Blog: Film festivals

International Festival of feature films and short films, face-to-face and online. Themes related to human rights. Peace. conflicts, food, climate change, education, solidarity, personal relationships.

Official competition section.

Starting from the basis of the 15 previous editions of the Human Rights Film Festival, we believe that it is time to reconfigure this exhibition to transform it into an international film festival: PERSONA - Molins de Rei International Film and Human Rights Festival.

The Mostra known as it is now will be rethought to, while maintaining the basic features that have brought it here: cinema for schools, free special sessions for the general public, strengthen and transform the approach by a content headed for a section competitive official made up of feature films of international origin, supported by a series of parallel sections and diverse activities around universal human rights. A week where Molins de Rei will become the international epicenter of cinema and human rights.

One-minute short film festival that aims to promote awareness and social commitment, using audiovisual language.

It is a citizen participation tool, where participants express their point of view on the great challenges we face, such as hunger, poverty, climate change or the defense of Human Rights.

Amity International Film Festival is committed to supporting emerging talent and providing fun, original and thought-provoking cinematic experiences. AIFF is a Two-Day celebration of the art of filmmaking and the contribution that films make to our culture.

This will showcase documentaries and short films on popular science, technology, health & environmental issues. This event also creates a platform to interact with filmmakers, scientists, and enthusiasts to develop a better public understanding of the universe; encourage citizen science and public participation and promote appreciation of science films.

Mission:
Through the projection of popular science, technology, health & environmental-themed films and facilitated discussion — educate, raise awareness, and inspire the adoption of solution-oriented sustainable actions.

Vision:
Stimulate, energize and activate communities through deep involvement in the Amity International Film Festival, maximizing citizen reach and expanding the movement of Healthy Biosphere.

Goals:

1) Create thought-provoking, transformative opportunities for understanding various scientific aspects, and the power of human involvement.

2) Pack an intensive education & awareness punch through rich film stories, interactive discussions, and experiences.

3) “Expand the movement” by attracting people not generally involved in or already committed to “green” activities.

Date: 4th- 6th October 2023 Location: Amity University, Noida

#VIEWCONFERENCE is the premiere International event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, Animation, VR/AR, Games, VFX and immersive storytelling.

1) VIEW AWARD: First Prize is 2000 Euros
2) ITALIANMIX: First Prize is a Wacom Tablet

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Around International Awards ✈ Barcelona ✈ Paris ✈ Amsterdam ✈ Berlin.

Annual Independent event with 4 major programs for all Features, Shorts, Documentaries, Experimental, Commercial, Music Video, Animations, Student Films, TV, Series, and New Media. The international community evaluates the all-genre creations to serve ARFF Official Laurels and to certify the awarded filmmakers at the end of the annual festival run. Thus, all the ARFF Finalists will be mentioned multiple times to have the best out of the entire year altogether. Submit today to participate in all 4 programs, regarding the unique system of ARFF International. Submissions made via Festhome are getting evaluated and selected, directly for the yearly festival run and participating in the Official Certificate Program exclusively. Monthly selection is available on other associated platforms.

See you Around & Fest Regards

Filmeraa Film Festival is one of it's kind festivals to promote independent films, web series across the globe. We are committed to release content across the globe via our screens exclusive to screen only independent films. Every year the festival acknowledges independent work with unique flavor in them and can bring about a change into the society and the thought process.

The Filmmakers/audience will gain the insights of the reel world & how to make your projects effective & efficient at the same time.
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Every film maker is invited to be a part of this exclusive premier league screening festival.
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The best films will get a chance to feature their film on our distribution portal www.filmeraa.com and on Indian Television.

Films from anywhere in the world that express the Afro world, their ways of living, solve problems, get closer to the other, live the culture.

Insular & other seas Film festival(IOSAFF)

For outdoor performing arts and film screenings: How to bring your art to beaches, plazas and streets>

IOSAFF, not only competitions and film screenings but also an artists' tour during which we explore creative activities in various artistic specialties.

»IOSAFF is a coherent whole of a multidimensional cultural and cinematographic project will take place Palms Casino Resort Las Vegas

four days for a traveling festival (artist tour), we launch creative projects that bring people together, and we create high impact campaigns with influencers to motivate audiences to share their creativity.

If You're a filmmaker, screenwriter, designer, actor or actress, musician or band, painter or sculptor, or any other creative expression, we welcome you to the tours of creative artists...

Let's explore the oceans, seas & islands

-Adventures,

- Environment,

- Designs animations,

-Documentary,

- Author's cinema,

Islands in music & video



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Oceans and seas cover 71% of the earth's surface, produce half of the oxygen we breathe, absorb 25% of carbon dioxide, capture 90% of the additional heat generated by these emissions and feed 3, 2 billion people. The oceans, seas & marine resources, lungs of the earth, are essential for sustainable development.

Promoting the heritage and creativity of the world's islands and caring for the oceans & seas is a major factor in developing the blue bio-economy, which is why we adopted it as the main axes of our cultural and media project.

The islands of the world, through the oceans and the continents of the planet, conceal important cultural and patrimonial wealth, as much by their variety, their specificity as by their authenticity. The islanders, being cut off from the continent, are forced to live in osmosis with their environment, to vibrate to the rhythm of the elements of their natural setting, and to dominate the rigors of their daily life by giving free rein to their creative imagination and their innovative spirit. In this perspective, artistic creativity is the best support for the expression of their dreams, their emotions & their collective memory

The ninth edition of 24 Risas por Segundo, Comedy Film Festival, will be held on May 6 to 11 in Mexico City and that is why we CALL Mexican and foreign filmmakers to register their comedy films (short films and feature films) to be part of our programme.

Le festival International du film d’Al Hoceima est une histoire d’amour à trois entre une ville au début du printemps, un public curieux et enthousiaste, et des films venus du monde entier.

Le festival International du film d’Al Hoceima est l’un des rendez-vous pionniers au Maroc dans la découverte des cinématographies d’Asie, d’Amérique latine, d’Afrique et d’Europe de l’est.

Prévu pour chaque année, le festival est un espace de rencontres et de dialogue entre les cinéphiles de toutes les cultures et origines amateurs de classiques comme de nouveautés, d’ouvrages d’auteurs comme de productions populaires.

Le festival prévoit aussi des hommages, à des réalisateurs ou à des acteurs invités, en plus de leurs films de fiction, sont présentés, leurs documentaires, leurs long-métrages, les films qu’ils ont réalisé pour la télévision et aussi les films dans lesquels ils ont joué, qu’ils ont produit, si c’est le cas.

le Festival International du Film d’Al Hoceima, a l’honneur de compter sur le soutien du Centre Cinématographique Marocain, qui prend en charge 2 caravanes de diffusion ainsi que les visas des films.

The 100-second Film Festival is a gathering for international filmmakers to use their brevity and endless artistic creativity to make a film with promising images of "Ethnical Cinema" in various dimensions, formats and perspectives, to Polish the lives of the audience by creating up to 100 second short pieces of art. The 13th edition of this festival will be held from Feb 28 to March 3,2023 in the city of Tehran – IRAN; after a 4-year break due to the Corona crisis.

The “KINOSVET” International Children's Cinema and Television Festival will be held from September, 2024 in Minsk, Belarus.

Festival "KINOSVET" is designed to develop, inspire and support young cinematographers; those who will soon influence the mass culture in their countries. The festival will allow those who want to make this world better, to be seen and heard. And also give a wide range of viewers the taste of a highly moral, deep, humane, inspiring art.

What movies and TV shows are shown around the world today? Who teaches contemporary and, most importantly, future artists and media ways to illuminate moral and, spiritual laws? Who controls the content and ideological direction of the most meaningful and strong types of art? The festival’s purpose is to seek, find, and give a venue to young talents who can create beautiful and meaningful art that makes our world brighter and kinder.

Festival goals:

development of cinematography;
moral education of children and adolescents;
the formation of personality with the help of cinema;
initiation of the younger generation to spiritual culture;
increasing the interest in creating films focused on children and youth audiences.


Festival tasks:

to fill the world with good pictures with humane ideas, moral values in order to make our world brighter;
to revive children’s, youth and family cinema;
to draw the attention of society around the world to social problems that are associated with children, people in need and nature;
to promote true, universal spiritual values;
to educate a new generation of filmmakers;
to expand and strengthen filmmakers connections from different countries both for children and youth;
to draw the attention of state, public and commercial organizations to supporting children’s and family filmmaking as well as to encouraging of the young authors.

Akida International Film Festival is an international film festival created by a team of passionate filmmakers and film lovers in Seville, Spain in the year of 2022. The festival;s goal is to bring together the viewer and the filmmaker by distributing indie cinema.

The festival itself is powered by Akida Corporation, a multinational company which focuses on the cinematic arts and the distribution of artists. Akida was founded by Nick Kremm back in 2022 and it has now networked in more than 20 countries all over the world

Athens Marathon International Film Festival (A.M.I.F.F.) is an annual international event dedicated for independent filmmakers. Established this year by “THE BASEMENT” a nonprofit and non-governmental Cultural and Education Organization (B.C.E.O.).

Located in the city of Athens, we look forward to be hosting an amazing event with you and your friends. The A.M.I.F.F. is a multi-day event that takes place in the Beggining of Summer at venues throughout Athens-Greece.

Our wish is for the venues to be open air cinemas in the authentic ancient classical Marathon route from Marathon to Athens. Viewers will enjoy free movies on the white screen, under the full of stars sky of Attika and next to the deep blue of the Aegean sea.

The A.M.I.F.F. want to be a world recognized event, with industry, filmmakers, and press attention from around the globe. The festival is competitive, screening approximately 40-60 films each year.

The film industry today is largely monopoly-based and dependent on large scale budgets for productions to succeed. However, this festival aims at providing a voice for those who don't have a massive budget at their hands but nevertheless, an important story to tell.

According to one of the objectives of our non-profit organization to providing a platform for indie filmmakers, we are able to provide an affordable solution catered to advance the cause of independent film-making. Therefore the submissions starts priced from 10 euro.

ATTENTION:
EVEN ENGLISH FILM WITHOUT SAME-LANGUAGE SUBTITLES OR HARD SUBTITLES BE DISQUALIFIED. ALL FILMS MUST HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN OPEN FORMAT WITH EXTENSION .SRT OR .TXT

CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI 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. CSIFF is looking forward to fostering these relationships and to helping extraordinary filmmakers get their projects seen by global audiences. CSIFF unites cinematic, cultural, educational more over Inspirational objectives by presenting its film discoveries.

About CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji

The CSIFF 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 CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI 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. https://csiff.buddhafest.in/

The Fuerteventura LGTBI+ Film Festival was born 20 years ago, promoted by ALTIHAY Fuerteventura in 2002, as a cultural tool to raise awareness among the population of Fuerteventura about respect and to help combat the discrimination and stigma suffered by LGTBI+ people. in their environment, insisting on the need for a more inclusive and diverse society. We invite you this 2022 to be part of our 20 years of history and resistance!

Zinegoak is organized by Zinegoak Association and will take place in the city of Bilbao, Spain, June 2025.

All films which have an approach to sexual and gender diversity and LGTBQ+ families, which have been produced after January 1st, 2023 and never had been broadcasted or commercially released in Basque Country.

Nawada International Film Festival 5th season held on 10th August 2024 brings to its audience, acclaimed documentary works from across the world of different region. Audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away. From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #NIFF2020INDIA brings the nouthern and southern hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders. The focus is to showcase unseen stories from across the regions to our viewers. Rahul Verma Film Production presents this festival with Pragati Foundation, Festival Supported by SYSKA Lights PVT LTD. presents a curated selection of films acclaimed for its artistic merit

New 2025 Season OPEN.

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The Wild Indie Sci-fi & Fantasy Film Festival continues to celebrate our favourite genres of film. Enter once, your film is assessed for all the categories (see note below). It's a shorts specific festival and there are prizes for some categories. We are trying to get more all the time. We'll confirm prizes for the new season between the hyphens below.

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The last season of WISFFF brought us to a new home in Genesis Cinema - London. And this season, we are staying. There is a lovely welcoming "film-o-phile" vibe going on at the cinema, which resulted in lots of fun, and a surprising amount of networking. WISFFF continues to grow with more entries and awards and prizes than ever before We also had an awesome and ever growing selection of films at the screening. There are some photos of the various events on here.

Awards wise, there are a number of challenges, awards and prizes for Micro (2min), Mini (10min), and Short (25min) film categories within the genre.

The 2022 Early Bird Teaser can be viewed at:
https://youtu.be/8at62y06D_0

The 2021 trailer can be viewed here:
https://youtu.be/pQezUJrQroY

News for the 2024-5 season will come to you via the the social media channels, particularly the Facebook Page, mainly because the text isn’t limited in characters like other channels.

To answer a question asked all the time. Yes HORROR is included and has it's own sub-genera award.

The festival is open to all (UK, Worldwide, The Up/Down/LSide/RSide Dimensions, even the Outer Spiral Arm (of the Galaxy). English is the festivals first language ; other languages are welcome but should be closed captioned to English. Awards are listed in full below.

If we've had the good fortune to see an advert for your film and sent you a discount/waiver it's because we really want you to enter. We make films and enter festivals ourselves so we know just how many offers you'll get on a marketing cycle. If you've got an offer from us, it's because we think your film fits? If you we didn't see your ad'... ask us... filmmaking is about networking.

This event is completely independent of Wild Indie's production (but again ask us if you want to find out about any of those projects).