Blog: Film festivals

Fantàstik Granollers is the fantastic and horror film festival of Granollers, which has been held since 2012. It has become a unique event in the city, in which a cultural proposal related exclusively to fantastic and horror films is offered. and everything that is related to it, betting very strongly on short films.

It is an excellent opportunity for film lovers to see innovative films, as well as to connect with other people interested in this topic.

Apart from the festival, other activities are carried out during the year related to the dissemination of fantasy and horror films.

The International Film Festival is one of the most important short film festivals in Argentina. A film event Tapiales of important social and cultural impact nonprofit, organized by JC OFCT Films, held in the village of Tapiales, a town belonging to the La Matanza, located in the province of Buenos Aires. It is also a competitive event where selected films are projected to receive the award later Aboriginal under verdict of the honorable members of the jury. The event is held under the premise of enhancing the popular character, free and outdoors. Tapiales also proposes parallel activities such as training spaces, lectures and special exhibitions outside competition.

The RELLISQUÍN FESTIVAL is an audiovisual exhibition that wants to reflect on the relationship between the city and its neighbors. We look for projects that talk about life in cities: protest movements, struggles to preserve historical memory, urban transformations and changes, social demands and the experiences of neighbors with their environment.

We are looking for projects that understand the audiovisual as a tool of struggle, denunciation and testimony of realities in danger of disappearing. We want to vindicate the critical, committed and cooperative spirit, making known aspects that concern society and that are not sufficiently covered in commercial medias, cinemas and the usual distribution channels. We want to show national or international works about historical, social, political and activist consciousness, personal relationships and human rights in a city.

ABRUZZO HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2023 IX edition | 31 OCT – 5 NOV 2023, L’AQUILA

Film Festival Ponferrada renews its objectives to specialize in the dissemination and promotion of short films anywhere in the world without taking into account its production, distribution, exhibition, category, gender or theme format.

We also want to value the short film as an audiovisual, current or historical document, which reflects the cultural, social and linguistic diversity of any region of the world as part of the memory of the most unknown universal audiovisual heritage and heritage.

XV PIÉLAGOS SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Only fiction works)

We are IMDb qualifying festival

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The Department of Culture of the City Council of Piélagos launches the 15th edition of the Piélagos International Short Film Festival ‘Piélagos en Corto’.


SHORT FILMS

Works of a maximum of 30 minutes and production date after 1st January 2023 will be accepted.

CATEGORIES fiction only

1- CANTABRIA short film produced by a production company based in Cantabria and/or directed by a Cantabrian director born or adopted with a minimum of 2 years of residence in Cantabria.

2- NATIONAL SPAIN (Only Spanish production)

3- INTERNATIONAL

Only Spanish productions.

EBROCORTO, the international festival of musical short films, will celebrate its seventh edition in 2024 in Miranda de Ebro.

The Festival offers, through the selected works, a different way of enjoying music.

The central theme of each work must be music in all of its ramifications. It can be any type of music or any discipline in which music plays a fundamental role or, barring that, any work in which music is a notable element of the narration.

EBROCORTO is a film competition organized by the Asociación Amigos de Rafael Izquierdo and has the collaboration and sponsorship of the City Council of Miranda de Ebro.

CARTON is an international animated film festival whose main objective is to bring together animators, directors, producers, cartoonists, cartoonists, and the entire community to see, enjoy and promote the world of animation as a means of communication and expression of ideas. artistic, technical and political.

The Festival consists of a competitive section of animated shorts. After a pre-selection carried out by the organizing committee, the material is evaluated by a prestigious jury that changes from year to year. Since its inception in 2011, Juan Pablo Zaramella, Tomas Welss, María Verónica Ramirez, Raúl Manrupe, Irene Blei, Salvador Sanz, and Ayar Blasco, among others, have passed through the Carton jury.

The competitive section is divided into the following categories: Fiction/Narrative, Experimental/Non-narrative, Video Clip, Series, Micro-shorts and Training Workshops.
In addition to the competition, the Carton Festival is completed with talks, videoconferences, workshops, feature film screenings and a comic book fair.

CBFF – Vigo International Film Festival is an International Cinematographic event organized by the production and distribution company CityBlue Films. It will celebrate its 8th edition between December 9 and 14, 2024, in the city of Vigo, Spain.

OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSE
It is a cultural, social event and a meeting space between the public, creators, media professionals, and representatives of the film industry.

CBFF – Vigo International Film Festival has been created with the main objective of promoting culture through the promotion and dissemination of cinematographic works.

This Festival has been developed to support directors and producers by providing all filmmakers who wish, a space to disseminate and promote their work to the general public.

Being an audiovisual, cultural, artistic, industrial and educational platform, allowing the discovery of new talents and emerging films.

FESTIVAL FORMAT:

a) ONE ONLINE SESSION EVERY TWO MONTHS WITH AWARDS;

b) AFTER SIX SESSIONS (ONE YEAR), A LIVE SCREEN IN A VENUE IN RIO DE JANEIRO, FOR THE "BEST SHORT OF THE YEAR". THE WINNERS OF THE PREVIOUS SESSIONS IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: "BEST SHORT FILM", "BEST ANIMATION" AND "BEST STUDENT FILM" WILL COMPETE FOR THE UNIQUE PRIZE, BEEING THE BEST OF THE FESTIVAL.

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KZ Film Festival main goal is to help independent filmmakers and students from all over the world with a chance to win real money and an opportunity to be judged for a jury fully composed with ACTIVE CINEMA ARTISTS.

Conceived by Kadu Zargalio, director and screenwriter of independent films and internationally awarded with his short film "Gaia", this festival is another space for you, director or producer, to increase the market value of your project in the cinematographyc industry.

Designed exclusively for low-budget films, the festival will proudly host fiction live-action of any genre, animation and student projects of 1 up to 30 minutes in length made by those who cherish the dreams of going further in their careers.

As written, there are no barriers for cinematographic genres, but projects that practice innovation in thriller plot-twists will have a special look at them.

VI Almassora International Short Film Festival (Castellón) SPAIN

HARD:LINE International Film Festival aims to present the various faces of extreme cinema.

The question as to what is meant by the term “extreme” can be understood by looking at the content of our wide selection of fantastic films. “Extreme” is often defined by an explicit splatter aesthetic but it can also be represented by unusual story-telling methods or an exotic visual language. Thus, we are meticulously selecting such examples that could be important in the future of the genre. We have not set any boundaries in our search and whether a film is a pearl of the independent scene, fun splatter or no-brainer, H:LIFF loves special films!

HARD:LINE International Film Festival is no warehouse festival where the priority is to show as many films as possible but rather concentrates on presenting a few glowing examples of everything that extreme film can be.

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THANK YOU FOR BEING A FILMMAKER!

You and your work are the reasons why we do exist!

Penitente Film Fest is the first Boyacense festival dedicated to genre cinema, emphasizing Sci-Fi, fantasy and terror. It was created as an alternative to the existing festivals in the department and in the country, whose focus is not so particular. From the organization, we believe that the genre cinema remains in force, with the same capacity to amaze, wonder, and unsettle us while transverse or parallel offers new ways to interpret and shape our reality and that of filmmakers around the world.

We begin a journey towards unknown universes, Penitente Film Fest announces its first call, which will take place from April 21 to July 15, 2023.

The purpose of the Bogotá Music Video Festival is to celebrate the art of music video, the joy of music and the passion for filmmaking. We bring the music video art to different screens around Bogotá and top that with live music, exhibitions and academic and industry events. We want to showcase independent and fierce work to new audiences, focusing on the potential of awe brought by the communion between music and moving images.

Dokumentala was born to show, through the language of cinema, the transforming power of support between people.

That is why the thematic axis of the proposals to the competition will be to make visible support relationships that can occur in society and that generate positive changes in people, in groups and in municipalities.

Argia Fundazioa, opens the Call for the THIRD Edition of the dokuMentala 2022 Festival.

Argia Fundazioa is an entity that supports people with a diagnosis of mental illness to improve their quality of life and the image that society has of this group.

dokuMentala 2022 was born in 2019 to show, through the language of cinema, the transforming power of support between people.

The Call for the Festival for the year 2022 is made public, which will be governed by the rules detailed below.

MSFFF was born from a mission:

We’ll take you on a journey through the genre’s cinematographic productions from all over the world.

The next March we will be able to enjoy the best and most current animated productions in Madrid.

The International Horror and Fantasy Film Week of La Costa del Sol is a film festival of the horror and fantasy genre that is held annually. The first edition was held from September 11 to 16, 2000. On that occasion,
the winning film of the Golden Unicorn was The Ring, which was a blockbuster in our country. The edition paid tribute to the British actress Caroline Muro, a fetish actress of horror films, with the screening of the film ‘The howl of the devil’, directed by Paul Naschy, and a ‘tribute to ghosterrorific Cinema’ was made with
the screening of films by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (La residencia, ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?), Jesús Franco (Gritos en la noche, El Conde Drácula). To this day, editions keep being added, this year the XXV
edition of the Festival is celebrated. This year the short film section is reinvented, being coordinated by Miguel Carrillo.

FESCILMAR - International Short Film Festival, opens its session with the host country of the SPAIN sample with projection in VENEZUELA, Dissemination and promotion of Venezuelan, Latin American and world cinematography in two countries simultaneously; And of all its cultural scope. It tries to show cinematographic works that entertain, but, above all, that exert an educational influence on children, young people and the general population.

Deadline for submission of papers: August 15, 2022

1) It will take place from August 26 to 28, 2022 and filmmakers of any nationality may participate.

Our festival will be face-to-face based on Fescilmar Venezuela, as the host country of the SPAIN show.


Screenings in Zaragoza Spain and Lechería - Venezuela.



2) International short films of fiction, documentary, video clips, web series, experimental, with a maximum duration of 45 minutes in any genre, can participate.

3) Jobs must have finished production after January 1, 2019.

4) Registration will be made only through the FESTHOME platform.

International African Film Festival in Argentina 2024 / FICAA.

Call for entries is open until 30 February 2024.

We call on film directors and video artists to send material that would contribute to show new depictions on Africa. We are receiving: independent films from African countries or regarding Africa, its people and its diaspora.

The received material will be selected for a new edition of the International African Film Festival in Argentina, which will take place in August 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Starting in 2007, Observatorio Sur undertook the “Mirrors and Mirages” International Film Series on and from the African continent. In each edition we have selected films based on different subjects to show and debate on history and actuality in the African world.
This year we are organizing a mixed version: online and physical Location. Thus, we are also aiming to reach new audiences, beyond the participants from the city of Buenos Aires who usually come to the cinema.