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BITBANG International Animation Festival

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BITBANG International Animation Festival opens its call and invites you to be part of its eleventh edition to be held in October 28th 2025, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

BITBANG is a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards® (Oscars). The winners of the Bitbang Official Competition, in the categories of Best International Short Film and Best Latin American Short Film, will be automatically eligible to enter the OSCARS® Short Film competition.


BITBANG disseminates and promotes innovative, experimental and authorial proposals through projections, exhibitions and competitions. We promote audiovisual creation in Argentina, orientated towards the development and consolidation of the industry as a cultural contribution on a worldwide level.
We place special emphasis on training [...]



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Published: 10 Aug 2023
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Ahmedabad International Film Festival

Deadline: 31 Aug 2023

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Welcome to the Ahmedabad International Film Festival (AIFF), a celebration of creativity and talent in the vibrant Gujarati film industry. Our city, Ahmedabad, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is not just steeped in culture but also boasts a legacy in the film industry, nurturing great filmmakers and artists.

AIFF was born from a vision to showcase the best of Gujarati cinema and provide a platform for emerging and established talents. We are proud to be pioneers in Gujarat, offering filmmakers, musicians, animators, editors, ad filmmakers, DOPs, scriptwriters, and art directors an opportunity to showcase their work among industry experts.

We anticipate enthusiastic participation from filmmakers and professionals both nationally and internationally. AIFF’s core mission is to [...]

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Ahmedabad, India



 
 
 
 
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Published: 05 Aug 2023
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MALDITO FESTIVAL de Videopoesía

Deadline: 31 Aug 2023

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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 [...]

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Albacete, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 05 Aug 2023
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Festival Nacional de Cine Rural

Deadline: 10 Aug 2023

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VII NATIONAL RURAL FILM FESTIVAL OF AYACUCHO

The Rural Film Festival was created in 2016 as an initiative presented by Lic. Emilio Quiroga to the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Ayacucho, with the goal of promoting audiovisual production in our city.

Every year, we launch an open call at the national and international level for short films of fiction and non-fiction that address the concept of "RURAL" through their form and/or content. Our intention is to explore the perspective of this concept and enrich ourselves with productions from other places in our country and the world.

The Festival offers training programs and support with theoretical and practical audiovisual production tools to those who join this initiative locally. This includes teachers and [...]

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Ayacucho, Argentina



 
 
 
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Published: 04 Aug 2023
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“Oberá En Cortos” Por La Identidad Y Diversidad Cultural Festival Internacional De Cine / Infancias Latinoamericanas. Muestra No Competitiva.

Deadline: 11 Aug 2023

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"Identity and Cultural Diversity".

We understand identity as a process of change and constant search, which nurtures cultural diversity and questions traditional icons. And we understand cinema as a reflection of peoples, their cultures and identities.

We understand cultural diversity as a force that promotes community empathy and enriches people's daily lives.

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Oberá, Argentina



 
 
 

 
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Published: 03 Aug 2023
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Babylon Documentary Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Aug 2023

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The Babylon International Documentary Film Festival is the first international documentary film festival in Iraq. The festival is a 5 days special event that aims to empower and uplift documentary filmmakers from the MENA region as well as shedding light on Human Rights topics in the region, while also fostering cooperation and cultural exchange between international filmmakers. The festival focuses on showcasing a diverse range of international independent documentary films, with a special emphasis on promoting and supporting MENA talent.

The festival's primary goal is to provide a community for MENA documentary filmmakers to showcase their works and gain recognition on an international stage. The festival actively seeks to empower and uplift filmmakers to tell stories about [...]

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Baghdad, Iraq



 
 
 
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Published: 03 Aug 2023
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Festival Internacional de Cinema Infantil de Ames

Deadline: 04 Sep 2023

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The Ames International Children's Film Festival is back, an event that wants to make children dream, think, smile, and awaken emotions, consciences, and illusions. It will be held from November 13 to 16, 2025.

This year's edition will take HUMAN RIGHTS as a cross-cutting theme. The title of this year's edition will be “Let's defend peace and human rights”, with special emphasis on the importance of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and its dissemination in the seventh art. This theme will be punctuated with film exhibitions of pieces that deepen and disseminate this defense of human values and social awareness.

Let the rattles ring and the spinning tops spin, the VIII International Children's Film Festival of Ames begins.

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Ames, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 01 Aug 2023
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Festival Internacional De Cine De León 2025

Deadline: 05 Aug 2023

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The International Film Festival of Leon IFFOL, invites all filmmakers to participate in the IFFOL Official Call 2024 from April 1 to August 05 of this year, being able to apply with fiction, non-fiction or animation feature film, short film or short documentary to be part of the 10th Consecutive Edition to be held between October 30 to November 03 of this year. Those selected may be part of the three competitive sections of the festival: International Talent, Local Talent and University Talent.

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León, Mexico



 
 
 
 
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Published: 22 Jul 2023
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Festival of Future Storytellers

Deadline: 15 Sep 2023

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HIGHLIGHTED

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Festival of Future Storytellers has been one of the most important festivals for young filmmakers worldwide since 1981. Each year, it offers young filmmakers from all over the world a platform for presenting their own short films and exchanging ideas about filmmaking. Each November, Munich becomes the focal point of up-and-coming international filmmaking — a place for lively exchange, networking, and discussion.

The short fiction, documentary, and animated films screened in international competition are eligible for valuable prizes, which are awarded by an independent festival jury. In addition, Festival of Future Storytellers presents a DACH Short Film Competition, in which short films from the DACH region will be programmed. An extensive supporting programme with panels and [...]

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München, Germany



 
 

 
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Published: 20 Jul 2023
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FIC John Lee - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Villa De Mazo

Deadline: 15 Aug 2023

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The International Short Film Festival John Lee - Villa de Mazo is a cultural project that allows Villa de Mazo (La Palma, Canary Islands) to be known as the ideal setting for film shooting, at the same time that it tries to bring the seventh art closer to citizens, making anyone Anyone who wants can participate in a real shoot and thus learn how cinema works from the inside.

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Villa de Mazo, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 19 Jul 2023
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Festival Internacional de cortometrajes Gastro Cinema

Deadline: 01 Sep 2023

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INTERNATIONAL GASTRONOMY FICTION AND DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS FESTIVAL.

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Alicante, Spain