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Message To Man

The 35th Message to Man International Festival of documentary, short fiction, animated, and experimental films will take place from 17 to 25 October 2025 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Over the years, the Festival has hosted distinguished figures of world cinema, including Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Claude Lanzmann, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Paolo Sorrentino, Alan Berliner, Eric Roberts, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abdellatif Kechiche, Udo Kier, and many others.

With its history spanning three decades of cinema development, Message to Man was founded in 1989 in Leningrad by filmmaker Mikhail Litvyakov, who now serves as the Honorary President of the Festival.

In 2010, Alexei Uchitel, a renowned director of documentaries and feature films, assumed the role [...]

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Festival de Cine de Barracas

Deadline: 21 May 2025

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After two previous editions where we programmed a film cycle of films made or in which artists from the area participated (Barracas, La Boca, Pompeya and Parque Patricios, Avellaneda, also called Cuenca del Rio Matanza - Riachuelo) in a few weeks. We want to organize this third edition, a call for short and long films, where YOUTH AND WORK are the main theme in the selected works.

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CIUDAD AUTONOMA DE BUENOS AIRES, Argentina

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Published: 02 Mar 2025

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RIR · International Comedy Shortfilm Festival

Deadline: 30 Jun 2025

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The eighth edition of RIR (International Comedy Shortfilm Festival), a theme festival where humor is the fundamental base.

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Allariz, Spain

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Published: 01 Mar 2025

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CERTAMEN CINEMATOGRÁFICO AMIGOS DE RIBADESELLA

Deadline: 15 Sep 2025

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The festival aims to promote cinematographic culture through short films.

The Friends of Ribadesella Cultural Association was born in 1986, with the vocation of disseminating culture among the citizens of Ribadesella and its council, its statutory objectives being very broad (giving conferences, organizing exhibitions, publishing books, protecting cultural and historical heritage , artistic, ethnographic, natural or scientific of the town; also activities of a sporting or social nature) currently having about a thousand members, who support our cultural trajectory.

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Ribadesella, Spain

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Published: 01 Mar 2025

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Reto UNLA en corto 2025

Deadline: 20 Apr 2025

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Morelia, Mexico

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Published: 26 Feb 2025

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International Environment Film festival Massa Wassay

Deadline: 10 Jul 2025

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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

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Published: 26 Feb 2025

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Planet On - Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

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IX PLANET ON INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
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Colombia becomes the stage for discussing current environmental issues. For this purpose, Planet On proposes a dialogue between filmmakers, scientists, industry, and the public through cinematic works and a short film competition. It aims to provide a necessary space where people can narrate, from their perspective, the various environmental challenges humanity faces.

Planet On seeks to find the best stories about illegal wildlife trade and the protection of fauna in Latin America, as well as any other environmental issues participants wish to address.

The IX edition of the Planet On International Environmental Film Festival will be the ideal place [...]

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Bogota, Colombia

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Published: 25 Feb 2025

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FIIN - Festival Internacional de Imagem de Natureza

Deadline: 20 Jun 2025

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The main objective of the Short Film Festival is the dissemination of ecosystems and biological heritage through cinematographic and audiovisual works selected through quality criteria.

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Vila Real, Portugal

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Published: 25 Feb 2025

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Actrum International Film Fest (AIFF)

Deadline: 30 Mar 2025

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ACTRUM is a non-profit Cultural Association that works in all areas of the artistic sector.

In this festival, the finalist works will be screened online and it will be open to the public, who will have to vote through our website for their 3 favorite shorts/feature films from each section to award the public prizes.

Register your project! We accept any gender.

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Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain

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Published: 25 Feb 2025

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Festival De Cine Y Vino Ciudad De La Solana

Deadline: 01 Jun 2025

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21th FILM AND WINE FESTIVAL "CITY OF LA SOLANA 2025".

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La Solana , Spain

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Published: 22 Feb 2025

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Bosifest - Belgrade international film festival for and by people with disabilities

Deadline: 20 Apr 2025

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BOSIFEST is the International Festival Of Documentary Film for and by persons with disabilities, the only one of this kind in the Southeast Europe, which will be organized this year for the sixteenth time in Serbia by the Hendi Center Koloseum. As in past fifteen years, this year on the big screen a great number of films will be shown both in competitive and non-competitive part. So far visitors of the BOSIFEST had an opportunity to watch 850 films that had life of the people with disabilities as their subject or were created by the disabled authors.
In addition to film screenings, BOSIFEST offers additional programs in the form of workshops, panel discussions and roundtables.

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Belgrade, Serbia

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Allariz, Spain

CERTAMEN CINEMATOGRÁFICO AMIGOS DE RIBADESELLA

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Reto UNLA en corto 2025

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Morelia, Mexico

International Environment Film festival Massa Wassay

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Massa, Morocco

Planet On - Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental

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Bogota, Colombia

FIIN - Festival Internacional de Imagem de Natureza

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Vila Real, Portugal

Actrum International Film Fest (AIFF)

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Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain

Festival De Cine Y Vino Ciudad De La Solana

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La Solana , Spain

Bosifest - Belgrade international film festival for and by people with disabilities

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Belgrade, Serbia

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