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European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux

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DATE AND LOCATION

The 29th edition of the European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux will take place from March 26th to 27th 2026. The projection nights will take place at the UGC Ciné-Cité cinema in Bordeaux.

GOALS

The European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux aims to promote the short film format to the Région Aquitaine's audience. It facilitates the access to cinema for a large public, from all ages. It also supports the discovery of talented directors coming from all over Europe.,It’s a way for the filmmakers to be appreciated by a jury, no matter if they are mere enthusiasts or professionals.



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Published: 18 Sep 2024
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Shortfilms of the Young Polis’ Film Showcase

Deadline: 04 Oct 2024

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The Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) of Costa Rica, through the Centro Agenda Joven en Derechos y Ciudadanía, in support of young audiovisual producers and filmmakers and with special attention to the young population in the country, is launching the 16th Audiovisual Showcase “Cortos de la Polis Joven”. The event aims to promote audiovisual production in Costa Rica through a culture of visual expression that reflects the creative imagination of young Costa Ricans and their daily experiences.

“Cortos de la Polis Joven” seeks to present these productions to all kinds of audiences within the university as well as to the local and international community, in order to foster and develop Costa Rican cinematographic production and culture. We believe it is important to open a [...]

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San José, Costa Rica



 
 
 
 
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Published: 18 Sep 2024
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Bringing Human Rights to the people, short film contest

Deadline: 14 Oct 2024

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The GEH Short Film Competition is a short film competition on human rights held in different localities of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country).

This competition is part of the global project human rights Giza Eskubideak Herrira (Bringing human rights to the people.). The GEH is a human rights awareness project created by the dar-dar Productions cooperative in 2015. The first editions were based in Ordizia. In 2023, the festival has developed and extended to several towns in Gipuzkoa (Euskal Herria).

The main objective of this competition is to raise awareness and educate on human rights. Because this short film contest is a window that we open to the world, and from that window we can see the different realities that people live in different parts of the planet. In view of these [...]

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Legorreta, Spain




 
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Published: 14 Sep 2024
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Palencia International Film Festival

Deadline: 30 Nov 2024

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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: 11 Sep 2024
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Short Short Story Film Festival

Deadline: 03 Nov 2024

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The Short Short Story Film Festival is a competitive international festival of films that tell a story in under six minutes.

For 2025, the 18th edition of the festival returns with a unique closed event. The festival celebrates brevity in film-making, with films from across the globe, both live-action and animated.

The festival consists of two programs, Heartstrings and Headtrip, each with a distinctive tone yet wide-ranging styles and topics.

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Published: 07 Sep 2024
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MUESTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINE Y CIENCIA

Deadline: 20 Oct 2024

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VII INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF FILM AND SCIENCE 2025

The International Exhibition of Cinema and Science is an event that will take place at Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo (Santander, Spain), between the 3th and 9th of November, 2025. Is admitted any work of any genre related to science and scientific divulgation.

The objective of the exhibition is to promote the production and divulgation of works that foster the positive and progressive values ​​of science and technology, and that serve as a consultation for any type of audience. The subject is totally free and can refer to own or other people's research, hot topics in the society or scientific community, personal scientific-technical passions, basic science concepts, scientific milestones, historical figures, the science [...]

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Santander, Spain



 
 
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Published: 03 Sep 2024
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Espiello, Festival Internacional de Documental Etnográfico de Sobrarbe

Deadline: 15 Oct 2024

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ESPIELLO, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY is organized by the Service of Culture of the Comarca de Sobrarbe (an institution that it groups to 19 town halls) along with a wide participation of neighbors of the zone who form the Permanent Commission of the festival. It is celebrated during March and April in Boltaña, a small population of the Pyrenees of Huesca (Spain).

Espiello is the only festival with this specialization in the country. It has an international competition of ethnographic documentary and some different sections out of competition and other activities whith topics related to the documentary and the visual anthropology.

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Boltaña, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 02 Sep 2024
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LusOFest

Deadline: 30 Nov 2024

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LusOFest, the festival of Portuguese-language film in Offenbach am Main, will take place for the first time in January 2026.

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Offenbach am Main, Germany



 
 
 
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Published: 21 Aug 2024
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Festival Internacional de Cine de La Serena

Deadline: 30 Aug 2024

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The eleventh La Serena International Film Festival (FECILS) is a competitive audiovisual event that will take place from October 22 to 25, 2025, in the Coquimbo region. It seeks to support the production and dissemination of regional, national, and Latin American audiovisual activities, thus contributing to decentralization by promoting the exchange and training of regional filmmakers and producers. Through these actions, FECILS seeks to establish itself as a cultural event that, in addition to generating film exhibition spaces in the Coquimbo region, focuses on generating new audiences. FECILS 2025 features an audiovisual outreach program that will reach various venues in the region's communes.

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La Serena, Chile



 
 
 

 
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Published: 14 Aug 2024
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TUWUN - Muestra De Cine Indígena De Wallmapu

Deadline: 15 Sep 2024

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PRESENTATION

The TUWUN concept represents the Mapuche territorial origin, which together with KVPALME, the family origin, represent the Mapuche identity rooted in the LOF, a territorial space that in turn is the basis of the ancestral territorial structure of a broader space, the WALLMAPU, the entire Mapuche territory.

This concept of Mapudungun, the Mapuche language, gives rise to TUWUN Muestra de Cine Indígena de Wallmapu, created with the aim of making known through cinema, that identity and the realities related from ancestral knowledge and the way in which it is understood. life from the vision and relationship of each people with their environment, with their territory, with their own history, culture and spirituality and, therefore, from their own perspective.

In this [...]

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Villarrica, Chile



 
 
 
 
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Published: 14 Aug 2024
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Antic Horror Weekend (XV Festival De Curtmetratges Fantàstics I De Terror De L’Antic Teatre)

Deadline: 13 Oct 2024

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15th ANTIC TEATRE Festival of Fantastic and Horror Short Films.

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Barcelona, Spain