The Washington, DC International Film Festival (Filmfest DC) celebrates the best in world cinema in the Nation’s Capital each spring. Over 100 feature premieres are presented, as well as an opening night gala, closing night party, receptions and panels. In addition, many directors are in attendance. In the competitive category, Filmfest DC offers the Capital Focus Award for outstanding film, and an Audience Award for favorite film.

The 10 Sec Film Fest is a rolling competition, accepting submissions throughout the year. Submissions must be 10 seconds long, on any subject and in any form (live action, animation, comedy, documentary, experimental, etc.).

In October 2003 Beeping Bush Productions and Close-Up Film magazine staged their first horror short film competition open to all. Entitled 2 Days Later this annual 48 hour competition, open to all regions, is designed to encourage local people interested in film, maybe for the first time, to make a production with nominal expense and technical ability. The films must have a horror, chiller or suspense theme and be produced within 48 hours and have to be no longer than 10 minutes. The entries can be made on any format, video, digital media or film. A judging panel of industry professionals will vote for the best film in five categories - Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Student Film, as well as the audience vote for Most Popular Film.

Film Festival, which focuses on experimental forms of film media. It deals with film as a medium that explores the conceptual and technological possibilities. Reveals an innovative form of painting from the earliest experimental works avandgardu through to today's forms.

The Festival of 3 Continents is an International Film Festival devoted to the presentation of feature fiction films and documentaries from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The aim of the festival is to use the medium of fiction films and documentaries to make possible confrontations of cultures from the different countries of the three continents. Nantes, a seaport on the Atlantic coast, is a particularly appropriate meeting place, since it continues to be a gateway to these three continents. The festival also wants to promote the distribution of films from the three continents, and to help artists achieve recognition for creative work that is often produced under extremely difficult conditions.

4 Elements - Summer Film Seminar annually offers a collection of full-length and short films, especially archive films on a given subject (four elements, cult films, four worlds, fourth dimension, invisible cities, revolutions? etc.). Each screening is preceded by an introduction or a lecture. The seminar is accompanied by various art events.

The festival, founded in 2007 by Hervé Chabalier, the head of prominent French audiovisual production agency CAPA, charts and examines upheaval in the audiovisual and media sectors caused by the digital revolution.

700IS is the only experimental film and video festival in Iceland. The festival accepts all submissions that fit under the heading of experimental films: animation, dance on film, short films, videoart, etc.

The 8mm Festival is a unique international open-air event in the old city centre of Kampen, where the screening of 8mm films takes place. The festival is an initiative of three enthusiastic 8mm-cineasts, who organize this grand happening entirely out of love for this medium. The festival screens a wide range of 8mm films - nostalgic family pictures, weddings, holidays, experiments with artistic intentions, etc.

AFIA is an international festival for independent filmmakers and media artists focusing on artworks that appreciate the artistic value more than the commercial aspects. AFIA is dedicated to the purpose of showcasing the most progressive and uncompromising works from independent artists from all around the world, those whose productions demonstrate quality, innovation, and independence, in form and content. The Festival pays special attention to the works which involve film- sound and music dramatically in cinematic content. The festival consists of a short film competition for international talents, a special competition Upcoming Scandinavia for young Scandinavian filmmakers aged less than 21, an exclusive Conferencing program, a video library and various networking events. An international jury will award the best works.

The Abu Dhabi Film Festival was established in 2007 with the aim of helping to create a vibrant film culture throughout the region. Presented each October, the event is committed to curating exceptional programs to engage and educate the local community, inspire filmmakers and nurture the growth of the regional film industry. With its commitment to presenting works by Arab filmmakers in competition alongside those by major talents of world cinema, the Festival offers Abu Dhabi’s diverse and enthusiastic audiences a means of engaging with their own and others’ cultures through the art of cinema. At the same time, a strong focus on the bold new voices of Arab cinema connects with Abu Dhabi’s role as a burgeoning cultural capital in the region and marks the Festival as a place for the world to discover and gauge the pulse of recent Arab filmmaking.

The festival addresses documentary-makers and authorised producers and invites them to participate in the international competition in which documentaries are presented along with science, popular science and educational programmes.

Throughout history, American film has raised the bar in a broad spectrum of elements, including technology, performance, style, innovation and experimentation. While filmmakers all across the globe continue to stun audiences with incredible cinematic masterpieces, our primary focus is on American-made works. From the backyard to the backlot, this country has harvested some of the most talented visionaries and storytellers known to man. ACEFEST (formerly known as "ACE Film Festival") is an annual celebration of these artists of the past, present and future. By providing a nurturing forum for domestic film and video, we magnify the focus on this country's creative voice. There is no better time than now for Americans to express themselves and communicate, through their art, on an international level. ACEFEST sets out to embrace those who share their thoughts, dreams, opinions, fears and ideas through the eye of the lens.

Towards Berlin shows how filmmakers from around the world engage themselves thematically with the city of Berlin and the region of Brandenburg, how they establish their perspectives on the capital region, and how they form an aesthetic picture. achtung berlin seeks, in Towards Berlin, to present audio-visual finds, which deal with the emergence and development of cultural identities in the city, reflecting urban and parallel worlds of living in present-day Berlin as well as changeful history of this city. Further achtung berlin seeks to present films, which deal with the reality of the people’s life in the region of Brandenburg, its cities and villages. Eligible for participation are feature films and documentaries that feature a thematic relation to the city of Berlin and/or the region of Brandenburg - irrespective of running time and production format.

This unique, industry-based, annual Los Angeles competition is a showcase of filmmakers from across the world, and recognizes the most talented with over 125 multiple Career Access Meetings and Cash and Sponsor Awards valued at over $50,000, and honor their work by bringing them to the attention of the Hollywood film industry. The most effective, career-launching, short films competition in the world for all filmmakers looking to build a movie career.

AFI FEST and the American Film Market (AFM) have created the first concurrent festival/market event in North America. The largest motion picture trade event in the world, AFM is a marketplace where over $500 million in production and distribution deals are conducted and closed annually, by more than 7,000 entertainment professionals and executives from over 70 countries. AFI has built its reputation on creating international competitions that feature brand new films from emerging filmmakers along with showcases of the latest work from great film masters, and nightly red-carpet gala premieres. For new filmmakers, Kodak CONNECT offers the opportunity to connect with more than 100 representatives from all corners of the film community within an intimate and intensive framework of one-on-ones, breakfasts, lunches, roundtables, and other opportunities to advance your career. AFI FEST programming includes international competitions of features, documentaries, and shorts, as well as European, South American, Asian films, special screenings, galas, tributes and retrospectives.

The festival first took place in 1996 and its programme offers a variety of African feature, short and documentary films. Debates with filmmakers, actors and experts have long been part of the festival. The festival aims to present Africa not as a place of unrest but as a versatile assembly of regions with an inherent treasury of cultural products that withstand every critical probe.

Africa in Motion accepts entries from all filmmakers of African nationality working in Africa or abroad. The festival is particularly interested in giving exposure to young, emerging African filmmakers living and working in Africa. Films could be fiction, animation, experimental or documentary and shot in any format. Fiction films should be no longer than 40 minutes and documentaries no longer than 60 minutes.

The festival was first held in 1987 as a retrospective of African cinema but has gradually evolved into Europe’s biggest African film festival. The programme focuses on new productions. Each year as many filmmakers as possible are invited. Their presence makes for very lively screenings, and boosts the debate with audiences and among the filmmakers. In 2005, the festival became an annual event, featuring films (some in open-air screenings) from Africa and its Diaspora (the Americas, Europe, Surinam, and the Caribbean). The festival screenings take place in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven.

The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) is a platform for the world to zoom in on the talent and beauty of Africa through film. Starting December 2010, it will hold yearly in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria hosting both local and international filmmakers, celebrities, actors, directors, film buyers, distributors, visual artists, film students, amateurs, film lovers and the press.

The festival was founded in 2005 in order to introduce African cinema to Belgian audiences. The programme includes the following sections and events: AfriCannes - a selection of films that were featured at the Cannes Intl. Film Festival; Goûter au réel - documentary films; a selection of short films, debates, seminars and lectures.

As a tribute to Luis Bunuel’s masterpiece, the Royal Belgian Film Archive awards the Age d’Or Prize to a film of which the authenticity, the peculiarity of purpose and of style mark a break with cinematographic uniformity. This prize amounting to €5000 is granted by the Jacques Ledoux Foundation. During this same competition the Jury will also award two Cinédécouvertes (Film Discovery) Prizes. These prizes (€ 10.000 each), financed by the French Community of Belgium, are granted to two films unreleased in Belgium, which have not yet found a local distributor. The Age d’Or prize and one of the Cinédécouvertes prizes can be awarded to the same film.

The non-profit association AGON in collaboration with the greek magazine Archaeology and Arts organize the international meeting of archaeological film of the Mediterranean area. Accepted are: archaeological films, documentaries, fiction, animation, reporting, educational etc. produced by either public or private organizations, or individuals from all over the world. The subject is archaeology of the Mediterranean area in its wider sense, i.e. Antiquity, Middle ages, or even industrial archaeology and naturally the dying popular art and traditions. Archaeological films dealing with other areas of the world can be accepted for participation in the informative section.

The Festival is organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic under the Government of the Slovak Republic and of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).The organization of the Festival is secured by the Research Institute of Animal Production in Nitra together with Emerging Film Praha in cooperation with the Slovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra, Czech Agricultural University in Prague, Agrokomplex-Exhibitions, Nitra, SAPV Agency, Slovak Agriculture Science and Technology Association, Bratislava, Nitra State Gallery,and other international and Slovak organizations.