Blog: Film festivals

Dance-films are liquid. They flow between the categories of ‘dance’ and ‘film’. The camera reveals new aspects of the body, rhythm and movement to dancers. On the other hand, dance expands the meaning of ‘performance’ in film. The tensions in the hyphenation of the two have resulted in a new language capable of complex articulations.

'Manifest’ is the first dance-film festival in India that is onsite and is publishing an open call for submissions. Created by AuroApaar-an artist-run, non-profit arts centre in rural South India, this pioneering event aims to catalyse the explosion of the dance-film genre in India and intensify trans-national artistic dialogue.

Structure : 4 day offline event. Screenings will be followed by audience Q&A and interactions with artists.

The entries will be curated and viewing restricted to those who have registered for the event.

Where: Alliance Francaise de Pondicherry, India

What : fiction dance films excluding documentaries and recordings of performance.

The Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival is organised by Les Films du Spectre, a non-profit making association dedicated to genre cinema, which includes fantasy, horror, science-fiction and thrillers.

In addition to the Festival’s international prizes, as a member of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation, it also awards the Silver Méliès for the best European fantastic film.

The South African HorrorFest is the first (and close on only) event of its kind on the continent, bringing an exciting array of feature films and short films from around the world to the audience, who wouldn't get to see these indie productions in a cinema otherwise. 2023 is our 19th edition!

After the pandemic disaster the festival added an on-line with selected screenings also in cinema. The streaming portion actually served as a plus in that this expanded the scope to reach more viewers in further flung areas of South Africa, and will remain a part of the festival for the foreseeable future.

All movie mediums and styles are accepted, as long as it contains elements of Horror / Chiller / Terror / Monsters etc.
For instance, an animated Sci-Fi comedy with monsters will be accepted.

Due to the indie nature of the event, unfortunately screening fees cannot be offered

Star Film Fest is dedicated to films made by young authors all around the world. Clear, simple, lovely but also serious! For 8 consecutive years, we have been giving opportunities to young, and talented filmmakers to showcase their works on the projection screen. Through the categories like documentary, feature, experimental, animated, and student film, Star Film Fest provides affirmation to students of the Academy of dramatic arts and the Academy of fine arts, but also to any young person that wants to engage in film outside academic frame.

In addition to film screenings and competition programs, Star Film Fest is held at several ambient locations in Sisak, and with accompanying content such as exhibitions, film workshops, concerts, and discussions on current topics, the festival proudly spreads film art propaganda which for centuries brings growth and cultural development to Croatia and the world while also calling for critical thinking and openness.

As a festival organizator, Kino Klub Sisak is also the only gathering place for filmmakers in Sisak-moslavina county. The development of Star Film Fest showcases the necessity of decentralization of film culture and art in Croatia. Therefore, by promoting the culture of filmmaking, creativity and critical thinking along with creating and maintaining a much needed platform for self-realization of young filmmakers, Star Film Fest gets the mark of a festival that is oriented on the prosperity of new, fresh creators, and audiences.

20th LesBiGayTrans Film Fest International in Paraguay

Aireana, a lesbian rights group, organizer of the 20th edition of the LesBiGayTrans International Film Festival of Asunción welcomes you.

Entries may be submitted until May 12, 2024.

3 Vilafamés International Film Festival. A town officially recognized as one of the Most Beautiful Towns in Spain.

The Calzada de Calatrava International Film Festival opens its period for the presentation of films in the categories of feature films and short films.

Feature Films to which directors from all over the world can attend, and short films in the categories of Documentary, Fiction in a humorous tone, "Made in Castilla la Mancha", short films with themes of gender violence, feminism, equality and the fight of women for their rights: HIPARQUIA section.

Exhibitions, workshops, conferences, parallel sections, contests.

Film Festival “Seize the Film“ is focus on projections of films related to the topic of disability/at least one actor is disabled person and it has editions in Novi Sad (Serbia), Rijeka (Croatia), Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina,) and Kotor (Montenegro).

In addition to screenings of films on the topic of disability, the Festival also has accompanying programs and post-production - Film Caravan, which includes screenings in cultural spaces, schools, other festivals and „Seize the film Kids“ - screenings of films suitable for children aged 7-12 (in Serbia).

The "Tels Quels Festival" will be run by the non-profit-making association "Tels Quels" in Brussels on October 2024.

The Tels Quels Festival is an event aimed at the general public, designed to promote and spread the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) Culture. In this framework, a LGBT Short Film Contest is being held.

Patagonia Eco Film Fest, calls filmmakers from all over the world to participate in the 9th International Environmental Film Festival of Patagonia which will take place in Puerto Madryn city, Chubut, Argentina from September 5-10, 2024.

The festival will accept documentary, fiction, animation films, about environmental issues.

Since its inception, this festival has promoted the city as a setting in which each filmmaker tells about their reality, their ways of working and life experiences, in such a way that anyone who is a fan of or dedicated to filmmaking can learn through observation and viewing. of all kinds of works and their technical details such as camera movement, times a scene lasts, camera position or perception of silences ...

In the year of 2022, FTN Film Festival opens its doors to every filmmaker willing to show to our community their piece of art. Starting from closed community screenings, FTNFF now expanding and opening a phisical location for audience to showcase selected films.

The mission of FTNFF is to celebrate and encourage independent filmmakers. Festival public screenings are designed in form of movie theatre to enjoy both filmmakers and audience. All exhibited films will be promoted via FTN Instagram and The Cultural and Educational Centre of RSVPU website.

The festival is open to everyone worldwide. English or Russian language films are preferred; other languages should be closed captioned to English or Russian (in case they are not spoken in it).

Entrance to the festival is free.

This event is completely independent and presented by Framing The Needle filmmaking studio.

The Asian Summer Film Festival wants to present the Asian culture through the popular cinematography produced in the countries of the continent.

The Festival has several categories such as a competitive section, retrospectives, screenings for children and theme nights. Last year, 40 titles from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Corea, Japan and India were shown, some of them were World and International festival premieres, European festival premieres or Spanish festival premieres. The 18 films programmed in the official section competed for the Jury Prize, the Lucky Cat Award, given by the audience to the best film in-competition, and the Critics’ Choice Award.

After the success of the previous editions, sealed by the presence of the art director Roberto Faenza, Giuseppe Piccioni, Marco Risi, Ettore Scola, Alessandro Haber, Alessandro D’Alatri, Giò Giò Franchini, Mimmo Calopresti, Daniele Luchetti , Marina Confalone, Cristina Donadio, Marco Mario de Notaris, Guido Lombardi and Nunzia Schiano as chairpersons of the jury, Ignazio Senatore, psychiatrist and film critic, will conduct the annual Festival of Short Films “I Corti sul lettino – Cinema e Psicoanalisi” aimed at Italian and foreign filmmakers. This festival is reported on IMDB.

We would like to express our utmost gratitude to all the people involved and those who supported the All That Moves International Film Festival. We also would like to share our great appreciation with all the filmmakers who submitted their films for judging.

Follow our social media and official website over the next weeks for the release of the winners list. Let's move on to our third year of All That Moves International Film Festival!

On this third Year, along with the categories of Best Feature Film, Documentary, Animation, LGBTQIA+ and others, we also have a category for Horror Shorts. Horror lovers and filmmakers will be honored in our third year of the All that Moves Festival.

The 3rd edition of the All That Moves International Film Festival brings the theme "New Looks, Other Cinemas" the proposed curatorial line cuts the singularities, multiplicities and complexities of Cinema and Audiovisual in the world, meeting diversity, difference, similitude, bringing audiovisual content for new audiences and likewise taking the audience to content outside the large commercial circuits.

The Festival aims to promote participation and integration between the artistic community, linked in some way to narrative productions, to communities normally not included in audiovisual productions that are usually shown at festivals around the world.

The first edition of the film festival taken place in April 2022. We created the Bridge of Peace Film Festival in France to focus the audience's attention on the pressing problems of humanity, in order to seek and find an answer to the question of how to live in a world without wars, without oppression, how to learn to respect the traditions and culture of other peoples, how to preserve nature and its diversity for new generations.

International Film Festival "Bridge of Peace" is a competition of documentary and fiction films. The purpose of the 2022 Festival is to support the creative searches of young filmmakers, to promote national feature films, films on ecology, history and ethnography to the European market in order to improve mutual understanding between people living in different countries and having different cultural origins.

The 2022 Bridge of Peace Film Festival is online. The organizer of the "Bridge of Peace" film festival is the "ART SANS FRONTIERES - PONT DE LA PAIX" association, France.

Organizing committee of the film festival is located at the Organizer's address: 78 avenue des Champs-Elysées, bureau 562, 75008 Paris, France.

An international festival that seeks to build networks of work, cooperation and business in Latin America, fostering relationships between television stations, filmmakers and producers, and TV.We will be the meeting place for television stations and filmmakers from Latin America. Year after year, we will receive an increasing number of independent producers, students, television representatives, decision makers, speakers and professionals from the audiovisual sector.
TarapacaFic develops activities in the areas of Training, Market, Networking and Exhibitions. The activities in the different areas range from masterly presentations, practical workshops and business rounds to exhibitions, award ceremonies, toasts and meeting spaces. These activities cover all the profiles of the sector, seeking to be a meeting place for the whole culture, and the tours can be differentiated and be found depending on whether they are Professionals, Televisions, Students, Decision Makers and general public. In addition to the regional company, which will showcase its services and products worldwide.
In TarapacaFic there is space for those who have a project in development, for those who have finished contents, for those who seek to acquire contents, for those who seek inspiration or knowledge of the market or for those who simply seek to see good movies.

The Motorcycle Channel® Film Festival is an idea whose time has come. This festival is a unique cultural event that brings people together to watch creative stories centered around motorcycles. The massive rise of motorcycles has inspired professional filmmakers to produce films that will feature stories on the road and beyond. With the new TV network The Motorcycle Channel® biker riders and film makers will have an opportunity to flourish beyond the festival, and can be seen immediately on The Motorcycle Channel® . The Motorcycle Channel® Film Festival provides that. Its simple, submit your film and be seen on The Motorcycle Channel® We won’t judge you, but the motorcycle world will on The Motorcycle Channel®

XXXVI NATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION OF L’ALFÀS DEL PI

ONE WORLD - HIP HOP AGAINST HATE RACISM & SEXISM
5. GOLDEN SNEAKERS INTERNATIONAL HIP HOP FILM FESTIVAL 2022

International Guests, Classic Hip Hop Films,
Awards in 11 Categories.

June 30 th.- July 2nd 2022.