Festivals: call for entries

Alternativa invites: Impact Distribution Lab

 

Deadline: 30.09.2025

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Almaty Series Festival and Series Mania Open New Horizons

 

Almaty, Kazakhstan / September 22-26, 2025

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The upcoming Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in 2026, with Latin America as the focus region 

 

Guadalajara, Mexico, June 10, 2025 – Alternativa has announced that the 3rd edition of the Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in Q2 2026, with an expanded prize fund of120,000 USD (an increase of 20,000 USD from the previous edition) and a new award categoryfor a feature film from the focus region, bringing the total number of awards to seven. The opencall for submissions runs from June 10 to October 10, 2025. Feature-length films of all genresare accepted from Latin America and Asia, while the short film categories are reservedexclusively for Latin America.

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Saturday, 08 June 2024 00:00

Second Bishkek International Film Festival: International competition & Jury

 

Place: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Dates: 11-15.06.2024

 

International competition – List of films:

 

  “Bride Kidnapping” by Mirlan Abdykalykov, Kyrgyzstan, 2023

 

  “A Little Samurai” by Sano Shinju & Yerlan Nurmukhambetov, Japan-Kazakhstan, 2023

 

  “Inshalah a boy” by Amjad Al Rasheed, Jordan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, 2023

 

  “The Legends of Eternal Snow” by Alexey Romanov, Sakha / RF, 2024 - World Premiere

 

  "Bosnian Pot" by Pavo Marinkovic, Croatia, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina

 

  “Angels don't Buzz” by Alexander Seliverstov, Serbia / RF, 2024

 

  "Shambhala" by Min Bahadur Bam, Nepal, 2024

 

  “Daaaaaali” by Quentin Dupieuh, France, 2023

 

Jury of the International competition:

 

  Rasoul Sadr Ameli, Chairperson, director, producer, script-writer, Iran

 

  Iris Wang, producer, Canada

 

  Agron Domi, producer, Albania

 

  Shokir Kholikov, director, winner of Bishkek IFF-2023, Uzbekistan

 

  Dastan Japar Uulu, director, winner of Bishkek IFF-2023, Kyrgyzstan

 

 

Entry free