Blog: Film festivals

DokuFest, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, is the largest film festival in Kosovo. Recognized as one of the top film and music event in SouthEast Europe, festival fills the cinemas and improvised screening venues around historic city center of Prizren with a selection of more than 200 hand picked films from around the world, whileat the same time bringing top international and local music acts to perform at DokuNights music festival. Documentary photo exhibitions, debates, master classes and lively atmosphere in the city all add to the charm of the festival.

The Bow Wow Film Fest is a traveling, dog centric film festival that celebrates, educates and inspires all things doggie through the art of short film.

Bow Wow Film Fest features some of the years’ best pooch themed short films all wrapped up in one beautiful, fun-loving 90 minute package! Bow Wow presents an opportunity for animal welfare groups to host an event that generates awareness as well as offers a unique and delightful way to fund raise. 100% of tickets sales go the events beneficiaries! Films change annually.

Since 2003 the international Festival SIGNES DE NUIT is active in Paris, Berlin, Saarbrücken and with special screenings world wide. The festival in Paris actually presents around 300 films coming from around 50 countries at different places in Paris. In Berlin the festival will be performed in the legendary cinema Babylon.

The International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT based in Paris is made up of films, which reflects new views, original imagery and critical approach to the crucial points of the modern human existence. It is a place for cinema that expands its own boundaries, that is astonishing, different, potentially free from the pressure of tradition, ready to give itself to the unpredictable experimentation.

The minor costs of digital production makes an independant- from comercial influences and any kind of censorship- production possible. These independant productions create an alternative, an artistic space very subtle and accessible to all, in contrast to what mass media offer.

This opposition and the preservation of the free cultural space is the goal of the International Festival Signes de Nuit, which has realized screenings and interventions in 29 different countries including Algeria, Australia, Chile, Cuba, Lebanon, Lithuania, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Peru, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States beside the screenings in main festival in Paris.

A world class festival bringing world class film to the region. Frederick is an hour north of Washington DC and an hour West of Baltimore, with a rich history and diverse population.

Our organization's mission is to provide access and exposure to the art of film and film appreciation to the Frederick community through exhibition of films and other film-related educational activities.

NON STOP BARCELONA ANIMACIÓ is a cultural integral event about animation cinema that offers to stimulate the interest for this language, learning, practising it and seeing it.

Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase of the best new horror, sci-fi, fantasy, action, and thriller films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans. Our festival’s goal is to prove to the entertainment industry that there are women filmmakers making fantastic genre films and to connect these filmmakers to industry professionals.

The 2016 Etheria Film Night Premiere will take place at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California in June, 2016. The event is hosted by American Cinematheque, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting all forms of films through screenings at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.

For questions, please email stacy@etheriafilmnight.com or heidi@etheriafilmnight.com

18th Ecozine Film Festival, International Film and Environment of Zaragoza. April 2025. Organized by Asociación Cultural Ecozine

Metro Online Film Festival 2014 is unique one, It could be watching from desktop Mac/PC through toptv.ca or from mobile devices, iphone or google play through toptv.ca/moff.2014

Both Channel is easy access, and identical. what if the submitted entry did accepted from Festhome, your entry will be uploaded and watching it right away with HD quality screening. The selected film through online exposure could be last longer for years to come.

Desktop screening is through toptv's dedicated streaming server, mobile screening is through toptv's youtube account, if there is no preference, it will upload to both channel as default.

International Film Festival "Prvi kadar"/First Frame is an important film event in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose mission is to promote film art of authors from all over the world. The Festival is of competitive character neither. Films compete in two categories: documentary and short films.

Fifteen editions of the festival, a large number of authors interested in the festival, proving that the festival recognized among artists all over the world, as an important and prestigious film event.

Festival selections confirm continuity, primarily artistic approach, on which is built the whole idea of the first frame. In considering the relationship between themes and ideas, stress is given to the author's attitude or an artistic idea.

Rich noncompetitive and competitive program of high artistic quality, educational programs, lectures DokMasterClass, Film Campus of art documentaries, exhibitions, promotion of book of film art, numerous guests from the world of film, proof that the festival from year to year expanding, enriching the content of the program. This years Festival will takes place from 20th to 24th November 2023 in East Sarajevo and Zvornik, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Toronto Student Film Festival » The Jury www.tsff.ca

The Toronto Student Film Festival is run by youth for youth. Since its inception in 2006, the festival has received submissions from across the globe. The festival strives to promote and showcase work by young filmmakers, whether shot on a cell phone or an HD camera.

The goal of the Timamu African Film Festival is to recognize and award talented African independent filmmakers and Writers, therefore helping them to increase their distribution and project funding opportunities.

The TiAFF is here to provide filmmakers with the opportunity to have their work recognized, judged and awarded. We’re a traditional festival looking to showcase entertaining domestic and international materials from talented independent African filmmakers.

Festival highlights include: red carpet opening reception, parade of flags of the countries in the festival, libation ceremony, African drumming and dance, film screenings, post-screening dialogue with filmmakers in attendance, theme parties, African marketplace, food, closing and awards ceremony.

ONLY FOR SPANISH (Castilla la Mancha) FILMMAKERS // SOLO PARA CINEASTAS ESPAÑOLES (Castilla la Mancha).

With its headquarter in Mbombela, the Mpumalanga International Film Festival (MIFF) is strategically located, easily accessible to filmmakers from all over the world.

Mbombela is the capital city of Mpumalanga and a getaway to the province renowned for its fauna and flora such as the Kruger National Park, Panorama Route and vibrant townships. Mpumalanga offers prime locations for any shoot, from television commercials to movies. It also boasts perfect weather and climate conditions as well as solid infrastructure.

Since its inception in 2013, MIFF has provided a platform for filmmakers to showcase their craft in an enabling environment. To date, the festival has shown 139 films of which 89 were international.

The province, being home to the Big Five, Three Rondavels, Blyde River Canyon, God’s Window and world-class infrastructure, including an international airport, is ideally geared and best situated to meet the needs of filmmakers.

In Mpumalanga, Mother Nature and man have combined to ensure filmmakers create perfect filmic moments that last for years.

Mpumalanga International film festival is an annual event showcasing new independent films or recently produced films, high profile and undiscovered talent, established and upcoming filmmakers, student filmmakers, and films from around the world. Festivals normally have two or more screens or venues to showcase films. Accepted filmmakers’ hustle to get their film noticed in the hope of obtaining distribution or favorable media.

Anibar International Animation Festival is the only event of the kind in Kosova, and one of the greatest events in the country. Since the beginning, the festival is organised and held in various settings in the city of Peja.

Anibar screens animated films coming from different places around the world, that in five cinemas, three of them set outdoors. Except the screening of the films during the festival, workshops, lectures, debates and additional daily activities (concerts and camping) are organized.

Year by year, the festival endeavors screening qualitative films, in both, technical and artistic aspect of the view. The selection of entries is made in accord with a criteria deriving from a limited staff of professionals who aim balancing the audience, artistic reviews and the market.

Anibar has also socially influenced the youth community in Peja, and further, enclosed with the film screenings and other events, before, during and after the festival, a wide group of youngsters are engaged in helping and working with the idea and preparations of the festival, meanwhile they gain an experience which as a matter has been truly acknowledged by a vast support of different local and national institutions (private and public).

Aiming to awaken the Philippines to new ways of thought thru films!

Reaching its second edition in 2015, after a one-year hiatus, the "International Exhibition of the Amazon" MIA FILM FESTIVAL comes to once again exalt the world cinema in the heart of the forest.
Divided into 18 awards, the festival comes with the intention of provoking the exchange, interaction and cultural diffusion in Brazil.
The 2015 show will also feature exhibitions of visual artists, video art and of course the competitive shows.
  It will be a pleasure to receive your film, and display it in the jungle, Welcome to Western Amazon.

The company provides a platform for emerging talent – to commission emerging artists, showcase their work, to offer networking occasions with industry leaders and to provide inspiration and learning opportunities.

Tongues on Fire is also the producer of the London Asian Film Festival that aims to entertain, inform, educate and affect change in mood, emotion or thought. This annual film festival has been going strong for over fifteen years and champions both arts and cinema intertwining political and social messages with entertainment.

The London Asian Film Festival is an eclectic mix of films, stimulating interviews, outstanding lectures series, workshops, live performances, visual arts exhibitions, master classes and the annual short film competition. We’re proud to hold the annual London Asian Film Festival awards ceremony that rewards the great films, film makers and artists.

The Festival pushes boundaries and overlaps with global cultures through films and all other art forms with a broad crossover appeal.

Cinema is a magical place. It appeals to all our senses, plugs into other people’s experiences and offers an alternate perspective. Watching a film at the cinema is a shared experience where you go on a collective journey with the rest of the audience. The tears, the laughter, the joy, the suspense and seeing through a window to another world, all is a shared moment. What is more amazing than that?

Our passion for South Asian arts and cinema remains as resilient and strong as it did when Tongues on Fire began.

CINESEPTIEMBRE, A.C. convoca a Artistas visuales y Realizadores Cinematográficos
a proyectar su obra en la novena edición de la Muestra Internacional de Cine Independiente
CINESEPTIEMBRE 2016, a realizarse en septiembre en Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México.