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 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 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.
Festival of Slovenian Animation
Country
Slovenia
Type of link
Festival
A selection of animated films.
Festival on Wheels
Country
Turkey
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, experimental, documentary, animated
Formats
35 mm
Deadline month
August
Event month
December
Festival on Wheels is organized by the Ankara Cinema Association under the patronage of the Turkish Ministry of Culture. The Festival aims to introduce a distinguished selection of films to the Turkish audience and to cultivate an ardent desire for a nation-wide distribution. The Festival was founded in 1995.
Festival PAF Prague
Country
Czech Republic
Type of link
Festival
Deadline month
February
Event month
April
Film festival for amateur or an independent film-makers.
Festival Tous Courts - Aix-en-Provence International Shortfilm Festival
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Section
short
Formats
16 mm, 35 mm, Beta, Beta SP, DV
Deadline month
July
Event month
November
The aim of the festival is to promote short film as a category that is fully comparable with the creative and technical challenges of a full-length feature film. Every year the festival screens roughly 250 short films, and organizes special screenings and debates. The festival's Short Film Market is an important part of the programme aimed at international buyers and distributors.
Festivalito - La Palma International Festival of Digital Film
Country
Spain
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, new media, fiction, experimental, documentary
Formats
Beta
Event month
May
Festivalito is a film event that promotes new methods of production, narration and distribution in cinematic productions, by the use of the new digital tools, especially that of cine chico - little cinema, i.e. films that use digital technologies in its own distinct way and that do not imitate the film format. The programme offers the following sections: 1 La Palma Rueda - twenty directors write, shoot and edit twenty digital shorts during the week of the festival, following a given subject; 2 Mondo Digital - innovative shorts of the cine chico type; 3 San Borondón - shorts from the Canaries; 4 Biosfera - fiction and documentary films; 5 Retrospective.
festivāls ŪDENSGABALI
Country
Latvia
Type of link
Festival
Festroia International Film Festival
Country
Portugal
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction, documentary, animated
Deadline month
June
Event month
September
Festroia - International Film Festival was established in 1985 and takes place every year in Setúbal. The main competition presents feature films from countries producing or co-producing up to thirty feature films a year. Films that do not fulfill these criteria can be shown in other informative sections. The festival has also the Costa Azul Award for fiction and documentary films that deal with the interaction between humans and their environment (natural, cultural or social). Films in this section are selected by invitation. The third competition section (the Troia Award) aims to recognize young filmmakers who present their first feature films. The programme also includes retrospectives and tributes that focus on a particular country or filmmaker.
FIC Móstoles International Short Film Festival
Country
Spain
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction
Deadline month
February
Event month
April
The FIC Móstoles International Short Film Festival accepts entries from film producers and directors from all around the world. Short fiction films (up to 30 minutes) of any genre and production formatmay participate.
FICI - International Film Festival for Children and Youth
Country
Spain
Type of link
Festival
Section
children, fiction
Event month
November
The aim of the FICI - International Film Festival for Children and Youth is to promote and support film culture among children and youth. The festival also organizes FICI Market which takes place simultaneously with the festival.
FIDADOC
Country
Morocco
Type of link
Festival
Section
documentary
Formats
Beta, Beta SP, Digi Beta, DV
Deadline month
July
Event month
November
A film festival organised by The Association of Culture and Education through Audiovisual in Morocco.
FIDMarseille
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Section
documentary
Formats
16 mm, 35 mm, Beta, DVD
Deadline month
March
Event month
July
FIDMarseille aims to enable audiences to access a variety of new films production in terms of geographic, format and thematic orientation. The documentary genre is at the center of the FIDMarseille’s artistic choices. Championed like an art of testimony with no requirement as to format, the festival welcomes films and artists who play with the transversality of the arts. Seven years ago, the festival took the decisive step of welcoming in the official selection fiction films alongside documentaries.
FIKE - Évora International Short Film Festival
Country
Portugal
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, documentary, animated
Formats
16 mm, 35 mm, Beta, DV
Deadline month
June
Event month
October
FIKE is a co-ordination of Pateo do Cinema S.O.I.R. Joaquim Antonio de Aguiar and University of Evora Film Society and is particularly oriented to the exhibition of less known cinematographies that promote diversity, cultural intervention and technical and artistic quality.
Film a dějiny Film Festival
Country
Czech Republic
Type of link
Festival
Event month
August
Festival Film and History was founded in 2002. It takes place in Vysočina region, Czech Republic.
Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Country
Poland
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction, experimental, documentary, animated
Deadline month
May
Event month
July
The Festival is organized by The TWO RIVERSIDES Association. The permanent Festival’s sections are: World Under Canvas, Documentary, In The Short Run, Music - My Love, I Love Cinema, Great Cinema On Small Marketplace. The festival organizes the Audience Poll and Independent School And Amateur Short Films Competition.
The entry is open for fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films to the main programme (World Under Canvas, Documentary, In The Short Run) and to The Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition. The submission is free of
charge.The entry is open for fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films to the main programme (World Under Canvas, Documentary, In The Short Run) and to The Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition. The submission is free of
charge.
Film by the Sea - International Film Festival
Country
The Netherlands
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction
Formats
16 mm, 35 mm
Event month
September
The festival screens a large variety of films, ranging from major Hollywood productions to smaller arthouse films. The programme consists of the competition section featuring films based on a literary source, an audience award for films that will not be released in Dutch cinemas, the lifetime achievement award (2003: Etore Scola; 2004: Milos Forman, 2005: Istvan Szabo), and a number of seminars, workshops, educational activities and debates.
Film Festival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema
Country
Germany
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, documentary
Formats
?, 16 mm, 35 mm, DV
Deadline month
August
Event month
November
Film Festival Cottbus is a leading festival of East European Cinema. Itincludes the annual representative overview of current feature film production in the whole of the East European region (countries of the former Eastern Bloc), it is internationally unique regarding the scope of the programme and diversity of countries, quality and topicality of the film selection, it has a clearly structured programme with a concentration on feature films, including short feature films and children's films.