Blog: Film festivals

The 23th Almería International Film Festival will be held in Almería (Spain), in order to promote the province of Almeria through the strengthening the historical links of the province with the audiovisual industry and culture, from Friday 15th November to Sunday 24st November 2024. The Festival is organized by Almería Provincial Council.

BLUEZ Dolphins Monthly Online Short Film Fest (AUGUST EDITION):
SUBMISSIONS START: 01 AUGUST 2021.
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: 31 AUGUST 2021.
NOTIFICATION DATE: 1 SEPTEMBER 2021.


Festival Opening Date 01 July 2021
July Edition July 31, 2021
August Edition August 31, 2021
September Edition September 30, 2021
October Edition October 31, 2021
November Edition November 30, 2021
December Edition December 31, 2021
January Edition January 31, 2022
February Edition February 28, 2022
March Edition March 31, 2022
April Edition April 30, 2022
May Edition May 31, 2022
June Edition June 30, 2022
Notification Date July 5, 2022
Event Date July 10, 2022

Every month from the 1st until the 31st of the calendar our submissions are open, the first days of the next month our special jury selects the WINNERS of the previous month.

BLUEZ DOLPHINS Monthly Online Short Film Fest also known as BDMOSFFEST, is a reputable monthly online international short film competition and annual online film festival based in one of the elegant cities in the world, Delhi. Which is focusing on international independent cinema and also all new filmmakers to promote their work through an online platform.

BLUEZ DOLPHINS Monthly Online Short Film Fest is a short film competition runs on a monthly virtual online basis. BDMOSFFEST is dedicated to international short films of all genres , We are accept indie filmmakers from all over the world and short films of all genres, documentaries, animations and music video.

Your film will be reviewed by BDMOSFFEST screeners team and the highest scored ones will be selected as Official Selection receiving corresponding Laurels. Then, our jury will choose the winners in each category and they will receive the Official Laurels and Certificates. The BDMOSFFEST Best Jury Choice Award choose from any categories, announced as the winner of the Month Laurels and Certificates.

The winners of each month are eligible to participate in the main ceremony, which will be held once a year.In this Yearly ceremony The BDMOSFFEST Best Annual Jury Choice Award choose One selected project from any categories will be receive 100 USD cash prize and trophy along with Laurels and Digital Certificate.

MyCinema GFF aspires to empower storytellers by offering them a platform to showcase their creation. Cinema knows no boundaries and so does an online film festival; a unique opportunity for the film makers to charm global audiences. The film festival will be screened on my CinemaHall platform, a Digital Multiplex especially designed for Indie film makers.

The selected films will be screened on the platform for a period of one month as part of the film festival. The winners will be announced in a virtual online event, which will be simultaneously broadcasted on the social media channels & the platform. All rights of the Film, will remain with the original film maker. my CinemaHall will merely have TVOD license, i.e., the right to stream the said film on the online platform for the exhibition period.

The International Festival of Fantasy and Horror Films Horror Online Art presents its X edition. The festival has projections of short films in Official Section and feature films out of competition.

During last years, the festival been has celebrated in different spaces of Navarre, such as the Cultural Hall of El Corte Inglés of Pamplona, the local ‘Café con Letras’ in Estella o in Civivox Iturrama.

OMOVIES@SCHOOL

School year 2023/24

4rd edition

International Call for Partecipation for audiovisual works on the themes of the fight against homophobic bullying, gender-based violence, gender identity and sexual orientation bullying, intended for schools of all levels, cinema schools, informal groups and individual directors.

Deadline: march 31, 2024

Introduction

The Association i Ken ONLUS, on the occasion of the 4nd edition of the International Film Festival "OMOVIES @ SCHOOL" announces a competition for audiovisual works on the issues of combating bullying, homophobic bullying, gender violence, gender identity and sexual orientation.

The festival is a project carried out in collaboration with the educational institutions, so it follows the programming and the educational calendar for the school year 2023-24. During this period will be organized activities related to cinema, the festival and the themes it addresses in collaboration with the schools involved. The festival will take place throughout the school year and will end by June 2024 with the viewing of the works in competition, both online and in presence, and the dates will be established in agreement with the school directors.

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR THE FOLLOWING SESSIONS OF THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM:

01 - Short, Medium and Feature Film
02 - Short, Medium and Feature Television Work
03 - Series TV Show - Pilot Episode or First Episode
04 - Internet Work - Short, Medium and Feature Film
05 - Internet Work - Pilot Episode or First Episode

Cinego Shorts is initiating a special 2-day virtual screening to highlight Mental Health through specifically curated films with the aim of tackling the stigma and discrimination associated with the health condition on the occasion of World Mental Health Day 2021.

We invite all the filmmakers to submit their films that explore the concept of Mental Health, and highlight various ways that this term can be understood and reflected. If you think your story is compelling and fits within the theme, then submit your films and be a part of this virtual event.

*There is no entry fee to submit a film.

Screening Rules
Selected films will be screen via our official YouTube channel and accessible free to watch globally. All the rights belong to the author of the films and will be properly quoted while screening and will be offline after the event.

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Please email cinegoshorts@gmail.com if you have any questions about the submission process. We look forward to receiving your submissions and please help us to spread the word about the event which will be held in October 9-10 2021, online via our YouTube channel.

Due to the #Covid19 pandemic where social distancing is a must, we are hosting our event through online streaming on our official YouTube channel. We look forward to your enthusiastic involvement in Cinego Shorts curated theme ‘Mental Health’ by submitting short films that you have made from 2015 onwards. The films must have credits included, English subtitles embedded, and shared as 1080P MOV/MP4 files.

La deuxième édition du Festival de Dreux organisé par l’association LES LUMIÈRES DE LA VILLE, se déroulera les 10 et 11 juin 2022. Il propose une compétition de courts-métrages dont les protagonistes sont des femmes, des masterclass de femmes engagées, des interventions d'associations et une remise des prix pour clôturer l'évènement.

Retrouvez l'actualité du Festival sur :
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Festivaldreux
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/festival_dreux/

Leonid Khromov International Film Festival (LKIFF) was founded in 2020 by producer and entrepreneur Leonid Khromov. LKIFF is an independent platform for international cinema, where bright and ambitious beginners and experienced filmmakers can present their films to the international community.

The LKIFF jury consists of creative and vibrant people who are professionals in their fields (actors, producers, directors, film critics, etc.). Full-length, short and documentary films are accepted for participation in the film festival.

The third LKIFF 2022 film festival is planned to be held in the second half of March 2022 in Moscow (Russia) in the format of an international film award (awards ceremony), at which, after the awards ceremony, the premiere screening of the winner's feature film (Grand Prix) and the winner's short film (Best Short Film) will take place !

We invite everyone to take part in our film festival! Good luck to all the nominees!

In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.

It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is insofar as it proposes an interpellation to the little-known memoirs, disturbing present and (our) future in suspension. FIDBA will then be an approach not only among audiences, filmmakers and thinkers linked documentary but also in relation to the always stimulating possibilities that allow you to open this space to other border and heterodox expressions framed inside of what we would call "non-fiction" and that encourage us to dialogue with contemporary expressions that go beyond even the scope of the film.

FIDBA will pay special attention to those filmmakers for whom cinema is linked to a form of research and knowledge of the world that surrounds us as to the portrait of human beings whose conditions of life, in certain historical and social contexts, allow you to ask us about our. It is, therefore, authors who not only reflect reality but also ethical and moral relationship which involves filming the other.

FIDBA aims to become a point of support for filmmakers seeking to widen the perception of reality and to films which represent a step forward in the effort to understand it and anticipate it. So, it will make focus on films whose aesthetic originality put at risk not only an idea of the documentary but also a thought about the same film and its possibilities. Since this focus implies questioning the status of the real front of the camera or of the film in relation to reality, this is as inseparable from the mediations that arises.

This time to bring to the Colombian stage all the productions and experiences that have already turned Latin America with great and successful results because they are increasingly sought after and recognized by the public.

What is the mission?

Become one of the main platforms for promotion, circulation, exhibition and distribution of horror, suspense and / or science fiction audiovisual works in the country with the purpose of publicizing and supporting quality productions to promote the evolution of cinema, favoring the development of the industry and to screen films of this kind on a large scale.
With the spirit of exchange that characterizes the Latin American universe, the Bogotá Horror Film Festival will provide venues for meeting professionals from the sector and their audience; a public alive and eager of searches that take them to transcend in the human thing.

What is the Vision of the Festival?

Bogotá Horror Film Festival is a cultural event that aims to create a space where you can live together, share and disseminate the best of cinema genres of horror, suspense and / or science fiction, Latin American and the world. Lovers of this type of cinema, besides being spectators, will have the opportunity to participate in different dynamics, screenings, talks, workshops and much more.

GIJÓN/XIXÓN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (FICX) aims to showcase a wide and varied selection of auteur cinema currently being produced worldwide and especially focused on innovative films and emerging filmmakers. High quality, personal, young in its shape, edgy and independent cinema at a creative level. During its selection process, the Festival will prioritise those works of interest that have their World, International, European or Spanish premiere at FICX as well as those that do not have commercial distribution agreements in the Spanish territory.

Acknowledged as “Specialized Festival” by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association)

Festival of fantasy and horror genre shorts, open to all types of filmmakers, whether professionals or amateurs. The festival will be held in the town of Roses (Spain), from November 14 to 17, 2024. We accept short films of the Fantastic, Horror, Animation, Gore, Freak and Trash genres.

This year we incorporated a new section, La GEEK SHOCK CINEMA, on Sunday the 17th we will hold a marathon of short films, we are looking for underground, festival, comedy, gore and fantastic short films, fake trailers, so that the public can have fun, and shout at the screen, These short films that are selected WILL NOT ENTER THE COMPETITION, participation will be free, but we repeat, THEY WILL NOT ENTER THE COMPETITION, it will only be screened in said marathon, with a maximum of 15 minutes.

It is a Festival with two sections to contest. Official Section and Section of Asturian Short Films. Three prizes will be awarded (best short official section, best performance and best short Asturian). All the information is in the bases. Any author of any nationality can participate.

FESTIVAL CURTA CINEMA
33a edição
Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro
17 a 24 de abril de 2024
Rio de Janeiro – RJ - Brasil

Festival Curta Cinema - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - is exclusively dedicated to the promotion and exhibition of short-length audiovisual works. We are a competitive festival that exhibits films produced in digital format with a maximum length of 30 minutes. The programming of Festival Curta Cinema consists on: International and National Competition, Latin American and Rio Panorama, Youngsters Panorama and Special Programs. Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival – Curta Cinema - qualifies the winners of its National and International Grand Prix for an Oscar nomination according to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Deadline for entries for international films in the Festival Curta Cinema 33a edição - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival: February 5th.
Address to which send correspondence and material:
Festival Curta Cinema 33a edição - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival
Associação Franco Cultural
Att: Aílton Franco, Jr. – Festival Director
Avenida Beira Mar, 242/502 - Centro
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil – Zip Code 20021-060
Tel.: (55 21) 2553 8918
email: programa@curtacinema.com.br
website: www.curtacinema.com.br

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.

GOSH! A DAMN GOOD FILM FESTIVAL
Independent & International Film Festival in Paris, GOSH! is dedicated to international short films screenings. The festival aims to bring to Paris films loved all around the world or brand new talents!

GOSH! loves all genres of independent cinema: short films, documentaries, animations, any language and any genre accepted. All equal for good cinema.

IMDB certified and screening to our usual audience, each edition GOSH! tries to provide a unique experience to the audience.

- IMDB certified awards
- Media partner "Cinéma des Potes" reporting the event
- International jury, lead by wellknown artists such as Pierre-Emmanuel Barré, Vikash Dhorasoo or Laura Satana
- Text interview for winners, on our website
- original certificate for award winners
- Individual feedback for all the movies in competition
- French subtitles by GOSH! (if English SRT file available)
- A damn cool festival!

PROCESS
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Each film is seen and rated by a committee of three persons, including Gosh Film Festival organizers: Magali Souart and Fabio Soares.

All the movies are seen by the committee, there is no “pass by” accepted.

Members of the committee can’t be involved in any way, in movies taking part of the official selection.

JURY
The jury is composed by professionals from TV & Cinema, the list and CV of GOSH! Jury are available on our website.

The jury takes in Paris and decide about the awards, except the audience award, given by the audience.
GOSH! Film Festival organizers do not take part to the jury and respect their final decisions.

MEDIA
GOSH! Film Festival screening is covered by our media partner "Cinéma des Potes", and several media with special accreditations.

The Watoto International Film Festival - Zanzibar is currently accepting applications from filmmakers from around the world according to different categories of competition.

The Watoto International Film Festival - Zanzibar (WIFF Zanzibar) is East Africa’s first and largest Children's film and arts festival, exhibiting the latest and best films and promoting film talents from across the African continent and beyond.

The 1st Edition of WIFF Zanzibar will take place on 11th -14th March 2021 in Zanzibar.

The theme of the festival is 'Chei'Chei - Hello' and will prioritize African cinema and cinema from the African diaspora and the rest of the world.

WIFF Zanzibar also opens the call to films from different regions around the world.

V International Short Film Festival "Make me visible in your memory" aims to promote reflection on death and the subsequent process on personal and family, social and historical memory.

DIGO – I International Film Festival on Gender and Sexual Diversity of Goiás, is the first film festival in the heart of Brazil to address issues such as Diversity, Gender and Sexuality, by showcasing contemporary audiovisual work and urging historical reviews. Our main goal is to raise awareness on this topic, in order to promote inclusion, social change and respect for others. As an international event, the DIGO team also believes in the importance of cross cultural communication.