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.
REGULATIONS
The VIII Curta Lages International Film Festival promotes a broad, diverse and
international program, holding competitive and non-competitive screenings of short
and feature films of all formats and genres.
All editions of Curta Lages were held with the support of Coletivo Audiovisual
Lageano (CAL). It is a group formed in 2014 that works to promote audiovisual
production in the Serra Catarinense region. Formed by several artists, cultural
producers and local professionals in the sector, CAL aims to promote actions linked
to the appreciation, incentive and democratization of audiovisual.
1. REGISTRATION CONDITIONS
1. PERIOD AND LOCATION
The VIII Curta Lages International Film Festival will be held from August 25 to 31,
2025, in the city of Lages, SC, Brazil, with in-person and online screenings.
2. TYPE OF FESTIVAL
The 7th Curta Lages International Film Festival is a competitive and informative
festival, in addition to presenting non-competitive exhibitions.
3. REGISTRATION AND WORKS
Registration for the 8th Curta Lages International Film Festival took place from June
1 to July 1, 2025, through an online form, the event's official website and the
FESTHOME platform.
Individuals and legal entities with a directorial and/or production role in the registered
work may register.
Films with a release date from 2024 onwards will be accepted, except for films from
Santa Catarina, which continue without restrictions on completion date, release date
and final time of the work.
Registration for the 8th Curta Lages International Film Festival is free of charge.
Except in special cases authorized by the curators, registrations with delivery of
physical media or sent via other virtual channels will not be accepted.
Films submitted for selection must guarantee the copyright of the images and
soundtrack contained in the work to be shown at the Festival and in non-profit public
screenings and exempt the organization of the VIII Curta Lages International Film
Festival from paying any copyright fees at the time of screening.
Short and feature-length films, both national and international, will be accepted,
following the following length: short up to 15 minutes, feature over 70 minutes,
except for films from Santa Catarina, which have no restrictions on the date of
completion, release or final time of the work.
The works accepted for registration may be of any category or genre: fiction,
documentary, animation, experimental, hybrid (doc and fic), collective creation and
children's and youth.
Preference will be given to works that include accessibility mechanisms through
Libras, descriptive subtitles or audio description.
Films with speech in languages other than Portuguese must send subtitles in
Portuguese (Brazil) via SRT file.
The works must be submitted through online viewing platforms, and when selected,
the files of the registered productions must be sent to the following video sharing
platforms: Google Drive, Dropbox or the FESTHOME platform, with access
passwords (if applicable). And informing of any changes to them, if any. Files in
high-quality MP4, H264 or ProRes format will be accepted.
The selected works will be shown publicly and free of charge on the days designated
by the Festival, according to a previously prepared calendar, making it clear that the
authors or producers of the works, by participating, grant authorization for such
screenings. The organization may publish printed material about the works to be
exhibited. The authors and/or producers of the works also authorize the use of a
fragment of the works for broadcasting in any means of publicizing the festival.
The Festival will not pay any screening fees to the authors/distributors of the
selected films.
Once selected, the film cannot be withdrawn from the competition.
The curators reserve the right to refuse entries. The curatorial coordination and the
festival's programming director reserve the right to disqualify films that have been
approved by the curatorial committee, even if already announced in the program,
and have not completed subsequent stages of qualification.
Upon registration, participants will accept the festival rules and grant all screening
rights after selection by the Festival's curatorial committee.
The curatorial committee's decision is final, and there will be no appeals or questions
regarding the criteria used to select the works SELECTED for the VIII Curta Lages
International Film Festival.
4. The jury will award the following prizes:
Best International Feature Film.
Best International Short Film.
Best National Feature Film.
Best National Short Film.
Best Documentary Research
Best Screenplay
Best Direction
Best Acting
Best Feature Film (Public Jury)
Best Short Film (Public Jury)
There will be no trophies, only virtual laurels.
5. Registration on this form implies prior knowledge and full acceptance of the terms
and clauses described herein
6. Contact by email curtalages@gmail.com
Carried out through the carried out with resources from the Aldir Blanc National
Policy. Through the Santa Catarina Culture Foundation - CATARINENSE CULTURE
CIRCUIT - PNAB 2024
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
"Content Creators Changing the World, One Project at a Time" is the theme of the 24th Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, October 13-19, 2025.
The festival is in-person and virtual with select in-person screenings and events throughout Gwinnett County, GA -- Duluth, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, Norcross, Snellville -- and Atlanta. UMFF features a daily virtual space with guest speakers, sessions and content creators Q&A.
Recognizing media as a powerful tool of choice for entertaining, informing, and inspiring, this annual content creators' festival showcases international, urban independent media. We are open to all creators, and we emphasize work produced by or featuring individuals of color - African, African-American, Asian, Black, Hispanic, Latino Native American, and Pacific Islander.
The Urban Mediamakers Film Festival promotes, supports and showcases filmmakers, independent content creators and multimedia producers — animation, advertising, marketing campaigns, blog, commercials, film, music, new media, podcasts. print, television, scripts, streaming, web series and virtual reality.
Guided by past wisdom and reflecting the new and exciting generation of new technology, we are dedicated to thinking out of the traditional box as we pursue our dreams courageously.
UMFF brings an exciting and creative atmosphere that encompasses cultural diversity, with activists, content creators, artists, writers and TV/movie buffs together under one roof to meet, collaborate and strategize for world change!
Actors, artists, bloggers, content creators, filmmakers, graphic designers, mobile app developers, musicians, podcasters, producers, streamers and writers have an opportunity to gain exposure for their projects, compete for the best-of-the-best with prizes in each category, attend industry-related educational series, along with excellent collaboration and networking.
Movie buffs, content creators, independent film and mix-media supporters have the opportunity to see a diverse group of superb films and projects from creatives that are independent with a vision.
The festival includes:
-- virtual and in-person events.
-- script reading featuring a scene from the top three screenplays in competition.
-- independent film screenings in competition on our UrbanFlixToGo.com platform during the festival with an option to continue on UrbanFlixToGo.com.
-- showcase of bloggers, podcasters, and mobile app developers.
-- 9th Urban PitchFest 2025.
-- 9th AfroFuturism Fest 2025 - Black sci-fi, fantasy, horror and gaming along with international thrillers. AfroFuturism Fest includes UMFF projects competing in the AfroFuturism category, vendors, panels, comic book swapping, AfroFuturism cosplay, costume contest for cash prizes, and more.
-- 2nd Annual Gwinnett County Comic-Con with renowned comic artists and authors from around the country.
-- Videopalooza 2025 - Middle and high school competition and screening series.
-- producers/distributors seeking independent films.
-- awards presentation and closing event.
-- closing night film.
-- audience award.
-- filmmaker and writer collaboration breakout sessions (SpeedCollabs).
-- winning films will be showcased on our streaming service UrbanFlixToGo.com.
UMFF attendees have an opportunity to network with their peers and executives for collaborations on future projects, as well as interact with an audience that supports independent mediamaking.
YOUR project will make our festival phenomenal! Submit to UMF 2024 today!
Peace and blessings,
Cheryle Renee Moses
Founder and Producer
The Humus Film Fest is an international festival of short films with environmental themes, focused on audiovisual pieces that show, from fiction or reality, agroecology experiences, urban gardens, connections between the countryside and the city or new ruralities.
The festival aspires to accommodate both the most professional and amateur creators, with
the aim of broadening views on the connections between these two ecosystems, the countryside and the city. We look for stories that tell us about these relationships from humor, poetry, surrealism or everyday life.
Medrar for Contemporary Art launches its call for the 11th edition of Cairo Video Festival, which will be held in December 2024. The festival continues its focus on providing a platform for sharing and discussing newly produced video art and experimental film. Programs will be screened in conventional and non-conventional venues, in theater and exhibition spaces to promote, expand and harvest attention to the practice.
The 11th edition of Cairo Video Festival culminates many steps and stages that represent our experiences with video art and experimental film, and also summarizes our recurrent inquiries about the relationship between artistic expression and the reality we live in, the current events and our eagerness to experiment and add new and different values with each edition. It is an opportunity that we yearn for with every edition to witness these innovations, experiences and new concepts from around the world, and to share them with the public.
The call for submission is directed towards video artists and experimental filmmakers from various technical fields. We also encourage designers and developers who work in the fields of virtual reality, animation, interactive softwares, and artistic games via the Internet, computers or smartphones to respond to the call. Likewise, those who emphasize the use of the moving image in their installations or live performances. Curators and institutions involved in the production and distribution of video art and experimental film are encouraged to submit their programs. The festival’s program takes the format of a series of showcases, accompanied by talks and discussions with active video-makers and curators to tackle some of the key themes and issues addressed in the works.
Check out the previous edition
https://www.cvf.medrar.org/ar/about-cvf10/
Cerdanya Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cerdanya, is a Festival specialized in the documentary, fiction and animation genre, short and feature films, consisting of competitive international sections, non-competitive sections and parallel activities. All the films that are part of the different sections will be selected by the Festival programmers.
Cerdanya Film Festival qualifies for Premios Goya – Spanish Film Academy in Best Spanish Shortfilm, in Fiction, Animation and Documentary categories.
The 16th edition of the Cerdanya Film Festival will be held from 28th July to 17th August 2025.
Fourth Veracruz Cineteca Showcase
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The civil association Cineteca Veracruz invites Mexican and international filmmakers to submit their films to the various non-competitive sections of the Fourth Veracruz Cineteca Showcase, which will take place in October and November 2025.
Film submission period: March 3 to June 6, 2025
Selection notification: July 7, 2025
Non-competitive sections
Veracruz Cinema
All filmmakers from Veracruz, Mexico, and abroad are invited to participate in this section, which includes films that have a thematic or conceptual connection to the Veracruz region. Eligible films must be short films (between 5 and 30 minutes in length), either fiction or non-fiction.
Mexican Short Film
All Mexican filmmakers are invited to participate in this section with their short films (5 to 30 minutes in length), either fiction or non-fiction.
Mexican Feature Film
All Mexican filmmakers are invited to participate in this section with their feature films (60 to 120 minutes in length), either fiction or non-fiction.
International Feature Film
Filmmakers of any nationality are invited to participate in this section with their feature films (60 to 120 minutes in length), either fiction or non-fiction.
Animation Special
Filmmakers of any nationality are invited to participate in this section with their animated short films (5 to 30 minutes in length), either fiction or non-fiction.
"Sezze Film Festival" is a cinema and entertainment event dedicated to Italian and foreign short films.
The 2024 edition in its 6th edition will have special prizes dedicated to films, documentaries, web series and music video clips.
The Festival will be held in Sezze (LT) on 16 and 17 December 2022 for the Documentaries, Music Video Clips and Web Series categories.
For the Short Films and Feature Films categories it will take place in September 2023.
Prizes will be dedicated to the best works and their artistic and technical figures.
For information and applications:
sezzefilmfestival@libero.it
https://www.facebook.com/sezzefilmfestival/
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.
CINE NO VISTO
International low-budget independent film festival
PRESENTATION
Festival de Cine no Visto has the main objective of giving visibility to those independent and low or no budget productions which, for different reasons, don’t reach the major public and whose only option for a greater recognition is found in festivals.
The organization of the Festival de Cine no Visto is aware of the great effort that producers have to endure in order to carry out a project with very limited means. Technical aspects are for us just another element in the process, so the main reasons to be selected will not depend on the means used. We are much more interested in what is told and the symbolism in each shot.
We are undoubtedly going to consider all and each of the aspects: performance, editing, cinematography, music, screenplay, to sum up, everything necessary in the production of an audiovisual project.
CATEGORIES
⦁ Best feature film
⦁ Best Foreign short film
⦁ Best Andalusian short film
⦁ Best Spanish short film
*AWARDS
⦁ Best feature film (International and Andalusian)
⦁ Best short film (within each category)
⦁ Best actor (feature film)
⦁ Best director (feature film)
⦁ Best cinematographer (feature film)
⦁ Best film editing (feature film)
⦁ Best screenplay (feature film)
• Best sound
• Best music
⦁ Best film from Jaén (feature or short)
* If your film has been awarded but nobody from your team can attend to the awards ceremony, you won´t receive a physical prize.
** Some categories can be declared void if the jury considers that appropriate.
Give Me Voice International Film Festival was born from our main GIVE ME VOICE platform idea, which is a safe haven where artists can freely express their unique voices, and launch their work and tell their story.
The festival GIVE ME VOICE is an event that will take place every three months. We accept short films of any genre, LGBT, documentaries, animations, and horror movies. Each three-month our judges, watch, review and rate the submitted films. The Best Films will announce as the winner every three months.
We are unable to provide a specific review for not selected films.
The GMV Film Festival fully aligns with our original platform's vision and welcomes video and filmmakers from all over the world. The GMV online festival will also provide a hub for filmmakers to connect with other filmmakers, audiences and industry professionals. Thus, fostering global and vibrant communities of storytellers and film enthusiasts, not to mention the invaluable exposure the artists can receive.
Online submissions are open for a period of three months. We will accept short films of various genres including but not limited to LGBT, documentaries, animations, horror movies as well as music videos. During the submission period, our judges will review and rate all films and videos entered. Winners will be announced at the end of each submission quarter. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide specific reviews for not-selected films.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to give an opportunity for filmmakers to present their work to a global community. GIVE ME VOICE will bring out the Best Short, LGBT, documentaries, animations, horror movies and music videos from all cultures. It serves as a place where filmmakers can share their creativity and talent, and potentially gain recognition and opportunities for their work to be seen by industry professionals. Additionally, it allows viewers to discover and enjoy a wide range of creative content of a globally recognized VOICE.
In 3 countries - Austria, Hungary and Slovakia
Join us for the best films and filmmakers from November 22 to 30, 2025, at the 8th Blue Danube Film Festival, taking place in Vienna, Budapest, and Bratislava.
The Blue Danube Film Festival showcases independent films from around the world, encouraging creativity and experimentation. We welcome all types of films and aim to inspire talented filmmakers exploring new forms and examining societal issues through a critical lens.
Films are evaluated by our professional jury based on the criteria of their entry category, considering generally accepted filmmaking quality standards such as artistic vision, production quality, aesthetic positioning, structure, cinematography, direction, and creativity.
Selected films will be screened in art cinemas and cultural centers in Vienna, Budapest, and Bratislava.
BDFF is the region's first cross-border film festival, sailing up the Danube from Budapest to Bratislava and Vienna. We will showcase short films in three cities at four festival locations. Our jury will evaluate the films, and winners will receive not only media attention but also cash prizes.
We look forward to celebrating cinema with you!
The BELLAVISTA FILM FESTIVAL (BVFF) 2025 #BVFF25 seeks to inspire, empower, and unify our audience through cinematographic art of social impact.
The festival is a space in which the community and cinema converse through cinematographic works of art selected with great artistic value and a theme of representative and relevant social impact. Thus promoting social impact cinema as a tool to stimulate critical thinking and motivate social action to catalyze agents of change in their communities and beyond.
The BVFF will be held as an itinerant festival, bringing its screenings to the following cities:
- Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
- Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Los Ángeles, California, USA
- Panamá City, Panamá
- México City, México
- Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
- Bogotá D.C., Colombia
As a development of a social project for cultural growth, the festival seeks to promote exhibition spaces for the curated works, in addition to movie theaters, cinematheques and cultural institutions, also in neighborhood and rural locations and on an itinerant basis in representative cultural spaces in the rest of the country and Latin America.
We trust in the power of cinema as a commitment to social transformation and high-quality cultural reflection.
The Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival City of La Laguba - Isla Calavera opens the call for entries for feature and short films, fiction and documentary in real image and animation.
