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Deadline
09 Sep 2017


Published: 08 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
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CINECIOK Festival

Modica, Italy


Cineciok is the festival of Cinema and Chocolate. Cineciok takes place in Modica the city of Chocolate. Festival is all the year. At modica we work the chocolate with ancient methods.
So every year we make the Chocolate Festival and cinema is an integral part of this festival. We reward the most beautiful films with chocolate as their theme or that chocolate is minimally present. If there is only one word "chocolate" in your film, you can participate!!!
We love Chocolate!!
We have three dead line.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror



 
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Deadline
09 Sep 2017


Published: 08 Sep 2017
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On the Road Film Festival

Rome, Italy


“A path is always between two points, but the in-between has taken on all the consistency
and enjoys both an autonomy and a direction of its own” G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, 1987

Based at the legendary DETOUR Arthouse Cinema, in the heart of Rome since 1997, ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL is devoted to contemporary independent cinema - fiction, documentary and experimental - presenting travelogues, urban and waste-land wanderings, real or imaginary topographies, unexpected detours, psycho-geographical drifts, migration and nomadism.

We look for films that develop, through linguistic and narrative skills, a critical and inventive approach to the subject guidelines of the Festival: a traveling mood with digressions from fixed paths, where the route is what matters, not the destination.

The Festival hosts screenings, master classes, meetings, art exhibitions, live performances and music, both at DETOUR Cinema and at a variety of cinema venues, film clubs, schools, public libraries and other unusual locations in Rome and and in its surrounding area.

OTRFF competition consists of two sections: THE ROAD (Features and Mid-length films =>30') and SHORT>CUTS (short films <30')

Features and Short Films in competition will be screened in late 2021 or in early 2022 at Detour Cinema in Rome, depending on the progress of the covid pandemic. 

In respect of impediments resulting from the persistence of the pandemic emergency, the main festival events, the award ceremony and the screenings of the winning films will take place live online in "virtual cinema" mode.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
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Deadline
09 Sep 2017


Published: 08 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Mal del Cap International Short Film and New Narratives Festival

Ibiza, Spain


Mal del Cap opens the call for entries for its XI International Short Film and New Narratives Festival
Ibiza, July 21, 2025.– The Ibizan cultural association Mal del Cap, Cultura Mal Dita has opened this Sunday the call for entries for short films to compete in the XI International Short Film and New Narratives Festival “Mal del Cap, Narratives Mal Dites”, which, on this occasion, will change its format and will take place between December 2025 and April 2026.

The submission period runs from July 21 to September 1, 2025, and is open to filmmakers from all over the world. Works must be submitted in digital format and can be fiction, documentary, or animation. Selected films will be screened during April 2026 in different cultural venues across the island.

“Once again, we are looking for bold stories and ways of storytelling that break the mold, works that connect with people and are not afraid to experiment,” says Pedro López, Vice President of Mal del Cap and co-director of the event. “This festival is an open space for free creativity, for sharing and networking among the most underground proposals on the international scene.”

Once again, this festival —which started in 2014 and is one of the longest-running in the Pityusic Islands— features several competitive sections that will award 1,000 euros in prizes across the different categories: the Official Short Film Competition Section, the Youth Short Film Competition Section –awarded by young students from Ibiza–, the Sebas Parra Award for the best socially themed short –courtesy of the association La Guerrilla Comunicacional from Girona–, the Malalt Award –reflecting the wildest spirit of the association–, the Best Short Film in Catalan Award, and the Audience Award.

For more information about the rules, technical requirements, and entry forms, interested participants can visit the official website www.maldelcap.com or email info@maldelcap.com.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental



 
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Deadline
09 Sep 2017


Published: 08 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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UABC Film Festival

Mexicali, Mexico


The International Film Festival of the Autonomous University of Baja California promotes the exchange of experiences in the field of audiovisual production, as well as knowledge building around the cinematographic phenomenon.


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Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of SURFARI FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline
08 Sep 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Feature films


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SURFARI FILM FESTIVAL

Conil de la frontera, Spain


International surf film festival with a strong social and environmental mission.


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 Documentary



 
Logo of Abruzzo Horror Film Festival

Deadline
08 Sep 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films

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Abruzzo Horror Film Festival

L'AQUILA, Italy


ABRUZZO HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2023 IX edition | 31 OCT – 5 NOV 2023, L’AQUILA


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Terror



 
Logo of Resistencia Film Fest

Deadline
08 Sep 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
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Resistencia Film Fest

-, Chile


The 12th RESISTENCIA FILM FEST is an international film festival created to showcase films that promote the recovery of historical memory, the fight for freedom, and the defense of Human Rights.

The screening of the participating films in this 12th edition will include in-theater exhibitions, the television and online program “Películas de bolsillo" ("Pocket films”), and a traveling showcase in various spaces and locations.

RFF25 – A cinema that inspires, resists, and transforms.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Experimental



 
Logo of Maratón de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Sants (Barcelona)

Deadline
08 Sep 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Maratón de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Sants (Barcelona)

Barcelona, Spain


Fantasy and Horror Film Festival.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental



 
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Deadline
08 Sep 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
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Short Movie Club Film Festival Nefiltravanae Kino

Warsaw, Poland


The purpose of the festival refers to awareness of both the external filters on the screen, including censorship (commercial, ideological, aesthetic), and the internal filters of screen perception and projection, including self-censorship. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is an exploration of aestheticization and commodification in art. The next aim of the festival is to expose the complexity, manysidedness, and variety of filmmaking.

NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino) is a film festival that is held by the Short Movie Club, the platform for cinematic projects. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is ADAMI Media Prize qualified festival. The International Film Studies Conference is held at the same time as the film festival. In this way, film theory and practice are integrated together at the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO.

Originally the festival was held in Belarus, but because of political repression and publicly stated anti-war stance, screenings and events can be held in different countries. First of all in Poland (Warsaw), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg), Lithuania (Vilnius). For example, the 11th and 10th Nefiltravanae Kino took place in Warsaw, Berlin, Hamburg, Vilnius and Helsinki. The content of past years' film programs can be found on the website https://shortmovie.club/programmes/

The festival will be held in a hybrid format. We will have a part of live screenings and online screenings on a video platform https://film.nofilterkino.org/ . The video is cryptographically secured. In addition, we pay attention and promote films from our previous years that are released to the public on the Internet after their festival curcuit.

Nefiltravanae Kino involves theater, artists to interpret symbols and history. We work with the audience's reaction and participants' as well.

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The concept of the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (NoFilter Kino):

ALIENATION PROBLEM

We live in a world of malls and cinema multiplexes. We see that indie cinema and non-commodity art go to the periphery of public attention. Primitive attractions replace the cinematography. The escape audience is alienated behind the big screen. So modern mainstream cinema is part of a manipulating tool that leads to the society of alienation. Thus the tendency is that indie cinema becomes more unreadable for the wide audience. We should understand the context of the filmmaker to understand the independent cinema. That is why the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO concept implies the physical presence of filmmakers.

FILM SELECTION PROBLEM
Filmmakers shoot millions of movies. And thousands of short film festivals organize screenings all over the world every year. On average, several thousand films are submitted to a film festival. So various good films can be neglected for whatever reason. Often selecting probability is like winning a lottery. As a result, filmmakers are left with no feedback. It is a paradox that no one can hear you in the age of the Internet! The mainstream culture prefers attractions and casual viewing.

Also, this idea is based on the film selection problem. Perhaps it’s no surprise one person, i.e. programme director at best, or even students of film schools make a preliminary decision to select a movie. Сoncordance of judges or previewers is more seldom thing than the difference of background, tastes. So selection or judging can be one-sided or perfunctory. It is not bad as the programme director has a good taste and aesthetic sensitivity, of course. But we’ve discovered another conception of “unfiltered cinema”. We matched it against “the best of the best” way. This way aids to perceive cinematic idiom without the dictate of art-curators.

CELEBRATION OF INDIE CINEMA
So the NoFilter Kino tries to avoid “the best of the best” way but it does not ignore it completely, sure. The festival selects fiction, animation, documentary, experimental and virtual reality sections. A jury awards the best film in every section. The festival holds the screenings at cinema theatres, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, and art-spaces.

Our aim is to gather people in art, to have a dialogue to be happy with smart communication. Cinema is art but not sport. The key point of our project is to establish communication between the filmmaker and the audience.

Please, read about the festival history through the link to the festival's website. http://shortmovie.club/history/


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of CINEfoot - International Football Film Festival

Deadline
08 Sep 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
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CINEfoot - International Football Film Festival

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


CINEfoot - International Football Film Festival is the first film festival in Brazil and Latin America with unique curatorial and conceptual approaches about football. The event aims the promotion, diffusion, reflection and appreciation of football films from all over the world.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Cortocomenius

Deadline
08 Sep 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Cortocomenius

Valencia, Spain


The 19th edition of CORTOCOMENIUS intends to show the best valencian productions , with the intention of promoting, broadcast and support to the development of the digital cinema.


Short film festival


 Fiction  Other



 
Logo of Torrecinos Film Festival

Deadline
07 Sep 2017


Published: 06 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Torrecinos Film Festival

Panamá, Panama


We are looking for shorts and feature films for children and teenagers between 8 and 14 years of fiction and animation.


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Animation



 
Logo of Experimental Forum

Deadline
07 Sep 2017


Published: 06 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
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Feature films


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Experimental Forum

Los Angeles, United States


Experimental Forum is an international performance, film and video art festival showcasing experimental film and artists’ moving image from new directors and innovative video artists from around the globe, with the third edition taking place in Los Angeles in November 2018. Our aim is to provide a supportive platform for the exciting and challenging work that is outside the scope of mainstream film festivals and art galleries.

We welcome experimental cinema pieces (abstract, narrative or documentary), video art works, essay films, artists’ moving image and media art, as well as documentary and narrative films that seek to expand, redefine or reconfigure the means and ends of their respective fields. Experimental Forum exists to provide access to, and develop audiences for, artists’ moving image work and is committed to engaging local audiences with new and/or unheard voices in film.

We are particularly interested in works made by early stage filmmakers and artists whose work is underrepresented. We provide a collaborative platform for moving image works made for the gallery and for the cinema with the aim of building a community across disciplinary and institutional faultlines.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of FANTÀSTIK GRANOLLERS FILM FEST

Deadline
07 Sep 2017


Published: 06 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
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FANTÀSTIK GRANOLLERS FILM FEST

Granollers, Spain


Fantàstik Granollers is the fantastic and horror film festival of Granollers, which has been held since 2012. It has become a unique event in the city, in which a cultural proposal related exclusively to fantastic and horror films is offered. and everything that is related to it, betting very strongly on short films.

It is an excellent opportunity for film lovers to see innovative films, as well as to connect with other people interested in this topic.

Apart from the festival, other activities are carried out during the year related to the dissemination of fantasy and horror films.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror



 
Logo of Linea d“Ombra Festival

Deadline
07 Sep 2017


Published: 06 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Linea d“Ombra Festival

Salerno, Italy


Linea d’Ombra-Festival Culture Giovani is an international festival of cinema, literature,performing art and music.The event is divided in the following 4 sections:

Cinema
Videoart & web
Music
Performing art

Events and performances of these sections will be chosen directly by the artistic direction in base of quality, consistency with the project and the theme of the event, which is chosen year by year.


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Short film festival


 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of LA Underground Film Forum

Deadline
07 Sep 2017


Published: 06 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
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LA Underground Film Forum

Los Angeles, United States


LA Underground Film Forum (LAUFF) is dedicated exclusively to independent, experimental, and auteur cinema. It focus on avant-garde, art-house, independent and no/low budget filmmaking.

Our program provides a venue for filmmakers to reinvent and explore new approaches, to foster new forms of media art and to build an audience for such work. We aim to present a wide range of work exploring the many definitions and interpretations of the concept of “underground”.

We’re looking for films made with passion, obsession and drive; films that go beyond expectations and genre; films, video and audio projects that strive to push the boundaries of accepted form and content. A strong sense of authorship is a must.

LAUFF accepts all forms and genres: from drama, documentary, experimental, cult, art-house, foreign language, comedy, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation, LGBT, indigenous, erotica to slow cinema and video art …


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of MALDITO FESTIVAL  Videopoetry

Deadline
06 Sep 2017


Published: 05 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
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MALDITO FESTIVAL Videopoetry

Albacete, Spain


MALDITO FESTIVAL is a videopoetic contest held in the city of Albacete (Spain) since 2017.

The festival announces the International Videopoetry Contest and the International Poetic Film Showcase with the purpose of making visible two disciplines that, both together and separately, are much more distant and forgotten than we would like.

We, as lovers of poetry, image and the expressive possibilities of their symbiosis, propose a line of action, encouraging the approach of the general public to videopoetry and poetic films.

MALDITO seeks to vindicate these disciplines as art that connects people, that transmits feelings and promotes original or different ways of seeing the world, to try to be a grain of sand that makes any kind of visual or poetic art stop being marginal and cursed.

Sections:

- International Videopoetry Contest
- International Poetic Film Showcase


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Something Wild Film Festival

Deadline
06 Sep 2017


Published: 05 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
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Something Wild Film Festival

Durango, Co., United States




Entering its’ second year, Something Wild Film Festival is tightly curated non-competitive filmfestival looking to present the best and most innovative works from around the world in November.
Located in Durango, Colorado, this festival's inaugural year took place at a single screen and featured 10 feature length narrative films, 1 feature length documentary, and a 1 shorts program.

Only submit your film to SWFF, if you think your film is unique and powerful enough to satisfy the public’s desire for original bold powerful masterpiece.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Tokyo Sun Film Festival

Deadline
05 Sep 2017


Published: 04 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
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Tokyo Sun Film Festival

Tokyo, Japan


Tokyo Sun Film festival attemtps to setting up in Tokyo to provide independent filmmakers with a platform that offers them interaction, networking and greater visibility.

Our screening takes place at the cinema chupki theatre in the tabata District, located in the north of Tokyo - a hip location in Tokyo for independent, counter-culture and progressive thinking.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Festival de Cortometrajes | CORTADA | Film Laburren Jaialdia

Deadline
05 Sep 2017


Published: 04 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films

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Festival de Cortometrajes | CORTADA | Film Laburren Jaialdia

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain


CORTADA FESTIVAL DE CORTOMETRAJES DE VITORIA-GASTEIZ
UPV/EHU Campus de Álava
Vitoria-Gasteiz


Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation