NexT International Film Festival celebrates innovative and creative filmmaking from all around the world. Its mission is to discover and support emerging international film talents by promoting their works locally, nationally and internationally.The festival structure comprises screenings (films in competition, several off competition programs), film literacy activities (seminars, masterclasses and workshops) and industry events (The Pitch contest, NexT Short Film Market). A clear majority of European films dominates the programming (over 75% each year), with special focuses on low audio-visual capacity countries (in 2015: Focus on the Baltic Countries).The off competition programs include special selections curated by the programmers of the festival, centered around specific genres (NexT Monsters Night, NexT Musical, Kung Fu NexT) or extremely high standard programs (Arthouse Shorts – short films made by already consecrated directors - such as Mike Leigh, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lynne Ramsay, presented during the 2014 edition). Already traditional off competition programs include the reruns of the short film line up of Semaine de la critique in Cannes, the European Film Academy Short Film Nominees and the Oscar 2015 live action nominees.More than an outstanding selection of films for the audience, NexT has also been growing more and more solid in the past years as a platform for supporting and promoting young European professionals: The Pitch contest (with an award of 5.000 euro) and NexT Short Film Market were organised for the first time in 2014 and will be consolidated in the future editions.Special effiorts are made outside the festival all year round to maximize the impact of the works presented during the festival, through a series of screenings around Romania that will gather and estimated of over 7.000 spectators in 2014 alone.