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JOIN THE WORLD'S BIGGEST SUSTAINABILITY FILM FESTIVAL LED BY OSCAR-, BAFTA- & EMMY-WINNING CELEBRITIES. GET YOUR FILMS SCREENED ON EUROPE'S BIGGEST SCREEN - LONDON'S ICONIC PICCADILLY LIGHTS.

OUR FILMS HAVE BEEN AWARDED AND NOMINATED FOR THE BAFTAS, OSCARS AND EMMY AWARDS. THE FILMS HAVE REACHED MILLIONS IN 120+ COUNTRIES. ALL WINNERS ARE FEATURED ON EUROPE'S BIGGESTS SCREEN, LONDON'S ICONIC PICCADILLY LIGHTS - AN EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGE AND HONOUR!

ALL FILMS COMPLETED AFTER 1 JAN 2022 ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SUBMISSION.

2025 (7th ) EDITION IS NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES.

FILMS WITH SUSTAINABILITY-THEMES, INLCUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

CLIMATE ACTION
PEACE & JUSTICE
MIGRATION
INEQUALITY
INCLUSION & DIVERSITY
DISCRIMINATION
MARINE LIFE
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BIODIVERSITY
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MENTAL HEALTH
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EDUCATION
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SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS

The festival and gala awards is organised by the Big Syn Institute, a part of the Centre for Big Synergy, which is a CSO of the United Nations. The festival educates and inspires millions to act on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).

FIVE REASONS TO SUBMIT YOUR FILMS.

1. Be part of history; inspire action, create change.

2. Get recognition from OSCARS-, BAFTA- and EMMY-winning Grand Jury.

3. Screenings across the world and the UK.

4. Red carpet gala awards in London; meet celebrities, industry, press & TV. (TBC)

5. Covered by major UK and international news and media including the BBC.

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IMPORTANT

If your film has an important message for the world, this festival is for you. All films should touch upon or cover major issues faced by the planet and the people; around social, economic or environmental sustainability.

Entry fees paid are not refundable under any circumstances, so please read rules before submitting your films.

The following types of films (premiered and unpremiered), are eligible for the festival.

- Features
- Shorts
- Animations
- Series/web
- Documentaries
- CSR videos
- Charity films
- Public Service announcements

Horrorant Film Festival ‘FRIGHT NIGHTS’ is an international horror film festival organised by a genre film distributor and held annually at the best equipped theatres in the heart of Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece.

EVERYTHING RAISED ON THIS PLATFORM IRA TO STRENGTHEN THE SCHOOL OF CINEMA IN C.O.V.I (Solano)
https://www.facebook.com/covicultura/
under fest ACTION
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6BXCHQIM_TRR3gtNHgtLVQ0LUk

IMPORTANT: MOVIES MUST CONTAIN SUBTITLES IN SPANISH UNLESS THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE IS SPANISH. Printed in the video image or in perfect sync with the online player attached in the Festhome platform ( YOUTUBE , VIMEO, etc... )

Films that do not complete this regulation will need the subtitles ready to send to the Festival if the film is selected.

HOWEVER, THEIR IS AN ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL SERVICE FOR THE FESTIVAL TO CREATE AND/OR TRANSLATE SUBTITLES FOR YOU FILM. PLEASE READ RULES FOR ADDITIONAL INFO AND PRICES.

Films from the undergound, self-managed, decentralized and free distribution. Environmental and audiovisual tools used for pure joy, happiness, disinformation, emotional connection, television detoxification, collective cooperation, social creation of art, the multiplication of free cinema and more ...

The festival is a social tool viewable and controlled. It is an annual event, managed in a friendly network in cities across the continent, which displays unpublished, experimental or out of the system, linking non-conventional spaces, creating a common grid and a shared mission, fruit of a collective intelligence and the freedom of speech.

The festival is a social tool for visibility and coordination. It is an annual event, produced in a network, in several cities of the continent, which allows to display unpublished audiovisual productions, experimental or outside the industrial system and, in coordination, to contact non-traditional exhibition spaces generating a common grid and a fruit object / text of the collective Intelligence put into operation and manifestation.
This year the festival is not absent, we believe that it is more than ever necessary to maintain the premises for which the festival was created, understanding us as a counter-information tool, during these 14 years the dynamics of the festival has traveled unusual sites for what is understood as the official circuit of film festivals in conventional rooms for projections but in this way we have created walls, floors, cultural centers, neighborhoods, squares, streets, settlements, meeting spaces to see what is happening underneath the surface.

This edition has 2 OBJECTIVES

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It is 16 years to accompany the under scene, this space that changes year after year, which takes new form when it is possible to see what is being filmed accompanying the new languages ​​of this time. This experimental scene began to leave experiences that we were channeling in the conurbano, in the occupation and the promotion, in if in sharing, that nourished something that today is a few steps and that is one of the great objectives that has this edition 2024 .

we are already away from the commercial circuits or day-to-day broadcasting and we are looking for the construction of the cinema school in the Covi neighborhood of Solano, where we hold the film festival and believe that the TRECE will be a great kick for this experience that we support and we have been part since its inception.

ITINERANT

The productions chosen, will be part of the retrospective that we will be projecting in a route that will unite different points of Argentina.

The film festival will become itinerant.

Here we see cinema, we talk about cinema, we make cinema. We experiment with the form and structure of the festival, always. We want to rotate the transparency of the impeccable narratives. We are self-management, we have great reasons to criticize from a clear political position our sociocultural context of audiovisual production. We seek to see that which is hidden beyond the superficial, without red carpets.

The Miranchurito International Film Festival is pleased to announce its opening and launch in March 2025.

The objective of “MIRANCHURITO FEST” is to promote national and international film talents, seeking a space where social, ethnic, cultural, ancestral, political, and economic diversity is promoted and to recognize the best cinematographic works presented to the festival.

MIRANCHURITO FEST seeks not only to be a showcase for talent, but also a space for dialogue and encounter, strengthening the connection between filmmakers and the audience, as well as promoting the positive impact of cinema on society. Our festival invites you to explore new perspectives and celebrate creativity without limits.

Welcome to be part of this family.

VinartFest es un evento artístico multidisciplinar en torno a la cultura del vino y su simbología que celebrará su quinta edición en mayo del 2025 en un entorno rural manchego como es Ventas de Alcolea, una pedanía casi despoblada entre las provincias de Albacete y Cuenca.

VinartFest quiere ser un punto de encuentro para expresiones artísticas diversas, reunidas en torno a un mismo hilo conductor: el poder creativo y evocador del vino y su cultura.

El Festival se articula en torno a un doble objetivo: poner en valor la riqueza cultural que posee el mundo del vino, así como dinamizar culturalmente una zona del medio rural manchego que ha ido quedando despoblada y es el reflejo de la denominada "España vaciada". El festival es una iniciativa de la asociación sin ánimo de lucro, Asociación Cultural de Ventas de Alcolea.

Como parte del festival, la Asociación Cultural de Ventas de Alcolea, ha convocado el V Certamen de Microrrelato, Fotografía y Cortometrajes VinartFest 2025, que se unirán al resto de actividades que se programarán en el marco del Festival.

Cerdanya Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cerdanya, is a Festival specialized in the documentary, fiction and animation genre, short and feature films, consisting of competitive international sections, non-competitive sections and parallel activities. All the films that are part of the different sections will be selected by the Festival programmers.

Cerdanya Film Festival qualifies for Premios Goya – Spanish Film Academy in Best Spanish Shortfilm, in Fiction, Animation and Documentary categories.

The 16th edition of the Cerdanya Film Festival will be held from 28th July to 17th August 2025.

The UVM Film Festival is returning. In Spring 2025, UVM will hold its first student film festival in over six years. Open to all majors, this film festival is meant as a way to help UVM students express their creativity to the fullest.

Un Court Tournable is a shorts films festival event that aims to be a place of discovery of new talents in the field of cinema.

Personalities will sponsor some of our events as a guest of honor, an opportunity to share experience with this artistic universe.

The festival have 4 editions by year.

The screening will take place:

CINEMA MAC MAHON
5 Avenue Mac-Mahon
75017 Paris
http://www.cinemamacmahon.com/
Métro: Charles de Gaulle Etoile (ligne 1, 2 et 6)
Parking: Indigo Wagram ou Mac Mahon

or

ECOLES CINEMA CLUB
23 rue des Ecoles
75005 Paris
https://pariscinemaclub.com/ecoles/
Métro: Maubert-Mutualité, Cardinal Lemoine (ligne 10)

Niagara Canada International Film Festival (NCIFF) is an IMDb qualifying festival conducting an innovative international film festival and invites participation from aspiring and upcoming independent filmmakers. A unique film Festival, focusing on opportunity creation for global filmmakers.

[Niagara Canada International Film Festival is to promote new movie makers, exchange of knowledge, information, ideas & culture between Canadian & other nations in context of their social and cultural ethos. NCIFF also promotes friendship and co-operation among people of the world through the medium of films & documentaries.]

Our festival supports independent cinema across formats and aims to showcase the best talent & cinema from across the globe.

Also, The Niagara Canada International Film Festival is an annual showcase of World Cinema created by world film makers. Films include short, feature, documentaries and Social & Music which explore the culture, history and tradition. It is a unique festival to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the film industry from Canada, USA, Europe, Asia and other parts of the world.

Reaching a potential audience of millions of Ontario-based movie lovers, NIFF (Niagara Canada International Film Festival) provides a unique cultural destination for Niagara and Ontario based ex-patriots to connect with the culture of home through the magic of cinema.

Our Vision:

"Bringing the World to Niagara Falls, Canada through a shared passion for film and the power of storytelling.”

Our Mission

The Niagara Canada International Film Festival is dedicated to the discovery and promotion of Film Makers, Storytellers and Artists and sharing with audiences. Everyone has a story to tell, our goal is to inspire and encourage people to share their stories using the media of film and to create events that enable the sharing of those stories across communities and beyond.

We accept all genres of films from all over the world. We create an opportunity for filmmakers to get their films judged and let them compete with other filmmakers. We perform a comprehensive evaluation process and select only high-quality films.

NCIFF is an IMDb qualifying Festival
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0073754/

*AN OLYMPIAD FOR FILMMAKERS!*

We desire to see your film! We want to see your dreams, empathise with your heroes, laugh with your jokes, cry with your drama!

Over 900 films from 87 countries participated in a total of 11 Grand Prix competitions and 90 films have been screened in 7 different cinemas across Athens, including Oscar nominated or other highly acclaimed films.

We are one of the few festivals offering money prizes - over 1.500 euros per year - plus an estimated 20.000 euros on services.

oin an exciting Film Festival with unique features;

1) FEEDBACK FOR ALL FILMS, NO MATTER IF SELECTED OR NOT
You DESERVE feedback for your hard work. Film Olympiad is probably the first and only festival to give constructive feedback to everyone - free of any extra charge.

2) RADICAL HONESTY & TRANSPARENCY
You can see how exactly the Jury rated your film in 5 categories and how you compare to other films. We watch films with empathy and love. We believe that filmmakers want to know the truth about how their film was rated, and this will only make them better.

3) MONEY PRIZES & FILM OLYMPIAD MEDALS - EVERY MONTH
The only film festival to award Film Olympiad Medals. 30 categories, 6 nominees, 3 medals (Gold, Silver & Bronze). Every month, National and Individual Medal Tables are updated.

We also have cash prizes, which will be at least:

500 euros for the Best Film Short
100 euros for the Audience Award
100 euros for the Best Director
100 euros for the Best Screenplay
100 euros for the Best Leading Actor
100 euros for the Best Leading Actress
100 euros for the Best Greek Film

of the annual Film Olympiad 2024 Gold Medalists on the categories above

plus 100 euros on every Best Film Gold Medalist, of each Grand Prix

4) NETWORKING & RECOGNITION
With 100 films per month, you have an actual chance to get selected and win a medal. Moreover, you can make your participation viral to your audience, fans and community.

"Yeah, buddy, on Thursday we are up against a film from Japan, and if we win, we qualify to the quarterfinals against either a film from Russia or a film from Germany!".

5) EXCITING COMPETITION SYSTEM - ACTUAL CHANCE
A sports-like competition system. We want an exciting event for our audience and your fans. The Jury gives a new rating to films after every round.

Phase 1 - 100 films are selected every MONTH for the Film Olympiad Grand Prix. All of them are eligible for nominations and medals. We have 6 bi- monthly Film Olympiad Grand Prix every year and an annual Film Olympiad.

Phase 2 - The films are divided into 20 groups of 5. The best films from each group qualify for the knockouts. The audience can watch live the results of the rating in each group, through online live streams with online screenings of some films.

Phase 3 - 32 films get paired in knockouts. This means that if you win 5 matches (Rounds of 32, 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), you win the Best Short Gold Medal and the monthly cash prize.

Phase 4 - At least the best 8 films from each month are publicly screened in monthly screenings with a live audience and qualify for the annual Film Olympiad.

With these innovative features, we feel sure that Film Olympiad will soon become a prestigious and established Film Festival. Submit now to represent your country in the Film Olympiad with your film. We can't wait to see it!

Festival only for Spanish speakers: Spanish and Latin American productions.

You know it better than anyone: making a film of less than 4 minutes requires a lot of talent and creativity. That's why the Très Court has been honoring them for more than twenty years with its International Festival, which takes place simultaneously in June in about fifty places on the five continents. The screenings take place exclusively on the big screen, in theatres or outdoors, for an audience as faithful as it is fervent.

The Très Courts are divided into six selections, two of which are in Competition: International Competition, Women's Words Competition, French Selection, Family Selection, Documentary Selection, and the Laugh(before the end of the world) Selection.

Whether you are a novice or a professional, classic or avant-garde, as long as your film does not exceed 4 minutes, do not hesitate to try your luck, especially since the registration of your film(s) is free. All genres are accepted: fiction, documentary, animation, CGI, drama, comedy, documentary and even gore or horror films.

The First Buenos Aires International Kinky Film Festival has an unmistakable purpose: to give visibility and celebrate a culture that has historically been marginalized and stigmatized.

This festival is not simply a cinematic event but a space for meeting, exploration, and artistic expression for those who live and create within the kink spectrum.

Our mission is to challenge and dismantle the prejudices that often surround kinky and BDSM practices by presenting authentic, diverse stories that capture the multiple dimensions of this culture. Each film selected for the festival will provide a window into the realities and
experiences of people within the community, offering perspectives that are rarely represented in mainstream cinema.

This Series Festival, called Queer Season, seeks to become a place where to expose the importance of making the LGTB + collective visible in a natural and real way through the series that are broadcast in our country and its great influence on the millennial generation as well as on the rest of society.

In this edition we want to open the call to new and young creators who have projects of series with an LGTB + theme and can present their works to the contest where a committee will be in charge of evaluating and selecting the best works that will be broadcast during the festival under certain criteria.

The Dead And SudBuried Horrorthon began life way back in 2016 in darkest Suffolk in the small market town of Sudbury as a celebration of classic horror movies. Over just one day, seven such classics were thrown back on the big screen in the intimate venue of The Quay Theatre. Taking place in a town without an actual cinema to fulfil our dream to see these movies on a big screen, the first Horrorthon was planned around a birthday so just in case it failed to bring enough horror fans obsessed enough to sit and watch non-stop horror all day long, the event could be written off as a present to ourselves!

Fortunately, a small but perfectly formed crowd came, enjoyed and endured over 13 hours of wonderful motion pictures giving birth to our very own franchise! We believe that movies should be seen on a big screen with big sound and with a crowd to be truly enjoyed which is the real reason the Horrorthon keeps coming back every year!

We returned in 2017, 2018 and 2019 bombarding a growing crowd with more classic horror movies and adding giveaways, discounts from local businesses and more! Sadly due to Covid, our 2020 was postponed but we created a virtual event to bridge the gap to 2021 using the Eventive platform and a host of brand new movies and shorts over an entire weekend!

Returning to the real world after the pandemic, we brought in our biggest crowd yet for our fifth event to watch a weekend of 7 brand new features (2 UK premieres) including Wyvern Hill, It Came From Below, Alien On Stage, Sweetie You Won’t Believe It, Tales Of The Creeping Death, Werewolf Castle and Box with 4 live Director/Cast Q&A’s following the screening, 7 classic horror movies featuring The Lost Boys, The Changeling, The Howling, Pieces, Friday The 13th, Videodrome and [•REC] with video introductions from Joe Dante, Alex Winter and Sean S Cunningham plus 24 amazing shorts from all over the world.

The huge success of Horrorthon V led to an even bigger 3 day event for Horrorthon VI in 2022 featuring 8 classics including Deep Red, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue, Return Of The Living Dead, The Fog and The Beyond, 8 festival circuit movies including The Creeping, Night Shift, Powertool Cheerleaders versus The Boyband Of The Living Dead, Do Not Disturb, The Outwaters, Super Z, Anthropophagus II, Feed Me and 19 brand new shorts plus the addition of food trucks and merchandise!

The seventh Horrorthon, Taste The Blood Of Dead And SudBuried was the biggest event to date with a bigger crowd than ever before! The 3-day event featured classics like Train To Busan, The Haunting, Death Line and Motel Hell, brand new movies Eight Eyes, Beaten To Death, How To Kill Monsters, The Moor, The Black Mass, The Pocket Film Of Superstitions, Lore and Punch and 19 new horror shorts!

The Eighth edition expanded with an earlier start and more movies - 18 features including Protein, The Invisible Raptor, Straight On Till Morning, The Last Video Store, Bogieville, Cara, The Well, Scared Shitless and Members Club plus 18 shorts, more Q&A's, more food trucks - just more everything!

We return in October 2025 with our the ninth edition in our usual home, The Quay Theatre in Sudbury, Suffolk. Come and join us!

Colortape International Film Festival is a multicultural film festival promoting worldwide arts & culture through films, while bridging cultural differences, friendship, showcasing the creative vision of filmmakers from over the world. We are strong advocates and promoters of peace, love, friendship and mutual respect. One of very few festivals, if not the only one, to guaranteed acceptance, entry and certification for every filmmaker!

Over 2810 filmmakers were rewarded in the past 8 years!

Colortape is a film competition and film festival offering an Indoor/Outdoor screening opportunity , to showcase filmmakers work, and reward everyone towards the end of the competitive season.

This event organized by Batman Cinema Club is not a film festival or competition. It is organized to bring qualified short films together with Batman movie lovers who do not have access to them. Unfortunately, no support regarding accommodation or transportation can be provided to film crews. We would like to welcome those who wish to participate with their own means.

The films that apply will be evaluated by the selection committee.

All screenings are open to the public and free of charge.
Thank you for your interest and understanding

ESI International Film Festival
Films that talk about gender, diversity, sexuality and inclusion.

47th Lugo Film Week (Spain). Celebrated from September 22 to 27, 2025 (SECILUGO 47).

The Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas (CLACPI) opens a call to participate in the 15th International Festival of Indigenous Peoples’ Film and Communications “Voices and Pictures of Our Mother Earth” which will take place between June 20 and 28 of 2025 in Peru. It will feature community exhibitions and screenings in the regions of Ayacucho, Lima, Loreto and Ucayali.

CLACPI, through its member organizations in Peru - CHIRAPAQ Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú , Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (AIDESEP) and Escuela de Cine Amazónico – invite our indigenous sisters and brothers in all continents, indigenous organizations, indigenous and non-indigenous collectives, communicators, filmmakers, producers and all people across the world that produce, promote and showcase audiovisual projects that reflect the voices, visions, knowledge and struggles of indigenous peoples, to participate in this Festival.