Blog: Film festivals

“Social World Film Festival” is the most emotional festival in the world with events, movies, previews, innovative activities, jury of young people and professionals, workshops, competitions, presentations and thousands of visitors.

The sixteenth edition of the International Social Cinema Festival “Social World Film Festival” will take place from 21 to 28 June 2026 in Vico Equense (Sorrento Coast - Italy) between activities in presence and innovative streaming modes aimed as always to ensure the interaction, direct and in connection, of the authors with the audience of the event.

The winners of the competitive selections are awarded during the Gala Night scheduled for the sixteenth edition in Vico Equense (Sorrento Coast - Italy).

Participating to the International Festival of Social Cinema “Social World Film Festival” offers some specially selected works the exclusive possibility to be presented in events organized worldwide thats in the last ten years, we have involved 28 cities in 40 events on five continents including Los Angeles, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Wien, Washington DC, Seoul, Busan, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Paris, Istanbul, San Francisco, Tokyo, Sydney, Marseilles, Palma, Tunis, Hong Kong, Jakarta.

9th International Short Film Festival Pune ,India 2026.

We Are World Record Maker 2019 Year 1111+Screening Short Films In Our Festival.Each Participants We give A Participation Certificate And Trophy Also.

15 Days Festival

Next edition >>> 17–21 March 2027 - Budapest, Hungary

SHORT TO THE POINT (STTP) is an international short film festival dedicated to discovering and presenting distinctive cinematic voices from around the world.

Founded in 2009, STTP has presented curated monthly screenings and annual editions in over 50 cities across 3 continents and 13 countries. Over nearly two decades, the festival has built a respected international platform for short-form cinema, showcasing films in curated programs that emphasize artistic identity and strong directorial vision.

The 2027 Budapest edition marks a refined and focused chapter in the festival’s evolution - a carefully curated selection of works that reflect the vitality, necessity, and formal innovation of contemporary short cinema.

STTP is committed to presenting films that stand out for their clarity of vision, narrative precision, and aesthetic courage.

Official Competition Categories

• Narrative (Fiction/Live Action)
Story-driven short films with a strong authorial voice and cinematic craft.
• Documentary
Creative non-fiction works that reveal reality through a distinctive perspective.
• Animation
All forms of animated storytelling, from traditional techniques to hybrid formats.
• Experimental
Works that challenge cinematic language, structure, and perception.
• Low Budget / Independent Cinema
Films produced with limited resources yet driven by artistic ambition and originality.

What We Seek

SHORT TO THE POINT welcomes short films of all genres that demonstrate:
• A confident and personal directorial vision
• Formal precision and strong cinematic language
• Narrative or structural innovation
• Emotional depth and thematic relevance
• Artistic risk-taking

We are particularly interested in filmmakers who approach short cinema as a complete artistic form - not as a stepping stone, but as a deliberate and fully realized expression.
The festival values both established auteurs and emerging directors whose work signals a clear cinematic identity.

SHORT TO THE POINT believes that short cinema is one of the most dynamic forms of contemporary filmmaking. We aim to provide a curated international stage where bold ideas, refined craft, and new voices meet an engaged audience in the heart of Budapest.

We welcome submissions from filmmakers who approach short cinema as a complete and deliberate artistic form.

We are announcing SPIFF 2022, which will take place during 3 days in August 2022.

The winners will receive cash prizes!

The total prize fund is 600$!

Don't miss a chance to screen your film in Saint-Petersburg and win money!

Saint-Petersburg International Film Festival (SPIFF) includes:

- cash prizes, statuettes and diplomas
- the most reviewed by filmmakers film festival in Russia.
- only live screenings at the best venues of the biggest northern city in the World

SPIFF - International Film Festival of short films and animation, started in 2017 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Saint-Petersburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg) - one of the most beautiful places in the World with more than 5 million citizens and many, many, many film lovers.

Our motto: No internet screenings - only live show!

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General regulations

International Festival Screen Culture “Thelovetcheskoje Kino” (hereinafter - Festival) is held among collectives (groups) of youth production in different forms of art, connecting with cinema, television, photography and different digital technologies.

Festival events are directed to formation and evaluating new global culture of production and reproduction age-diverse communicative samples of generations interplay and provides conditions of establishing new information community (environs), new culture of information society, where social-noetic (immaterial) factors of evaluating are information and knowledge. Festival holding promotes establishing of screen culture as a part of general information culture of present society.

General guiding of Festival methodology and organization is brought into action of Educational Complex “Nasha Shkola” (Russia, Novosibirsk).

Time, conditions, place and procedure of organization and holding of regular Festival are annually established of special document – Standing Order of Holding.

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Festival "Golden Snail" is a World Children Animated Film Festival which takes place in month September 2025. in Vranje, Serbia. "Golden Snail" gathers young filmmakers from all over the world. Any studio, club or school who works with children in a field of film animation are welcome to our festival. Films must be made BY CHILDREN not for children by professionals.

The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia and the City of Vranje.

CARAMBOLA is a traveling cinema short film program for children between 3 to 12 years constituted by independent European movies. It is a creative and interesting encounter with the seventh art aimed to enrich and widen the look of the young with contents far away from those proper of commercial films.

The 4th COLOMBIAN QUEER FILM FESTIVAL is an annual non competitive LGBT film festival created by Fundación Cineteca Pública de Santander, to reward and celebrate each films of Colombian and international filmmakers, who make visible an aesthetic-political nature with discussions on gender, diversity of sexual orientation and identity along with films in commercial circuits and festivals, to generate intercultural encounters and consolidate organization processes and self-representation.
Gender doesn't define us. The sexuality-gender-body relationship surrounds us with inexhaustible questions and reflections. That’s why in this fourth edition we adopt the proposal to explore the different possibilities that this relationship offers in Cinema. #GENDERisOVER

Only for Spanish Filmmakers // Solo para cineastas españoles.

The 15th FICCI-ON - Ciudad Rodrigo International Film Festival aims to promote educational, social and spiritual films made around the world.

The theme of the festival will therefore be educational, social and values-based; including all those films that promote child development in all its aspects.

Values-based films that deal with the subject of human rights, as well as intercultural dialogue. There will also be room for films with ethnographic themes, social denunciation or commitment to the development of the culture of Peace. Regarding spiritual themes, this is a very broad section where religious and/or spiritual films will be included, regardless of the confession and creed of the film and its authors.

​Link International Film Festival is an international competitive cultural event that serves to inspire and connect filmmakers and audiences throughout the region and beyond. It is a cultural expression that aspires to unite through ideas and ideals, diversifying minds, promoting understanding, and cultivating compassion and camaraderie among people regardless of their differences.

FESCICAL is a film festival in focus about latin american films.

ONLY FOR LATINOAMERICAN FILMMAKERS

CINEMA CLUB CONTEST
"An event created by filmmakers for filmmakers”

The Collective and In The Mirror Films are working together to create a short film contest where every month different directors will compete to win the session.

The winner of each session will be elected by the audience !
For every session, you receive feedback from an industry professional to help develop your art.

The wining shorts will go directly to the grand final that will happen the first week of June and the BIG PRIZE is the production of your next Short Film.!
A jury composed by teachers from The Collective school and a special guest from the movie industry will elect the winner of the big prize on the day of the Final.

Movies and Party!

After the presentation of the short films, the analysis if our specialised guests and the election of the wining short, each event will be followed by DJ set to make us feel like sharing more around a beer offered by our sponsor La Cervesera Artesana and get the opportunity to network ! Don't forget your business cards !

3rd Edition of KIFFI-JAIPUR will be on 4-6 December 2020

Festival of short films related to functional diversity or featuring people with disabilities.

Lunigiana Cinema Festival is a festival dedicate to short and feature films that takes place in the "Città Nobile of Fivizzano" , an ancient village in Tuscany on the Via Francigena.

The festival is divided in short and feature films (Fiction, Documentary, Animation)

The short films are divided into three categories:
- Free theme - Environmental theme - Human rights

Organized by Associazione Culturale “NO_NAME” with support of the Municipality of Pedara (Sicily, Italy), SICILY INTERNATIONAL SHORT LEAGUE, is a festival totally dedicated to short movies from all over the world, included in the annual program of “Via dei Corti - Festival Indipendente di Cinema Breve”.

The 10th edition of Sicily International Short League will take place among 7th and 21th of July in Pedara

Foreing authors are invited to send their short movies with italian subtitles. Info: shortleague@viadeicorti.it

The 23nd International Documentary Film Festival OFF CINEMA (23nd IDFF OFF CINEMA) will be held from 15th to 20st October 2019 in Poznań, Poland. It is the Festival’s foremost aim to present a comprehensive review of achievements in the field of documentary film. IDFF OFF CINEMA presents documentaries in the international competition section.