Bendita Tú is an International Film Festival based in Argentina and Spain dedicated to showcasing short films made by women, trans, and non-binary individuals.
The festival is a space for the dissemination of experimental, essayistic, and non-fiction audiovisual works with a formally and conceptually committed proposal, addressing gender perspectives and diversity of identities. We select films that allow for the exploration of non-hegemonic, situated, and embodied approaches, creating bonds between people from different countries through intersectional feminism.
The objective is to showcase emerging audiovisual pieces and debut works that, due to their limited opportunities for exhibition and distribution, remain invisible. At the same time, we promote dialogues between these works and those of established female directors, focusing on intergenerational relationships and the importance of genealogies in the world of cinema.
In this VII Edition, water is a form of resistance and revolution, manifested through audiovisual creation. Throughout history, various authors have used this powerful transparent medium as a symbol of strength. For example, Gloria Anzaldúa describes the river as an element that challenges oppressive structures and represents the fluidity of identities and cultures. Bell Hooks considered water as a metaphor for transformation and resilience, in relation to the experience of being a black woman in the United States. Judith Butler interprets this liquid as an icon of fluidity and resistance to binary gender norms.
Therefore, alongside these authors, we reclaim this vital element as an ally, a refuge where we can feel safe and from which we can express our ideas and imagine other possible futures. This year, the tide rises and propels us towards a political record that demands change. For this reason, we seek works that surpass the limits of the audiovisual medium, vibrant creations that convey the need for a challenging, fluid, and collective existence.
Seoul Metro International subway Film Festival(SMIFF) with cooperation of Shinhancard introduces various world-wide extreme-short films on Seoul and Barcelona subway monitors and aims to contribute in making cosmopolitan cultural environment where anyone can enjoy movies in various places beyond cinemas.
The Culture Department of the San Nicolás del Puerto Town Hall and the Punto Vuela of San Nicolás del Puerto announce the IX “La Vieja Encina” Horror and Fantasy Short Film Festival 2024, to be held on November 28, 29, 30, and December 1, 2024.
Zinegoak is organized by Zinegoak Association and will take place in the city of Bilbao, Spain, June 2025.
All films which have an approach to sexual and gender diversity and LGTBQ+ families, which have been produced after January 1st, 2023 and never had been broadcasted or commercially released in Basque Country.
CortiFestival Cine Escolar will be held in the Ámbito Cultural of El Corte Inglés in Alicante and Elche (Spain).
CortiFestival (Educational centers): Short films made by students, which aims to bring the audiovisual language to the classroom and introduce the cinema as a didactic tool in educational centers.
CortiFestival (Professionals): Short films made by professionals or enthusiasts of the seventh art, with a theme aimed to children and young people where education in values is present.
Márgenes. Madrid International Film Festival celebrates films of special cinematic value and new audiovisual trends that focus on innovative forms of representation.
It aims to support and promote film as an art and to highlight the most unique contemporary cinema practices combining emerging talent with renowned filmmakers who share original proposals, personal vision and creative freedom.
The festival offers an interdisciplinary program that enriches the audience’s experience through the intersection between audiovisual creation digital arts, new technologies and sound arts, as well as providing spaces for reflection and debate and professional training and networking.
International Star Film Festival Awards is an amalgamation of unleash cinematic creativity & madness of cine-goers of world. India is a culturally rich & destination of many budding filmmakers since past century. The festival objective is to give momentum to the cinema & to foster the growth of new breed of filmmakers.
The festival is dedicated to serve the short filmmakers specifically from all parts of India as well as world.
ISFFA is an International Film Festival and award event.
The festival objective is to create films culture, promotion of upcoming filmmakers.
We are taking submissions for the following categories:
-Narrative
-Documentary
-Short Narrative
-Short Documentary
-Short Documentary Student
-Feature Narrative Student
-TV Pilot (30 Mins)
-TV Pilot (60 Mins)
-Feature Screenplay (No Coverage)
-Feature Screenplay (Coverage)
-Music Video Concept
-Music Video Narrative
-Music Video Performance
-CineElite Website Screening Bundle
-Feature Narrative Resident
-Feature Documentary Resident
-Short Narrative Resident
-Short Documentary Student Resident
-Feature Narrative Student Resident
-TV Pilot (30 Mins) Resident
-TV Pilot (60 Mins) Resident
-Feature Screenplay (No Coverage) Resident
-Feature Screenplay (With Coverage) Resident
-Music Video Concept Resident
-Music Video Narrative Resident
-Music Video Performance Resident
Film Maudit 2.0 (www.filmmaudit.org) is a showcase and celebration of new outré, unusual and startling films. Now approaching its 5th edition, the fest is inspired by legendary artist Jean Cocteau’s festival, Le Film Maudit, which celebrated a group of films that were criminally overlooked and neglected at the time.
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The term film maudit literally means “cursed films,” and this showcase of counter-cinema blends together narrative, documentary and experimental films that in their style and/or subject matter, are deliberately bold, extreme, confrontational, troubling, shocking and/or unusual.
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We are looking for adventuresome works that eschew conventional genre & format expectations and deal with socio-political issues, taboo subjects, and challenge artistic assumptions and sexual mores. These works can be in the form of feature films, short films, pilots, VR, and works that cross disciplines.
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The festival is co-presented by and takes place in part at Southern California's boldest center for new performance and media arts, Highways Performance Space & Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. In its 34th year, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages radical artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative new works. Described by the Los Angeles Times as “a hub of experimental theater, dance, solo drama and other multimedia performance,” Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms.
The aim of the International Film Festival “Open Place” in Rezekne (Latvia) is to promote films from all over the world made by brilliant independent filmmakers to the Baltic Sea Region countries, to encourage sharing of experience among young and talented professionals of film industry, as well as to endorse popularity of Rezekne city. The venue of the festival is the modern multifunctional concert hall Latgalian Embassy “GORS” in the very centre of the city.
The Festival aims to develops a national and an international film platform and aims to discover new filmmaking forms, disseminate and promote local, Italian and world cinema, contributing to the development of Industry and Audiovisual Arts, hosting the meeting in their various trades and enhancing its development through a market useful for industry in Latvia and abroad.
It is a meeting point for filmmakers, a source for inspiration and new knowledge for experts, students and cinema lovers. OPIFF is a hotbed for talent development and promotion of cinema as an attractive leisure for all target groups possible.
accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival welcomes films and filmmakers from all over the world, to share the art of independent short films with the local audience, to entertain and enlighten festival attendees, to provide filmmakers the opportunity for professional networking and development, and to encourage cultural tourism and film industry development in Naples and the surrounding area in Campania.
accordi @ DISACCORDI (Consonances and Dissonances) is an audience-friendly festival that focuses on quality programming of all genres of seventh art from comedy to drama, animation to documentary, and art to experimental movies. In addition to the film program, attendees can enjoy talks, Q&As, laboratories, workshops, exhibitions, seminars and conferences; the entrance to cultural events is free of charge. We want to give a heightened sense of the experience to all who participate and attend.
International Short Film Festival celebrates its 21st anniversary on November 11 - 17, 2024.
Submit your film to be in with a chance of screening at our International Short Film Festival and this could be your chance to win a nice acrylic or wooden plaque!
IFF ZOOM - ZBLIZENIA (Jelenia Góra) is one of the largest and most important independent cinema festivals in Poland. Its aim is to present the author's cinema, ambitious, high artistic value, moving independent and original subject matter, as well as promotion of independent film art.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, we would like to inform you that the Russian films which will be submitted to the 28. IFF ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA 2025 will not be eligible for competitions.
Milton Keynes International Film Festival(MKIFF) is the first international film festival and the only of its kind in the city Milton Keynes, United Kingdom . This extraordinary cultural event created in 2021 is one of the most important cinematic event in Milton Keynes.
In previous seasons feature, short and documentary films screened at MKIFF are from independent filmmakers from around the globe as well as Hollywood films like “American Crow”, “Timespiracy”, “Who Shot Sergeant Kirwan?”, Warner Brother’s “Jim Button And The Wild 13”, “Happy Ending”, ”1888”, “Enemy of the Heart” and many more.
MKIFF aims to create in United Kingdom, as well as in the region, a cultural center of worldwide alternative and independent cinema. Milton Keynes is a green, enthusiastic and friendly city and besides the “strong competition” MKIFF aims at the same time to be a meeting point of cultures, where people of Milton Keyes, the guests and all those who love films will have a cinema-language-communication week. It will create a friendly space for film artists and cinema enthusiasts from United Kingdom and the entire world to come together and share their linked passion and knowledge of the motion picture art form.
The intention of MKIFF is to bring filmmakers, producers and film enthusiasts from all around the world to Milton Keynes, in hopes of fostering future co-operation in this interesting and youngest city of the United Kingdom. By bringing together these distinct voices and their work, MKIFF commits itself to introducing audiences to alternative visions of extraordinary diversity.
Breaking all stereotypes, MKIFF mission is to present quality films from around the world as well as support, recognize and honour indie film makers. These films will be organized thematically, in hopes of representing the full range of the human experience as reflected by our chosen filmmakers.
MKIFF is an international cinema event whose main objective is to enlarge the number of venues and time of screening of European and non-European films of all genres and durations in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom as well as it is considered to be an event to develop new audiences around the country, combining film screenings with public debates and approaching new and an increased Film Audience and focusing also on Film Literacy.
Award distribution ceremony is organized once a year. The main goal of the film festival is to provide an exceptional space for the creation and presentation of quality multi-genre art production.
FILM SCREENING
Top rated selected films at MKIFF will be physically screened on the day of event and all officially selected films at MKIFF for screening will be screened online on the www.AltCineplex.com during a special and bespoke online screening event.
For each of the categories, we will select an individual winner as well as a shortlist of runners up.As a winner, you will be provided with an exclusive opportunity to premiere your film on AltCineplex.com.
Those who are shortlisted for as a part of the festival will receive an exclusive online screening experience directly on AltCineplex.com, meaning you could be part of this success, and stream your content to a large audience, including your friends, family, and fans.
During this online screening event at www.AltCineplex.com, we welcome friends, families, and fans to celebrate your success, and support you using our tipping/VOD function on AltCineplex.com. 70% of every single tip/ticket you receive will go directly into your pocket!
All winner films MKIFF will get an opportunity to get released on the www.AltCineplex.com.
At ALTCINEPLEX your your film can be release under the following category(depends on the review).
i. SVOD (Subscription based video on demand service)
ii.AVOD(Ad-based video on demand service)
iii.TVOD(Transactional based video on demand/pay per view service, You will get 70% share of every purchased)
The Prague Shorts Film Festival is organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, organizer of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The best and most inspiring short films from all over the world head towards the Czech capital again, where they will be presented at the 17th Prague Shorts Film Festival. This event will be held from November 6th - 11th, 2022.
The audience will have the opportunity to watch dozens of films in traditional sections - International Competition, National Competition, Labo Competiton, the late night Brutal Relax Show and other informative sections.
The Festival accepts fiction, animation, documentary and experimental short films only.
3° DALE REC Film Festival: It is a space for meeting, circulation, training, management and production of audiovisual content for children and adolescents. This year it takes place from August 2 to 4 at the facilities of the Universidad Nacional del Chaco Austral, in the province of Roque Sáenz Peña, province of Chaco, Argentina.
Organized by UNCAUS Culture, Secretary of Cooperation and Public Services, National University of Chaco Austral, UNCAUS, in conjunction with the National School of Cinematographic Production and Experimentation, ENERC headquarters NEA, Ministry of Culture of the Nation, the National Institute of Cinema and Arts Audiovisuales, INCAA, the Institute of Culture of the Province of Chaco.
BASES AND REGISTRATION:
dalerecfestival.com.ar
CONTACTS:
dalerecfestival@uncaus.edu.ar
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Dinamo Sports Club of Mayrit is proud to present its first Film Festival dedicated to equality in sport.
We are the first mixed football team aspiring to be professional in Spain, and our goal is to make gender segregation in professional football disappear: we think it is an outdated and unfair way of categorizing footballers, when what should prevail first and foremost are technical skills and football quality, not gender.
In order to carry this project forward, we have decided to have a very powerful tool, capable of changing society and showing them other realities and possibilities: cinema.
The screening of the selected films will take place in person, at the Flori Park soccer field (San Juan Bautista neighborhood), preceded by a friendly match.
The Show wants to be an annual event of short films and documentaries from developing countries and their development, whose main characteristic is to show the public the material produced by social organizations and independent filmmakers committed to solidarity, development cooperation, eradication of poverty, denunciation and social transformation, emphasizing the Millennium Development Goals 2015 and Sustainable Development 2030 of the United Nations.
La Plata International Independent Film Festival - FestiFreak is one of the most relevant and inviting cultural event in La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires, Argentina. We settled 20 years ago with the idea of showing and giving premiere to films and authors that don't usually get in theaters and others screens well as reviewing greatest masters of cinema's filmography. Our 20º edition will take place in October 2024.
Here, you can find the information of the last edition:
https://festifreak.com/
8th Pilar de la Horadada International Film Festival - CORTOPILAR | PILAR AWARDS 2024
www.cwiff.co.in
CWIFF is a quarterly film event that runs with and for various institutions and societies which is specifically created to help independent filmmakers and groups to raise their awareness about the kind of films made in the world.. Not only we run as a Festival but as well provide a means to filmmakers to learn from their seniors from around the world.
BIG NEWS: This is the best Season to submit your film to the festival as CWIFF is hosting a larger-than-life film festival where winners, including all previous seasons, are not only being given entries at a huge discount but as well a dedicated entry to the competitive round. Along with that, all films will be given a chance to be featured on CWIFF's Studio platform for free.
Filmmakers competing in CWIFF are not bound to any condition which requires them not to show their films anywhere else. Rather awarded films will be given priority over others as it being the purpose of our festival to educate through the best (which again is subjective). Still, all decisions will be taken by the jury and they will decide which films be granted submission for the festival.
Today you have the chance to become mentor to many. Submit your film to #CW and become one.
Note:
1. It is the sole right of the festival to select and reject the film they want and the Jury's decision remains confidential always.
2. For any queries, please contact the spokesperson of the festival. Mail is what we personally prefer and quick at.
3. Films on the elderly, children, and women will be awarded separately.
