V INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF FILM AND SCIENCE 2023
The International Exhibition of Cinema and Science is an event that will take place at Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo (Santander, Spain), between the 30th of November and the 1st of December, 2023. Is admitted any work of any genre related to science and scientific divulgation.
The objective of the exhibition is to promote the production and divulgation of works that foster the positive and progressive values of science and technology, and that serve as a consultation for any type of audience. The subject is totally free and can refer to own or other people's research, hot topics in the society or scientific community, personal scientific-technical passions, basic science concepts, scientific milestones, historical figures, the science of the future or past, etc.
The Watoto International Film Festival - Zanzibar is currently accepting applications from filmmakers from around the world according to different categories of competition.
The Watoto International Film Festival - Zanzibar (WIFF Zanzibar) is East Africa’s first and largest Children's film and arts festival, exhibiting the latest and best films and promoting film talents from across the African continent and beyond.
The 1st Edition of WIFF Zanzibar will take place on 11th -14th March 2021 in Zanzibar.
The theme of the festival is 'Chei'Chei - Hello' and will prioritize African cinema and cinema from the African diaspora and the rest of the world.
WIFF Zanzibar also opens the call to films from different regions around the world.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
From 23 June 2023 to 15 August 2023.
Do you remember the first film you saw on the big screen when you were a child?
For thousands of Mexican children in vulnerable situations this question has no answer. This is why the Churumbela Children's Film Festival was created, which invites all Mexican and Spanish-speaking children to experience cinema in an inclusive, completely playful and entertaining environment.
The 7th Churumbela Children's Film Festival will take place in a hybrid form; where some of the activities, workshops and talks with industry professionals will take place online and others in person with film screenings in Mexico City and Merida City, Yucatan. It will also continue with the Mission Mahoma programme, visiting Community and Cultural Centres in Mexico City. "Film and Dreams" is the thematic axis of this edition, which wishes to revalue the capacity of children to show how superior they are, with their desires, emotions and longings reflected in dreams.
The Churumbela Children's Film Festival will take place from Sunday 03 to Sunday 10 December 2023 in Mexico City and Yucatán, with the support of the General Directorate of Cultural Promotion and Festivals of the Ministry of Culture, as well as with the support of PROCINE, other entities and the Mexican private initiative.
The Churumbela Children's Film Festival promotes creativity, dialogue, the seventh art and artistic expression as tools for social transformation, and all activities are completely free of charge. In this edition we will have special selections of short films dubbed in Mayan and Mexican Sign Language (LSM).
Thanks to all the support we have received, it is possible to bring cinema to all children free of charge so that they can immerse themselves in the wonderful world of filmmaking.
To find out about the programme by venue of short films, films and workshops that can be seen in person and online, visit our official website: https://www.churumbelafest.com/
The Churumbela Children's Film Festival creates an inclusive environment, promotes dialogue, the seventh art and artistic expression as tools for social transformation and all activities are completely free of charge.
After the success of our first three editions, we are happy to announce the call for submissions to the 4th Edition of IMPACTE! Human Rights Film Festival of Catalonia, which will take place during the following dates:
April 9 to 28, 2024: Onsite and Online simultaneously
The Festival will be headquartered in Barcelona and will run simultaneously in other cities of Catalonia.
Call for submissions: from October 15th to December 31st, 2023.
Films
We are looking for stories that speak out against injustice and human rights violations around the world, films that combine rigorous investigation with narrative and visual treatment capable of impacting wide audiences. Both in fiction and documentary formats.
We are interested in criticism, but also in struggle, denunciation, defense of rights and, specifically, the proposal of alternatives: common aid, solidarity, cooperation.
The topics are free, but always within the scope of Human Rights -both traditional and of new generation-, Global Justice and the culture of Peace.
We are especially interested in receiving films addressed to children and young people.
Other topics will not be considered.
L’OEil d’Oodaaq is a French non-profit organisation that researches on video art, moving images and other forms of images in contemporary art.
L’OEil d’Oodaaq will be organising in 2023 its 12th Oodaaq Festival.
It will be held in May in Rennes.
It will be composed of: exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, moments of encounter.
The festival questions the place of images in today’s society and the way artists reflect on this issue. L’OEil d’Oodaaq is interested in all states of existence of images: construction, circulation, reception, as well as its recent mutations in the digital age. The organisation refers to the term of « nomadic and poetic images » in order to emphasise the moving, multiple and reflective nature of the images it is interested in.
For the 2023 edition, the festival will be mainly devoted to video art with a particular interest in works that question contemporary struggles (ecofeminism, feminism(s), social and ecological justice...). The videos, at the very heart of its programme, will be presented in screenings of programmes with several works, in exhibitions, autonomous installations, windows, and lounges.
Every year, in order to enrich its research and reflections, the Festival also gives carte blanche to local and international partners.
The selected videos can be showed in screenings, exhibitions, installations, etc.
This open call relates of course to our festival, but also to all the events that we organize or in which we participate throughout the year. Indeed, apart from its annual festival, L’Oeil d’Oodaaq implements and / or takes part in more than twenty events each year. By applying for this open call, you are submitting your work for Oodaaq Festival and / or for events offered by the association throughout the year, in Brittany, nationally and internationally. Each broadcast is done in agreement with the artists, is framed by a contract and is the subject of a remuneration (calculated for 1 broadcast or on a lump sum basis).
THE BUDDHA International Film Festival's main objective is to provide the opportunity for filmmakers from all over the world to excel, and to have the best work selected and showcased in a celebration of cinema, as well as to give filmmakers a platform to network amongst fellow professionals and cinematic artists.
Buddha Fest / TBIFF is looking forward to fostering these relationships and to helping extraordinary filmmakers get their projects seen by global audiences. TBIFF unites cinematic, cultural, educational more over Inspirational objectives by presenting its film discoveries.
The TBIFF is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative films while fostering the next generation of filmmakers. It is a strong advocate for social change, and encourages cultural diversity and understanding between nations. It strives to foster the movie art of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema and promoting meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.
The BUDDHA International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the spirit, passion, and skill of the best new filmmakers from around the world for audiences around the world.
We are also including and actively supporting not only the finest examples of classic moviemaking, but works that are experimental, breaking ground in new non-narrative forms and crossing over into the video arts. All films will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the best in each category will be chosen to screen at the festival. A jury of industry professionals will then view the finalists and choose the winning selections.
Filmmakers planning on attending should notify the film festival as soon as possible, so their names may be listed in the scheduled program at the venue where their film will be shown.
What could ever be more relaxing and delightful than spending a night on the beach… barefoot, wet hair,sun-kissed skin, summer wind, friends and lovers, drinks and a sky full of stars? We know. All these in the company of a series of great films! We offer you the wonderful experience of mixing the best of summer with cinema, aiming to make you FEEL. Literally.
The Black Sea Film Festival is an annual event which awards new inspiring, motivating talent. Designed to acknowledge the creative contributions of both young and elder artists, beginners or with a long way paved behind, the festival benefits the community socially, educationally and economically – wise.
The Festival will showcase innovative independent cinema from around the world, taking place along the Romanian Black Sea coast. The fourth edition will be held in Vama Veche, a charismatic place known for its young, vibrating and artistic spirit.
On our current edition we are accepting a variety of short films: narrative, animation, experimental, student, documentary, music video, human rights, and also feature films: narrative, documentary. The film production can be made within the last ten years.
Wonderful seaside movie nights are expecting you to enjoy the summer breeze and watch films under millions of stars!
It’s all about the feels. It’s all about the cineFEELS!
Themes: solidarity perspective, lifestyles, traditions, crafts, sustainable economy, respect for the environment and all aspects of the diversity of human culture, having a specific section that addresses issues of indigenous peoples of Siberia.
Bucharest Short Film Festival [BSFF]
Independent is the key word for Bucharest Short Film Festival [BSFF], as it is founded by independent film professionals and focuses on independent artists in cinema, from all over the world. Bucharest Short Film Festival aims at recognizing, showcasing and spreading-out the most professional, most innovative, and most interesting fresh short international films, while always prioritizing independent short films.
Bucharest Short Film Festival will showcase some of the finest short international film in Narrative, Animation, Student, Experimental, Documentary, Music Video and Human Rights. We take to heart the amount of work put into each film. Therefore, the festival rules ensure that each movie is reviewed at least two times and well-debated by our team. Some of the awarded films will also be screened at other international film festivals.
Independent artists and their short films will meet an effervescent, and a quite experienced with cinema and film festivals audience, ensuring quality networking, and engaging opportunities, while the selected films will be determined by a panel of industry experts.
Bucharest Short Film Festival is building a strong community of interest around international independent film professionals and film lovers, in the heart of one of the most interesting emergent capitals of arts and culture, a city that never sleeps – Bucharest.
The festival will run film screenings, preceded or followed by artists Q&A, or networking side events, and, surely, parties, that all take place in various conventional and unconventional stages around Bucharest, as in cinemas, open spaces, and even summer theatres. Bucharest, you’ve heard about it, eventually – a city for young people. Well known for different things – like “Old Paris” nickname, in its bourgeois times, before the communism decades, or the world’s biggest parliamentary building [and one of the largest buildings of any kind], from its communism times, new architecture, or the explosive contemporary art scene, and the also quite impressive underground arts and music and nightlife communities, in its current times.
The Santo Domingo Global Film Festival (FCGSD), an initiative of the Foundation Global Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE), is a unique international experience in the world of film festivals, with its nerve center in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo In this way, residents have the opportunity to not only watch great movies, but also be part of debates, through cinema, on social, political and economic issues.
In 2017, the FCGSD received accreditation from the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), as a COMPETITIVE FESTIVAL SPECIALIZED in First Films.
Cortometrajes y Largometrajes
realizados entre 2014 y 2023
La inscripción es GRATUITA
Todos los géneros pueden participar
No aceptamos inscripciones a través de distribuidoras. Solo aceptamos inscripciones de los autores de los films.
Cada filmmaker solo puede inscribir 1 película.
Deadline inscripción: 15 mayo del 2022
Los Ganadores se anunciarán durante el 31 de mayo del 2022
In this 2022, Bettiah International Film Festival (BIFF) made a plan to become a staple in the film fraternity’s annual calendar; housing an eclectic mix of films, stimulating interviews, outstanding film lectures series, workshops, live performances, all types of film exhibitions, master classes and the annual film festival.
Celebrating the very best in films with a link from pole of North to South, different continent and different language, culture, its vibrancy with many dimensions. The festival is an international showcase of the best of Debuts Director's Film, Short Film, Student Short Film, Documentaries, Animation Movies and beyond, especially we keep Special Category - Women Empowerment. Building bridges between film fans and the film fraternity as well as between filmmakers the world over.
We provides a platform for emerging talent – to commission emerging artists, showcase their work, to offer networking occasions with industry leaders and to provide inspiration and learning opportunities. Tongues on Fire is a not-for-profit organization with a goal to entertain, inform, educate and affect change in mood, emotion or thought to empower women.
The Festival will take place in Alicante from November 21 to 25, 2023.
Short film productions may participate exclusively with Smartphone.
The festival is free themed.
The Manuel Trujillo Duran Foundation and the Maracaibo Film Festival Foundation, together with other organizations and institutions of regional and national prestige, present the IX Edition of the Maracaibo Film Festival, which will take place from November 20 to 24, 2023, offering an excellent program of workshops, talks and exhibitions, both in person and virtually.
As in previous years, this 2023 we will open spaces for the creation, promotion and dissemination of new and unprecedented ways of telling, hearing and seeing local stories that are transformed and gain global importance, being vital and unique testimonies of people, individuals and communities.
In this IX edition we have the support of: CNAC, FEDA-LUZ, Fe y Alegría, Ciudad Guayana Children's Film Festival and Barquisimeto Film Festival.
The FICTU is a festival that focuses on short films and seeks to connect the audiovisual production of Boyacá with the current national and world cinema.
The festival has 3 competitions which are:
- Boyacá short films competition
- Colombian short films competition
- International short films competition
In addition, the FICTU has a couple of non-competitive sections:
- Colombian feature films showcase, focused on current national feature films.
- Producer retrospective, which focuses on a review of the work of a person or company that stands out for their contribution to audiovisual production in Colombia.
FEATURE FILMS
The Official Section. All feature films whose content might be considered as belonging to such the horror or fantastic genre can take part in the competition.
SHORT FILMS
Participation in the competition is on an international level.
Only one work per director will be accepted. Short films must not exceed 20 minutes in length (including credits).
All Short films must have been produced after January 1st 2023.
All films must be presented in their original language, with spanish subtitles. By "original language" is meant the language in which a film is or will be exhibited in its country of origin.
The Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival is a cinematographic event socially and
culturally minded and by choice, free for anyone to access. FICCI constantly reads the particular
circumstances of our country and our world to produce every year a world class version of our
festival, guided by the preservation of freedom and the amplification of the cultural conversation
through films and academic events that are relevant, humane, subtle, sophisticated and act as a vehicle to enhance human consciousness, expand democracy and help create free, progressive
and inclusive societies.
The Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival (FICCI) is the oldest and most permanent
forum in the Americas for Colombian, Ibero-American and world cinema. Being an active part of the world cinema map since 1960, in the 63rd edition, it will continue to provide spaces for memory, reflection, diverse voices, and as always, for the best
cinephilia.
The Festival values the creative freedom of the world’s filmmakers and has space for films of any
format, length, nationality, theme, genre or technique, that meet the highest standards of quality, take on narrative risks, and propose contents of great human and cinematic relevance, pertinence, and sustainability.
