Blog: Film festivals

On the occasion of the Obesity Day 2017, the Bariatric Center of Excellence - Sapienza University of Rome, in partnership with the City of Latina and « Amici Obesi » Onlus, organizes the second edition of Filmdipeso Short Film Festival.
The Festival aims to increase public awareness of the issues that living with obesity and eating disorders raises, through the screening of short films, which may also include patients’ testimonials of their treatment courses.
The mission of Filmdipeso Short Film Festival is to disclose the social, psychological and interpersonal impact of obesity and eating disorders on teenagers and adults.
The formal acknowledgement and recognition of obesity and eating disorders as diseases permits not only to approach new treatment opportunities, but also to dismantle prejudices and misconceptions.

April 7th until 29th, 2018: Exhibitions, workshops, International Trophy "Torretes", projections,... Lots of activities on photography and films. Check it out!

Madeira Fantastic FilmFest project is the diffusion and dissemination of film culture of horror and fantastic genre in Madeira in order to transmit, visually, through different types of art, culture and nature of the region.

Festival Terres Catalunya. International Eco & Tourism Film Festival.

Its second edition will be held from 25th to 28th of April in 2018 in Tortosa, Spain (Tortosa is a town located 2 hours from Barcelona).

terres Catalunya has three competitions with their own subsections:

- Tourism Communication: 
1. advertisements (up to 1' long) 
2. Promotional Films (up to 10' long).

Categories: 
. Tourism Destinations 
. Cultural Landscapes 
. Routes and expeditions 
. Hotels, resorts and spas. 
. Events 
. Healthy and welfare tourism 
. Rural Tourism 
. Nature tourism 
. Gastronomic, wine tourism and oleo tourism experiences 
. Location promotions 
. Animation 
. Product and Landscape 
. Audiovisual Experiencies 
. Tourist Companies 

- Documentaries: 
1. Short Films (up to 30') 
2. Medium-length films (up to 45') 
3. Feature films (up to 120') 
4. Webdocs

Categories: 
. Adventures, expeditions and routes 
. Biographies 
. History and Heritage 
. Sustainable tourism and Ecology 
. Ethnography and Society

- Corporative Communication 
1. Up to 10' long

Categories: 
. Sustainable and responsible Tourism 
. Preservation of the planet 
. Maintenance Biodiversity 
. Sustainable Mobility


Awards & Prizes
Awards 
Jury - Commercial 
Jury - Promotional film 
Jury - Short documentary film (up to30’ length) 
Jury - Documentary film (up to 90’ length). 
Jury - WebDoc 
Jury - Corporative Communication audiovisual production
Technical Awards: 
- Cinematography 
- Film Editing 
- Soundtrack
Special Awards: 
- Best Catalonia's advertisement 
- Best Catalonia's tourism film 
- Best Spain's touristic film 
- Terres de l'Ebre Award. The Film which shows better the concept of sostenibility 
- Best World Heritage UNESCO film 
- Best Tourist competition film

At the moment, there is not expected any metallic prize.

Since 2004, Kinoki International Student Film Festival has been run completely by students at the Universidad Iberoamericana in México City. Our purpose is to create a friendly environment where film students from all around the world can share their work and compete as part of our official selection.

Welcome to the Radical Frame Film - 2025 Short Film Series - Berlin

We at the Radical Frame Film Festival are proud to announce edition number eleven of Short Film
Series.

The idea for the Radical Frame Film Festival started years ago when a group of Denver activists,
artists, and friends decided to bring the messages of video activist cinema into the public eye.

We feel that due to the current social and political climate, both locally and globally, our mission
-- to provide a forum for thought provoking films and debates -- is more critical than ever.

We are committed to presenting progressive, leftist, radical, anti-racist, experimental, and
visionary films that address issues including, but not limited to, the environment, human rights,
social injustice, antiglobalization, etc...

The Radical Frame Film Festival showcases every genre of independent film from across the world during this incredible bi-continental celebration of independent artists.

The Radical Frame Film Festival is a forum where filmmakers can thrive outside the mainstream arena.

The Short Film Series turns the spotlight on truly independent short films, created by new and
established filmmakers. The purpose is to allow anyone regardless of country, to step to their dreams and start taking the steps to live life with passion and purpose.

Fresh Film Festival is for YOUNG FILMMAKERS aged 7 - 18 years old.

Organized by “NO_NAME”, "CineMigrare – Rassegna Internazionale di Cinema Senza Frontiere" is a festival totally dedicated to movies, short movies and documentaries speaking about immigration and cultural integration.
The 8th edition in 2024 of CineMigrare Festival will take from 9th to 23th July in Pedara (CT).

Several SPECIAL GUEST are invited to this second edition and they will be awarded with the CineMigrare Award 2024.

Foreing authors are invited to send their short movies with italian subtitles. Info: info@cinemigrare.it // www.cinemigrare.it

BUSHMAN FILM FESTIVAL (BFF) is the first African short film festival with Smartphones in Côte d'Ivoire.

BUSHMAN FILM FESTIVAL is the whole ECOWAS, its youth, its local realities and the discovery of new talents of the 7th West African art

BUSHMAN FILM FESTIVAL is the organic continuity of the African esthetic renaissance initiated by the site BUSHMAN CAFE, meeting place in Abidjan.

BUSHMAN FILM FESTIVAL it is free screenings of films of sessions young audience, of ciné-concerts, by the programming of cinema sessions for other festivals during 4 days.

The Festivalico is a videoart and short film non competitive showcase.

The main objective of the Festival is to open dialogues around contingency issues through cinema as a platform for mediation and engagement, in the Province of Colchagua, also assuming the role of exhibitor of national and Latin American cinema and independent works from different parts of the world.

Our motivation for this 2021 version lies in the social transformations focused on human rights and the conservation of the ecosystem, as well as the dissemination and enhancement of heritage, in order to consolidate the Colchagua International Film Festival as a space for intellectual, political and cultural turmoil.

Fantasy & horror film festival “FANTFEST” , has been organized for the first time in October 2013 under the name of HRIZANTEMA. The festival takes the place among the small, independent festivals of explicit genres. The horror and fantasy film genre has survived the countless transformations from the very beginnings of cinema. Artists, film - makers, professionals and enthusiast, through the time, have positioned the genres of horror and fantasy and sealed its status among the other genres. Since 2021. festival changed the name to FANTFEST.

Entries are open to the ninth edition of the Short Film Short Film Festival of Fiumicino, the film festival organized by the Association Acis. The Short Film Contest is open to all artists, associations, directors, filmmakers, who have produced movies of up to 10 minutes, with the following themes: Legality, Solidarity, Sea, City-Villages-Traditions, Comedy.

La Muestra de cortometrajes “Proyecta Jerez” es el punto de encuentro de tod@s l@s amantes del cine, donde compartimos unos días de cortos, futuros proyectos, exposiciones, charlas coloquios y el anticipo del nuevo Festival de Cortometrajes.

Más Información en: www.jerez.es/juventud
PARTICIPANTES: Creadores de cualquier nacionaalidad, mayores de 18 años.

OBRAS: El tema de la obra será libre. La obra debe ser original y realizada en castellano (o en su defecto subtitulada al castellano).

Cada participante presentará tantas obras como desee, según el número de obras recibidas, los organizadores seleccionarán las que se van a proyectar. La duración del cortometraje, incluido créditos, no superará los 15 minutos. Las obras no podrán tener
contenidos racistas, xenófobos, violentos ni pornográficos.

Se admitirán cortos express que no deben superar los 3 minutos.

Al presentar las obras, habrá que rellenar una ficha con los datos del autor/a más el DNI escaneado.

El plazo de admisión será hasta el 18 de octubre de 2019.

El autor/a de la obra autoriza su reproducción, sin contraprestación económica, pudiendo ser proyectada por la organización con el fin de promocionar la Muestra y el
Festival, reservándose el derecho de su exhibición pública.

The Festival Premiers plans d'Angers has been a film festival since 1989.

Dedicated to the first European cinematographic works, it puts in competition more than one hundred first European films.

Parallel to the competition, it allows to rediscover great works of the cinematographic heritage through tributes, retrospectives, meetings, ...

Attendance 2016: 76,500 entries

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!

SorsiCorti is a Short Film Festival that combines conviviality and interest in the art of the short film.

SorsiCorti was born from passion for cinema and desire to explore innovative and experimental trails of short films

Careful and accurative selection carried out by an evaluation committee made up of experts cinephiles, allows that only high quality short films access the program projection.

SorsiCorti has developed a strong collaboration with the young cultural reality of the Piccolo Teatro Patafisico in Palermo, who also became the official location of the live screenings. However, various events are realized around in town.

The sixth edition of the 7th Moon Festival, International Festival of Long and short films, organized by the Association loi 1901 "The New Moon" will take place from Tuesday 26 March 2019 to Monday 1 April 2019 in Rennes. The films in official competition will be projected between March 26 and April 1, 2019 at night.

For all of its selections, the 7th Moon Festival will select only long and short films whose directors were under 31 years of age, at the time of the completion of the film.

The sample of short films of "La Cuna" is an event that takes place in the teahouse "La Cuna" of Elche (Alicante), Spain, on December 15th, 2019. Is admitted any genre of short film, with a maximum duration of 30 minutes.

Muestra de Cine Social
Luminiscence.


Presentation

The Social Film Festival organized by Luminiscence Studio since 2013 has no competitive character, our intention is to screen projects with a clear social commitment, bringing the works presented to the public closer so that a link can be created between filmmakers, the public and organizers.