The Ajayu Film Association, in co-production with Sapa Inti Estudios, invites national and international filmmakers to participate in the 10th Ajayu International Animation Festival, to be held from November 26 to 29, 2025, in Puno, Peru.
Since its founding, Ajayu has established itself as one of the Peruvian festivals dedicated exclusively to animated film, and as an essential platform for the formation, circulation, and visibility of animated film from the southern Andean territories. On this tenth anniversary, the festival reaffirms its commitment to cultural decentralization, promoting a diverse, accessible audiovisual industry with its own identity.
The central theme of this edition is “Stories that narrate peace,” a curatorial axis that will guide part of the general programming and will be developed in a special section. However, this theme does not condition participation, as the call for entries is open to animated works of any theme.
Ajayu continues to be a space for meeting, exhibition, and reflection on animation as an artistic language and a means of social transformation. The selected works will be part of the festival's official exhibition and will be an active part of a curatorial process that celebrates ten years of history.
The National and International Film Festival of Los Llanos, reaches its 12th edition after having started in 2011, today it continues with its main objective, to seek and strengthen spaces for the diffusion and Venezuelan cinematographic training, incorporating for the first time in this denomination to the set of Latin American and Ibero-American cinematographies.
Deadline: April 19, 2024
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) is looking for a Melbourne-based or Melbourne-made feature documentary to either open or close our historic 10th edition. You can submit via Film Freeway or email us at info@mdff.org.au.
The festival has become a cultural phenomenon in Melbourne, with sold-out sessions and encores, ranking as one of Australia’s top film festivals. We aim to promote diverse, independent, and creative filmmakers, supporting global and local talent. MDFF has helped filmmakers reach major platforms.
MDFF is known for its commitment to diversity, inclusivity, and safety. We’ve had no reported COVID cases at our events for the last five years and have worked to ensure a safe environment for everyone.
This year, we're excited to host encores for popular short documentaries and have seen great success. We've also become the Film Freeway Top 100 Melbourne Film Festival and are ranked in the top global documentary festivals. We are especially proud to have had 7 documentaries eligible for the 2024 Oscars.
MDFF showcases documentaries that promote critical and independent thinking, debate, and diverse perspectives, with a focus on issues like human rights, equality, social issues, and freedom of speech. We have supported various causes, including BLM, Indigenous communities, and environmental organizations.
MDFF is an indie festival that helps filmmakers make their mark, offering opportunities for premieres, screenings, and networking with industry professionals. The festival takes place at Cinema Nova, one of Australia’s largest independent cinemas, and offers a fun, community-driven atmosphere.
We’re looking for local and international feature documentaries, short films, VR projects, video essays, and web series to compete in our Australian Documentary Awards. Submit your documentary to be part of this prestigious event and help us celebrate the best of the documentary genre.
FCC is a festival focused on presenting the best short films from different parts of the world.
Our goal is to create a space for filmmakers to premier their shorts, receive their deserved recognition within their community, and gather and comment short films. FCC is an open network built to share this form of art and welcomes all sorts of cinema, from amateur to professional work.
Our venue is located in an outdoor park in the heart of Barcelona, which is why we provide our attendants with headphones. For this reason we pay special care to the sound design from the short films we select.
FCC contains a wide variety within its selection in which our understanding of cinema doesn't divide it as "genres", but tries to find the hidden meaning which might have been intended by the filmmaker. The only rule is on its duration: from 2 to 10 minutes.
The Human Rights Film Festival Brazil is an international festival of short films of up to 25 minutes that address the theme of Human Rights in their plot. Whether it is the fight to guarantee the rights of humanity or denouncing disrespect for these universal rights.
Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival promotes both amateur and professional, independent films. This is an annual film festival. The 5th PBISFF will be taking place very soon in JAIPUR (INDIA).
This is an open film festival. All categories of films will be accepted. We have no rules on when the film was created or where it has been screened. We want to see your masterpiece.
The competition section provides an opportunity for upcoming filmmakers to showcase their work to a global audience. Over 30 films have been showcased during the festival. The festival is not just about unique films; it's also a wholesome package of entertainment.
For more details, visit www.pbisff.com
The GEH Short Film Competition is a short film competition on human rights held in different localities of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country).
This competition is part of the global project human rights Giza Eskubideak Herrira (Bringing human rights to the people.). The GEH is a human rights awareness project created by the dar-dar Productions cooperative in 2015. The first editions were based in Ordizia. In 2023, the festival has developed and extended to several towns in Gipuzkoa (Euskal Herria).
The main objective of this competition is to raise awareness and educate on human rights. Because this short film contest is a window that we open to the world, and from that window we can see the different realities that people live in different parts of the planet. In view of these realities, we intend to encourage reflection on human rights violations in different parts of the world.
Cine Pobre is a self-funded filmmaking genre without a set of stylistic criteria nor format boundaries, involving many geographically separated creators with at least two things in common: a strong desire to tell their story and to do so with their own resources.
Cine Pobre builds bridges based on the belief that film becomes art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. Since 2002 the 100% cartel-free intersection of culture and capabilities curating the world's best self-funded films.
The Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS) is the main broadcasting, diffusion, and competition event for documentary cinema in Chile and Latin America.
Focused on the promotion of dialogue and reflection, as well as in training audiences towards the appreciation of documentary film in a context of permanent transformation, FIDOCS seeks to explore the multiple paths available in documentary making as well as in the drifts proper to nonfiction works. In its program, FIDOCS incorporates the works of both experienced and emerging directors in order to address the question of “THE REAL”, and in doing so, it considers the various dimensions, disciplinary frontiers, and tensions that the question “what is real?”, as well as the documentary genre itself, has to offer us.
Throughout its history, FIDOCS has positioned itself as one of the most distinguished documentary film festivals in Latin America, standing as a privileged platform to screen contemporary cinema and to promote critical thinking. Year by year, under its selective curatorial approach, FIDOCS not only calls for important exponents of national and international audiovisual sectors to exhibit their work in Santiago, but also, in using this city as a film hub, it calls on such exponents to question, interpret, and re-write the status of contemporary documentary film practice today.
For the promotion, positioning, and exhibition of Chilean and International films, FIDOCS displays three main competitions. These sections include: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION; CHILEAN COMPETITION, and EMERGENT SHORT COMPETITION FOR NATIONAL FILMS.
In addition, FIDOCS has the main industry activity, DOCS IN PROGRESS, for Latin-American works in progress where the jury (editors, directors, sound designers, producers, programmers), in addition to choosing a winner, feeds the filmmakers to carry out the post-production of their films and encourage their diffusion and transmission. This section is jointly run together with WIP section of CHILEDOC CONECTA.
The festival also has important training and extension activities in its FIDOCS SCHOOL, where students from film schools and communications from all over Chile so that its most outstanding students are in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary space with international and national festival guests; attending Master Classes, workshops, dialogues, among others.
In addition, in keeping with its interdisciplinary vocation, FIDOCS intends to accompany its screenings of other artistic interventions such as installations, exhibitions, performances, that from their own expressive means dialogue with the documentary concept. This is how FIDOCS EXPANDED section arises, where various artists, video-artists and filmmakers, all of them linked to the fields of sound or visuals, exhibit their work.
Finally, the chosen films will be screened after the completion of the festival, in different regions of Chile and abroad, at BEST OF FIDOCS section. The purpose is the cultural extension of the festival at a territorial level, putting emphasis on the circulation of the films at the regional level, being able to program replicas in the national territory as well as abroad.
*FIDOCS will be held with theatrical screenings.
The AMERTA ART International Film Festival , which takes place in Turkey, and is now in its first year, aims to encourage greater global attention on documentary film and social movie and to promote quality films focusing on diverse civilizations and cultures from across the world. The festival considers itself a valuable resource for distributing and developing world content.
AMERTA ART encourages the submission of films from all countries. We look for films with a focus on our changing world that express unique perspective, that highlight innovation or perhaps capture a dying tradition. Culture is a broad topic, replete with multiple interpretations and we promote the examination and expression of all. Our aim each year is to produce a program that provides our audiences with meaningful and thought-provoking questions about the world we live in.
The Organizing Committee also engages in the market, connecting filmmakers with opportunities for distribution as well as produces an annual industry forum where projects in development are linked with possible funding or co-production. Please see our website for more details on project submission and lab participation.
The Impactfilm Festival for Sustainable Development inspires people to act in a sustainable and more responsible way. This is based on the 17 sustainability goals agreed by the United Nations in the Agenda 2030 for the transformation of our world.
Creative and emotional impact films (short spots of 17-170 seconds) are produced for the festival, which reach a broad audience. After the online voting and jury evaluation, the Impactfilm Award 2020 for the best films will be presented on November 14, 2020 in Munich.
Films must be submitted in German language or have German subtitles.
INPUT is a professional discussion platform for film and video creators that have no analogues in the world professional community.
This is an opportunity to exchange creative experience with representatives of the profession from many countries of the world, get acquainted with their works, with new trends in the development of audiovisual arts.
Over the past twenty years, more than 100 authors from Russia and CIS countries have participated in international conferences.
We are committed to the future of humanity through Science Fiction Films and Science-based documentaries. We honour those who are committed to creating visions and concepts that inspire future generations. We also are very welcoming to horror and fantasy films under our leviathan category.
The Los Angeles Science Fiction Film Festival is open entrants from all over the world. Based in the film industry capital of the world, we endeavor to showcase the great talent in both the Science Fiction and Horror genres.
Anything science-based, or has a good sense of story-telling is always welcome. Also especially interested in art films.
We are excited, fresh and new, and open to your entries. Being that we are new, your chances of winning are good.
The International Choreographic Festival of Blois will take place in Blois, France, from July 3rd to 12h, 2025.
The Festival aims to bring the art of dance to the Loire Valley Region in France and to democratize this art form by offering performances, dance short-film screenings, master classes, performance workshops and community outreach events.
There will be 2 film screenings of about an hour each in a movie theatre right in the center of the city of Blois.They will respectively take place on July 3rd to 12h, 2025.
It is a unique festival that aims to feature choreography for the camera, dance documentaries and any short-film that emphasizes movement.
We encourage every dance and/or movement related short-film to apply.
Interactive Festival where the public enjoys Short Films, theater, music and surprises.
The public participates in an active way during the event.
We accept any gender except Horror. Open to all types of filmmakers, whether professional or amateur.
The festival will be held in the town of Gavà, Barcelona (Spain), in mid-February. The VIII Edition will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2025.
MiTS (Movement & Social Transformation) is a Social Video-dance Festival which explores the interrelation between video and dance as a tool to bring about powerful discussions and visibility to all kinds of diversity: diverse identities, diverse bodies and territories to discover.
AAO TV, India’s first home grown, independent and indigenous OTT platform, encourages the growth of independent cinema and fresh talent.
People from different walks of life made it big on our platform with their creative exploration so can you!
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Now, that the line between regional and exterritorial content is getting blurred, the time is ripe to create a platform to bring independent voices in cinema to the mainstream audience. Aao TV Creative Collective Short Film Festival is the first step in this journey.
A story told meticulously, mirrors reality and fills the audience with inundated emotions. If your story has translated into a film, then we give you the platform to showcase it. Participate in Aao Creative Collective Short Film Festival and win cash prizes worth Rs. 2 lakhs.
No entry fee, language no barrier. Simply download and subscribe to Aao TV app. Your Subscription ID is your ticket to entry.
The 27th Kinoarte Film Festival, to be held from November 2nd to November 9th, is receiving applications for its competitive sessions of short films. Films up to 25 minutes long, produced from January 2024 may participate in the Ibero-American, National, Paranaense and Londrinense competitions.
ACTRUM is a non-profit Cultural Association that works in all areas of the artistic sector.
In this festival, the finalist works will be screened online and it will be open to the public, who will have to vote through our website for their 3 favorite shorts/feature films from each section to award the public prizes.
Register your project! We accept any gender.
