Blog: Film festivals

Puerto Rico Film Festival is proud to showcase a high quality programming, a strong industry segment, an educational and networking platform for filmmakers; alongside an audience full of film enthusiasts from all over the world, generating presence in the international film industry, film authors and media representatives.

Hosted in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and surrounded by historical buildings and beautiful beaches, makes up the perfect place to experience true Puerto Rican culture.

Living up to its nickname, the Island of Enchantment, with lush rain forests, dazzling beaches and shimmering city, Puerto Rico has something for everyone.

Let's meet at the Puerto Rico Film Festival to have the best time, with the best artists in the best place to be!

The International Human Rights and Film Festival Venezuela, pretends to be a communicational platform to allow cinematographers around the world to project movies that contemplate one or more topics in Human Rights matters, involving publics and private’s organizations and Non Governmental Organizations, nationally and foreign.

Ascona Film Festival started on the social networks and after 5 years received more than 12000 submissions form 95 countries.

The Ascona Film Festival success is due to the concept of a nice VIP film festival in the legendary Ascona Venue at the Hotel Ascona.

Admission to the projection is on invitation only to selected VIP international personalities.

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.

With the high end digital cameras in hand, youngsters are making films which appeal to them. AIM, Avenues International Media is established with a mission to create a marketing distribution network for the Indie Films.

Now, to have a one to one rapport with these young film makers, AIM is launching the AIM MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM CARNIVAL 2014( AIM MISFC).

The Alamo Drafthouse in Tempe, AZ plays host to the American Horror Film Festival! Now in it’s fourth year we travelled the country to find the perfect venue from Texas to Indiana, finally settling on the Grand Canyon State!

The most beautiful difference about our festival? We create a custom menu to go with your movie! That’s right, imagine your very own version of the 5 Dollar Shake, or a Mississippi Mud Pie twisted to be served while you watch your movie! The Alamo Drafthouse has a full waiter service, so you can enjoy one of fifty beers on tap, while your film screens, or even indulge in a full three course meal!

Our screenings are for real horror film fans and we indulge that, so be sure to keep an eye out for our free give aways including t-shirts, stickers featuring your movie and much more!

Not only that we also have links with distributors, sales agents and film financiers, so you never know who is going to be in the audience with you!

We have a full awards ceremony after the screenings and then a chance to grab a drink and celebrate the event in the fully licensed bar afterwards!

So if you want a packed screening, a fun appreciative audience, in a unique and lively atmosphere and a festival you won’t forget - this is it! Submit today to be a part of the Official Selection, we accept horror films or all shapes and sizes and put the emphasis on quality, over budget, every time!

Only for filmmakers from Malaga or living here. Shortfilm must be filmed after 1 Jan 2019.

Women in Focus emerged in 2009 with the aim of encouraging the promotion and protection of women's rights through film, through the dissemination of films that allow give visibility to the violation of their rights and encourage debate. In this way he sought to create an open standard for men and women around the world space where open dialogue between genres and promote the active participation of the whole society to defend the full exercise of human rights, with a focus on the situation women in the world. They worked on a broad call, unlimited sex, age or origin, and with the conviction that change is possible only from the inclusion of attention.

The axis of Women in Focus is on the woman and her history of violations, to disseminate and denounce the naturalization of the unjust conditions they are facing, and give visibility to the diversity of social, cultural experiences and forms of organization, aiming thinking about other possible worlds. Through films about women also understand and discuss the construction of gender and how it is all of society we seek.

Documentaries, fictions, animations and experimental.

Political, social, racial, gender issues, etc.

DEA OPEN AIR International Film Festival is a product of MultiMedia Studio "Nositi".

The Festival will take place in the Capital city of Tirana.

POST MORTEM at its 12th . 2023 edition
is an international film festival based in Aguascalientes Mexico, every year we receive hundreds of film from all around the world, this year we will focus especially on short film as we believe that it is the explorer and creator of the new cinema paths that someday we will contemplate.

Ojo al Piojo! International Children's Film Festival is organized by the Rosario Audiovisual Center of the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Municipality of Rosario. The eleventh edition will be held from August 18 to 21, 2022 in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.

Ojo al Piojo! it is part of the public policies that the city of Rosario offers for children, protecting and guaranteeing the right to access cultural property, in accordance with the International Convention on the Rights of Children and Adolescents.
Promotes the exhibition of quality short and feature films understanding in this concept that cinematographic resources (script, photography, editing, performances) must be appropriate for children; the themes and interests are representative, the story and the narrative treatment is attractive and interpele as well as the language, appropriate to the age of the target audience. The works must contemplate a broad and integrative view of inclusion and cultural diversity.

The Festival has three (3) competitions:

- Competition of short films made by girls, boys and young people

- Competition of short films made by adults and adults

- Feature Film Competition

For centuries randomness has been under-IRFF 2017 - Call for films

Great News: We are happy to invite you to submit your film for our 6th edition of
International Random Film Festival (IRFF).
You can submit your film directly at our website:
http://www.randomfilmfest.com/submit
or at Festhome.

25 films from all of the online submissions are randomly selected to the festival’s official international competition.

Random Awards will be given. One film in the competition will be randomly selected to win the Random Grand Prix.

The 6th Edition of the IRFF will be held in Helsinki, Finland, 5-7 May 2017.

“SHORT TAKES” Season 4 is a short film contest organised by Pocket Films in association with Indian Film Festival, Stuttgart, Germany.
Through this contest we seek to promote and encourage an awareness, appreciation and understanding of the art of Indian cinema, with a special focus on short films, and to inspire cultural exchanges through these films between India & Germany.

Accepted films will be short, medium and feature length films produced in digital video; categories in documentary, fiction, experimental or animation; movies about mountain sports, adventure or expedition; films that contribute to knowledge and protection of the environment; films about mountain culture or outdoors lifestyle.

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (M.U.F.F.) is a cutting edge premiere showcase for Independent cinema from around the world. It is known for its radical, adventurous and iconoclastic programming decisions, in addition to its support of different voices from independent, alternative, underground and student filmmakers worldwide. The festival focuses on both Australian and International cinema. M.U.F.F. plays many shorts every year and a lot of features, plus an exciting array of documentaries and curated retrospectives. M.U.F.F. is an essential forum for new cinema that will look beyond production values, and find the hidden talent within. M.U.F.F. has been the launching board and incubator for many talented and famous filmmakers including James Wan, Scott Ryan, Jenna Fisher, Jim VanBebber, Bruce LaBruce, Peter Christopherson, Stuart Simpson, Shannon Young, Kel Dolen, Steven Kastrissios, Ivan Kavanagh, Mark Savage, Anna Brownfield, Patrick Hughes, Jeremey DeCeglie, Gregory Pakis and many, many others.