The CalellaFilmFestival is a festival dedicated to all those Low Budget films of national or international production, with the aim of rewarding and promoting films made with few media but with high artistic value.
The CalellaFilmFestival has two sections:
"Low Budget" section
The selected feature films will compete as best productions of the year in the national or international scope, with an investment of less than 500,000 euros.
Section "Creative Rosebud Awards"
All those productions that throughout the year have stood out for their creativity and originality, both in the field of national and international production, with an investment exceeding 500.00 euros will compete.
Read the bases to register your movie.
The festival will be held from october 24th to october 31th, 2026 in Calella de Mar (Barcelona) in the Sala Mozart and other rooms attached to the festival. For schedules, passes and more information go to the festival website.
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The fifth edition of ICOFF-GASTEIZ, the 5th International Short Film Festival of the Capital of the Basque Country, will be held in Vitoria-Gasteiz from May 18 to 23, 2026.
IndiFest - Barcelona Indigenous Film Festival - aims to promote the identity and rights of indigenous peoples through their own audiovisual narratives.
The festival consists of in-person screenings and online programming, complemented by other advocacy activities such as discussions with Indigenous representatives and communicators in direct dialogue and exchange with the public.
IndiFest is an initiative promoted by alterNativa Intercanvi amb Pobles Indígenes (a member organization of CLACPI), an organization that aims to give Indigenous peoples their own voice and demand compliance with their internationally recognized rights.
About the Festival
Hamilton Film Awards is an international competition with public screenings and an exclusive award ceremony, created to honor the finest talents of the independent film industry, selected from the most prestigious competitions around the world. This award is dedicated exclusively to short films, indie films, experimental films, and music-driven films.
The festival accepts films made after 2023.
Hamilton Film Awards is an international competition with public theatrical screenings and an exclusive award ceremony, designed to celebrate the best independent talents participating in prestigious competitions worldwide.
The Hamilton Film Awards (HFA) aims to discover and honor cinema to which the festival is ready to offer its “hand and heart.”
To identify and preserve those acts of cinematic creation where form becomes revelation and craftsmanship reaches the level of a spiritual feat. We believe that true cinema is not an imitation of life but its transformation into light—where every frame is a carved-in-time ode to the invincible power of beauty in the art of film.
We seek works in which the filmmaker’s reverence for the eternal becomes a visible miracle—film stock turned into revelation, whose final frame becomes pure feeling itself.
The “OVE” statuette is not just an award. It is a living symbol of what lies at the foundation of great cinema: love for creativity and for filmmaking. OVE, holding this gift, becomes the guardian of the eternal. She is not merely inspiration but a conduit between the creator’s world and immortality. In her hands rests the director’s diamond heart — a pledge of loyalty, a promise that even when the director is gone, their love remains, like diamonds that continue to shine in the darkness of eternity.
We believe that true art is the quintessence of eternal values, embodied in the fleeting moment of a single frame. Our goal is to present cinema that evokes emotion, sparks conflict, and is as deep and eternal as true feeling—unique as a proposal of lifelong devotion.
Submitting your work to us is not about winning, career advancement, or recognition in the usual sense. It is for you if you are ready for another kind of dialogue: for your love of cinema to be seen. Not the plot, not the budget, not the technical methods—but the feelings and emotions that make us experience, empathize, love, and live through what gave birth to the film itself. So that your work may be noticed, recognized as a kindred heart, and told: “We know how deeply you love cinema. We see it in every frame.”
If your work is a crystal, we will not shatter it with the hammer of market trends. We will place it in the treasury where cinema becomes legacy—not product. You have already given your heart to the screen. Now allow us to become the mirror in which it is reflected—pure, eternal, and invulnerable.
Your heart, given to art, is recognized and returned to you—cut and polished into a diamond.
OVE is inlaid with a 4-carat diamond heart of exceptional clarity and cut, and coated in 24-carat gold.
Symbolism:
The OVE award is not a prize but a knighthood of vision—a sign of belonging to the brotherhood of those who bring into the world not just a film, but visible proof of the soul’s immortality.
The Hamilton Film Awards strives to become one of the world’s most respected festivals, and its top prize—the OVE statuette—aims to become as coveted as the Oscar.
Hamilton Film Awards announces the launch of its first festival, which has already generated great anticipation thanks to its extraordinary prize.
O. V. E. = Opening — Vertex — End
Symbolizing the Triad of Creation and embodying the three acts—beginning, climax, and finale.
Why submit your work?
So that your “heart,” offered to art, may be recognized and returned to you—cut into a diamond.
Submit to us if you are ready for another kind of dialogue: for your love of cinema to be seen. Not the plot, not the budget, not the techniques—but the emotions, the feelings, the life force that gave birth to the film. So that your work may be recognized as a kindred soul: “We know how deeply you love cinema. We see it in every frame.”
If your film is a crystal, we will not break it with the hammer of convention. We will place it where cinema becomes heritage, not product. You have already given your heart to the screen—now let us become the mirror that reflects it: pure, eternal, invulnerable.
So that your heart, given to art, may be recognized and returned to you—cut into a diamond.
FOTOGENIA 8, INTERNATIONAL CINEPOETRY & DIVERGENT NARRATIVES FESTIVAL, promotes a space with an alternative conception of films, a celebration of experimentation and avant-garde framework, the love of curiosity and research of the Seventh Art. Everyone is invited, taking into consideration the disruptive nature of the selected works.
FOTOGENIA is a Film Festival held in the heart and diverse areas of Mexico City that celebrates cinema itself, experimentation with its nature, formats, genres, narrative, projection spaces, and all the freedom to explore the audiovisual image without restriction. It joins the Festivals of this type around the world such as the Film & Video Poetry Symposium which takes place in Moscow, Los Angeles, and New York, Rencontres Internationales held in Paris and Berlin, the Thuringian International Fim Festival in Weimar, Germany, and Le FIFA, Festival International du Film Sur l'Art in Montreal, Canada.
If you are an audiovisual maker who doesn't find your place, voice, and vision within the traditional film festivals and you are interested in provoking the cinematographic image through the exploration of its frontiers and limits, in order to converse with the viewers in innovative and critical ways to ignite a confrontation between reality and cinematic phenomenon, this is your place to exhibit your passion. We receive filmpoetry, video art, film-diary, film essays, avant-garde feature films, & every kind of experimentation in cinema, animation, music video, fashion films, and poetic documentary.
And if you are a spectator avid for finding new film proposals, personal movies, and experimental works of cinema, this is your place to watch.
We welcome you to experience films in another way!
Open your gaze!
The Cinema e Arte Association, in collaboration with the Municipality of Sestriere, organizes “SESTRIERE SPORT AWARDS Film Festival", an international competition on sports cinema.
It will be a cinema event in which directors, independent directors, film companies and private productions will have the chance to participate by sending works such as fictions, commercials, short and feature films, documentaries, animated films and television programs, through an international competition call. The event’s theme will be the world of sports, expressed in all of its disciplines and events, great achievements, sports culture, the lives and stories of the characters who more than others have excited the public with their great achievements.
The Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival seeks to gather imaginative “fantastic films” from around the world—including science fiction, horror, fantasy, and action—and to create a space where cinematic expression intersects beyond borders and languages.
Beyond discovering new talent, the festival is deeply committed to preserving and passing on the cinematic culture cultivated in this region to the next generation.
By fostering encounters between creators and audiences from diverse cultural backgrounds, encouraging dialogue and deeper understanding through film, and nurturing the cultural cycle born from screening, exchange, and dissemination, the festival aims to ensure that film culture is not a fleeting event, but an enduring endeavor carried forward into the future.
Rooted in Yubari, the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival continues its journey as a platform connecting the world and the region, the past and the future—passing on the imagination and creativity inherent in cinema to generations to come.
Sleeping Owl Film Fest event which aims to discover and recognize new talents from all over the world. It was created in order to support short filmmakers providing a critical evaluation of their work.
What makes a short film a great film it's not how ambitious the story is, but the way the story is being told. The ingredients to have a great short film are a great script, directing,camerawork, lighting and editing.
There are a lot of films that are interesting, but have a careless sound. Every filmmaker must care about the sound before the shooting, it's one of the most important cinematic elements. Catch great actors, not models! It's another advise we provide so that stories can be told in a real way, not in a theatricality way.
The Bogotá International Documentary Film Festival (MIDBO), organized by the Colombian Documentary Filmmakers Corporation ALADOS COLOMBIA, is a specialized event dedicated to nonfiction cinema. Over the past 27 years, it has established itself in Colombia and Latin America as a key platform for exhibition, dialogue, and critical reflection around documentary and audiovisual non-fiction practices.
For its 28th edition, MIDBO invites filmmakers and producers to submit their audiovisual works to the 2026 film call and to participate in the various training, discussion, and networking spaces that will take place both virtually and in person throughout the showcase.
The 28th edition of MIDBO will take place from October 28 to November 4, 2026, in Bogotá, Colombia. Throughout the year, the program will also travel to different regions of the country and will continue its ongoing MIDBO–ALADOS Tuesdays screening series in partnership with allied venues.
After 27 editions, MIDBO continues to foster an event grounded in reflection on documentary cinema and the many ways in which we approach and engage with reality. The multiple ways of recording and interpreting the world remain at the core of our interest. Committed to exploring the complexity of a reality that exceeds us, we continue each year to build a meaningful space for gathering and rethinking documentary practice.
For 2026, MIDBO reaffirms its commitment to supporting creation and recognizing the work of filmmakers through four competitive sections and two non-competitive sections:
Competitive Sections
Ibero-American Documentary Feature Competition
National Documentary Feature Competition
National Short Documentary Competition
Ibero-American Short Documentary Competition
Non-Competitive Sections
International Documentary Features
Colombian Films Produced Through Community-Based Processes
A main award will be granted in each competitive section.
Feature films must have a running time of over 60 minutes. Short films must have a running time of over 7 minutes.
The jury for each competition will be announced one month prior to the festival and will consist of three (3) artists, filmmakers, writers, critics, or cultural practitioners.
*** We are committed to being an inclusive event and will therefore give special consideration to films that incorporate audio description for blind or visually impaired audiences, as well as closed captioning or inclusive subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences. ***
SHORTS in TRANSILVANIA
We know how hard it may be, for filmmakers, to produce and distribute their works, especially if those are short films and independent productions. TRANSILVANIA SHORTS [International Short Film Festival] is the useful tool for every filmmaker, in order to further showcase their films, and get their deserved public feedback and recognition. The films selected in the festival competition are further on promoted, screened at the festival, and evaluated by a team of experts in the industry. Transilvania Shorts supports filmmakers in gaining the recognition of the public passionate about cinema, and that of mass-media, and, also, in being rewarded for their work.
Come celebrate and share your passion for cinema! Held in beautiful and medieval cities like Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Braṣov, and Târgu Mureș, Transilvania Shorts brings short films, from all over the world, to beautiful Transilvania. In the future, the festival will be extended, in order to be present in all major cities of Transilvania. This year’s Festival Program will showcase a wide variety of international short films, in the categories of: Narrative, Animation, Student, Commercial Video, Documentary, Experimental, Music Video, Stop-Motion.
Voted Best Film Festival in New Jersey, The Monmouth Film Festival, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) New Jersey non-profit organization designed to promote and connect filmmakers from all over the state, Country, and across the globe! The festival is more than an opportunity for artists to have their work showcased, it is a forum for educational opportunities through workshops, networking, Q&As and special panels with industry guests; that provide insight, growth, and inspiration. Our unique platform strives to create an atmosphere where filmmakers of all levels, including high and low budget works, can be seen, heard and interact with movie-goers, promoters and other artists. Each year esteemed industry guests from New York City, New Jersey, Los Angeles (and all regions of the world), from great media companies including Netflix, ABC, Disney, Nickelodeon, Viacom, Backstage, and more attend the Monmouth Film Festival to engage with filmmakers. Don't miss out on the opportunity to submit to and attend New Jersey's critically acclaimed, top-rated film festival!
Returning May 29th-31st, 2026 at Bell Works in Holmdel, New Jersey.
Welcome to the Singularity Film Festival created and organized by HUGO LEDUC.
Immerse yourself in the heart of Paris, where the Singularity Film Festival opens the doors to a universe where science fiction and fantasy come to life like never before.
Discover short films and series pilots ranging from 5 to 30 minutes, crafted by bold filmmakers — both emerging and established — ready to surprise and captivate you.
The festival is divided into two categories:
Out of Competition, dedicated to works screened freely, celebrating creativity and discovery without constraints;
In Competition, where films are subject to an official submission and evaluated by a professional jury.
Each edition begins with a signature short film — an immersive experience that instantly transports you into extraordinary worlds.
Open to all, the festival celebrates the richness and diversity of talents, styles, and imaginations, offering a vibrant and captivating spectacle.
Through the competitive selection, IMDb qualification, and personalized support for filmmakers, each project gains increased visibility and recognition.
Screenings, networking sessions, discussions, and an awards ceremony make the Singularity Film Festival an unmissable event for cinema lovers and fans of fantastical worlds.
WHO IS HUGO LEDUC? (Organizer)
Author and director, Hugo Leduc develops a universe anchored in thriller, science fiction and anticipation, through works with metaphorical dimensions exploring humans, time, memory and death. His work is distinguished by demanding stories,
carried by an immersive staging and marked twists and turns. He collaborates with actors such as Tom Vallejo, Benjamin Cotte, Marine Arlen, Jean Rigal, Paola Marques Dos Santos and Éloïse Le Baud.
Strengthened by this background and confronted with the limits of diffusion of these genres in traditional circuits,
he founded the Singularity Film Festival, with the ambition of broadening the visibility of science fiction, fantasy and thriller cinema, and of offering a structuring platform to emerging talents, of which he himself is a part.
El Festival de Cine Curto de Ribadeo es un festival de cortometrajes que nace con el propósito de promocionar los proyectos audiovisuales propios de A Mariña Lucense y, por extensión, las Comunidades de Galicia y Asturias, o que tengan miembros participantes relacionados con dichas zonas. La 5a edición del Festival tendrá lugar en Ribadeo durante la segunda semana de agosto en varias localizaciones de este municipio.
The Jacovella da Celano Film Festival is a festival dedicated to short films, established to celebrate the art of storytelling through exemplary narratives. Inspired by the historical figure of Jacovella da Celano—a woman who symbolizes courage, culture, and leadership—the festival aims to promote positive values and raise awareness on crucial issues such as gender-based violence and addiction.
The Changuito Film Festival is an international short film festival centered on childhood, held in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and organized by Fundación Changuito Visual.
The festival is rooted in an anti-adultcentric approach. It does not position children as passive audiences or future promises, but as present, active, creative, and political subjects. It opens the screen to films created for, with, and by children, as well as works that invite reflection on their meaningful participation in social, educational, family, and community spaces.
Changuito is a decentralized festival. Screenings take place across multiple territories, activating community dialogue, collective learning, and cultural circulation beyond traditional cinema venues. In addition to film exhibitions, the festival highlights educational and community-based audiovisual processes, understanding cinema not only as an artistic language but as a transformative tool capable of reshaping perspectives and strengthening children’s agency.
More than a screening event, Changuito is a cultural platform that fosters participation, exchange, and collective imagination around childhood.
TITAN International Film Festival is a competition of films from around the world, celebrating cinema and its creativity, its art and its freedom.
We are a festival registered as a Not-For-Profit with the Australian government and are IMDB qualified, running competitions throughout the year, which ends with the Annual Gala in Sydney, Australia.
TIFF is a challenge for all filmmakers to produce and promote the cinema of the future.
The Festival takes place 4 times a year and registration is always open. This increases the chances of winning for filmmakers. At the end of the year, our jury will select the best film of each category amongst the four edition winners.
XI edition of the Zinetxiki Zinemaldia - International Film Festival for Children and Youth, organised by the cultural association Begira Elkartea, will take place in Bilbao and other Basque cities and towns from 12 to 27 December 2026.
Zinetxiki Zinemaldia aims at offering worldwide quality audiovisual contents to a family audience. Through the projection of selected works in several competitive categories, the festival seeks to promote the audiovisual education and the creation of new audiences.
