Logo of 25° Corto Fiction Chianciano Terme

Deadline
31 May 2025


Published: 03 May 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films

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25° Corto Fiction Chianciano Terme

Chianciano Terme, Italy


We are a certainty and we want to confirm it, consistency, stubbornness and desire to be there distinguish us.

SHORT FICTION 25th year in the midst of chaotic communication, but with videomakers with interesting and worthy ideas for an audience thirsty for alternative and beautiful reflections. "Island of dry land in the middle of the tides" wrote F. Battiato.

Meanwhile, the bureaucracy advances relentlessly for everyone, the desire to be protagonists in the audiovisual system does not abandon us. Now it's your turn to continue the challenge and demonstrate that we are alive as well as physically... we are intellectually and with our heads held high, we are waiting for you!


Short film festival


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Logo of Sleeping Owl Film Festival

Deadline
17 Nov 2025


Published: 03 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Sleeping Owl Film Festival

Delhi, India


Sleeping Owl Film Fest event which aims to discover and recognize new talents from all over the world. It was created in order to support short filmmakers providing a critical evaluation of their work.

What makes a short film a great film it's not how ambitious the story is, but the way the story is being told. The ingredients to have a great short film are a great script, directing,camerawork, lighting and editing.

There are a lot of films that are interesting, but have a careless sound. Every filmmaker must care about the sound before the shooting, it's one of the most important cinematic elements. Catch great actors, not models! It's another advise we provide so that stories can be told in a real way, not in a theatricality way.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Sustain Film Festival

Deadline
02 Jun 2025


Published: 03 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Sustain Film Festival

Guildford, United Kingdom


Sustain is a film, animation, performing arts, and interactive media festival based in Guildford, Surrey—a cathedral town just a short train ride from London. The theme of the festival has environmental overtones, but we welcome submissions from artists, creators, producers and makers from across the creative and cultural landscapes, with an open invitation to interpret the theme as they see fit. We seek stories and artworks far and wide – local regional, national and global. We want to bring people together to promote the future wellbeing of the planet, as well as the current cultural wellbeing of its inhabitants. We want to deliver experiences that explore the very nature of our species, that probe into our psyches, ask big questions of who we are, and who we might become.

Confirmed venues:

Boileroom
Guildford Institute
Nodus Centre
Lakeside Cinema
Performing Arts Technology Studios


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Áncash Film Festival

Deadline
02 Jul 2025


Published: 03 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Áncash Film Festival

Huaraz, Peru


The Ancash Film Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary, transforming through cinema, exploring, learning, and finding its own horizons, between its work, its educational offerings, and the films it hosts, welcomes, and shares.

We are an Ancash-based festival committed to the cultural development of the region, developing new filmmakers, and promoting change through cinema with a focus on sustainable development aligned with the 2023 Agenda (SDGs).

For this fifth edition, the Festival presents three competitive categories.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of ASUFICC - Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo de Asunción

Deadline
01 Jun 2025


Published: 03 May 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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ASUFICC - Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo de Asunción

Asunción, Paraguay


ASUFICC - International Contemporary Film Festival of Asuncion is an event born with the aim of bringing contemporary cinema from around the world, through unique authors with works that take risks and invite reflection. Emphasizing social issues that empathize with the Asuncion and Paraguayan society, it seeks, through a program of cinematographic excellence, to form spectators with greater sensitivity and greater awareness of the cinematic experience and the problems of society. Likewise, it seeks to be a space for meeting and promotion of national creators.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



 
Logo of Festival Internacional de Cine Luz del Desierto

Deadline
01 Jul 2025


Published: 03 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Festival Internacional de Cine Luz del Desierto

Avellaneda, Argentina


The Luz del Desierto International Festival is an audiovisual Festival that aims to promote cinema within the country and abroad. The festival will take place in october with competition for feature films and short films, both fiction, animation and documentary. There will also be talks and workshops.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Corto di Sera - Independent Short Film Festival

Deadline
31 May 2025


Published: 03 May 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Corto di Sera - Independent Short Film Festival

Itala, Italy


The "Corto di sera" Festival takes place in August in Itala, in the province of Messina since 2012.

Participation to the Festival is free and open to all Italians and foreign authors, single filmmakers orcollectives/associations.

- The Festival is exclusively dedicated to short films that last less than 25minutes.

- Any genre will be accepted (documentary, fiction, classic and/or digital animation)

- All foreign works shot in any language which is not Italian must be subtitled in Italian . Non-subtitled foreign short films will not be selected.

- Each author may submit up to a maximum of three works.

- The organizers reserve the possibility to create additional sections.

Festival’s purpose is to promote the independent short film production in all its forms as an artistic and expressive language. The aim of to create an annual event in Italy where filmmakers, video makers, professionals or enthusiasts cinema can meet and connect different experiences.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Campulung Film Fest

Deadline
07 May 2025


Published: 03 May 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Campulung Film Fest

Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania


The "Buzduganul de Aur" competition offers a platform for Romanian & Moldavian filmmakers to showcase their talent, celebrate their cultural heritage, and contribute to the vibrant world of Romanian film industry.

Câmpulung Film Fest, nestled in the picturesque town of Campulung Moldovenesc, Romania, is an international short-film festival.

At Câmpulung Film Fest, we invite cinephiles from around the world to join us on a captivating journey through the lens of short and feature films. Our festival is a platform where filmmakers, industry professionals, and passionate movie enthusiasts converge to revel in visual storytelling.

In addition to our curated film screenings, we pride ourselves on transforming unconventional locations into mesmerizing cinematic backdrops. From a repurposed closed pool to residential neighbourhoods brimming with charm, and even historic buildings steeped in cultural heritage, each screening venue offers a distinct ambiance that enhances the cinematic experience.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Other



 
Logo of  Periferias Festival Internacional de cinema de Marvão e / Y Valencia de Alcántara.

Deadline
31 May 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films

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Periferias Festival Internacional de cinema de Marvão e / Y Valencia de Alcántara.

Marvão, Portugal


The festival had its first edition in 2013 and has been organized annually since then by Associação Cultural Periferias in Portugal and Gato Pardo in Spain.

The project was born from a citizen initiative, supported by the municipality of Marvão from the beginning, and grew thanks to the support of diverse sponsors and collaborators.

Meanwhile, a new step was taken with the inclusion of Valencia de Alcântara (Spain) on the Festival map, thanks to the interest and involvement of the local government, Filmoteca de Extremadura and Diputación de Cáceres.

It is the intention of the organizers to contribute to an effective cultural decentralization.

We want to make accessible goods and services traditionally concentrated in big cities and which hardly reach rural populations.

EYESIGHT



We believe that it is possible, with this strategy, to locally implement a film culture that, in the medium term, allows for the creation of a more conscious audience endowed with a plural thinking that promotes contact with art, not only as a space for leisure, but as a critical thinking platform that reflects and interacts with today's world.

The organization of the festival, with all the activities and logistics involved, constitutes a significant boost to economic activity in the most diverse areas.

We offer an opportunity for the promotion and dissemination of local products and brands. We create conditions to attract tourism flows, especially tourism that is more committed to cultural and ecological aspects.

We contribute to the local, national and international dissemination of the brand and socio-cultural identity of the municipalities of Marvão and Valencia de Alcântara.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Give Peace a Screen

Deadline
30 Nov 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Give Peace a Screen

Torino, Italy


Centro Studi Sereno Regis presents GIVE PEACE A SCREEN, the first film competition for short films dedicated to the theme of peace and the creative solution of conflicts.

The festival is aimed at young Italian and foreign directors. Works of fiction and documentary films are eligible.

IMPORTANT: short fiction, animated and documentary films made by Italian and foreign authors which highlight the THEME OF THE FESTIVAL: the construction of Peace through the non-violent resolution of conflicts are admitted to the Competition. The denunciation of injustices and violence will be considered less central than the examples, real or fictional, of overcoming conflicts through nonviolent actions.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Other



 
Logo of LusoFest

Deadline
30 Sep 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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LusoFest

Offenbach am Main, Germany


LusOFest, the festival of Portuguese-language film in Offenbach am Main, will take place for the first time in January 2026.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Ensenada International Film Festiva

Deadline
30 Jun 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Ensenada International Film Festiva

Ensenada, Argentina


The Ensenada International Film Festival (FICE) invites you to participate in its 7th edition. It will take place in the City of Ensenada, Province of Buenos Aires on October, 2025.

FICE's search will focus on cinematographic works that address a critical, poetic or aesthetic reflection around water. In this sense, water may appear as a central or tangential element in the development of narratives.

Because we are inhabited, stirred and agitated by this river that feeds us, from the FICE, we are looking for those works that, like water, can poetically penetrate all the reality that we are able to cover.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of cinema + football festival, festigol

Deadline
30 Jun 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films

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cinema + football festival, festigol

Santiago, Chile


Festigol® is an independent non-competitive Football Film and Documentaries Festival held in Santiago of Chile since 2016. It aims to create a space where football is shown as a creator of stories beyond the pitch demanding it as a social and cultural phenomenon in Chile as well as in the whole world. We see football as a constructor of identities mobilizing our society’s affections, narratives and memories. We are seeking to be a means of appropriation and revaluation of the football-related cultural manifestations.

Besides the exhibition of films, we seek to bring together different audiences creating a meeting place for different football-related cultural expressions allowing us to develop emerging issues connected to this sport and to our society being today the single space offering movie showtimes related to the sport as a social manifestation in our country.

For its fifth version, Festigol® will be held from October 18 to 31, 2025 in Santiago de Chile with face-to-face exhibitions and through the festival's digital platform.

A non-competitive call will be issued for the exhibition of documentaries, short films, animations and feature films in order to promote and bring together the film production about football and related topics.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Cine No Visto

Deadline
01 Jun 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Cine No Visto

Linares, Spain


CINE NO VISTO

International low-budget independent film festival

PRESENTATION

Festival de Cine no Visto has the main objective of giving visibility to those independent and low or no budget productions which, for different reasons, don’t reach the major public and whose only option for a greater recognition is found in festivals.

The organization of the Festival de Cine no Visto is aware of the great effort that producers have to endure in order to carry out a project with very limited means. Technical aspects are for us just another element in the process, so the main reasons to be selected will not depend on the means used. We are much more interested in what is told and the symbolism in each shot.
We are undoubtedly going to consider all and each of the aspects: performance, editing, cinematography, music, screenplay, to sum up, everything necessary in the production of an audiovisual project.

CATEGORIES

⦁ Best feature film
⦁ Best Foreign short film
⦁ Best Andalusian short film
⦁ Best Spanish short film

*AWARDS

⦁ Best feature film (International and Andalusian)
⦁ Best short film (within each category)
⦁ Best actor (feature film)
⦁ Best director (feature film)
⦁ Best cinematographer (feature film)
⦁ Best film editing (feature film)
⦁ Best screenplay (feature film)
• Best sound
• Best music
⦁ Best film from Jaén (feature or short)

* If your film has been awarded but nobody from your team can attend to the awards ceremony, you won´t receive a physical prize.

** Some categories can be declared void if the jury considers that appropriate.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Fantastic  Terror  Other



 
Logo of Festival Internacional De Cine Pequeño

Deadline
31 May 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Festival Internacional De Cine Pequeño

Aspe, Spain


The 12th Festival Internacional de Cine Pequeño which is taking place in Aspe (Alicante) from the 11th to the 15th of August 2025.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Most - Wine International Film Festival

Deadline
01 Jul 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Most - Wine International Film Festival

Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain


Most Festival is an annual event that aims to showcase the best international audiovisual work linked to viniculture, wine and cava. At the same time, the festival aims to make a toast for good cinema by projecting unreleased films by great authors.

Held in the Penedès, a zone very close to Barcelona (Spain) with a long winemaking tradition and several wine-related tourist attractions, the festival wants to promote viniculture and arts linked to wine and cava through audiovisual works and also explore all aspects of winemaking, especially values such as quality, diversity, wine tourism and ties to the region.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Cali Horror Film Festival

Deadline
13 Jul 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Cali Horror Film Festival

Cali, Colombia


The third edition of the CALI HORROR FILM FESTIVAL opens its doors to submit your horror audiovisual material in 2025, following two successful editions in 2023 and 2024.

It's a space where audiovisual filmmakers of the genre can showcase their creations and receive the appropriate recognition, and also where horror fans can enjoy cinema and share experiences related to this genre.

From September 5th to 7th, we will have three days full of short and feature films, audiovisual creation workshops, and an artistic and commercial exhibition focused on horror.

WE'RE GOING ALL OUT THIS YEAR!


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Ànima Jove Fest

Deadline
31 Jul 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Ànima Jove Fest

Altafulla, Spain


Ànima Jove, Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges d'Animació d'Altafulla is an animation film festival, whose main objective is to create a space to disseminate the art of animation in the territory of Tarragona.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Traveling Exhibition of Film and digital video

Deadline
13 Sep 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Traveling Exhibition of Film and digital video

Cd Valles, Mexico


We are a traveling and virtual exhibition to share the experience of creating digital content.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary



 
Logo of Dissident Film Festival

Deadline
01 Jun 2025


Published: 02 May 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Dissident Film Festival

Guatemala, Guatemala


Being a dissident in a square society represents a challenge, and not only that, it allows seeking alternatives to get out of that box. For us, being dissidents has meant fighting against stigma and discrimination, however, that has given us the opportunity to open paths that have been difficult to walk, but in each fall we have found people who help us move forward.

In audiovisual production, as in our lives, being a dissident has meant looking for other ways of telling stories, other ways of bringing them to the screen. Creative ways to talk about sensitive issues, or to sensitize ourselves to reality. In any case, dissident production has been a constant since the constant innovation of technology and, in the context of the pandemic, other ways of telling stories have emerged.

We invite you to join us on this journey and enjoy the dissident production.

#CineDisidente #FestivalCineDisidente


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Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental