FEST - Training Ground
Country
Portugal
Type of link
Training Programme
Deadline month
June
Event month
June
FEST Training Ground is a place where film enthusiasts and filmmakers from all over the world gather for one week to attend a deluxe training, from workshops to master classes, lectured by the industries top experts with recognized achievements. The program approaches the key issues of filmmaking, from script writing, analysis of a specific style to technical disciplines such as sound editing. The program will be wide in activities so that every participant can tailor make the experience according to their preferences.
Fest Anča
Country
Slovak Republic
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, animated
Deadline month
March
Event month
June
Fest Anča is an international competition for short animated films with a running time of max. 30 minutes. The Anča Awards include three prizes in the value of 777 euro, 555 euro and 333 euro.
Festival de Cine Alemán - German Film Festival
Country
Spain
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction
Event month
June
The festival offers an overview of the latest developments in German cinema - approx. 12 feature and short films and a number of retrospective screenings that are all related to a specific theme.
Festival de Cine de l'Alfas del Pi
Country
Spain
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction
Formats
35 mm
Event month
July
Festival de Cine de l'Alfas del Pi takes place every year in the Valencian town of L'Alfas del Pi.
Festival de l'Oiseau et de la Nature - Bird and Nature Festival
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Section
music, educational, documentary
Formats
Beta
Deadline month
November
Event month
June
The festival presents films that focus on birds, the protection of birds, bird watching and nature, wildlife. The main award is given to a documentary film that best reflects the main focus of the festival, birds in their habitat. The competition of films and photographs is accompanied by numerous exhibitions, debates, bird watching trips, and a conference.
Festival dei Popoli - International Festival for Social Documentaries
Country
Italy
Type of link
Festival
Section
documentary
Formats
35 mm, Beta, Digi Beta
Deadline month
July
Event month
November
The Festival offers competitive and information sections with documentary films produced for cinema and television on sociological, political, anthropological, economic, folklore and ethnographical issues.
Festival dei Popoli - Workshop
Country
Italy
Type of link
Workshop
Deadline month
October
Event month
November
Festival dei Popoli offers competitive and information sections with documentary films produced for cinema and television on sociological, political, anthropological, economic, folklore and ethnographical issues.
Festival del Mar - International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Country
Spain
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, documentary
Deadline month
March
Event month
June
Festival del Mar, the International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival first took place in 2004, on two of the Balearic Islands - Ibiza and Majorca. The festival presents approx. 30 short and feature films on the subject of GLBT culture.
Festival dell'Immaginario
Country
Italy
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, experimental
Event month
December
Festival dell'Immaginario is dedicated to international independent cinema and since its first edition the festival has hosted directors and films from over 70 different countries. The festival explores cinema with the intent to try to draw a fluid, visionary atlas of independent, engaged cinema. It is not a traditional festival - it does not have juries or prizes. It wants to be a free zone, an experimental ground mixing international independent cinema with the most innovative movements and authors of the digital revolution.
Festival der Nationen - Festival of Nations
Country
Austria
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, experimental, documentary, animated
Formats
?, DV, DVD
Deadline month
February
Event month
June
The Festival of Nations is the most important film festival in Austria with more than 700 entries from 55 countries every year.
Festival des Libertés - Festival of Liberties
Country
Belgium
Type of link
Festival
Section
educational, documentary
Deadline month
June
Event month
October
The festival accepts films and videos that deal with freedom and human rights issues. Every year the festival selects approx. 20 films that match the criteria of the festival, in the following categories: full-length narrative films and documentary films (min. 26 minutes in length). An independent jury awards a cash prize of 5000 euros to the best film in competition.
Festival du Cinéma Nordique - Nordic Film Festival
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, documentary, animated
Deadline month
January
Event month
March
The festival presents fiction, documentary, short and animated films made by filmmakers from one of the following countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands and Belgium.
Festival du Film des Diablerets
Country
Switzerland
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction, educational, documentary, amateur
Formats
?, Beta, DVD
Deadline month
April
Event month
August
The objective of the festival is to enhance, promote and develop the production of Alpine films and the protection of environment in the mountains. Furthermore, it is the festival's mission to not only present Swiss productions, but also open its selection to those from abroad. The festival accepts films that portray the environment, life or culture of the mountains, or films that are set in the mountains, or fiction films that recall events, dramas and feats that took place in the mountains: 1/ extreme sports, 2/ documentary mountain, 3/ documentary environment, 4/ documentary feats and adventures, 5/ fiction or documentary films.
Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Event month
October
Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt is entirely dedicated to Italian cinema. The extensive programme, divided into multiple sections, comprises 8 titles competing for the main prize (Prix du Jury), a retrospective called “Gli Italiani raccontano”, focused on Italian cinema’s connection with literature, the “Panorama” section with over 15 titles, and three other sections in competion, the Critic’s Prize, Young Jury Prize and Audience Award.
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Country
Canada
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, experimental
Deadline month
June
Event month
October
The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma is committed to highlighting and contributing to the development of new trends in cinema and new media. It is a showcase for new, original works, particularly in the fields of independent cinema and digital creation.
Festival Filmar en América Latina
Country
Switzerland
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, experimental, documentary, animated
Deadline month
July
Event month
November
Every year Festival Filmar en América Latina showcases new feature, short, documentary, experimental and animated films produced in the region of Latin America. The festival takes place during three weeks of November, with screenings visiting other Swiss cities. The festival has no jury or awards; the main purpose of the festival is to present quality cinema to the festival audiences.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
Country
Argentina
Type of link
Festival
Deadline month
August
Event month
November
The goals of this Festival, consistent with its international nature, are to present a substantial and assorted number of foreign feature films and welcome their corresponding delegates, and thus contribute to the progress of the world film industry and its promotion in Latin America.
Festival International des Scénaristes
Country
France
Type of link
Other Events
Deadline month
November
Event month
April
The mission of the festival is to promote and defend the work of screenwriters in any genre (feature, documentary, animation, libretto), and to provide a meeting place for creative exchange, networking and screenings.
Festival International des Très Courts
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Section
short
Formats
?, Beta
Deadline month
February
Event month
April
Festival des Très Courts is a competition of films under three minutes long. Fifty films are selected from the bulk of international entries, and screened in a little over two hours. Simultaneous screenings are also organized in nearly thirty other cities in France and around the world. The aim of the festival is to promote films of all genres under three minutes.
Festival International du Court Métrage
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Section
short
Deadline month
June
Event month
October
First held in 2000, Lille Intl. Short Film Festival wants to promote the genre of short film, and to support independent filmmaking.
Festival Lab
Country
Germany
Type of link
Training Programme
Deadline month
September
FESTIVAL LAB is an initiative of 8 festivals in 8 countries, an intensive training programme for European festival directors and producers which combines theory and practice.
FESTIVAL LAB wants to point out the necessity to give a chance to the next generation of festival programmers and to offer theoretical and practical support as well as a laboratory to test drive new programme ideas. It is conceived as a special programme which integrates theoretical preparation (academy), practical experience and discussion (workshops), an opportunity of own professional experience (residency) and a future-oriented artistic program, designed, developed and realised by the residents as part of the program of the hosting festivals.
Festival of European Co-productions
Country
Bulgaria
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction
Deadline month
January
Event month
May
Feature and short co-productions with the participation of at least one European country.
Festival of European Film Smiles
Country
Czech Republic
Type of link
Festival
Event month
September
The Festival of European Film Smiles (FEFÚ) is a festival of competing new European comedies. The event was first held in 2003. The role of the festival is to popularise European comedy films and enrich cultural life in the Central Bohemian region.
The festival centre is the Škoda Auto Museum in Mladá Boleslav, where the festival has created its home, benefiting from the appealing architectural environment of its screening hall.
Festival of Festivals - St. Petersburg International Film Festival
Country
Russia
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, new media, fiction, experimental
Deadline month
May
Event month
June
Festival of Festivals is Russia’s largest non-competitive Festival of recent outstanding works in international and Russian cinema. Festival sections: Festival of Festivals (the best from international festivals), New Russian Cinema, Short Films, Special Screenings and Retrospectives.
Festival of Film Animation
Country
Czech Republic
Type of link
Festival
Event month
December
Festival of film animation takes place in Olomouc, Czech republic. It intends show the contemporary trends in animation, its possibilities and historical development.