Blog: Film festivals

Dear Animators!

The Selection Committee will start the selection process and review of your films! To anyone who hasn't provided a download link, we would kindly ask you to provide us with a link or permission in Festhome no later than March 15th !

Dear animators, please send us your film in format:

1. Container: MP4 or MOV
2. Resolution: FullHD 1080p
3. Datarate (compression): up to 8000 kbps (kilo bits per second)
(not less than 60-70 МВ and not more than 400-500 MB for films up to 20 minutes! And not more than 1.5-2 GB for a feature film)
Kind regards,

Nadezhda Slavova

Good luck to everybody ! :)

The International Animation Film Festival (IAFF) Golden Kuker- Sofia run for the first time in October 2010 in Sofia. Named after Proyko Proykov (legendary Bulgarian animator) it is the first animation festival from the new century. One of the most attractive events in the arts calendar of Bulgaria takes place every spring in May. It is organised by the Bulgarian Association of The Independent Artists and Cartoon Animators an NGO chaired by Mrs. Nadezhda Slavova (cartoon artist, director, filmmaker and author of numerous animation films). The Association aims to connect animators, support their networking and create long lasting relationships within the cartoon industry.

The mission of the IAFF Golden Kuker-Sofia is to contribute to the development of Bulgarian art, to help Bulgarian and foreign animators get in touch and to support young professionals and students. The animation festival attracts not only children but large audience from different generations. IAFF Golden Kuker-Sofia has achieved high-level of professional performance, large number of international appearances, and variety of great animation works. Throughout the whole year people have the opportunity to attend master classes led by world known directors and animators, visit contemporary art seminars and exhibitions, and join interactive lectures. Environmental contest, Sofia’s children day and travelling festival are other festival’s post- events. After the festival international guests have the possibility to travel around Bulgaria, to discover wonderful spots and explore historical places with the tourist packages offered by IAFF Golden Kuker-Sofia.

IAFF Golden Kuker has been supported by the Ministry of Environment and Waters (Operational Programme Environment 2007-2013), Sofia Municipal Council, Sofia Municipality, National Culture Fund, National Film Center, Bulgarian National Television, Bulgarian National Radio, American Embassy, Czech Cultural Centre, Hungarian Cultural Centre, Polish Institute – Sofia, French Cultural Institute and many others who became our partners.

As part of the 16th edition of the Urban Films
Festival organized by the association RStyle,
and to be held in Paris which will take place from 7 to 10 October 2021, the association launches its call for entries until June 30,2021.

What is the urban film ? : ”Films devoted to the city and to all the practices and ways of life that come from it. Through urban films, true stories, whether somber or funny, find their common denominator in their scenery: the street, from Seoul to Rio, and passing by Seattle or Ouagadougou. The urban movies rediscover the city in a broad sense: history, dance, movement, community, streets cultures, sports, all of the aspects of the city and urban cultures are represented.”

La muestra internacional de cortometrajes Video/Jujuy/Cortos es un espacio de proyección audiovisual NO competitivo, sin fin de lucro, abierto y gratuito organizado anualmente por Wayruro Comunicación Popular.
The aim of the Festival is to promote the production and dissemination of audiovisuals as a means of expression and communication.
This free artistic/cultural space was born in 2002. Since its beginnings, the festival has established relationships with schools, social, neighbourhood, human rights and artistic organisations, youth activity centres and organisations of native peoples, trying to be permeable to the needs and demands of the medium, both in terms of themes and genres, resulting in a varied programme that ranges from social video to animation, including fiction and experimental audiovisuals.
As a space and a place for reflection and a meeting point for creators, renowned professionals give workshops and talks, seeking to provide information and training, free of charge, to those interested. This year, the exhibition focuses this space on thinking about the audiovisual situation, working and thinking in networks and consolidating community and popular audiovisual production.

International film festival for films of young filmmakers up to 26 years old!


“MAY NUFF SPREAD ITS WINGS AND FLY!"

«A truly wonderfully and unique experience. Incredible! I have traveled the world extensively making films and attending festivals and have never experienced such a loving, poignant and profound time as this one. Your dedication to media activism and global media literacy is astounding. May NUFF spreads it wings and fly!» (Paolo Davanzo, experimental filmmaker, USA)

Nordic Young Film Festival - NUFF is an annual short film festival for young filmmakers up to 26 years old from the Nordic countries & the world with short films (max 20 min) made in the last 2 years.

NUFF has been an important international platform for youth film and a meeting place for many young filmmakers since 2003.

Based at the youth culture house Tvibit in Tromsø, Northern Norway, NUFF has already a long success-story. Started by the wish to support young local filmmakers and to get an idea how our neighbours are making films and telling stories, NUFF discovered the world of Youth Cinema and all of the exciting potential that came with it.

The quality of submitted films has steadily been increasing and so too has the incredible atmosphere of the workshops and the growing network of filmmakers, partners and projects. All of this is making NUFF a unique summer event above the polar circle and under the overwhelming midnight sun.

NUFF OFFERS
Nordic film competition
International film competition
International film workshop
International film network
International film seminars, discussions and a lot of fun!

«NUFF has been one of my life’s best weeks» (Stian Skjelstad, Norway)

THE FILM COMPETITIONS
NUFF has two film competitions for short films made in the last two years (with a max length of 20 minutes) by filmmakers under the age limit of 26 years old. All genres are accepted!

For the Nordic film competition the films have to be produced in a Nordic country or the filmmaker comes from or lives in a Nordic Country. Nordic Countries are defined as Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Island, Denmark, Sweden, Norway & Finland.

For the International film competition the films have to be produced outside the Nordic countries or the filmmaker comes from or lives outside the Nordic countries.

The submission deadline for both competitions is June 1st!

In the Castellón town of Tales, in the heart of the Sierra de Espadá natural area, the 2nd Espadá Rural Film Festival is being held, organized by CASDA, the Castelló Citizen Association against AIDS.

This festival has various awareness and dissemination activities both on the current environmental, ecological and social situation in the towns and in general in the world, as well as on the current social situation of people living with HIV. This year the novelty is that the theme of both the works and everything that is the festival will revolve around the figure of MOTHERS.

It will be through projections of documentaries and short films on social themes, as we have indicated, preferably on the theme of MOTHERS, and a Table for the Exchange of Experiences of different groups and associations that have participated in this project.

The screenings will take place over three different days, which will run from Thursday to Sunday.

Registration for the festival is completely free and must be done following the rules.

Series Nostrum is the first International Series Festival in the province of Alicante. Dedicated to celebrate the world of the series especially those of a Mediterranean character.

The event hosts all kinds of activities related to the world of the series: projections of premieres, talks, round tables, conferences, etc. A meeting point for fans of television fiction and the creators of that content.

TAXCO Mexico, light city and Magic Town, one of the most impressive locations in the world, invites you to the 11th EDITION OF TAXCO FILM FEST.

The objective is to present a selection of the best short films in the fiction, animation, experimental and documentary genres in order to allow the dissemination, dialogue and evaluation of the development and importance of the short film within audiovisual production.

The festival is composed by :
- the official short films competition.
- many special screenings.

The Ensenada International Film Festival (FICE) invites you to participate in its 7th edition. It will take place in the City of Ensenada, Province of Buenos Aires on October, 2025.

FICE's search will focus on cinematographic works that address a critical, poetic or aesthetic reflection around water. In this sense, water may appear as a central or tangential element in the development of narratives.

Because we are inhabited, stirred and agitated by this river that feeds us, from the FICE, we are looking for those works that, like water, can poetically penetrate all the reality that we are able to cover.

The BRUGGGORE Horror Movie Festival is Switzerland’s only (and therefore leading) Film Festival focusing solely on Horror Movies. It's situated in Brugg only 25 minutes from Zurich, 40 minutes from Basel and 60 minutes from Bern. Films are screened in 3 different categories: Fresh from the grinder – current festival films and brand new releases. Gutted millennials – extreme movies from the early 2000s. Rotten meat – Horror classics from the 70s to the early 90s.

RIZOMA Festival Internacional de Cine & Cultura Entrelazada aims to celebrate groundbreaking work on the international scene, to discover and support new voices in Spanish and Spanish-language cinema and to echo contemporary audiovisual trends. RIZOMA also aims to facilitate the visibility and access to distribution and commercialisation of independent proposals.

The 15th edition of Arraial Cine Fest will be held from February 23th to 27st, 2026 online on the festival's official website.

The Yebes City Council (Yebes, Guadalajara, Spain) and Mitad & Mitad Producciones organize 4661 FILM FEST, the IV Yebes-Valdeluz Space & Sci-Fi Short Film Contest, named in honor of the asteroid discovered by Miguel de Pascual Martínez on November 17, 1982, at Yebes Astronomical Center. The Film Festival wich will take place on the previous week of Expoastronómica 2023 fair.

Fundación Todo por el Cine, AC, organizer of the International Film in the Field Festival, invites national and international filmmakers to participate in the contest that will be held in the 13th edition of the International Film in the Field Festival (FICC) a celebrate in the months of October and November, presenting itself in 50 rural communities of the Mexican Republic.

The INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FILM IN THE FIELD (FICC) promotes dialogue between rural communities in Mexico and film production in short film, with the intention of generating new circuits, projecting outdoor cinema.

We support the cinematographic production of short films that explore the cultural and natural conditions in which human beings live, cultural diversity and its link with nature. Likewise, we seek agents of change and original initiatives that encourage a positive change in the care of the environment.

THEME: "Sowing awareness"

We are interested in all kinds of environmental issues and traditions. We seek to disseminate messages that usually do not receive the necessary coverage, much less in rural communities where cultural and artistic exhibitions are sadly absent.

The 24th 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 14th November to Sunday 23st November 2025. 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 2024/25

5rd 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, 2025

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.