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.
Issni N’Ourgh, meaning “Golden Crown”, is an Amazigh film festival founded in the city of Agadir. Now marking 19 years of existence, the festival has gradually established itself as a key platform for the promotion of Amazigh cinema. Once addressed mainly to Amazigh-speaking audiences, Amazigh films are today screened and recognized at numerous international film festivals worldwide.
For its third international edition this year, the festival embraces a truly global perspective by launching an international competition open to filmmakers from all continents and by welcoming films from the cinemas of peoples around the world. The selected films will be screened during the festival and evaluated by a jury composed of film professionals.
This year’s program highlights works that reflect the diversity of world cultures and the voices of different peoples, while addressing major contemporary challenges.
Through varied cinematic approaches, the selected films explore themes such as migration, globalization, environmental preservation, and the promotion of peace and tolerance.
Through FINIFA, Issni N’Ourgh aims to strengthen its position on the international film scene while actively promoting Amazigh culture worldwide. By celebrating cultural diversity, fostering dialogue between peoples, and upholding universal human values, the festival contributes to building a more open, inclusive, and tolerant world.
Please read all the rules carefully. Thank you.
San Giovanni International Film Festival is hosted by Chez Thésse, Rosaspina, and Artefix, cultural associations all operating in the independent film industry, in synergy with the Teatro San Giovanni Battista in Genoa. These three organizations are joined by other associations, bodies and sponsors.
Objectives:
This Festival aims to create a place where Cinema can be a source of interaction between young people. Somewhere they can meet, exchange ideas, and plan together, to increase film culture through interviews open to the public and to professionals in the field and where you can think of a solution to the social problems that plague society. All this by offering and promoting works with relevant artistic content, capable of developing critical awareness and contributing to the cultural growth of the young audience.
The Incontrastable Film Festival is a space that promotes the dissemination of independent audiovisual works within the South American countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. It also seeks to bring these independent productions closer to the general population, promoting critical cinema that contributes to the development of a much broader and more inclusive cinematographic culture.
Leicester Film Festival annual celebration of cinema from around the world set in the heart of the UK Midlands. Leicester Film Festival is open to all genres and formats. The Festival takes place at Firebug Venue in Leicester. The festival includes live screenings, Q&A with filmmakers and Awards presentation for category winners.
FestiBaldo was born with great enthusiasm — and a lot of effort — in the Sant Roc neighborhood (Badalona) in 2022. It is a festival organized by the 10th-grade students of Institut Escola Baldomer Solà.
This year marks the 4th edition, and we hope it will have the same impact as in previous years.
To participate, entrants must comply with the rules and regulations described below.
The "Open Festival Marseille" association is organizing the Open Festival Marseille on Friday, October 16, 2026, at the PATHÉ Joliette cinema and on October 17, 2026, at the PATHÉ Madeleine cinema. This will be the fourth edition of a fiction film festival that is entirely free for the public.
The festival is open to all filmmakers, both amateur and professional. Films will be selected according to three criteria: fiction only, produced after January 1, 2023, and with a running time of 15 minutes or less. (Entry fee: €5 per film)
Five prizes will be awarded: Jury Prize, Audience Award, Coq Award (presented by Pathé), Young Talent Award (presented by film school students), and Club Award (for amateur or self-produced films).
For more information, please visit
https://www.openfestivalmarseille.com
Lloret Negre is the first noir genre festival of the Costa Brava. It's objetive is to promote the noir genre and as well as Lloret de Mar and it's heritage.
The Oruro International Film Festival is headquartered in the city of Oruro, in the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
The city is known for its rich culture and folklore, its most prominent expression being the Carnival of Oruro, which attracts thousands of national and international visitors each year. In 2001, it was declared a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO, recognizing its multicultural and religious significance.
The Festival, whose twelfth edition will be held from November 16 to 21, 2026, aims to recognize and promote Bolivian and international films that demonstrate strong artistic, aesthetic, and humanistic values.
I Cabanas Film Festival is a film event organized by the cultural association Tarde Piache, in collaboration with the Cabanas City Council. This free-admission festival aims to promote cinema within the genres of thriller, fantasy, science fiction, and horror, while encouraging creativity and participation among filmmakers of all ages.
The festival takes place between February 14 and March 29 at the Escola Laica of Cabanas (Galicia, Spain), and features film screenings alongside dedicated sessions for children, young audiences, and adults. It also includes a short film competition with different categories based on age and format. The event concludes with an awards ceremony and closing celebration.
For this edition, the competitive section consists of two official categories:
1) MANIFESTARTE Fiction Competition
2) MANIFESTARTE Non-fiction competition
Puglia, southern Italy.
In 1945 the American army landed in southern Italy for the "liberation" campaign and suddenly passed through Molfetta, our base city. During their stay the allies reported some neighborhoods as "OUT OF LIMITS" due to the "social danger" of the people who lived there. In the first two editions, 2013 and 2014, our festival took place in two squares, Piazza San Michele and Piazza delle Erbe, near the areas still considered by many to be "out of bounds", in Molfetta.
The “Out Of Bounds” film event is run by filmmakers and focuses on empowering the best independent artists and encouraging all aspects of independent film production. We seek the unconventional, the unusual, the underground, the intuitive, the innovative and the true.
Subsequent editions took place in the cloister of the church of San Domenico, in the port area of the town and in the ancient arena of the castle of Barletta, an evocative and historic medieval place and at the Artists' Citadel of Molfetta.
The special sections chosen for this edition are "Dystopian shorts”, short films dealing with themes related to pollution, war, and the exploitation of resources, including dystopian scenarios, and “Shorts on gender equality, even those directed by a male director" (INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL).
There is no submission fee for short films from Iran, Palestine, Ukraine, Venezuela, Sudan, Yemen or a State in a critical political situation.
El 1er PREMIO TALENTO RTVE / MÁLAGA SHORT CORNER AL MEJOR PROYECTO DE CORTOMETRAJE DE FICCIÓN es una iniciativa de RTVE y el Festival de Málaga / MAFIZ / Málaga Short Corner que pretende impulsar la producción de cortometrajes, facilitando a sus ganadores recursos que contribuyan a la realización de un cortometraje.
About the Festival
Hamilton Film Awards is an international competition with public screenings and an exclusive award ceremony, created to honor the finest talents of the independent film industry, selected from the most prestigious competitions around the world. This award is dedicated exclusively to short films, indie films, experimental films, and music-driven films.
The festival accepts films made after 2023.
Hamilton Film Awards is an international competition with public theatrical screenings and an exclusive award ceremony, designed to celebrate the best independent talents participating in prestigious competitions worldwide.
The Hamilton Film Awards (HFA) aims to discover and honor cinema to which the festival is ready to offer its “hand and heart.”
To identify and preserve those acts of cinematic creation where form becomes revelation and craftsmanship reaches the level of a spiritual feat. We believe that true cinema is not an imitation of life but its transformation into light—where every frame is a carved-in-time ode to the invincible power of beauty in the art of film.
We seek works in which the filmmaker’s reverence for the eternal becomes a visible miracle—film stock turned into revelation, whose final frame becomes pure feeling itself.
The “OVE” statuette is not just an award. It is a living symbol of what lies at the foundation of great cinema: love for creativity and for filmmaking. OVE, holding this gift, becomes the guardian of the eternal. She is not merely inspiration but a conduit between the creator’s world and immortality. In her hands rests the director’s diamond heart — a pledge of loyalty, a promise that even when the director is gone, their love remains, like diamonds that continue to shine in the darkness of eternity.
We believe that true art is the quintessence of eternal values, embodied in the fleeting moment of a single frame. Our goal is to present cinema that evokes emotion, sparks conflict, and is as deep and eternal as true feeling—unique as a proposal of lifelong devotion.
Submitting your work to us is not about winning, career advancement, or recognition in the usual sense. It is for you if you are ready for another kind of dialogue: for your love of cinema to be seen. Not the plot, not the budget, not the technical methods—but the feelings and emotions that make us experience, empathize, love, and live through what gave birth to the film itself. So that your work may be noticed, recognized as a kindred heart, and told: “We know how deeply you love cinema. We see it in every frame.”
If your work is a crystal, we will not shatter it with the hammer of market trends. We will place it in the treasury where cinema becomes legacy—not product. You have already given your heart to the screen. Now allow us to become the mirror in which it is reflected—pure, eternal, and invulnerable.
Your heart, given to art, is recognized and returned to you—cut and polished into a diamond.
OVE is inlaid with a 4-carat diamond heart of exceptional clarity and cut, and coated in 24-carat gold.
Symbolism:
The OVE award is not a prize but a knighthood of vision—a sign of belonging to the brotherhood of those who bring into the world not just a film, but visible proof of the soul’s immortality.
The Hamilton Film Awards strives to become one of the world’s most respected festivals, and its top prize—the OVE statuette—aims to become as coveted as the Oscar.
Hamilton Film Awards announces the launch of its first festival, which has already generated great anticipation thanks to its extraordinary prize.
O. V. E. = Opening — Vertex — End
Symbolizing the Triad of Creation and embodying the three acts—beginning, climax, and finale.
Why submit your work?
So that your “heart,” offered to art, may be recognized and returned to you—cut into a diamond.
Submit to us if you are ready for another kind of dialogue: for your love of cinema to be seen. Not the plot, not the budget, not the techniques—but the emotions, the feelings, the life force that gave birth to the film. So that your work may be recognized as a kindred soul: “We know how deeply you love cinema. We see it in every frame.”
If your film is a crystal, we will not break it with the hammer of convention. We will place it where cinema becomes heritage, not product. You have already given your heart to the screen—now let us become the mirror that reflects it: pure, eternal, invulnerable.
So that your heart, given to art, may be recognized and returned to you—cut into a diamond.
Primeiro festival de cinema canábico do Brasil chega na segunda edição ampliando a janela de Temas.
Cinema a Pedal is a film festival that promotes sustainable mobility through the audiovisual language. Its programme brings together national and international short and feature films — fiction, documentary, animation and experimental — in which the bicycle takes centre stage, whether as a narrative element, the driving force of the plot, or the guiding thread of the stories.
The Rome Independent Film Festival (RIFF) is Italy 's first independent and international film festival. Its aim is to unite enthusiasm for films and filmmaking among young filmmakers with the realities of film production and distribution.Since its first edition in 2001, RIFF has become an event that is followed with more and more interest by the public in Rome and a reference for worldwide filmmakers. In these years, the Riff has received works coming from the 5 continents, ending up being an attentive witness representative of the directions and passions of the independent film industry.
(r)evolution AI - the RIFF new section dedicated to the production of films and videos with the application of AI technology.
From this year the RIFF celebrates visual storytelling created with artificial intelligence.
This new competition section promotes innovative applications of AI technology in audiovisual production and presentation.
