Blog: Film festivals

Lo Cercacurts is a short film festival that takes place during the second weekend of July in the small town of Montornès de Segarra.

Since 2003 the international Festival SIGNES DE NUIT is active in Paris, Berlin, Saarbrücken, Bankok, Quito (Ecuador), Tucuman (Argentina) and now Urbino, as also with special screenings world wide. The festival in Paris actually presents some Hundrets films over the year coming from around 60 countries.

The Festival is searching films, which reflects new views, original imagery and critical approach to the crucial points of the modern human existence. It is a place for cinema that expands its own boundaries, that is astonishing, different, potentially free from the pressure of tradition, ready to give itself to the unpredictable experimentation.

The minor costs of digital production makes an independant- from comercial influences and any kind of censorship- production possible. These independant productions create an alternative, an artistic space very subtle and accessible to all, in contrast to what mass media offer.

This opposition and the preservation of the free cultural space is the goal of the International Festival Signes de Nuit, which has realized screenings and interventions in 23 different countries including Algeria, Australia, Chile, Cuba, Lebanon, Lithuania, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Peru, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States beside the screenings in main festival in Paris.

FesticineKids 26 is an international children's and youth film festival in Cartagena de Indias, it is a film competition that orients its efforts towards strengthening the production and distribution of Colombian, Latin American and world cinema for children and young people.

In 2024, FesticineKids reaches its 26th, edition with the same spirit of highlighting and celebrating cinema for girls, boys and young people. The phrase has been chosen as the slogan: A LOOK TO THE COLOMBIAN WEST. From this concept it is intended to invite children and young people to be aware of the responsibility they have to be agents of change in their environments. Children and young people are the future that should encourage the care of our planet earth, the human beings that surround them, animals and plants, as well as the places they visit. The tendency to Afro movies and ones oriented to indigenous people.

In the construction of the profile of the FesticineKids 26, the screen is problematized as a point of confluence of girls, boys and adolescents. By postulating cinema as that scenario in which feelings, emotions and beliefs are expressed, it is intended that girls, boys and adolescents, understanding what the cinema evokes them, what they extract from it and its meanings, wonder about the place that cinema has in their lives, in their environment, in parallel to the place they want and dream of.

It is also an opportunity for adults, parents, teachers, cultural and cinematographic authorities, to think about the need to strengthen their capacities to be trainers in tension and interaction with the audiovisual media, especially the cinema.

VALENTINE FILM FESTIVAL now accepting romantic films.

With five days of film screenings and networking events for filmmakers, Valentine Film Festival is an event not to be missed.

The festival program is divided into the following categories:

• Special Category of World Premiere
• Special Category of Indian Premiere

• Feature Narrative Films (Fiction)
• Long Documentaries (Non-Fiction)
• Feature Animation Films (Fiction & Non-Fiction)
• Long Experimental Films

• Short Films (Fiction)
• Short Documentaries (Non-Fiction)
• Short Animation Films (Fiction & Non-Fiction)
• Short Experimental Films
• Music Videos

• Retrospectives, Tributes, Country Focus, Premieres
• Technical Workshops and other Interactive Sessions
• Film Seminar
• Exhibition of Film Posters
• Exhibition of Film Related Photographs
• Exhibition of Film Related Paintings
• Releasing of Film Studies Books

Showcasing a broad range of genres by international directors, Valentine Film Festival brings the best of fresh romantic film making to film-loving audiences.

Submission Categories:

• Short Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Short Documentaries (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Short Animation Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Short Experimental Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Music Videos (Duration: Under 60 minutes)

• Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Long Documentaries (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Feature Animation Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Long Experimental Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Music Videos (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)

• Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Long Documentaries (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Feature Animation Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Long Experimental Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Music Videos (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)

Special Submission Categories:

• Special Category of World Premiere (First Screening of the Film)
• World Premiere of Short Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• World Premiere of Short Documentaries (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• World Premiere of Short Animation Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• World Premiere of Short Experimental Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• World Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: Under 60 minutes)

• World Premiere of Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• World Premiere of Long Documentaries (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• World Premiere of Feature Animation Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• World Premiere of Long Experimental Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• World Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)

• World Premiere of Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• World Premiere of Long Documentaries (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• World Premiere of Feature Animation Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• World Premiere of Long Experimental Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• World Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)

• Special Category of Indian Premiere (First Indian Screening of the Film)
• Indian Premiere of Short Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Short Documentaries (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Short Animation Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Short Experimental Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: Under 60 minutes)

• Indian Premiere of Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Long Documentaries (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Feature Animation Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Long Experimental Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)

• Indian Premiere of Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Long Documentaries (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Feature Animation Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Long Experimental Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)

• Exhibition of Film Posters
• Exhibition of film related Digital Paintings
• Exhibition of film related Photographs
• Presentation of Research Paper

Submission Opening Date: October 20, 2016

Deadlines:
EARLYBIRD DEADLINE: JANUARY 08, 2017
REGULAR DEADLINE: OCTOBER 08, 2017
LATE DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 08, 2017
EXTENDED DEADLINE: DECEMBER 08, 2017

Notification Date: JANUARY 08, 2018
EVENT DATE: FEBRUARY 04-08, 2018

EARLYBIRD SUBMISSION PERIOD: From OCTOBER 20, 2016 To JANUARY 08, 2017
SUBMISSION FEE FOR EARLYBIRD DEADLINE:

Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 20 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 40 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 60 USD

REGULAR SUBMISSION PERIOD: From JANUARY 09, 2017 To OCTOBER 08, 2017
SUBMISSION FEE FOR REGULAR DEADLINE:

Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 30 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 50 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 70 USD

LATE SUBMISSION PERIOD: From OCTOBER 09, 2017 To NOVEMBER 08, 2017
SUBMISSION FEE FOR LATE DEADLINE:

Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 40 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 60 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 80 USD

EXTENDED SUBMISSION PERIOD: From NOVEMBER 09, 2017 To DECEMBER 08, 2017
SUBMISSION FEE FOR EXTENDED DEADLINE:

Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 50 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 70 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 90 USD

SUBMISSION FEE FOR GUARANTEED SPECIAL CATEGORIES:
SPECIAL CATEGORY SUBMISSION PERIOD: From OCTOBER 20, 2016 To DECEMBER 08, 2017

Special Category of World Premiere:
(Guaranteed Film Screening for Every Submissions in this Special Category)
Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 100 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 200 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 300 USD

Special Category of Indian Premiere:
(Guaranteed Film Screening for Every Submissions in this Special Category)
Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 100 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 200 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 300 USD

• Exhibition of Film Posters: $ 5 USD per Poster (Guaranteed Exhibition of Film Posters for Every Submission in this Category)

• Exhibition of film related Digital Paintings: $ 5 USD per Painting (Guaranteed Exhibition of Digital Paintings for Every Submissions in this Category)

• Exhibition of Film Related Photographs: $ 5 USD per Photograph (Guaranteed Exhibition of Photographs for Every Submissions in this Category)

• Presentation of Research Paper: $ 25 USD per Presentation (Maximum 2500 words) (Guaranteed Presentation of Research Papers for Every Submissions in this Category)

Awards & Prizes

Awards for all deserved film makers.

Rules & Terms

All films must have English subtitles.

Only digital submissions will be accepted.

Entries must be received before the Deadline.
Earlybird Deadline: JANUARY 08, 2017
Regular Deadline: OCTOBER 08, 2017
Late Deadline: NOVEMBER 08, 2017
Extended Deadline: DECEMBER 08, 2017

All films which are selected / nominated for the Festival, will be informed by emails & listed on our website www.valentinefilmfestival.webs.com

The list of selected films will be available on Valentine Film Festival‘s website from January 08, 2018.

If Applicants are unable to upload a screener, Valentine Film Festival will accept a private Vimeo link or a private Youtube link emailed along with the submission tracking number, to valentinefilmfestival@gmail.com

Enquiries: valentinefilmfestival@gmail.com
Webpage: www.valentinefilmfestival.webs.com

“Il Circo dell’Arte” Cultural Association, based in Venosa (PZ), Italy in Piazza Q. Orazio Flacco n. 24, in collaboration with Artistica Management (www.artisticamanagement.com), announces the 2nd edition of the short film Contest Five Continents Film Festival, as part of the 12th edition of the Five Continents Festival (www.cinquecontinentifestival.com).

The Five Continents Festival is, in its nature, a place for diverse cultures and people to meet, where comparison is stimulated, diversity is praised, dialogue is preferred, awareness is promoted, multiculturalism is celebrated. Through short films, the Five Continents Film Festival offers to share with the public traditions and customs of people from all over the world and their cultural expressions.

The Five Continents Film Festival will consist of multiple film screenings and will take place at different times and locations from July to September 2016. It will conclude with a final event, at a date to be determined in the fall of 2016, in which the winner of the festival will be announced. The calendar and times of screenings will be published on our website and on the Five Continents Festival program.

The 11th Annual Toyama International Film Festival will take place in June of 2024 in Toyama Prefecture. With such great success in previous years, we are excited to once again share the visions of filmmakers from all over the world with our local community in the countryside of Japan.

Submissions will be open until April 14th, 2024.

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The Annual Toyama International Film Festival (TIFF) began in the rural prefecture of Toyama, Japan. Started by a few English teachers in the area, we hoped to reach people not just in Japan, but around the globe.

The first TIFF took place in a small room inside of a shopping center, where about 70 people watched the 10 films we had received. The following year was a tremendous success with over 100 submissions from different countries, quite a step from our first year. The event was held in the city of Toyama at a local independently-owned venue, Bodegas-Mambo with around 80-100 guests coming to view the films. Every year since, we hope to expand even further and provide an even larger venue for participants and the movie-going community in Japan.

Today, with over 1200 submissions each year from countries around the world, TIFF has become a highly-anticipated annual event and a staple of Toyama's international community.

Note: Due to time constraints, we cannot accept films that run over 10 minutes. However, any genre of short film will be considered for exhibition.

The Association 400 Colpi is a non-profit organization created with the aim of promoting films that, thanks to their language, style, story, and themes, are intended for both young and adult audiences.
vvfilmf is synonymous with film quality and represents a window into the youth world. It is not just a film festival. It's an experience. It's a significant cultural moment for young people that unites and cultivates.

Over the years, vvfilmf has created events that discover spaces for young people, workshops for the study of new forms of visual expression. #vvfilmf presents itself as an initiative aimed at the entire country and internationally, with the intention of meeting the expectations of both a young population and adult viewers.
The goal is to bring the general public closer to quality cinematic forms. Despite the festival's programming having a preferential audience of children, school-age youth, and university students, it enthusiastically opens its doors to adults and all those interested in cinematic art, fascinated by artistic and visual culture, passionate about education, pedagogy, educational fun, and simple entertainment.

The festival represents an excellent opportunity to showcase new educational paths, offering a constantly renewed program of cultural activities, and to propose, through the cinematic medium, respectful skills and fruitful reflections open to all school members.

vvfilmf boasts the High Patronage of the European Parliament, the Patronage of the Italian Council Presidency, the Ministry of Culture, Labor and Social Policies, Tourism, and almost all Italian Regions, many Provinces, and Municipalities.

Among the multi-year collaborations developed by #VVFILMF are those with RAI Cinema, the Foundation for Entertainment, and Lancia Europa, as well as with RAI Radio 2 and RAI Educational.

Thanks to the high quality of the film selection in competition and the professionalism demonstrated over the years, vvfilmf has been chosen by the President of the Biennale Foundation, Paolo Baratta, and the Director of the Venice International Film Festival, to select a group of young jurors and accompany them into the world of international cinema during the Venice International Film Festival.

XXXVI NATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION OF L’ALFÀS DEL PI

Only for Iberoamerican Filmmakers // Solo para cineastas Iberoamericanos.

The 12th edition of the FICS will take place in Bucaramanga – Santander from September 27 to October 1, 2022. The call in all official competitive categories, will be open from June 24 to August 19, 2022. For this edition, the Festival will have prizes in effective, recognition support for audiovisual development.

The Social Education and Communications Corporation PRESS LIBRE, whose trajectory of more than twenty years, in the leadership of the development of the media in Santander, supports and qualifies the suitability of the FICS.

The FICS is made up of the presidency of the film director Sergio Cabrera and is headed by its director, Oscar Fonseca, in accompaniment of administrative partners.

Its main objective is to work for the formation of a public criticism and for the consolidation of spaces for discussion and appreciation around a real film culture in the region and in the country.

The department of Santander as the headquarters of the FICS, is among other
the department with the highest average economic growth annual and is promoted as one of the most popular tourist destinations
important, a cultural epicenter of enterprising people, who opens its doors to new markets.

The competitive sections of the FICS are windows to the development of the
culture and the film industry, with new looks towards Ibero-America, maintaining its strong commitment to cinema national, supporting the cinema made in Colombia and Latin America

Festival is an international unique project.

These days Khanty-Mansiysk becomes a TV and environmental capital of Russia, where you can see the most actual foreign and native ecological documentary.

Nowadays mass media devote special attention to environmental issues. Every year state of our planet is getting worse. Participants of the festival are calling to rescue the world. They are real professionals that live TV and films.

Their works are worth of recognition. The main award - the Golden Loon - gives to participants an opportunity to create new films that could affect people' world view. Today the importance to respect nature can be reveal through the TV screen. The main thing is to do it properly. And International Ecological TV Festival "To Save and Preserve teaches and promote this thing.

The festival’s mission is to spread the knowledge of film art, especially in the form of short films, in order to show the public all the different aspects of contemporary international cinema.

The Hollywood Academy supports Huesca International Film Festival by recognizing it as shortlisting for the Oscar Awards within Best Short Fiction Film category, also the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes it for the Goya Awards.

http://www.oscars.org/sites/default/files/88aa_shorts_festival_list.pdf

Revolution Me Film Festival brings you a new generation of filmmakers. It is important for every artist of every culture to stand for something in their own unique way, to creating stories that can change the world.

The world of film/TV is constantly changing and it will continue to grow. But who is leading this new change? Filmmakers, screenwriters, actors, producers, and directors have a voice and it is important to influence our communities with our stories.

Revolution Me Film Festival wants the new emerging filmmakers to come together and change the world. We need more diversity, we need more voices, we need more women behind the camera and sitting on the directors chair. This film festival is open to ALL!

Bucharest International Film Festival is a competitive festival, dedicated primarily to international feature-length films. The festival aims to promote copyright movies and low budget films.

The end of ideologies has left two words, social and capital, as a pair of twin archetypes, social/kapital, which is strangely guiding our time now. That strangeness (in fact is a mere fairness because of accumulation of those two words’ ideological histories) is located on the interpretation position of both which inevitably are inseparable anymore since have turned into mutational forms of knowledge of how we appropriate all activities and cultural production in that context. This mutated knowledge is the meaning of both words in its similar proportion namely, social / capital.

The context plays its role in the transitional period now, which is on the pragmatic pressures rather than symbolic desires. Only seems both words repel each other although they actually equally inherent in mutual dependence and to their implications on our reality these days.

As a manifest of the archetypal fall, both concepts are merely placed into grand discourse throughout the centuries of cultural production on the top of ivory tower, a place where comprehensions of cultural production is likely to be seen and interpreted centrally–monoconsentric—through intricacy and sophistication of powers (political) and technologies (aesthetic). In other words, the language that articulates practices to imagine social and capital at that time and became our legacy of thinking, only allowing a value obtained from contemplation, while a variety of performativity which is celebrated in it sublimated as myths about World View. However, as the withdrawal of modernism, a shift in the understanding and meaning occurs when the concepts of geography and anthropology transformed most phenomenally by massive presence of new life habituation through the media that we are using now. social/kapital reduces those myths and coexist or along together with our performativity celebrations today.

Reduction of those myths seems in this circumstance: A productional milieu from vertical experience symbolically into horizontal experience pragmatically. In other words, the quest for suprasensory concept shifted to the quest for visible interpretation alias everyday.

A new literacy was stretched in front of the most present opportunities of cultural productions. Thus, the end of ideologies, which can be read as globalism nowadays has directed the production structure into contemporary guilds through the most advanced concept of the meaning existence of social and capital. This latter reality results in social reproduction produced by capital markets certainly everywhere either in the economic context or anthropological. Avoiding the strongest possibility of sloganistic assumptions to emerge about the revolutions of ideologies when writing this term, SOCIAL/CAPITAL are arranged in inductive letters, social/kapital is about to put perspective on peripheral domains.

Practices imagine anthropocentric into the concepts of citizenship or citizens as units of community—either as a representation of what would be ideal, either as a sheer performativity celebration, now it is common that the behaviors in a new world (global) when socialism and capitalism become mere of ‘world view’ concepts from the past and no longer sturdy as the two dominant poles which were constructed and applied throughout history by various powers to codify its inhabitants.

Idea and concept about social/kapital citizens have been merging various cultural activities of their existence in a new world (global) without—or only vaguely— memories of the state except local identity as a nation and their differential statuses. Individualism in the body of citizens is imagined almost as closely as shadow of something collective (collectivity). Is there a so-called global citizen complete with attributes and identity really exist apart from geographical and societal changes in which the capital motive is its creator?

Film is an international medium that has its roots in the American inventors and entrepreneurs. This spirit is felt in every word of a script, every frame, every cell and every pixel of film produced around the world.
The American Film Award is a recognition of what it means to have that founding motivating force. It is much more than a trophy, it is a message that the spirit of film is alive.
The American Film Award is a mark of excellence in Film Craft.

Detroit’s Trinity International Film Festival. The festival takes place August 20-23, 2020 in beautiful Downtown Detroit at The Marlene Boll Theater, 1401 Broadway, Detroit, Michigan and The Carr Center Gallery. The 4-day event themed “FILM YOUR FUTURE” features an array of independent films, screenplays, workshops, The Future panel discussion and filmmakers from around the world. We are also hosting a Best screenplay competition, 2nd Annual Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey 100 Proof! Red Carpet Award ceremony. We expect an audience of over 4500 people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds to attend. This event will give your company a distinct marketing opportunity with this population in Detroit.

The TI Film Festival has hosted industry professionals locally and nationally to share their knowledge and expertise in various workshops and industry discussions. Special guests have included famed Actress and Producer, Tangi Miller, Syndicated Radio Host and Film Producer, Russ Parr, Former BET Executive Producer, Ralph Scott, currently with the Aspire Network (Owned by Magic Johnson), film segment producer/head of production for more than 100 episodes of SNL, Tanya Ryno and Writer, Director, Qasim Basir, “Destined,” and Actress/Singer Deborah Joy Winans of the acclaimed TV series “Greenleaf,” which airs on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network.


The highlight of this event over the years has been all of the innovative work we've showcased by indie filmmakers and our audience that supports Detroit's TI Film Festival.

2020 Festival Schedule (Screening Schedule Coming Soon)

The International Afro Film Festival "Ananse" aims to make visible the cultural and social aspects about the black population. Working as part of a circuit that allows alternative movement be made known to new filmmakers to make videos about the Afro-descendants in the entire world.

"Ananse" is the first festival that invites filmmakers around the country the possibility to create spaces visible productions representing the views of the black communities.