Blog: Film festivals

20th FILM AND WINE FESTIVAL "CITY OF LA SOLANA 2024".

In this year of 2021, we are back, after a sour taste in 2020, we know for a fact that change is on the way. As filmmakers and creatives, we need to embrace ourselves, support our craft on a global level. As a film producer myself with multiple awards and participation on Brazilian and international projects, I know for a fact that technology can bring us close! So in this year, I want to invite aspiring, students and professional filmmakers to exhibit online in an across platform show your work, to touch on the matters that are most important on building a future where we produce film and media content to produce change, awareness and to unite the industry in a global level. We have special categories this year to facilitate the entrance of voices and persons from communities that need representing and a much more vocal presence in a still heavily dominated industry by old standards.


Short Film Categories:
Best Overall short film
Best Horror Short Film
Best Drama Short Film
Best Female director
Best International Student Short Film
Best Brazilian Student Short Film
Best International short documentary film
Best Brazilian short documentary film
Best transgender director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best VFX Digital
Best Practical VFX
Best audio editing
Best Art direction
Best Covid theme film
Best achievement in VR / 360 / Tech films and productions

Full Lenght Films Categories:
Best Overall film
Best Female director
Best VFX
Best Practical VFX
Best audio editing
Best Art direction
Best Actor
Best transgender director
Best director
Best Drama
Best Documentary
Best Covid Theme film
Best achievement in VR / 360 / Tech films and productions

Magnetic Film Association is proud to announce the short film festival “N.I.F.F. Noto International Film Festival” 2024 VIII edition
Festival is dedicated to any short movies created in any format and opened to all Italians and foreigner authors.

N.I.F.F will award the prestigious “MARIO MONICELLI” award for the best direction.

The technical jury appointed by the organizers of MAGNETIC FILM PRODUCTION will be composed of artist and workers in the field of cinematography, music and journalism field, chaired by film critic Giuseppe Liotta.

IV ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival will be held in Baku from 20 to 24 October 2021. The festival will show dozens of foreign and local animated films for children and adults for five days. The goal of the organisers is to create an annual event that will delight the local and foreign audience and professionals, as well as promoting art of animation in Azerbaijan.

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 the 2024 Premios Goya – Spanish Film Academy in Best Spanish Shortfilm, in both Fiction and Documentary categories.

The 16th edition of the Cerdanya Film Festival will be held from 1st to 15th August 2025.

BioBiocine, International Film Festival of Concepcion, is an intercultural gathering of knowledge and wisdom expressed through cinema, which aims to be a space for dialogue and contemplation, as well as to disseminate, promote, support and place value on National and International Cinematography from a Territory and Identity that is established as the context for its annual meeting.

BioBioCine International Festival calls for works from all countries and cultures for its eleventh version. Its program includes competitive and non-competitive categories of Fiction and Non-Fiction Feature and Short Films, with a focus on auteur cinema, new filmmakers, experimentation, intercultural dialogue and first nations.

YAQ Distribución, one of the most important distribution companies in Spain, opens call for entries for the five edition of the festival.

Indy Film Fest was founded in 2004 to celebrate the art of cinema and to create a shared experience around film in Indianapolis. We are a non-profit, international, independent film festival programming both features and shorts. Our all-volunteer staff strives to bring the best films the industry has to offer to our community from home and abroad. Our programmers aim to foster new talent and help filmmakers connect with the global industry. We are also dedicated to educating and developing audiences for international and independent cinema in Indy, screening the kind of innovative, visionary work that may not normally achieve distribution in this area.

Indy Film Fest is looking for the best independent features and shorts no matter the category or genre including: live action, animated, drama, comedy, narrative, documentary, horror, sci-fi, and experimental. Our annual festival spanning over 10+ days typically programs around 25 features and 100 short films, with over 90% from submissions.

Always growing and adapting, the Indy Film Fest began as the three-day Indianapolis International Film Festival in 2004. We quickly expanded to our current 10-day format in 2006, moved our festivities to the summer in 2009, changed our name to the Indy Film Fest in 2014, and since 2018 have been back home in our original spring timeframe. Due to COVID-19 our 2020 and 2021 festivals were primarily virtual and our 2022 - 2024 festivals were hybrid 5-day in-person festivals followed by virtual availability and concluding with award-winner in-person screenings on the final weekend. That format is our goal for the 2025 festival and before selection decisions are made filmmakers will be informed of any changes to dates or format and given the opportunity to request their submission fee be applied to a future festival if those changes are not acceptable.

Alumni of the Indy Film Fest (and Indianapolis International Film Festival) are eligible for a reasonable number of free submissions. Films with significant ties to Indiana are eligible for drastically reduced submission fees. Examples of eligibility include the director or writer being a current Indiana resident or native, or the film being primarily shot within Indiana. Please contact submissions@indyfilmfest.org to see if you are eligible for either of these opportunities.

Montevideo Fantastic Film Festival is the first Uruguayan festival dedicated to promoting national and international film productions related to horror, fantasy and science fiction genres. Its objective is to annually present independent and ultra-independent creations that are often considered "minor", and that hardly access commercial and cultural circuits.

It has sections related to short and long feature films in competition, as well as exhibitions, tributes to different figures of the genre, lectures presented by specialists, and promotion of different cultural activities that occur in the country.

The Montevideo Fantastic Film Festival has been declared of Cultural Interest by the Ministry of Education and Culture, of Municipal Interest by the Intendance of Montevideo, and of Tourist Interest by the Ministry of Tourism in Uruguay.

It was screened in the Punta del Este International Film Festival, LatinUy Film Festival ("Cinema Fantasy" section, in La Barra), Piriápolis de Película International Film Festival ("FantaPiria" section), as well as in several foreign genre festivals like 'Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre' from Argentina; 'Brasilia International Fantastic Film Festival' from Brazil; 'FIXIÓN Fest' from Chile and 'Zinema Zombie Fest' from Colombia.

LATINUY, Uruguay's International Latin Film Festival, showcases the most recent and innovative films (short and long feature films, fiction and documentaries) made in Iberoamerica. Numerous titles, directors and producers from around the world, national and international actors and actresses, and a wide schedule of activities meet annually in Punta del Este, the main Uruguayan seaside resort. LatinUy, a classic meeting point for cultural exchange between filmmakers and movie enthusiasts, awards several prizes, both for short and feature films in competition, both from the jury and the audience.

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.

The 5th FINAL! #JuntandoSaberes, will take place from August 2 to 13, 2023. After almost two years of preparation (we are a biannual festival) and as a result of learning about the global pandemic, we have strengthened a mixed Festival model, where face-to-face and virtuality, proposing 60% of the programming in person, aimed at children, families, as well as older adults in their neighborhoods and cultural spaces in urban and rural areas of the cities of Cali and Palmira, all through the mobile unit EcoCine al Barrio and the Bicicine Ecológico, allowing the development of outdoor functions with broad participation. Presence will be maintained in allied theaters and cinematheques in Cali, and the remaining 40% of the programming will be developed mostly on our digital environment cinema platform PantallaVerde https://pantallaverde.org/.

We are interested in this 5th edition to exalt reconciliation, memory and hope to resolve past and present conflicts, prepare for a new future as a society. #JuntandoSaberes hopes to be an edition that articulates actors, stories and that through a common memory exercise it is possible to find new strategies towards a paradigm shift. Through a program with official selections, competitions, guest windows, debates and educational activities, we want to provide an innovative space for articulation and creativity for the general public and the environmental audiovisual sector.

The Mexico City Videodance Festival, in collaboration with Red Nacional de Arte, calls choreographers, filmmakers, companies and visual artists to register their works to the sixth edition of the FIVideodanza, which will take place from September 02 to 05, 2021.

After a success 1st edition of Film Frames International Film Festival 2019, We are happy to announce the 2nd Edition of Film Frames International Film Festival. Which will be held in the Pune City, . It is organized on 1st & 2nd May 2021 to mark the Tribute to Late.Shri. Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, the father of Indian cinema , who is regarded as the father of Indian Cinema & fondly remembered as Dada Saheb Phalke by the film fraternity across the India & globe. Its aim is to recognize the enlightening, entertaining & progressive new age cinema of youth & experienced filmmakers.

In the 1st Edition of FFIFF total 65 + Countries Participating in this festival & FFIFF create a world record for maximum countries participating in debut film festival
Film Frames International Film Festival (FFIFF) is Jointly Organized by PRAYOG KALAKRUTI & ASHTAVINAYAK MOTION FILMS.
The Mission & Objective of the Film Frame’s International Film Festival (FFIFF) is to give Short Film / Documentary films an Identity that differentiates this art form, from the Conventional big Screen. FFIFF displays Short/Documentary Films that Celebrate diverse Cultures, aesthetic, traditions, Social and relevant themes and other work that challenge and transcend expectation.

Filmmakers from all across the world, students and professionals alike, are encouraged to send their work (Short Films & Documentary Films only) that will be curate by some of the best minds in the industry, and screened at FFIFF.

Film Frames International Film Festival's mission is “to entertain and engage audiences by curetting the most innovative and compelling films, and creating remarkable festival experiences.” Screening at FFIFF is a sure-fire way to start creating a buzz around your film and your career.

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.

Let's take a shot with shorts!

Brand new festival from Moscow, Russia supported by Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and city authorities.

"Short Shot" - Monthly Awards and Screenings.
Festival is dedicated to filmmakers from all over the World.

Sending us your artwork is not sending it to a Black Hole.
We consider each film, each video!
Each director has a chance to introduce himself and his artwork and greet audience through our social media pages!

We are creators as well and we watch artworks with passion and professional interest.
We believe, that each film, each creator, each director deserve confession!
We are creating community of film lovers and filmmakers.
We communicate a lot, we discuss a lot in our social media!
Join us and be part of Short Shot Fest family!

Our jury selects every month the winning short films for each category:

Best Short Film
Best Short Comedy
Best Short Drama
Best Short Horror
Best Short Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Best Narrative Short
Best Student Short
Best Animation Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Experimental Short
Best Music Video
Best Mini Short
Best Mobile Phone Short (incl vertical)
Best Series (Web/TV)
Best Fashion Short
Best Commercial/Ad/TVC

Also, we provide chance for MOSCOW film creators to take a chance in showing our beautiful city in their movies.

How we do?

Choose one or more categories and submit your short film.

Usually, our submissions start on 1th-4th of the month and end on the same day next month.

EACH submitted film will receive a short review from our judge team (on request)

PLEASE NOTE: We don't screen the films online! The members of the jury watch the films online and they choose the Official Selections.

In 5-7 days after the deadline day for submissions we publish the Official Selections list and we notify the filmmakers via e-mail.

During the next 5 days our members of the jury decide the winners for each category.
After that we publish the Winners list and we notify filmmakers by e-mail. The lists are published on social media and on our dedicated website: shortshotfest.com

In the last week of the month we screen the awarded films in art - center "Efir" in the heart of Moscow.
From August, 2021 we are OPEN for new season 2021/2022.
The Grand Finale 2021/2022 will be held in August, 2022 in Moscow.
International judge team, great networking and friendly atmosphere — that’s Short Shot Fest.

Stay tuned and check our website: shortshotfest.com

Coming together to explore new cultures and celebrate creativity will always be important and VIFFMP is the perfect medium for that. Visual literacy is an aptitude for this century and VIFFMP brings together the highest-quality stories to learn from. VIFFMP exists to inspire audiences and keep the excitement alive for cinematic experiences.

VIFFMP is a meeting place for filmmakers and people who are interested in the world in its variety, different approaches to life, film as an art form, a medium and a tool of social expression. VIFFMP offers filmmakers a platform to introduce their work and discuss topics shown in the film as well as the filmmaking process. Helping at the frontline of an increasingly polarized world. Speaking multiple languages, VIFFMP gives the ability to hear a rich diversity of voices from the divided areas.

VIFFMP is not out there just for the sake of films. We enliven with an idealism that enables filmmakers and diverse communities to share their ideas in close personal contact.

GIFF Edition 5, 2024 (Online)

Get ready to experience the magic of cinema like never before at the Gandhara Independent Film Festival 2024, Ed 5 (Online) Pakistan's pioneering digital film festival brought to you by Cirque Films

Launched in 2020, GIFF has been a trailblazer in connecting filmmakers with a global audience through its innovative hybrid format. Over the past four years, we have become a beacon for diverse storytelling, offering a unique platform where creative voices from around the world converge.

This October 2024, we’re back and more determined than ever to showcase the finest #shortfilms that will captivate, move, and inspire. From heart-stirring dramas to laugh-out-loud comedies, from thought-provoking art films to unforgettable emotional journeys. This year's festival promises an unforgettable ride through the world of cinema.

Mark your calendars, because this is an event you won't want to miss.

Join us online via our website, and stay tuned for more updates as we prepare to take you on an extraordinary cinematic adventure. The Gandhara Independent Film Festival is about to begin.

Categories
Narrative Shorts

*there is no submission fee to submit a film

There are four themes

1) works of a social nature or focused on the theme of the female condition

2) work on the theme of comedy in all its facets

3) "No Language" jobs

4) works on the environmental theme with shorts or documentaries

XXIII INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OF VINARÒS “AGUSTÍ COMES”

JULY-2024