusively to animated cinema, as well as a vital space for the development, circulation and visibility of animated works from the southern Andean territories. Marking this milestone, the festival reaffirms its commitment to cultural decentralization by promoting a diverse, accessible, and identity-driven audiovisual industry.
This year’s central theme is “A Living Legacy: Stories of Our Grandparents”, a curatorial focus for part of the programming and will be highlighted in a special section in the general program. However, this theme is not a submission requirement, as the call welcomes animated works on any topic.
Ajayu continues to be a space for gathering, exhibition, and reflection on animation as an artistic language and a tool for social transformation. The selected works will be part of the festival’s official showcase and will actively contribute to a curatorial vision that celebrates eleven years of legacy.
In A Minute Film Festival focuses on showcasing one minute films. We are located in a suburb of New York City (NYC), for easy access by all. All Genres are accepted, but the time limit is set. 1-minute. At the festival we nurture networking and audience encouragement of the hard work everyone has put in.
The In A Minute Film Festival was created to offer filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their ability to tell concise short stories in a 1-minute film, with the audience and support of fellow filmmakers.
The live screenings of the top films are concluded with a Q&A, so filmmakers can take pride in their work and meet like-minded filmmakers. We also will have an online edition with films, to be able to reach an international audience.
1. ORGANISATION
The Salerno International Film Festival, with its registered office at Via Portacatena, 51 – 84121 Salerno (SA), tax code 80046160653, was founded in 1946 by CINECLUB SALERNO, and the Organising Committee (a non-profit organisation) is responsible for staging the annual editions.
2. OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSES
Since its inception, the Salerno Film Festival has distinguished itself as a competitive event for Italian and international productions, thereby fostering ongoing dialogue on developments in world cinema.
The Festival attributes an important social function to cinema, and its aim is to constantly adapt its approach in line with the evolution of technology and new ‘audiovisual’ media.
The Festival fulfils its original mission of promoting and fostering film literacy, in keeping with its tradition, with a particular focus on independent works and technical and artistic innovation.
3. PROGRAMME
The 80th edition of the Salerno International Film Festival will take place in the city of Salerno from 23 to 28 November 2026 at the Cine-Teatro Augusteo.
In addition to the competitions for the various film sections, the Festival also features film programmes, retrospectives and side events (exhibitions, conferences, round-table discussions, etc.) as a contribution to raising awareness of the history of Italian and international cinema.
On the closing night of 28 November 2026, prizes will be awarded to the winning films and honours bestowed upon prominent figures in the artistic, social and cultural spheres. The Awards Ceremony may also be split into two separate evenings: one dedicated to ‘Specialised Cinema’ (documentaries, cartoons, etc.) and another dedicated to feature-length films and various other awards.
The films will be screened at the Cine-Teatro Augusteo, with the schedule to be determined at the discretion of the Festival Management, subject to the date of submission and the standard film entry procedures.
Both the side events and the awards ceremony will be streamed on the Festival’s social media channels.
The theme of the festival will be “Transitions: Cinema that Regenerates the Future”.
The 2026 edition takes place against a global backdrop marked by profound transitions: climatic, energy-related, technological, social, economic and cultural. These transformations are changing the way communities inhabit their territories, create value, communicate, consume resources, perceive the future and construct collective imaginaries. In this context, cinema cannot merely record reality; it can become a language capable of anticipating, interpreting and questioning it, while making complex processes understandable and accessible to all. The ecological transition, in particular, does not concern only the environment in a technical sense, but implies a shift in the way we conceive of the relationship between humanity, technology, the economy and nature. For this reason, the Festival proposes a cultural interpretation of sustainability: not merely a reduction in environmental impact, but a transformation of our perspective, narratives and social practices. Cinema thus becomes a driver of awareness and a catalyst for new collective responsibilities. his topic will be considered a preference for selection purposes but is not binding.
3 bis. AUDIENCE IN THE THEATRE
Audiences attending screenings during the festival will have the opportunity to cast a rating vote for each film they watch (votes are cast on a scale of 1 to 5, with an arithmetic mean calculated). These votes will determine the winner of the Audience Award.
Por 13º año consecutivo, la Asociación de Personas con Discapacidad Verdiblanca y el Ayuntamiento de Almería lanzan el Festival Inclusivo de Cortometrajes Gallo Pedro, dedicado a obras audiovisuales creadas en torno a la inclusión de las capacidades o habilidades diferentes, con el objetivo principal de crear conciencia y sensibilizar a la población sobre las personas con diversidad funcional.
Underneath the Floorboards is based in London's buzzing artistic area of Hackney.
For our 16th Edition we will be continue our online event, which will be screened for a four weeks by our online platform: https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ which screens worldwide to maximises our international exposure. We got over ten thousand views last time around, and this time we're aiming for more.
Our showcase is open to artists and filmmakers from all around the world whose work has an experimental, non-linear narrative form. We want to see variety, whether it be experimental film, video art, visual art, digital art, experimental documentary or animation. We focus especially on avant-garde storytelling.
No bias, no prejudice, we don't care if you didn't study in the most prestigious art schools. We want to see unique work of an artistic nature, which creates its own language.
The Rock 'N Horror Film and Music Fest will be a unique combination of movies and music all in the genre of horror. There will be special appearances, meet and greets, concessions and much more.
The Visualízame festival began in 2011.
Organized by Fundación Inquietarte, the main objective of Visualízame is to serve as a platform for the dissemination of cinematographic works in which women participate in the direction, script and/or production.
Likewise, serve as a dissemination platform for short films that promote equality, in addition to respect for Human Rights. That is why we have two special awards for short films committed to the 2030 agenda of Sustainable Development Goals, and films whose plot addresses the topic of death and mourning.
The International Sea Film Festival invites national and international documentary and cinematic productions that explore the seas and oceans as their central narrative thread, approaching these themes from scientific, cultural, and/or artistic perspectives, to participate in the 2027 Edition of the Festival.
The Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Rivers State University, will host the inaugural Rivers State University Film Festival and Media Conference 2026, scheduled for November 17–18, 2026. This hybrid academic and industry event will bring together film and media scholars, practitioners, content creators, Nollywood stars, industry professionals, and emerging talents to examine how cinema advances and reshapes narratives about the Niger Delta region of Nigeria through the lens of Rivers State University.
The festival theme, "Framing the Delta: Beyond Crisis Narratives to Plural Realities", directly addresses how media representation shapes public perception. By centering film as a medium of socialization and critical discourse, the festival will redirect deficit-based narratives that have historically marginalized the Niger Delta, while also showcasing the region's cultural richness, economic potential, and diverse realities.
MONO NO AWARE is the annual exhibition of expanded cinema showcasing sculpture, installation, single-multiple channel durational projection, and performance art that incorporates the moving image on Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, or as an altered light projection. (No DV)
This year's festival and screening will be part of MONO NO AWARE's twentieth annual festival, which includes screenings of works curated from artists around the world.
Submission is sliding scale by donation ($0-20 - pay what you wish) which allows MONO NO AWARE to provide travel stipends and lodging to presenting artists.
The festival is organized by the non-profit cinema-arts organization MONO NO AWARE.
MONO NO AWARE offers year-round analog filmmaking workshops to the community teaching: Super 8mm, 16mm filmmaking, 2-D animation and 3-D puppet animation, Production for Independent Film, Hand-processing, Alternative-processing and Non-toxic-processing Techniques, Film Preservation, Handmade Emulsion, Advanced Super 16mm filmmaking, a range of special workshops led by visiting filmmakers and more. As an extension of the educational initiatives, the organization rents analogue filmmaking equipment, makes Steenbeck flat-bed editing and JK or Oxberry optical printing facilities available to the public and we also import/distribute Color and Black and White film stocks. Through our outreach program we present these same workshops at numerous universities, film festivals, and institutions throughout the US. This year we have presented workshops at The Japan Society (Manhattan, NY) The Oak Cliff Film Festival (Dallas, TX) The Queens Museum (Queens, NY) and this August we’ll travel to the Thomas Edison National Park to conduct a re-imagining kinetoscopes workshop inside the historic Black Maria (West Orange, NJ). MONO NO AWARE presents a monthly screening series entitled CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA with visiting filmmakers and most recently a co-presentation of a three-day retrospective ‘Super 8 Poetics’ the works of Stephanie Gray at The Anthology Film Archives. We’ve also started a reference library with a focus on cinema history, theory and technical filmmaking texts and publications.
To learn more about MONO NO AWARE visit: www.mononoawarefilm.com
World AI Cinema & Creativity Festival (WAICF) – India
Where Human Creativity and Artificial Intelligence Unite!
The World’s First Complete Cinema Ecosystem — From Traditional Cinema to AI Cinema
WAICF is a pioneering global festival celebrating the future of cinema where human creativity meets Artificial Intelligence. The festival showcases AI-generated films, AI-assisted storytelling, virtual production, animation, digital art and emerging cinematic technologies.
As part of the global ecosystem of JIFF, NDFF, JFM and Film Dais, WAICF connects filmmakers, AI creators, technology experts and innovators from around the world to explore the next generation of storytelling.
AI is not replacing creativity — it is expanding the imagination of cinema.
The PUCHO DORADO 2026 Festival is now accepting submissions for its international music video competition. We invite musicians, filmmakers, producers, record labels, and bands from around the world to submit their work by July 1, 2026, via the Festhome platform.
This international music video festival is a platform that celebrates the creation and distribution of music videos as an essential artistic expression within the musical universe. Our purpose is to promote the production of audiovisual works that fuse music and image with an authorial vision, fostering the talent of filmmakers, bands, and artists from diverse backgrounds.
Through an open call at both the local and international levels, PUCHO DORADO seeks to establish itself as a meeting place for new audiovisual narratives, where the music video is recognized as a creative piece with its own identity, capable of expanding the aesthetic, cultural, and technological boundaries of contemporary music.
Ricardo Mahnke H.
Audiovisual Communicator
Director, Pucho Dorado Festival
Film Education and Welfare Foundation Aurangabad Present, 1st Year, World Cinema International Film Festival 2025 Shirdi (M.H) INDIA uses media platform as a tool to connect audiences across cities, countries, and continents. With simultaneous screenings (OFFLINE FESTIVALS) and live Q&A’s, audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away. From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #WCIFF brings the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders.
We conduct our Film festival from 15 Sep - 24 May every season with grand arrangements with respected jury board from different continent to judge your films and make Q&A session. Take a step and drop your films on our platform and make your self best.
