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The 7th AmiCorti International Film Festival (AmiCorti IFF) is a premier cultural and cinematic event set to take place from June 23-28, 2025, in the historic town of Ivrea, Italy, specifically at the "AUDITORIUM MOZART." This festival is dedicated to celebrating the best of contemporary cinema, with a strong emphasis on emerging directors, independent filmmakers, and unique artistic perspectives. The festival aims to be a global meeting point for the film community, offering both in-person and virtual participation options to ensure wide accessibility. Selected films will be showcased on the exclusive AmiCorti platform, providing a focused and engaged audience.

The festival is recognized for its commitment to fostering creativity, innovation, and the exploration of social issues through film. It promotes cultural exchange, diversity, and inclusivity, making it a significant event in the international film festival circuit.

Event Type
The AmiCorti International Film Festival (AmiCorti IFF) is classified as a Cultural and Arts Event, with a specific focus on Film and Media. It is an International Film Festival that celebrates and showcases a diverse range of cinematic works from both emerging and established filmmakers worldwide. The event includes competitive and non-competitive sections, special programs, workshops, and awards ceremonies, making it a comprehensive platform for cinematic expression and appreciation.

Mission and Objectives
The mission of AmiCorti IFF is to nurture and showcase innovative cinema that contributes to the global dialogue on critical contemporary issues. The festival provides a platform for filmmakers to present their work to an international audience, promoting the exchange of ideas, cultural perspectives, and artistic techniques. The festival emphasizes diversity, inclusivity, and the exploration of social issues, aiming to highlight the transformative power of cinema.

Submission Categories
The festival features several competitive and non-competitive categories, each designed to highlight different aspects of cinematic excellence:
International Feature Film Competition
Eligibility: Fiction and documentary feature films (over 40 minutes) completed before December 31, 2024.

Awards: Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay.
Jury: An international jury of at least seven esteemed figures from cinema, television, and journalism will select the winners.
International Short Film Competition
Eligibility: Italian and international short films with a maximum duration of 30 minutes, completed by December 31, 2024.

Awards: Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay.
Jury: An international jury will evaluate the submissions and determine the winners.
National Short Film Competition
Eligibility: Italian short films (up to 30 minutes) completed by December 31, 2024.

Awards: Best National Short Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay.
Jury: A national jury of seven members will oversee this section.
International Animated Short Film Competition
Eligibility: Animated short films completed before December 31, 2024.

Award: Best Animated Film.
Jury: An international jury, comprising at least seven members, will judge this category.
International Social Theme Short Film Competition
Eligibility: Short films that address significant social issues, completed by December 31, 2024.
Award: Best Social Theme Short Film.

Jury: The winners will be selected by a jury of seven individuals with expertise in cinema and social issues.
International Music Video Competition
Eligibility: Music videos completed before December 31, 2024.
Award: Best Music Video.
Jury: A jury of at least three members will assess the entries in this category.

Non-Competitive Sections
Agenda 2030
Description: This section is dedicated to films that focus on social issues aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The selected works will be recognized for their impactful storytelling and contributions to raising awareness on global challenges.

Mentions: Best Direction, Best Photography, Best Actor.

Short Films Out of Competition
Description: An open and inclusive section for short films of all genres, formats, and dates. This section provides filmmakers with the opportunity to showcase their work without the pressures of competition.

Special Program
Workshop: “Easy Filmmaking”
Description: A hands-on workshop aimed at guiding participants through the basics of filmmaking, from concept to production. This program is designed to make filmmaking accessible to everyone, regardless of their prior experience.

The FIRE!! Mostra is the first LGBT film festival in Spain: established in 1995 by Casal Lambda, in Barcelona, it addresses affective diversity in its broadest sense through a careful selection of feature films, documentaries and short films. A selection of art-house cinema and an educational approach are its main characteristics.

Throughout two weeks at the beginning of June - mainly at the French Institute but also at other different indoor or open-air venues in the city -, a wide range of public is invited to enjoy this Barcelona cultural landmark, with stories and testimonials of free people, creators who break barriers and fighters for human rights, all of whom help with love to build a fairer and freer world.

The festival's name is a tribute to the late 20s New York magazine of the same name, FIRE!!, led by the black gay writer Richard Bruce Nugent, portrayed in one of the most iconic films of the festival, Brother to Brother, which we screened a few years ago.

La Palma, the green heart in Canary Islands, is suffering a catastrophe generated by the vulcanic eruption in Cumbre Vieja. This hadn't happened since 1971, when volcano Teneguía exploded in the same island. Thousands of hectares, crops and buildings are being destroyed by lava flows, leaving a lot of devastation and pain.
This festival is born from the deep desire of helping in this crisis. An online festival, accessible and free for the public, made up of shortfilms from all around the world. We hope to bring comfort and evasion to those people (children and adults, senior citizens, families) who have lost everything and fight everyday during this disaster. Or those who are dedicating body and soul to provide shelter for the homeless, the firefighters who have not slept for days, the police who take care of the population, the donors of food and clothing, the volunteers who are helping to load trucks of personal objects, or saving pets and lost animals -this Festival for all of them.
Fee entries (5 euros per short) will be FULLY DONATED TO PALYATE THE DAMAGES CAUSED BY THE VOLCANO, to the following associations, town councils and animal shelters: (more will be added to the list)

Ayuntamiento de los Llanos de Aridane
La Unión Palmera Animalista
Protectora De Animales Y Plantas Benawara de La Palma
Ayuntamiento de Cabildo de la Palma
Brigada de Rescate Orión
Ayuntamiento de El Paso
Asociación de Celiacos y Sensibles al Gluten de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Protectoras UPA, Benawara y Aanipal

Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival is one of the most prestigious film festivals in Portugal, reaching its 33rd edition in 2025.

Assuming as the main objective the promotion and diffusion of cinematographic and audiovisual works, selected according to quality criteria, Curtas Vila do Conde focuses on the discovery of new films and filmmakers and also on the recognised legacy of Cinema.

Short film competitions with animations, documentaries, fiction films, experimental films, and music videos, produced in 2024 or 2025, no longer than 60 minutes (exception made, under 30 minutes of duration, for Curtinhas – youth and children; My Generation – competitive section aimed for teenagers; Take One! – student films; and Music Videos), preferably with subtitles in Portuguese or English, are admitted to the various competitions.

Side programs, to be progressively announced, will highlight not only a selection of worldwide contemporary short films but also the relations between shorts and features, music and film, or art and cinema.

15th edition of the International Film Festival for children and teenagers "AniFestROZAFA2024" October 8-12, 2024 in Shkodër, Albania.

The International Jury of the AniFestROZAFA2024 festival will be established in cooperation with the European Children's Film Association ECFA.

The main objectives of the festival organizers will be to stimulate films for children.

The evaluation of the artistic values will be done by an international jury and by a special jury consisting of 23 children aged 8-12 years.

Films to compete in the 14th edition of the Films to compete in the 15th edition of the International Film Festival for Children and Teenagers must have been produced after June 1, 2022.

DEADLINES APRIL 15, 2024

Competitors are notified that online registration, based on the regulation, at FestHome.
A short film not longer than 17 minutes is accepted.

There are no restrictions on the number of movies you record.

Before you fill in the Entry Form, please read the regulation of the " AniFestROZAFA2024 ".

( The Events and Editions of the Festival have been designed, organized, and carried out by the non-profit organization, "AniFest".

The project is equipped with the Certificate of Registration of Authors’ Rights (Copyright) No. 99, RDA, dated 19. 06. 2013, on the category of works of art, “Projects”, Article 7; Letter b.

It also has the Certificate of Registration of the Activity. Certificate of Registration of the Object of Activity No. 202, RDA, dated 03. 06. 2013.

The project is equipped with the Certificate of Registration of Authors’ Rights (Copyright) No. 99, RDA, dated 19. 06. 2013, on the category of works of art, “Projects”, Article 7; Letter b.

It also has the Certificate of Registration of the Activity. Certificate of Registration of the Object of Activity No. 202, RDA, dated 03. 06. 2013.

SUBMISSIONS START: 15 Apr 2024
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: 05 Jun 2024

The list of films selected for the final will be published on September 10, 2024, on the official website of the festival: http://anifestrozafa.al

Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival(UMFF) is the first international mountain film festival in South Korea, dedicated to presenting and promoting films & culture dealing with mountains, adventure, exploration, nature, and the environment. The festival also provides an opportunity for filmmakers and mountaineers to meet and exchange ideas through seminars, events, screenings, and social gatherings.

The 9th UMFF will be held in Ulsan & Ulju, South Korea in autumn, 2024.

We present the 2024 edition of the Arcicorto Film Festival.

The Festival was born from the need and the desire to shorten the distance between cinema and spectator, thus favoring low and medium cost self-productions, in order to make the public participate as much as possible.

El Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca en el marco de la Minga del Arte que se realizará en Popayán los días 19, 20 y 21 de noviembre convoca a realizadores originarios a participar de la Muestra de Cine y video de los Pueblos Originarios -CRIC
Esta Muestra tiene como objetivo fomentar y reconocer la producción audiovisual de las culturas originarias y el respeto hacia su cultura, promover el acceso al uso de medios audiovisuales y aportar a la difusión de los pueblos indígenas de América y del mundo.

La Minga del Arte es un proceso que trabaja en torno a la garantía del derecho a la comunicación indígena, en donde “el arte indígena es un catalizador de los elementos fundamentales de las formas propias de comunicación indígena. El arte indígena tiene que ver con: espiritualidad, ritualidad, comunicación con la naturaleza, espacios de pensamiento, palabra y organización comunitaria, dialogo intergeneracional y de las mujeres indígenas, formas de expresión del conocimiento y pensamiento indígena, representación simbólica, artística en todas sus manifestaciones, conocimiento tradicional, propiedad intelectual colectiva, valores de la solidaridad, autonomía y buen vivir”

The UK festival circuit is dominated by voices and teams well on their way to success as artists, and the threshold for entry to most festivals is correspondingly high. However, we believe there is a wealth of talent below that threshold that deserve the encouragement and affirmation of an audience.

Based at the charming Curzon Cinema in Clevedon, the remit of Homegrown Shorts is to find and encourage the young and developing cinematic voices of the South-West of the UK.

Cinema Camp Film Festival is a short film festival open to filmmakers from all over the world that has a double function: on one hand, serve as a platform for the dissemination of the short film in those places where it does not have much presence, and on the other hand, to function as an educational and formative tool, allowing the young spectators, who mostly make up their audience, to learn and draw inspiration from the visualization of the different cinematographic works.

The functioning of the festival, open to all types of audiences, is very simple: among all the short films received, a final selection will be made, which will be the one screened in the different sessions of the festival (which will take place in different Spanish cities at throughout the summer). Assistants to each of these projections will be the ones in charge of choosing their favoire short film. The short film that gets the most votes will win the Best Short Film Award of the festival.

Likewise, a specialized jury formed by professionals from the cinematographic sector will grant the different special mentions: Best Direction, Best Photography, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor/Actress.

The Festival de Cinema de Terror de Sabadell, celebrates the Sixth Edition of our Fiction Short Film Competition.

They have space for all the short films of Terror, Gore, Thriller, Fantastic, Science-Fiction, Dark Humor or Freak, in all their meanings and variants.

Festival start: October 30, 2022 Festival end: October 31, 2022
The 3TH edition of the HORROR PIFF Festival will take place in the city of Paraná, from October 30 to October 31, 2022.

The central headquarters of the Paraná Festival is located at the following address: B. Pedro Lemebel Civil Association, Santos Vega Street 1754, premises 9, 10 and 11, “El Sol” Commercial Gallery. Its official Fanpage: PIFF: Link: https://www.facebook.com/pifffestival/ Paraná (Facebook) offers detailed information and indicates how to contact the Festival and its different departments.

HORROR PIFF is in part the PARANA INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, which is made up in equal parts by Grupo Transmedia Argentina, and CICVE (Research Center in Film and Video Art Experimental), belonging to the Civil Association "Pedro Lemebel Library ". The organization of the Paraná Festival is headed by its director, Esteban Amatti.

The Paraná Festival is recognized by the “International Center for Experimental Cinema and Videoart”, within the category “competitive film festivals”.

The Paraná Festival aims to make a positive contribution to the development of culture and the film industry.

All the films presented in the 3TH edition of the HORROR PIFF will be chosen by its selection committee, headed by the Festival management and advised by a network of international delegates, made up of a series of professionals, specialists in the world of cinema and festivals. cinematographic. It will be called "International Film Classification Committee"

All films selected in the 3TH edition will receive a certificate of participation from the management of the Paraná Festival.

9rd Morce-GO Vermelho - GOIAS HORROR FILM FESTIVAL - is a film festival in the heart of Brazil, which will have contemporary audiovisual works and historical recovery linked to the themes of horror, suspense and horror. The Festival may have fiction productions, experimental and animation as well as workshops and debates.

The aim is to encourage and promote local productions, Brazil and all over the world for lovers of moviegoers horror movies, suspense and horror featuring some of the most creative in independent productions of short films in competitive shows and feature films in the programming.

Our main objective is the exhibition and stimulation of a constructive and objective debate on the interpretations that we can make individually about these two phenomena, such as the UFO phenomenon and the paranormal phenomenon.

Technology has played a leading role in revealing and clarifying myths and truths around these topics. That is why in this first edition we invite all those who want to deepen the analysis and also rescue the beauty of artistic expression that expresses what we do not know, but if we perceive.

The International Film Festival on the Island FECISLA, is a film event that has as its lines the identity and culture of African descent, childhood and youth and the environment, permeating and impacting from an educational and cultural process the majority of the native population of Fuerte Island and the diversity of visitors from different parts of the planet who come to our festival.

Tlanchana Fest, Festival of Cinema and Digital Art is carried out by Tlanchana Cultura Audiovisual AC, in order to create an exhibition space for emerging talents from Mexico and the world, by combining elements that promote cinematographic creation in conjunction with new media and digital art.

The Eighth Edition of Tlanchana Fest will be held from July 13 to 17, 2022 and will feature a series of screenings, conferences and workshops, as well as facilities and other activities that will be carried out virtually and in person and that will serve as an incentive for the work in cinematographic and digital art matters.

The Municipality of Ituzaingó with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation will hold the 6th Ituzaingó International Film Festival – directed by the filmmaker Raúl Perrone and organized by the Directorate of Culture of this Municipality. It will be held on November 26, 27 and 28 of this year, at the facilities of the La Torcaza Sports Center, located at Pringles 1279, in this city and party.

The FECI 6 will have a program made up of competitive and non-competitive sections in which medium and long-length productions can participate from 30 minutes of duration of any nationality as long as they are spoken or subtitled in Spanish.
It will have special activities such as conversations, special section of the municipal film workshop, recreational activities for children, among other things.

Registration and participation in all activities is free.

Cine Curtas Lapa is an independent, non-profit festival with free entry. The Festival aims to show films that were made or have as their theme the city of Rio de Janeiro in order to promote the Brazilian audiovisual industry, especially short films from Rio in the city's most traditional nightlife neighborhood. The idea is to bring a program of fiction, animation and documentary shorts to the public of Lapa, enriching the cultural life of the bohemian neighborhood.

This year, 2024, the Festival turns 13 years old. For more information visit our website. (https://cinecurtaslapa.wixsite.com/my-site)

There will be popular and professional jury voting for short films. The winner of each category will receive a certificate and the festival trophy.

Now in its thirteenth year, the Northeast Film Festival showcases top independent films from filmmakers, as well as new talent. The diverse array of films, selected by a committee, includes features and shorts from all genres, as well as documentaries and screenplays. The festival is hosted in Teaneck New Jersey at the historic Teaneck Cinemas; with planned parties to kick off the festival in style and spirit. In addition, we offer an atmosphere for the film enthusiast to interact with filmmakers as well as filmmakers being able to interact and network with each other and industry professionals.

The festival includes after parties, to offer opportunities for interacting and networking with other filmmakers, actors, and film festival goers. In past years, Harry Lennix, Lloyd Kaufman, Danny Roebuck, Matthew Modine, Vinnie Pastore, David Harris, Robert Clohessy, Brian O'Halloran, Fatima Ptacek, Gianni Russo, Duane Whitaker, Jefferson White, producers from NBC, among many others attended the festival's after parties (and festival).