Krakow Film Festival is one of the world’s oldest events dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films. During 7 festival days viewers have an opportunity to watch about 250 films from Poland and abroad. Films are presented in competitions and in special sections like retrospectives, thematic cycles, archive screenings. Festival is accompanied by exhibitions, concerts, open air screenings and meetings with the filmmakers. Every year Krakow Film Festival hosts about 600 Polish and international guests: directors, producers, film festival programmers and numerous audience from Krakow. http://www.kff.com.pl/en/

International short film festival for film students, which opens the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Competition in three categories: animation, fiction, documentary.

Also presenting various non-competitive programs.

International Competiton in Animation, Documentary and Fiction. National Competition. Special programms: Work in progress Special Programmes and Retrospectives

Go Short is an annual new, refreshing film festival for European short films. It is a unique event in The Netherlands at which the audience is treated to short films. The festival's main location is the local multifunctional arthouse LUX.

Go Short is the Dutch festival for short film. For five days, around 300 short films are screened in Nijmegen. Besides screenings there are exhibitions, workshops, performances, parties and more!
Established in 2008 Go Short shows a wide variation of short films, most of them made by young, talented filmmakers from all over Europe. The festival's main program contains national, international, student and online competitions (containing fiction, animation, documentary and art film). The student competition, Breaking Shorts, is selected by the student film platform Breaking Ground. Competitions are judged by multiple professional juries. Go Short also presents multiple out-of-competition-programs.

For nine days and nights, all those who love film will be treated to some of the most original and engaging feature films, documentaries and short films from across Canada and around the world.

Flickerfest is Australia`s premiere international competitive short film festival. In summer we screen outdoors under the stars at Bondi, Australia`s most famous beach; following the festival a selection of the films tour to 50+ venues around Australia.

Fantoche is one of the most prominent festival for animation film. With a program containing over 70 events, along with screenings of 220 short and long films from all over the world, the last edition of Fantoche proved to be a great celebration of animated film-making, attracting over 34,000 fans of the genre.
Since its first appearance in 1995, Fantoche offers the best in entertainment for cinema-goers of all ages and brings together visual media from a variety of sectors.

Celebrating achievement in genre film is the raison d’être of the MisCon Short Film Festival. We accept submissions from filmmakers from around the world who seek an audience appreciative of the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

The Kansas City FilmFest is celebrating its 18th year and unites educational, cultural and film organizations in a celebration of independent filmmaking. Each year the festival builds on its tradition of bringing inspiring, thought-provoking, and entertaining films to Kansas City audiences and offers opportunities for artists and filmmakers to network, and develop their craft and art. KCFF encourages filmmakers to attend the festival so they can have the opportunity to interact and engage with our great Kansas City audiences!

The Kansas City FilmFest will be celebrating its 18th year with a special animation emphasis, Animation Inside Out and new category, Web Series-Heartland.

5th edition of Latin America's most prestigious animation festival, open to feature and short films produced for theatre, TV, video or the Internet. Special interest: independent animation, school productions, Latin American films. No entry fee.

"Kurzsuechtig - das Leipziger Kurzfilmfestival" zeigt Animations-, Dokumentar- und fiktionale Filme von Filmemachern aus Leipzig und der Region Mitteldeutschland. Regularien, Anmeldeformulare und alle Infos rund um das Festival -> www.kurzsuechtig.de !

"Kurzsuechtig" is a short film festival specifically for Middle Germany, i.e. for the states Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. "Kurzsuechtig" shows on three days short films from the categories animation, documentation and fiction. For more information check www.kurzsuechtig.de !