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Cuenca Internacional Film Festival

Cuenca International Film Festival 2026

Where the world's stories find their echo in the Andes.

The Cuenca International Film Festival (FICC) is one of the pioneering film events in Ecuador. With more than twenty years of history, it has become a strategic meeting point for international filmmakers, producers, distributors, and programmers, consolidating Cuenca as an epicenter of cinema in Latin America.

Throughout its history, the FICC has featured important figures, names that reaffirm the festival's mission to build bridges between the global industry and local narratives.

In 2022, the festival expanded its reach with the creation of Shortfest Cuenca, a platform specialized in short films that functions as a laboratory for narrative innovation and the discovery of new [...]

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Gastro Film Fest

Deadline: 31 May 2026

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The festival has an international character and all authors with films in compliance with other propositions can participate. Films selected for competition will be judged in two categories:

1. FILM RECIPE - a sort of documentary that should display complete image and/or text instructions for preparation of culinary creations (meals, drinks or deserts), including information about required ingredients and sequence of work. Based on those, after watching film one should be able to prepare the recipe.

2. OPEN CATEGORY - a film that should thematize or depict content related to food and/or drink.

Duration of individual films submitted is limited to 15 minutes.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Experimental Music Video

Osijek, Croatia

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Published: 03 Mar 2026

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L`Hospitalet Shortfilms Festival

Deadline: 14 Jul 2026

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The L’Hospitalet Short Film Festival celebrates its 21st edition, firmly established as a landmark cultural event in the city. Over the past two decades, it has supported and promoted the talent of young filmmakers committed to human rights, cooperation, and a culture of peace.

In this edition, the festival also introduces the thematic focus “Territories”, an invitation to engage in dialogue with other realities, explore new physical and symbolic geographies, and decentralize perspectives in order to amplify diverse voices and non-hegemonic viewpoints.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Other Experimental Music Video

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

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Published: 03 Mar 2026

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RIR · International Comedy Shortfilm Festival

Deadline: 30 Jun 2026

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

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Other Experimental Music Video

Allariz, Spain

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Published: 03 Mar 2026

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Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces. Independent Documentary Film Latin American Festival

Deadline: 01 May 2026

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Open from March 2 to May 1, 2026

Voces Contra el Silencio, Video Independiente A.C., the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, with the support of TV UNAM and the UNAM Film Archive, invite filmmakers to participate in the fourteenth edition of the Hispano-American Independent Documentary Film and Video Encounter: Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces, to be held from September 4 to 12, 2026, in Mexico City and in different states across the Mexican Republic, in a hybrid format.

The main objective of Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces is to serve as a window that brings together independent documentary cinema from Mexico, Latin America, and Spain, through free, accessible, and open spaces that embrace a diversity of perspectives, encourage collective action, and foster [...]

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Other Experimental Music Video

Tlalpan, Mexico

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Published: 03 Mar 2026

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EDITA Social Film Festival

Deadline: 20 May 2026

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EDITA is a festival of short-films with the aim of social transformation through audiovisual creation, encouraging critical thinking, engaging citizens in the promotion of rights and making the viewers feel seen and motivated pursue a social change.

Through this festival, ASAD aims to discover and share new social imaginaries, change the point of view and get closer to non-hegemonetic proposals evoking social justice, human rights, gender equity and environmental sustainability

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Granada, Spain

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Published: 02 Mar 2026

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T-Short Animated Film Festival

Deadline: 17 May 2026

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On November 27 and 28, 2026, the T-Short Festival will take place at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe cinema in Karlsruhe, Germany.

From November 30 to December 13, 2026, the festival films will be available online only for residents of Germany, as well as for festival participants and guests.

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T-Short Festival for professionals from all over the world and animated movie fans in Germany.

Only short films up to 15 minutes are presented at the festival, preferably without monologues and dialogues.

Films finished after January 1, 2024 are accepted for selection.

T-Short Festival treats any auteur animated films with trepidation, however, it prefers abstract, experimental, and surreal animated films.

T-Short doesn’t target children’s audience and doesn’t allow [...]

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Other Experimental Music Video

Karlsruhe, Germany

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Published: 02 Mar 2026

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Festival de Cine de Barracas

Deadline: 21 May 2026

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We want to organize this FOURTH EDITION, a call for short and long films, where THE MEMORY are the main theme in the selected works.

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CIUDAD AUTONOMA DE BUENOS AIRES, Argentina

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Published: 01 Mar 2026

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Certamen Cinematográfico Amigos De Ribadesella

Deadline: 01 Sep 2026

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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.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental Music Video

Ribadesella, Spain

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Published: 28 Feb 2026

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FanCineQueer | Festival internacional de cine LGBTI De Extremadura

Deadline: 31 Jul 2026

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FanCineQueer, the International LGBTI Film Festival of Extremadura, celebrates this year its 29th edition between the 6th and the 15th of November launching its traditional Short Films Call with the purpose of recognising, visibilising and fostering the production and dissemination of recent or unreleased LGBTI works.

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Badajoz, Spain

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Published: 28 Feb 2026

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16° Cine Versátil- Asia LGBTQ+

Deadline: 20 May 2027

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Diversity Short Film Festival- Argentina
LGBT VIDEO ART- Anniversary Edition- 16 years

2027

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The 16th edition will include a non-competitive exhibition dedicated to LGBT+ shortfilms from Asia.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental Music Video

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Gastro Film Fest

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Osijek, Croatia

L`Hospitalet Shortfilms Festival

Deadline: 14 Jul 2026

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L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

RIR · International Comedy Shortfilm Festival

Deadline: 30 Jun 2026

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Allariz, Spain

Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces. Independent Documentary Film Latin American Festival

Deadline: 01 May 2026

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Tlalpan, Mexico

EDITA Social Film Festival

Deadline: 20 May 2026

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Granada, Spain

T-Short Animated Film Festival

Deadline: 17 May 2026

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Karlsruhe, Germany

Festival de Cine de Barracas

Deadline: 21 May 2026

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CIUDAD AUTONOMA DE BUENOS AIRES, Argentina

Certamen Cinematográfico Amigos De Ribadesella

Deadline: 01 Sep 2026

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Ribadesella, Spain

FanCineQueer | Festival internacional de cine LGBTI De Extremadura

Deadline: 31 Jul 2026

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Badajoz, Spain

16° Cine Versátil- Asia LGBTQ+

Deadline: 20 May 2027

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Buenos Aires, Argentina

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