Digital film festival that serves as a platform for the circulation of audiovisual works by creators that tell stories of reconciliation and social resilience, within the framework of vulnerable political, economic or ethnic contexts, to contribute to the social cohesion of the different populations of the world. .
It should be noted that one of the most important components of the festival is that the participating works will be evaluated by the public, who will be able to access them for free through our platform and interact with their contents to generate a greater reach and a culture of consumption around the contents.
Equilibrium Studio Cinematografico organizes the second edition of its "CineFest - Changes".
Equilibrium Studio Cinematografico is a Social Promotion Association based in Palermo, born with the intent to promote the development and diffusion of film culture, a passion shared by the members of our team. This year the festival focuses on the theme of change, today more and more sudden and the reason for a highly liquid society. Nothing is well defined anymore: space, time, body. Everything is always changing and flows quickly.
The association Equilibrium Studio Cinematografico is composed of three women who are experts in cinema and communication, as well as lovers of creative and artistic expression represented through images and videos. The Equilibrium CineFest is, in fact, a means to offer a space of expression to all filmmakers who want to share their thoughts through the short film, a tool that has the power to communicate in a few minutes a message with a high emotional impact.
5th WORLD SHORT FILM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024
FESTIVAL START: 09 NOVIEMBRE 2024
FESTIVAL END: 09 NOVIEMBRE 2024
REGISTRATION START: JUNE 16 2024
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15 2024
NOTIFICATION DATE: OCTOBER 01 2024
DESCRIPTION OF THE FESTIVAL
The CINE MUNDO International Festival has as its sole interest and objective the dissemination of cinema in the short film format. All kinds of productions are accepted, whether professional or amateur, and of any year.
The objective of the Festival is to disseminate and at the same time recover quality short film productions and highlight their values, through a careful selection, to share with the general public in a virtual way and if health conditions allow it, perform functions at the same time face-to-face.
Due to the health characteristics that prevail throughout the world and in the local environment, this festival is online dissemination to be able to carry out the best quality material for people and to avoid their attendance in closed places that can violate your physical health
CINE MUNDO opens its registrations for the official competition 2024, which is its 5th edition, and these are its categories:
- Free category maximum 15 min.
- LGTB category and Gender maximum 15 min.
- TERROR category maximum 15 min.
- FICTION SCIENCE category maximum 15 min.
- ANIMATION Category maximum 15 min.
- THRILLER maximum 15 min.
- ECOLOGY Y ENVIRONMENT maximum 15 min.
- HUMAN RIGHTS maximum 15 min.
- HUMOR AND COMEDY maximum 15 min.
FRONTERA SUR, International Non-Fiction Film Festival, is a non-competitive event that exhibits a set of cinematographic, Chilean, Latin American and worldwide works related to the concept of non-fiction cinema.
The sixth edition of the FRONTERA SUR Festival will take place from May 14 to 18, 2024, in the Concepción city, Biobío Region, southern Chile.
La muestra forma parte de las propuestas de difusión y fomento que apuntan a la difusión de la cultura audiovisual en la región norte de la República Argentina de Wayruro Comunicación Popular y de la Red Kalipa TV, y él cuenta con el apoyo del INCAA, de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Jujuy, entre otros, y cuenta con el acompañamiento de la Red Focos, el Espacio Norte Audiovisual y CONTAR.
International Animation Festival watching professional and foreign animation will focus on short films and animated series from the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
The international jury of the festival will include professionals in animation art. Experts will award prizes to films and series of different age categories: cartoons for children, schoolchildren, teenagers and adults. Separately will be awarded the People's Choice Award and Award of the Festival Directorate.
The director of the Animur festival is the chairman of the board of the Khabarovsk regional non-government organization for development of animation – Alexandra Dubovskaya. The president is Ilya Kuznetsov, producer of the first animation studio in the Far East, Mechtalet. Program director - film critic Alena Sycheva.
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.
ITALIANO
Il CPIMFF è un festival cinematografico internazionale mensile nato a Salerno (Italia)
Fondato dal regista e produttore cinematografico Salvatore Martines, Il festival ha come unico scopo quello di valorizzare il cinema indipendente e le sue più larghe sfaccettature promuovendo tramite le competenze distributive della Corsenal Production i migliori progetti in gara.
Il festival, che si terrà mensilmente online sul sito ufficiale della ©Corsenal Production, selezionerà i migliori progetti per la cerimonia finale mensile, per poi premiare i più validi con premi dal valore di 60.000$, i premi infatti, prevederanno importanti contratti di distribuzione sulle migliori piattaforme streaming Tv come: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi Tv, Plex, Xumo, Filmzie e molti altri.
Ogni mese, ogni regista o produttore avrà la possibilità di vincere questi prestigiosi premi annessi ad essi la pergamena del CPIMFF che attesterà la vittoria del proprio film.
Il CPIMFF prevederà diverse sezioni:
°Feature Film (Per registi e Filmmaker di nazionalità italiana)
°International Feature Film
°Short film (Per registi e Filmmaker di nazionalità italiana)
°International Short Film
°Documentary
°Best Director
°Best Director of Photography
°Best Narrative Work
°Best Actor
°Best Actress
°Best Drama Film
°Best Comedy Film
°Best Horror Film
°Best Thriller Film
ENGLISH
The CPIMFF is a monthly international film festival born in Salerno (Italy)
Founded by the director and film producer Salvatore Martines, the sole purpose of the festival is to enhance independent cinema and its broader facets by promoting the best competing projects through the distribution skills of Corsenal Production.
The festival, which will be held monthly online on the official website of © Corsenal Production, will select the best projects for the final monthly ceremony, and then award the most valid with prizes worth $ 60,000. best TV streaming platforms such as: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi Tv, Plex, Xumo, Filmzie and many others.
Each month, each director or producer will have the chance to win these prestigious awards attached to them the parchment of the CPIMFF which will attest to the victory of their film.
The CPIMFF will have several sections:
° Feature Film (For directors and filmmakers of Italian nationality)
° International Feature Film
° Short film (For directors and filmmakers of Italian nationality)
° International Short Film
° Documentary
° Best Director
° Best Director of Photography
° Best Narrative Work
° Best Actor
° Best Actress
° Best Drama Film
° Best Comedy Film
° Best Horror Film
° Best Thriller Film
° Best Soundtrack
The "Golden Flower Award" Beijing International Children's Film Festival, supported by the Children's Science Education Committee of China's largest children's culture and art promotion association, started in 2018 and has been running for 4 years. Due to the global epidemic, it will be suspended from 2019 to 2020, with a new third edition in 2022. 2023 will see the 4th edition of the festival in Beijing
The Beijing International Children's Film Festival is a non-profit film festival that will soon become the largest international children's film festival in China. 2022's festival is open to films from around the world and is in competition. Over 100 films have been screened, with over 5 million online viewings by young people and children, and "child-friendly" offline screenings have been held in selected cinemas, schools, and art centers across China.
Media personalities, international guests, and celebrities will attend the festival and hold interactive workshops with children. It is also supported by government and social organizations such as Shanghai Radio and Television, Haha Dazzle TV, Beichuan Youth League Committee, and the China Red Cross Foundation.
In 2020, the total box office of Chinese films reached 20.417 billion RMB, surpassing North America and becoming the annual box office champion of the global film market. We will be introducing all the shortlisted films to distributors and streaming platforms across China.
We want to see the best children's films in the world and recommend them to families and markets in China. To strengthen family culture.
For the first time in Bihar we can do it and Kilkari is organizing Cinelerner International Film Festival 2022. This event is going to be two days. The aim of this festival is to bring together to showcase the outstanding work from young filmmakers from all over the world on one platform. Panel discussion, guest speakers, film production equipment gallery, relevent film books stalls by the regional books shops, cultural programme at night, all these things will augment our festival.
International Film Festival "Prvi kadar"/First Frame is an important film event in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose mission is to promote film art of authors from all over the world. The Festival is of competitive character neither. Films compete in two categories: documentary and short films.
Fifteen editions of the festival, a large number of authors interested in the festival, proving that the festival recognized among artists all over the world, as an important and prestigious film event.
Festival selections confirm continuity, primarily artistic approach, on which is built the whole idea of the first frame. In considering the relationship between themes and ideas, stress is given to the author's attitude or an artistic idea.
Rich noncompetitive and competitive program of high artistic quality, educational programs, lectures DokMasterClass, Film Campus of art documentaries, exhibitions, promotion of book of film art, numerous guests from the world of film, proof that the festival from year to year expanding, enriching the content of the program. This years Festival will takes place from 20th to 24th November 2023 in East Sarajevo and Zvornik, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
FRAME Film Festival es un festival de cortometrajes itinerante, sin una única ubicación, que se celebrará en la provincia de Tarragona.
El FRAME Film Festival consta de dos fases.
• FASE CLASIFICATORIA
• FASE FINAL
El objetivo principal es difundir y promover la cinematografía en general y el cortometraje en particular, apoyando a las directoras y los directores de cortometrajes y creando un espacio donde puedan dar a conocer sus trabajos.
Pero sobre todo trabajamos para que las y los cineastas se sientan acogidos y vivan la experiencia de visitarnos cómo si estuvieran en familia. LA GRAN FAMILIA DEL CORTOMETRAJE!
Otro motivo es ampliar la oferta de acontecimientos culturales para hacer llegar el cortometraje a a poblaciones que no tengan la oportunidad de disfrutar de nuestro cine en formato CORTO.
En el FRAME Film Festival queremos darle al público que sigue y disfruta los cortometrajes, la oportunidad de decidir sobre la selección de las películas que pasarán a la FASE FINAL para recibir los premios TALENTO FRAME.
10th NEZ International Film Festival (NIFF)
28th to 30th March , 2025
NEZ stands for simplicity of life and existence. NEZ is not a corporate, nor an NGO; in fact no standard term can describe NEZ. It simply is a platform for beings in this planet to come forward, and come together and explore their collective talents for the progress of the world and beyond. We have long enough thought about espousing our cause and ours alone. Now we think together. It is a platform to promote excellence in Education, Arts, Literature, Films, Medicine, Science, Research, Community Service etc. The philosophy at NEZ is very simple. We share collective fate. We seek new thought patterns that shall shape this world and the universe in times to come.
NEZ International Film Festival (NIFF) stands for best of world cinemas in the categories of Feature Films, Short Films, Documentaries Films and Ad Films. A platform of NIFF is meant for bringing undiscovered pure talents before a larger audience of the world.
NIFF is an umbrella; it is a conglomeration of niche festivals under one category. We treat the entire event as a visual carnival. The purpose of the festival is to celebrate everything the visual medium of cinema has to offer. We are now stepping into 3rd year of our Journey and proudly announce two more categories from this year.
1. “The Smart Phone Cinema”
NIFF always Endeavour to create something new, something Path breaking. It strives to recognize and to reward challenging aspects of cinema in all its forms. To celebrate the impact of cinema in modern age, NIFF is proud to announce a complete new category from this year “The Smart Phone Cinema”. We would be accepting movies in The Student Category and The Professional Category. The movie has to be a minimum of 4 minutes and maximum of 15 minutes. Every entry has to be accompanied by shooting Stills, substantiating the movie was indeed shot using the smart phone.
2. NIFF GREENS
That which is Paramount is also fragile. What better example we can have of this fact other than the Planets Eco System or the Environment. Sadly the most Paramount things behind the survival of humans are also most abused by the same humans. We stand at a dangerous point. Our Abuse of the Planet’s Environment is leading us to sure extinction. We need to raise awareness of that. Here at NIFF, we understand the Issue so much that we have created a separate category under the main festival Titled “NIFF GREENS”. It will showcase, any movie, shorts feature or documentary that highlights the issue of Environment.
Cinema allows us to meet. The cinema makes it possible to travel kilometers in seconds, and move in time regardless of the time. Get to know other cultures, feel close despite the distances.
For 18 years, the Lapacho Latin American Short Film Festival has strengthened its roots with the exhibition of regional, national and international short films, sharing experiences and promoting meetings between filmmakers from the province of Chaco to the country and the world.
The 2022 edition will take place in mixed mode: in person and virtually simultaneously. In addition to the functions in the theater respecting the care and prevention measures, and for the third consecutive year, the Festival will take place virtually through the page www.cine.chaco.gob.ar, where the complete grid, talks, workshops will be available. and master classes.
As always we will try to promote the meeting between performers, their projects and perspectives towards the future. The actors and actresses, the producers, the technicians, and also the other arts integrated in various forms will have their space in this festival of cinema. And of course, the prominent place will always be for the public that joins us from their seats and from the comfort of their homes.
Girls just wanna have FAN
Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia presents its third call for the creation of a short teaser within the WomanInFan program (Sitges FanLab). This initiative aims to promote the visibility and inclusion of women creators in fantastic cinematography by proposing the creation of a piece for circulation in the audiovisual market, serving as a sample of an idea for a fantastic genre feature film.
WomanInFan expands its scope to film production to support the work of female filmmakers within the fantastic genre industry.
The Evaluation Committee will select 10 projects from all submissions, of which there will be one winner. The 9 finalists and the winning project will have the right to participate in the industry sessions of the 57th edition of the Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia with an Industry accreditation (excluding private events).
The "Corti di Mare" Festival focuses on the "sea" theme: sea as a source of life, nourishment, philosophy, history, peoples, danger, challenge, adventure, necessity, myth, well-being, border, legend, poetry.
Cheboksary International FIlm Festival has grown to become one of the most prestigious film festivals in Russia. Having existed for 13 years, it has grown to attract thousands of filmmakers, film enthusiasts and audiences from all over the world. It mainly presents films from and about Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America, It takes place every year for five days in Cheboksary.
The official selection includes 12 main competitions, International feature-length films, International short films, National feature-length films and National short films. Furthermore the festival organizes a non-competitive section, tributes and focuses.
Only for Colombian Film-makers. FESTIVAL LABERINTO is a film festival for those who live and breath cinema, wether as film critics, productors or cinephiles. We want to build new possibilities for audiovisual arts in general, so the inherent diversity of our ideas and sensibilities can be expressed. Open social environments are required to reach the objectives of this festival; our purpose is to create such environments, especially in Boyacá, and potentially in the rest of the country. Coming from a formative, divulgative and creative standpoint, we extend an invitation to all of the people interested in filmaking.
We want you to put your imagination in motion.
Bolder and more complex ways of living and exploring cinema are just around the corner. We would like to explore those new possibilities with you. Those who are interested in our event will be able to submit their work in the folllowing open calls.
We are a collective of filmmakers at Logroño, Spain, our target it is to fight against hate and racism with our festival, open to shortfilms and videoclips.
