Blog: Film festivals

ENTRETODOS 17 - Is a free entrance Festival dedicated to the exhibition and award of short films, with up to 25 minutes, of all genres and formats, that addresses issues related to Human Rights.

The Festival takes place in São Paulo. Produced by Prefeitura de São Paulo, Spcine and ESTATE Produções.

ENTRETODOS Festival team.

Mecal Pro, the Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival, will celebrate its 27th edition. The long history of MECAL PRO has consolidated it as one of the most important short film festivals in Europe and the world, thus receiving the support of local, national and international institutions. We have screened in 2024 more than 300 short films in 29 sections that we program.

Mecal is strongly committed to promoting the exhibition and dissemination of audiovisual creations in the short format, not only with the public, but also in having creators and distributors meet through different activities. Mecal is also devoted to foster emerging talent, by holding events and awards specially aimed at young creators. In this sense, it also works as a short film dissemination network, organising screenings both at a national and an international level, collaborating with festivals, embassies, and institutions around the world.

Antakya Film Festival, is an International, competitive festival. (AFF) is a major destination on the Festival circuit and recognized by the sinema Academy as a Qualifying Festival in all film categories. Antakya Film Festival, It is the first meeting point of this region for the international film and media industries.

Mission is to provide a public forum in Antakya in order to advance public interest in films and the independent production of films. To draw worldwide attention to Antakya as a center for cinema. To encourage the rights of all Antakya residents to access and experience the power of independent filmmaking, and to promote artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure.
In 2023, the Festival presented 800 films, representing work that was shot and produced in 45 countries. The event offers well rounded, and for many, career-establishing experiences. Submit your work before the final deadline!

The festival is for and by independent filmmakers. The organizers of Antakya Film Festival bring 10 years of festival experience to this annual event. Antakya Film Festival accepts submissions in six categories: Narrative Features, Documentary Features, Short Narrative, Short Documentary, Experimental, Short Student, and Animation.

Submissions are open from October to September of the year, the final selection of 150 + films is announced in September, and the film festival takes place in October. Selected films in each category are eligible for several awards. In addition to our lineup of films, the festival also hosts multiple filmmaker parties and networking events at venues around Antakya and Hatay.

After the good acceptance obtained in the XII previous editions of the festival of short films 4' SHORT ... and to continue with the idea and intention and opportunity to accommodate the different areas of artistic expression, Alcorac 1,968 Cultural Association invites all those who wish to participate in " THE XII INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL SHORT 4' ... "

Veganism: consumption of vegetables and food free of animals, to achieve a healthy life, compassionate with animals and careful with the environment.
World Veganism Day is celebrated on November 1st of every year. Established by Louise Wallis in 1994, president of the Vegan Society of the United Kingdom, founded in 1950 by Donald Watson, inventor of the term "vegan".
The Vegan Film Festival, Concepción 2019, is an international, competitive festival of vegan cinema, to celebrate on November 1, 2019, at the Concepción Theater, the World Veganism Day.
Open to all, vegans and non-vegans.
For this purpose, the Vegan Film Festival, invites to inscribe its documentaries, fictions, shorts and feature films, to the entire vegan film community of the planet, through the online platform, Festhome.
The films will be selected by the Festival Director and Programmer.
The selected films will be exhibited at the Concepción Theater, on November 1, 2019, World Veganism Day.

North Karnataka's first ever film festival is being presented by "Manomay Productions LLP" for our people. The main aim of this film festival is to help young and talented filmmakers to showcase their story to the world.

Citizens of Hyderabad Karnataka are really good in Theatre, Writing, Acting, and also in Direction, to showcase their talent, Kalaburagi Film festival will play a very important role.

9th Babul Eco Film Fest 2025 has both competitive and non-competitive sections.

1) Short Film Contest-SFC: Duration below 5 minutes on any topic of ENVIRONMENT

2) Green Film Screenings-GFS: Duration above 5 minutes below 60 minutes.On any topic related to Environment, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, Climate action etc.,

The main festival happens in Hyderabad, Telangana India during June 2025 and later travels to different places.
After this some films will have repeat screenings at different venues based on the themes as per the date and audience suitability.

Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival is the UK's ONLY short documentary film festival. Dedicated to showcasing the best of international and British documentary talent.

As always, we have a jury of judges made up of internationally renowned documentary filmmakers, who will be helping to select and award the films we screen at the festival.

Each category winner will be awarded with an exclusive prize and those films chosen as finalists will screen in London to an audience of filmmakers and documentary enthusiasts.

Our board of supporters and patrons is made up of a careful selection of both feature length and short documentary filmmakers, innovative production companies and organisations committed to showcasing and supporting independent filmmakers.

Casa Delfino onlus Foundation is proud to present the 11th edition of WORLD FEST FEST.
The WORLD FEST FEST is "short-documentary" film festival that promotes the potential of the moving picture as a tool to spread culture and as a social gathering. It supportes sperimentation in favour of the expression of the author, audiovisual quality and the new generations' creativity.

It also aims at the contribution to the quality of the celebrations by hosting events that are especially interesting in many cultural aspects and promoting a constructive dialogue among them.We also want to create a dialogue among different customs and traditions.

The WORLD FEST FEST 2020 will take place in Cuneo (Italy), on Sunday 6th September 2020.

The Candiani Cultural Center and Cinema Circuit of the City of Venice announce the first edition of Mesthriller Film Fest, an event that, in the fourth edition of Mesthriller, aims to promote the culture of the thriller / noir / crime story also in films.

The video competition is for fictional and animation short films of international production whose theme is suspense in all meanings of thriller, crime story, and noir.

The selected works will be projected during the event and the following prizes will be awarded:

1. Best international short film
2. Best young director under 30 years old
3. Best Crime Story / Noir / Thriller storyline
4. Best leading actor / actress

Most Festival is an annual event that aims to showcase the best international audiovisual work linked to viniculture, wine and cava. At the same time, the festival aims to make a toast for good cinema by projecting unreleased films by great authors.

Held in the Penedès, a zone very close to Barcelona (Spain) with a long winemaking tradition and several wine-related tourist attractions, the festival wants to promote viniculture and arts linked to wine and cava through audiovisual works and also explore all aspects of winemaking, especially values such as quality, diversity, wine tourism and ties to the region.

Chulpicine began its work in 2002 with the first ever Itinerant Children & Youth Film Festival in Quito. The warm welcome that the project received allowed the festival to become an annual event during the months of July to September, bringing an educational and entertaining event at no cost, to sectors with few cultural activities.

Thanks to the positive reaction, Chulpicine became a cultural and educational non-profit foundation in June 2004. After more than 10 years of experience, Chulpicine have reach a stable proposal and working methodology that has spread at national level. The Festival has promoted the creation of coaching staff; cultural managers working in different communities; and a large group of followers.

Chulpicine has designed a set of activities and workshops for institutions, community organizations or outreach workers to educate and train in different areas related to cinema, audiovisual, communication and Internet used as social intervention tools. These activities and workshops have been the beginning of a formation of learning communities by harnessing the capabilities of young people, as well as the setting up of an active and engaged network of social facilitators through the film and audiovisual work.

The Foundation carries out the following program lines: training; intervention; appropriation of public spaces; diffusion and production. This line of work is an alternative to foster community networks to develop communication skills, analysis and reflection in the various stakeholders of the community, thereby strengthening its organizational and self-development skills.

The foundation has a multidisciplinary team currently working on the projects. These people are responsible for different areas: there is a psychologist, a producer, a programmer, a communicator and an accountant.

In addition, every year about 12 people are hired to assist in the implementation of activities. This group is made up of people who have worked in the past in the festival and some new young people that wish to join the group. Also, each year we have the support of volunteers from different organizations.

El Lugar Sin Límites, está considerado entre los cuatro mejores festivales de Cine del Ecuador y es una de las actividades más importantes de la comunidad LGBTI ecuatoriana, adicionalmente es calificado como uno de los Festivales de Cine LGBTI más relevantes de la región.

Todos los trabajos deben estar doblados al español o con subtitulos en español, cuyo tema principal sea sobre LESBIANAS, GAYS, BISEXUALES, TRANS E INTERSEX.

ANTOFACINE, the Antofagasta International Film Festival, is a gathering instance for national and international filmmakers; based on this premise we would like to contribute to:

● Promoting fiction, nonfiction and animations films as tools for cultural and social transformation and to benefit all of Antofagasta Region residents.

● Fostering the development of audiovisual projects in the region and country, supporting the creation of a professional space in order to promote local, national and international audiovisual works; contributing to audience formation and generating a gathering point in Antofagasta for the necessary interaction of all relevant agents of the audiovisual industry.

The 12 version of the Antofagasta International Film Festival, ANTOFACINE 2023 will be held from November 14 to 18, in the city of Antofagasta and other places of the region.

The purpose of the ZOOM FESTIVAL is to disseminate and promote audiovisual content regardless of format, distribution channel and audiences.

The Official Section of the 22nd edition is open to all producers, televisions, students, independent film makers from all over the world who present audiovisual content for all types of screens and that fit the bases of the Festival's official section.

Among the functions of the Festival is the welcoming meeting of the various professional sectors of the audiovisual industry, as well as that of students in the sector and be a platform for new talent.

In order to fulfill these objectives, the Zoom Festival will celebrate its 25th Edition in November 25th 2023 in Igualada- Barcelona.

ForadCamp is a Cinema and Nature film Exhibition, whose Official Section is open to non-fiction films, made in any video format.

Send your short film online with a maximum duration of 15 minutes.

Photographs must not weigh more than 4 Mb in jpg format. The size will be at least 1,600 pixels wide. The file format will be quality JPEG (10).
It does not matter if you have participated in previous events.

Connect your work with driving, drug consumption, the road, travel, sleep ... Or what you think will serve to show your point of view on the subject.
BE CREATIVE, SURPRISE US.

Short films and photographs may be posted on the web from May 1, 2018 to November 30, 2018 at 23:59.

It should not focus on any particular product or refer to any specific product prescription, nor promote specific treatments or use the image of a commercial drug (name, logo, box, etc.).

IF YOU ARE A PHYSICIAN OR PHARMACIST, you will compete for the best short film and photography among your colleagues, and if you win, you will decide which NGO, patient association or health-related foundation is the recipient of the award. You can also exchange it for assistance to a national congress. Always according to the code that marks the USD (Unit of deontological supervision).

Inspire in the pharmacy and driving section, or in the information provided by the DGT.
Public voting: only validated email votes will be counted. Any suspicious behavior such as use of temporary email service, strange email patterns, suspicious emails or many votes from the same IP address, will automatically disqualify the work in competition.

The festival is organized by the Cultural Association "Charlie Quispe & Co" (www.charliequispe.org) in Cusco, Peru.

VIDEOBABEL: CALL FOR ENTRIES 2019

I. OUR AIMS

Promotion of animation, video art and experimental audiovisual production in Peru and other countries.

Opening of new spaces for the sharing of experiences between Latin American animators and video artists and
their colleagues from other parts of the world. Publicizing of Peruvian and Latin American animation, video art and experimental video production throughout the world, showing recent examples of international animation and experimental video in Peru.

Raising awareness of new art media and languages among the Peruvian public.

Contact:
Vera Tyuleneva
Coordinator of the VideoBabel Festival
President of the “Charlie Quispe & Co” Cultural Association
Phone:+51 984604731
E-mail: festivalvideobabel@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FestivalVideoBabel

Duemila30 is the biggest international gathering on social impact storytelling for emerging international filmmakers. Each year, over 100 young talents from all over the world meet for four days of screenings, workshops and meet-ups in Milan (Italy).

Duemila30 is much more than a film festival; conceived as a platform for the advancement of social impact storytelling, Duemila30 is permeated by a unique atmosphere, made of young filmmakers from all over the world, international movie industry professionals, social and environmental activists and the young and passionate staff.

In addition, by joining Duemila30 Festival in Milan from the 27th to the 30th of June 2024 you will forever become part of our community and have access to:

production grants (for your future projects)
distribution opportunities
our artistic residency programme in the Italian countryside.
Send us your social-impact short film and join us for free in Milan, we will take care of your accommodation and meals during Duemila30 Festival, you will only have to bring your passion and talent.

You don't have a social impact short film to submit? Don't worry, you can still join our festival programme and immerse yourself in the Duemila30's atmosphere. Visit our website for more information (https://www.duemila30.com/festival).

More details on the programme are coming out soon, in the meanwhile we can already tell you that:

you will live an extremely intense four days surrounded by young filmmakers from all over the world (50 different countries attended last year);
you will have the chance to personally interact and work with international professionals and experts of the movie industry;
all participant’s short films will be screened in dedicated feedback sessions;
you’ll exchange ideas with activists and learn from their experience how to better tell social impact stories.

Del 07 al 20 de octubre de 20l9 llega MK2 CORTO FEST, el primer festival simultáneo de cortometrajes organizado por un gran circuito de cine.

MK2 CORTO FEST es el primer festival simultáneo de cortometrajes que llevaremos a cabo en 10 ciudades de 7 provincias de España, con dos sedes principales en Sevilla y Madrid.