The festival is already scheduled (from 11th to 20th April 2013) and it promises new sections and the same passionate reflection on migration, cultural diversity and cross-cultural dialogue. Exhibitions, debates, masterclasses and concerts will also be part of the event.

An international competition of full-length feature, documentary, experimental and animated films. Every year more than 90 000 visitors attend the festival and choose from over 400 films of all genres. The main competition sections are supplemented by advance screenings, retrospectives and open-air screenings.

The international science film festival PARISCIENCE is organized by the Association Science & Télévision (AST), French science producers, at Museum national d’Histoire naturelle and Jardin des Plantes in Paris. An eclectic, international and enriching event: during 5 days, free screenings provide a diverse and original program. Films dealing with scientific subjects are presented to a large audience including professionals. Shorts, featurettes and feature-length films in the genres of documentary, fiction and docu-drama, magazine, animation… are on offer and each screening is followed by a debate with filmmakers and scientists.

The Annual Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival is an artistic and scientific event, an important link between documentary film makers and anthropologists of the East and West. The aim of the festival in general is to support cultural survival of peoples. Only documentary films and videos of high value and quality, recording human activities in social, historical or ecological context are accepted for competition screenings.

Perspektive is a biennial thematic film festival. It is the first German festival to be dedicated to the subject of human rights. It is a leading forum for outstanding feature films, documentaries and animated productions, which have human rights as their main focus. The main programme, the “International Forum” looks at current trends and developments in the world’s cultures. The selected films show what sorts of conditions people are living under at the beginning of the 21st century. About ten films, selected by a committee made up of festival team members, compete for the Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Award. In addition, there is an accompanying film series, which either focuses on the work of a particular director, looks in more depth at a specific current issue or informs about the situation in a particular country.

The Pesaro International Festival of New Cinema was founded in 1965. At first the festival showcased the now famous films of the 1960's and 1970's - new cinema exploded both in Eastern and Western Europe but also in Latin America or Japan. In the last decades the festival has been dedicated to the discovery and promotion of emerging cinema and young filmmakers, focusing on European and other, less-known film regions, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Iran and others.

Petaluma International Film Festival is an annual event showcasing the independent feature and short films from around the world.

The Pink Apple Film Festival was founded in 1997 as a Swiss queer film festival. The Pink Apple Award is a cash prize of 2000 Swiss Francs. The Pink Apple jury will select the winner from a shortlist of preselected finalists. The festival takes place at the beginning of May in the Swiss cities of Zurich und Frauenfeld. The competition is open to films and videos under 30 minutes in length dealing with gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender issues.

Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival is Canada's preeminent festival of its kind. For ten years we have championed the explosive growth and evolution of environmental cinema.

The international documentary film review includes eleven competitions and a variety of retrospectives, master classes, discussion panels, music concerts and art exhibitions. The festival aims to provide the Polish film audiences with an opportunity to see the latest top international productions.PLANETE+ DOC FILM FESTIVAL provides a platform for screening and debating films, discovering new documentary trends, and an opportunity for meeting the most renown and controversial documentary filmmakers.

The largest and longest festival organised by Polish Art Europe, carried out under the auspices of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Edinburgh, Professor Zbigniew Pelczynski (President of the Polonia Leadership School) and Professor Richard DeMarco (founder of The Demarco European Art Foundation). Screenings will be held during four months in the cities of England, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Play-Doc is an international documentary festival that aims to create access, exchange and dialogue around this vital cinema. Each year Play-Doc screens a curated selection of essential non-fiction films, presenting the latest trends from around the world to a large, enthusiastic and diverse audience. Located in the ancient and beautiful city of Tui, in the northwest of Spain, Play-Doc presents competitive and non-competitive programmes, as well as retrospectives of internationally acclaimed filmmakers. Parallel to the film programme, Play-Doc also offers seminars, masterclasses, live concerts and art exhibitions. Play-Doc is also devoted to supporting young and talented filmmakers through the Play-Doc workshops, which focuses on creativity, experimentation and innovative methods of producing documentary.

The festival first took place in 2002. It is devoted to full-length and short films for children and young people in the age groups of 3-6 / 7-11 / 12-15 years. The aim of the festival is to present a quality selection of international films for young audience, debates with filmmakers are also part of the festival.

Plus Camerimage - International Festival of the Art of Cinematography is one of the world's leading events focusing on the art of cinematography. Over a period of nineteen years, the organizers succeeded in achieving their stated goals of providing a forum for meetings and discussions about the art of cinematography, and establishing a venue where opinions and aesthetic impressions regarding contemporary filmmaking could be debated. By creating Student Competition Section and consulting programme Talent Demo the Plus Camerimage Festival has assumed a special educational role as well.

Pol-8 Festival is a competition open to all amateur filmmakers. The subject matter and artistic form of the films is unrestricted.

Politics on Film is a project of the Washington Political Film Foundation and is made possible by an alliance with the Bipartisan Policy Center. It is an annual, bipartisan film festival based in Washington DC dedicated to providing a platform for films that tell stories of America’s politics and policies. The festival celebrates the power of film to educate and motivate, as well as entertain. The Festival also celebrates the historic and ongoing legacy of films about American government and democracy, as well as related stories and themes from an international perspective.

Each year, Film POP presents a slate of nearly 20 music-related film events, including important premieres, retrospective screenings, expanded cinema performances, live film scores, short films, music videos and free family screenings at a variety of professional and unconventional spaces.

This specialized film festival focuses on films capturing natural scenery, mountain areas and mountain sports. The competition categories include: alpinism, climbing and free climbing, skiing and ski-alpinism, life in the mountains, paragliding, mountain biking, river rafting, hiking, cave explorations, etc.

The Potenza Film Festival came into being in 2004 with the aim of encouraging new approaches to film language. Strongly committed to young filmmakers and their works, the festival has created a framework for dialogue between film and videomakers by bringing together new authors, new technologies and new forms of cinematic expression. All sections of the festival, competitive and otherwise, aim to provide a platform for films that are experimental, independent and innovative in formal and stylistic terms, made by new talents from different countries - particularly from areas with limited production facilities. This year five competitions: 1 International Documentaries, 2 International Short Films, 3 Basilicata Shorts, 4 International VideoPoetry, 5 International PhoneMovies.

The Festival of Indian Film in Prague offers a broad spectrum of film genres - Bollywood hits, independent movies and documentaries.

Prague Short Film Festival is a competitive festival of short films. Its aim is to contribute to the development and promotion of artistic short films and their production. The festival program consists of an international competition for fiction short films under 20 minutes, and non-competitive informative film programs, retrospectives, homage profiles and other accompanying events. The films in the non-competitive sections can have a maximum length of 45 minutes.

PRAVO LJUDSKI has established itself as a platform promoting socially engaged nonfictional audiovisual artworks, dedicated to the development of critical spectatorship through socially engaged documentaries and independent art cinema in general. We believe in poetic, illuminating art forms embracing the beauty of differences and critically engaged with the past and currents we live in.

The festival aims to: Spotlight new European filmmaker with screenings of 100 first European films, presented in 5 competitive sections. Promote the history of cinema and its patrimony with retrospectives of films from different European countries, tributes to major players in the industry - both the famous and the not-so-famous - and thematic programs. Assist screenwriters and directors working on a new project by inviting professional actors to read their screenplays in front of audiences. Introduce new audiences to European cinema, encouraging young film-goers to participate in the Festival and organizing film lessons led by industry professionals. Highlight the diversity of European cinema by bringing together professionals around the questions of production and the circulation of European films.

The Lorca Film Festival showcases the latest Spanish film productions in the following sections: 1 New directors; 2 Documentary Films; 3 Short Films, 4 Panorama; 5 Retrospective; 6 Tribute; and other sidebar events, such as exhibitions and concerts.

The competition is organized by the Ars Electronica Center and ORF’s Upper Austria Regional Studio in collaboration with the O.K Center for Contemporary Art and the Brucknerhaus Linz, and the prizes are awarded during the Ars Electronica Festival each year. The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important awards for creativity and pioneering spirit in the field of digital media. The event calls for entries in eight categories, including a youth competition and a grant for young creative talents. With over 34,365 entries since 1987 and prize money in 2007 totalling 122,500 euros, the competition offers the largest cash purse for cyberarts worldwide. Competition categories: Computer Animation / Film / VFX, Interactive Art, Digital Music, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, U19 - Freestyle Computing, [The Next Idea] Art and Technology Grant, Media.Art.Research Award.