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Why Join New World?

At New World, we believe in more than just showcasing films. We believe in empowering creators. As an IMDb-recognized festival, our mission is to connect emerging talent with the industry and actively support their creative journey.

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We are deeply committed to promoting every project that takes part in our festival. From the moment you submit your work, we begin sharing it with a wider audience. Each project receives its own promotional post on our social media channels. Don’t just take our word for it. Visit our Instagram, where we have already helped more than 1,200 filmmakers and writers gain visibility and amplify their voices.

Reduced Fees to Support Independent Artists
We understand the challenges independent creators face. Most projects are self-funded, and navigating the festival circuit can be costly. That’s why New World offers affordable submission fees. Our way of helping lighten the burden and give your work the exposure it deserves.

We’re Here for You
We welcome you with open arms and are ready to support your creative journey every step of the way. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re always happy to help.

Submit your project to New World today and take the next step toward your cinematic future.

XXI International Film Festival WON TOGETHER named after Vladimir Menshov is a cultural platform for documentary filmmakers from Russia and the world, united by the themes of victories in various spheres of life and the search for new artistic solutions.

We invite films revealing the problems of society and man, overcoming difficulties by the collective and personality in various spheres of life — social, economic, cultural, sports.

The Festival's program is a kaleidoscope in which every facet sparkles with fortitude, courage to move forward, and a thirst to make yourself better and transform the world around you.

The demonstration of films at the festival has an educational and cultural mission, is conducted on a non-commercial basis with the approval of the rights to screenings with the copyright holders.

Films produced in 2025-2026 are invited to participate in the Film Festival.

ABOUT The North Film Festival - New York City (TNFF)
Celebrating Film, Creativity, and Community!
Event Days: JUNE 10 - 13 /2026

Main Venue: Producers Club Theaters, 358 West 44th Street, New York, New York 10036 United States

The North Film Festival - New York City (TNFF NYC) proudly takes the spotlight, inheriting the legacy from TNFF in Sweden. As of Feb 2025, our dedicated team begins a new era, shifting the festival hub from Sweden to the bustling streets of New York City. With five successful years hosting film festivals across Sweden, Spain, and the USA, we're excited to continue the journey in the vibrant cinematic landscape of NYC!

The North Film Festival (TNFF) born in Stockholm, Sweden, in Feb 2020, is set to continue its legacy in New York City. Proudly supporting Scandinavian filmmakers and independent talents from all over the world.

TNFF NYC, an IMDb qualifier, is an international film festival (scripted, animated, documentary, music video). Dedicated to showcasing a wide range of international and American shorts and feature films of all genres. We offer both online screenings and an annual live screening and awards event in the heart of New York City.

What sets us apart is our partnership with The North Film Festival Stockholm in Sweden (April 24 - 25 / 2025 ONLINE) and the LOVE & HOPE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in Barcelona (L'HIFF) (Oct 1 - 4, 2025), Spain. With this strong foundation and five years of combined experience, we have already proven our ability to curate exceptional cinematic experiences.

Get ready for a phenomenal film festival in New York City. We have the skills, passion, and vision to make it one of the greatest!

IMDb Awards Listing Qualifier's The North Film Festival - New York CIty:
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0057059/overview/

IMPORTANT: The social Media will be share for both film festivals The North Film Festival Stockholm - Sweden and The North Film Festival - New York City (TNFF)

Website for The North Film Festival - New York City (TNFF):
www.thenorthfilmfestnyc.com

EMAILS:
thenorthfilmfest@gmail.com
info@thenorthfilmfestnyc.com

OFFICIAL VENUE FOR SCREENINGS

Main Venue: Producers Club Theaters, 358 West 44th Street, New York, New York 10036 United States

Each quarter, the submitted projects are judged by an enthusiastic team of film industry professionals and academics.

TNFF Welcomes you to the city that never sleeps New York - United States.

New York is the most ethnically diverse, religiously varied, commercially driven, famously congested, and, in the eyes of many, the most attractive urban centre in the country. No other city has contributed more images to the collective consciousness of Americans: Wall Street means finance, Broadway is synonymous with theatre, Fifth Avenue is automatically paired with shopping, Madison Avenue means the advertising industry, Greenwich Village connotes bohemian lifestyles, Seventh Avenue signifies fashion, Tammany Hall defines machine politics, and Harlem evokes images of the Jazz Age, African American aspirations, and slums. if you're selected for the screenings in New York City on Feb 2025!

We are also extending an exclusive invitation to films from our sister festivals:

• Love & Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (Oct 1 - 4, 2025)
• The North Film Festival - ONLINE - Stockholm - Sweden (April 24 - 25, 2025)
• Los Angeles Fantasia Fest - Los Angeles, CA (Nov 20 - 21, 2025)

We can’t wait to meet you at the festival! In the meantime, we’d love for you to join our Facebook community, where we share exciting updates about filmmaking and our festivals.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/lovehopethenorthfestivals

See you there!

FesticineKids 28 is an international children's and youth film festival in Cartagena de Indias, it is a film competition that orients its efforts towards strengthening the production and distribution of Colombian, Latin American and world cinema for children and young people.

In 2026, FesticineKids reaches its 28th, edition with the same spirit of highlighting and celebrating cinema for girls, boys and young people. The phrase has been chosen as the slogan: OUR KIDS VALUES. From this concept it is intended to invite children and young people to be aware of the responsibility they have to be agents of change in their environments. Children and young people are the future that should encourage the care of our planet earth, the human beings that surround them, animals and plants, as well as the places they visit. The tendency to Afro movies and ones oriented to indigenous people.

In the construction of the profile of the FesticineKids 28, the screen is problematized as a point of confluence of girls, boys and adolescents. By postulating cinema as that scenario in which feelings, emotions and beliefs are expressed, it is intended that girls, boys and adolescents, understanding what the cinema evokes them, what they extract from it and its meanings, wonder about the place that cinema has in their lives, in their environment, in parallel to the place they want and dream of.

It is also an opportunity for adults, parents, teachers, cultural and cinematographic authorities, to think about the need to strengthen their capacities to be trainers in tension and interaction with the audiovisual media, especially the cinema.

PLAY is the first Portuguese film festival, exclusively dedicated to children and teenagers, determined to promote the access to culture for a younger audience through Cinema and screening films for audiences aged between 1 and 16 years old.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The RODANDO Film Festival invites filmmakers to participate in the First International Showcase of its 14th Edition, to be held in the city of San Luis Potosí and the Magical Towns of Real de Catorce and Xilitla, Mexico.

INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE

FICTION FEATURE FILM

Fiction films from any country, completed between 2024 and 2026, will be considered.

The showcase is aimed at works with a strong authorial vision and social commitment that address contemporary cultural realities through themes such as: gender perspective, masculinities, childhood and youth development, migration, memory, community, as well as sexual, functional, linguistic, and ethnic diversity.

Selected films will receive official recognition from the Rodando Film Festival.

The eleventh La Serena International Film Festival (FECILS) is a competitive audiovisual event that will take place from October 21 to 24, 2026, in the Coquimbo region. It seeks to support the production and dissemination of regional, national, and Latin American audiovisual activities, thus contributing to decentralization by promoting the exchange and training of regional filmmakers and producers. Through these actions, FECILS seeks to establish itself as a cultural event that, in addition to generating film exhibition spaces in the Coquimbo region, focuses on generating new audiences. FECILS 2026 features an audiovisual outreach program that will reach various venues in the region's communes.

Dear friends,

First and foremost, we want to thank you. This 2026, AricaDoc celebrates its 10th anniversary, and your films have been fundamental in walking this path. That is why we want to celebrate this milestone by inviting you once again to share your works with the communities of audiences that have grown around our festival.

We know that the global context can seem daunting and that uncertainty often weighs heavily on our hearts. With that in mind, we want to offer you a space for gathering, celebration, and care. We want to commemorate that, against all odds, we have managed to sow a place in the far north of Chile where human creative power can express itself through hope rather than destruction.

For ten years, we have continued walking obstinately as a small crowd. Together, we have built a community whose primary interest is to come together around filmmaking, dialogue, and the possibility of imagining other ways of inhabiting this world.

That is why we want to invite you to send us your films, the essential ingredient of this celebration through which we seek to continue nurturing diverse ways of feeling, thinking, and sharing life in a world that is wounded, yet still capable of healing.

We look forward to welcoming you with joy.

The AricaDoc Team

Mirades Interculturals – Sant Feliu de Llobregat Micro Short Film Festival is an open call for audiovisual creation inviting participants to submit micro short films of up to 5 minutes on interculturality, cultural diversity and coexistence between cultures.

The festival aims to encourage creative perspectives that help build a more cohesive, respectful and participatory community through stories that highlight dialogue, mutual learning and meaningful encounters between people from different cultural backgrounds.

Interculturality is understood not only as the presence of diverse cultures in the same space, but as a process of relationship, interaction and shared construction. The festival will especially value films that portray everyday situations, encounters, complicities, learning processes, transformations or stories that help challenge stereotypes and prejudices.

The festival is open to filmmakers, collectives, educational centres, community organisations and citizens in general. The finalist films will be screened at a public gala in Sant Feliu de Llobregat during the first half of October 2026.

In the city of El Bolsón, since 2016, students of the Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Artistic Design (LDAA) at the National University of Río Negro (UNRN) have concluded their studies with a festival open to the community, a celebration of audiovisual encounters and making that is renewed each year. This is the Audiovisual Artistic Festival, or, simply and lovingly, the FAA!. An event organized and managed entirely by the students of the program, it has managed to sustain and position itself for 11 years as one of the most important audiovisual festivals in Patagonia.

FESOHCURT is, in its 9th edition, a reference within the short movie festivals, as it contributes to fostering the use of Valencian through cinema. Thus, at least 50% of the short movies selected for this edition will be in Valencian language (or any of its dialectal varieties).

We are a non-profit organization. Our mission is to provide workshops for production and distribution of films. Our goal is to enrich the talent of thriving filmmakers.

Our IMDb qualifying festival champions independent filmmakers with original ideas. We are primarily a Short Film Festival but award feature length submissions and include clips and trailers at our awards events. Award Winners are welcome to add their accolades to our IMDb page.

Winners will receive Official Laurels and Digital Certificates. Printed Certificates are presented at live events only.

Award winners can add their accolades to our IMDb page here: https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0073770/2025/1/

Folkestone Film Festival are recognised by the Global Recognition Awards for our significant contribution to independent cinema and our commitment to inclusive filmmaking. We try to minimise financial barriers for filmmakers by keeping submission costs low.

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel:
https://youtube.com/@folkestonefilmfestival?si=D-ntZzi7Li9k0hEF

We are a small festival who love to hold Q&A sessions with filmmakers. We thank you for your patience when waiting for us to respond to emails and uploading online content. Selected submissions will be notified via Festhome and Email.

We look forward to seeing your films soon!

A big thank you to our sponsors A. Simmons, the Jewellers of the South East. Our festival partners, Silver Screen Cinema. BritFlicks, FilmmakerDASH, StudentFilmmakers Magazine & Kent Kino.

IBERSHORTS aims to provide international visibility to the production of fiction and animation short films made in Ibero-American countries, including Portugal and excluding Spain.

IBERSHORTS is organised by Festival de Málaga in collaboration with Festhome and seeks to strengthen the cultural and cinematographic ties between these regions, offering a privileged showcase within one of the most relevant festivals in the Spanish and Latin American film landscape.

In order to fulfil these objectives, IBERSHORTS will take place within the framework of Festival de Málaga, which will hold its 30th Edition from 26 February to 7 March 2027.

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

Sex Education Film Festival has been created in a time of controversy, which has seen society as a whole debate whether or not schools should receive sex education. Our main goal is to educate and highlight the importance of sex as a part of health education while showcasing how vital it is for young people's development, learning, and overall well-being. The Sex Education Film Festival launches its first edition in February 2021 and is made up of a team of qualified professionals from education, communication, and audiovisuals. We believe this expertise will not only widen the audience’s knowledge and learnings regarding sex education but will also work to make the festival a success.

INDEPENDENT CINEMA IN THE HEART OF MEDIEVAL ITALY

The Cultural Association Aedon is pleased to present the 6th Festival dei Lumi, an arts festival that takes place annually in Soriano nel Cimino, in the heart of the Cimini mountains, in the province of Viterbo.

A PLACE FULL OF HISTORY, LOVED BY ARTISTS

A place steeped in history, which belonged to the greatest families of the Italian papal aristocracy (Orsini, Colonna, Albani), it retains a strong tradition and in its recent history was the creative residence of world-famous Italian artists such as PierPaolo Pasolini, who lived in the of Chia, or Luigi Pirandello who also dedicated a poem to the beech forest of Soriano nel Cimino, from which he was greatly entranced.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOUR ART

Festival dei Lumi aims to propose independent Italian and international cinema to the Soriano audience.

We are looking for spontaneous films, created by artists who have the courage to use their intelligence and put their essence into their work. We are looking for sincere works, we don't care about the budget, the genre, the nation, the medium used for filming.

We are looking for artists who care about their work, who love the creative process and who don't make art out of vanity.

PRIORAT FILM FESTIVAL

The Priorat Film Festival aims to highlight the value of cinema in a region with limited access to commercial cinema and without a film festival of its own, with the goal of contributing to the creative, associative, cultural, educational and business fabric of the region and of bringing cinema closer to its entire population, without exception.

Screenings will take place in different villages of the Priorat region. In addition, there will be an opening screening and a closing ceremony with the awards presentation held in symbolic venues of the region.

inFCTA 2026 – 10th Edition of the Terra Alta Film Festival
Bot, Catalonia – August 2–8, 2026
www.infcta.com

The Terra Alta Film Festival — inFCTA is a competitive short film festival held annually in Bot, in the heart of the Terra Alta region (Catalonia, Spain). The project is rooted in the conviction that cinema is a tool for thought and encounter, and that artistic excellence can be developed with the same rigor in a rural context as in any major cultural centre.

Since its first edition, inFCTA has developed a distinctive model that combines a solid competitive structure, professional presence, and a strong connection to its territory. The festival understands its setting not as a backdrop, but as a cultural context that actively engages in dialogue with the works and their creators. The programme places cinema at its core, surrounded by industry activities, training initiatives, and spaces for exchange between filmmakers and audiences.

The call for entries is open annually. Submitted works are evaluated by a professional selection committee and assessed by an independent jury, according to clearly defined curatorial criteria: narrative and formal quality, artistic coherence, creative risk, and plurality of perspectives. The festival is committed to singular voices, to supporting emerging talent, and to fostering the active presence of selected filmmakers throughout the event.

The 10th edition, to be held from August 2 to 8, 2026, consolidates this trajectory and reinforces its competitive and professional dimension, while maintaining an open outlook towards the European context and the evolution of contemporary audiovisual language.

These regulations govern participation in the following sections and awards:

– inFCTA HighLand Pro Section
– inFCTA HighLand No Pro Section
– inFCTA Talents Section
– inFCTA School Section
– inFCTA Youth Section
– inFCTA FEM Award
– inFCTA VR Section

Participation in any of these sections implies full acceptance of these regulations.

Submit your work.


Contact: info@infcta.com

ASSERTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS is a project that emerged from the Festival de Málaga, in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Mabel Lozano and the Equal Opportunities Department of the Malaga City Council, as a tool for protest and advocacy. This section was created with the aim of exploring and addressing issues that raise social awareness about women's rights each year.

Launched in 2008, this section of the Festival de Málaga is now in its 19th edition. The project has a dual purpose: to shed light on the injustices that women continue to face in the 21st century simply because they are women, and to promote and support films created by women.

Through Asserting Women's Rights, we have brought attention to the challenges women face in different parts of the world. Even today, there are many places where women and girls must fight daily for their survival. In these regions, traditional practices and cultural norms often hinder their personal and social development, preventing them from achieving equality with their male counterparts.