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FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival

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In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.

It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is [...]



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Published: 23 Nov 2024
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HANAN CINE FEST

Deadline: 23 Nov 2024

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“Cinema that Interrupts Silences”

The 5th Puno Film Festival – Hanan Cinema is organized and promoted by the Cultural Association Puno Audiovisual, an initiative that seeks to strengthen and diversify film production in the Puno region and throughout the country, while establishing bonds with sister nations of South and Central America.

In this fifth edition, the festival is held under the theme “Cinema that Interrupts Silences”, an invitation to recognize cinema as a space of expression that questions absences, reveals denied memories, and gives voice to territories, bodies, and communities historically silenced.

From the south of Peru, Hanan Cinema reaffirms its commitment to a cinema that listens, dialogues, and transforms.

The festival will take place from December 6 to [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental  Music Video



PUNO, Peru



 
 
 
 
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Published: 07 Nov 2024
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Festibaldo, Sant Roc Short Film Festival

Deadline: 20 Nov 2024

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FestiBaldo was born with great enthusiasm — and a lot of effort — in the Sant Roc neighborhood (Badalona) in 2022. It is a festival organized by the 10th-grade students of Institut Escola Baldomer Solà.

This year marks the 4th edition, and we hope it will have the same impact as in previous years.

To participate, entrants must comply with the rules and regulations described below.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Badalona, Spain



 

 
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Published: 02 Nov 2024
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Short South

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

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Cultural Association Time & Memory organizes the fourteenth edition of the Short Film Festival called "SHORT TO SOUTH", to be held in Polla (SA)ITALY from the 20 - 21 June 2026 at the Auditorium "Holy Nicolicchio".

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Polla, Italy



 
 
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Published: 02 Nov 2024
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International Documentary Film Festival · PampaDocFest · Colonia Santa Teresa

Deadline: 31 Jan 2025

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Produced by the Municipality of Colonia Santa Teresa and the narrative journalism platform Angular; declared of Legislative Interest and Cultural Interest by the government of the Province of La Pampa, the V International Documentary Film Festival "PampaDocFest" will be held in person in the town from April 9-12, 2026.
This festival aims to stimulate and facilitate meetings between national and international film makers and to present non-fiction films. It also seeks to foster encounters between filmmakers, technicians, and those interested in this genre, creating a space for exchange and dialogue. It aims to provide a training space to contribute to the development of culture and the dissemination of documentary filmmaking, promoting a critical and reflective view of reality. [...]

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Colonia Santa Teresa, Argentina



 
 
 

 
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Published: 01 Nov 2024
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Valdivia Horror Film Fest

Deadline: 31 Jan 2025

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Section that has been several years and invites you to participate in a contest where you must terrorize the audience in just 2 minutes, has prizes in money to the first, second and third place, plus a recognition to the most popular audience, elected through popular vote among those who attend the night function. Jury made up of local and national filmmakers and festival personalities and the audiovisual media.

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Valdivia, Chile



 
 
 
 
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Published: 22 Oct 2024
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CINHOMO - International LGBT Film Festival

Deadline: 10 Jan 2025

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The International Film and Sexual Diversity Festival CINHOMO accepts LGBTIQ-themed films of all nationalities, which will be eligible in the various sections of the festival: Fiction Feature Films, Fiction Short Films, Documentary Feature Films and Documentary Short Films.

The works must not have been exhibited in commercial theaters, broadcast on TV or be available to the public on the Internet or any other platform in Spanish territory prior to the celebration of the festival and must be copyrighted after 01/01/2023. Feature films must be unpublished in the Community of Castilla y León; in the case of short films it will not be exclusive but it will be positively valued. The organization reserves the right to include in the out-of-competition program films that do not meet [...]

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Valladolid, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 22 Oct 2024
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Prémios Quirino de Animação Iberoamericana

Deadline: 17 Dec 2024

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Os Prêmios Quirino nascem da necessidade de reconhecer o talento na indústria da animação ibero-americana, criando laços e redes entre ambos os lados do oceano.

O evento reúne, portanto, a florescente indústria latino-americana, junto com a de Portugal, Andorra e Espanha, construindo uma verdadeira irmanação para o desenvolvimento conjunto do grande mercado que é a Ibero-América.

Além de reconhecer os melhores trabalhos de animação ibero-americana em nove categorias, os Prémios Quirino servem de marco para o Fórum de Coprodução e Negócios. Cem empresas de vinte países participam todos os anos em reuniões B2B.

Os prêmios foram nomeados em honra do criador do primeiro longa-metragem de animação da história. Em 1917, Quirino Cristiani dirigiu “El Apóstol” (O Apóstolo), uma [...]

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Tenerife, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 21 Oct 2024
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HANAN CINE FEST

Deadline: 15 Nov 2024

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“Cinema that Interrupts Silences”

The 5th Puno Film Festival – Hanan Cinema is organized and promoted by the Cultural Association Puno Audiovisual, an initiative that seeks to strengthen and diversify film production in the Puno region and throughout the country, while establishing bonds with sister nations of South and Central America.

In this fifth edition, the festival is held under the theme “Cinema that Interrupts Silences”, an invitation to recognize cinema as a space of expression that questions absences, reveals denied memories, and gives voice to territories, bodies, and communities historically silenced.

From the south of Peru, Hanan Cinema reaffirms its commitment to a cinema that listens, dialogues, and transforms.

The festival will take place from December 6 to [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



PUNO, Peru



 
 
 

 
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Published: 18 Oct 2024
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TSUDOCU XIXÓN

Deadline: 31 Dec 2024

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The theme of the work to be presented is free, as long as the theme falls within the musical genre.

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GIJÓN, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 18 Oct 2024
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International Horror Film Festival Aurora

Deadline: 24 Dec 2024

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International horror film festival based in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico. All festival activities are nonprofit.

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Guanajuato, Mexico