If you love spending time with your pets and making films this is the right film festival for you.
Our unique annual collection of shorts about animals will celebrate filmmakers who have,pets, work in pet industry, support causes, or simply love animals.
In addition to our live festival, FRFF has recently acquired a Roku channel dedicated entirely to films about animals. Top 200 shorts will be featured on our channel throughout the year in different programming slots. We hope to promote veterans and also open the door for pet owners/ animal lovers who want to try their hand at something more professional.
Fur Reel Film Festival will launch with a screening (top 30 films) at Laemmle Noho 7 in North Hollywood, in association with The Valley Film Festival.
Expect a one day event with animal themed screenings, panels from industry professionals and charities, a reception with awards and prizes.
We advise everyone to get their submissions in early to give us / yourselves as much time as possible. We are looking for creativity in their story telling. If you are going to use your cell hone please shoot in 4k.
AI Global Film Festival
Where AI Meets Art & Film Industries
Powered by LifeArt
Discover the world’s premier platform for AI-driven creativity at the AI Global Film Festival, proudly powered by the globally acclaimed LifeArt Festival. With over a 10+ years of experience curating high-impact cultural events across major international hubs, we invite you to showcase your AI-generated films, AI art, or AI music on a global stage.
As an IMDb-official festival, we connect visionary AI filmmakers and artists with industry leaders and platforms such as Netflix, National Geographic, Apple TV, and more. Our events span iconic cities from Hollywood to Bollywood. Winners receive prestigious awards that celebrate AI-powered innovation in the creative arts.
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Why Submit to AI Global Film Festival | LifeArt
Global Festival Network
With events in Hollywood, Bollywood, Athens, San Antonio, New York, Miami, Athens, Santorini Island and New Delhi, the AI Global Film Festival | LifeArt offers creators unparalleled access to global creative markets.
Proven Legacy & Industry Access
LifeArt has honored cinematic icons like Oliver Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Morgan Freeman. We actively connect AI creators with leading platforms such as Netflix, National Geographic, Village Cinemas, and Apple TV.
IMDb-Official Recognition As an IMDb-qualified festival, your project's awards and official selections can be listed on IMDb. This directly enhances the visibility and credibility of your film and the individual profiles of its directors, producers, cast, and key crew members. Official IMDb Page: www.imdb.com/event/ev0008547/overview/
Academic Alliances
LifeArt is supported by cultural and governmental institutions across India, Greece, and the USA. We partner with top organizations like the New York Film Academy, China Film Archive, Delhi Technological University, and FWICE (India’s Federation of India Cine Employees).
High-Visibility Global Media Exposure
Previously, selected projects have been featured by major media outlets including CNN, Fox, NBC, ABC, Euronews, Times of India, and Bollywood News. This offers AI creators high-visibility press and meaningful exposure to international audiences and media networks.
About LifeArt Festival
Since 2016, LifeArt Festival has been a vibrant platform celebrating the convergence of art, film, and music. With over a decade of experience curating high-impact cultural events, we showcase a diverse range of creative expressions, from film premieres and art exhibitions to immersive forums and live music performances.
As part of our commitment to supporting artists, LifeArt also operates its own Music Label, championing visionary music projects and original soundtracks, including those for major productions like the Netflix series "Fauda."
LIFEART FESTIVAL: Experience the Magic of Film, Art, Music & Global Events
USA | GREECE | INDIA
WEB: www.lifeartfestival.com
IMDB: www.imdb.com/event/ev0008547/overview/
LifeArt Global Media Festival is a multimedia festival that celebrates Life, Art and Films. Hosted in world class venues, the Festival offers a compelling combination of the international art scene and a journey of film discovery.
Global Reach: LifeArt Festival takes place across prestigious venues in major cities worldwide, offering artists and audiences a truly international experience. Explore the festival in bustling hubs like Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, San Antonio (USA), New Delhi, Mumbai, Rishikesh, Lucknow (India), Athens (Greece), and more.
Premieres:
Our festival stage has premiered remarkable works by renowned artists, including Leonardo DiCaprio's "Before the Flood," National Geographic's "The Story of Us" narrated by Morgan Freeman, "The Circle" starring Tom Hanks & Emma Watson, "Loving Pablo" featuring Javier Bardem & Penelope Cruz, and National Geographic's "Genius: Picasso" series with Antonio Banderas, among others.
The Art Shows provides a platform to projects and promote talented artists, encouraging them to share their work to global audiences and Cultural Institutions as well as industry professionals and companies around the world.
ZOE AWARD: Celebrating Excellence
LifeArt Festival presents the prestigious Zoe Award across nine categories, acknowledging excellence in Film, Television, Web TV, VR, and Photography. Our esteemed jury, comprising scholars, artists, and industry experts, meticulously evaluates submissions from around the globe.
LOCATIONS
All events are taking place in selected, iconic locations in different destinations such as Los Angeles design center, Delhi Technical University, The extraordinary Tobin Center of the Performing Arts San Antonio, Village Cinemas complex. LifeArt is being celebrated at the enormously colorful Pacific Design Center and the the historic luxury hotel, Beverly Wilshire in Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, CA.
MISSION
In an era as fast-paced as nowadays, LifeArt’s primary goal is to provide a stable platform for Film, TV, Web & Virtual Reality filmmakers to present their work to global audiences and explore the world of media. The festival highlights the best of the film industry by bringing together a collection of both studio and independent films, and proudly embracing the passion, vision, and independent spirit of talented artists.
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For all fans of horror and filmmaking 2025, will be bigger and better than before! HOLLYWOOD HORRORFEST, founded in 2014 at L.A's iconic New Beverly Cinema, continues to grow and grow in prestige.
2025 promises 2 days of star-studded premieres and Hollywood career celebrations (names to be announced shortly). We have our own coffee bar the entire weekend - for networking and relaxing between (and during) events - and will be honoring a celebrity icon with the prestigious PRICE AWARD and raise funds for charity in the process.
Past honorees & special guests include JOHN LANDIS, SID HAIG, JOE DANTE, LANCE HENRIKSEN, DICK MILLER, STUART GORDON, DEE WALLACE, VICTORIA PRICE, KEVIN TENNEY, ALAN HOWARTH, ANULKA, BAI LING, JAKE BUSEY, LEW TEMPLE, BILL MOSELY, RICHARD BAND, MARY SCHEER, ROBERT 'CORPSY' RHINE, VERNON WELLS, JAMES KAREN, BEVERLY RANDOLPH, JEWEL SHEPARD, ROLFE KANEFSKY and CASSANDRA PETERSON, to name but a few.
More details will be announced in the coming months. All entrants get our free bi-monthy newsletter too.
We look forward to seeing you all there.
Cheers
Miles Flanagan
Founder/Director
Hollywood Horrorfest
"Andimotion – Bogotá Animation Film Festival" is one of Colombia's and the central region's film festivals specialized in animation as a hybrid form. It creates a platform for the best projects of graduate students and offers opportunities to connect with the animation industry.
Since its first edition in 2016, ANDIMOTION has consistently provided a platform for screening and awarding animated projects across various media, including video games and mixed realities.
XXVII the International Short Film Show of the Bay of Pasaia, IKUSKA 2025.
The festival has an international short film competition in 5 screenings, and other parallel non-competition sessions related to the development of Basque and language coexistence (MINTZAGUN projection in collaboration with Oarsoaldea euskaltegis), Gender Equality (BEKOZ BEKO award in collaboration with the Association against gender violence Bekoz Beko), the promotion of culture in Pasaia and its surroundings, etc.
This event is broken up into 2 halves. The Saints half will feature Inspirational, Comedy and Family oriented films while the Sinners half will focus on Horror, Thriller and Mature Audience fare! Features and Shorts are all welcome!
We will have Independent Filmmakers, actors, actresses, filmmakers, vendors and more on hand as well as additional festivities such as panels, giveaways, movie trivia and more that are still in the works!
The event is set for January 24th - 25th, 2026 at Cinema 6 in Port Richey, Florida!
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!
In 2003, the non-profit created the International Strange and Unusual Fantasy Short Film Festival, Court Métrange.
The event offers a creative harbor for authors wherein to expose and endorse their ideas. With an irrefutable penchant for a different form of filmmaking, these motion picture partisans fascinate countless audiences, the latter of whom paradoxically struggle to reap the same attention.
The purpose of the Court Métrange Festival is, ultimately, threefold, boasting: a place to screen, a place to scream, letting its "cult" shorts thrive, and a place whose limitless resources endeavor to not only emphasize the credentials of those having fought to make Fantasy film what it is today, but also attribute to them what is rightfully theirs. Court Métrange has become crucial not only in putting back on the radar screen the artistic and cultural value in a certain category of works, but also in breaking down barriers between film genres.
Sole member specializing in short films of the renowned European Fantastic Film Festival and CNC Category 1 Festival, Court Métrange is, in a way, a rite of passage for some authors in the quest for validation of their work with their sights set on becoming the directors of tomorrow. As a result, it is unrivaled, and plays an influential role on the short film scene in Europe.
Artistically agile, film communicates in a number of languages. The Fantastic is one of them. Court Métrange has chosen to hand over the mic and screen to those who share the same speak. For Fantasy filmmakers, this moment with their audiences is invaluable. Theaters teeming with fans and backing from a significant part of the profession have, in turn, legitimized the festival in its entirety. The enthusiasm and support from the teaching community and the active involvement of its student population in the educational and cultural initiatives organized by the festival come full circle with the idea that Fantastic films are a formidable breeding ground for culture and reflection.
Alongside its screenings, the Festival also strives to open up channels for exchange between film and other creative disciplines in order to broaden and boost the manner in which the "Fantastic image" materializes. Every year, conferences, exhibits, music, encounters, and debates round out the Court Métrange agenda.
AIAA Participation Guide
Eligibility
– Anyone who wants to use AI to tell their own unique story
– Artists, creators, and video makers looking to explore narrative, aesthetics, or message using generative AI
– Those who believe that perspective and worldview matter more than technical skill
How to Participate
1. Choose Your Category
1 Open Theme
– No constraints—just show us the real you!
– Realistic style, animation, hybrid formats all welcome
– Both narrative and non-narrative structures accepted
– We’re looking for works that reflect your philosophy, emotion, and message through AI
2 K-POP Theme
A. K-POP & MY WORLD
– Express your own aesthetic vision inspired by K-POP
– From music videos to short dramas inspired by lyrics—anything goes!
B. Special Session: STANDARD FRIENDS
– Create AI-based works inspired by the songs below
– Explore freely without being bound to traditional formats
Wonstein – Apocalypse
Giriboy – Going Crazy
Giriboy – Lambo
Slom – Letter to You
Slom – WHAT DO I DO
Sokodomo – Sunday Wave
VALO – T-Shirts
– Works submitted to this session may be selected for live shows or exhibitions with STANDARD FRIENDS
– All entries will be judged in a unified pool regardless of session
– Even non-winners may receive collaboration opportunities with STANDARD FRIENDS
2. Submit Your Work
– Format: Please submit both
A vertical short-form (9:16) for social sharing
A full-length horizontal video (16:9)
– Submission link: Official submission portal (TBA)
– Submission period: May 20, 2025 – June 25, 2025
Main Program (International competition), which will regularly feature films from all over the world from among a director’s first and second feature films. The idea is to promote new filmmakers who are making a debut or are only just starting their careers.
This program’s goal is to identify and promote relatively unknown filmmakers’ new film stories, giving them a chance at the beginning of their film careers.
The idea for this film festival emanated from the dire need for a wider space to present debut films by many new filmmakers from the region and all over the world.
The International Film Festival KineNova Skopje, therefore, includes activities such as promotion, support, incentives, exchange of experiences, and film awards. It is a venue for new filmmakers to showcase new stories and offer a fresh perspective of humanity and the world we live in.
The festival and the city of Skopje have the honor to be the meeting point for new filmmakers and a springboard for their respective career paths.
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.
Busan Inter-City Film Festival started from the 1st UNESCO Busan City Film Festival in 2017, and it introduces local films from domestic and international cities in exchange with the Busan Independent Film Association, as well as films from UNESCO-designated Film Creative Cities. Witness the vibrancy of local films and encounter films from various unique cities worldwide. Under the name of film, it will serve as an opportunity to share warmth of friendship beyond cultures, languages, customs, and religions, expanding the scope of creative networks.
Call for Submissions(google forms)
https://forms.gle/8c37Aat1cBmxteai6
The Cinema Erotica Film Festival is a celebration of contemporary eroticism in its most captivating and artistic forms. We are dedicated to showcasing films that explore the intersection of desire, imagination, and cinematic mastery.
Eroticism is more than just physicality—it’s the art of evoking intimacy, passion, and allure through storytelling, visuals, and emotion.
At our festival, we invite creators and audiences alike to dive into narratives that provoke thought, stir desire, and ignite the imagination.
Today’s content creators have unprecedented access to tools that allow them to produce stunning, high-quality visuals.
Our mission is to discover and celebrate those who have invested their creativity, effort, and skill into crafting cinematic experiences that transcend the ordinary. Through a curated selection of films, we shine a spotlight on bold storytelling, striking visuals, and unique perspectives on what it means to be human and connected. Whether it’s a tender moment captured on film or a daring exploration of desire, the Cinema Erotica Film Festival is here to honor those who elevate the art of erotic storytelling.
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The Inspired Screenwriting Competition is a new approach to the script contest game with a focus on amplifying bold and unique new voices and taking on disrupting the status quo of the film industry.
We’re looking for feature-length screenplays that stand out, break the mold, and connect with audiences in unforgettable ways.
The Inspired Screenwriting Competition was founded by experienced filmmakers and screenwriters who have had a long history in this business. Frustrated with what felt like a decrease in opportunities for newcomers and unique voices and an increase in the amount of organizations that were happy to take an entry fee and offer nothing in return, we felt it was time to take matters into our own hands.
Our mission is to shake up the industry by changing the kinds of scripts that make it to the screen. We feel that now more than ever, the film business needs to embrace new talent telling authentic stories from unique perspectives.
As writers ourselves, we also hate it when people try to put us in a box. And we don’t want to put you in a box, either. That’s why we don’t have separate genre categories.
When you submit, we’ll be assessing your story on its own terms, rather than through the lens of a specific genre.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR THE STRONGEST VOICES IN
SCREENWRITING.
We believe that it’s only through showing who you are with your writing can you truly reach your audience in a meaningful way.
So, send us your best. Send us your personal. Send us the crazy out-there ideas that could have only come from (insert your name here).
Because, whether it’s a high concept comedy, historical drama, elevated horror or something in between (if anyone has that script, btw, def send it our way), if it came from you, we want to read it.
And when we do find that special script? That script that blows our minds?
WE ARE GONNA WANT TO TELL EVERYBODY.
So, use your voice and shout it from the rooftops because…
We’re listening.
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.
18 CINETORO EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
CINETORO is projected as a transdisciplinary Festival-School, dedicated to curatorial practice and the training of filmmakers; building bridges between emerging talents and prominent national and international artists, and promoting analysis and criticism related to the production and thinking behind experimental cinema and animation.
We advocate for a cinema where poetry and art dialogue; that draws its limit beyond the perimeter of spectacularity, of technical correctness, of the topics and forms on the agenda. It is an imperfect cinema, which accepts its artisanal condition and is concerned with the recovery of the consciousness of corporeality; reflecting, problematizing and questioning the construction of image and sound.
Cinema with a territorial imprint, which redesigns, mutates and pronounces itself before the world. Resignifying the territory, transforming the perspective on rurality and providing the community with spaces for the appropriation of knowledge.
ABYSSAL CHANTS
Is what we hear alive?
#SeeAndHearDifferently:
18TH CINETORO EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
From October 28th to November 2nd
A distant sound rumbles in the darkness of the room, a call coming from the abyssal depths of the ocean, a penetrating song that attracts and binds. The listener slips through a seam in time and plunges into the void.That leap entails risk, and an encounter with the unknown. Those films that jump, that search in the darkness, in the shadow, in the mystery, in the spectral, in the sound but also in the silence, are the ones that captivate us in this edition.
Sound as movement, can reveal the temporal dimension of an image —whether still or moving. Rather than merely supporting images semantically, sound may serve as their structural axis. We are looking for films that explore diverse relationships between image and sound or treat sound as plastic material. Whether through a conceptual approach where sound structures the film; or where the voice carries weight not just for what is said, but also for its qualities: the voice as a malleable medium, as revelation and reverberation; or where music, instead of simply accompanying the image, becomes a structural part of the film itself . Films that take shape through sound.
We want to dive into the depths of sound, so that with our eyes closed we can see and listen as we swim and immerse ourselves. From a theoretical or curatorial perspective, little exploration has been done in these waters
The abyssal chants act as a call, and this call is what we want to respond to, in this edition. We are looking for animations, documentaries, fictions, hybrid films and experimentations that resonate with these chants, with this call to see and hear differently.
#AbyssalSongs #DeepListening #Cinetoro2025 #LookAndListenDifferently #LeapIntoTheAbyss #FilmAndSound #ExperimentalFilmFestival #HybridCinema #ExperimentalCinema
#ExperimentalNarrative
Distribute Your Film to the World from Guadalajara
The city of Guadalajara is not only one of the most cinematic places on the planet — it is now one of the most dynamic production hubs in the Americas.
The International Guadalajara Film Awards (IGFA) is not just a festival: it's a direct gateway to international distribution.
In collaboration with Dark Eyes Pictures S.A. de C.V., selected films gain access to real distribution deals through global streaming platforms, festivals, and curated industry networks. This is not just an award — it's a concrete opportunity to take your work to market.
Every two months, our jury — composed of film industry professionals — privately reviews all submissions. The best films from each bimonthly cycle are announced as Official Selections and compete for a place at our Annual Awards Ceremony, held each May in Guadalajara, Mexico.
We welcome films and screenplays of any genre and length, from anywhere in the world. If you have a story that deserves to be seen, we can help you bring it to the international audience.
AIMF (Artificial Intelligence Media Festival) is a premier international multi-media festival dedicated to showcasing film, music and art made with artificial intelligence or computer generated imagery. We spotlight the next generation of storytellers who use AI as a dynamic part of their creative process — from writing and animation to editing, scoring, and beyond.
Our festival celebrates the evolving relationship between human imagination and machine intelligence through a variety of diverse categories, including Narrative Films, Animation, Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror, Music Videos, Student Projects, Commercials, Trailers, Digital Art and more.
Whether you’re an emerging creator experimenting with AI tools or an established artist exploring new frontiers, AIMF offers a platform to share your voice, connect with a global creative community, and push the boundaries of what media can become.
AIMF — "The Future of storytelling. Today".
