Blog: Film festivals

The International A/r/tographic Video Narration Exhibition is an annual event organized by the University of Granada (Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Education, Interuniversity Master's Degree in Visual Arts and Education, and Doctorate Program in Arts and Education). It is a space for all artistic research projects that use audiovisual narration as a methodology for creation, inquiry, and learning in the arts.

The exhibition brings together various proposals related to A/r/tographic Films, including productions from the different research and training contexts of the University of Granada, collaborations with external curators, and selections from this international call.

In addition to screenings, the exhibition program includes a cycle of conferences and meetings in person and online. These events are open to the public and provide a space for reflection and debate on contemporary audiovisual creation and its application in research and artistic training. As a novelty for the 10th anniversary of the event, there will also be an exhibition in the workshop room of Condes de Gabia Palace that will showcase audiovisual and web art projects that use AI as a creative, formative, and research strategy in the arts.

This extensive program makes the exhibition a necessary platform for showcasing the most varied proposals related to A/r/tography Films. It reinforces the need for and projection of these films in the different application contexts and provides an ideal space for the encounter between researchers and artists, which will continue adding new proposals and possible scenarios in the future.

The SETTIMO SENSO International Film Festival, now in its fifth edition, invites professional directors, schools of all levels, and emerging creatives to participate in this esteemed international short film competition. The festival celebrates diversity and promotes a message of equality through the narrative and visual power of short films.

Themes:

1. UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA: exploration of ideal or catastrophic visions of the future, offering reflective insights on society challenges and hopes.

2. POSTHUMAN: investigation into the transformations of the human being, exploring the boundaries between nature and technology and possible evolutions of the species.

3. ONIRIC: exploration of dreamlike and surreal worlds, encouraging directors to bring narratives and visions beyond conventional frameworks.

4. WALLS THAT DIVIDE THE WORLD: reflection on the reality of physical and symbolic boundaries, exploring how such walls influence human and social relationships.

5. BETWEEN HISTORY AND IMAGINARY: interweaving of narratives combining historical elements with imaginative dimensions, offering a unique perspective on the interpretation of history.

6. DIVERSITY IS EQUALITY: theme celebrating the richness of human differences, promoting a message of equality through the narrative and visual power of short films—an experience challenging prejudices and embracing diversity in all its forms.

7. FOOD AND WINE: exploration of human relationships through food and wine, reflecting on gastronomic culture and its impact on our lives.

8. HEALTHY MIND IN A HEALTHY BODY: exploration of the connection between mind and body, focusing on stories revealing the link between physical and mental well-being.

9. CITIZENS OF EUROPE AND THE WORLD: narration of stories about individuals overcoming cultural and geographical barriers, promoting a sense of global citizenship and interconnection.

10. THE SENSE OF WONDER: invitation to directors to capture the essence of wonder, inspiring audiences through stories celebrating the beauty and surprise of life.

Sikania Film Festival is a film festival dedicated to cinema lovers, which was created to give the opportunity for growth, evaluation and consideration also to newcomers to the sector.

Only for Spanish (Castilla la Mancha) productions.

Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival is an annual event held in Alexandria, Egypt. It aims to disseminate film culture and the progress achieved in various branches of film art and to strength the relations among filmmakers throughout the world in general and Mediterranean countries in particular.

The International Unseen Film Festival 'Social Films' from Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) is organized by Kultura, Communication y Desarrollo KCD NGOD; Organization dedicated to promoting a human, intercultural, equitable and sustainable development through Communication and Culture.

The International Unseen Film Festival 'Social Films' from Bilbao is an annual celebration dedicated to show a cinema full of diversity and social commitment, a cinema that is usually excluded from commercial screens.
The Festival is centered on four major themes: Sustainable Development, Human Rights, Interculturality and Gender Equity.
With its continuous work, it has become an indispensable appointment for all those interested in communication for development and social transformation.

The Festival is also a recognition of all people who make a communication that allows to reflect through their audiovisual works all those different causes and problems of humanity.

The 3nd Garopaba International Environmental Film Festival aims to promote socio-environmental cinema in one of the most beautiful regions of Brazil.

The Festival is based on the diversity of themes, film formats, team, in the search to embrace the diversity of socio-environmental cinema produced in Brazil and in the world. The comprehensive curatorship will denote an equally comprehensive program, with specialists from the most diverse areas of knowledge to promote exchanges during the event and that translate into interventions in reality.

Chinh Youth Film Festival is a celebration of Youth culture, it is a platform to connect and express through cinema and give voice to the meaningful, thought-provoking, and brutally honest narratives from young people across the globe.

We aim to encourage independent artists and provide a grandstand for youth to channelize their creative energies.

CYFF experience is a stage for all of us to share YOUR STORIES and create new ones.

CYFF is where youth decides, a place where youth is encouraged to bring out their ideas on cinema, with emphasis on developing the right cinematic language in them.

Helping youth see beyond the basic elements of the cinematic experience and provide an opportunity to engage, evaluate, critique, asses and appreciate the best cinematic expressions from across the globe.

Festival films will be judged by YOUTH JURY.

The Universal Movie Awards (UNIMAA) is an annual international reputable Award. The event is based in the Western State of Africa Nigeria.

Our vision is oriental value based on enriching the entertainment industry through the promotion of excellent creative works by Motion Picture practitioners.

The mission of Universal Movie Awards is: "the celebration of professional Excellence in the Global Film/Television Industry." It will also promote the appreciation of Arts and Culture through motion picture arts and sciences around the globe.

UNIMAA also runs a movie academy designated for the development of contemporary talents in the motion picture industry.

This award is founded and established by Hope Obioma Opara in 2020. He is also the President/ CEO of Supple Communications Limited under which the Awards platform is Holden. He is the publisher of Supple Magazine, a film festivals/Awards and culture magazine in Africa. www.supplemagazine.org.

The inaugural edition will be held in Nigeria in September 25, 2021, at Silverbird Cinemas Galleria, Victoria Island Lagos 133 Ahmadu Bello Way Lagos, Lagos Nigeria (https://silverbirdcinemas.com/)

The Addis International Film Festival (AIFF) is an annual film festival created by Initiative Africa in 2007 and held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The festival is the largest independent documentary cinema festival in Africa and it was established as a unique initiative seeking to use the power of documentary films to support innovative ways of creating awareness on social issues.

The festival is a celebratory and educational event showcasing a carefully curated selection of films from both seasoned and emerging filmmakers addressing a wide range of themes such as peace building, inequality, women empowerment, children's rights, and much more.


The 18th Edition of the Addis International Film Festival (AIFF). As Ethiopia's established social activist, Initiative Africa will be hosting a five-day documentary film festival starting May 15th to May 19th, 2024, bringing more than 30 local and international movies, under the themes of Action for Peace, Security, and Reconciliation, Gender Equality and Inclusivity, Food and Environmental Security, and Health Care which will be taking place at the Alliance Ethio-Française, Hager Fikir Theater, Goethe-Institut Äthiopien and Italian Cultural institute in Addis Ababa.

The audience of the festival are mostly the youth and educated community who have the courage to change their society. We screen the films for free with no payment required for entrance.

The Association 400 Colpi is a non-profit organization created with the aim of promoting films that, thanks to their language, style, story, and themes, are intended for both young and adult audiences.
vvfilmf is synonymous with film quality and represents a window into the youth world. It is not just a film festival. It's an experience. It's a significant cultural moment for young people that unites and cultivates.

Over the years, vvfilmf has created events that discover spaces for young people, workshops for the study of new forms of visual expression. #vvfilmf presents itself as an initiative aimed at the entire country and internationally, with the intention of meeting the expectations of both a young population and adult viewers.
The goal is to bring the general public closer to quality cinematic forms. Despite the festival's programming having a preferential audience of children, school-age youth, and university students, it enthusiastically opens its doors to adults and all those interested in cinematic art, fascinated by artistic and visual culture, passionate about education, pedagogy, educational fun, and simple entertainment.

The festival represents an excellent opportunity to showcase new educational paths, offering a constantly renewed program of cultural activities, and to propose, through the cinematic medium, respectful skills and fruitful reflections open to all school members.

vvfilmf boasts the High Patronage of the European Parliament, the Patronage of the Italian Council Presidency, the Ministry of Culture, Labor and Social Policies, Tourism, and almost all Italian Regions, many Provinces, and Municipalities.

Among the multi-year collaborations developed by #VVFILMF are those with RAI Cinema, the Foundation for Entertainment, and Lancia Europa, as well as with RAI Radio 2 and RAI Educational.

Thanks to the high quality of the film selection in competition and the professionalism demonstrated over the years, vvfilmf has been chosen by the President of the Biennale Foundation, Paolo Baratta, and the Director of the Venice International Film Festival, to select a group of young jurors and accompany them into the world of international cinema during the Venice International Film Festival.

At B-Retina Festival we want to become a platform for B-Movies of all kinds, from guerrilla trash cinema to unclassifiable cult masterpieces; therefore, emergent talents, consecrated artists and difficult to classify characters will show us how they understand and see the world around us using their inventiveness and boldness.

During the days of the festival, we will become a showcase for a variety of classic films, premieres, shorts, web series, talks, interviews, and many surprises.

The festival has several sections:

-International competition in the official FEATURE FILMS section

-International competition in the official SHORT FILM section

-Retrospectives

-Free outdoor shows

-Screenings for all audiences

-Talks

Only for Spanish Filmmakers.

The VER CINE 2024 Festival is a production by Benguela Produções e Eventos Culturais, which aims to:

a] Promote Brazilian cinematography, considering the different genres and formats;

b] Enable exchange for production in all states;

c] Enable democratic access for the Baixada Fluminense public to recent audiovisual production;

d] Disseminate cinema due to its importance in affirming a cultural identity.

MDM FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF NEW INDEPENDENT CINEMA

The International Film Festival of New Independent Cinema (FINCI) calls on the Latin American audiovisual industry and other regions of the world to register their audiovisual projects in the first edition of FINCI 1st Edition, which will be held online from July 30 to August 6 2024 in Uruguay.

MDM Film Distribution invites new independent filmmakers to apply for their projects with the aim of having a new exhibition window for their projects and in this way fostering the creative, negotiation and distribution space. MDM gives the opportunity for new projects, new independent filmmakers to be seen and for new audiovisual proposals to circulate within the audiovisual industry.

The festival will have its own exhibition platform where the selected projects can be seen. In addition, there will be special activities and meeting spaces, such as MDM lives, where directors and producers will talk about their projects and careers, and special Audiovisual Talks with professionals from the audiovisual industry where they will talk about the importance of each of the areas of a project. project. Being able to give a complete map of the development, production and distribution of a project.

If you want to know more about our proposals, you can go to our website: www.mdmfilm.com or contact us at macarena.filmdistribution@gmail.com

Short Out is a film festival that has the ambition to represent a reflection's place on the issues crossing the suburbs. 

Outskirts and suburbs: these are the themes of Short Out Festival.

The enhancement of peripheral spaces is a central topic to explore expanding territories and with the purpose of understand an urban context that invests in centralization.

In the margins lives an unexpressed or not yet explored artistic lymph and the desire is to bring it to light, starting from Lainate, on the edge of the metropolitan city of Milan.

The second edition of Short Out Festival will take place from Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 7th July, inside the natural spaces and courtyards of Villa Litta, emblem of the artistic, historical and cultural heritage of the city of Lainate.

We desire to create a widespread Festival that does not end with the screening of short films.
That's the reason we thought of a Short Off with a rich program of meetings during all three days of Short Out Festival.

FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES

The Festival is an international film competition with both live and online screenings and a final red carpet awards event to celebrate the best works of the year and will take place from 5 to 21 December 2024.

The event will be preceded by a press conference on 4 December.

From 5 to 12 December the 900 works will be screened online 24 hours a day on the two festival channels: Coliffe TV and Coliffe TV International, and the public will be involved with the online voting which will award 12 festival prizes.

From 17 to 20 December the large Cinema Seraphicum Auditorium in Rome, which is equipped with 540 numbered seats, a projection system with 10,000 lumens on a 6 m screen. x 5 m. Dolby Surround will host all the screenings of the Festival. All 120 finalist works will be screened, i.e. the top 5 classified for each of the 12 categories after online audience voting and 5 chosen by the Festival Jury.

In parallel with the film programme, the Festival organises:
• a film MARKET
• a cinematographic FORUM
• the presentation and screening of a FIRST national cinematographic VIEWING.

One day of the Festival will be dedicated to the film MARKET, offering a space dedicated to the presentation of unreleased projects and works in progress, to encourage their development and realization, and the industry, media and accredited directors the opportunity to watch, learn and collaborate.

The opportunities include all subjects: young authors, new talents, professionals from the world of cinema, producers, distributors, agencies, training institutes, film festivals and Film Commissions.

News and insights on the market, production and distribution with a multimedia focus on new media.

Scripts, cinematographic works, projects, start-ups can take advantage of networking opportunities to develop and realize their expectations.

There will be the opportunity for one-to-one meetings between publishers and producers interested in the film adaptation of their catalogue.

Furthermore, 20 scripts will be selected, among all those received, which will be offered to professionals in the cinematographic field and to accredited production companies, for post-production and to promote access to the market.

Two days will be dedicated to the COLIFFE FORUM, consisting of:
• a round table with students,
• an interactive event,
• a focus on Ibero-American cinema,
with industry professionals lending their knowledge and skills to these unique encounters.

On 21 December 2024 a work (feature film) will be screened as a national premiere and the 66 winning works will receive the "The Last Winner" award, which is the last award of the year 2024 worldwide. During the evening, 2 lifetime achievement awards and 2 awards will be given to people of the year in the world of cinema.

The awards will be given by members of the COLIFFE Honorary Committee and personalities from the entertainment, cinema and fashion world.

All activities will take place at the Seraphicum Roma located in via del Serafico, 1.

COLIFFE - COLiseum International Film FEstival
THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WHICH CELEBRATES WORKS FROM ALL THE WORLD.

IT HAS A PROFOUND INTERNATIONAL SCOPE AND WAS BORN WITH THE OBJECTIVE AND NEED TO ENHANCE INDEPENDENT CINEMA AND FIRST WORKS.

The Pianeta Empatia Association which is organizing the IV Edition of the "Coliseum International Film Festival - COLIFFE", an event dedicated to promoting independent cinema and emerging directors, and to creating a moment of cultural and social aggregation, an experience of cooperation and integration between peoples.

COLISEUM, as a symbol of the Capital and of the territory to be enhanced by creating cultural specificities that act as an attraction;
INTERNATIONAL, like works from all over the world;
FILM, as a means of international communication, comparison as well as a container for criticism, development and promotion;
FESTIVAL, as a competition and showcase of titles and personalities.

The objective of the festival is to promote international competitiveness through attractiveness, a theme that concerns territories not only for what they are but also for how they can be developed and communicated. A territory is social value, exchange value and experience value, but also cultural value and economic value.

The Coliseum International Film Festival is a fundamental resource for the film industry as it not only contributes significantly to the cultural, economic and social development of the territory in which it is held, but also constitutes an essential link in the ecosystem of the film industry.

The Coliseum International Film Festival is multi-mission, in fact:
• promotes the knowledge and diffusion of international cinema in all its forms of art, entertainment and industry, in a spirit of freedom, equality and equal opportunities;
• offers directors wider recognition for their work, spreading word of mouth among critics, cinephiles and audiences;
• discovers new talent and helps structure emerging production areas;
• creates business opportunities for films that have not yet obtained agreements for commercial exploitation or for certain territories.

The fourth edition of the Festival is defined as "social", that is, with the aim of enhancing the aggregation of all the protagonists of independent cinema and first works and the social values of cinema.

The fourth edition, like the third, can be defined as a GREEN FESTIVAL from all the following points of view, from Sustainable Mobility (the locations are always identified near subway and/or train stops, means that are suggested to guests, together with electric ones and the car sharing solution) to Sustainable Energy Consumption (in in-person locations the aim is to reduce energy consumption, reducing lighting to the bare minimum by setting the heating system to the minimum level of well-being), from the Printing of Materials (the digital format is favored for communication, information and promotion of the event or paper materials printed on recycled paper by FSC/PEFC certified suppliers and the prizes are made with organic materials extracted from corn grain or with natural and degradable glass fibres) to the Installations (they are made only with biodegradable materials , without specific references to the edition, to be able to reuse them in the future).

From Waste Management (separate collection of the same numerous collection points and easily recognizable and visible containers) to Guest Management (only digital train and subway tickets and Travelife or Green Globe certified hotels are offered), from Food Sustainability (DOCG wines at 0 km, water and drinks on tap, no food waste, seasonal products at 0 km, washable crockery and certified tissue paper napkins) to Environmental Culture and Social Sustainability (sponsors who share and support the sustainability values of the festival and suppliers equipped with a certified Environmental Management System, chosen locations free of architectural barriers and accessible to people with disabilities and specific needs, promotion of gender equality and full participation of all individuals and valorisation of the territory) to end with Training and Communication (staff adequately trained on environmental sustainability and on the conduct policies adopted by the management and communication of the environmental and eco-sustainable policies adopted by the festival).

The festival invites all participants, in every form and role, to pay particular attention to adopting behaviors in this green direction.

Mansfield Town Film Festival 2024

#MansfieldLovesFilm #MTFF #MTFF24

Celebrate the silver screen as Mansfield Town Film Festival returns in 2024.

Bringing together a stunning mix of filmmakers with a strong focus on diverse, working-class talent from across the country, and internationally, enjoy three electric days of incredible short films shown in the beautiful Mansfield Palace Theatre - perfect for those with a love of film.

Featuring an array of short films, music videos, documentaries, and animation as well as international shorts, our film festival offers three days of unique programming, entertainment, and fresh perspectives.

Complete with an opening ceremony, live screenings, an in-person awards evening, masterclasses, Q+As, and more! There’s plenty to enjoy or simply soak up the atmosphere in the thriving heart of our town.

During our inaugural year, MTFF welcomed hundreds of filmmakers from all over the world to the Mansfield Palace Theatre for three days of incredible films. Our festival was opened by Palme D'Or winning filmmaker Ken Loach who will be attending MTFF24.

Humor and comedy short films.

8 categories

- Best comedy short film
- Best short film according to audience
- Best very short film
- Best Actress
- Best Actor
- Best Cinematography
- Best Screenplay
- Best Original Soundtrack

The competition is addressed to filmmakers from all over the world who produce short films and documentaries.

Its purpose is to appraise short films and documentary-films whose goal is expressiveness and cultural disclosure starting a cinematographic event throughout Val d’Intelvi.