Blog: Film festivals

La Fundación Pública Andaluza Centro de Estudios Andaluces M.P. (Fundación CENTRA en adelante), entidad adscrita a la Consejería de la Presidencia, Interior, Diálogo Social y Simplificación Administrativa de la Junta de Andalucía, convoca de acuerdo con los principios de publicidad, concurrencia y objetividad la XVIII edición de los Premios IMAGENERA de Creación Documental sobre Andalucía, correspondientes a 2024.

IMAGENERA apuesta por promover el conocimiento y la investigación sobre Andalucía a través del lenguaje documental generando un patrimonio visual que preservar y difundir.

La 18 edición contempla las modalidades de Documental Audiovisual y Fotografía destinada a trabajos, sin acotación temática ni temporal, que presenten una imagen de Andalucía en su sentido más amplio y diverso:

• Trabajos visuales que logren representar o defender las oportunidades presentes y expectativas de futuro de la Comunidad Autónoma.

• Obras que exploren el pasado de Andalucía desde la perspectiva de nuestro tiempo.

• Aquellas que pongan en valor cualquier aspecto de la realidad andaluza que fomente nuestra Comunidad Autónoma como símbolo, imagen o icono de una comunidad moderna y versátil, dentro del contexto de España, Europa y el mundo.

• Se valorarán los trabajos que muestren con especial interés el rumbo de Andalucía en cohesión con sus valores sociales, económicos, tecnológicos, políticos o culturales.

The purpose of this film festival is to promote new movie makers, exchange of knowledge, information, ideas.

BISFF intends to organize a festival that connects the film fans & movie goers with the world, especially the serious filmmakers & their associates so as to bring about greater understanding of the art of film making.

Galichnik Film Festival is small festival looking to leave big footprint in the sky full of festivals by providing platform for new filmmakers from the region and beyond. Galichnik is a village known for its well-preserved traditional architecture, including an amphitheater in the village square, where the festival audience will have the chance to see number of films in three competition programs: short fiction, short documentary and short animation.

The festival aspires to become a meeting point for film professionals from around the world to develop new ideas, collaborations and friendships. We are excited for the audience to be part of a unique cinema experience in an open air cinema at an altitude of 1500m.

Welcome to the Courtyard Independent Film Festival, where the magic of indie cinema comes alive in the intimate and picturesque setting of a Musem. After the first edition, in the heart of Ottaviano (Naples, IT), our festival celebrates the art of storytelling through film, highlighting the creativity and ingenuity of independent filmmakers from around the world inside the Museo Emblema (Terzigno, IT) who officially host our second edition.

A Unique Setting: Our festival takes place in a museum called Museo Emblema, where artistic evenings of unquestionable value constantly take place. Surrounded by ivy-clad walls, soft string lights, and the gentle rustling of leaves in the evening breeze, this enchanting venue creates the perfect ambiance for an unforgettable cinematic experience.

Diverse and Inspiring Films: Courtyard Independent Film Festival showcases a diverse range of independent films that challenge conventions, explore new narratives, and captivate audiences with their authenticity. From compelling documentaries to heartwarming dramas and mind-bending experimental works, our carefully curated lineup promises something for every film enthusiast.

Engaging Discussions: In addition to film screenings, the festival offers engaging discussions and Q&A sessions with filmmakers, providing a unique opportunity to gain insights into their creative processes and the stories behind their films. These sessions foster a sense of community and connect filmmakers with an appreciative audience.

Supporting Independent Filmmaking: By attending the Courtyard Independent Film Festival, you are not only enjoying outstanding films but also supporting the vibrant world of independent filmmaking. Your presence and enthusiasm help these talented filmmakers share their stories with the world.

Join Us: Whether you’re a cinephile, a casual moviegoer, or someone seeking a unique cultural experience, the Courtyard Independent Film Festival welcomes you to be a part of this cinematic journey. Bring your friends, family, or come solo, and immerse yourself in the captivating world of independent cinema, all within the enchanting embrace of a garden rich of art.

Xedea: Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoko gazteak klima-erronkei eta haien ekintza- ahalmenari heltzeko mugiaraztea, mikrofilm-labur lehiaketa baten bidez. Lehiaketa ikus-entzunezkoen sorkuntza teknologia berrien bidez zabaltzera dago bideratuta, ikus- entzunezko sortzaile gazteen talentuari esker, klima-larrialdiak eta -ekintzak ezagutarazteko modu berriak aurkitzeko asmoz. Horretarako, gai hauek ezarri dira: “Klima-ekintza: Ikuspegi berri bat” non lanek ikuspegi berri bat erakutsi beharko duten ekintzara pasatzeko, klima- aldaketa arintzeko eta espero diren inpaktuetara egokitzeko eta motibazio-mezuak txertatzeko.

The CINE AZUL FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL CINEMA began as a showcase of environmentally themed films with a vision to advance public understanding of the environment through visual arts, challenging the way people think about nature, inspiring them to discuss and jointly explore different alternatives to become part of the solution on environmental issues.

The 10th International (environmental) “CINE AZUL” Film Festival “SURrealidades”, celebrates 20 years of walking in awareness and harmonization with the environment. Exhibiting, Circulating and contributing to the Formation of Audiences through Cinema committed to issues such as Climate Change, Food Sovereignty and Spiritual Crisis among others.

The Film Festival is environmental in nature, for this reason we consider that the implicit theme is already there, now we invite you to reflect in a sense from the different Parcelas (sections) of the Festival and it is from those Chagras where we develop a dialogue. To celebrate these 20 years of journey in our 10th version, we look at the Theme of PALABRAS MAYORES.

From the “CINE AZUL” perspective we observe this an ideal historical moment, to listen again to those ancestral words, those aboriginal languages, those uses and customs that maintained harmony and balance with their environment, with Mother Earth, with PachaMama, those words that spoke of prophecies that are fulfilling today.

After Ten editions in (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020) SURrealidades “CINE AZUL Festival” is now a consolidated biennial contest in Colombia breaking new ground in promoting the circulation, screen and production of the environmentally and human rights-themed International audiovisual.

The 3rd INTERNATIONAL QUECHUA FILM FESTIVAL "CINEAYLLU" 2025, the only one of its kind in Peru and South America, is entirely dedicated to promoting Peruvian cinema in the native Quechua language.

The festival is organized by the Ñawi Films Production Company and the CINE AYLLU Cultural Association.

Registration rules for participation in the 3rd INTERNATIONAL QUECHUA FILM FESTIVAL "CINEAYLLU" 2025

1. GENERAL OBJECTIVES

 Create a cinematic space with a cultural identity.

 Promote and disseminate film productions made in our Quechua language and culture, providing visibility for filmmakers, actors, and technicians working in this field.

 Increase the number of Quechua speakers with a sense of culture and identity.

 Carry out traveling community film screenings in Quechua-speaking communities for children, adolescents and adults from indigenous communities.

MosFestFilm is an annual international film festival founded in 2020.

The 2026 competition program will feature feature-length and short fiction films, animation, documentaries, music videos, experimental and student works. Both classical and original scripts, as well as familiar and entirely new cinematic techniques, will be presented.

The festival hosts three competitions: the Main Competition (for professional filmmakers), the Student Competition (for students, recent film school graduates, and independent filmmakers), and the Screenplay Competition (feature-length and short screenplays).

From September 22 to 27, 2026, films selected for the program will be screened in Moscow’s cinemas. The festival will also feature Q&A sessions with directors and creative teams, as well as interviews and masterclasses.

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.

Nawada International Film Festival 5th season held on 27th October 2024 brings to its audience, acclaimed documentary works from across the world of different region. Audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away. From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #NIFF2020INDIA brings the Northern and Southern hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders. The focus is to showcase unseen stories from across the regions to our viewers. Rahul Verma Film Production presents this festival with Pragati Foundation, Festival Supported by SYSKA Lights PVT LTD. presents a curated selection of films acclaimed for its artistic merit.

Event Date: October 14 - 17, 2026 - Venue: Cinema Maldà, Carrer del Pi, 5, (C.P. 08002 Barcelona - Spain) Multiples Venues stay tuned!

Venue 2: Comediarte Theater, Carrer d’Ausiàs Marc, 143, cerca del Arco de Triunfo

Love & Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (L'HIFF) invites both emerging and established filmmakers, from all over the World to take part in film experience, based in the most glamorous location in Europe.

We offer you the opportunity to attend industry events, masterclasses, workshops, guest speaker talks, film premieres, financing advisers, director Q&A’s recorded, film screenings and network with like-minded creators.

4 days cinematic fest, providing an unique platform for filmmakers to meet, network and do business, supported by our diverse team of professionals. All CROWNED, with a fabulous Gala Night on Saturday Oct 4 th 2025, 21:00h when the winners will be announced.

We have the right people and skills to make IT happen. We want to provide you with expertise and help your movie to be seen internationally.

Be bold, be glamorous and send us your art. It all can begin for you here, at Love & Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (L'HIFF) 2026 Edition.

20th Edition Ecozine Film Festival – International Socio-Environmental Film Festival of Zaragoza. April 2027. Organized by the Ecozine Cultural Association

ECOZINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – The International Socio-Environmental Film Festival, organized by the Ecozine Cultural Association, was founded in 2008 as a platform for social awareness and cultural promotion, advocating cinema as a tool for change.

Committed to showcasing and disseminating audiovisual productions with socio-environmental content.

Film Education and Welfare Foundation Aurangabad Present, 7th Year, Roshani International Film Festival chhatrpati sambhaji nagar Aurangabad (M.H) INDIA uses media platform as a tool to connect audiences across cities, countries, and continents. With simultaneous screenings (OFFLINE FESTIVALS) and live Q&A’s, audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away. From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #RIFF brings the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders.

#RISFF established from pride of India, chh. sambhajinagar Aurangabad, Maharashtra. City of ancient 57th century Mughal Empires now beat with #Digitalindia in 2025 providing wide platform for students to professionals - preview their films on International Stage to prove themselves.

We conduct our Film festival from 22 sep - 09 aug every season with grand arrangements with respected jury board from different continent to judge your films and make Q&A session. Take a step and drop your films on our platform and make your self best.

FEST - NDNFF #23
19th-27th of June of 2027 | Espinho, Portugal

FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival is an all-encompassing celebration of the new tendencies of world cinema. The event focuses on a competitive and non-competitive showcase of the most promising new figures and works from around the globe.
The 23rd edition of the festival will take place between the 19th and the 27th of June 2027, in the seaside town of Espinho (Portugal).

The selection is divided into several categories which include Feature Film and Short Film competitions in the Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental Non-Narrative formats, as well as content adequate for children and teenagers. The event also includes non-competitive sections that range from retrospectives to feature length and short film showcases.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are accepting films under the following formats:
A) Fiction and Non-Fiction feature films (minimum length is 55 minutes) from directors who are on their first or second feature-length project, regardless of age.
B) Fiction, Documentary, Animation, and Experimental Short films (up to 54 minutes of duration) from directors who have completed no more than two feature films, regardless of age.

Candidates must choose one of the available submission categories. Do not worry if your film fits different categories (Ie: Hybrid productions), as all submissions will be considered for the different competitions. If your film is also eligible for the NEXXT competition (focused on academic productions) but you wish the film to be considered for all other competitions please mention in the comment section of the submission the academic institution where the film was produced. If you have any doubts at all please do not hesitate to contact us at films@fest.pt.

Throughout the years' FEST has selected for its feature film competitions films such as Celine Song’s “Past lives”; Ainhoa Rodríguez´s "Mighty Flash"; Teodora Mihai´s “The Civilian”; Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid with "Enforcement"; Julie Lecoustre, Emmanuel Marre´s “Zero Fucks Given”; P.S. Vinothraj “Pebbles”; Eugen Jebeleanu´s “Poppy field”; and Valdimar Jóhannsson´s “Lamb”, all of this on the fiction side, then in the Documentary side, Karima Saidi´s "A way Home", Michał Edelman´s "Last Knights Of The Right Side", Franz Böhm´s "Dear Future Children" among many others.

FEST’s Short Film sections are known for its wide variety of styles and filmic visions, having been throughout the years a platform for the launch of new artists such as Govinda Van Maele (Luxembourg), Christos Massalas (Greece), Mati Diop (France), Lukas Dhont (Belgium), Adriano Valerio (Italy), Patrick Vollrath (Germany), Ninja Thyberg (Sweden), Manuel Abramovich (Argentina), Daria Belova (Russia), Simon Mésa Soto (Colombia), Aga Woszczynska (Poland), Jela Hasler (Switzerland), as well as hundreds of other up-and-coming filmmakers.

FEST also includes a series of other activities that run parallel to the festival, in particular, FEST – Training Ground (one of Europe’s largest film forums) and FEST – Pitching Forum (film project competition), and others. For more information please visit our website at www.fest.pt

THE XI ARCTIC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL "GOLDEN RAVEN"
March 29 – April 11, 2027 • Anadyr, Chukotka, Russia
Free submission • Deadline: November 30, 2026

Golden Raven is the easternmost international film festival in Russia. It takes place in Anadyr, the capital of Chukotka, on the shores of the Bering Sea, where Russia's new day begins. For two weeks every spring the Arctic town becomes a meeting point for filmmakers from all over the world, and your film meets an audience unlike any other.

A festival that keeps growing
The jubilee X edition received 3,394 submissions from more than 100 countries. Festival films were screened in 67 regions of Russia and in six countries, from Minsk to Buenos Aires, reaching a combined audience of over 130,000 viewers. The Grand Prix went to a film from China, chosen not by a jury but by the audience in Anadyr.

What we are looking for
Full-length films: stories of the Arctic and the North, of indigenous peoples around the world, of nature and the relationship between people and their environment. We look for films where the North is not an exotic backdrop but a living world of people, characters and destinies.
Short films: Arctic and northern themes are our priority, but films of other themes are welcome too.
All films must be completed on or after January 1, 2025.

Competition sections
— International competition of full-length feature and documentary films
— International competition of full-length animated films
— International competitions of short feature, documentary and animated films
— FilmRising! — interregional competition for filmmakers from Russia's North, Siberia and Far East
— NEW: AI Film Competition

NEW in 2027: AI Film Competition
For the first time, Golden Raven opens a competition for films created with generative artificial intelligence. It is open to features, shorts, animation, experimental and hybrid works from 1 minute long, where more than 50% of the main visual sequence is created with generative AI. There are no thematic restrictions. Applicants disclose the AI tools used and the creative contribution of the team. The winner is chosen by audience vote.

Awards
The Grand Prix, the Big Golden Raven statuette, is awarded by audience vote. An international jury awards Golden Raven statuettes for best film, directing, screenplay and cinematography in the full-length competition, and Golden Raven medallions in the short film, animation and FilmRising! competitions. The festival also presents a Press Award and a children's audience award for the best animated short.

Hospitality
For each film selected for the full-length competitions, the festival covers economy flights within Russia to Anadyr and back, hotel accommodation and meals for one representative. Official invitations for visas are provided to representatives of competition films.

More than screenings
— Full halls and Q&A sessions with filmmakers after the screenings
— An industry program: panels, round tables and master classes. Past speakers included filmmakers from Korea, China and Russia
— An animation lab run with the legendary Soyuzmultfilm studio
— Opening and closing ceremonies with concerts, theatre performances and creative meetings with actors and directors
— The "Golden Raven Camp": yarangas, traditional Chukchi food, games and crafts
— For guests: dog sled rides, trips into the tundra and tours of the Arctic's easternmost town

Submission
Submission is free. Working languages: Russian, English, Chinese. Selected films provide an English or Russian subtitle file and a DCP by February 1, 2027. The official selection will be announced by March 25, 2027.

Come to the edge of the world and bring your film to the Golden Raven.

FEMCINE was created to discover and support the work done by female filmmakers and to share films with gender-based subjects with a broader audience. FEMCINE invites female directors from Chile and the rest of the world to participate in one of its three competition categories: International Feature Length Competition, International Short Film Competition, and the Chilean Film School Short Film Competition.

DESCRIPTION OF THE FESTIVAL

The MUMA FEST International Women 's and LBTTIQ Audiovisual Festival of Patagonia will take place on Friday May 22nd and Saturday May 23th, 2026 in the town of El Hoyo, province of Chubut, Argentina. The screenings will take place at the Casa de la Cultura Auditorium, located at the corner of Los Ciruelos & Los Guindos.

Only content directed by Women, Lesbixns, Transvestites, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersexuals and Non Binaries will be admitted.

MUMA Fest will have the following sections:

- Non competitive Argentinian Series

- International Feature Film Competition

- International Short Film Competition

- Argentine-Chilean Patagonian Competition (Short and Feature Films).

All types of audiovisual genres are admitted.

OBJECTIVES OF THE FESTIVAL

- To know and recognize the narratives of women and dissidents from all over the world and to put them in dialogue with the Patagonian public.

- Strengthen the ties between distribution companies, producers and filmmakers of Patagonia.

- To provide tools for professional training that contribute to the labor insertion of women and dissidents from the Patagonian region.

- To generate a space for exchange with women's audiovisual networks from other parts of Latin America and the world.

Welcome to our WINTER Season that runs Monthly from January thru March 2027.

NewFilmmakers NY is New York's longest running year round Film Festival. Throughout it's thirty year run NewFilmmakers has provided a platform for first time and veteran filmmakers.

We have taken an exciting new direction with NewFilmmakers called NewFilmmakersPlus which will move our festival into the digital age and allow us to reach international audiences.

While theaters have been closed, our online audiences have greatly exceeded those in theaters. With NewFilmmakers Plus we have added the missing audience participation to our online screenings.

Now filmmakers, cast, and crew as well as audience members can create interactive video screening rooms while watching a film. Just by pushing the START A GROUPVIEW button to the right of the film they can invite up to six people to talk about the film in a video conference. It’s almost like watching side-by-side in real life — without having to share your popcorn.

In addition our films will now be available for one month and screenable any time of the day instead of only one night. This allows more people to see our films and makes it easier to set up a screening event with friends and colleagues. As requested we are switching to filmmaker hosted files utilizing unlisted YouTube links which will eliminate the need to transcode and to send us large files as well as giving filmmakers control over their film.

In today’s world online screenings give filmmakers worldwide audiences instead of limited local ones. With NewFilmmakers Plus filmmakers not only reach worldwide audiences but can interact with them as they would at a traditional theater.

Only German submissions allowed.

International short film festival - MX 15 min.