Blog: Film festivals

Action movies, despite being one of the most watched genres in the world, still does not have the respect it deserves, and has always been underestimated at the most important festivals and award ceremonies, which is why TACFEST born, we want to pay homage to the genre that has given us more action heroes to admire than any other.

TACFEST is organized by the ACCM (Cinema Association of Castilla La Mancha).

Dardan Fest is an international film festival with a focus on urbanization, civilization, and development.

This festival provides an opportunity to promote filmmakers across a variety of genres, aligning with Dardan Fest's goals. We will showcase short films and documentaries from the USA, Europe, Asia, Balkans, and other regions.

The featured works are from the past three years or are premieres.

Throughout the event, we plan to engage with both filmmakers and guests through workshops and forums, facilitating experience sharing and relationship building.

Acid'Animé Fest is an Paris international short-film competition. Our mission is to bring international independent animated short films to the widest possible audience in Europe and beyond. We want to give this opportunity to young filmakers and animators.

Unique Location :

ONE Country ONE Film is a unique festival festival taking place in two different venues located in the same beautiful countryside area in the heart of France.

Unique Concept :

Every film selected is the sole representative of its country in each of the following categories : Feature Films, Short Films, Children Films. Every year a Country is honored and several films are selected from that country. Since its creation in 2010, ONE Country ONE Film has selected 119 countries.

Send your film (short or feature, animation, fiction, experimental or documentary) and be the only one to represent your country at ONE Country ONE Film 2025 -16th edition!!

The Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Festival is an annual outdoor event located in the heart of Lisbon's historic neighborhood, Alfama. For a week, we occupy the street with independent films from around the world.

OPEN CALL

We welcome submissions from independent directors, screenwriters, and composers who want to see their work screened at the white walls of Alfama.

ABOUT CINALFAMA

Cinalfama Lisboa International Film Festival celebrates the rich cultural and historical tapestry of one of the city's most iconic areas, providing a unique platform for independent filmmakers worldwide.

We aim to promote cultural and artistic diversity through cinema, highlighting works that address relevant, innovative, and provocative themes. With a carefully curated selection of films, our goal is to offer the audience an engaging and diverse cinematic experience.

To believe in an independent film festival in the streets of one of Lisbon's historic neighborhoods inevitably absorbed by gentrification is to persist and pursue a community utopia where cinema plays a restorative role.
In this context, Cinalfama has been developing a pilot program to collect stories and orality from residents and spaces in the neighborhood, in an attempt to rescue the essence of this population.

Several of the directors who make up the Cinalfama team, such as Pedro Costa, Leonor Teles, and Pedro Cabeleira, are taking part in this pressing project, whose collections are being screened at the Cinalfama Lisboa International Film Festival.

Cinalfama holds a second Open Call for the Film Observatory - regular competitive sessions three times a year (January, April, and October) - with different categories.

Culture & Tourism Film Festival (CTFF) - Jaipur, India
World Culture Summit (WCS) & World Film Tourism Summit (WFTS)
26 – 28 August 2025 | Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

A grand celebration of global culture and tourism through the medium of films, the Culture & Tourism Film Festival showcases films that highlight the beauty and diversity of both. Join us in the Pink City, Jaipur, as we celebrate the rich intersection of different cultures and civilizations through cinema. Films are the carriers of culture, and cinema serves as a powerful medium to reflect and share these narratives. During the festival, not only will we enjoy this cinematic journey, but we will also host the World Culture Summit (WCS) and World Film Tourism Summit (WFTS), bringing together voices from around the world to discuss culture, cinema, and tourism.

Organised by
Jaipur Film Market-JFM, International Cinema Centre-ICC, Jaipur International Film Festival JIFF Trust & Aryan Roj Foundation

For more: https://jaipurfilmmarket.org/CultureTourismFilmFestivalJaipur.php

World Student Film Festival (WSFF) - Jaipur, India

World Student Cinema Summit (WSCS)
26 – 28 August 2025 | Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

The World Student Film Festival is a global celebration dedicated to students studying cinema from around the world. It offers a unique platform for emerging filmmakers to showcase their work, engage in discussions, and contribute to the evolving landscape of world cinema. Recognizing the absence of such festivals in India, this initiative has been launched to fill that gap. Alongside the festival, the World Student Cinema Summit (WSCS) will also be held annually, fostering interaction, learning, and collaboration among student filmmakers. Jaipur is excited to welcome these young visionaries who are shaping the future of cinema.

Organised by

Jaipur Film Market-JFM, International Cinema Centre-ICC, Jaipur International Film Festival JIFF Trust & Aryan Roj Foundation

For more:

https://jaipurfilmmarket.org/WorldStudentFilmFestivalJaipur.php

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 64th 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.

The 8th edition of the International Independent Film Festival of Ibiza has developed several seus in the 5 municipalities of the Island, for first time with institutional support from the 5 City Councils, and the online version on the Filmin platform. The institutional support in Ibiza is total by adding the Departments of Culture and Tourism of the Consell Insular of Ibiza more various private sponsors in the Island.

Ibizacinefest has renewed its commitment to Ibiza and culture with a program of 132 national and international titles, exclusive premieres in Spain and with 90% of premieres in the Balearic Islands, targeted activities to professionals, shortfilms contests to discover and boost the local and Balearic talent, educational program with special screenings per students and children to create new audiences.
The reflection has also covered his space through 19 conferences after screenings with his creators and creators on his creative process and the relationship between films and problems sociocultural realities. We have arrived at 75 guests, 18 internationals.

Short films are once again the protagonists of IBZCF24 with a qualifier for the Goya Awards 2024 by curtmetratges and colaboration with the European Film Academy with the Short Films on Tour.

Activities like our first golf session or the special one dedicated to Quinqui Cinema with the collaboration of the UNED of the Balearic Islands University.

They have been completely successful.The commitment to the industry is materialized with the Masterclass fees of first national level by Ion de Sosa and Laura Ferrés that even more. We have noticeably increased our in-person audience, by 38 sessions, with online tot l´estat thanks to our 14 program llargmetratges, 3 d'ells of Balearic production, to Filmin, with the presence in communication media, with international articles and a notable increase in impacts respect to the 2023 edition. We will continue to believe in committed author films, bothnecessary views, which is poden moure in fons i form at the margins of the norms of commercial cinema, with total freedom creative.

Xavi Herrero
Director and programmer IBZCF2-European Film Academy Member

Cinema as a social phenomenon has become one of the most innovative and enriching cultural consumptions and practices of the XX century. Clearly, cinema changes us but this transformation that film provokes is not just individual. We’re also asking for as a community. Therefore, cinema must be understood as a social phenomenon, as a cultural vehicle, as a complex device which catalyze the yearnings and portraits of a society, as a producer of subjectivities.

For the city of Chivilcoy the launching of an international film festival represents a chimerical cultural proposal. Its background is based on previous experiences that bond these individual and collective practices: shootings, film’s retrospectives, workshops, festivals and other events that take place in our community. This whole set of inputs is a key component, coupled with the suitable reaction of the local public who are eager to rejoice at the "seventh art" and to enjoy a festival as a space for exchange, dialogue and circulation of cultural goods.

GIFF Edition 5, 2024 (Online)

Get ready to experience the magic of cinema like never before at the Gandhara Independent Film Festival 2024, Ed 5 (Online) Pakistan's pioneering digital film festival brought to you by Cirque Films

Launched in 2020, GIFF has been a trailblazer in connecting filmmakers with a global audience through its innovative hybrid format. Over the past four years, we have become a beacon for diverse storytelling, offering a unique platform where creative voices from around the world converge.

This October 2024, we’re back and more determined than ever to showcase the finest #shortfilms that will captivate, move, and inspire. From heart-stirring dramas to laugh-out-loud comedies, from thought-provoking art films to unforgettable emotional journeys. This year's festival promises an unforgettable ride through the world of cinema.

Mark your calendars, because this is an event you won't want to miss.

Join us online via our website, and stay tuned for more updates as we prepare to take you on an extraordinary cinematic adventure. The Gandhara Independent Film Festival is about to begin.

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Narrative Shorts

*there is no submission fee to submit a film

DESCRIPTION OF THE FESTIVAL

The Muma Patagonia International Audiovisual Festival will take place on Friday the 15th - 17th of November 2024 in person in Comodoro Rivadavia, in the city of Chubut, in Argentina.

It will be screen only films directed by Women, Lesbians, Transvestites, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersexuals and Non-Binaries are allowed.

It will have the following sections:

International feature film competition (4 features)
International short film competition (2 programs of 5 shorts)
Argentinian feature film competition (4 features)
Argentinian short film competition (2 programs of 5 shorts)

HEADQUARTERS

Chubut, Comodoro Rivadavia
Art School Auditorium

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

In online mode

- Conversation between networks of audiovisual women from different regions of Argentina and Latin America

OBJECTIVES OF THE FESTIVAL

- Strengthen ties between distribution, production and production companies in Patagonia.

- Know and recognize the narratives of women and dissidents from around the world and put them in dialogue with the public.

- Provide tools for professional training that contribute to the labor insertion of women and dissidents in the Patagonian region.

- Generate a space for exchange with networks of audiovisual women from other parts of Latin America and the world.

AWARDS

Presentation of the winning films in the Patagonian Tour: screenings in other locations in the Argentine Patagonian region

- Neuquén, Villa La Angostura
Osvaldo Bayer Library

- Río Negro, San Carlos de Bariloche,
Carrilafquen Popular Library

9th Babul Eco Film Fest 2025 has both competitive and non-competitive sections.

1) Short Film Contest-SFC: Duration below 5 minutes on any topic of ENVIRONMENT

2) Green Film Screenings-GFS: Duration above 5 minutes below 60 minutes.On any topic related to Environment, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, Climate action etc.,

The main festival happens in Hyderabad, Telangana India during June 2025 and later travels to different places.
After this some films will have repeat screenings at different venues based on the themes as per the date and audience suitability.

Do you ever wanted Distribution for your Film? The SDG Entertainment Pictures international Filmfestival (aka Distribution Award) is a live screening event in the heart of Stuttgart (Germany) and goes into the first round. The aim of the Festival is to find new films for distribution & is dedicated to discovering and supporting independent talents. We welcome films on any topic, from anywhere in the world.

SDG Entertainment Pictures, a film production company & distributor based in Germany, is searching for new, interesting & high qualitative movies around the globe and offers winning films distribution & promotion with profit sharing. But that's not enough: your film will be also a part of the future streaming channel of the SDG Entertainment Pictures Film Company. Cinema distribution is possible under certain conditions.

Event evening: After our screenings, guest speakers will talk about their experience on the evening of the award ceremony. You will have the opportunity to take part in a Q&A session and after that to network with industry professionals over a glass of sparkling wine.

Winning films: All award winners are invited and encouraged to take part in the festival free of charge. Travel and accommodation costs must be covered by the winners themselves.

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The FIRE!! Mostra is the first LGBT film festival in Spain: established in 1995 by Casal Lambda, in Barcelona, it addresses affective diversity in its broadest sense through a careful selection of feature films, documentaries and short films. A selection of art-house cinema and an educational approach are its main characteristics.

Throughout two weeks at the beginning of June - mainly at the French Institute but also at other different indoor or open-air venues in the city -, a wide range of public is invited to enjoy this Barcelona cultural landmark, with stories and testimonials of free people, creators who break barriers and fighters for human rights, all of whom help with love to build a fairer and freer world.

The festival's name is a tribute to the late 20s New York magazine of the same name, FIRE!!, led by the black gay writer Richard Bruce Nugent, portrayed in one of the most iconic films of the festival, Brother to Brother, which we screened a few years ago.

The Mairena del Aljarafe Short Film Festival, Mairena Film Festival (here in after MAIFF) will be a cultural event with a program that will host different activities (meetings with industry professionals, 36h short film making rally, projections of the official section...). The festival will be held from October 18 to 26, 2024 in the Seville town of Mairena del Aljarafe.

VI INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF FILM AND SCIENCE 2024

The International Exhibition of Cinema and Science is an event that will take place at Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo (Santander, Spain), between the 6th and 8th of November, 2024. 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.

Are you a creative filmmaker, storyteller, or digital artist? Join our global challenge and showcase your talent on an international stage! In 2025, we honour the 695th Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, whose visionary theme, "Connect to Prosper," redefines global connections and innovation. This is your chance to shine and be part of a historic celebration.

We invite teams of up to three members, aged 34 and under, to create a short video (2-5 minutes) that embodies the theme:

"Connect to Prosper: Celebrating Global Connections through Visual Arts"

Your mission is to capture how connections foster prosperity, innovation, and growth in our interconnected world. Showcase how the City of London serves as a global hub of knowledge and innovation, bridging cultures, ideas, and opportunities.

Film/ Feature Film/Short Film/Documentory/music vedio/Animation/VFX/CGI/2D/3D/other

All Entertainment Catagory Accept

The accompanied loneliness

The global existential crisis, a product of a wild and violent capitalism based on the maximum exacerbation of ego that destroys social fabric and condemns sapiens to loneliness, has produced biotechnological phenomena such as virtual sex. And the webcam industry is the most expanding in that horizon.

Despite this, morality, as always, which allows massacres and genocides in the name of God, marginalizes and stigmatizes people who professionally practice explicit sex in front of a camera.

The greater the development, the greater the loneliness. This neoliberal-neofeudal system, built against our collaborative nature, where aggressive competition, violence, and limitless ego prevail, has generated an alienated society, self-absorbed, incapable of organically communicating with others.

And it is these individuals, unable to find company naturally, who spend hours and hours in front of a screen, spending fortunes in the global south, with the sole objective of having an interlocutor who saves them from their lonely hell.

That is why this 5th edition of our Erotic and Post-porn Film Bogotá Showcase is dedicated to those who professionally offer their virtual companionship services. One cannot be stigmatized and excluded, who offers solace, companionship, and dialogue, apart from sex, to people that the system has communicationally mutilated.

The film showcase will feature a selection that addresses the issue in all its complexity, far from inquisitorial moralism and absurd prejudices.

On the academic side, we will offer talks and workshops, led by professionals with experience in the field, to share their experiences on how to improve performances on camera, how to build characters, or how to apply basic psychology notions that lead to better presentations and better performance with less effort.

Through this initiative, we want to provide tools to industry individuals so that, far from feeling excluded, they empower themselves and seek autonomy that allows them not to have to sell their labor to exploitative studios but to be the owners of their time, work, mind, and body.

Welcome, web cam companions. We are proud to dedicate this edition of our Showcase to you and, hopefully, contribute to your self-affirmation and emancipation.

Cheers!