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Palencia International Film Festival

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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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Published: 07 Sep 2024
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Connect to Prosper - Global Video Challenge

Deadline: 28 Mar 2025

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International Festival

Short film festival

Are you a creative filmmaker, storyteller, or digital artist? Join our global challenge and showcase your talent on an international stage! In 2025, we honour the 695th Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, whose visionary theme, "Connect to Prosper," redefines global connections and innovation. This is your chance to shine and be part of a historic celebration.

We invite teams of up to three members, aged 34 and under, to create a short video (2-5 minutes) that embodies the theme:

"Connect to Prosper: Celebrating Global Connections through Visual Arts"

Your mission is to capture how connections foster prosperity, innovation, and growth in our interconnected world. Showcase how the City of London serves as a global hub of knowledge and innovation, [...]

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Tipton, United Kingdom



 
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Published: 06 Sep 2024
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Bulli ed Eroi

Deadline: 10 Oct 2024

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Bullies and Heroes which is characterized by the phrase: Ubuntu I am because we are (Nelson Mandela), was born after 50 years of experiences, studies and research, both in the cinematographic and artistic fields and in the pedagogical and psychological ones. It is located on the border between health and culture with the certainty that "the soul needs beauty and that beauty is nourishment for the soul" and allows us to best express all the creative potential of the human being. It is therefore important, as argued by Peppino Impastato, who has always rejected the idea of ​​becoming accustomed to "ugliness", to educate children to "beauty": "...It is for this reason that people should be educated to beauty: because in men and women, let habit and resignation no longer creep in [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other



Sinalunga, Italy



 
 
 

 
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Published: 05 Sep 2024
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Festival de Cine Escolar Raúl Ruiz

Deadline: 10 Nov 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

The Raul Ruiz School Film Festival has been progressively positioned in its three previous versions as the first experimental school film festival in the country, with an increasing reach in different regions of the country. This is a positive indicator of the impact that this initiative has had. In this sense, the described initiative has become a recognized window of diffusion for school cinematographic art. In addition, the possibilities of artistic exploration that the festival suggests through its categories and evaluation criteria have enabled the production teams to investigate and experiment with different film languages. In this sense, the new challenges that the festival offers in its third version are, on the one hand, to continue and strengthen the diffusion and [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Quilpué, Chile



 
 
 
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Published: 04 Sep 2024
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Censurados Film Festival

Deadline: 01 Nov 2024

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Censurados Film Festival is a film festival that disseminates and makes visible “the cinema they don't want you to see.” Based in Peru, the festival is committed to freedom of expression, human rights and diversity through the screening of films and the organization of artistic and educational activities.

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1. International Competition “Censorship”. Fiction, documentary, animation and/or cinematographic experimentation films from any part of the world that have been censored due to political, religious, corporate, authoritarian or social pressures or interests, among others, or that have been victims of threats and/or violence, either during its research, production or realization or in its subsequent exhibition and/or distribution. It is an essential requirement to [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Lima, Peru



 
 
 

 
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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 2025 under the motto "Once upon a time the revolution". However, the entries in the short film competition do not have to deal with this topic.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Offenbach am Main, Germany



 
 

 
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Published: 02 Sep 2024
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Cinematic Prismatic IFF

Deadline: 28 Oct 2024

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Framing The Needle Film Festival is an independent event organized by film lovers to promote filmmaking in Sverdlovsk region. We seek for a good story and articism to involve our wide audience into the great field of short moviemaking.

The mission of FTNFF is to find a thin line between Dark and Light cinema in order to erase it and enjoy moviemaking at its finest from both sides of a director's mind. Event Programme will be divided into two parts (Dark and Light Short Films) and judged for all presented criteria.

Festival accepts only feature shorts, fictional or related to fantasy genres. All films must be from 5 to 15 minutes long.

*PLEASE NOTE that our team remains NON-POLITICAL and reminds all of you that art of moviemaking UNITES everyone!

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Yekaterinburg, Russia



 
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Published: 02 Sep 2024
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Bloodtober Fest

Deadline: 30 Sep 2024

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Bloodtober Fest is an international fantasy and horror film festival and is a showcase for independent films of the genre.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Aspe, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 02 Sep 2024
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Visões Macabras: Cine Terror

Deadline: 30 Sep 2024

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International Festival

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"Visões Macabras: Cine Terror" is an international horror short film festival, focusing on films up to 20 minutes long, covering all parts of the world. The festival will host fiction and animation shorts, highlighting the creativity and talent of filmmakers who use the short format to explore fear, suspense and the supernatural. The goal is to bring together productions that challenge the limits of horror, providing the audience with an intense and immersive experience.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Copacabana, Brazil



 
 
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Published: 31 Aug 2024
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Ti-KREYOLLYWOOD

Deadline: 17 Nov 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

Ti-Kreyollywood is a quarterly event dedicated to short films, held before and after the Kréyol International Film Festival (KIFF) to which it is affiliated. The aim is to provide a second chance for short films that were not selected for KIFF and to offer a new opportunity for older productions that deserve to be seen in this context.

Please note that if your film is produced after January 1, 2019, you will participate in the Kreyol International Film Festival (KIFF2024), which will take place from September 26 to 30, 2024, in Paris.

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Paris, France