Blog: Film festivals

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 Latin American Coordinator of Film and Communication of Indigenous Peoples - CLACPI opens this call to participate in the 15th International Film and Communication Festival of Indigenous Peoples "Voices and Images of Our Mother Earth" to be held from June 20 to 28, 2025 in Peru, with the main venue being the city of Lima, with activities and exhibitions in the cities of Ayacucho, Iquitos and Pucallpa.

Works of the following audiovisual genres may participate: fiction, documentary, report, animation, video clip, experimental, program or series, or any combination thereof, regardless of their duration and format, whose theme addresses the culture, history, traditions, narratives, realities, aspirations, organizational processes, demands and struggles of Indigenous Peoples from any part of the world, placing special emphasis on the situation of indigenous women, youth and children and that include aspects of climate change.

Works completed from 2022 to date will be accepted.

Reception of Works:
Deadline for registration and reception of works: February 15, 2025, until 6:00 p.m.
(Lima, Peru time).

Download the registration form at: http://www.clacpi.org • http://www.chirapaq.org.pe

Milton Keynes International Film Festival(MKIFF) is the first international film festival and the only of its kind in the city Milton Keynes, United Kingdom . This extraordinary cultural event created in 2021 is one of the most important cinematic event in Milton Keynes.

In previous seasons feature, short and documentary films screened at MKIFF are from independent filmmakers from around the globe as well as Hollywood films like “American Crow”, “Timespiracy”, “Who Shot Sergeant Kirwan?”, Warner Brother’s “Jim Button And The Wild 13”, “Happy Ending”, ”1888”, “Enemy of the Heart” and many more.

MKIFF aims to create in United Kingdom, as well as in the region, a cultural center of worldwide alternative and independent cinema. Milton Keynes is a green, enthusiastic and friendly city and besides the “strong competition” MKIFF aims at the same time to be a meeting point of cultures, where people of Milton Keyes, the guests and all those who love films will have a cinema-language-communication week. It will create a friendly space for film artists and cinema enthusiasts from United Kingdom and the entire world to come together and share their linked passion and knowledge of the motion picture art form.

The intention of MKIFF is to bring filmmakers, producers and film enthusiasts from all around the world to Milton Keynes, in hopes of fostering future co-operation in this interesting and youngest city of the United Kingdom. By bringing together these distinct voices and their work, MKIFF commits itself to introducing audiences to alternative visions of extraordinary diversity.

Breaking all stereotypes, MKIFF mission is to present quality films from around the world as well as support, recognize and honour indie film makers. These films will be organized thematically, in hopes of representing the full range of the human experience as reflected by our chosen filmmakers.

MKIFF is an international cinema event whose main objective is to enlarge the number of venues and time of screening of European and non-European films of all genres and durations in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom as well as it is considered to be an event to develop new audiences around the country, combining film screenings with public debates and approaching new and an increased Film Audience and focusing also on Film Literacy.

Award distribution ceremony is organized once a year. The main goal of the film festival is to provide an exceptional space for the creation and presentation of quality multi-genre art production.

FILM SCREENING
Top rated selected films at MKIFF will be physically screened on the day of event and all officially selected films at MKIFF for screening will be screened online on the www.AltCineplex.com during a special and bespoke online screening event.

For each of the categories, we will select an individual winner as well as a shortlist of runners up.As a winner, you will be provided with an exclusive opportunity to premiere your film on AltCineplex.com.

Those who are shortlisted for as a part of the festival will receive an exclusive online screening experience directly on AltCineplex.com, meaning you could be part of this success, and stream your content to a large audience, including your friends, family, and fans.

During this online screening event at www.AltCineplex.com, we welcome friends, families, and fans to celebrate your success, and support you using our tipping/VOD function on AltCineplex.com. 70% of every single tip/ticket you receive will go directly into your pocket!
All winner films MKIFF will get an opportunity to get released on the www.AltCineplex.com.
At ALTCINEPLEX your your film can be release under the following category(depends on the review).
i. SVOD (Subscription based video on demand service)
ii.AVOD(Ad-based video on demand service)
iii.TVOD(Transactional based video on demand/pay per view service, You will get 70% share of every purchased)

The festival's mission is to exhibit the best films from the around the world and create a safe haven festival event for filmmakers and cineastes to co exist and learn from each other. Our vision is to be the festival that links independent films to the proper audience and to find distribution during our event.

Accepting full-length features, short films and documentaries from professionals and amateurs alike, SohoFilmFest will hold screenings, panels and host social events and other networking opportunities for everyone involved. Leading figures from all disciplines of the film industry including distributors and media will be in attendance.

A weekend celebration of Science Fiction from all over the world. We will present you with a selection of insights and stories never seen. There is plenty of planning and work to do. We are open to participants planetwide to join us in the impressive, historical rich city of Baltimore, Maryland.

The intent of The Outer Rim Festival is to showcase the best in Science Fiction, and other imaginatively-themed films from around the world. This celebration is in the culturally rich city of Baltimore, Maryland. Our creative and inspirational environment is ideal for exploring films that ponder the infinite possibilities our multiverse holds.

In addition to the amazing films, there will be workshops, panels, and lectures.

Notifications typically begin a week after the last submission date. So grab tickets early, inform your friends, and prepare for the best original content to reach the DMV.

In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.

It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is insofar as it proposes an interpellation to the little-known memoirs, disturbing present and (our) future in suspension. FIDBA will then be an approach not only among audiences, filmmakers and thinkers linked documentary but also in relation to the always stimulating possibilities that allow you to open this space to other border and heterodox expressions framed inside of what we would call "non-fiction" and that encourage us to dialogue with contemporary expressions that go beyond even the scope of the film.

FIDBA will pay special attention to those filmmakers for whom cinema is linked to a form of research and knowledge of the world that surrounds us as to the portrait of human beings whose conditions of life, in certain historical and social contexts, allow you to ask us about our. It is, therefore, authors who not only reflect reality but also ethical and moral relationship which involves filming the other.

FIDBA aims to become a point of support for filmmakers seeking to widen the perception of reality and to films which represent a step forward in the effort to understand it and anticipate it. So, it will make focus on films whose aesthetic originality put at risk not only an idea of the documentary but also a thought about the same film and its possibilities. Since this focus implies questioning the status of the real front of the camera or of the film in relation to reality, this is as inseparable from the mediations that arises.

NIEVE ROJA: INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OF HORROR, SCI-FI, FANTASY AND BIZARRE

Nieve Roja was created with the intention of being a diffusion space for the production of independent short films of the horror and fantasy genre, whose production grows year by year, and needs more exhibition and promotional spaces. The spirit of Nieve Roja is to gather all lovers of the genre and promote their productions, mainly in Patagonia.
This fourth edition of the festival is competitive, and will have the following categories:

- Patagonic Short Film Competition (National).

- Argentinian Short Film Competition (National).

- Latin American Short Film Competition.

- International Short Film Competition.

- National Bizarre Short Film Competition.

Nieve Roja is a member of FANTLATAM (Alianza de Festivales Fantásticos de Latinoamérica), RAFMA (Red Argentina de Festivales y Muestras Audiovisuales) and Red-FAP (Red de Festivales Audiovisuales Patagónicos)

Cortos con Ñ. International short film festival held in the center of the city of Madrid (Spain).

Every Tuesday, at 19:30 p.m., at the La Escalera de Jacob theater (C / Lavapiés, 9 - Madrid, Spain).

Cortos con Ñ organize public screenings of short films every week in the city of Madrid.

Each short film received at Cortos con Ñ is carefully reviewed by a committee of film experts, who are in charge of selecting the best short films received at our festival.

The awards jury team is made up of notable Spanish filmmakers and producers and the jury prizes are valued at € 500.