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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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Published: 07 Dec 2024
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Festival Cortogijón

Deadline: 28 Feb 2025

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X CortoGijón Festival

The Gijón Short Film Festival arises
in 2015 as a parallel section within the
Aula 18 National Short Film Contest
in the delivery After the disappearance of
emblematic festival three of the programmers
decide to maintain their essence by transferring
the festival to Gijón. It is in the second edition
that of 2016, where the festival moves to the
municipal centers of the city to develop a festival with an eye on short films and music. Since then
to the competitive sections (Official Section,
Asturias Section) And to the sample sections
(Panorama Asturias and Mirada FICX) have been
there have been concerts that have given luster to the
cultural spaces of the city and that have
served to put the climax to each projection.

Names like Marilia, Pablo Und
 [...]

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Gijón, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 07 Dec 2024
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Liberamente Short Selection

Deadline: 03 Jan 2025

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Liberamente Short Selection is a festival organized and promoted by Liberamente Cavaion APS with the
support of Quock Productions and I Guardiani del Moscal. The initiative is sponsored by the Municipality of Cavaion V.se.

The goal is to allow the dissemination of independent short films in our territory, giving visibility to emerging artists and awarding the most deserving individuals.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Cavaion V.se, Italy



 
 

 
Logo of IndiFest - Barcelona Indigenous Film Festival
Published: 06 Dec 2024
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IndiFest - Barcelona Indigenous Film Festival

Deadline: 16 Feb 2025

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IndiFest is festival organized by alterNativa in collaboration with CLACPI (Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas), with the aim of giving its own voice to the indigenous peoples and to demand the fulfillment of their Rights.

The Festival’s main objective is to promote the Identity and the Rights of the indigenous peoples through audiovisual tools. The festival includes screenings at physical venues as well as an online week event.

IndiFest is complemented with other activities such as political incidence and conversations with indigenous leaders.

A commitment that enhances the decentralization of cultural habits as well as the communication of indigenous peoples concerning their Rights and intercultural relations.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Barcelona, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 05 Dec 2024
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MICE- Ethnographic Film Festival Museum of Galician People

Deadline: 30 Dec 2024

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The Museo do Pobo Galego (Museum of Galician People) organises the Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnográfico - Ethnographic Film Festival. 20th Mostra de Cinema Etnográfico Museo do Pobo Galego will run 12-16 March, 2025 in Santiago
de Compostela.

Call for entries from December 4,2024 to December 30,2024.

We understand ethnographic cinema in a broad sense; it refers to those productions
whose main aim is to show different aspects related to sociocultural realities as well as
a community’s way of life. It comprises films with the main focus on people, social groups and relevant historical processes that are related to anthropology and ethnography.

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Santiago de Compostela, Spain



 
 
 

 
Logo of Zero Plus International festival of films for children and youth
Published: 05 Dec 2024
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Zero Plus International festival of films for children and youth

Deadline: 01 Apr 2025

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"0+" International film festival is aimed at:

1. promotion and popularization of high-quality films, which foster a positive, creative and formative worldview in children and young people, strengthen common human values like family, childhood, friendship, kindness, nature, love for a profession, etc.

2. integration of cinema and education by creating a collection of value-oriented films for carrying out educational screenings in schools and social institutions of Russia.

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Tyumen, Russia



 
 
 
 
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Published: 04 Dec 2024
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Orobie Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Dec 2024

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Montagna Italia Association was founded in 1996 with the aim of promoting the mountain, environmental and forest territory and its expressions, with the intent of supporting tourism, culture and the environment. In 2006 it created the “Orobie Film Festival” together with a network of Festivals dedicated to the mountains and rooted in different cities and periods.

• Orobie Film Festival - Seriate | BG | January

The Festival takes place in cities that, due to their geographical location or vocation, have the proposed themes at heart and that intercept the interest and consensus of a large audience of cinephiles, hikers and enthusiasts. The initiatives prove to be a privileged opportunity to make known the richness of the territories and the history of their people through the [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Bergamo, Italy



 
 

 
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Published: 03 Dec 2024
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BAAR | 2º Festival De Cine Argentino En Barcelona

Deadline: 31 Aug 2025

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Only for Spanish and Argentinian Filmmakers.

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BARCELONA, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 03 Dec 2024
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Papagena Festival

Deadline: 25 Jan 2025

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Papagena Festival: Celebrating Art in All Its Forms

Get ready to experience a unique experience of art, culture and creative expression! The Papagena Festival brings a program full of audiovisual exhibitions, visual arts, lectures and social actions, creating an inclusive space for everyone.

With the goal of providing an inclusive and learning space, the event will take place physically, at the Associação Tapeçaria Timbi, and also virtually via Vimeo, the official website and YouTube, allowing everyone to participate from anywhere.

During the event, you will have the opportunity to explore short films, illustrations, photographs and debates that reflect on the impact of art on society, while contributing to the construction of a more collaborative and conscious culture.

 [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Camaragibe, Brazil



 

 
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Published: 03 Dec 2024
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Muestra de Cine Internacional de Palencia

Deadline: 15 Dec 2024

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GOYA Qualifiers

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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.

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Palencia, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 03 Dec 2024
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CAP SPARTEL FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

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We are a thematic film festival.

Theme of the edition: films on ARTS: dance, music, sculpture, theater, plastic arts, visual arts, sound arts, singing, cinema

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Tanger, Morocco