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FIDOCS International Documentary Film festival

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The Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS) is the main broadcasting, diffusion, and competition event for documentary cinema in Chile and Latin America.
Focused on the promotion of dialogue and reflection, as well as in training audiences towards the appreciation of documentary film in a context of permanent transformation, FIDOCS seeks to explore the multiple paths available in documentary making as well as in the drifts proper to nonfiction works. In its program, FIDOCS incorporates the works of both experienced and emerging directors in order to address the question of “THE REAL”, and in doing so, it considers the various dimensions, disciplinary frontiers, and tensions that the question “what is real?”, as well as the documentary genre itself, has to [...]





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Logo of Festival Atmospheres
Published: 25 Apr 2024
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Does NOT have submission fees
Short films



Festival Atmospheres

Deadline: 31 Aug 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Contest is open to everyone !

Topic of the contest is "The Dream life".

You can submit your any type of film up to 15 minutes max.

Festival Atmospheres uses all kinds of art forms in order to arouse afterthought and commitment to an accessible and constructive sustainable development.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Courbevoie, France



 
 
 
 
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Published: 25 Apr 2024
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Short films



SOL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 20 May 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

International film festival in Torrevieja (Spain).

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Torrevieja, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 25 Apr 2024
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Does NOT have submission fees
Short films



DON BOSCO GLOBAL YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL 2024

Deadline: 31 Jul 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival (DBGYFF) is an annual film festival to diverse audiences, aimed at encouraging, educating and empowering youth all over the world. This platform offers a golden opportunity for short film makers to receive recognition for their skill, exhibit their films to a wider audience, forge connections with like-minded and passionate filmmakers, and draw inspiration from industry veterans. By shining a spotlight on short films, DBGYFF not only encourages emerging talent but also enriches the festival’s diverse cinematic tapestry.

DBGYFF invites young people between the age of 14 to 25 to participate in this festival on the theme "I Have A Dream" - Youth & Climate Change - Making Mother Earth Cleaner and Greener and upload their entries in any one of [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Rome, Italy



 
 
 
 
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Published: 24 Apr 2024
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Short films



Anishort International Festival Of Short Animated Films

Deadline: 20 Jun 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

International Short Animated Film Festival - ANISHORT is an international competition that serves to support the animated short films and their creators. At the same time it serves to the promotion, propagation, retrieval and watching possibilities of the best animated short films from around the world.

It should also be a place where community of creative people that producing these films meet. On the other hand, then the place for people who enjoy watching of these films and that are fans of this kind of art.

The festival will take place from 18th October 2023 in several selected cities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia and Poland.

The top 18 short animated films will compete in this competition.

The films will be judged by ​​selected international jury. The jury [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Prague, Czech Republic



 
 
 

 
Logo of Abuja International Film Festival
Published: 24 Apr 2024
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Short films
Feature films



Abuja International Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Aug 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

The festival offers a contemporary and liberal platform for the filmmakers of the World to exhibit the excellence of the film art form. The aim is mainly to contribute to the understanding and appreciation of cultures of different nations. We hope to present complex human situations of this rapidly changing world in the globalized era. The Festival Committee reserves the right to exclude films which are not in conformity with aims of the Festival, or which could offend the national feelings and susceptibilities of any participating country, or are likely to promote racial discrimination. Films not presenting sufficient technical qualities for good public screening can be refused after checking of the prints by the Print Checking Unit of the Film Festival Office. Date and Place: [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



ABUJA, Nigeria



 
 
 
 
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Published: 24 Apr 2024
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Short films



Urban Mediamakers Film Festival

Deadline: 07 Sep 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

"Content Creators Changing the World, One Project at a Time" is the theme of the 23rd Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, October 14-27, 2024. The festival is in-person and virtual with events throughout Gwinnett County, GA -- Duluth, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, Norcross, Snellville -- as well as Atlanta, and Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC). UMFF features a daily virtual space with guest speakers, sessions and content creators Q&A.

Recognizing media as a powerful tool of choice for entertaining, informing, and inspiring, this annual content creators' festival showcases international, urban independent media. We are open to all creators, and we emphasize work produced by or featuring individuals of color - African, African-American, Asian, Black, Hispanic, Latino Native American, and [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Lilburn, United States



 
 
 

 
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Published: 24 Apr 2024
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Short films
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VII Curta Lages International Film Festival

Deadline: 12 May 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

The VII Curta Lages International Film Festival promotes a broad, plural and international program, holding competitive and non-competitive screenings of short and feature films of all formats and genres.

The Curta Lages Festival is proud of its curation centered on inclusion and diversity, prioritizing works that explore themes linked to issues of gender, racism, ethnic diversity, sustainability and social inclusion. The goal is not only to provide access to these narratives, but also to foster meaningful debates after the screenings. The festival especially values independent productions, recognizing the power of cinema to engage and enrich the local community.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Lages, Brazil



 
 
 
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Published: 24 Apr 2024
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Short films



PUNTO FINAL

Deadline: 01 Sep 2024

Call for entries

Short film festival

The theme of the contest is death understood as the end of life. The works must reflect death from the perspective of the authorship of the works.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Quinto, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 24 Apr 2024
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Short films



Cairo Video Festival

Deadline: 30 May 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

Medrar for Contemporary Art launches its call for the 11th edition of Cairo Video Festival, which will be held in December 2024. The festival continues its focus on providing a platform for sharing and discussing newly produced video art and experimental film. Programs will be screened in conventional and non-conventional venues, in theater and exhibition spaces to promote, expand and harvest attention to the practice.

The 11th edition of Cairo Video Festival culminates many steps and stages that represent our experiences with video art and experimental film, and also summarizes our recurrent inquiries about the relationship between artistic expression and the reality we live in, the current events and our eagerness to experiment and add new and different values ​​with each [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Cairo, Egypt



 
 
 
 
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Published: 24 Apr 2024
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Does NOT have submission fees
Short films



Humus Film Fest

Deadline: 15 Oct 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

The Humus Film Fest is an international festival of short films with environmental themes, focused on audiovisual pieces that show, from fiction or reality, agroecology experiences, urban gardens, connections between the countryside and the city or new ruralities.

The festival aspires to accommodate both the most professional and amateur creators, with
the aim of broadening views on the connections between these two ecosystems, the countryside and the city. We look for stories that tell us about these relationships from humor, poetry, surrealism or everyday life.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Madrid, Spain