The ZAFIC Festival 2025 call will have 6 lines of development that will be called "Capsules", which will be aimed at 5 different industries with the objective of articulating Cinematography and audiovisual, with new creators and cultural managers.
The capsules that will be developed in the call are:
1. Cinematographic capsule.
2. Musical capsule.
3. Literary capsule.
4. gastronomic capsule.
5. Dance capsule.
6. Cápsula Market Fest
Similarly, different categories detail in each capsule that detail diverse interests, genres and creation formats, as well as their requirements and who can take part.
These projects can come from any country or region, and must be originally developed, subtitled or folded to the Spanish language.
La Plata International Independent Film Festival - FestiFreak is one of the most relevant and inviting cultural event in La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires, Argentina. We settled 20 years ago with the idea of showing and giving premiere to films and authors that don't usually get in theaters and others screens well as reviewing greatest masters of cinema's filmography. Our 20º edition will take place in October 2024.
Here, you can find the information of the last edition:
https://festifreak.com/
The Fine Shortfilm Festival is a non-competitive shortfilm event, hosted in São Paulo, addressed to the works of the new generations of Brazilian filmmakers.
VII NATIONAL RURAL FILM FESTIVAL OF AYACUCHO
The Rural Film Festival was created in 2016 as an initiative presented by Lic. Emilio Quiroga to the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Ayacucho, with the goal of promoting audiovisual production in our city.
Every year, we launch an open call at the national and international level for short films of fiction and non-fiction that address the concept of "RURAL" through their form and/or content. Our intention is to explore the perspective of this concept and enrich ourselves with productions from other places in our country and the world.
The Festival offers training programs and support with theoretical and practical audiovisual production tools to those who join this initiative locally. This includes teachers and students from schools and educational institutions, community centers, organizations, or simply groups wishing to participate and residing in the city of Ayacucho.
These are some of the central concepts we have implemented over the years and will continue to develop in this space:
Short film production as a powerful educational tool that strengthens cognitive skills, creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork, while motivating students in an innovative way.
Basic audiovisual production training, workshops for teachers on how to guide students in creating short films. This includes teaching them the basics of planning, shooting, and editing videos. Many teachers have no previous experience in these areas, so the training helps them lead these projects.
Integrated evaluation of student-made short films across different subjects, so that teachers recognize the relevance of these projects beyond their specific area of expertise.
Collaborative projects where teachers from different disciplines (such as arts, history, literature, science, and technology) work together to create an interdisciplinary short film. This could include combining thematic areas to address a common issue from different perspectives.
Online educational resources or YouTube tutorials for teachers on how to apply film to various subjects. This may include how to shoot a scene, how to light it correctly, or how to work with sound, all at a level accessible to educators with no cinematic experience.
Access to simple editing software or online platforms (such as InShot or CapCut) that students can use at home or in the classroom to edit their projects. They can also use sound recording tools or simple effects to help with content creation.
Scriptwriting talks and courses or storyboard models that teachers can adapt to their subjects. This helps students follow a proper structure when writing their scripts, ensuring that their stories are more consistent, regardless of the area in which they are working.
We promote and encourage the cinema room in our city and other alternative screening spaces.
We foster cooperation between rural and urban schools.
We generate socio-educational projects in schools, institutes, and training centers.
We offer talks, courses, and training open to the community.
We produce audiovisual content and resources for the departments of the Municipality of Ayacucho.
We produce local short films that address fiction stories and rural documentaries, as well as other themes of interest to filmmakers.
This experience has become a phenomenon that grows each year, surpassing its initial expectations. We are motivated to make our identity known, promoting the value of Ayacuchense culture and that of our country. We emphasize human relationships and the bonds that arise from this encounter for mutual benefit.
We strengthen alliances between our community and people and groups who come to the city of Ayacucho from nearby towns, other provinces, and cities across our country, drawn by the social event and the values that the Rural Film Festival represents.
It is necessary, through our intervention, to guarantee access to a symbolic language, which is essential to navigate the world around us and construct the images and sounds of our time. This is a fundamental task for the development of society, the strengthening of democracy, equity, and access to work. We approach audiovisual media as an object to be thought about and constantly transformed.
After an incredible edition last January with 8 Live Screenings at the Cine Tonala and Le Cinema IFAL and 30 Programs at Visiones Únicas, USD 5000 in Cash Prizes, 30 Q&A's with international artists, networking cocktails and all sold out sessions, SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR THE NEW SEASON.
Mexico city is an icon of Latin American Independent Cinema and Mirada Corta presents the most outstanding films each season, inviting the audience to enjoy the diverse genres proposed in each competition: narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, horror, and comedy.
With a dedicated space for filmmakers, industry professionals, and special guests, the aim of MIRADA CORTA is to create an encounter that fosters creative and production possibilities in a relaxed and professional environment. It is an opportunity to establish connections within the framework of an independent red carpet.
Each screening is presented by moderators and concludes with Cast and Crew Q&A's sessions.
The jury is composed of filmmakers and distinguished film professionals: Percival Argüero Mendoza, a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Cinematographic Training Center, winner of the Silver Medal at the Academy Student Oscars; director Rommel Villa, winner of the Student Oscar; producer Chantal Rodríguez, recently nominated to the Ariel Awards and winner at the DOCSMX festival with her short film "El Viajero Subterráneo"; Alfredo Castruita from Los Angeles Film School, known for his feature film "POTOSÍ," winner as Best Mexican Film at the Guanajuato festival and three times nominee to the Ariel Awards; director and cinematographer Sergio Ruiz Velasco de Alba creator of the film "Longings yet to be" and young director Diego Sepulveda, former student at the École International de Création Audiovisuelle et Réalisation in Paris, the TISCH School of the Arts in New York, and the Academy of Arts in San Francisco. Completing the jury for 2023/2024 are Léa Soler, a young French filmmaker and director of the acclaimed short film "Corpúsculo," and Andrea Porras, a producer renowned for her work on "Sweet Potatoes", a Student Oscar winning film.
The jury will select the winners of each competition and award two prizes at the end of the festival to promote the production of short films:
Grand Jury Prize: USD 1500.
Young Promise Award: USD 1000.
Additionally, the audience will have the opportunity to vote and choose the "People's Choice Award," which will also receive a cash prize of USD 1000.
All filmmakers registered in the competition will receive, regardless of the results, a "Filmmaker Pass" for the festival with access to all screenings, Q&A sessions, conferences, red carpet events, photocall, and cocktails throughout the festival.
The municipality of Gravina di Catania and the cultural associations “Gravina Arte” and “No_Name”, organize the event “Via dei Corti” – 11th edition of the Independent Short Film Festival.
The Puerto Madryn MAFICI International Film Festival has been held for 13 years and is one of the most important Festivals in Latin America, which takes place in the Argentine Patagonia.
The objective of the Festival is to provide the possibility of screening national and foreign films both feature films and short films and thus generate a meeting space and diffusion of the cinema, from a corner of the Argentine Patagonia.
The Festival will reward the First Movies to Argentine and foreign filmmakers, with the "Southern Right Whale" award, in addition to the different awards of the Official Section in Competition.
MAFICI proposes from its beginnings, reward and promote the new directors of the world, announcing his first cinematographic work, being the only Argentine Festival with this unique peculiarity.
On the other hand, we intend to encourage the development of the film industry, care of the Environment and contribute to the tourist, cultural potential that our beautiful city of Puerto Madryn.
VSFILM - Very Short Film Festival is organized and subsidized by the Association DAI FOR CULUTURE AND MEDIA. Other private partners support the project. From its very first edition (2019), the Festival has had the patronage of Egyptian Minstry of Culuture.
THE FESTIVAL
Miradas del Mundo is a film festival aimed at independent filmmakers from around the world, which receives and awards feature films, fiction short films and documentaries. A cultural and artistic event where filmmakers can exchange experiences and connect with colleagues and audiences from different cultures around the world.The Festival provides a unique opportunity for filmmakers to showcase their innovative artistic and narrative proposal, which also represents a commitment to their environment and a passion for cinema.
Diversity of views, heterogeneity of thought and creative risk are welcome at our Festival. Every look is political. Every look is moral. And there's nothing like cinema to express it. Views of the World is looking for films that raise more questions than answers. Let them excite. That they call for reflection. Let them be unsettling. That awaken fantasies. Let them make you dream. Don't settle. Let them take risks. That they are passionate and propose different views of the world and cinema. We are proud to host an event designed to bring audiences and filmmakers together in an environment where enthusiastic discussions, collaboration and solidarity can flourish in a fraternal and creative environment.
Because culture unites us and stories tell us.
Inicio Festival: 14 Junio 2024 Fin Festival: 14 Junio 2024
Edición I del Sevilla On Line Film Festival
Se trata de un festival de cine On Line para cineastas de la provincia de Sevilla quienes normalmente no tienen opción de darse a conocer.
El Festival será On-Line y tendrá lugar el 11 de Mayo de 2024, fecha en la que se notificará los ganadores.
Cualquier duda pueden escribir también a sevillaonlinefilmfestival@gmail.com
The announcement of the international internet film festival "Diogenes 2025" for short films
Slogan: "New Horizons, Creative Boldness, and Innovation."
The short film festival "Diogenes 2025," which features innovative projects, represents itself as a festival with short films on the internet globally. It holds four seasons of screenings, each in four different countries - Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia and Israel. The innovation in Diogene's short film festival is the automatic submission of the film's announcement once, and the automatic participation in the festival in Diogenes four autonomous seasons -
1. "Diogenes Odesa"
2. "Diogenes Tbilisi"
3. "Diogenes Tallinn"
4. "Diogenes Haifa"
Dieciminuti Film Festival was created in 2005 by IndieGesta. It was able to quickly become one of the events dedicated to short films most important in Italy.
The Festival, whose first 19 editions attended by more than 18,000 short films involving a total of nearly 23,000 spectators, is structured in various competitive sections: Official Selection (for short films up to 10 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024), Extralarge (for shorts between 10 and 15 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024) Animations (animations for up to 10 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024), Doc10 (documentaries for up to 10 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024), Music Videoclip (videoclips for up to 10 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024), Visti da Vicino (for short films up to 10 minutes released by directors coming from the province of Frosinone after the 1st of January 2024).
At the Competitive sections, joins the Dieciminuti Academy, a school of cinema that brings young people of our province to create from scratch a short fiction or animation. The thing that is unique about the festival on the national scene is to be a real school for young people who want to explore the world of cinema. It ‘s also very much appreciated the Section Esplorazioni, which allows viewers to get in touch with the short film coming from a different country each year. During last years, the festival has hosted the short unpublished masters of Japanese animation by Studio Ghibli, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the animated short films of the Tehran Film Festival, the short films of Georges Méliès, the avantguardes, the web-series. During the 13th edition was opened also the Futurama Section, dedicated to masterclasses for students.
O FECICO, Festival de Cinema de Colombo, tem o objetivo de educar e encantar o público com o melhor do cinema independente, tornando-se o primeiro evento do gênero na cidade de Colombo por meio de uma jornada cinematográfica única.
Durante oito dias, o público terá acesso gratuito a uma seleção de 41 filmes envolventes, incluindo longas e curtas-metragens. Além das exibições, o festival oferecerá seis atividades paralelas, como oficinas e palestras, para promover discussões e reflexões sobre o universo do cinema independente.
Não apenas uma celebração do cinema, o FECICO também visa impulsionar a formação de novos talentos e públicos, envolvendo toda a comunidade local. Com diversas categorias competitivas e uma programação diversificada que abrange além do cinema, incluindo música e artes visuais, e uma curadoria diversa que inclui pessoas negras e LGBTQIA+, o FECICO promete ser uma experiência enriquecedora para todos os apaixonados pela sétima arte.
Junte-se a nós nesta jornada de descoberta e inspiração, enquanto celebramos a diversidade e a criatividade na tela grande!
The Malaga Festival, in collaboration with the Equal Opportunities Area of the Malaga City Council, pursues the objective of supporting the presence of women in film production, creating spaces that make visible the work of women in the audiovisual field, professional field where they are underrepresented, both in the direction, in the production or in the writing of scripts; favoring the film industry with the diverse views of women.
In order to fulfill this objective, the Equal Opportunities Area will hold its “XXII FILM SHOW WOMEN ON STAGE”, between the months of October and November 2024.
THE WOMEN ON STAGE FILM EXHIBITION was created in 2002 with the aim of debating, through the holding of cineforums, the existing gender inequalities in our society as well as in other nearby ones, reflecting on their causes and possible social strategies to eradicate them.
Since 2010, this objective of raising awareness and visibility has been added to supporting the presence of women in film production, an area in which there is a large gender gap, taking advantage of the fact that every day there are more women interested in developing their professional careers. In this field, therefore, one of the purposes of the OFFICIAL WOMEN ON STAGE SECTION is the visibility of audiovisual productions made by women, and it is achieved by dedicating the evening sessions to the exclusive projection of works directed, produced or scripted by women .
SANFIC, Santiago International Film Festival, represents a film platform with educational, cultural, artistic and industrial purposes, as well as a prime symbol of the Chilean capital city and the whole country.
IIFFA Stands For The Indian International Film Festival Award. It appears to be an event that celebrates independent film-making and provides a platform for filmmakers to showcase their creativity.
INDIA uses media platform as a tool to connect audiences across cities, countries, and continents.
With simultaneous screenings (ONLINE FESTIVALS) and live Q&A’s, audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away.
#IIFFA established from pride of India
Providing wide platform for students to professionals - preview their films on International Stage to prove themselves.
We conduct our Film festival from MAY & DECEMBER 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.
In the city of culture, art, and Bollywood. FFM is dedicated to celebrating world-class cinema.
Film festival of Mumbai is home to independent cinema from around the world. FFM puts filmmakers first and provides the opportunity for recognition and publicity for quality films and documentaries. Our aim is to be an advocate for filmmakers with a unique vision and to promote their work by showcasing it to a large audience. which is why our mission is to carefully consider and select a wide range of films to promote to the indie film-loving crowd.
FFM will be a global adventure of the premiere, screenings, nightly red carpets, daring documentaries, eye-opening short films, We also focus films under special categories such as LGBTQIA+ films, Women Empowerment films, Students Films,
We invite you to add your voice to the conversation. At FFM filmmakers are invited to the festival to participate in a variety of programs, Q&A sessions and a series of panel discussions, Press Conferences. masterclasses where filmmakers have the opportunity to discuss their work and careers with a new generation of content creators.
FFM will be host to Opening & Closing Night Gale, Opening & Closing night Red Carpet , Press Interaction for participants, Official Portraits for nominated filmmakers, Festival Interviews of Nominated filmmakers, nightly parties, live music performances, filmmaker panels, award presentations, and an enhanced filmmaker hospitality program that includes city tours and more.
Discover Festival PROTESTA, where cinema ignites social change.
This international event celebrates films that challenge, question, and inspire. With a diverse lineup of documentaries, fiction, and animation in both feature and short film formats, Protesta is a crucible for filmmakers committed to questioning and challenging the status quo.
We embrace creativity, positive social impact and innovative storytelling. With more than 11 editions, PROTESTA is the primary social impact festival in Catalonia and a main player in social cinema in Spain. Join us next October in the culturally vibrant town Vic in a series of parallel activities designed to enrich, educate, and inspire.
The Santander Film Festival, with its main headquarters in Centro Botín, was born in September 2017 as a film week. Since then, it has been held every year with success in six editions and with great film professionals such as Isabel Coixet, Julio Medem, Antonio Resines, Carlos Saura and Pablo Trapero. Last year the week became a Festival, including two competitive categories, among other novelties that we will maintain in this new edition.
The Festival was born with a clear focus on creativity, entrepreneurship and youth, and these are precisely the traits that are reinforced edition after edition.
In the eighth edition we will maintain our desire to internationalize, programming a selection of the best Ibero-American films of the year, and also focusing on great film professionals to whom we will pay tribute through our retrospectives.
In addition, we will have multiple parallel activities, events and special screenings, as well as a reinforced industry section, with four meetings between professionals from the film industry, in order to address the new challenges it faces.
Like every year, the Festival acquires a strong commitment to sustainability, organizing an event to offset the carbon footprint in the Cinema Forest.
