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FEST - New Directors | New Films Festival

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FEST - NDNFF #21
21st of June - 29th of 2025 | Espinho, Portugal

FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival is an all-encompassing celebration of the new tendencies of world cinema. The event focuses on a competitive and non-competitive showcase of the most promising new figures and works from around the globe.

The 21st edition of the festival will take place between the 21st of June and the 29 June 2025, in the seaside town of Espinho (Portugal).

The selection is divided into several categories which include Feature Film and Short Film competitions in the Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental Non-Narrative formats, as well as content adequate for children and teenagers. The event also includes non-competitive sections that range from retrospectives to showcases that [...]



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Published: 30 Nov 2022
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INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR THE ELDERLY

Deadline: 28 Feb 2023

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La GRAN pantalla is an intergenerational cinematographic meeting space that seeks to dismantle stereotypes about older people through cinema. We look for stories that allow us to generate new readings and discourses about older people, beyond the conventional representations that are usually associated with this stage of life.

La GRAN pantalla seeks to delve into topics such as the sexuality of older people, the digital divide, unwanted loneliness, palliative care, intergenerational dialogues, cohousing, LGBTIQ+ older people, dignified death, migrant older people and all the visions that this population group may have about contemporary social problems such as the climate crisis, demographic change, new forms of families and organization, international conflicts, urban [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



Barcelona, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 29 Nov 2022
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Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival

Deadline: 05 Feb 2023

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Bilbao City Council is currently organizing the 31st BILBAO FANTASY FILM FESTIVAL – FANT2025, to take place in Bilbao from 2nd to 10th of May 2025.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental



Barakaldo, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 29 Nov 2022
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XI Pineda de Mar International Short Film Festival

Deadline: 31 Mar 2023

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International Festival

Short film festival

The Festival is organized by the CinemArt Association of Pineda de Mar, it is an international festival with the aim of promoting a specific space for the discovery, screening and dissemination of short films.

The main thematic axis of the festival is that of comedy; however, the theme and genre of the productions is free. Quality and originality will be prioritized as the main objective, and that the production is unprecedented.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Pineda de Mar, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 29 Nov 2022
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Festival Cortogijón

Deadline: 15 Mar 2023

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X CortoGijón Festival

The Gijón Short Film Festival arises
in 2015 as a parallel section within the
Aula 18 National Short Film Contest
in the delivery After the disappearance of
emblematic festival three of the programmers
decide to maintain their essence by transferring
the festival to Gijón. It is in the second edition
that of 2016, where the festival moves to the
municipal centers of the city to develop a festival with an eye on short films and music. Since then
to the competitive sections (Official Section,
Asturias Section) And to the sample sections
(Panorama Asturias and Mirada FICX) have been
there have been concerts that have given luster to the
cultural spaces of the city and that have
served to put the climax to each projection.

Names like Marilia, Pablo Und
 [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Gijón, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 29 Nov 2022
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Panòptic. Mataro Film Festival

Deadline: 29 Jan 2023

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PANÒPTIC. MATARÓ FILM FESTIVAL
7th Edition

Panòptic Film Festival is a film and visual arts festival that explores the role of the digital era and its impact on society: the impact on power relations, social control, as well as in the areas of ethics, freedoms and human rights. Through the audiovisual, Panòptic Film Festival wants to generate thought, debate and knowledge around the moment of radical transformation that as a society we are living in the context of the digital era.

The 6th edition of the festival will take place in May 2025 in the city of Mataró (Barcelona, Spain).

The Official Selection and the Out of Competition selection are based on artistic, thematic and technical criteria.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Mataró , Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 24 Nov 2022
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ADACAM International Diversity Film Festival

Deadline: 15 May 2023

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The Brain Damage Association for Adults and Minors calls for the Third Edition of the International Film Festival for Diversity “ADACAM” in order to continue making the invisible visible and be able to move towards a more inclusive society, focusing on young people but also on filmmakers. professionals, students and people with social concerns.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Puerto de Sagunto, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 24 Nov 2022
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FONT D`EN FARGUES INTERNATIONAL FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 23 Jan 2023

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F5 is an international short film festival organized by FFCINEMA in Barcelona in which filmmakers of any nationality can participate. The projections and the awards ceremony will take place on March 29, 2025 at the Casal de la Font d'en Fargues.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Barcelona, Spain



 
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Published: 23 Nov 2022
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MICE- Ethnographic Film Festival Museum of Galician People

Deadline: 30 Dec 2022

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The Museo do Pobo Galego (Museum of Galician People) organises the Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnográfico - Ethnographic Film Festival. 20th Mostra de Cinema Etnográfico Museo do Pobo Galego will run 12-16 March, 2025 in Santiago
de Compostela.

Call for entries from December 4,2024 to December 30,2024.

We understand ethnographic cinema in a broad sense; it refers to those productions
whose main aim is to show different aspects related to sociocultural realities as well as
a community’s way of life. It comprises films with the main focus on people, social groups and relevant historical processes that are related to anthropology and ethnography.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Santiago de Compostela, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 23 Nov 2022
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Acid´Animé Contest

Deadline: 01 Apr 2023

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Short film festival

Acid'Animé Fest is an Paris international short-film competition. Our mission is to bring international independent animated short films to the widest possible audience in Europe and beyond. We want to give this opportunity to young filmakers and animators.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Paris, France



 
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Published: 22 Nov 2022
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Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival

Deadline: 08 Jan 2023

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International Festival

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From April 23 to 27, 2025, the 54th edition of the Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, one of Europe's largest festivals for up-and-coming filmmakers, will take place in Potsdam. It offers up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world a platform to present their work to a wide audience and make contacts in the industry. Started in the 1970s as a GDR film festival for young filmmakers, Sehsüchte has established itself over the decades as an internationally important film festival and has become an integral part of Berlin and Brandenburg's cultural landscape.
Sehsüchte sees itself as a place of encounter and creation, as an event of cultural diversity and a celebration of cinema, today and tomorrow. The organization and implementation of the festival is entirely in [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Potsdam, Germany