The 34th Message to Man International Festival of documentary, short live-action, animated, and experimental films is scheduled to take place from 18 to 27 October 2024 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
With its history spanning three decades of cinema development, Message to Man was founded in 1989 in Leningrad by filmmaker Mikhail Litvyakov, who now serves as the Honorary President of the Festival.
In 2010, Alexei Uchitel, a renowned director of documentaries and feature films, assumed the role of the Festival's President.
Over the years, the Festival has hosted distinguished figures of world cinema, including Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Claude Lanzmann, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Paolo Sorrentino, Alan Berliner, Eric Roberts, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abdellatif Kechiche, Udo Kier, and many others.
The Festival programme revolves around three competitions: international, national, and experimental, providing a platform for both full-length and short films to vie for the Festival's Grand Prix. Message to Man consistently draws thousands of cinema enthusiasts to St. Petersburg each year.
In 2023, the Festival attracted over 10,000 spectators, and its competition and out-of-competition programmes featured around 200 films from across the globe.
“The Festival team was pleasantly surprised by the success of the last year's Message to Man. There is no need to state the obvious that we live in a challenging time, by all measures. Cinema has gained increased significance as a unifying language and as a way to reach out to one another.
We believe that was the reason why in 2023 the Festival attracted so many viewers. So, when people scrambled to get tickets for the screenings, it was, quite honestly, very heartwarming and important. This wasn't just about the sold-out tickets, but about solidarity.
It was equally important to bring together filmmakers from various countries: auteurs from Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Greece, India, Colombia, and Japan visited the Festival, emphasizing its global reach.
Therefore, the Message to Man Film Festival is pleased to announce a new competition in 2024. Our team firmly believes that good cinema is always an invitation to humanity,” says Mikhail Ratgauz, Programme Director of the Message to Man Film Festival.
The festival offers a contemporary and liberal platform for the filmmakers of the World to exhibit the excellence of the film art form. The aim is mainly to contribute to the understanding and appreciation of cultures of different nations. We hope to present complex human situations of this rapidly changing world in the globalized era. The Festival Committee reserves the right to exclude films which are not in conformity with aims of the Festival, or which could offend the national feelings and susceptibilities of any participating country, or are likely to promote racial discrimination. Films not presenting sufficient technical qualities for good public screening can be refused after checking of the prints by the Print Checking Unit of the Film Festival Office. Date and Place: OCTOBER/NOVEMBER ANNUALLY IN ABUJA
YAQ Distribución, one of the most important distribution companies in Spain, opens call for entries for the five edition of the festival.
International Short Animated Film Festival - ANISHORT is an international competition that serves to support the animated short films and their creators. At the same time it serves to the promotion, propagation, retrieval and watching possibilities of the best animated short films from around the world.
It should also be a place where community of creative people that producing these films meet. On the other hand, then the place for people who enjoy watching of these films and that are fans of this kind of art.
The festival will take place from 18th October 2023 in several selected cities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia and Poland.
The top 18 short animated films will compete in this competition.
The films will be judged by selected international jury. The jury is composed mostly of professionals or professions closely associated with animation - total 7 judges, each from a different country.
The Oniros Film Awards® is an International Monthly IMDb Qualifying competition with a public Screening Event held in New York City every three months, celebrating films and filmmakers from all around the world. Our mission is to discover high quality and ambitious films, to promote filmmakers’ works and to be the next step in their career. The Oniros Film Awards® is all about Dreams (ὄνειρος = oneiros, Dream in Ancient Greek) and is conceived by Dreamers for Dreamers. Dream Big, always!
(Oniros Film Awards® is a registered Trademark - All Rights Reserved 2017-2024)
Indian World Film Festival is latest addition to Miniboxoffice film festivals family. The Miniboxoffice is an independent film festival organizing company which caters to filmmakers of more than 90 countries through its 8 film festivals round the year. Indian World Film Festival objective is to showcase best of world cinema which boost growth of industry, emerging & experienced talent.
The Indian World Film Festival marks the milestone in cinematic history of Hyderabad, India. The Hyderabad- a culturally rich & heritage city is the hub of Telugu cinema & the destination of many budding filmmakers since past century. The festival is the tribute towards contribution of the Telugu film industry in the development of cinema in India
8th Indian World Film Festival -24 will provide professional networking & film marketing opportunities to the filmmakers and also introduced them with current trends of cinema. The festival goal is to empower independent filmmakers and dedicated to become world’s finest festival which fosters the growth of independent filmmakers.
With this commitment, I invite all the filmmakers to participate in 8th edition of Indian World Film Festival -24.
La Verdad Multimedia S.A. convenes, within the Festival of Arts - RENDIBÚ, the Rendibú '18 Short Film Contest, with the purpose of stimulating and spreading the cinematographic creation, according to the following bases.
THE FESTIVAL:
The International “Cinema Povero” Film Festival is open to everybody: rich film-makers, poor film-makers of any gender or religion all welcome provided they have developed a beautiful, original idea on a limited budget.
COVID-19 UPDATE: We will still hold our festival, though the format would be via online streaming due to COVID-19 restrictions. Same rules apply. For more info, visit www.miwaff.com.
MIWAFF AWARD WINNERS receive not only our prestigious awards but also recognition on IMDB and a one-year membership at iPitchTv.com! Film screenings will be available for streaming during our Festival period.
MIWAFF promotes all types of film, whether it is indie or studio based. Our mission is to unite filmmakers and artists in a competitive atmosphere by giving out prestigious Wreath Awards under a democratic process of popular vote. Our Festival recruits artists involved in film. This Jury of artists collectively votes on which film will be playing at our festival, and moreover, votes on which films get nominated and win.
The “KINOSVET” International Children's Cinema and Television Festival will be held from September, 2024 in Minsk, Belarus.
Festival "KINOSVET" is designed to develop, inspire and support young cinematographers; those who will soon influence the mass culture in their countries. The festival will allow those who want to make this world better, to be seen and heard. And also give a wide range of viewers the taste of a highly moral, deep, humane, inspiring art.
What movies and TV shows are shown around the world today? Who teaches contemporary and, most importantly, future artists and media ways to illuminate moral and, spiritual laws? Who controls the content and ideological direction of the most meaningful and strong types of art? The festival’s purpose is to seek, find, and give a venue to young talents who can create beautiful and meaningful art that makes our world brighter and kinder.
Festival goals:
development of cinematography;
moral education of children and adolescents;
the formation of personality with the help of cinema;
initiation of the younger generation to spiritual culture;
increasing the interest in creating films focused on children and youth audiences.
Festival tasks:
to fill the world with good pictures with humane ideas, moral values in order to make our world brighter;
to revive children’s, youth and family cinema;
to draw the attention of society around the world to social problems that are associated with children, people in need and nature;
to promote true, universal spiritual values;
to educate a new generation of filmmakers;
to expand and strengthen filmmakers connections from different countries both for children and youth;
to draw the attention of state, public and commercial organizations to supporting children’s and family filmmaking as well as to encouraging of the young authors.
In a historical moment in which the fear of different seems to prevail and the values of equality and social justice are neglected for the benefit of a widespread selfishness, it seems important to us to experiment new initiative to promote the positive values that the Associazione Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo tried to convey in these years using the universal language of the music. Solidarity, hospitality, integration, civil commitment, those are the values we want to pass on through cinema and Audiovision’s language, in an active citizenship experience above all young people, to give our contribution to a wide cultural sensibility growth, with a view to a supportive, multicultural and cohesive society.
Officine social movie: 5nd cinema and Audiovision’s festival dedicated to social issues and civil commitment and to dissemination of content that promoted solidarity, hospitality, social inclusion, cultural diversity and rights values.
Officine social movie is born for an attempt to create new artistic context and new formulas to convey, through cinema and audiovision’s versatility, the idea of cultural and social commitment above expressed. An open festival to short films presented by young emergent and independent filmmakers and videomakers, a showcase dedicated to projection of titles (movie, docu-movie, animation…) on call through film distribution channels also alternative. Projections that will be enriched by guest’s presence (filmmakers, authors, screenwriters, actors) with whose the audience will have the opportunity to confront at the end of projection.
We want to report that Officine Social Movie is born with the intention to pose the same caution both on the final result, the festival that will take place at Arezzo from 22th may to 28th may 2024, and on the project creation and implementation process. One of the targets is in fact the involvement of a group of young people who can share an active citizenship, giving space to their creativity.
To arrive to the festival made up by the step of design, analysis, planning and management, communication and critical vision of short films in the competition, will be part of the project itself, with the same importance of the festival days.
The group will be composed by some young people of the promoter association with around twenty people of the students from the Multimedia, cinema and graphic design sections of Liceo Artistico “Piero della Francesca di Arezzo” that, flanked by expert and operation, will draw the outlines of the festival, will draw up the national competition announcement, will be an integral part in the selection of short films in competition and will be part of the jury who will designate it the winners.
The students, in addition of being part of the group of the design team, will be involved in the creation of an own short film too, to be presented out of competition, as well as for the project and the festival’s video-photographic documentation.
The Officine Social Movie project has as leader the Association “Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo” (OMA), in collaboration with Officine della Cultura, the Liceo Artistico Coreutico Scientifico Internazionale “Piero della Francesca”, annex to Convitto Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele II” of Arezzo and Poti Pictures, with the support of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, contribution Prodigio Divino and Associazione Autismo Arezzo. Media partner of the event Teletruria.
Bases:
All filmmakers can participate.
You can register all the short films you want.
The duration of the films will be between 1 and 40 minutes.
Films must be produced between 2015 and 2020.
The fee to register your movie will be € 10 for each movie.
All film genres can participate.
Deadline: August 16, 2020
Screen: August 29, 2020
Prizes will be awarded to each genre, in addition to the best director, actor, actress, photography, script, edition, special effects, etc.
Our film festivals have double type of projections:
- Online: on the Vimeo platform there will be a private screening
only accessible to festival guests
This screening will be online for 24 hours, to facilitate viewing to guests.
- Live: we have agreements with several emblematic places in Barcelona
It is necessary to confirm the attendance to the place.
In both projections you can vote online for the Audience Award
The prizes will be known the day after the screenings.
Unselected films will have the opportunity to enter the Official Selection by public vote After the deadline, a vote will be opened for 3 days.
and the 4 most voted movies will go to the Official Selection
with the possibility of winning the prize
Participants voluntarily accept the foundations of this film festival.
Bases FESTIVAL DE CINE EXPERIMENTAL 2020
Duración: cortos de 1 minuto a 30 minutos. Características: mínimo de 50 minutos
Películas realizadas entre 2015 y 2020
10 € por cada cortometraje, 13 € por largometraje
Tema principal: Experimental. Cualquier género puede participar
La presentación de la fecha límite puede 15 de junio / La proyección: 30 de mayo de 2020
Todas las peliculas inscritas (sean seleccionadas o no) podrán optar al AUDIENCE AWARD. Este Award se podrá ganar por votación popular en la página web que indique el Film Festival. La votación comenzará despues del Last Deadline hasta el día del Festival
Europa Film Festival is an event for directors from around the world. All themes wil be accepted.
The Europa Film Festival belongs to a festival platform that covers the whole year. The company Teknochat, s.l. is the owner of this platform.
From this 4th edition, Europa Film Festival will be on the prestigious platform of Moviescreenpro, from Los Angeles. The screening of the selected films will be online, in a private pass.
All movies must have subtitles in English
The webpages of the festival are:
- http://teknochat.foro.bz/h10-europa-film-festival
- https://www.moviescreenpro.com/europafilmfestival
Horror Film Festival Barcelona.
Short Films and Horror Feature Films. All genres are also admitted as long as they have the subject of terror, horror.
Bases INDIE DOC PRO 2020
Duration short films 1 minute to 49 minutes. Feature films: 50 min minim
Documentaries made from 2015 to 2020
10€ for each short doc, 16€ each feature doc
Parent topic: DOCUMENTARY.
Deadline submission OCTOBER 16th / Screen OCTOBER 31st
Submit films by Festhome
All Selected films will be eligible for the AUDIENCE AWARD. This Award may be won by popular vote on the website that indicates the Film Festival. Voting will begin after the Last Deadline until the day of the Festival
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Bases 2020 STOP MOTION FILM FESTIVAL
Duration: short from 1 minute to 30 minutes.
Features: minimum of 50 minutes
Films made between 2015 and 2020
€ 10 for each short film, € 14 for feature film
Parent topic: Stop Motion. Any gender can participate
Deadline for submission September 14 / Screen September 30, 2020
Send movies via Festhome.com
All registered films (whether selected or not) may qualify for AUDIENCE AWARD. This Award can be won by popular vote on the website indicated by the Film Festival. Voting will begin after the Last Deadline until the day of the Festival.
