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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Home Film News First Bishkek IFF: Info about "Parallax"
Thursday, 09 November 2023 00:00

First Bishkek IFF: Info about "Parallax" (Iran) from International competition

 

Place & dates: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 17-21.11.2023 

Screening: 19 November 2023, at 12.00, Ala-Too cinema

 

Parallax

 

“Parallax” by Shahram Ebrahimi, Iran, 2023, 80’

 

Award: Golden Taiga for the best film at the Spirit of Fire International Film Festival in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 2023

 

Synopsis:

Mahrokh is going to act in her first film and her husband Kayvan is against it. A few days before the shooting, she accidentally catches fire at her birthday party and her face badly hurts. Mahrokh does not see it as an accident and believes that Kayvan has done it out of jealousy.

 

 

 

 

 

Shahram Ebrahimi

 

 

 Biography:

Born in Shahrkord – Iran in 1983, Shahram Ebrahimi is a graduate of Stage Acting. He is a director, director’s assistant, scriptwriter, actor and editor in cinema, television and theatre. Parallax is his first feature film.