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shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival

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shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival is a premier venue for the exhibition and promotion of short films. The festival is an exceptional twelve-day event with a unique concept – a transnational film festival simultaneously taking place in eight cities on five continents worldwide. The festival includes three main segments:

shnit PLAYGROUNDS*
shnit EXPANDED
shnit OPENING | shnit FINALE*

In its twentyone years of existence, shnit has become a major international short film festival that reinvents itself in ever new forms. What started as a local initiative is now an exceptional transnational event that connects and inspires makers and fans of short films across the globe. shnit embraces diversity, originality, and exchange between creators and an audience from different cultures [...]



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Published: 01 Jun 2024
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TAF • Thessaloniki Animation Festival

Deadline: 31 Jul 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

TAF, Thessaloniki Animation Festival is an international Animation Festival in Greece which promotes the art of animation through its annual gathering in October. The festival was founded, established and directed by ADDART; a non profit organization that "adds" art & culture everywhere. The creators of the festival are artists themselves, filled with love for the art of animation. Based in the heart of Thessaloniki, TAF aims to encourage and promote all aspects of creativity by hosting local as well as international events and activities for kids and adults alike!
TAF is the only Animation festival in town and every year it grows bigger. We like to showcase innovating films, guests, workshops and Master Classes to Thessaloniki in a great venue and award them for their [...]

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Thessaloniki, Greece



 
 
 
 
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Published: 30 May 2024
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International Environment Film festival Massa Wassay

Deadline: 31 Jul 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

International Environmental Film Festival is a festival dedicated to short films (Ficton & Documentary) which treat the subject of the environmental such climate change, global warming, extinction of species...Peace Corps actions....Activism...

We are 100 % environmental film festival and our goal is to educate through entertaining and to raise awareness, using audiovisuals as a tool and language.

The IEFF is an annual film festival which takes place in Sidi Wassay-Massa village in the South of Morocco (60 km far from Agadir City).

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Massa, Morocco



 

 
Logo of Size Doesn´t Matter
Published: 28 May 2024
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La mida no importa

Deadline: 04 Oct 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

The main purpose of La mida no importa-Size Doesn’t Matter is to promote short film production and culture.

Further information: www.lamidanoimporta.cat

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Barcelona, Spain



 
 
 
 
Logo of 12° FESTIVERD -Festival Internacional De Cine Y Video Verde De Venezuela 2024
Published: 28 May 2024
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FESTIVERD Venezuela

Deadline: 25 Oct 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

12° FESTIVERD – Venezuela: UNIVERSIDADES VERDES
Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Verde de Venezuela abre su convocatoria para la 12° edición a realizarse del 2 al 6 de diciembre de 2024. Podrán presentarse cortometrajes estudiantiles de cualquier latitud, en una única categoría, siempre y cuando versen sobre la temática AMBIENTAL.

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Our vision: to become a green film and video festival that, from Venezuela to the world, serves as an example in the creation of loving-parental bonds among all the inhabitants of planet Earth.

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Our mission: to offer an alternative to environmental and ecological experiences that aim to rescue parental ties between all biotic and abiotic beings. The exhibition on green audiovisual narratives is interrelated with other streaming, media, [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Caracas, Venezuela



 
 
 

 
Logo of The Dove Block Project Short Film Festival
Published: 26 May 2024
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The Dove Block Project Short Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Aug 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

The Dove Block Project Short Film Festival is an annual celebration of short films held in the beautiful Finger lakes city of Geneva New York.The festival showcases the short films from local film makers and other regions of the world. Offering a platform for emerging filmmakers and established ones. The festival will also host various events, including Q&A sessions with filmmakers, and special screenings.

The festival’s curator is renowned screen print artist Harold Copp, who is also on the board and planning committee at the Dove Block Project. He has numerous years of experience in curating a multitude of different events.

The festival will take place in The Dove Block Project’s very own Jim Spates Theater, a state of the art 27 seat theater within the art gallery and [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Geneva, United States



 
Logo of Certamen de Cine Lento
Published: 24 May 2024
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Certamen de Cine Lento

Deadline: 09 Sep 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

This short films contest up in order to motivate people to convey their ideas through cinema.

The theme that identifies it is based on the idea of ​​"slowness" or "slow life", what we understand as a bunch of actions (respect for the Environment and people, responsible consumption, defense of culture, decrease, life and leisure alternative, cooperation, food sovereignty, social economy ...) that make individuals improve their quality of life, control their time and be critical of the current economic and social system.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Guadalajara, Spain



 
 
 

 
Logo of International film festival of the Central University
Published: 23 May 2024
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Festival Internacional de Cine de la Universidad Central

Deadline: 15 Sep 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

Bogota’s Central University’s Film School invites all students, graduates, filmmakers, and alike to participate in its seventh edition of the Central University’s International Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Cine de la Universidad Central): FICUC. A space that provides the opportunity to build new connections based on cinematographic celebration. A national and international gathering.

Since the goal of the festival is to make an encounter of diverse voices in which the transformation and filmmaking development require the integration of new perspectives, we have decided that the heart of the matter of this year is “Intervening history” By this means we will delve into the wanders, life experiences and point of views of the new emerging generations of filmmakers.

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Bogotá, Colombia



 
 
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Published: 22 May 2024
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Festival Internacional de Cine de La Serena

Deadline: 15 Aug 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

The nineth La Serena International Film Festival, FECILS, is a competitive audiovisual contest, which will take place from November 05 to 09, 2024, in the Coquimbo region. It seeks to support the production and dissemination of regional, national and Latin American audiovisual activity, and thus contribute to decentralization, promoting the meeting and training of regional filmmakers and producers. With these actions, FECILS seeks to establish itself as a cultural event that, in addition to generating film exhibition spaces in the Coquimbo region, applies its emphasis on generating new audiences. FECILS 2024 has an audiovisual extension program that will reach the different spaces of the communes of the region.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



La Serena, Chile



 
 
 

 
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Published: 21 May 2024
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Festival de Málaga

Deadline: 15 Nov 2024

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Short film festival

Feature film festival

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.

In compliance with these objectives, the 28th Edition of Festival de Málaga will be held from 14th to 23rd March 2025.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Málaga, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 18 May 2024
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Festival La Mirada Tabú

Deadline: 31 Oct 2024

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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