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FESTIVAL COURT METRANGE

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In 2003, the non-profit created the International Strange and Unusual Fantasy Short Film Festival, Court Métrange.

The event offers a creative harbor for authors wherein to expose and endorse their ideas. With an irrefutable penchant for a different form of filmmaking, these motion picture partisans fascinate countless audiences, the latter of whom paradoxically struggle to reap the same attention.

The purpose of the Court Métrange Festival is, ultimately, threefold, boasting: a place to screen, a place to scream, letting its "cult" shorts thrive, and a place whose limitless resources endeavor to not only emphasize the credentials of those having fought to make Fantasy film what it is today, but also attribute to them what is rightfully theirs. Court Métrange has become [...]



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Published: 17 Feb 2026
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Festival Internacional de Cine de Santander — Picknic Film Festival

Deadline: 31 Mar 2026

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In the early days of cinema, with the advent of the cinematograph, the avant-garde artists found a new medium of expression, called seventh art, which was soon adopted by the major studios.

Thus, the space occupied by the Santander International Film Festival — Picknic Film Festival, is a place where films of reduced visibility and distribution, but selected for prestigious film festivals, with the approval of the press, have the possibility to be screened.

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Santander, Spain



 
 
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Published: 17 Feb 2026
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PLA, Festival de Cine Rural de Juneda

Deadline: 11 Mar 2026

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Welcome to the PLA. Juneda Rural Film Festival, a space for advocacy, dissemination and celebration of cinema that is in dialogue with the rural environment.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Juneda, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 16 Feb 2026
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Золотой Саусруко

Deadline: 15 Aug 2026

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The main objective of the Festival is to promote the development of national cinema in the Republic of Adygea, to encourage youth participation in cultural projects, and to identify and support talent in the field of cinematography.

The Festival aims to strengthen the all-Russian civic identity and the unity of the multinational people of the Russian Federation, to promote patriotic education, to harmonize interethnic relations, and to foster friendship among the peoples of the Russian Federation. It also seeks to preserve and promote traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, as well as to safeguard and popularize the intangible ethnocultural heritage of the Russian Federation, in line with the implementation of the state national policy of the Russian Federation.

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Maykop, Russia



 
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Published: 14 Feb 2026
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Cinemana Mare Nostrum

Deadline: 11 May 2026

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The Cinemana festival was founded in 2021 at the Alliance Française de Tunis offices.

It's a festival dedicated to emerging Tunisian short films, bringing together film students, independent filmmakers, and cinema lovers to train, meet industry professionals, and showcase their own work in competition for awards.

The Alliance Française, the world's largest associative cultural network, operates around two complementary strategic missions: promoting the French language and developing cultural projects that encourage diversity, mobility, and intercultural dialogue.

In this context, the Alliance Française de Tunis launched and supported the creation of the Cinemana festival, conceived as a key platform for training, professional development, and cultural outreach.

Cinemana [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Tunis, Tunisia



 
 

 
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Published: 14 Feb 2026
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Toyama International Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Mar 2026

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The 13th Annual Toyama International Film Festival will take place in June of 2026 in Toyama Prefecture. With such great success in previous years, we are excited to once again share the visions of filmmakers from all over the world with our local community in the countryside of Japan.

Submissions will be open until March 22nd, 2026.

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The Annual Toyama International Film Festival (TIFF) began in the rural prefecture of Toyama, Japan. Started by a few English teachers in the area, we hoped to reach people not just in Japan, but around the globe.

The first TIFF took place in a small room inside of a shopping center, where about 70 people watched the 10 films we had received. The following year was a tremendous success with over 100 submissions from different countries, [...]

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Toyama, Japan



 
 
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Published: 13 Feb 2026
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CORTI IN MOVIMENTO

Deadline: 31 Mar 2026

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Corti in Movimento. Discover the Wonder of Your City
is designed for students and young filmmakers with a clear and meaningful goal: to explore and tell the story of the city of Pescara through the most widespread and immediate tool of our time—the smartphone.

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PESCARA, Italy



 

 
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Published: 13 Feb 2026
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Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival & A World of Dark Comedy.

Deadline: 30 Nov 2026

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Hamilton Hill, Australia



 
 
 
 
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Published: 12 Feb 2026
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Messina Opera Film Festival

Deadline: 20 Sep 2026

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The Messina Opera Film Festival is a meeting and discussion place for delving into the relationship between cinema and opera through various artistic perspectives and trends. The Messina Opera Film Festival is the only event in the Italian cinematic landscape that addresses this interaction and offers the public a diverse cultural program consisting of screenings, concerts, presentations, and exhibitions. The entire program is exclusively dedicated to the relationship between the Seventh Art and one of the greatest Italian cultural traditions, Melodrama. There are non-competitive sections and a section dedicated to short films, which is competitive in nature. The competition is thematic, and only works with a maximum duration of 15 minutes (including titles) are admitted, which [...]

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Messina, Italy



 
 

 
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Published: 11 Feb 2026
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Tarptautinis Animacinių Filmų Festivalis Tindirindis

Deadline: 01 Sep 2026

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The festival will offer diverse program, featuring films of the famous directors, debutants and animation students from various countries, many of whom were awarded at numerous international animation festivals.

International Animated Film Festival "Tindirindis "- is not a commercial film scene. The festival's mission - to deliver the widest range of the animation world: the different styles, the schools work, to show the animation, which encourages creativity.
Artistic animation, author retrospectives, the films, which stimulate creativity. 22 years festival is running every year in Lithuania, showing the best non-commercial animation works from around the world. Competition programs include short and feature films for children, adults, experimental, student, debut, and music [...]

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Vilnius, Lithuania



 
 
 
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Published: 11 Feb 2026
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FANTLLANES

Deadline: 22 Mar 2026

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Participation Rules

The IV FANTLLANES, to be held from April 16th to 18th, 2026, in Llanes, aims to promote and recognize creativity and talent within the fantasy film industry, providing a distribution platform for filmmakers in this genre.

Key Dates
Submissions open: Starting February 10th, 2026.

Submission deadline: March 22nd, 2026.

Festival dates: April 16th to 18th, 2026.

Eligibility Requirements
National and international short and feature films belonging to the fantasy genre in any of its variants (science fiction, horror, thriller, etc.) are eligible to participate.

General Conditions
Each participant may submit up to two works.

Works must have been produced within the last two years.

Short films previously submitted to past editions of FANTLLANES will not be [...]

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Oviedo, Spain