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FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival

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In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.

It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is [...]



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Published: 14 May 2024
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Rani Durgavati International Film Festival

Deadline: 23 May 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

The Rani Durgavati International Film Festival is designed to celebrate Cinema.

RDIFF is committed to Showcase films from amazing filmmakers across the globe. The festival welcomes films from around the world.

RDIFF is a Jabalpur, India based international film festival with screenings and Q&A and a twice-yearly awards event. One event is totally dedicated to Short Films and other event is for Full Length Films. There will be two events every year.

Our First Edition SUCCESSFULLY launched on 5th October 2023 for Short Films.
in June 2024 our Full Length Films Edition was a success.
The 3rd Edition for short films category was completed on 5 Oct 2024. Honorable MLA Shri Abhilash Pandey distributed the Awards. Edition 4 was filled with amazing films.

Entries for edition 05 for [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



Jabalpur, India



 
 
 
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Published: 14 May 2024
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Festival de Santurtzi - Santurtzi Zine Jaialdia

Deadline: 18 Aug 2024

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Santurtzi Film Festival will take place between October 23rd and november 1st.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Santurtzi, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 11 May 2024
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Muestra De Cine Social Luminiscence

Deadline: 15 Sep 2024

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Muestra de Cine Social
Luminiscence.


Presentation

The Social Film Festival organized by Luminiscence Studio since 2013 has no competitive character, our intention is to screen projects with a clear social commitment, bringing the works presented to the public closer so that a link can be created between filmmakers, the public and organizers.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



ALICANTE, Spain



 
 
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Published: 10 May 2024
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Homeless Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Jul 2024

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Bizitegi has been organizing the Homeless Film Festival in Bilbao since 2016, creating awareness-raising sessions on social inclusion through cinema and theatre.

The Bizitegi Team works for the incorporation into society of people at risk or in a situation of social exclusion in Bizkaia through intervention processes, aimed at improving their living conditions, and through these awareness-raising and denunciation actions that allow raising awareness in building a fairer society.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Bilbao, Spain



 

 
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Published: 10 May 2024
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Festival Historias de Región

Deadline: 28 Jun 2024

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The purpose of the festival is to definitively promote film production in the region by inviting national and international figures to spend a few days in the Thames, thereby bringing knowledge of the region, its people and its culture closer together. It will be a regional and territorial festival that will have national and international categories and will transform Támesis and its rural areas into movie theaters for 4 days.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



suroeste antioqueño, Colombia



 
 
 
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Published: 10 May 2024
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FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE YOPAL (FICY FESTIVAL)

Deadline: 30 Jul 2024

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The F.I.C.Y (International Film Festival of Yopal) is an event that will take place from October 2nd to 6th, 2025 in the city of Yopal, located in the department of Casanare, Colombia. The main objective of this festival is to promote regional, national, and international film production and to strengthen the region as a center for the seventh art.

The festival aims to foster circular economy around audiovisual production, generating greater employment opportunities and economic development in the region. Additionally, the F.I.C.Y proposes new expressions of culture and folklore in the region, through the presentation of films that address themes related to identity and cultural diversity of the region.

The event will feature a varied program that includes screenings of [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



YOPAL , Colombia



 
 

 
Logo of El Festivalico Short film and Videoart festival
Published: 09 May 2024
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El Festivalico Muestra de Cortometrajes y Videarte

Deadline: 03 Jul 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

The Festivalico is a videoart and short film non competitive showcase.

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION:

Any individual or legal entity, regardless of nationality, may participate.

Short films must have a maximum duration of twenty minutes.

Submitted works must have been produced after January 1, 2023.

If the spoken language is not Spanish, the film must include subtitles.

All themes are accepted, divided into the following sections: fiction, documentary, animation, and video art.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Caravaca de la Cruz, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 08 May 2024
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Festival Internacional de Cinema Infantil de Ames

Deadline: 26 Aug 2024

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The Ames International Children's Film Festival is back, an event that wants to make children dream, think, smile, and awaken emotions, consciences, and illusions. It will be held from November 13 to 16, 2025.

This year's edition will take HUMAN RIGHTS as a cross-cutting theme. The title of this year's edition will be “Let's defend peace and human rights”, with special emphasis on the importance of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and its dissemination in the seventh art. This theme will be punctuated with film exhibitions of pieces that deepen and disseminate this defense of human values and social awareness.

Let the rattles ring and the spinning tops spin, the VIII International Children's Film Festival of Ames begins.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Ames, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 08 May 2024
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Primeiro Plano - Festival de Cinema de Juiz de Fora e Mercocidades

Deadline: 14 Jun 2024

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Primero Plano 2025 – Festival de Cine Juiz de Fora y Mercocidades, una realización de Luzes da Cidade – Grupo de Cinéfilos y Productores Culturales, es un festival de cine sudamericano dirigido exclusivamente para directores que estén presentando su primera obra y un evento regional para filmes producidos en la zona de la Mata Mineira, que tendrá lugar en la ciudad de Juiz de Fora, Brasil, en octubre de 2025. Las inscripciones de cortos terminan en 17 de agosto de 2025.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Juiz de Fora, Brazil



 
 
 
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Published: 07 May 2024
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MyFirstDoc Festival

Deadline: 15 Oct 2024

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FESTIVAL MY FIRST DOC
8th Edition 2025

RULES

CATEGORIES: Documentary Films
ACCEPTED DURATION OF MOVIES: All
FIRST FILMS: Permit
PRODUCTION DATE: 2023-2025
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: All
FILMING COUNTRY: Any
REGISTERED FOR OLD EDITIONS: Prohibited

MY FIRST DOC Festival in Tunisia, organized by the Tunisian Documentary Cinema Association, highlights young international cinema by offering the possibility to directors to present their works to the Tunisian public.

MY FIRST DOC Festival in Tunisia sets as its main objective the discovery and promotion of first films by young talents by giving visibility to different expressions of international documentary cinema in front of the widest possible audience.

The programming that combines discovery, diversity and quality will offer the [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



TUNIS , Tunisia