Organized by the Berliner Fenster in cooperation with Interfilm Berlin Management, Going Underground is a festival of ultra short films. Films submitted to the festival must not be longer than 90 seconds, they must be silent and without violent or obscene content. In the main section, Going Underground Award, fourteen selected films are screened in Berlin's underground trains. The public then votes for the best film by sending an SMS or via the internet.

The festival includes two main categories: International Competition (feature and documentary films) and Armenian Panorama National Competition (feature, animation and documentary films). In addition, there are retrospectives and Yerevan premieres of the best recent art-house films.

International Festival of Local TV Broadcasters. This international festival is the only event of its kind in Europe. The main competition is accompanied by workshops with the participation of significant European professionals from field of television production. The daily program includes presentations of local TV networks, technology developing companies, and non-governmental organizations, which develop activities related to television. The main prize – Golden Beggar is awarded to the best TV program creator.

Bulgarian full-length films and series, Bulgarian documentaries and foreign full-length films and series.

From Trieste to Vladivostok, from Helsinki to Tel Aviv, the Golden Drum is the biggest, the most important and the most noticed advertising overview and event of the year.

Each year, the festival showcases amateur, student films and short films.

Golden Prague - International Television Festival one of the oldest and most prestigious television festivals: its first edition was held in 1964. Only Prix Italia (established 1949) and Monte Carlo and Montreaux (both established in 1961) can boast with longer tradition.

Bulgarian feature, short and experimental films.

The Göteborg Film Festival is the biggest public film festival in Scandinavia. Each year, some 400 films are screened for 110 000 visitors. Additionally, some 60 film related seminars attract roughly 5000 visitors. The aim of the festival is today two-fold. It is an annual opportunity to offer interested viewers a broad program of films that not always reach the cinemas. It is also a meeting place for the Nordic film industry. In 2000 the festival established a market place for Nordic film. The ambition was to strengthen the role of the festival as a Nordic meeting place and to be the interational link to new Nordic films. During four days, new films are screened for an international group of buyers, distributors and festival representatives. The market place, which runs parallel to the ordinary festival, is called the Nordic Film Market and hosts 130-140 specially invited guests each year. It is today the biggest single market place for Nordic films.

The Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival is a biennial event. It is open to all filmmakers, but especially those from enthropology, anthropology, sociology, folklore and neighbouring disciplines. It provides a great opportunity for international co-operation in Visual Anthropology and documentary filmmaking. The general aim of the festival is to promote documentary cinema in the context of intra- and intercultural communication and to give credit to new films, videos or interactive media dealing with anthropology, sociology and cultural studies in a wide sense of the term. Organised as an event in the heart of Europe, media from Central and Eastern Europe will be accepted with particular interest.

The festival was established in 1993 to promote works by young filmmakers from all around the world. The festival screens more than 80 short films from various countries that compete in three categories: short fiction, animated and experimental films.

GRAND OFF – World Off Film Awards is the most important event promoting independent cinema in Poland and one of the most significant initiatives of its kind all over the world. Independent cinema came into existence along with the invention of camera and it can nowadays boast numerous extraordinary productions. Thus, independent film should be held in high esteem and is certainly worthy of a more detailed attention.

The Festival is organized by the FRAPNA (Rhône-Alps Federation for Nature Protection) and has become, over the years, one of the main meetings for both audiovisual professionals and nature lovers.The Festival is both for adults and children. That is why documentaries, reports as well as cartoons, animated films, etc. are accepted, as long as they are related to nature and environment subjects.

Established in 1977, the independent festival in Selb focuses particularly on films from Eastern Europe of all categories. It also provides a forum for young East European filmmakers.

Chinese state level international professional event and market focusing on documentary which started in 2003. The festival held in Guangzhou annually includes the following major activities: A thematic Competition, Documentary Market, Public Screenings and Seminars. Every year, GZ DOC chooses a theme with international concern for the competition and calls for the recent documentaries produced in China and worldwide. The past themes include: History and Cultural Heritage, Children and Youngster’s Stories, Women Today, Facing Poverty and Towards the Olympics. Documentary Market in GZ DOC is the only professional market in documentary in China. It started with Documart (project pitching session) and Doc Shop in 2004. In 2005, 30 VIP commissioning editors were invited to meet Chinese producers. Projects with Most Marketing was introduced for promoting Chinese projects to international market. In 2006, GZ DOC worked with Discovery Asia in “Discover First Time Filmmaker” program and received over 400 applications and a Sino-Canada-German trilateral producer meeting was held. In 2007, GZ DOC introduces Producer Day and invited 50 international producers to meet Chinese documentary professionals. GZ DOC Screening endeavors to introduce outstanding documentaries to Chinese audience who rarely have access to these films. Screenings of outstanding documentaries in the festival venue and universities were held since 2003. From 2005, Public Screenings were held during the festival time in three cinemas in Guangzhou. In 2006, 38 films from China, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Poland, Finland, Portugal, Canada were screened in three cinemas as well as University City. Starting from 2007, GZ DOC opened online application for public screening. Seminars have been held since GZ DOC 2003 to discuss various issues in documentary making. The 2008 concern is: How to Produce Market-Oriented Documentaries.

Established in 2006, the festival aims to bring to the Donegal Gaeltacht documentary films made to the highest international standards, including in the Irish language; to promote the use of Irish in the documentary film industry by developing a festival that operates through Irish and that is Gaeltacht based; to attract internationally renowned film directors to Ireland and to introduce them to a national and local audience.

Hamburg Gay & Lesbian Film Festival was established in 1989 and it is currently Hamburg's third largest film festival. During six days the festival shows over 150 international films in 5 venues. All selected films are dedicated to the topic of homosexuality or they reflect lesbian & gay culture. The winners of five audience choice awards are announced at the final ceremony. The competiton sections include Eurola for the best European feature, Dokula - audience award for best documentary film, Globola for the overall best feature, and Ursula for the best short film.

Established in 1985, the Hamburg International Short Film Festival has its roots in the independent filmmaking scene. Since it was founded, it has always been the Festival’s aim to rise to the challenge presented by new developments and changing parameters in technology, society, and aesthetics. For this reason the festival always presents new, unknown, unusual, or contradictory productions. The competition programme includes International Competition, NoBudget Competiton for low-budget productions, 3-Minute Quickie for 90-sec shorts, a section for films made in Germany, and a special section for films from Hamburg. The festival also organizes special events, such as seminars, workshops and panels.

Hamptons International Film Festival is committed to fostering independent cinema and filmmakers' careers at their early stages of development. The festival was founded in 1993 to celebrate the independent film - long, short, fiction and documentary - and to introduce a unique and varied spectrum of international films and filmmakers to audiences. Festival prizes are abundant. Juried awards include the Golden Starfish Award for Fiction Feature ($150,000 in-kind goods and services), documentary ($10,000 cash/in-kind) and short film ($5,000). Other awards include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize in Science and Technology ($25,000), The Kodak Award for Best Cinematographer ($6,000 in-kind), the Zicherman Family Foundation Award for Best Screenwriter ($5,000), the Brizzolara Family Inspirational Film Award ($5,000). Additionally, Graduate and Undergraduate awards are given to eight student filmmakers who receive $1,000 each.

The festival presents feature and documentary films.

HIFF is a statewide event with more than a dozen screening sites on six Hawaiian Islands and an audience draw of over 70,000. In addition to a full slate of feature films, documentaries, and short subjects, HIFF conducts seminars, workshops, special award presentations, and receptions with top Asian, Pacific, and North American filmmakers.

The Heart of Gold International Film Festival showcases films that feed the audiences with their thought-provoking, uplifting or simply funny take on life. The festival is seeking films that make a positive statement, that are entertaining while at the same time highlighting important social issues.

The Helsinki Festival is the most diverse event in the Finnish cultural calendar. The Festival was founded in 1968, and it aims to display Finnish and international performing and creative arts, while featuring artists, ensembles and exhibitions of the highest level. The Helsinki Festival is the biggest festival in Finland in terms of audience figures, in 2005 it gathered approx. 254.000 members of the audience to its various events. The programme consists of classical and contemporary music, dance, theatre, popular and world music, cinema, performance and art exhibitions.

The Himalaya Film Festival shows some of the dynamic changes affecting the area of the Himalayan mountains and provide the audience with intimate insights into the the landscape and people of the region. The Festival offers audiences the chance to experience the Himalayan region, to travel beyond the image of the region as it is presented in regular movies and meet the intriguing diversity, and uniqueness of the Himalayas.

The competition consists of creating and cutting a new sound track over old films taken from the silent film era. The festival aims to newly integrate sound and image and to rediscover films that might otherwise be soon forgotten. All the admitted films and animations have to belong to the silent film era and integrated in the montage. Whatever length is accepted. Whatever kind of soundtrack either original or non-original is allowed. Works can either be respectful or ironic and desecrating. Manipulation of the original montage and extracts is not allowed.