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shnit worldwide shortsfestival

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The shnit worldwide shortsfestival is a premier platform for the exhibition and promotion of short films. This festival is a unique transnational event held simultaneously in ten cities across five continents. The festival consists of three main segments:

▪ shnit PLAYGROUNDS* | Running until August 31st, 2025
▪ shnit EXPANDED | Running until September 30th, 2025
▪ shnit FINALE | Amsterdam – September 30th, 2025

The winner of the WORLDWIDE COMPETITION, as well as the shnit audience-nominated films of the WORLDWIDE & INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, will become eligible to enter the 2026 Oscars® in accordance with the rules of the 98th Academy Awards® [Cinematic release].

Over the past twenty-three years, shnit has evolved into a major international short film festival, continuously [...]



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Published: 16 Sep 2021
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Festival Kinoarte de Cinema

Deadline: 22 Oct 2021

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International Festival

Short film festival

The 27th Kinoarte Film Festival, to be held from November 2nd to November 9th, is receiving applications for its competitive sessions of short films. Films up to 25 minutes long, produced from January 2024 may participate in the Ibero-American, National, Paranaense and Londrinense competitions.

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Londrina, Brazil



 
 
 
 
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Published: 09 Sep 2021
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Rodando en Bicicleta Short Film Festival

Deadline: 08 Oct 2021

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International Festival

Short film festival

ONLY FOR LATIN AMERICAN FILMMAKERS.

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Amalfi , Colombia



 
 

 
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Published: 31 Aug 2021
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Zaragoza International Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Dec 2021

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The Zaragoza Film Festival, founded in 1995 to create a cinematic activity in the city. At first his main title was the Young Filmmakers. Since 2007 its official name became the Zaragoza Film Festival.

Festival with various events, generalist and national character (although some of its events are international).

Starting in 2021, after celebrating the 25th edition of the Festival, we propose an evolution of the project.

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Zaragoza, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 19 Aug 2021
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EUREKA University Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Aug 2021

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

10th EUREKA UNIVERSITY FILM FESTIVAL 2025

The conditions described below correspond to the requirements proposed by EUREKA University Film Festival and its programming team. The registration and selection of audiovisual pieces sent by those students and filmmakers who would like to be part of the official programming depend on these requirements, bases and conditions.

EUREKA University Film Festival is an event initially organized by students from the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano of Bogota and students from different universities in Colombia. The festival will take place from October 14 to 18, 2025 in the city of Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

The call for entries will be open from April 10th until June 03rd, 2025. The only platform we will enable to receive the audiovisual [...]

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Bogotá D.C., Colombia



 
 
 

 
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Published: 03 Aug 2021
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Masuku Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Aug 2021

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International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

The Masuku Film Festival aims to promote the dissemination of films, works and audiovisual material from all countries, in all genres and for all audiences, addressing topics related to the environment, sustainable development and the environment.

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libreville, Gabon



 
 
 
 
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Published: 02 Aug 2021
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FICCAB - Benalmadena Internacional Short Films Festival

Deadline: 26 Sep 2021

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International Festival

Short film festival

In 1998, the Benalmádena Cinematographic Youth Association (ACIBE) recovered the spirit of the defunct SICAB (Benalmádena International Author's Film Week, 1969-1989) to undertake the project of creating a film festival for the city. The result, after seventeen years of management, is the Benalmádena International Short Film and Alternative Film Festival (FICCAB), a meeting forum for lovers of quality cinema. More than four hundred short films are presented each year at a festival for all ages that unites the glamor of the stars to the best auteur, independent, alternative and unknown cinematographies, paying special attention to European ones.

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Arroyo de la Miel - Benalmádena, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 25 Jul 2021
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cinema + football festival, festigol

Deadline: 30 Sep 2021

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Festigol® is an independent non-competitive Football Film and Documentaries Festival held in Santiago of Chile since 2016. It aims to create a space where football is shown as a creator of stories beyond the pitch demanding it as a social and cultural phenomenon in Chile as well as in the whole world. We see football as a constructor of identities mobilizing our society’s affections, narratives and memories. We are seeking to be a means of appropriation and revaluation of the football-related cultural manifestations.

Besides the exhibition of films, we seek to bring together different audiences creating a meeting place for different football-related cultural expressions allowing us to develop emerging issues connected to this sport and to our society being today the single [...]

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Santiago, Chile



 
 
 
 
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Published: 23 Jul 2021
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The 8th Jeonju International Short Film Festival

Deadline: 05 Aug 2021

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International Festival

Short film festival

Regulations for Submission to the Competition Section of the 8th Jeonju International Short Film Festival

The Jeonju International Short Film Festival is an annual event hosted by CineSoop, a non-profit organization under the Cultural Contents Research Institute.

The 8th Jeonju International Short Film Festival will be organized by the Festival Executive Committee.

The festival aims to contribute to the diversity of film and culture by introducing outstanding short films from Korea and around the world to audiences.

The 8th edition of the Jeonju International Short Film Festival will be held in Jeonju from September 25 to September 29, 2025.

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Korean Jeonju, South Korea



 
 
 

 
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Published: 23 Jul 2021
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FESTIVAL OF FUTURE STORYTELLERS

Deadline: 27 Sep 2021

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International Festival

Short film festival

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: 22 Jul 2021
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Animacción

Deadline: 15 Oct 2021

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International Festival

Short film festival

Animacción is an international festival of animated short films, which showcases the artistic potential of a whole new generation of animators. Organised by the cultural association dedicated to animation ‘Ánimas Anónimas’, the festival returns this year for its 9th edition.


I would put this whole paragraph like this: The selected short films will be screened from 27/10 to 01/11 in different venues in the metropolitan area of A Coruña, and the winning films from both the general section and the children's and Galician sections will be chosen by voting by the audience attending the screenings.

The days of the screenings will be an opportunity to create a bridge between professionals from the world of animation and the public, as we will be programming talks and activities for [...]

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A Coruña, Spain