Blog: Film festivals

It is the regional event of festivals of the noir and policial genre of the Canary Islands.

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The Short Film Slam is a bimonthly competition presented by The Madlab Post that focuses on providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers to showcase their work. Each round, a selection of up to twelve short films will be screened for local audiences who get to cast a vote for their favorite film. The highest rated film at live screenings will be declared "Movie of the Month" during the following month. The highest rated "in-competition" films from each live and online screening room will advance to the final round. All finalists get to compete for a total of $1,000 in prize money during the final round and festivities preceding the 2023 shnit Cinemas screening in Philadelphia.

Since 2012, The Madlab Post has promoted community outreach and engagement through film, screening dozens of exceptional short films from around the world to local audiences; including the Academy Award nominated short film A SINGLE LIFE, Clermond-Ferrand International Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner THE BATHTUB and Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Et ta prostate, ça va? (HOW'S YOUR PROSTATE). Main venues include the historic Bok building and Taller Puertorriqueño's state-of-the-art El Corazón Cultural Center.

International Fantastic Film Festival of Castilla y León "Terroríficamente Cortos" born from enthusiasm and love for the cinema of palencian young and the need to boost the cultural and leisure in the city of Palencia on it involving institutional and business sector of the Spanish province.

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

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.

After successfully conducting the Siliguri International Short Film Festival in Siliguri for the last three years, we are planning to organise the 1st Jalpaiguri International Short Cinema Festival in the cultural capital of North Bengal right from 2022!

Jalpaiguri has a distinct cultural legacy of its own. There are many budding and aspiring filmmakers, actors, and technicians in this town. The sensational Tollywood actress Mimi Chakraborty belongs to Jalpaiguri. Excepting her many are successfully working in Bengali Film Industry.

The history of Jalpaiguri even boasts of its fight for freedom against the British rulers. Then the Divisional Headquarters, Jalpaiguri has many royal memories to share with even today. With lush greenery, hills, tea gardens, dense forests, meandering village paths, and numerous rivers — Jalpaiguri can be a prime seat of film tourism in near future. Hence the idea of holding THE JALPAIGURI INTERNATIONAL SHORT CINEMA FESTIVAL.

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.

THE FESTIVAL: MOVEMENT OF CULTURE

The Festival was born with a very specific mission: it aims to stimulate public attention towards an open and wide representative space, such as the rural environment, makes its outdoor projections, open to all, the best exponent. Youth and adults, generations separated by years and experiences, gather around a screen, which is the focus of the light of a past and a future: culture is timeless, culture unites, and film language will be the link common to temper emotions and feelings, to treasure memories, to provoke lively gatherings.

In this way, all attendees of the event can enjoy a heterogeneous and dynamic speech. Through this cultural impulse, the different currents of creativity allow viewers to move and explore new and old codes in a public space, creating community.

6th edition of the Festival Girona en Moviment, international charity dance festival, from 13 to 16 July 2023.

All proceeds raised from the festival are donated to the Fundació Oncolliga Girona to assist cancer patients and their families.

The selection of the short films "Cinema, dance and identities" is based on artistic, technical and script criteria.

Comedy Film Festival. With professional meetings and unpublished films in Spain.

Festival Internacional de cortos y largometrajes.

La sección oficial de cortometrajes es competitiva.

El festival está coorganizado por el Ayuntamiento de Castelldefels i el CECAAC (Centre Exprimental de la Cinematografia i les Arts Audiovisuals de Catalunya).

Festival Cine en las Sierras, is an international film festival, which takes place in the city of San Francisco del Monte de Oro (San Luis) Argentina.The FILM FESTIVAL IN THE SIERRAS, SAN FRANCISCO DEL MONTE DE ORO opens its 2nd CALL 2022 and is open from February 25 to April 25, 2022 in JULY and closes on AUGUST 22, 2021, it is aimed at filmmakers and producers national and foreign provincial films that have made feature films, short films and minute films aimed at children and families; as well as Mexican and/or foreign mini-filmmakers between 5 and 14 years old, between 15 and 18 years old and I publish in general up to 30 minutes of short films sent in their original language with Spanish subtitles in the case of foreign languages. They can be recorded with professional film equipment

The objective of the call is to ensure that children in vulnerable situations and the general public can access valuable content that awakens emotions and empathy in them, that leaves them learning and makes culture reach them through cinema as factors determinants for their identity and social inclusion and improvement of their reality by contributing to Mex society

The sample of films that are part of the 2021 Selection of the CHURUMBELA Children's Film Festival will be included in the following categories:NATIONAL PRODUCTION
Children's short film
-Fiction
-Animation
-Documentary film

INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION children's short film
Fiction
-Animation
-Documentary film

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The works can be registered by the filmmakers, producers and/or distributors at no cost since the festival is non-profit and what we want is to bring their stories to many children so that they serve as a reflection, inspiration, awareness and to generate self-confidence.

In this edition, we extend the production date of the works, which can be carried out between 2019 and 2022.

The official selection will be published from June 20, 2022 on social networks and the official website of the Festival:

Registration must be done only through FESTHOME/ www.festhome.com or by sending an email to cinefestivalsierras21@gmail.com with the following information:

• 2 Stills in .jpg format (300 dpi),
• Movie poster in .jpg format (300 dpi),
• Photograph of the director in .jpg format (300 dpi),
• Technical sheet (You can

The final exhibition formats will be exclusively in digital downloadable file, H264 compression, 4K (4096 x 2160) and/or in H264, (3840 x 2160) in the case of Mini-filmmakers, it can be received in an HD format (1920 x 1080) type .mov or .mp4.

It is requested to send a subtitled version in case the work is made in a language other than Spanish.

Send movie trailer for dissemination and promotion.

The deadline for receiving exhibition material is February 25 to April 25, 2022

The CHURUMBELA CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL will take place from September 25 to December 5, 2021; It is supported by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE), the Trust for the Promotion and Development of Mexican Cinema in Mexico City (PROCINE) and important alliances have been established with the private initiative and benchmarks in the film industry such as EFD MÉXICO, EWOK POWER RENT, COVESTRO, INTEGRAL SERVICES among others.

Thanks to this collaboration, it is possible to bring cinema closer to children for free so that they can immerse themselves in the wonderful world of cinematography.

In this 5th edition we will reach more girls and boys who live in vulnerable communities in other states of the republic through workshops and film screenings based on the programming that you can consult at: churumbelafest.com/programación2021.


Due to its social and supportive nature, access to the Churumbela Children's Film Festival is free, fosters an inclusive environment and promotes dialogue, the seventh art and artistic expression as tools for social transformation.

The Oiasso Roman Museum and the City Council of Irun organize the International Archaeological Film Festival of the Bidasoa.

The aim of the Festival is to present archaeology to the general public, through the diffusion of audio-visual material resulted from the work made by archaeologists, assuring the promotion and the spreading of these films.

The Festival is being celebrated since the year 2001 and from the year 2004 it has four prizes: the Grand Prize of the Festival, the Special Audience Prize, the Educational Values Prize and Arkeolan Prize for Contribution to Science. Since 2006, it’s inside Fedarcine, the European network of Archaeological Film Festivals.

Out of Bounds is an independent event, in Puglia, southern Italy.

In 1945 the American army landed in southern Italy for the "liberation" campaign and suddenly passed through Molfetta, our base city. During their stay the allies reported some neighborhoods as "OUT OF LIMITS" due to the "social danger" of the people who lived there. In the first two editions, 2013 and 2014, our festival took place in two squares, Piazza San Michele and Piazza delle Erbe, near the areas still considered by many to be "out of bounds", in Molfetta.

The “Out Of Bounds” film event is run by filmmakers and focuses on empowering the best independent artists and encouraging all aspects of independent film production. We seek the unconventional, the unusual, the underground, the intuitive, the innovative and the true.

Subsequent editions took place in the cloister of the church of San Domenico, in the port area of ​​the town and in the ancient arena of the castle of Barletta, an evocative and historic medieval place and at the Artists' Citadel of Molfetta.

The special section chosen for the latest editions is "Film School Short". The new section for both national and international works is “Short from the sea”.

This year the Festival will host the first stage of the fourth edition of the "Out of Bounds Film School", a film school supported by the Ministries of Culture and Education.

The Esoteric International Film Festival collects the best esoteric films from around the world, which were created both by professionals and by enthusiasts, and helps to get them across to the Russian audience.

We admit only the esoteric films, both modern and historical ones. As well as those films, where esoteric world is an important part of the synopsis.

Esoteric International Film Festival invite filmmakers who make films and documentaries about ghosts and spirits, brownies and witches, fairies and sorcerers, exorcism and parapsychology, telekinesis and transmission of thoughts at a distance, prophetic dreams and premonitions, alchemy, amulets, amulets, non-traditional religious cults, voodoo religion, animism, shamanism, theosophy and anthroposophy, the hidden edges of reality and other dimensions; self-discovery, the search for the meaning of life, the search for yourself in this world and your mission, life after death, human energy, chakras, aura, meditation, yoga, retreats, spiritual practices, spiritual teachers and ashrams, reincarnation and the recollection of past lives, the power of thoughts and the work of the subconscious; alternative medicine and non-standard methods of treatment, the universal mind, the energies of the new time, high vibrations, etc.

All films must be in English (orRussian). Alternatively, have the English or Russian subtitles (with the exception of all films without words), regardless of the country of production.

All best films that were selected for the vscreening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on February 01-02, 2025 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best Esoteric film". As well as for the oteric in the standalone nominations.

Short Out is a film festival that has the ambition to represent a reflection's place on the issues crossing the suburbs. 

Outskirts and suburbs: these are the themes of Short Out Festival.

The enhancement of peripheral spaces is a central topic to explore expanding territories and with the purpose of understand an urban context that invests in centralization.

In the margins lives an unexpressed or not yet explored artistic lymph and the desire is to bring it to light, starting from Lainate, on the edge of the metropolitan city of Milan.

The second edition of Short Out Festival will take place from Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 7th July, inside the natural spaces and courtyards of Villa Litta, emblem of the artistic, historical and cultural heritage of the city of Lainate.

We desire to create a widespread Festival that does not end with the screening of short films.
That's the reason we thought of a Short Off with a rich program of meetings during all three days of Short Out Festival.

Around International Awards ✈ Barcelona ✈ Paris ✈ Amsterdam ✈ Berlin.
Annual Independent event with 4 major programs for all Features, Shorts, Documentaries, Experimental, Commercial, Music Video, Animations, Student Films, TV, Series, and New Media. The international community evaluates the all-genre creations to serve ARFF Official Laurels and to certify the awarded filmmakers at the end of the annual festival run. Thus, all the ARFF Finalists will be mentioned multiple times to have the best out of the entire year altogether. Submit today to participate in all 4 programs, regarding the unique system of ARFF International. Submissions made via Festhome are getting evaluated and selected, directly for the yearly festival run and participating in the Official Certificate Program exclusively. Monthly selection is available on other associated platforms. Regarding the Unification Program of ARFF International, all 4 editions will gather at Amsterddam November/December 2024, till then Barcelona, Paris & Berlin editions will take place online.


See you Around & Fest Regards

MOONWATCHERS Association for Cinematographic Culture from Statte (Taranto, Italy) organizes the “Moonwatchers Film Festival” contest for Directors and Film-makers from all the world, who produced their works from January 1st, 2020 onwards. The deadline to send the movies is set to May 31st, 2023.

The D'A Film Lab Barcelona is a program to promote new film talent that aims to facilitate the conclusion of feature films in the post-production phase and promote their international circulation. Six unfinished films will be selected to receive specific advice from professionals and a jury will award a prize of 20,000 euros to the best film of the six participants.