Blog: Film festivals

The festival features top films from the world’s filmmakers as well as introduces new, talent from around the world. Our mission is to discover high quality and ambitious films, to promote filmmakers’ works and to help them realize their dreams.

OJO DE PESCADO International Film Festival for Children and Youth is an annual event in Chile that gathers the most recent and exclusive film and TV contents from all over the world aimed at children and youth.

The Festival is organized by the OJO DE PESCADO CULTURAL CORPORATION, an exploration and action platform that, through the exhibition of films and the promotion of audiovisual creation, aims to help guarantee the right of children and young people to the integral education and communication and expression of their opinions.

The 11th edition of Ojo de Pescado Film Festival will take place online through the entire Chilean territory and in person only in the Region of Valparaíso (if the health situation allows it) between november 5 and november 15, 2024,

Competition Categories are:
- Short films for children.
- Television or web series for children.
- Feature films for children and adolescents.
- “Young Filmmakers” (short films made by children or young people).

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General regulations

International Festival Screen Culture “Thelovetcheskoje Kino” (hereinafter - Festival) is held among collectives (groups) of youth production in different forms of art, connecting with cinema, television, photography and different digital technologies.

Festival events are directed to formation and evaluating new global culture of production and reproduction age-diverse communicative samples of generations interplay and provides conditions of establishing new information community (environs), new culture of information society, where social-noetic (immaterial) factors of evaluating are information and knowledge. Festival holding promotes establishing of screen culture as a part of general information culture of present society.

General guiding of Festival methodology and organization is brought into action of Educational Complex “Nasha Shkola” (Russia, Novosibirsk).

Time, conditions, place and procedure of organization and holding of regular Festival are annually established of special document – Standing Order of Holding.

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The International Film and Multimedia Festival is an audiovisual Festival that aims to promote cinema within the country and abroad. The festival will take place in the month of March with competition for short films both fiction, experimental, documentary. and an International Media Art Exhibition. There will also be talks and meetings with filmmakers.

Any person or legal entity can participate, individually or collectively, without age limit, and can be done with any audiovisual production - in 4K, 2K, Full HD, HDV, HD format. The productions presented may have been previously projected, posted on the internet or in other exhibitions and festivals, regardless of the year of production.

For all sections that are part of the official selection, all short films recorded in digital format will be accepted.

With the aim to encourage the creation of meeting spaces for the world of medium-length films, as well as fostering interest in cinematographic creation, the Manzanares El Real City Council's Department of Culture has created the First International Festival of Medium-Length Films of Manzanares El Real called FIMMER.

All those films with a duration between 30 and 60 minutes produced after January 1, 2021 may be submitted to the contest. And each author or producer may submit up to a maximum of two works.

Entries can be submitted online, through the festhome.com platform or by email to fimmerfestival@gmail.com, where the documentation required in the bases must be included, and where the technical characteristics of the files to send.

The deadline for receiving the files is open on January 9, 2023 and will close on February 28, 2023.

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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 Patriki Film Festival will become Russia’s first competitive international online film festival. The chairman of the jury will be American film director, screenwriter, producer, and winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion prize, Darren Aronofsky.

"So You Think You Can Act" is a competition exclusively targeted to recognize the talent of actors and actresses, stunt and fight performers, impersonators, standup comedians, and much more from around the world. Actors simply submit their reels or featured movie clips to the competition for consideration of their acting skills in many genres from drama to comedy. Or, for the multi-faceted actor, combination genre clips may also be submitted.

What makes So You Think You Can Act unique from other actor-oriented competitions? In order to insure that each submission is studied and rated on an individual basis, SYTYCA has instituted a system to insure that entries do not compete against each other, but instead are recognized for their own individual merits. For all intents and purposes, they compete against themselves: each entry is judged on individual merits and scored on an inherent value system. We want to insure that the judges focus is on you when it is your turn to be evaluated, not on all the other actors that are in cue: this insures that they will not have comparisons going on in their minds when they should be focusing entirely on YOU.

Your performance submission clips (s) will be posted screened on WRPN.tv for general audience judging. When that stage is over, they will be moved to a panel of independent judges.

Awards are given based on a combination of points from judges and audience plus special suggestions given by judges, so, the audience alone is not a definite winning point. You could win a top award without audience rating. Judges score entries on a performance scale and winning entries are recognized and awarded.

The Hollywood Academy supports Huesca International Film Festival by recognizing it as shortlisting for the Oscar Awards within Best Short Fiction Film category, also the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes it for the Goya Awards.

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Non-competitive Rural and Independent Film Festival. A space for diffusion and meeting for filmmakers and producers with works focused on life outside the city and associated problems.

Slogan: "New Horizons, Creative Adventure, and Innovation."

The short film festival "Diogenes 2024," which features innovative projects, represents itself as a festival with short films on the internet globally. It holds two seasons of screenings, each in two different countries. The innovation in Diogene's short film festival, "From Diogenes," is the automatic submission of the film's announcement once, and the automatic participation in the festival in Diogenes two autonomous seasons - Diogenes - Odessa (Ukraine) and Diogenes - Tbilisi (Georgia) in the autumn.

1. Summer Festival - "Diogenes Odessa" (Ukraine).
2. Autumn Festival - "Diogenes Tbilisi" (Georgia).

Our association Pulp Vision, which brings together students interested in cinema, is organising the 12th edition of its short film festival "Tournez-court", which will take place on 25 September 2024. This year's theme is blue, and we'll be showing not only French but also international short films. It's a special edition because we're partnering with the Envie d'Sup association, which works to give secondary school students from priority education areas access to a variety of cultural events. So our festival is keen to contribute to this initiative and give a boost to Rouen's cultural life.

Only for Spanish (Castilla la Mancha) productions.

The Henri Langlois Association, with its new presidency, launches the first edition of the HENRI LANGLOIS FESTIVAL. There will be three editions this year with three themes and three screening days. The festival promotes contemporary short films responding to a specific theme every edition. Each edition will be screening a heritage film illustrating the theme.

The next edition will take place on June 19th, 2022 at the ‘Théâtre des Déchargeurs’ (Paris).
Theme: TO DEVOUR

The first edition took place on March 20th (on the theme "Wandering").

The Alimenterre festival raises awareness of food and agriculture issues and questions our ways of cultivating the land and living on it.

It offers screenings followed by debates, meetings, workshops and concerts with specialists from the world of agriculture, filmmakers, experts from the North and the South, as well as people involved in initiatives for healthy, sustainable and resilient agricultural and food systems.

It takes place over 5 days in mid-October in Belgium (Brussels and 6 cities in Wallonia) before touring West Africa (Senegal, DRC, Burkina Faso).

It is organised by SOS Faim, an international solidarity NGO active since 1964 in the food and environmental transition in Africa and Latin America. The NGO supports family farming, which has enormous potential to meet the challenges of food security, social equity and environmental sustainability.

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The Fugitif Short Film Festival is an international festival of competitive short films. This event, thanks to a high-level selection, responds to a desire to offer a quality artistic and cultural experience. Since 2021, this event has been taking place at the renowned cinema Utopia, in the heart of Avignon.

The festival explores three themes - The Night, The Light and LGBTQIA+ - and includes all cinematic styles: fiction, live action, animation, documentary, experimental and more.

Information on the event's sponsors will be published soon. Thank you to all those who support and collaborate with Le Fugitif.


- PUBLIC SCREENINGS -

The projection takes place at the Utopia cinema and will be inaugurated by a concert.

There will be meetings between filmmakers and film student to encourage exchange and help weave the cultural fabric of the audiovisual sector.

A jury of professional artists will be present at the projection to determine the winner of the Fugitif Award. The public will also have the opportunity to vote for their favorite short film, which will serve as the Fugitif Public Awards.


- PROGRAMME -

Registration opening - 01 November 2023

Early deadline - 15 January 2024

Regular deadline - 01 May 2024

Late deadline / Registration closing - 01 June 2024

Selected films announcement - 01 October 2024

Public / Jury screening - 13 December 2024









-THEME -

A dedicated student theme with reduced rates is available for those interested in registering. Proof of student status must be sent by e-mail to benefit from the reduced registration fee. For more information, please contact us.


- 2023 THEME #1: THE NIGHT -

1. The theme THE NIGHT can be approached literally and/or metaphorically. It can be a detail or a main element of the film.

2. Duration: 2 to 25 minutes.

3. All styles and genres are accepted: live-action, animation, fiction, documentary, comedy, horror, etc.

4. The date of creation is not restrictive.


- 2023 THEME #2: THE LIGHT -

1. The theme of THE LIGHT can be explored in a concrete and/or symbolic way, whether it is a simple detail or a central element of the cinematographic plot.

2. Duration: 2 to 25 minutes.

3. All styles and genres are accepted: live-action, animation, fiction, documentary, comedy, horror, etc.

4. The date of creation is not restrictive.


- 2023 THEME #3: LGBTQIA+ -

1. The LGBTQIA+ theme is an opportunity to discover and highlight the great variety, abundance and exceptional creativity of LGBTQIA+ cinema.

2. Duration: 2 to 25 minutes.

3. All styles and genres are accepted: live-action, animation, fiction, documentary, comedy, horror, etc.

4. The date of creation is not restrictive.




- 2023 THEME #4 STUDENT FILMS -

1. The STUDENT FILMS theme highlights the diversity and creativity of cinema students and reveals the talents of the future.

2. Duration: 2 to 25 minutes.

3. All styles and genres accepted: live action, animation, drama, documentary, comedy, horror, etc.

4. The date of creation is not restrictive.


- REGISTRATION FEES -

Early-bird: 15€
Regular deadline fee: 20€
Late deadline: 25€

Proof of student status must be sent by e-mail to obtain the reduced registration fee:
In the case of cancellation or disqualification for failure to comply with the imposed regulations, entry fees are non-refundable.


- SPONSORS -

- Utopia: an exceptional cinema in the heart of Avignon
- Domaine de Montine: prestigious wine cellar in the Rhône-Alpes region
- Soundivine: manufacturer of high-end bluetooth speakers

During a weekend, September 3 and 4, 2022, the village of Reugny hosts a unique film festival.

Multiple appointments, surprises and opportunities to share together films, astonishing, moving forms, sensitive creations, and singular universes.

The festivities are divided into two highlights: an evening with the program of a film-concert and a day of continuous screening of short films, everywhere in the center of the village and in unusual places: cellar, garage, church, business, or homestay. The public will wander from place to place to discover these small films of multiple universes which allow the spectator, to like, not to like, to discuss, to come back to see, to live a small concentrate of emotions and exchanges.

This festival will focus on the themes of ecology and sustainable development in the broad sense. It will be an opportunity to promote the distribution of films, works and audiovisual documents from all countries, of all genres and for all types of audiences. Cinema will bring us what it can do best in terms of ecology: make us think and above all make us dream.

Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) was established in 2006. The founder and organizer is “Batumi Art-house ARGANI". BIAFF is an annual event held in second half of September in Batumi (Georgia).

Festival is focusing on art-house cinema. BIAFF festival’s major sections include - International Competition (Feature, Doc and Short sections), Retrospectives, Meet the Jury, Master Collection etc. Beside film screenings, festival program includes various workshops, master classes and industry events.

The Cinematographic Residence CINEMALAB 2020 V2.0
"INDEPENDENT CINEMA IN THE AGE OF STREAMING"

CinemaLab is an opportunity for the maturation of feature film projects and low-budget series, in the script, construction (work in progress) or finalized in search of promotion and distribution, so that, strengthened by the collaboration and advice of experts, they can advance and consolidate.

In Zapatoca "The Happiest Town in the World", 20 selected projects will be incubated, within a national and international call, providing the right environment for filmmakers to focus their energies and move forward, through new and creative paths.

The laboratory will focus on the most neuralgic areas of realization, an immersion through individual, group and master classes, with renowned filmmakers.