Empowered WOMXN, 2025 (Online)
Back for the fourth time, GIFF is excited to present Empowered WOMXN 2025. This event celebrates the stories, strengths, and journeys of women through films created by female filmmakers, celebrating International Women’s Day with powerful stories from around the world.
Categories
Narrative Shorts
*there is no submission fee to submit a film
The SPICY INDIE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (SPICY IIFF) is an annual event and is organised by Spicy Daisy Productions based in Europe|Greece.
The main concern of SPICY IIFF is the promotion of the art of Cinema through the presentation of an eclectic mix of exceptional independent short films from International filmmakers
The aim of the festival is also to promote, recognize and support the production of short films and to develop a spirit of friendship and cooperation among filmmakers.
"Spicy Indie International Film Festival" is a true filmmakers festival by a team of filmmakers dedicated to the language of cinema and arts and aims to bring a range of independent short films of all genres, who successfully use creative cinematic language forms, from all corners of the world to Greece.
It is one of the Best Short Film Festival ever. Come Join in and make this Great Event a Success. Indapur International Short Film Festival is leading an inventive International short film celebration and welcomes filmmakers and movie producers. It is one of a kind short film Festival, concentrating on opportunities for worldwide movie producers.
IISFF is a Unique Short Film Festival occurring every year in the city of Indapur (PUNE) which centers around opportunities creation for worldwide filmmakers. The possibility of this short film festival was taken through an Inspirational Event held in Pune during 2017 and it has been a long time from that point forward we have effectively finished up the 3 years of Short Film Festival Event in the city of Indapur.
IISFF will give a chance to elevate familiarity with Hindi, English and Marathi cultures and characters to crowds of every single social foundation. IISFF will introduce films in their unique dialects with subtitles with an end goal to construct cross cultural bridges. The Vision and Mission of IISFF is guided by a advisory board composed of reputed and notable appointed authorities, filmmakers and directors of film industry.
IISFF brings film lovers and film producers together to empower trade of data and single window answers for film industry. The Indapur fest Aims to do inventiveness through all year Activities like :
* Film Festival
* Seminar ( meeting ) by Experienced Film Directors.
* Film Screening
* Workshops for Upcoming Filmmakers
* Interactions with driving Film Makers, Technicians and Actors
It is a goal for the film network to find, reach and talk about the film festival occasions. Festivals are esteemed for the film business as the most dangerous road for developing contacts, coordinated efforts and professions universally. Indapur fest focuses on the production of this equivalent socialization, sharing and support.
The stage furnishes filmmakers with the innovation to distribute their films to crowd. If you make films or you screen films, Indapur fest can connect you to the next generation of film makers.
Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is one of the oldest world film forums (the second after the Venice Film Festival). The Moscow International Film Festival has been leading its history since 1935. Then the chairman of the jury was Sergey Eisenstein, and the film Chapaev opened the first festival. However, in subsequent years the festival was not held regularly. Therefore, the Moscow International Film Festival has officially counted down since 1959, when it was renewed and turned into a regular event - it was carried out over odd years, alternating with the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. In 1999 MIFF became an annual event.
Edinburgh Short Film Festival Now Open! International Tours & Cash Awards
The 14th edition of the ESFF with International Film Festival showcases, more short film screenings, trophies, cash prizes and awards!
Max Length 25 minutes, international films welcomed, all genres eligible.
Open for entries online and via Festhome!
http://www.edinburghshortfilmfestival.com/
Looking forward to seeing your films!
BioBiocine, International Film Festival of Concepcion, is an intercultural gathering of knowledge and wisdom expressed through cinema, which aims to be a space for dialogue and contemplation, as well as to disseminate, promote, support and place value on National and International Cinematography from a Territory and Identity that is established as the context for its annual meeting.
BioBioCine International Festival calls for works from all countries and cultures for its eleventh version. Its program includes competitive and non-competitive categories of Fiction and Non-Fiction Feature and Short Films, with a focus on auteur cinema, new filmmakers, experimentation, intercultural dialogue and first nations.
The competition is addressed to filmmakers from all over the world who produce short films and documentaries.
Its purpose is to appraise short films and documentary-films whose goal is expressiveness and cultural disclosure starting a cinematographic event throughout Val d’Intelvi.
The cinema festival Fantasmagoria- Festival de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Medellín - reaches its 7th edition. Our competition opens to the world and the city of Medellín to explore genre cinema and reflect on these thematic. The festival has several sections of short films and feature films to embrace the fantastic and horror genre spectrum. Also, to consider relevant national and international people who have done significant work to the genre through their filmography.
Short films and feature films will be selected from any nationality, produced in 2024 or 2025 which have yet to be seen in Medellín, Colombia. The films have to be related to the fantastic genre (fantasy, horror and sci-fi) and thriller, western, action, adventure and noir. They will be exhibited during the festival in Fantasmagoria in October 2025 in Medellín city, Colombia. The film features will compete for the El Cura Sin Cabeza statuette award.
At the Villa de Orgaz Film Festival we are happy to tell you that we are going to start our first edition in the town of Orgaz (Toledo), giving shape to our illusion of being able to bring Culture closer to emptied Spain, and to be able to give to also get to know those young directors and actors.
The Festival will be held on the last weekend of February, with two viewing days and on the last day, awards ceremony and Closing Gala at the Auditorium of the Town.
The purpose of "Agropoli International Film Festival" is to honor the vision, the art and the work of Independent Filmmakers Worldwide.
The Live Event will be on 14/19 November 2023 in the "Area of movies" in Agropoli, a beautiful village in the Cilento Coast (Italy).
In more than 36 hours of screening, the best Short Films, Videoclips, Documentaries and Feature Film will be showcased and recognized.
The peculiarity of our festival is to interview all the filmmakers who will tell us about their films online through the "zoom" platform.
Please, read carefully the rules before submitting.
The Tsiolkovsky International Space Film Festival (Tsiolkovsky ISFF) is held annually in Kaluga. Films and programs about space and its relationship with science, art, and culture take part in the competitive, non-competitive, and retrospective screenings of the Festival.
The purpose of the Tsiolkovsky ISFF is not only to present new films about space, but also to promote all areas of science and art, one way or another related to space, to strengthen the traditions of international dialogue between scientists and filmmakers to solve urgent problems of the development of modern science, culture and new technologies. In addition, the Festival carries an important educational mission on all issues related to the past, present and future of space research and space activities.
Goals and objectives of the Tsiolkovsky ISFF:
• the most complete presentation of the current state of the world cinematography related to space themes;
• demonstration of the best documentary and feature films about space, created both in Russia and abroad to the audience and the jury members. At retrospectives and special screenings, the audience will have the opportunity to watch the most famous films of domestic and foreign "space" cinema;
• the Tsiolkovsky ISFF may become a platform for live communication of creative people, scientists, as well as an exchange of projects and ready-made ideas in the field of space and "space" cinema;
• maintenance of a steady audience interest in film products related to space themes;
• a meeting of filmmakers with the audience of one of the most intensively developing regions of the country;
• the opportunity for filmmakers not only to effectively communicate with science, but also to transform scientific "space" ideas into something accessible and creative for a wide audience;
• to acquaint scientists with the world of cinema, to realize its creative potential and accessibility.
Tsiolkovsky ISFF SLOGAN: What is impossible today may be possible tomorrow (K.E. Tsiolkovsky, Self-made scientist who became the founder of modern astronautics)
Tsiolkovsky ISFF LOGO: The official logo of the Festival used in the festival symbols and official papers is a drawing by K.E. Tsiolkovsky from the "Album of Space Travel", which he created for the first Soviet science fiction film called "Space Flight."
The JURY of the Tsiolkovsky ISFF includes not only professional filmmakers, but also astronauts, as well as scientists from the space industry.
A TOTAL OF 21 AWARDS AND 1 SPECIAL MENTION HAVE REWARDED SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE FILMS COMPETING IN THE FIRST EDITION OF THE MOONLIGHT ONLINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL [MOIFF], WHICH TOOK PLACE BETWEEN 10 – 15 SEPTEMBER 2024. (The Festival Palmares is available on the The Festival Website.)
TWO SUBMITTED BUT NOT SELECTED FILMS AND TWO SELECTED FILMS HAVE ALSO BEEN CHOSEN FOR DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT PROPOSALS, AS PART OF OUR FESTIVAL’S MISSION OF PROMOTING VALUABLE FILMS ON THE MARKET.
Now, Festival President and Artistic Director Gabriel Daniel Dorobantu and Festival Head Manager Irina Tolokolnikova are having the pleasure of welcoming you to The Second Edition of The Moonlight Online International Film Festival which is organized and administered by the Swedish creation, production and distribution company Dorobantu Film & Television.
The Festival aims to promote original feature films and short films of high artistic quality and to support independent cinema worldwide.
In addition to the long lists of awards in the Feature Film Section and in the Short Film Section, The Moonlight Online International Film Festival is presenting the Trans-Section award Great Moonlight Award for Best Film in the Festival – which is the Festival’s supreme award (physical trophy and cash prize) and is awarded by the festival jury either to the winner of the Moonlight Online Award for Best Film in the Feature Film Competition or to the winner of the Moonlight Online Award for Best Film in the Short Film Competition.
Again, in this Second Edition of the Festival, both among the films submitted to the Festival but not selected and among the films selected for Festival participation, feature films and short films with high market potential may also be selected for film sale and / or distribution agreement proposals. (In such cases, the rights holders of the respective films will be contacted by the festival management office within three months after the festival.)
The EXTRAMUROS Festival is an annual celebration dedicated to showing a cinema created from the provinces, peripheries or any point outside the capitals of the world, usually excluded from conventional screens. Its content revolves around the non-commercial, poetic, human, social, environmental reality, of human rights and of the Latin American peoples and the world.
It is a space of recognition for all those people or groups that, through their audiovisual works, communicate their view of the world.
The main headquarters of EXTRAMUROS is located at www.casabukowski.com and its social networks and the dates scheduled for the exhibition are from March 28 to April 2, 2022. In this second version it will be done in a hybrid way, for this reason , we have requested the I.
Municipality of San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, province of Cachapoal, be the epicenter of this great event. In addition, there will be face-to-face exhibitions in Madrid, Berlin, Mexico City, and the Peruvian Amazon.
The production of the EXTRAMUROS Festival will be in charge of the CASA BUKOWSKI CULTURAL NGO.
THE CATEGORIES OF THE FESTIVAL ARE:
1. Long film (61 up to 120 minutes)
2. Short Documentary (7 up to 12 minutes)
3. Cinemetáfora: Category created by and for the EXTRAMUROS Festival. Specially dedicated to poetry and literary text, which does not exclude the oneiric or the audiovisual essay that does not exceed 10 minutes in length.
4. Shortfilm (1 up to 7 minutes)
The works must be in Spanish or with subtitles in this language.
Festival designed to showcase independent politically inclined films from all corners of the world.
All short film submissions are now FREE.
Agenda is to help show the world stories with a macro political agenda. This is purely a partisan minded festival. Our goal is to show films from different ideological points of view. (As long as their is no hate filled, racist, sexist, or violent points of view)
In this time of divided cultures, our idealistic agenda is to help bridge the gap in some small way. To entertain and educate by films and screenplays that need to be seen by the world.
IT´S OPEN TO ALL
The finalist short films will make up the competitive exhibition. This will be screened in the various screening spaces scheduled for this year's edition of the 2024 Festival.
As part of the festival's decentralized activities, this finalist screening may be programmed in audiovisual and cultural events organized or co-organized by the Cinco Minutos Cinco association.
A home for the biggest, baddest, in your face, down your throut, melt your brain Horror, Sci-fi , Action , Martial Arts , Exploitation , Mobsploitation , Sexploitation and everything-elsploitation. You will find no dramas, no rom-coms and no musicals ( unless totally twisted )
The best new Grindhouse movies are shown at an epic festival held at one of the UK's longest running entertainment venues - The Legendary Shed Venue.
What you will find at the Grindhouse Planet festival is a playlist of movies like no other. Each film is selected by a Panel of Grindhouse connoisseurs form around the globe. The festival is for film fans and filmmakers to meet like-minded people, have a drink, watch some movies, eat some Pizza ( for free!! ) and have a bloody good time. There is a movie stall hosted by The Cult Movie Store where some rare Grindhouse flicks can be purchased, along with lots of other stalls offering Grindhouse goodies.
There is also a chance to attend Q&A sessions with some of the planet's best Grindhouse directors and producers.
Want more?
There is more! Much more!! How about a music festival at the same time? You got it. As well as all of the awesome films, there are live bands playing throughout the day. From Thrash Metal and Punk to Acoustic & Electronic, there is something for everyone. You may even find your next Grindhouse soundtrack.
From the creators of the Depth of Field International Film Festival, Docs Without Borders Film Festival, and the WRPN.tv Women’s International Film Festival (among a few other successful festivals) and, under the umbrella of the WRPN.tv Network we bring you the Hispanic International Film Festival (HIFF)
Open Call – International Experimental Film Festival 2025
The 3rd International Experimental Film Festival (IEFF) – 2025
organized by the Institute for Experimental Arts
“The future of film is female and experimental. We need to destroy and reconstruct cinema itself.” – Maya Deren
About the Festival The 3rd International Experimental Film Festival is an international encounter dedicated to experimental film art, announcing its call for submissions. The festival will take place in Greece, creating a dynamic space for screenings, installations, performances, conferences, film concerts, and workshops. The festival seeks to expand the possibilities of film beyond traditional formats and spaces, creating a zone of creative contagions between cinema and the visual arts, historical works and current production, analog and digital, filmmaking and critical thinking.
“I make films to prevent myself from disappearing. Each frame is an act of resistance against the prescribed narratives.” – Chantal Akerman
Our Vision of Experimental Cinema Experimental cinema is a free, radical, and purposeful cinema that responds to the aesthetic, political, or philosophical need to see and explore cinematic horizons, away from large industries and hegemonic formulas of creation. It is through experimental cinema that we find authentic ways to create audiovisual art.
“Experimental film is not just about breaking rules – it’s about proving those rules never really existed.” – Barbara Hammer
We celebrate a cinema that breaks the narrative, and most of all visual, bounds to which we’re used. A cinema that elaborates on film medium to its fullest, by including even the most extreme possibilities. A cinema that confronts, disrupts, and reimagines. As John Cage said it well: “an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not foreseen” – the cinema we’re looking for is a cinema of the unpredictable.
“The experimental is political. Every frame can be an act of rebellion.” – Agnès Varda
FESTIVAL MISSION
The 3rd IEFF continues to be the pioneering space in the exhibition of experimental content in cinema, which seeks to show excellence and innovation in the independent production of the film world. We celebrate aesthetic diversity, new narratives, and new media and formats; a program that reveals the complexity of social, cultural, and artistic phenomena. We understand experimental cinema as a divergent cinema that vanishes the boundaries with art, emphasizing the experimental modes of creation.
“In experimental cinema, we find the freedom to imagine different futures and to remember different pasts.” – Trinh T. Minh-ha
Special Focus for 2025
- Feminist Experimental Practices
- Gender and Technology
- Body Politics in Digital Age
- Queer Experimental Narratives
- Decolonial Experimental Cinema
- Eco-feminist Approaches to Film
- Cross-disciplinary Collaborations
- Digital/Analog Hybrid Works
- Experimental AR/VR Projects
ABOUT
The Institute The Institute for Experimental Arts was founded in 2008 in Athens, Greece as a non-profit platform of creative expression and research in the fields of theater, performance art, digital media, installation, poetry and art theory. The Institute is committed to existing as an open meeting point for poets-writers, directors, actors, theater engineers/technicians, performance artists, photographers, video artists and the writers who develop new analytical tools on contemporary art, media & communication.
CRITICAL DISCOURSE
The festival will always see the development of the cinematic language with critical thinking, regardless of the terms ‘cinema industry’ or independent cinema. For this reason, the 3rd IEFF will bring a critical discourse through curatorial programs, symposium, and public lectures to broaden the knowledge of the ever-changing cutting-edge cinema aesthetics.
“Cinema is not neutral. Experiment is our way to fight back.” – Sally Potter
SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
We accept all works that fit into the experimental film category and all its sub-genres including:
- Found footage
- Essay film
- Expanded cinema
- Experimental animation
- Abstract film
- Experimental documentary
- Video art
- Virtual reality
- Direct animation
- Any other experimental approaches
There are no genre, topic or length restrictions.
The 3rd IEFF features Avant-Garde and Experimental films of any length.
IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS
+ All films with dialogue must have ENGLISH or GREEK subtitles
+ Submissions without subtitles will be considered incomplete
+ Films that have screened before are eligible
AWARDS
We believe in culture as a pluralistic and intangible value. The awards assigned by our diverse jury are purely symbolic. Selected films will be judged by an exceptional jury and seen by a vast audience of film lovers.
Golden Arrow Awards Categories
- Best Film
- Best Short Film
- Best Director
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Music
- Best Performance
- Best Picture
Submission Deadlines and Fees Deadline:
August 15, 2025
Submission fee: 25 euro per video or media project
Program Announcement: October 2025
Contact Information For any questions: theinstitutecontact@gmail.com
RIGHTS
The International Experimental Film Festival reserves the right to use small portions and stills of accepted films for promotion of events.
We actively encourage submissions from women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming filmmakers, as well as creators from underrepresented communities. Our commitment to diversity extends to our jury selection and programming decisions.
“The revolution will be filmed experimentally.” – Su Friedrich
The 3rd International Experimental Film Festival is a project of the Institute for Experimental Arts, celebrating the radical potential of cinema to transform our understanding of art, society, and ourselves.
