VITAFEST, Vitacura International Short Film Festival is a festival dedicated to national and international short films and a meeting point for diverse agents of the Chilean audiovisual industry.
Now in its sixth edition, VITAFEST has established itself as one of the main platforms for the short film format in Latin America, a meeting point for the various agents of the local audiovisual industry and an official showcase for the new local talented filmmakers.
The Hong Kong Kowloon Film Festival (HKKFF) is an annually film festival to showcase innovative independent film makers and artists from around the world.
HKKFF is aiming to inspire, motivate and award new talent.
The Hong Kong Kowloon Film Festival accepts all forms and genres: short films, medium length films, feature films, drama, experimental, comedy, horror, slow cinema, sci fi, fantasy, animation, and documentary.
MAC MARÍN - Atlantic Films & New Media is an emerging space that aims to promote the independennt cinema and audiovisual creation at the same time that pays homage to the local talent, valuing the Marin Town identity and its sourounded parishs , located in one of the most beautiful corners of Galicia, in the northwest of Spain, in Europe.
Our main objective is to connect the New Galician Filmmakers to the neighborhood, as well as to seek a connection between local creators with international audiovisual communities. We pay special attention to those who have been working into european values through media and cinema.
The Luz del Desierto International Festival is an audiovisual Festival that aims to promote cinema within the country and abroad. The festival will take place in october with competition for feature films and short films, both fiction, animation and documentary. There will also be talks and workshops.
Histeria International Fantastic Film Festival in Costa Rica and Dominican Republic brings together a current international selection of feature films and short films framed within the horror, science fiction and fantasy genre. It is a window in Central America and Caribbean for fantastic movies. Not only for Latin America, but for the rest of the world. A point where filmmakers with their films meet, so that they can be exhibited and seen.
Histeria Lab is a section of the festival focused on feature-length genre projects in the first stage of development. The projects travel to Costa Rica and Dominican Republic to receive advice on script, production, direction, bible design, pitch, photography, sound and art direction.
information: www.histeriafilmfest.com
Festival dedicated to the Short Film Competition, Fiction and Animation.
Possibility of hosting the directors and Actors of the Films.
The extravagance of proposing to two film authors who are friends of each other and deeply linked by their love for images, to cover the role of Presidents of the "Piccolo Cinema Paradiso Award", is confirmed in the Second Edition of the 2023/2024 Award.
Silvano Agosti and Franco Piavoli have realized during their lives, a filmography of exceptional artistic quality. To honor their participation, we will screen some of their short films that will open the day of the Awards for the best films selected by tue Juries. The preciousness of their presence pushes us to consider the PCP Award as a sort of legacy to the creativity of each one of those who will participate to the selection, sending us their creations made in compliance with the characteristics of Productive Independence. We are sure that supporting this type of Cinema is increasingly in tune with our present that is rich in proposals, but not open to their dissemination. For this reason we will strive to offer the winning film, a space in the programming of Sale D'Essai of the italian territory.
We are waiting for you, with the pleasure and desire to amaze us again.
Regulation and purpose of the "Premio PCP 2023/24" competition cinematographic at its Second Edition, aims to discover talented authors and to promote the winning works.
The Award is aimed at both italian and foreign authors.
The theme of the work to be send is free.
- The main pourpose of the Awards is to identify,encourage, promote directors and authors of all nationalities, and to make their works know.
- in this second edition no age limit is required (provided that partecipants are of legal age by teh day of registration for the prize)
- Works with a maximum duration of 15 minutes (including closing and opening credits)that have been made between 2020 and 2023 are admitted. The theme is free, wether it is fiction, animation, documentary, experimentation. Each partecipant can compete with only one work.
- A careful pre-selection of the works received will be carried out aimed at identifying 20 short films that will be considered in all respects "finalist". The films will be divided into 3 sections, and each section will have its own specific award.
Fiction and Experimentation section
Documentary section
Animation section.
- A special audience prize will also be estabilished.
- the Jury of the Premio Piccolo Cinema Paradiso 2023/24 II edition is composed of eleven (11) members who will selectthe most deserving works for each section.
The Jury of the Prize:
Silvano Agosti - Indipendent director and author, poet, writer. President of Jury.
Franco Piavoli - Director author, co-president of the Jury
Paola Agosti - Actress, segretary of the Jury, President of the Piccolo Cinema Pardiso Association.
Paolo Buzi - Arttist, writer, creator of the Prize PCP.
Filippo Schillaci - expert in cinematographic language, photographer, writer.
Antonella Gandini - Artist and Photographer.
Giacomo Andrico - Independent filmmaker.
Giacomo Colossi - Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, science fiction writer, film maker and video producer.
Federica Caggioli - Passionate about Cinema. programming consultant of the Piccolo Cinema Paradiso.
Giorgio Monticelli - Passionate about Cinema. programming consultant of the Piccolo Cinema Paradiso.
Daniele Lupi - Passionate about Cinema. programming consultant of the Piccolo Cinema Paradiso.
The films received will also be viewed and selected by a Publiv Jury chose and chaired by Vilma Razzi, professor of literature and History. Vilma, who graduate with a thesis on Cinema , has benn working for years on cinematography also within the public school promoting events and making short films.
The judgment of the 2 juries is unquestionable.
The Festival de Cinema de Terror de Sabadell, celebrates the Seventh Edition of our Fiction Short Film Competition.
They have space for all the short films of Terror, Gore, Thriller, Fantastic, Science-Fiction, Dark Humor or Freak, in all their meanings and variants.
Lucca Film Festival is an annual event that celebrates and promotes cinematographic culture. Through screenings, exhibitions, conferences and performances, the Festival has been able to captivate an ever-increasing audience with a program that ranges from experimental to mainstream films. Through the years, Lucca Film Festival has carved out a niche for itself, standing apart from the many other festivals thanks to its bold yet carefully studied programming. Over the years, great names of international filmmakers and well-known celebrities have attended Lucca Film Festival as invited guests; David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Jeremy Irons, Willem Dafoe, George Romero, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, Alfonso Cuarón, John Boorman, Rutger Hauer, Joe Dante, Aleksandr Sokurov, Susan Sarandon, Gabriele Salvatores, Ethan Hawke, Paul Schrader and Peter Greenaway, just to name a few. At the same time, the Festival has offered retrospectives of “old” glories while unearthing new talents. To top it all off, breathtaking Lucca serve as a stunning backdrop to an event that has now firmly established itself, becoming a highly anticipated and not-to-be-missed appointment in Italy and in Europe: the Lucca Film Festival.
Since its creation, the festival has always been committed to promoting contemporary films. Therefore, directors from all over the world can submit their films to the competitive section of the festival through the dedicated call for entries. The 2026 edition of Lucca Film Festival will be held September 26th-October 4th.
Lucca Film Festival has 3 competitions: The International Feature Film Competition, The International Short Film Competition and The "Lucca Film Festival for Future" Short Film Competition.
The 2026 will be the 22nd edition of the Lucca Film Festival International Feature Film Competition. In the previous editions important personalities of cinema like Cristi Puiu, Rutger Hauer, Philip Groening, Claudio Giovannesi, Daniele Ciprì, Massimo Gaudioso, Massimo Cantini Parrini, Lina Nerli Taviani had been part of the international jury.
The films shown during this competition are Italian premieres and last edition was won by "The cage is looking for a bird" by Malika Musaeva.
There are four awards: Best feature film prize (3000€), awarded by a jury of renowned guests from both the cinematographic and academic worlds; and Best feature film – university jury prize (awarded by an university jury), Best feature film - Popular jury and the Marcello Petrozziello Award.
For those who are interested in this competition, the last day for submissions is July 15, 2026, until midnight.
There are no limitations to the genre or topic of the films. The only requirements are the following: the films must be at least 60 minutes long and must not have been screened before January 1st, 2026. Moreover, they must be Italian premieres, so they cannot have been presented in any other Italian festival, shown on any online open platform or distributed in any other way in Italy.
For the 20th year in a row, it will take place the historic short films competition, whose winner will receive a 1000€ prize. Every year, the selection committee of this competition receives more than 500 films to evaluate. Among the directors who took part in earlier editions, there are celebrities like Adan Jodorowsky, son of the famous Chilean filmmaker.
The films have no limitations in genre and topic. The only requirement is that they cannot last more than 29 minutes. For the short films competition, the last day for submissions is July 15, 2026, until midnight.
Second edition of the new short film competition,:"Lucca Film Festival for Future", which was born thanks to the collaboration with the Sofidel Group, 2nd producer in Europe and 7th in the world for production capacity in the sector of paper for hygienic and domestic use (known in particular for the Regina brand), which has made sustainability a strategic lever of development and responsible growth to reduce its impact on natural capital and favour the transition towards a low carbon impact economy.
List of the selected films will be published on the festival’s website within September 10, 2026. During the festival the movies will be shown in the cinemas taking part in the event and on demand online.
The Lucca Film Festival, coordinated by Nicola Borrelli, is one of the key events organized and sponsored by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca.
The event's main sponsors are Banca Generali Private Wealth Management (Paolo Tacchi) e Banca Pictet. The organization of the Lucca Film Festival has also been possible thanks to Ministero della cultura – Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Miur, Regione Toscana, Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Manifatture Digitali Cinema, Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Sofidel, Fondazione Giacomo Puccini e Puccini Museum – Casa Natale, Audi Center Terigi Tenuta del Buonamico, Naturanda, Martinelli Luce, Futuro3D, Tecno Servizi, Ristorante Giglio, Palazzo Pfanner, Teatro del Giglio, ConfCommercio Lucca e Massa Carrara, Grand Universe Lucca, Grand Universe – La residenza, Over The Real, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Fondazione Giacomo Puccini e Puccini Museum – Casa Natale, Casa d’arte San Lorenzo, Accademia Cinema Toscana; Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Istituto Luigi Boccherini e Liceo Artistico Musicale e Coreutico Augusto Passaglia, Liceo Classico N. Machiavelli, ISIS Pertini.
Thanks also to Rai Toscana, Rai Radio 3, Movieplayer.it, Film4 Life, Festival Scope, A.C.S.I. Associazione Centri Sportivi Italiani, Federazione Italiana Teatro Amatori (FITA), Trenitalia, Fic, Uicc, Cinit, Ucca, Arci, Fedic, Corte Tripoli, Circolo del Cinema di Lucca, Cineforum Ezechiele 25:17, Cinema Centrale, Astra e Moderno, Cinema Arsenale, Octocom, Università di Pisa, Università degli Studi Firenze, Fondazione Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Pisa al Cinema, Cinema Arsenale, Cineteca Bologna, Cineteca Nazionale, Istituto Musicale Luigi Boccherini, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Italia, Associazione Donne all’Ultimo Grido, , SPAM! Rete per le arti contemporanee, Lucca Comics & Games, Photolux Festival, Lucca Classica Music Festival.
Come to the Lucca Film Festival and experience a full 360° immersion in both the cinema and the heart of Tuscany.
Bonito CineSur – South American Film Festival – 2026
The heart of South American cinema beats in Bonito
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
Competitive screenings of new South American feature films and short films produced between 2025 and 2026;
Parallel exhibition of South American children’s animation films;
Competitive screening of environmental-themed films;
Competitive screening of films from Mato Grosso do Sul, produced between 2025 and 2026;
Awards, debates, and roundtable discussions aimed at international cooperation;
Workshops for professionals, film and audiovisual academics, and local residents;
Exchange with leading South American film festival directors.
VENUES
CMU – Bonito Convention Center and public squares.
ECOTOURISM, CULTURE AND CINEMA
In the heart of Brazil, the city of Bonito is part of the Serra da Bodoquena National Park and is one of the most important ecotourism destinations in the country.
Mato Grosso do Sul borders Bolivia and Paraguay, from where it has received strong cultural influences that shape the ethnic identity of its people.
Bonito has approximately twenty thousand inhabitants and, in this charming city, there are crystal-clear rivers, waterfalls, caves, and some of the most beautiful landscapes in Brazil’s Midwest. As a cultural hub of Mato Grosso do Sul, Bonito hosts literary and jazz festivals, as well as a winter festival.
Bonito CineSur is a space for meeting and integration of South American cinema and audiovisual production, presenting the most recent works and bringing together professionals from across the continent.
In 2025, its third edition enriched the cultural calendar of the city, the country, and the continent with the screening of 63 films from 10 South American countries, in 120 hours of free programming.
Bonito CineSur received wide coverage in local and national media, with 1,665 published news pieces, reaching more than 619 thousand people on social media. It grew in size and relevance with the participation of 60 public and private institutions, reaching 9,000 people and fostering the local creative economy through the hiring of 250 professional services, including production, technical equipment, hotels, restaurants, and transportation, generating income and visibility.
In 2026, Bonito CineSur will continue to occupy venues throughout the city of Bonito and will further consolidate the convergence between culture, environment, and tourism, promoting South American cinematic exchange, highlighting environmental issues, and internationally promoting the tourist destination of Bonito and our beloved Brazil.
TEAM
NILSON RODRIGUES – Director
Producer of the films “O Outro Lado do Paraíso” (2015) and “O Pastor e o Guerrilheiro” (2022). Nilson served as director of the Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro (1995, 1997, 1998, and 2011) and of the Brasília International Film Festival (2012 to 2017), as well as Bonito CineSur (2023 to 2026).
ANDREA FREIRE – Coordinator
Coordinator of the Bonito Winter Festival (2000 to 2006, 2015, and 2016); coordinator of the Festival América do Sul (2004, 2005, 2015, and 2016); coordinator of the Vídeo Índio Brasil Showcase (2009); of the audiovisual production course Mídias Contemporâneas Narrativas Populares (2010); director, researcher, and screenwriter of the audiovisual series EVOÉ – Dramatic Stories in Campo Grande (2021). Coordinator of Bonito CineSur (2023 to 2026).
GUSTAVO DE ARRUDA CASTELO (Cegonha) – Coordinator
Cultural producer, coordinator of Temporadas Populares (1999 to 2002); General Director of the Mato Grosso do Sul Culture Foundation (2020 to 2022); Coordinator of Bonito CineSur (2023 to 2026).
JOSÉ GERALDO COUTO – Curator
Born in Jaú, São Paulo, in 1957, he is a journalist, translator, and film critic. He worked for more than twenty years at Folha de S. Paulo newspaper and currently works at the Moreira Salles Institute. He has translated works by Henry James, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Martin Scorsese, and Nelson Mandela, among others.
CECILIA DIEZ – Curator
University professor and general producer of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival (2021–2023) and Ventana Sur (2022–2023).
RODRIGO FONSECA – Curator
Curator, critic, and researcher of Brazilian cinema, known for his work curating film exhibitions and festivals, as well as for his work as a journalist and professor.
LUCIANA DRUZINA – Curator of the Anima Sur Children’s and Youth Section
Director of Druzina Content, where for over fifteen years she has produced animated series, films, fiction, and games distributed in more than fifty countries across various platforms and channels. Curator of the children’s parallel program of Bonito CineSur (2023 to 2026).
ELIS REGINA – Curator of the Environmental Film Section
Journalist, Elis has worked as a curator at several events, including Comitiva dos Chefs Festival Movie Showcase (2019); Making Of Showcase – O Cinema Está Aqui – Festcine América do Sul (2014); A Imagem do Índio – Vídeo Índio Brasil(2014 and 2015); Comida em Movimento Festival – Cinema and Gastronomy (2023); and the Bonito CineSur South American Environmental Film Festival (2023 to 2026).
MARCOS PIERRY – Curator of the Mato Grosso do Sul Film Section
Journalist, critic, audiovisual curator, screenwriter, short film director, and film professor. He holds a Master’s degree from USP and a PhD from UFMG. Member of the Brazilian Association of Film Critics (Abraccine). Curator of the Mato Grosso do Sul film section of Bonito CineSur (2024 and 2026).
BONITO CINESUR – South American Film Festival
Production – Associação Amigos do Cinema e da Cultura – AACIC
The Associação Amigos do Cinema e da Cultura – AACIC is a private, non-profit organization founded in 2007, which has been developing cultural, educational, and training projects for over fifteen years.
The association’s experience and technical capacity to develop and carry out activities in the field of cinema, as well as in education, training, and culture in general, have been officially recognized by the Education, Health, and Culture Commission of the Legislative Chamber of Brasília and by the University of Brasília.
The annual Merlion Film Festival Singapore (MFFS) is an inspirational event bringing together all the film organisations, storytellers and artists in Singapore, to celebrate their efforts towards a sustainable future and accelerate their impact. The festival hopes to foster more collaboration, raise awareness & ignite a public passion towards independent talent film makers and artists around the world!
The Merlion Film Festival Singapore showcases a selection of world films, giving local audiences a taste of world’s diversity and creativity. Films screened are recent and have encountered success in their country of origin.
Filmeraa Film Festival is one of it's kind festivals to promote independent films, web series across the globe. We are committed to release content across the globe via our screens exclusive to screen only independent films. Every year the festival acknowledges independent work with unique flavor in them and can bring about a change into the society and the thought process.
The Filmmakers/audience will gain the insights of the reel world & how to make your projects effective & efficient at the same time.
Every film maker is invited to be a part of this exclusive premier league screening festival.
The best films will get a chance to feature their film on our distribution portal www.filmeraa.com and on Indian Television.
In 1998, the Benalmádena Cinematographic Youth Association (ACIBE) recovered the spirit of the defunct SICAB (Benalmádena International Author's Film Week, 1969-1989) to undertake the project of creating a film festival for the city. The result, after seventeen years of management, is the Benalmádena International Short Film and Alternative Film Festival (FICCAB), a meeting forum for lovers of quality cinema. More than four hundred short films are presented each year at a festival for all ages that unites the glamor of the stars to the best auteur, independent, alternative and unknown cinematographies, paying special attention to European ones.
El Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental de Paraguay (FICEPY) o ULTRACINE en su Edición II, es un encuentro internacional dedicado al arte cinematográfico experimental, el cual tuvo su exitosa I Edición en octubre de 2022 bajo el nombre de FESTIVAL DE CINE EXPERIMENTAL ULTRAcinema por haberse gestado a partir de la Muestra Mexicana de Cine Experimental ULTRAcinema, en y gracias al Centro Cultural de España Juan de Salazar de la Ciudad de Asunción, con una gran aceptación del público cineasta paraguayo.
El Festival en su I Edición presentó muestras de cine experimental local y mexicano, mesas redondas, talleres de formación abiertos a todo público, funciones performáticas de intercambio y experimentación en vivo.
Gracias a la fructífera edición inaugural, se llevará a cabo nuevamente en octubre de 2023, la II Edición del Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental de Paraguay (FICEPY) - ULTRACINE con los objetivos de:
- Seguir fortaleciendo los vínculos y la escena experimental de la comunidad local y el intercambio con otros festivales Latinoamericanos, principalmente con ULTRAcinema MÉXICO por ser éste, el mentor y principal apoyo de la programación y curaduría del FICEPY.
- Seguir educando a través de talleres para la formación de público y profesionales. Uno de ellos lo dictará el Maestro Michael Ramos-Araizaga (México), director y curador del Festival ULTRAcinema México.
- Seguir potenciando e incentivando la expansión de ideas de expresión no convencionales o tradicionales, generando espacios de contagio creativo entre todas las artes experimentales libres y el pensamiento crítico.
- Generar el interés en el arte y cine experimental.
Continuando con las actividades que nos lleven a los objetivos mencionados como en 2022, realizaremos dentro de la programación muestras de cine experimental local y mexicano, mesas redondas, talleres de formación abiertos a todo público, funciones performáticas en vivo.
El festival, cada año seguirá contando con una temática protagonista a la que le ofrecerá un destaque y participación mayoritarios con el fin de visibilizar comunidades minoritarias, y, en esta II Edición tenemos especial interés en aquellos trabajos que respondan al eje conceptual de nuestra edición, los afrofuturismos*, desde sus propuestas estéticas, códigos y/o discursos para conformar un programa especial dedicada al cine surgido desde las miradas de las afrodescendencias. A través de esta mirada, vamos a prefigurar futuros, a explorar la producción de la diáspora africana contemporánea y a revisitar las raíces de las afrodescendencias en Latinoamérica para buscar nuevos vínculos entre futuros utópicos y pasados posibles y, así, reinventar la historia que nos merecemos tener.
*AFROFUTURISMO: es un tipo de estética literaria y cultural que combina elementos de ciencia ficción, ficción histórica, fantasía y realismo mágico con cosmogonías no occidentales. El movimiento también ha sido definido por la autora y cineasta Ytasha L. Womack, como la exploración de «la intersección entre cultura negra, tecnología, liberación e imaginación, con una pizca de misticismo también. […] Es una forma de unir el futuro con el pasado y, en esencia, de ayudar a reinventar la experiencia de las personas de color».1 Su objeto es criticar no solo la problemática actual de las personas de color sino también revisar, cuestionar y reexaminar los eventos del pasado.
**Afrodiaspórico: El pensamiento afrodiaspórico debe entenderse como un proyecto humanista que refleja la voluntad de vida por la dignificación del ser humano africano y sus descendientes.
Son bienvenidas obras experimentales de cineastas emergentes y establecidos de cualquier parte del universo, en cualquiera de sus géneros audiovisuales, tanto en cine como en video: Ensayo, Poema, Danza, Musical, Performático, Ritual, Abstracto, Avant Garde, Confesional, Documental de Archivo, Livecinema, así como en cualquiera de sus técnicas, formatos o estrategias como la animación y la apropiación, sin límite de duración, ni año de producción.
Contamos con una sección especial para cineastas de la región (nacidos o residentes en Paraguay o provincias limítrofes a Paraguay de otros países: Bolivia, Argentina o Brasil).
Esta II Edición de ULTRACINE Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental de Paraguay es posible gracias al apoyo de: Centro Cultural de España Juan de Salazar de Paraguay, el Instituto Nacional del Audiovisual Paraguayo y la Secretaría de Cultura de Paraguay.
Cassette Audiovisual International Fest is a celebration of musical audiovisual and cinematographic projects: Videocilp, Musical Short&Feature Films, Rockumentary, Videodance, Mashup, Experimental Music Film.
The festival activities will take place in the month of May, we will carry out face-to-face in Mexico City and streaming.
We receive cinematographic and audiovisual works that address the following musical concepts. The extension is free as well as the genres: fiction, non-fiction, animation, experimental and hybrids.
International categories
Videoclip
Under 10 minutes
Fiction, animation, experimental and hybrid genres
Monoaural
Musical shortfilm
Under 30 minutes
Fiction and animation
Rockumentary
No-Fiction musical shortfilm
Documentary
Under 30 minutes
Loop
Experimental musical shortfilm
Experimental, mashup, found footage
Under 30 minutes
Fantasound
Videodance, performance musical shortfilm
Under 30 minutes
Stereophonic
Medium and feature musical films
Fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and hybrid genres
Between 30 minutes and 130 minute
Brussels Short Film Festival is an exhibition intended for cinema lovers, both audience and professionals. The purpose is to promote and circulate short films and to generate contacts between audience, young directors and professionals.
Since 2018, the winner of the Great Prize of the International competition will be eligible for consideration in the Animated Short Film/ Live Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.
WE CAM FEST is the first inclusive film festival in Colombia. It brings together the cinematographic content related to disability in the world. An innovative proposal that, in addition to showing other perspectives of life through cinema, seeks to be a platform for the creation of content made by and with people with disabilities, in order to recognize their contribution and talent for the environment and society.
V International Short Film Festival "Make me visible in your memory" aims to promote reflection on death and the subsequent process on personal and family, social and historical memory.
13th edition of the fantastic film festival of Bourg-en-Bresse.
SHort film competitions (french languages, international, middle school) and also screening of features films.
