Blog: Film festivals

Dear friends and friends:

Once again we have the honor of inviting you to be part of our festival for which we look for films of any duration, theme or origin that, embracing the tools of real cinema, represent diverse points of view on the contemporary human experience.

In this version we are once again a face-to-face space, returning our hearts to the collective bodies of the desert. AricaDoc was born as a path to explore alternatives to the competition and commodification that industrial logics impose on the cinematographic arts.

Promoting a sensitive and political meeting based on the active search for new ways to feel our relationship with the world around us.

We are deeply grateful to each and everyone who has joined the communities of audiences of the festival from distant territories, thinking of them and them is that at least part of the program will be available on an online viewing platform, for access from Peru, Bolivia and Chile.

For this year the activities will be concentrated between August 28 and September 9. Being this call open between May 13 and June 10, through FESTHOME or as a direct application by registering your films and completing the application form available on the site aricadoc.cl

Thanking you in advance for your kind participation.

Kindly say goodbye
Arica Doc Team

“Social World Film Festival” is the most emotional festival in the world with events, movies, previews, innovative activities, jury of young people and professionals, workshops, competitions, presentations and thousands of visitors.

The thirteenth edition of the International Social Cinema Festival “Social World Film Festival” will take place from 2nd July to 9th July 2023 in Vico Equense (Sorrento Coast - Italy) between activities in presence and innovative streaming modes aimed as always to ensure the interaction, direct and in connection, of the authors with the audience of the event.

The winners of the competitive selections are awarded during the Gala Night scheduled for the thirteenth edition in Vico Equense (Sorrento Coast - Italy).

Participating to the International Festival of Social Cinema “Social World Film Festival” offers some specially selected works the exclusive possibility to be presented in events organized worldwide thats in the last ten years, we have involved 28 cities in 40 events on five continents including Los Angeles, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Wien, Washington DC, Seoul, Busan, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Paris, Istanbul, San Francisco, Tokyo, Sydney, Marseilles, Palma, Tunis, Hong Kong, Jakarta.

Our mission:

To recognise and honour experimental film
To educate the public in experimental film
To build a networking platform for experimental filmmakers

We support: the unrecognised, the progressive, the visionary. By submitting your film you: endorse our mission, embrace our philosophy, join our community, declare rightful ownership of your work, permit screenings, and the use of clips and images for promotion.



London Experimental Film Anti-Festival
Fluid and evolving
Promoting experimental film
Exhibits in a variety of alternative spaces
No programming
No competition or prizes
Random film selection
Free to watch
Unorthodox marketing

FRONTERA SUR, International Non-Fiction Film Festival, is a non-competitive event that exhibits a set of cinematographic, Chilean, Latin American and worldwide works related to the concept of non-fiction cinema.

The sixth edition of the FRONTERA SUR Festival will take place from May 14 to 18, 2024, in the Concepción city, Biobío Region, southern Chile.

The International Short Film Festival “Tandil Cortos” is organized by The Tandil Cinema Association, a non-profit organization. The 15th edition will be held in “Teatro del Fuerte” (Tandil, Argentina) from 30th - 31th August and 1th - 2th september 2018.

Only Spanish Productions

Cityflix International Film Festival Toronto (CIFF) is dedicated towards promoting and championing the work of screenwriters, filmmakers, and every artist who use the language of film to tell a story.
Cityflix International Film Festival discovers outstanding, emerging filmmakers serving as a gateway for established and rising talent to further or launch their filmmaking career. Through Workshops, Conferences and master classes by Industry Professional, the festival provides development and outreach opportunities to writers and filmmakers.
Cityflix International Festival Toronto will be held from November
29 - December 01, 2019 in Toronto, Canada.

CIFF strives to serve the interests and needs of independent filmmakers. CIFF understands how important it is to hear and see the educated, entertaining and diverse stories of filmmakers from around the globe. We provide a platform so these voices can be heard and shared with audiences that want to be inspired
screening festival for features, shorts, docs, new media, local and International filmmakers.

CIFF is designed to showcase innovative works by emerging filmmakers from around the world, With red-carpet screenings, and special after-party that seamlessly integrates Hollywood pros with up-and-coming talents, CIFF offers an unforgettable festival experience that helps kick start the careers of emerging filmmakers. Each screening at CIFF is followed by a Q&A that directly connects directors with inquisitive and impassioned film lovers, resulting in countless opportunities for dynamic discussion. The festival dedicates time and attention to each of the films selected The festival is dedicated to giving each filmmaker the spotlight they deserve with press attention to match.

All filmmakers selected for the festival are guaranteed coverage from media outlets, invites emerging filmmaking talents from around the world to network with respected industry professionals, showcased filmmakers, and their audiences in Toronto.
CIFF is passionately committed to providing Audiences, Filmmakers, and Screenwriters around the globe with an excellent and unique cinematic experience.

Halloween Weekend of Horror at the Irish Film Institute.

The Fish&Chips Film Festival – International Erotic Film Festival wants to open, in Turin and in Italy, a window on film genre and create an opportunity to approach sexuality in a creative, free, innovative, lay, irreverent and intelligent way. The Festival aims to be a moment of liberation and expressive creation and it will take place in January 2020 in Turin, Italy.

We believe in eroticism as a basic need of human beings and we want to show sex from different points of view, be they psychological, physical or social, but in any case liberating and non-discriminatory.

We want to research and propose a quality cultural production, able to go beyond the simplistic and abused canonical approaches. We are going to select works with cinematographic significance, able to convey a unique vision upon a broad and varied world, ranging from love to eroticism and pornography.

The festival is meant to be a moment of reflection and enjoyment, which includes debates, exhibitions and shows. For our third edition, we welcome any experimentation, smashed peas, proposals and other pleasantries. We believe expression, sexual and thought freedom to be a key feature for the creation of a more challenging horizon.

Sex has always driven many of our decisions and that’s where we have decided to start from!

PLAY is the first Portuguese film festival, exclusively dedicated to children and teenagers, determined to promote the access to culture for a younger audience through Cinema and screening films for audiences aged between 1 and 16 years old.

Make It Short is a two-day short film festival covering a range of topics from all over the world. Through short films we can experience a huge range of subjects and styles, and our festival includes social commentary, humour and animation. Although we are presenting work on certain themes each short film also stands alone.

This is our first Make It Short. As well as adult submissions it will include shorts created by local schoolchildren and students, and by Brazilian children as part of our cultural exchange programme.

Algeciras Fantástika is a multidisciplinary cultural event specialized in matters of fantastic nature, suspense, terror and science fiction, organized by Algeciras City Council and the University of Cadiz.

Dear Friends,

I am extremely happy to welcome you at the 4th Kolkata International Wildlife & Environment Film Festival – 2018 scheduled from 14th December to 16th December 2018 in the most culturally rich city of India, Kolkata.
We received overwhelming response from independent film maker fraternity from across the globe last year. We received more than 2300 entries from 116 countries on the five categories of the festival.
We will get a unique opportunity to present your films to a large section of people, mainly students & youths across India & the world to various towns, cities, educational institutions & different responsible forums. Our main aim to create mass awareness for nature & wildlife conservation to common people mainly students & youths. We are the only festival who arrange special shows for underprivileged children & spent a portion of the budget for their upliftment process in the form of education materials, medicines, clothes etc. This is the unique social face of the festival.
Kolkata International Wildlife & Environment Film Festival is chosen as most popular people’s choice festival. Our facebook page followers cross one lac seventy five thousand already & moving on everyday.
We have introduced “TRAVELLING FESTIVAL” from last year. We already performed at NAGPUR, State – MAHARASHTRA in the month of January 2017 & at AGARTALA, State – TRIPURA in the month of February 2017. We received tremendous response in both the places & nearly 20,000 students from 40 schools participated in the travelling festival.
We have to provide arrangements to show films at different school auditoriums even, to accommodate more students as the capacity of official Venue was full.
We have introduced unique concept of “GREEN-BRIGADE” from 2016. We invite Write-up, drawings, poems or any creative regarding nature/wildlife/environment from students. We provide “GREEN-BRIGADE” Complimentary membership & ten plants to our green brigade members. We received tremendous response from thousands of students.
The Judging of films made by eminent personalities from different section of life. We acknowledge your creativity keeping high standards.

We look forward to receive your films & hope you would be the winner of Prestigious “DESHAM GOLDEN TIGER” award.
WE ONCE AGAIN WELCOME YOU AT OUR FESTIVAL AT KOLKATA, INDIA FROM 14TH TO 16TH DECEMBER 2018.
I am sure you will enjoy the festival in fullest & return with many sweet experience & memories.
Thank you very much & see you soon.
ADITYA MUKHERJEE
Festival Director
4th Kolkata International Wildlife & Environment Film Festival-2018

"MAIPÚ SHORTS" IS A COMEDY / HUMOR FILM FESTIVAL.

ONLY FOR BRASILIAN FILMMAKERS // SOLO PARA CINEASTAS BRASILEÑOS

Cinefest Gato Preto ("Black Cat") is a short-film festival for Brazilians film makers.

We will have a specific focus, trying to give attencion to all areas in cinema: art direction, sound design, editing, scrict, direction, acting, photography and production.

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FRICINE aims to display, publicize and reward audiovisual works, ideas and actions that by their artistic form and the relevance of its content contribute to promote the overcoming of problems that disturb the Peace of Humanity and threaten Life on Earth.

Opting to go against primarily commercial interests, FRICINE's biggest prize is to give the public access to the debate on the main problems that the human being and it ecosystem face today.

FRICINE 2019 will highlight HUMOR,in its most diverse forms, for its extraordinary ability to stimulate us to disarm our fears and prejudices in search of a world more loving, healthy and just for all.

The competition consists of two general categories:
Documentaries and Advertising films/scenarios: The documentaries with nonfictional scenarios that hold a different viewpoint about tourism, and the creative advertising films/scenarios fictionalized for promotional purposes will be evaluated in this two-stage competition. The films determined through a preliminary consideration will be evaluated by a jury, and the top three films in both categories will be rewarded. Documentary category will include road films, tourism destinations, cultural heritage and archaeology documentaries, nature and environment documentaries, sports-themed films, and travel programs. Advertising films/scenarios should be related to territorial/regional companies or tourism products. The competing works should include one of the following themes:

Documentary Films:

Tourism destinations,
Cultural heritage and archaeology films,
Types of tourism,
Tourism and environment,
Travel films,
Road movie,
Nature and environment-related documentary films,
Sports-themed films.