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Message To Man

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The 35th Message to Man International Festival of documentary, short fiction, animated, and experimental films will take place from 17 to 25 October 2025 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Over the years, the Festival has hosted distinguished figures of world cinema, including Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Claude Lanzmann, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Paolo Sorrentino, Alan Berliner, Eric Roberts, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abdellatif Kechiche, Udo Kier, and many others.

With its history spanning three decades of cinema development, Message to Man was founded in 1989 in Leningrad by filmmaker Mikhail Litvyakov, who now serves as the Honorary President of the Festival.

In 2010, Alexei Uchitel, a renowned director of documentaries and feature films, assumed the role [...]



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Published: 27 Apr 2025
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FENACIES Student Film Festival

Deadline: 10 Jun 2025

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The fifteenth edition of the Student Film Festival FENACIES Uruguay opened its inscriptions on April 1st, and will remain open until June 10th. As every year, all the students from all over the world (from Primary to University) can register their short films totally free, which will be displayed in Montevideo from September 8th to 14th.

FENACIES is an organization founded in 2011 that started with the aim of creating a cinema festival specifically to youth, where competition would be fair and creativity and effort of these would be valued.

At first, the festival was avowed of cultural interest by the Ministry of Education and Culture, educational interest by the Primary Education Council, and tourist interest by the Ministry of Tourism and Sport. Furthermore, in 2015 UNESCO [...]

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Montevideo, Uruguay



 
 
 
 
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Published: 27 Apr 2025
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Urganda Festival

Deadline: 10 Jun 2025

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Urganda Festival invites Mexican and international producers and filmmakers to submit their short and feature films to the 3rd edition of the Festival, which will also feature live music and presentations, taking place from July 5th to 6th, 2025.

This edition will feature a competition section, where films will be in competition. It will also feature an exhibition section, focused on promoting and showcasing both international and national projects that are less well-known.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Zamora, Mexico



 

 
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Published: 26 Apr 2025
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VIII Edición Cinema Miúdo

Deadline: 04 Aug 2025

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The Ames International Children's Film Festival is back, an event that wants to make children dream, think, smile, and awaken emotions, consciences, and illusions. It will be held from November 13 to 16, 2025.

This year's edition will take HUMAN RIGHTS as a cross-cutting theme. The title of this year's edition will be “Let's defend peace and human rights”, with special emphasis on the importance of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and its dissemination in the seventh art. This theme will be punctuated with film exhibitions of pieces that deepen and disseminate this defense of human values and social awareness.

Let the rattles ring and the spinning tops spin, the VIII International Children's Film Festival of Ames begins.

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Ames, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 26 Apr 2025
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Noctambulante

Deadline: 14 Aug 2025

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OFFICIAL CALL FOR ENTRIES – NOCTAMBULANTE 2025

Noctambulante is a horror and fantasy film showcase with 16 years of experience in Mexico City. What began as a film club has become a landmark event for fans of fantastic cinema, building a passionate community and promoting a love for the genre through all-night screenings in diverse venues across the city.

Over the years, Noctambulante has taken cinema beyond traditional theaters, creating immersive experiences in unique settings — from parks and plazas to historical sites and open-air locations. Its mission is to bring horror and fantasy films to new audiences, providing a platform for the exhibition of national and international productions that rarely find space in commercial theaters.

Beyond exhibition, Noctambulante is [...]

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México, Mexico



 
 
 

 
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Published: 25 Apr 2025
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PITCHING - Festival Internacional De Cine De Huesca

Deadline: 06 May 2025

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El Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca (HIFF) lanza la primera edición de su convocatoria Pitching HIFF para apostar por el nuevo talento y por la creación de cortometrajes de profesionales emergentes de España.

El Pitching HIFF pretende ser un espacio de encuentro para jóvenes cortometrajistas profesionales y productores/as que desean apoyar a profesionales emergentes apostando por sus cortometrajes de ficción, documental, no ficción,...

El plazo de presentación finaliza el 6 de mayo de 2025.

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Huesca, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 25 Apr 2025
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Work In Progress - Festival Internacional De Cine De Huesca

Deadline: 12 May 2025

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El Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca (HIFF) lanza la primera edición de su convocatoria Work in Progress HIFF, un espacio de impulso, visibilidad y acompañamiento para cortometrajes iberoamericanos en fase avanzada de postproducción.

El objetivo de esta convocatoria es brindar apoyo creativo e industrial a proyectos de cortometraje que se encuentren en etapa de montaje o finalización.

El plazo de presentación finaliza el 12 de mayo de 2025.

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Huesca, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 25 Apr 2025
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제8회 전주국제단편영화제

Deadline: 13 Jun 2025

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Regulations for Submission to the Competition Section of the 8th Jeonju International Short Film Festival

The Jeonju International Short Film Festival is an annual event hosted by CineSoop, a non-profit organization under the Cultural Contents Research Institute.

The 8th Jeonju International Short Film Festival will be organized by the Festival Executive Committee.

The festival aims to contribute to the diversity of film and culture by introducing outstanding short films from Korea and around the world to audiences.

The 8th edition of the Jeonju International Short Film Festival will be held in Jeonju from September 25 to September 29, 2025.

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Korean Jeonju, South Korea



 
 
 
 
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Published: 24 Apr 2025
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Lloret Negre

Deadline: 31 Jul 2025

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Lloret Negre is the first noir genre festival of the Costa Brava. It's objetive is to promote the noir genre and as well as Lloret de Mar and it's heritage.

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Lloret de Mar, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 23 Apr 2025
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Luces Cameros Acción

Deadline: 01 Jun 2025

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LUCES CAMEROS ACCION is a short film festival with two sections.

1 – “Rural World" Section
International section of short films in Spanish or Spanish subtitles.

Recorded in villages in rural areas or dealing with rural idiosyncrasies.

Premiered from January 1, 2024.

2 – “Cameros" Section
The works submitted will be original pieces that are not accessible through Internet.

With 30% of the "footage" recorded in recognizable places of Cameros (New and old Cameros located in La Rioja Spain).

Deadline for submission of works:
"Rural World" section: before May 31, 2025.
"Cameros" section: before July 21, 2025.

Screenings and Awards Ceremony:
19,20,21,22 and 23 of August in villages of Cameros, La Rioja, Spain.

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El Rasillo, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 22 Apr 2025
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FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE SECUENCIAS

Deadline: 08 May 2025

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Festival of sequence shot or continuous shot.

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MATURÍN, Venezuela