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Film blogger James McNally (Toronto Screen Shots) launched Shorts That Are Not Pants in December 2009, showing a program of shorts in his apartment to a small group of friends. Several other editions followed, and he soon felt it was time to share the wealth of short film talent with the rest of the city.
Beginning in January 2012, Shorts That Are Not Pants kicked off a quarterly celebration of short film. In 2018, we’re hosting a series of monthly curated screenings and will hold our very first festival weekend on November 16-17, 2018. We watch films from all over the world to bring you a curated program of films that we hope will entertain and inspire.
Films can be submitted over at FilmFreeway.
Wiz-Art is an annual International Short Film Festival, which takes place in Lviv, Ukraine at the beginning of August. The festival was started by art formation Wiz-Art, which was founded in 2008. The festival shows more than 100 brand new short films every year. Wiz-Art is a powerful cultural and educational platform that unites Ukrainian and foreign filmmakers and introduces them to the Ukrainian audience experienced professionals.
The Norwegian Short Film Festival is a short film and short documentary festival with a competition programme for Norwegian and International short film, short docs and Norwegian music videos.
In addition to the award programmes, we present international documentaries, arrange work-shops and seminars, concerts, boat trips and many other interesting film programmes.
The Norwegian Short Film Festival is an important debut arena for many young filmmakers in Norway, and for the more established filmmakers perhaps the most important showcase for free and independent films. The competition programme for international short films attracts filmmakers from the rest of the world to Grimstad, and the festival facilitates for bonds to be tied between the Norwegian and the international film community. The films from both the Norwegian and international competitions are discussed during daily participant gatherings.
CineMare International Ocean Film Festival Kiel welcomes ocean themed films from all genres and of all lengths. By bringing the oceans on land and onto the cinema screens, the festival aims to increase awareness of and love for the blue in our blue planet in all its facets.
Short, concise, diverse. Short Waves Festival is an international short film festival from Poznań, Poland, which celebrates its 11th edition between 19th and 24th of March 2019.
Every year six festival days include screenings of 300 short films from all around the world for a total audience of about 7000 film enthusiasts. The programme consists of competition screenings divided into three categories: International Competition, Polish Competition and Dances with Camera – unique dance film competition as well as non-competition programme, educational and industry activities, filmmakers talks and many others. Every year the festival has a country in focus and multiple theme programmes presenting emerging film talents from different regions. Also, Short Waves Festival sets new trends in event-cinema field, creating site-specific film installations in unexpected locations or organizing exciting special events such as Random Home Cinema in private apartments. Festival events take place in various locations across Poznań: art house cinemas, clubs and cultural centers.
KYIV INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (#KISFF) is largest short film festival in Ukraine. The widest panorama of contemporary short films, classical and latest achievements of Ukrainian cinema, special events and world premieres, educational and professional sections — all in our five-day marathon in the city center. It’s a happening for those who is fond of real cinema – the most important art for us!
It’s THE rendez-vous for young filmmakers in Europe! Second biggest short film festival in France, one of a kind with its European dimension, the Brest Festival, founded in 1986, plays a major role in the cultural life of the city of Brest and the region of Brittany, providing a cinema-based event every year in November.
Showcasing the creativity and dynamism of young European filmmaking! And also discovering filmmakers who will go on from their experience at Brest Festival to present their first feature film at a festival such Cannes, for example. The festival is the meeting-point for film professionals, where they can publicise their films and begin new collaborations. The festival also brings together professionals and filmgoers, enabling everyone to find out more about the creative and artistic processes involved in the making of a film.
With its mix of key competition programmes (European, French, UFO-OVNI) and a new set of programmes, the festival reveals the best of European short films. Many programmes outside the competition are also presented in the interest of offering a choice to many types of audience, including the Brest Off, the festival’s window on genre films, Made in Breizh which highlights films made and/or filmed in Brittany, Panorama Animation, an insight into the wealth of European animation films and also the Young Audience programme with its sections for different age-groups and family-viewing.
The Festival is organised by the Côte Ouest Association, whose wider mission is to bring short films and cinema to the public, staging film education events aimed at a variety of audiences, throughout the year.
The world’s first moving images were shot in Leeds in 1888 by Louis le Prince. Today Leeds is a major centre for film production and exhibition. A qualifying event for the BAFTAs and the Oscars, Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) is a national celebration of global filmmaking culture.
Founded in 1987 Leeds International Film Festival is renowned as a dynamic event with a reputation for challenging and innovative programming. LIFF primarily supports outstanding new talent and established talent that has not received deserved exposure in the UK. LIFF considers narrative, documentary and animated films, in feature-length and short formats, in multiple genres and from all countries. Last year LIFF presented a huge variety of exceptional films at over 300 screenings and events at 30 venues over 15 days.
Founded in 1954, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is one of the major international crossroads for the short form, unique in the range of forms and genres it presents to the public, and particularly well known for its spotlight on experimentation. The festival has never lost its enthusiasm for new cinematographies and borderline areas of cinematic experience. Oberhausen has always remained a place where new discussions and developments are launched. Today, it is the leading festival worldwide in the border zone between art and film.
In the course of more than six decades, filmmakers and artists ranging from Roman Polanski to Cate Shortland, from George Lucas and Martin Scorsese to Pipilotti Rist and Eija-Liisa Ahtila, have presented their first works in Oberhausen. In addition to its five competition sections, Oberhausen is known for its strong line of thematic programmes such as “The Third Image – Space and Time in 3D Cinema” (2015), “El pueblo – Searching for contemporary Latin America” (2016) or “Social Media Before the Internet” (2017).
The festival also operates a well-stocked Video Library, a non-commercial short film distribution branch and a unique archive of short films from more than 60 years of festival history.
In 2017 the festival received almost 7,000 competition submissions from nearly 100 countries. The festival screened more than 500 films and registered around 1,000 accreditations and ca. 17,000 entries.