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Brussels Short Film Festival

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Brussels Short Film Festival is an exhibition intended for cinema lovers, both audience and professionals. The purpose is to promote and circulate short films and to generate contacts between audience, young directors and professionals.

Since 2018, the winner of the Great Prize of the International competition will be eligible for consideration in the Animated Short Film/ Live Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.



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Logo of El Festivalico Short film and Videoart festival
Published: 07 Nov 2019
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Short films



El Festivalico Short film and Videoart festival

Deadline: 22 Dec 2019

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

The Festivalico is a videoart and short film non competitive showcase.

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION:

Any individual or legal entity, regardless of nationality, may participate.

Short films must have a maximum duration of twenty minutes.

Submitted works must have been produced after January 1, 2023.

If the spoken language is not Spanish, the film must include subtitles.

All themes are accepted, divided into the following sections: fiction, documentary, animation, and video art.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Caravaca de la Cruz, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 26 Oct 2019
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Short films
Feature films



CHURUMBELA FEST

Deadline: 19 Nov 2019

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

CALL FOR ENTRIES

From July 8th 2025 to September 8th 2025.

Do you remember the first film you saw on the big screen when you were a child?

For thousands of Mexican children in vulnerable situations this question has no answer. This is why Churumbela Children's Film Festival was created, inviting all Mexican and Spanish-speaking children to experience cinema in an inclusive, completely playful and entertaining environment.

The 9th Churumbela Children's Film Festival will take place in a hybrid format; where some of the activities, workshops and talks with industry professionals will occur online and some others onsite including film screenings in Mexico City and Merida City, Yucatan. It brings film culture to children and their families, specially those who are in any kind [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Ciudad de Mexico Mérida, Yucatán , Mexico



 
 
 

 
Logo of Villanueva Showing FIlm Awards
Published: 23 Oct 2019
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Does NOT have submission fees
Short films



Villanueva Showing FIlm Awards

Deadline: 09 Mar 2020

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

«The Oscars of the university cinema»

Villanueva Showing Festival is an International Short Film Festival for young people between 15 and 25 years old, organized by Universidad Villanueva. This initiative aims to encourage young people to reflect on universal human values ​​through audiovisual language. For this reason, each edition challenges the young cinematographic promises to create their own piece on a specific theme based on a universal value.

This festival, in which more than $ 22,000 in prizes are awarded every year, offers great visibility to young cinematographic talents before an international jury of experts, producers, directors, scriptwriters, actors and other professionals from the sector who attend the ceremony annually of awards ceremony, held in an iconic [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Madrid, Spain



 
 
 
 
Logo of NIKON FILM FESTIVAL
Published: 08 Oct 2019
Film festival
Does NOT have submission fees
Short films



NIKON FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 15 Jan 2020

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

It's a free and open to all short film festival based in Paris (France). Concept is simple : submit 2min20 shortfilms about an imposed theme each year. For this 15th edition, it'll be "A human superpower". To participate, you must register on our website www.festivalnikon.fr/en until January 15, 2026

IMPORTANT: PLEASE NOTE THAT FILMS OVER 2MIN20 WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED INTO THE COMPETITION AND WILL BE IMMEDIATELY EXCLUDED WITHOUT VIEWING.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Paris, France



 
 
 

 
Logo of The Taboo Look Film Festival
Published: 04 Oct 2019
Film festival
Does NOT have submission fees
Short films



The Taboo Look Film Festival

Deadline: 30 Nov 2019

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

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 [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Zaragoza, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 03 Oct 2019
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Short films



Palencia International Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Dec 2019

Call for entries

GOYA Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

The Palencia International Films Festival is organised by the Association Friends of the film and the Popular University of Palencia.

This edition is number 34, and during all these years, our philosphy has been considering cinema a tool of development and social cohesion.

Our festival colaborates with the Spanish Cinema Academy, and its a qualifyer festival for the GOYA shortfilm Awards.

In addition, the short film awarded the first prize by the jury at the MCIP (the Milagros Alcalde Award) will go directly to the Short List finalist of the FUGAZ Awards, making up the short list of films that will then be evaluated for nomination by the commission that awards these prizes each year.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Palencia, Spain



 
 
 

 
Logo of Sometimes I see shorts
Published: 26 Sep 2019
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Short films



Sometimes I see shorts

Deadline: 13 Oct 2019

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Horror Short Film Contest organized by the Youth Department of the Cartagena City Council and managed by Ana Ballabriga.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Cartagena, Spain



 
 
 
Logo of Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest
Published: 21 Sep 2019
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Short films



Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest

Deadline: 20 Apr 2020

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

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.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Nettuno, Italy



 

 
Logo of Short South
Published: 02 Sep 2019
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Short films



Short South

Deadline: 31 May 2020

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

ORGANIZERS

Cultural Association Time & Memory organizes the fourteenth edition of the Short Film Festival called "SHORT TO SOUTH", to be held in Polla (SA)ITALY from the 20 - 21 June 2026 at the Auditorium "Holy Nicolicchio".

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Polla, Italy



 
 
Logo of ANTIC HORROR WEEKEND
Published: 31 Aug 2019
Film festival
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Short films



ANTIC HORROR WEEKEND

Deadline: 30 Sep 2019

Call for entries

Short film festival

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

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Barcelona, Spain