Manchester Film Festival, Chain Film Festival , Madrid Indie Film Festival– Film Festival Guide May 26
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Cucalorus Film Festival
The 31st annual Cucalorus Festival takes place November 19-23, 2025 in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. The non-competitive festival showcases more than 120 films from all over the world and attracts filmmakers, performers and activists who come to celebrate the art-form, discover new work, and discuss the ongoing work of undoing racism. The festival’s spirited celebration is a breeding ground for young artists, new ideas and future collaborations.
Festival programs focus on social justice, dance on camera, emerging voices, southern stories, horror & the bizarre, and the finest indie films of the year. Voted “One of the Coolest Film Festivals in the World” (MovieMaker Magazine 2013, 2014, 2015, 2023), and “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” (MovieMaker Magazine 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), Cucalorus creates an opportunity for intimate engagement between audience and artist through the festival’s retreat-like atmosphere, resulting in friendships that extend far beyond the festival’s 5-day celebration.
Cucalorus wants to see your stuff! Cucalorus seeks magical movies and outrageous videos for this fall’s 30th annual film festival. Cucalorus wants original, outlandish and unexpected creations that bring both justice and joy to our fierce family of filmmakers, performers, and activists. Accepting fabulous features, daring documentaries, sizzling shorts, dance films, animation, experimental films, weirdly personal essays, experiments in cinema, social justice docs, first-time filmmakers, and just about anything you can fit into an MP4!
https://filmfreeway.com/CucalorusFilmFestival
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Manchester Film Festival
Manchester Film Festival is proud to be a BAFTA Qualifying Festival for British Short film and a BIFA qualifying festival for both Shorts and Features and one of the Top 10 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway.
The festival celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2025 with remarkable success, featuring sold-out screenings throughout the week.
Manchester Film Festival is a ten-day celebration of film, with all films screened in a cinema with full surround sound and crystal-clear visuals.
All attending filmmakers are invited to take part in post-screening Q&A’s, red carpet interviews and nightly after parties.
In-competition films will come from open submissions submitted through FilmFreeway and the festival will end with the annual awards ceremony, with winners chosen by industry professionals, Manchester Film Festival alumni and Manchester Film Festival’s programming team.
Filmmakers will have plenty of opportunity to network with other film creatives at a festival that is known as a relaxed, filmmaker friendly event in a city that can offer an experience to attendees beyond the festival itself.
https://filmfreeway.com/ManchesterFilmFestival
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Chain Film Festival
The 13th Annual Chain NYC Film Festival (Chain NYC) is known for celebrating personal stories and original ideas in the heart of midtown NYC. With the goal of sparking exciting dialogue between filmmakers and their audiences, Chain NYC comes alive in New York City. The venue couldn’t be more convenient as it’s located steps from Penn Station and blocks from Times Square.
Chain NYC welcomes narrative and documentary submissions, whether in feature-length, short-form, or “super-short” format. Audiences find one of the biggest strengths of the festival is the wide variety of types of programming selected. Past years have included genre busting Grindhouse Film Blocks to important Human Rights Documentaries. Film blocks are meticulously curated for films that belong together. The festival also warmly embraces webseries submissions as part of a new wave of creative enterprise in an increasingly connected world. Over 30 awards are bestowed in numerous categories, including Best Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Animated Film, and Best Local Filmmaker. Special prizes may also be awarded, at the discretion of a jury of storytelling and filmmaking experts.
https://filmfreeway.com/ChainFilmFestival
Madrid Indie Film Festival
¡Hola! We are MADRIFF • Madrid Indie Film Festival, an international film festival with screening events from Madrid, Spain, and member of the IBERIFF • Iberia Indie Film Festivals, which celebrates and showcases new productions and independent artists from all over the world in Madrid (MADRIFF), Barcelona (BARCIFF), València (VALÈIFF), Seville (SEVIFF), Lisbon (LISBIFF) and Montpellier (MONTIFF), that you can also find them here in FilmFreeway.
MADRIFF shares the mission of its associate festivals of supporting emerging talents, encouraging artistic exploration, fostering networking, promoting cultural exchange and engaging the local community by providing a platform to present the work of independent filmmakers.
Fiction films, animation, documentary and experimental works of any genre and subject are welcome!