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Message To Man

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The 36th Message to Man International Festival of documentary, short fiction, animated, and experimental films will take place from 16 to 24 October 2026 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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Logo of International Auto Film Festa
Published: 02 Jan 2025
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International Auto Film Festa

Deadline: 28 Feb 2025

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>> Our Vision

Sharing moments that move people through films with cars.

International Auto Film Festa (IAFF) is a film festival that connects people, cultures, and emotions through the presence of automobiles.


>> What We Believe

Cars are more than speed or technology.
They are part of our lives—traveling with us, shaping memories, and sharing landscapes.

Films that capture these moments have the power to move hearts beyond borders.


>> An Open Film Festival

IAFF is open to everyone.
Brands, budgets, countries, and generations do not matter.

Anyone who loves cars can express their passion through film and share it with the world.


>> Our Starting Point

IAFF began with a desire to share stories, feelings, and ideas—and continues to grow from there.

Even unknown [...]

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Chuo-ku, Japan



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Published: 02 Jan 2025
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Festival Cine do Mar

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

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The III SEA FILM FESTIVAL will be held from 20 to 26 April 2026 in the town of Marín.

The Cultural Association for a Sea Museum for Marín is the organizing entity of this festival. Since its creation, the Marin Sea Museum has had as one of its main objectives the recovery of the seafaring identity of the town of Marín, as well as the conservation and dissemination of the cultural heritage linked to the sea, maritime and seafaring culture, especially among the new generations. On the other hand, the Galician language is an indissoluble part of our culture. Language and the sea are two fundamental elements to understand and disseminate our identity. Therefore, the Sea Film Festival is fully within the objectives of the Marin Sea Museum.

The Cine do Mar Festival promotes the [...]

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Marín, Spain



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Published: 02 Jan 2025
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Festival Internacional De Cine Del San Jorge

Deadline: 31 Mar 2025

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Inicio Festival: 22 de abril de 2026 Fin Festival: 25 de abril de 2026

El F I C S J. (Festival Internacional de Cine del San Jorge) es un evento que se llevará a cabo del 22 de abril al 25 de abril del 2026 en las ciudades de Montelíbano Córdoba - Colombia. Este festival tiene como objetivo principal promover la producción regional, nacional e internacional de cine y potenciar a la región como un epicentro del séptimo arte.

El festival busca fomentar la economía circular en torno a la producción audiovisual, generando una mayor oferta de empleo y desarrollo económico en la región. Además, el F I C S J propone nuevas expresiones de cultura y folclore en la región, a través de la presentación de películas que aborden temáticas [...]

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Montelíbano, Colombia



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Published: 31 Dec 2024
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Sobh International Media Festival

Deadline: 03 Feb 2025

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Launched in 2023, the Sobh Media Festival aims to introduce leading international content creators and promote cooperation among them in the global media arena. The festival seeks to discover and honor media talents while providing a platform to sustain artistic creativity and strengthen an international media movement.

Through specialized workshops and seminars, the festival also works to acquaint artists with the evolving media landscape and support the development of independent thinking and creative vision.

The fourth edition of the Sobh Media Festival is now accepting submissions in two categories: the main section and a special section dedicated to Palestine.

This year’s edition also features three special awards:

- The “1500th Birth Anniversary of the Holy Prophet of [...]

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Tehran, Iran



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Logo of CARTOON CLUB - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION CINEMA, COMICS AND GAMES
Published: 29 Dec 2024
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Cartoon Club - Festival Internazionale Del Cinema D’animazione, Fumetto E Games

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

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EUROPEAN ANIMATION AWARDS Qualifier

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Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games, now at its 42nd edition, is one of the best known festivals on the Italian scene.

It is a remarkable window for animation, short films in particular, including fiction, educational, experimental, and computer graphic works, with a whole section solely dedicated to comics: Riminicomix.

The Festival features SHORT ANIMATED FILMS in various sections:

The CARTOON CLUB AWARD: open to short animated films made by professional filmmakers and production companies.

The SIGNOR ROSSI AWARD: open to animated shorts made by secondary school and university students, and by the students of animation film schools.

The CARTOON KIDS AWARD: open to animated shorts aimed at a children’s audience. Among the films [...]

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Rimini, Italy



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Published: 28 Dec 2024
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Chhayanat Film and Theatre Festival

Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

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Founded within the cultural heartbeat of Jadavpur University, Chhayanat has evolved into India’s largest student-run film and theatre festival — a platform where art and rebellion, screen and
stage, intellect and emotion converge.

Over the years, it has hosted National Award–winning filmmakers, international screenings, industry panels, and global student collaborations — from France to South Korea, Brazil to Spain —
making it a truly cross-continental dialogue on storytelling and truth.

At its core, Chhayanat stands for freedom of expression and the power of collective imagination. It celebrates the voices that resist convention, amplify diversity, and reflect the changing faces of our society. Each frame, each performance, each conversation here becomes part of a larger [...]

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Kolkata, India



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Published: 21 Dec 2024
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PASTURAS, Festival Internacional de Cine de Trashumancia y Pastoralismo

Deadline: 14 Apr 2025

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PASTURAS. International Film Festival on Pastoralism and Transhumance. PASTURAS aims at raising awareness on the ancestral culture of transhumance through cinema, showcasing fiction and non-fiction films with a focus on this issue, facilitating communication between filmmakers and the audience, and providing learning opportunities to contribute to the development of this culture and the promotion of all audiovisual work around the issue.

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Godoy Cruz, Argentina



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Logo of Spi Stories | Bolle. Connessi. Sconnessi. Disconnessi
Published: 20 Dec 2024
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Spi Stories | Bolle. Connessi. Sconnessi. Disconnessi

Deadline: 15 Feb 2025

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The Spi Stories Short Film Festival reaches its fourteenth edition. The competition, created by the publisher LiberEtà and the CGIL Pensioners Union, has chosen the title "Chissà se fuori..." ("I wonder if out there...") for this edition. You can participate to the competition by creating a video with a maximum length of eleven minutes, released in 2025. The Spi Stories Short Film Festival reaches its fourteenth edition. Created by the publishing house LiberEtà and the CGIL Union of Retirees, this year’s competition takes on the title “I Wonder If Out There… Telling Stories of Solitude, Rediscovering Community.”

This edition focuses on solitude—whether chosen or endured—on community, and on the ties that hold us together. There are moments when each of us feels vulnerable. Not [...]

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Roma, Italy



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Published: 18 Dec 2024
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Retrokultfest. Festival de cine y cultura audiovisual retro de Alicante

Deadline: 01 Feb 2025

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Participate in the festival with your audiovisual piece. Create a video in the format of TikTok, a reel, a YouTube shot with a free theme but including some kind of reference to retro audiovisual culture (movies, songs, culture from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s).

The deadline for submitting entries to the competition is February 2, 2026.


A meeting point for film fans, film industry professionals and audiovisual dissemination professionals that aims to share knowledge and generate synergies between all those interested in cinema and audiovisual production from the second half of the 20th century (especially B-series and genre films) but also, and with special emphasis, on current productions that draw on the sources of retro and cult cinema from the 60s onwards.

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ALICANTE, Spain



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Logo of 8º Festival Internacional De Cinema Ambiental Da Serra Catarinense
Published: 17 Dec 2024
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8º Festival Internacional De Cinema Ambiental Da Serra Catarinense

Deadline: 31 Mar 2025

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8º Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental da Serra Catarinense é um evento cultural de grande importância que destaca a interseção entre a arte cinematográfica e as questões ambientais. Realizado em uma das regiões mais belas e ecologicamente diversas do Brasil, o festival tem como objetivo sensibilizar o público sobre a importância da preservação ambiental através do poder do cinema. A programação do festival inclui uma seleção diversificada de filmes, documentários e curtas-metragens que abordam temas como mudanças climáticas, biodiversidade, conservação e sustentabilidade. Além das exibições, o evento também promove apresentações artísticas e promove debates, rodas de conversa e palestras com cineastas, ambientalistas e especialistas, incentivando o diálogo e a [...]

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Urubici, Brazil



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