Blog: Film festivals

TITAN International Film Festival is a competition of films from around the world, celebrating cinema and its creativity, its art and its freedom.

We are a festival registered as a Not-For-Profit with the Australian government and are IMDB qualified, running competitions throughout the year, which ends with the Annual Gala in Sydney, Australia.

TIFF is a challenge for all filmmakers to produce and promote the cinema of the future.

The Festival takes place 4 times a year and registration is always open. This increases the chances of winning for filmmakers. At the end of the year, our jury will select the best film of each category amongst the four edition winners.

The International Tour Film Fest 2026 the international competition this year is open to shorts, medium-length, Vertical Movies, AI Shorts and feature films; The festival is sponsored and organized by the Cultural CivitaFilm, with organizational headquarters in Via Togliatti No. 12 -00053- Civitavecchia (Rome, ITALY), in collaboration with: Mibact, City of Civitavecchia, Regione Lazio and Enel.

The Universal Movie Awards (UNIMAA) is an annual international reputable Award. The event is based in the Western State of Africa Nigeria.

Our vision is oriental value based on enriching the entertainment industry through the promotion of excellent creative works by Motion Picture practitioners.

The mission of Universal Movie Awards is: "the celebration of professional Excellence in the Global Film/Television Industry." It will also promote the appreciation of Arts and Culture through motion picture arts and sciences around the globe.

UNIMAA also runs a movie academy designated for the development of contemporary talents in the motion picture industry.

This award is founded and established by Hope Obioma Opara in 2020. He is also the President/ CEO of Supple Communications Limited under which the Awards platform is Holden. He is the publisher of Supple Magazine, a film festivals/Awards and culture magazine in Africa. www.supplemagazine.org.

ESZENA is the Young Film Festival of Aragón, with a distinctly Aragonese identity and a national impact. It is a meeting point for young people, by young people, which seeks to focus on the new voices, those who in the future will carry the weight of the industry on their shoulders in Spain.

A festival to award and showcase emerging talent in cinema, both in front of and behind the cameras. At the same time, it serves as a platform to generate a network of talent for the future of cinema in the country.

ESZENA is a film festival held between the months of March and April. The 2026 edition will be its second edition with an official selection. ESZENA screens short films directed and scripted by young people, granting awards in technical categories such as cinematography, art direction, acting, etc.

At ESZENA, we provide opportunities and spaces for new young filmmakers and creatives. We are creating a much-needed space in Aragón. We are showcasing the new cinema. BEFORE IT HAPPENS.

Moritz Feed Dog is the first festival in the state that combines film and fashion.

Premieres, iconic documentaries and titles full of content on the big screen. Stories that come from different countries and also works that are the result of national talent in the field of production and direction.

Moritz Feed Dog is held in person in Barcelona, and online at CaixaForum+. In addition, the Festival is also held in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although they have their own artistic team there, the documentaries selected in Barcelona are automatically also valued by the Brazilian and Argentinean committee.

Horror Ciclos Shorts Fest is an international film festival that encompasses horror, fantasy, suspense, and mystery, dedicated to all the people who love this genre. Its country of origin is Colombia, but it is created for the whole world. Horror Ciclos Shorts Fest aims to discover national and international audiovisual talent and awaken the imagination of horror short and feature film creators. The submission period for productions will end on february 25, 2025. Collectives, students, filmmakers, producers, enthusiasts, and the general public from all countries can participate in the competition.

Filmambiente, the International Environmental Film Festival, annually shows the best recent films and videos on Human Rights and environmental issues, to create awareness, provoke debate and to widen knowledge and conscience on the need of urgent changes in the behavior of people, governments and companies, in order to preserve the planet. All the screenings are free of charge to reach a broad audience.

Filmambiente works all year around in association with other environmental film festivals, through the Green Film Network, to broaden awareness and attends different festivals and film events worldwide, to select the best available films and videos to present to the Brazilian audience.

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*Mumbai Entertainment International Short Film Festival*

*Organized BY*
mumbai Entertainment
& Yogeshpatilfilms

*world all contries participated now*

The Clapham International Film Festival is an international film festival that takes place in Clapham, London, UK.

We screen feature and short films in atmospheric venues with a keen eye for independent and cutting-edge material. 2026 will see us return for our 5th edition, and we're committed to providing a platform for daring and adventurous voices.

In 2026 we are looking to showcase out there, avant-garde filmmaking, as well as funny, perplexing and impossible to categorise mp4 format files. We work around the clock to fill the rooms we inhabit with seekers of brave new films, and make things as fun as possible in the process.

The festival takes place in September, and is organised by a crack team of independent filmmakers determined to bring interesting films into our hometown.

We love horror and we're very excited to watch your films!

The Dark Scream Film Festival (DSFF) is an international festival seeking for the best horror films.

The Selected films will be recognized and awarded in various categories.

DSFF has made a point to keep our entry free as to give everyone the chance to enter, and we offer number of award categories!
DSFF's panel of judges is set in different parts of the world and comes with a variety of horror film expertise.

Your drive, your vision and the often seemingly insurmountable challenges that you face bringing your ideas to life are what makes us proud to champion your films and bring them in front of a highly appreciative audience.

Submit your film to us today and let us help and support you to gain true recognition and become a celebrated winner of the Dark Scream Film Festival.

We're very excited to see your creations!

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The Galician Freaky Film Festival is the ultimate freak film and culture event. International in scope and specialised in fantasy cinema with themes of horror, science fiction or any subgenre that can be framed within the “freak” concept.

Founded in 2017 and based in Vigo, the GFFF showcases carefully selected films that are usually excluded from conventional distribution, presenting world and international premieres never before seen in Galicia, and also offering parallel activities such as workshops, professional meetings and special sessions for new talents.

The GFFF is a Competitive Member of the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF), a global network of genre film festivals spanning 21 countries and more than 800,000 attendees per year. This membership allows the festival to award the prestigious Méliès d’Argent to the best European fantastic short film in its official selection.

The GFFF's commitment to artistic excellence and community engagement is recognized with the prestigious EFFE Label (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe), Europe's quality stamp for remarkable arts festivals.

Join our ranks, freaks!

“One of the World's Leading Indie Film Fests” - The Hollywood Reporter

Rated among the top 5 Film Festivals worldwide for Independent Films by American film critic Chris Gore in his esteemed “Ultimate Film Festival Guide”, and ranked “Top 25 Coolest Festivals in the World” by MovieMaker, Oldenburg has fostered its success with a strong commitment to innovative and Independent filmmaking.

“If there's anything that could be considered the Promised Land of Independent Cinema in Europe today, it is Oldenburg.” - Accred - L'actualité des festivals de cinéma

Labelled ‘the German Sundance’ by Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Screen International, amongst others, Oldenburg has evolved while preserving its intimate atmosphere and founding purpose: to celebrate and support the diverse voices and visions of independent filmmakers, to honor the creativity of the artists upon which the Festival depends, and to create a unique experience and inspiring meeting place for filmmakers, audiences, and media professionals.

“Oldenburg - renown for its determination, cinephilia, and openness for the extremes - impresses with its brilliant programming.” - GRIP

"In an industry increasingly dominated by IP-driven franchises and algorithm-approved content, the Oldenburg Film Festival continues to carve out space for the kind of fiercely personal, formally daring cinema that once defined independent film but has virtually vanished from theaters and the mainstream festival circuit...

It’s the purest filmmaker’s festival in the world, no ego, just cinema" - The Hollywood Reporter, 2025

“Oldenburg thrives as a discovery channel.” - Screen International

In addition to supporting the discovery of new artists, Oldenburg has hosted the German Premieres of films by such acclaimed filmmakers as Darren Aronofsky, Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Polish, Johnnie To, Jane Schoenbrun, Chan-wook Park, Monte Hellmann, & Takeshi Kitano amongst others. Guests of honor have included Jim McBride, Larry Clark, Philippe de Broca, Andrzej Zulawski, Ken Russell, Jerry Schatzberg, Radley Metzger, Ted Kotcheff, Phedon Papmichael, George Armitage, Christophe Honoré, Edward R. Pressman, Bruce Robinson, William Friedkin, Ovidio Assonitis, and Peter & John Hyams who have all attended the festival for Retrospectives of their work.

“Just as impressive as the films was the festival itself, which, under the inspired direction of Torsten Neumann, combined intelligent cinephilia with a laid-back atmosphere of democratic equality.” - Sight and Sound

Nicolas Cage, Seymour Cassel, Keira Knightley, Deborah Kara Unger, Mira Sorvino, Bobcat Goldthwait, Sean Baker, Bella Thorne, Michael Wadleigh, Joanna Cassidy, Luke Wilson, Ben Gazzara, Stacy Keach, Amanda Plummer, Asia Argento, Lou Diamond Phillips, Keith Carradine, Matthew Modine, Andrea Rau, Tim Blake Nelson, Mattie Do, Noémie Merlant, Jen Gatien & Isild Le Besco are amongst many who have attended as honored guests or for Tributes in their honor.

“Alongside Venice and Toronto, Oldenburg is considered one of the most important Autumn Festivals for Independent Cinema” - de Telegraaf

"The indie event par excellence has a reputation for showcasing rock’n’roll indie cinema that challenges social mores and cinematic conventions with aplomb." - The Film Verdict

Rated #1 in Germany on The Most Important Autumn Film Festivals List for and by the German Film Industry (Blickpunkt Film), and #3 internationally after Venice & TIFF, Oldenburg is regarded as “one of the most important European festivals for independent cinema" (Tagesschau).

“Oldenburg is a pilgrimage for cineastes.”- Die Zeit

Fringe Flicks is PVTV’s underground short film night in Liverpool, built for filmmakers and audiences who like cinema with edges: strange, playful, unsettling, excessive, formally adventurous or impossible to categorise.

For Season 5, we’re looking for short films that don’t quite behave: surreal comedies, strange dramas, experimental videos, animated nightmares, political satire, odd little micro-shorts, polished provocations, awkward miracles and anything else that feels too weird, funny, furious or alive to sit comfortably in the mainstream.

Selected films will screen across three Fringe Flicks events in Liverpool in 2027, with each programme curated as a live, communal cinema night rather than a generic festival block. We care less about industry polish than whether the film has a distinctive voice, image, rhythm, atmosphere, idea or point of view.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We welcome short films, experimental videos, animations, artist moving image, hybrid work and anything that sits awkwardly between categories.

We’re especially interested in:

- experimental cinema
- surreal, absurdist, anarchic, and dreamlike shorts
- political and social satire, especially work that punches up
- films with cult energy
- formally inventive filmmaking, whether polished, rough, digital, analogue, animated or live action
- films that challenge norms, twist expectations or refuse to behave properly
- distinctive micro-shorts with a strong idea, image, joke, rhythm or atmosphere

Your film does not need to look a particular way. It can be polished, rough, funny, angry, quiet, maximalist, tiny, beautiful, grotesque or completely wrong. We’re looking for work with something distinctive about it: a strange idea, a sharp joke, a memorable image, an unusual structure, a strong atmosphere, a specific voice, or just that hard-to-define quality that makes a film stick in your head.

WHY SUBMIT TO FRINGE FLICKS?

Fringe Flicks champions short films that don’t fit neatly into the mainstream festival mould. We screen to real, engaged audiences in Liverpool, in a social, low-pressure setting designed for people who actually want to encounter strange cinema together.

Each event is carefully curated rather than treated as a random block of shorts. We think about rhythm, tone, atmosphere and how films speak to each other across the night. The screenings are friendly, informal and audience-facing, with space for conversation, drinks, voting and creative exchange.

We’re interested in filmmakers working in their own way, whether that means polished production, DIY methods, experimental process, strange comedy, animation, video art, genre mutation or something harder to name. Fringe Flicks is a home for cinema that bites, glitches, mutates, provokes, confuses, amuses or delights.

WHO CAN SUBMIT?

We welcome submissions from filmmakers anywhere in the world, regardless of background, training, budget or career stage.

Most of all, we’re looking for imaginative work told in distinctive ways. Tell the stories you want to tell, in the way only you can.

For Season 5, we also offer free submission routes for:

- filmmakers based in Merseyside
- under-represented filmmakers based in North West England or North Wales

These free routes are intended to help reduce barriers for filmmakers who may not have easy access to festival submission budgets, industry networks or formal film opportunities. Our general fees are also kept deliberately low so the callout remains accessible to DIY, emerging, low-budget and self-funded filmmakers.

SCREENING DETAILS

Selected films will screen as part of Fringe Flicks: Season 5, across three live screening events in Liverpool in 2027.

Current planned season dates:

- 12 February 2027
- 21 May 2027
- 8 October 2027

Each event will include a curated short film programme, an interval, refreshments and a relaxed community atmosphere. Our screenings are pay-what-you-can, not-for-profit events, with audience voting and space for people to talk, meet and share thoughts after the films.

Screenings take place at DoES Liverpool.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submissions are open exclusively through Festhome.

For questions, please email:
peopleversustv@gmail.com

You can also find more information about Fringe Flicks here:
https://www.peopleversus.tv/fringe-flicks

Panòptic Festival is an international film and visual arts festival focused on the impact of digitalization and new technologies on contemporary society. The festival accepts fiction, documentary, and animation short films (up to 30 minutes) produced after January 1, 2024. Films may be submitted in any language (subtitles required in Catalan, Spanish, or English). Awards include Jury Award (€300), Audience Award (€150), and a €50 screening fee for all selected films.

Submission deadline: March 15, 2026.

Out! Mostra de Cinema LGTBIQ+ of Balearic Islands accepts short films of all nationalities with LGBTIQ themes, which may be selected for the various sections of the festival: Short Films, and Short Films Documentaries. The works must not have previously premiered on the Internet or any other media in Spanish territory prior to the festival, and must have been copyrighted no earlier than 1st of January of 2022. All films must be yet unreleased in the Balearic Islands; in the case of the shorts films, this will not be considered a prerequisite, but will be considered positively. The organization reserves the right to include films that do not meet these conditions in the program, although not a part of the Festival’s official contest. The organization has right to include selected short film in future events of year 2025/2026 within territory of Balearic Islands.

La GRAN pantalla is an intergenerational cinematographic meeting space that seeks to dismantle stereotypes about older people through cinema. We look for stories that allow us to generate new readings and discourses about older people, beyond the conventional representations that are usually associated with this stage of life.

La GRAN pantalla seeks to delve into topics such as the sexuality of older people, the digital divide, unwanted loneliness, palliative care, intergenerational dialogues, cohousing, LGBTIQ+ older people, dignified death, migrant older people and all the visions that this population group may have about contemporary social problems such as the climate crisis, demographic change, new forms of families and organization, international conflicts, urban planning, art and social change, etc.

The seventh edition of this contest will take place from 30 June to 4 July 2026 in the city of Barcelona with a showing in Mollet del Vallès and Sabadell (Catalonia).

La GRAN pantalla is an original idea of elParlante, an organization specialized in the design, implementation, and evaluation of communication strategies. For some years now, elParlante has been developing social projects for older people through theater, audiovisuals and formal education.

All official information will be published on our website: www.lagranpantallafestival.com, Facebook: www.facebook.com/lagranpantallabcn and media partners.

The International Film Festival - El Cine Suma Paz is an event that takes place for the first time and brings together cinematographic content related to the Culture of Peace and the protection of the environment.

For so long, "urban" has been seen as an extension of “black”, “underground”, “other”, “unworthy”.

We know that in every walk of life urban culture, more than ever, is revered as trend setting, forward-thinking, inclusive and innovative.

This is the reason why BAFTA, BIFA, AMAA and our industry festival partners (including Iris Prize) have officially recognised BUFF - giving our filmmakers direct opportunities to qualify for film awards. BUFF is the longest standing black-owned film festival in the United Kingdom. Founded by Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe MBE, filmmakers that have exhibited at our festival are now household names. Join the legacy and explore new worlds at BUFF.

why I should submit to the leading film festival in the UK for diverse programming?

At the British Urban Film Festival, we have been a pioneering platform for all facets of diversity since our formation in 2005.

Long before diversity quotas and terminology such as BAME and non-binary, we have always welcomed, showcased, given coverage to and awarded films which embrace diverse storytelling, celebrating filmmakers from diverse backgrounds representative of the 9 diversity strands:

age. disability. gender reassignment.
marriage and civil partnership. pregnancy and maternity. race.
religion or belief. sex.

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