Small festival of independent short filmS. It is intended to publicize independent proposals, without large institutional grants or large producers behind them. Therefore, the idea and the illusion are prioritized over the big budgets or the professionalism of the team.
The 2nd Audiovisual Exhibition of Film and Education. Projecting Memory, Challenging Education. 50 Years After the Coup. To be held from September 2nd to 5th, 2026 in Luján, San Miguel, Moreno, San Fernando (Province of Buenos Aires) and virtually, organized by the Department of Education of the National University of Luján, calls for the submission of short films on education and memory, 50 years after the 1976 civic-military coup in Argentina.
ABOUT SHORTS WRAP
Shorts Wrap is a film festival that supports short film creators. We write film reviews and organize mentorship programs and masterclasses at various film festivals.
More than 10 film directors, screenwriters, and producers collaborate with the platform. Their work has premiered in the Main Short Film Competition or the La Cinef student short film section at the Cannes Film Festival.
We have written over 100 reviews, many of which are available on our website. We organized masterclasses at Prague Film Festival 2025 and Košice International Film Festival 2025.
You can find us on social media as @shorts_wrap, where we regularly share important information from the world of short films, including key deadlines for Oscar, BAFTA, and EFA qualifying festivals. Each month, the Shorts Wrap platform highlights one film of the month, which is promoted across its social media channels. We also publish predictions for short film categories during the Oscar and BAFTA awards season.
Our key partners include Edinburgh Short Film Festival, HollyShorts Comedy, TINFF – Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, Košice International Film Festival, and Prague Film Festival.
OUR COLLABORATOS
* Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schluter (Iceland) - Special Mention, Cannes Film Festival 2023
* Raymund Ribay Gutierrez (Philippines) - Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2016 & 2018; Venice Orizzonti Jury Prize 2019
* Helena Brooks (Australia) - Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2005
* Javier Palleiro (Uruguay) - Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2008
* Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine) - Official Selection, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2022; Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2023
* Erenik Beqiri (Albania) - Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2019; Venice Orizzonti Jury Prize 2023
* Lucía Florez (Peru) - Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2022
* Elżbieta Bęnkowska (Poland) - Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2013
* Dániel Erdélyi (Hungary) - Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2008
* Carla Melo Gampert (Colombia) - Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2023
* Karni Arieli & Saul Freed (United Kingdom) - Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2023
* Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic) - Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2020; Cannes Film Festival 2023; Academy Award nominee 2020 and member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
TEAM
Shorts Wrap was founded by Erik Jasaň, whose film qualified for the Academy Awards in the category Best Live Action Short Film and was selected at festivals such as Balinale, TIFF – Tirana International Film Festival, and HollyShorts Film Festival. The festival’s international ambassador is Patrik Krivanek, a BAFTA member.
Shorts Wrap is also part of the Košice International Film Festival, where selected films are presented in a special screening section dedicated to works that stand out for their experimental style and hybrid approaches to cinematic language.
The festival will take place at the iconic Kino Úsmev, the only continuously operating traditional cinema in the center of Košice, located at Kasárenské Square in the Staré Mesto district.
Podcultura Film Festival, now in its 7th edition, is a prominent event whose main objective is to promote world cinema and provide recognition to the best films and series. The festival awards certificates, offers press coverage, and promotes selected works across its various media channels.
With a vision of bringing the art of television and cinema to a wide audience, Podcultura Film Festival has become a prestigious platform for both national and international filmmakers. The festival recognizes excellence in the film industry and celebrates the creativity and talent of professional, independent, and emerging filmmakers.
The submission process to participate in the festival is simple and convenient, carried out through the Festhome website, where filmmakers can submit their works and compete for the opportunity to be recognized at this distinguished event.
Podcultura Film Festival is supported by its founder, Sandra Camillo, a prominent figure in the film world, and is produced by the @podcultura team, who are dedicated to organizing this important event for the film industry.
With its focus on promoting and celebrating global cinema, Podcultura Film Festival continues to strengthen its commitment to providing a platform for cinematic talent and offering audiences a wide range of meaningful, high-quality works.
For more information about Podcultura Film Festival, you can follow @podcultura on social media and visit the official website.
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Founder: @sandracamillo
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The FICINDIE Festival is based on publicizing the importance and relevance of independent and auteur cinema worldwide, and the importance and need to have the Canary Islands, and specifically the municipality of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, as a World Heritage Site and the Canary Islands as an relevant place to make independent Cinema, as a natural and ideal setting for this type of story, due to its characteristics and aesthetics, as well as the variety of professionals from the independent audiovisual sector who reside here. This Festival is made up of artists, producers and professionals from indie cinema, to give it value and show its importance.
The Shortfilm Festival "San Rafael in short" aims dissemination, disclosure and the screening of cinematographic works as well as the knowledge of these by the audience.
The works presented not opt to a prize or award, only the assessment of the audience.
The Ilerdenca session is part of the CurtÀneu exhibition, International Short Film Festival in the Valls d'Àneu, located in Pallars Sobirà in the heart of the Catalan Pyrenees. It is a specific session for productions made by filmmakers from the Lleida region or shot within this territory, with the aim of promoting filmmaker creativity and especially works considered "Opera Prima", in the lands of Ponent.
Most Festival is an annual event that aims to showcase the best international audiovisual work linked to viniculture, wine and cava. At the same time, the festival aims to make a toast for good cinema by projecting unreleased films by great authors.
Held in the Penedès, a zone very close to Barcelona (Spain) with a long winemaking tradition and several wine-related tourist attractions, the festival wants to promote viniculture and arts linked to wine and cava through audiovisual works and also explore all aspects of winemaking, especially values such as quality, diversity, wine tourism and ties to the region.
Welcome to the seventh edition of Diminuto, International Minimal Film Festival, a celebration of short-films.
Diminuto comes from the Latin: extremely small. The minimal cinema is that tiny cinema, but immensely deep; brief, but extensive in possibilities; tiny, but capable of creating endless universes. Because we know that every second is important, this is a celebration of small short films, small projects that leave us with enormous emotions and diverse sensations. That is why we say that: The minimal cinema is the maximum.
Categories in competition.
In all categories we receive: fiction, documentary, fiction, animation, experimental and hybrids.
Zero: Under 59 seconds
One: 1 minute
Fractal: Between 1 and 3 minutes
Silent: Short without dialogues, between 1 and 3minutes
Vertical: Vertical shorts, between 1 and 3minutes
Tik Shorts: Shorts made by Tik Tok, under 3 minutes
Spot: Spot, under 5 minutes
Cassette: Videoclip, between 1 and 5minutes
Wide: Shorts between 3 and 5 minutes
XL: Shorts between 5 and 8 minutes
Non-competitive category.
For this category we receive fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and hybrids.
Alternative silms: Shortsfilms under 3 minutes, made by authors from Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela.
In this edition, it is contemplated that the works selected in the teen competing categories will be screened, scheduled and viewed in three modalities:
1. Screening of the official selection in at least four cultural spaces located in Mexico City.
2. The Official Selection will be hosted on the Retina Latina streaming platform, and Wahu Streaming.
The winning works of each category in competition will be screened in a cultural venue in Bogota, Colombia. Place and date to be confirmed.
The works selected in the Alternative Films will be programmed streaming on the festival's social networks and on Wahu, streaming platform.
The origin of Diminuto is referred to the online workshops: Short films taught in the last year by Aarón Álvarez, the director of the festival. In them, the concept of brevity and the ideology that allows highlighting the creative processes of the authors are promoted. Some works that were part of the Official selection and the Alternative films of the first edition were produced in these workshops.
Complementary to the exhibitions, programming and visualizations, the workshops will be given: Short films, short formats (level 1 and 2), there will be talks and master classes with specialists in cinematography, these activities will be carried out online, they are planned for the attendees and the interested public, seeking to promote new authors. Special online activities will be held for the authors of the winning short films in each category and the honorable mentions.
Getafe en Corto is a short film festival organized by Onda Vecinal Getafe, in collaboration with the Getafe City Council.
It will be held from February 23 to 27, 2027, at 7:30 p.m., at Espacio Mercado de Getafe, Plaza de la Constitución, 5, 28901 Getafe, Madrid.
La Sección Western (Premio Sección Western/ Premio Forastero)sigue siendo una sección paralela del Certamen de cine Corto de Salas de los Infantes.
La idea de esta sección es homenajear al western y dar a conocer las nuevas tendencias de un género que a día de hoy sigue vivo y de actualidad.
The 15th edition 2026 of the Palena Film Festival invites you to submit your short film, animation or music video.
The Palena Film Festival is a four-day competition that will take place in Palena (CH) - Italy from 06th to 08th August 2026.
The prize-giving night will take place at the Aventino Theatre “Ettore Maria Margadonna” in Palena, on 08 August 2026 (21:30 local time).
Founded in 2008 by the cultural association of Palena (Associazione Culturale Palenese) and recognized as one of the most important short film festivals in the world, the Palena Film Festival (previously kwown as “Premio Cinematografico Palena” since its inception nine years ago) has received over 10500 short films, animations and music videos from more than 125 countries of all 5 continents through the years in the past nine editions.
The Palena Film Festival is open to any director and/or screenwriter together with their own, recently made productions of all kind of styles and subjects.
Each director can submit short films, animations or music videos (entry fee for each project).
The running time of the films must not exceed 20 minutes (opening and closing credits included).
The deadline for submitting entries is 30th June 2026 (23:59 local time).
The admission is free.
The Palena Film Festival celebrates two eminent representatives of the community of Palena: the Italian screenwriter Ettore Maria Margadonna (received Academy nomination and Nastro d’Argento Italian Film Award; worked in “Bread, Love and Dreams” of Luigi Comencini with Vittorio De Sica and Gina Lollobrigida; “Bread, Love and Jealousy” of Luigi Comencini with Vittorio De Sica and Gina Lollobrigida; “Scandal in Sorrento” of Dino Risi with Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren and Tina Pica; “Bread, Love and Andalusia” of Javier Setó with Vittorio De Sica, Carmen Sevilla and Vicente Parra; actor in “The White Sheik” of Federico Fellini with Alberto Sordi and Giulietta Masina) and the American singer and television personality Perry Como (Grammy Award, known for popular songs such as “Magic Moments”, “Papa loves mambo”, “Caterina”, “Here we come a-Caroling”, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas“; worked with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, also known for popular television shows such as “The Perry Como Show” and “The Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall).
Notable features of the festival include:
• over 10800 short films, animations and music videos received
• over 125 countries involved
• all 5 continents involved
• President of the jury is Arch. Marianna Como
• the jury, nominated by the cultural association of Palena, consists of engineers, artists and representatives of the world of culture, film, performing arts and music.
• past personalities/celebrities attending have included, among the directors: Giuseppe Marco Albano (Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello Italian Film Awards), Sydney Sibilia (Ciak D'oro and Italian Golden Globe Film Awards; worked in "Smetto quando voglio"), Alessia Scarso (worked in “Italo”), Pierluigi Ferrandini (worked with Sergio Rubini), Piero Messina (worked with Paolo Sorrentino and Juliette Binoche), Floria Sigismondi (MTV Video Music Awards, MTV European Awards and Juno awards; worked with Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Interpol, The White Stripes, David Bowie, Sigur Rós, Sheryl Crow, The Cure, Björk, Muse, Justin Timberlake and Marilyn Manson)
• among the actors: Raoul Bova (Nastro d'Argento and Italian Golden Globe Film Awards), Alessandro Haber (David di Donatello, Nastro d'Argento and Italian Golden Globe Film Awards), Claudia Pandolfi, Ricky Memphis, Jane Alexander, Alessandro Preziosi, Donatella Rettore, Nino Frassica, Giancarlo Magalli, Corrado Oddi, Enzo Salvi, Toni Bertorelli, Sergio Fiorentini, Gabriele Pignotta, Anna Orso, Lindsay Kemp, Michela Andreozzi, Elisabetta Ferracini, Alessandro Borghi, Giancarlo Ratti
• among the artists, musicians and bands in the music videos: Duran Duran, Royksopp, Gnars Barkley, Moby, Rob Thomas, Korn, Modest mouse, Nicky Romero with Nile Rodgers, Offspring, Samuel Beam (Iron and Wine), Subsonica, Nek, Fabio Concato, Dolcenera, Mango with Franco Battiato, Peppino Di Capri, Teatro degli orrori
• among the special guests who attended the previous editions: Randall Paul (Actor)(worked in "Eyes wide shut" of Stanley Kubrick with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Sydney Pollack; "Four Weddings and a funeral" of Mike Newell with Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell; “Mission Impossible" of Brian De Palma with Tom Cruise, Jon Voight and Jean Reno; "La Verità sta in cielo" of Roberto Faenza with Riccardo Scamarcio, Maya Sansa and Greta Scarano)Giulia Di Quilio (worked in "The great beauty" of Paolo Sorrentino) In 2018 he is one of the protagonists of the comedy It is not true but I believe it and also enters as guest in the soap opera" soap opera, playing the role of Clara Fiorito. Mauro John Capece (director), Corinna Coroneo (actress), Corrado Oddi (actor), Prof. Gian Piero Consoli (professor of History and Criticism of Cinema at the G. D'Annunzio University of Chieti - Italy), Maurizio Becker (editor in chef of musical magazines "Classic Rock" and “Vinile”) Sharon Salerni (photographer) Celeste Di Febo (Producer FASA), Mila Cantagallo (Journalist Rete 8) Dott.ss Paola Bellarosa (Abruzzo Region)
The Palena Film Festival enhances and promotes Palena, its territory and its cultural vocation which, during the years, has identified itself through this distinctive event.
Local history, heritage and artistic compositions all complement to make the right background to visual and musical means of expression.
The festival also presents a range of special events included film workshops, retrospectives and non-competitive feature films screening that are attended by the whole town, its city authorities, tourists and keen filmgoers.
The Palena Film Festival is promoted by the cultural association of Palena (Associazione Culturale Palenese), the Region of Abruzzo, the Municipality of Palena, Province of Chieti, Chamber of commerce of Chieti and Abruzzo Tourism Promotion.
The Future of Money AI Film Contest
Presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and MoneroKon
The Future of Money AI Film Contest, presented by Bitcoin FilmFest and MoneroKon is a public competition for short films made with AI tools.
Open to filmmakers, artists, animators, creative technologists, storytellers, and first-time makers from anywhere in the world.
AI should play a meaningful role in the creative process.
Fully generated or hybrid workflows are both welcome.
Films must be in English or subtitled in English.
Filmmakers keep all rights.
Selected films screen live at Bitcoin FilmFest in Warsaw (June 4–7, 2026) and appear in a public online gallery opening June 1, 2026.
Winners announced live June 7, 2026.
2,500,000 sats in prizes across tracks.
FICVI, International Short Film Festival of Vila-seca is a festival focused on the exhibition of short films.
It is organized by the Vila-seca Tourism Board and collaborates with the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España – Premios Goya as a Collaborating Contest in the Preselection of Short Films in the categories of Fiction and Animation for the Goya Awards.
The XI edition of the FICVI, Vila-seca International Short Film Festival will be held from October 17 to 25, 2026.
Regulations for Submission to the Competition Section of the 9th Jeonju International Short Film Festival
The Jeonju International Short Film Festival is an annual event hosted by CineSoop, a non-profit organization under the Cultural Contents Research Institute.
The 9th Jeonju International Short Film Festival will be organized by the Festival Executive Committee.
The festival aims to contribute to the diversity of film and culture by introducing outstanding short films from Korea and around the world to audiences.
The 9th edition of the Jeonju International Short Film Festival will be held in Jeonju from September 17 to September 21, 2026.
AMOR International LGBT+ Film Festival is the first international film festival in Santiago, Chile focused on sexual and gender diversity. It is an independent, competitive festival. The ninth edition of AMOR Festival will take place from November 24 to 29, 2026, in a hybrid format, featuring both digital and in-person screenings and activities across the country.
As in every edition, the festival is conceived as an inclusive space where the programme invites different sectors of society to engage with cinema centered on LGBT+ themes (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and broader sexual and gender diversities). It is a safe space for the community, where participants can engage, gain visibility, identify, and share their experiences.
AMOR Festival has positioned itself as an event of high artistic quality, showcasing some of the most compelling and distinctive national and international films that explore diversity, as well as award-winning titles from renowned international festivals. It is also a space where programming is structured around gender equality in both competitions and activities, giving visibility to women filmmakers.
Love transcends all sexualities, and through AMOR Festival we aim to contribute to inclusion, foster understanding, and celebrate the visibility of diverse identities through the art of cinema.
