This is where we start, the dark side of movies, inspired by the legendary Pink Floyd’s album.
We start with the dark side, not visible to the naked eye, mysterious, obscure - a side with blurred boundaries and infinite nuances, where nothing is certain, precise, predetermined. Not visible rather than invisible, lying under the surface, or elsewhere, it’s something that can’t be simplified as it continuously alludes to deeper meanings. It’s the side of cinema that is never accommodating and always inquiring, making us question the meaning of what we see, listen, perceive.
If you look closely, you’ll see that there’s a dark side to everything. You find it in Brothers Grimm’s folk tales, in Fritz Lang’s fantastic and apocalyptic visions, in Stephen King’s archetypes of narrative fiction, in Stanley Kubrick’s unforgettable imagery, in Homer’s poems as in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings epic. From the Holy Scriptures to Game of Thrones, the dark side is the driving force behind every art form and Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest is its cinematographic icon.
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NOTICE SPECIAL FEE FOR MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS
Considering the high request for participation from film schools and institutions, we established a special fee for multiple submissions from the same school/insitution: 10€/4 short films. Please contact us at info@ravennanightmare.it to take advantage of this discount.
In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.
It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is insofar as it proposes an interpellation to the little-known memoirs, disturbing present and (our) future in suspension. FIDBA will then be an approach not only among audiences, filmmakers and thinkers linked documentary but also in relation to the always stimulating possibilities that allow you to open this space to other border and heterodox expressions framed inside of what we would call "non-fiction" and that encourage us to dialogue with contemporary expressions that go beyond even the scope of the film.
FIDBA will pay special attention to those filmmakers for whom cinema is linked to a form of research and knowledge of the world that surrounds us as to the portrait of human beings whose conditions of life, in certain historical and social contexts, allow you to ask us about our. It is, therefore, authors who not only reflect reality but also ethical and moral relationship which involves filming the other.
FIDBA aims to become a point of support for filmmakers seeking to widen the perception of reality and to films which represent a step forward in the effort to understand it and anticipate it. So, it will make focus on films whose aesthetic originality put at risk not only an idea of the documentary but also a thought about the same film and its possibilities. Since this focus implies questioning the status of the real front of the camera or of the film in relation to reality, this is as inseparable from the mediations that arises.
The 24th Almería International Film Festival will be held in Almería (Spain), in order to promote the province of Almeria through the strengthening the historical links of the province with the audiovisual industry and culture, from Friday 14th November to Sunday 23st November 2025. The Festival is organized by Almería Provincial Council.
SECINDI Inclusive Film Festival and Diversity
The objective of SECINDI with this Short Film Competition, included in the Inclusive Film and Diversity Festival, is to encourage and reward the best national and international short films to give visibility to films whose theme is linked in some way with functional diversity and inclusion to make them accessible to all people.
The Shawna Shea Film Festival (SSFF) is a fringe independent international film festival. We love quirky and experimental films as much as we love straight narratives. All are welcome.
Established in 2012 the SSFF is a fundraiser for the Shawna E Shea Memorial Foundation Inc, a 501(c)(3), to honor Shawna's unique independent spirit by highlighting truly independent films that share the same quality.
The funds raised from the festival go towards scholarships and fellowships, including a Women in Film Fellowship.
Every year we have an opening night networking party and on the closing night we have an awards ceremony and party with food and a band. It is a party!
MAC MARIN - Atlantic Films and New Media is a new emerging space that aims to promote the cinema and independent audiovisual creation or at the same time that pays homage to the local talent, valuing the Marin Town identity and its parishs, located in one of the most beautiful corners of Galicia.
Our main objective is to connect the New Galician Cinema to the neighborhood, as well as to seek a connection between local and country creators and creators with other international audiovisual communities. Paying special attention to those who have a strong cultural connection with Galicia and our roots.
Students, filmmakers, and cinema lovers,
It is with great excitement that I welcome you to the fifteenth edition of the LANTERNA International University Film Festival.
This is no ordinary edition: we’re celebrating fifteen years of stories, voices, and narratives that have crossed our lives and left a mark.
In this very special edition, we want to look back with gratitude and look forward with boldness. Fifteen years of university cinema is not just a journey—it’s a statement of purpose. Of who we were, who we are, and what we aspire to tell.
Cinema is not just what we see:
It’s what we feel without knowing how to explain it.
It’s what connects us without saying a word.
It’s what, from the university, invites us to see the world differently.
I invite you to be part of this 15-year cinematic journey—to share your vision, to move us with your stories, and to show, once again, that university cinema has a lot to say… and that it says it with power, with truth, and with art.
Thank you for being part of this story.
See you at FICU LANTERNA XV.
With all my admiration and excitement,
Carlotta de Pompeis
Director of the LANTERNA International University Film Festival
The FENAVID International Film Festival is held annually in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Organized by the Audiovisual Foundation (FUNDAV), the Festival has become the most important film event in Bolivia and one of the most relevant in Latin America.
Since its first version, carried out in 2001, more than 10,000 audiovisual works from 30 countries have been presented at this meeting, which has transcended the borders of Bolivia and America.
In each version, FENAVID offers the public more than 150 screenings of feature films, short films, music videos and a series of audiovisual works that are exhibited free of charge for the public.
FENAVID always has first-rate guests. The event was attended by internationally renowned figures such as Celso Franco, protagonist of "7 boxes", Marisol Correa, Colombian actress, Alexandre Rodrigues and Leandro Firmino de Hora (protagonists of the acclaimed Brazilian film "Ciudad de Dios"), the Argentine producer Vanessa Ragone (winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2010), Bolivian directors Marcos Loayza and Rodrigo Bellot and Argentine actress Aymará Rovera, to name a few.
Beyond glamor and film screenings, FENAVID is a macro meeting where producers, directors, actors, specialists and a whole multitude of people passionate about cinema converge.
During the days of its realization, the Festival has a series of parallel activities, such as children's film shows, video clip competition, workshops, talks, colloquia and debates.
One of the most anticipated events of FENAVID is the Santa Cruz 100X100 Film Production Meeting. It consists of bringing together 25 emerging film talents in Latin America. The chosen ones travel to Santa Cruz de la Sierra and, during the development of the festival, have the mission of producing a short film in 100 hours.
The FICNOVA International Film Festival on Active Nonviolence is held every two years around October 2nd, the International Day of Nonviolence declared by the United Nations.
It is organized and promoted through volunteer work by the non-profit humanist association FICNOVA, inspired by Universalist Humanism, along with other associations, organizations, and individuals who share the transformative sensibility of active nonviolence.
After its first seven editions held in different cities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mauritania, Mexico, Peru, the Czech Republic, and Spain, activists from different cities and countries are once again participating together in preparation for the eighth edition of FICNOVA 2026.
FICNOVA is a thematic festival that brings together films from around the world that showcase examples of active nonviolence as ways to overcome violence, discrimination, and human suffering.
In this edition, we will pay special attention to those works that best demonstrate NONVIOLENCE as a universal reference, transcending personal egocentrism, interested only in oneself, and the group of factions, interested only in those "like me." We will highlight those productions that aspire to want the best for every human being, and thus move FROM ME TO WE.
From this general context, we share the following participation guidelines for the 8th Edition of FICNOVA 2026.
The International Film Festival of La Union Valle FRENESÍ, seeks to be a platform for the meeting, support and dissemination of new audiovisual creators in search of expanding their knowledge. We celebrate the passion for cinema, giving the opportunity to share with creatives in the same line.
We are an International Short Film Festival, which works in the Dissemination and promotion of Venezuelan cinematography, Latin American and worldwide in four countries simultaneously;
And of all its cultural scope. Try to show cinematographic works that entertain, but above all, that exert an influence education in children, youth and the general population.
In the year 2023, Skate or Die Film Festival returns for our second year, presented once again by the joined forces of The Farsighted and Rockstar Roller Derby. Returning to the historic Ringing Rocks Roller Rink in Pottstown, the one-of-a-kind genre film festival will once again feature live music, films from all over the world, roller skating, vendors, food, and all of the fun that we had in year one. This year, we'll also have some new wrinkles, such as a few special guests and even a dance skate class.
Additionally, the event will expand from 2 days to 3, this time including a Sunday program, in addition to the Friday and Saturday programs.
Full details and schedule will be available later this year, with several announcements throughout the coming months, as we confirm the exciting events and surprises currently being planned for all of you, our friends in the greater Philadelphia area.
Every artist bears his own responsibility for the state of reduced and diminished power of art in the modern world. We need to find new models of creation and a new peace-making and myth-making language and code of the new art of a non-violent culture of peace.
With his film, the artist can convey emotional impulses so that the viewer's soul, under the influence of the film, feels peace, harmony, happiness or restlessness, disorder and unhappiness of the artist as his own emotions.
Therefore, the film has the role of a psychagogue, i.e. the guide of the soul, that is, the great power for freeing or enslaving the soul of the viewer. That's why the artist should and must be aware of his artistic actions and work, i.e. responsible for the feelings they evoke in viewers.
Can the language of film and video art, to begin with, bring closer and connect cultures and peoples (their ideas and symbols) that are in conflict and conflict so that they can better recognize and recognize each other's right to different meaning of styles of living, creating and existing ? Can film and video art, artists and their works build a bridge between opposing fundamentalist and radical political, economic, philosophical and religious ideologies and dogmas and thus reduce extreme hatreds and radical conflicts?
Film and video art for a new non-violent culture of peace is such an art that has the power to overcome tensions between religions, languages, peoples and cultures. It is an art that, with its stylistic and montage matrices of forms and symbols that communicate or convey ideas and emotions, restores faith in the common genetic pool of all humanity that no longer wants to deal with itself alone, i.e. to support unnatural programs and agendas that lead to new divisions, conflicts and "voluntary", read violent, domination of one over another, elimination of "different", read disobedient, war of all against all and self-destruction.
Every responsible film and video artist should try to design and realize in his works of art a beneficial intersection and permeation of the opposing forces of reality and utopia, limitations and freedom, subjective and objective, material and spiritual. It is necessary to create a new ascetic film and video art of a non-violent culture of peace that can become the common heritage of people today, if we want to preserve and guarantee the sustainable development of the diversity of the differences of the specifics of humanity tomorrow.
La muestra internacional de cortometrajes Video/Jujuy/Cortos es un espacio de proyección audiovisual NO competitivo, sin fin de lucro, abierto y gratuito organizado anualmente por Wayruro Comunicación Popular.
The aim of the Festival is to promote the production and dissemination of audiovisuals as a means of expression and communication.
This free artistic/cultural space was born in 2002. Since its beginnings, the festival has established relationships with schools, social, neighbourhood, human rights and artistic organisations, youth activity centres and organisations of native peoples, trying to be permeable to the needs and demands of the medium, both in terms of themes and genres, resulting in a varied programme that ranges from social video to animation, including fiction and experimental audiovisuals.
As a space and a place for reflection and a meeting point for creators, renowned professionals give workshops and talks, seeking to provide information and training, free of charge, to those interested. This year, the exhibition focuses this space on thinking about the audiovisual situation, working and thinking in networks and consolidating community and popular audiovisual production.
Lowell, Massachusetts is gearing up for the premiere of its newest international short film festival, "Dare to Imag9ne." Set to take place on August 26th at the Richard and Nancy Donahue Family Academic Arts Center, the festival is set to showcase a wide range of films from around the world.
The inaugural edition of the festival will showcase a diverse range of films from various countries, with a focus on highlighting the work of emerging filmmakers as well as established ones.
Attendees will be able to enjoy a variety of short films across different genres, ranging from drama and comedy to documentary and animation.
In addition to the film screenings, the festival will also feature a number of other events and activities, including Q&A sessions with filmmakers. Top selected films will feature Q & A’s from the film’s creators. This will provide attendees with a unique opportunity to gain insights into the creative process behind the films that they have seen.
Rajaleña Film Fest is one of the three components that are part of the Cinema Tres platform. This is a film festival focused on promoting folklore through moving images that for 4 days will bring national and international guests who will be in charge of training the new generations of Huila filmmakers with talks, conversations and workshops to tell the stories that many want to count for them. Rajaleña Film Fest is a commitment to the territory that seeks to make history with the stories of all the people of La Plata.
The 15th version of the Festival has as its central theme ¨Community Cinema as a generator of Social Change and Progress¨, the jury prioritizes content that has this focus, however the reception of audiovisual pieces is not closed exclusively to said theme, for Therefore, other types of content will be widely accepted.
¨Community cinema is not only an art form, but also a powerful tool to promote fundamental values of a progressive society, such as gender equality, social justice and citizen participation. It facilitates debate, plurality and solidarity, and offers a means of expression for the different groups and identities that make up the social, cultural and identity fabric of Colombia, at local, regional and national levels. ¨
It is for this reason that the Comuna 13 Film and Video Festival, The Other History in its 2025 version has decided to generate spaces for dialogue and exchange of knowledge around community cinema, encouraging the participation of the most prominent groups in the country in this modality in order to share experiences, methodologies and knowledge with the academic sector of our city (Audiovisual creation network, technical media, peace schools among others)
The FICGO is an annual cultural event in the Gulf of Morrosquillo, Colombia, that promotes free, open-air cinema. It offers a varied program of films, workshops, and environmental activities for diverse audiences in San Onofre, Tolú, Coveñas, and smaller towns like Berrugas and Rincón del Mar.
This year, we will celebrate the fifth edition from November 30 to December 4, 2025, with spaces designed to strengthen emerging local talents and the audiovisual sector in the department of Sucre and the region, highlighting the unique narratives of the Colombian Caribbean.
IMAGINA 2030 is a short film festival aimed at giving visibility and dissemination to stories, initiatives, projects and narratives that explicitly contribute to the care and protection of our planet and its inhabitants, highlighting the relevant role that each person plays as an agent of transformation and improvement of our environment.
LUCES CAMEROS ACCION is a short film festival with two sections.
1 – “Rural World" Section
International section of short films in Spanish or Spanish subtitles.
Recorded in villages in rural areas or dealing with rural idiosyncrasies.
Premiered from January 1, 2024.
2 – “Cameros" Section
The works submitted will be original pieces that are not accessible through Internet.
With 30% of the "footage" recorded in recognizable places of Cameros (New and old Cameros located in La Rioja Spain).
Deadline for submission of works:
"Rural World" section: before May 31, 2025.
"Cameros" section: before July 21, 2025.
Screenings and Awards Ceremony:
19,20,21,22 and 23 of August in villages of Cameros, La Rioja, Spain.
