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Santander International Independent Film Festival (2026) - SANFICI

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SANFICI is a space to generate meetings at different levels, with an overcoming and innovative will. First of all, it is a space for the relationship between spectators, filmmakers and theorists around cinema and all border and heterodox manifestations. Secondly, it is a special and temporary meeting point.

SANFICI wants to become, year after year, the place of convergence for world independent cinema. But it also wants to be the space where the past and the future dialogue. The place where the most diverse film traditions are embraced with their riskiest proposals.



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Published: 16 Sep 2016
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Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest

Deadline: 31 Mar 2017

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The Film Tracks Film Fest wants to be a meeting point between fans of filmic language, propose quality works.

A special prize will go to a short film about the MEDITERRANEAN.

We love Cinema and how we want to spread it.

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Nettuno, Italy



 
 
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Published: 07 Sep 2016
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Festival de Málaga. Sección Afirmando los Derechos de las Mujeres

Deadline: 20 Jan 2017

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ASSERTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS is a project that emerged from the Festival de Málaga, in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Mabel Lozano and the Equal Opportunities Department of the Malaga City Council, as a tool for protest and advocacy. This section was created with the aim of exploring and addressing issues that raise social awareness about women's rights each year.

Launched in 2008, this section of the Festival de Málaga is now in its 19th edition. The project has a dual purpose: to shed light on the injustices that women continue to face in the 21st century simply because they are women, and to promote and support films created by women.

Through Asserting Women's Rights, we have brought attention to the challenges women face in different parts of the world. Even today, [...]

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Málaga, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 05 Sep 2016
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Espiello, International Ethnographic Film Fest of Sobrarbe

Deadline: 16 Oct 2016

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ESPIELLO, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY is organized by the Service of Culture of the Comarca de Sobrarbe (an institution that it groups to 19 town halls) along with a wide participation of neighbors of the zone who form the Permanent Commission of the festival. It is celebrated during March and April in Boltaña, a small population of the Pyrenees of Huesca (Spain).

Espiello is the only festival with this specialization in the country. It has an international competition of ethnographic documentary and some different sections out of competition and other activities whith topics related to the documentary and the visual anthropology.

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Boltaña, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 05 Sep 2016
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CINI – International Children´s Film Festival

Deadline: 18 Nov 2016

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The Cultural Británico cordially greets you and opens the call for entries to the “XII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN, CINI 2026”, to be held in Lima, Peru, from February 4 to 8, 2026.

This festival is held in the auditoriums of the Centro Cultural Británico, located in the districts of Surco, San Miguel, San Borja, Pueblo Libre, San Martín de Porres, Santa Anita, San Juan de Lurigancho, Camacho, and Miraflores.

All screenings to be held during the “XII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN, CINI 2026” will be free of charge for the general public.

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Lima, Peru



 
 

 
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Published: 31 Aug 2016
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ANTIC HORROR WEEKEND

Deadline: 15 Oct 2016

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15th ANTIC TEATRE Festival of Fantastic and Horror Short Films.

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Barcelona, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 16 Aug 2016
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The Taboo Look Film Festival

Deadline: 30 Nov 2016

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The LA MIRADA TABÚ film festival wants to motivate artists and creators to show their view of the “taboo” concept, which is broad and diverse, encompassing from the dreams, the unconscious, the mental worlds and the ghosts that populate them , the mystery, the magic, even the untold reality, the unsaid, "the clothes hanging", in the workplace, emotional, family, vital ... from a vision as polyhedral as human thought is: casual, humorous, dramatic, dreamlike ... always from respect for all ways of thinking and from creativity.

LA MIRADA TABÚ launches an invitation to bring to light the personal and non-transferable world of each creator, which, as we have been able to verify throughout the history of art and cinema, through great names in world cinematography, connects with [...]

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Zaragoza, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 27 Jul 2016
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Festival de Málaga

Deadline: 20 Dec 2016

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1. OBJECTIVES

The objectives of Festival de Malaga are to disseminate and promote Spanish films and their general cultural sphere. In this sense, the Festival is also a platform for Latin American film productions. Its functions include hosting an event for the different professional sectors of films in Spanish (construed as films produced in Spain and all of Latin America, including Brazil) to boost their development and promote international sales.

Festival de Málaga is recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers' Associations (FIAPF) (www.fiapf.org).

In compliance with these objectives, the 29th Edition of Festival de Málaga will be held from 6th to 15 th March 2026.

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Málaga, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 01 Jun 2016
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IFI Horrorthon

Deadline: 04 Sep 2016

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Halloween Weekend of Horror at the Irish Film Institute.

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Dublin, Ireland



 
 

 
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Published: 29 Apr 2016
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Animacinių Filmų Festivalis Tindirindis

Deadline: 01 Aug 2016

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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: 09 Apr 2016
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Minidoc

Deadline: 20 Sep 2016

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The theme must focus, from the values ​​of solidarity, tolerance, culture of peace, nature and commitment to gender equality, on ways of life, traditions, trades, crafts, sustainable economy, respect for the environment and living beings, that is, all aspects of the diversity of human culture, with a specific section dealing with issues of the peoples of Siberia and Central Asia.

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Polán, Spain