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Brussels Short Film Festival

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Brussels Short Film Festival is an exhibition intended for cinema lovers, both audience and professionals. The purpose is to promote and circulate short films and to generate contacts between audience, young directors and professionals.

Since 2018, the winner of the Great Prize of the International competition will be eligible for consideration in the Animated Short Film/ Live Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.



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Published: 10 Jan 2025
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Bogota Film Festival

Deadline: 10 Jul 2025

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HIGHLIGHTED

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Internationally, the Festival will award the Best Film, among the first three feature films of a director who has not yet made the fourth, with the Pre-Columbian Circle in its Gold, Silver and Bronze categories. As well as the Pre-Columbian Gold Circle for Best Director, Best Social Documentary, Art and the Environment.
At local level, the Pre-Columbian Gold Circle will be awarded for Best Colombian Film short and feature films.

Non-competitive categories: International Short Films, Animation, Sacred Films, Films for Children and Blinds.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Other  Experimental



Bogotá, Colombia



 
 
 
 
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Published: 09 Jan 2025
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ART JUKEBOX

Deadline: 15 Apr 2025

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Il Concorso ART JUKEBOX è aperto a registi, case di produzione, enti, società e associazioni legate al mondo della musica. Il Festival si terrà a Bergamo e Seriate (BG) dal 18 al 21 giugno 2025.

Possono essere inviati documentari, cortometraggi, lungometraggi, fiction, film d’animazione, videoclip e opere d’ingegno prodotte dopo il 2020.

Saranno valutate e premiate opere cinematografiche dedicate alla musica in tutte le sue declinazioni.

“ART Jukebox” è operativamente inserito nell’organizzazione della “Festa Europea della Musica - Città di Bergamo” del prossimo giugno 2025.

Ogni regista/produttore può partecipare al Concorso iscrivendo uno o più film.

La partecipazione al Concorso è gratuita.

Scadenza bando: 15 aprile 2025.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Bergamo, Italy



 
 

 
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Published: 08 Jan 2025
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Cine Zolhos: Exibição de Produções Independentes e Experimentais

Deadline: 01 Feb 2025

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Cine Zolhos is a traveling event that brings diverse programming to the community, showcasing independent films, documentaries, music videos, and experimental productions.

Unlike traditional cinemas, Cine Zolhos aims to present works that go beyond commercial cinema, offering the audience an opportunity to discover new perspectives and forms of audiovisual expression. From innovative documentaries that portray reality through unique lenses to music videos that reinvent the language of videoclips, the program promises to surprise and delight viewers.

Additionally, Cine Zolhos will feature experimental productions that push the boundaries of cinematic language. These works challenge conventional standards, inviting the audience to engage in a sensory and reflective [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Sobral, Brazil



 
 
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Published: 08 Jan 2025
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Festival de Cine de Elche

Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

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The Elche Film Festival, organized by Mediterraneo Foundation's main objective is to offer a cultural space to filmmakers and moviegoers.

In a constant commitment to the promotion of culture and supporting emerging values of cinema, focusing on innovation, public conversation with the authors and the elimination of technological compete when barriers and vote.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Elche, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 08 Jan 2025
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Cortoons Festival Gandía 2025

Deadline: 01 Sep 2025

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International Festival

Short film festival

Cortoons Gandia is the International Animated Film Festival of Gandia, organized by Cortoons Festival, the city of Gandia, la Generalitat Valenciana, through the Institut Valenciá de Cultura (Culturarts), and the participation of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Campus de Gandia.

In the 2016, after 12 years of great success in Rome, Cortoons international festival of animated films, he moved to Spain in the beautiful town of Gandia in the province of Valencia.

The 21th Cortoons Festival Gandia edition will be a great festival of animated films for professionals, animation film funs and all the general public.

The competition categories are:

International animated short film from 1 to 4 minutes

International animated short film from 4 to 20 minutes

Spanish [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Gandia, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 08 Jan 2025
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Humus Film Fest

Deadline: 20 May 2025

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The Humus Film Fest is an international festival of short films with environmental themes, focused on audiovisual pieces that show, from fiction or reality, agroecology experiences, urban gardens, connections between the countryside and the city or new ruralities.

The festival aspires to accommodate both the most professional and amateur creators, with
the aim of broadening views on the connections between these two ecosystems, the countryside and the city. We look for stories that tell us about these relationships from humor, poetry, surrealism or everyday life.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Madrid, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 08 Jan 2025
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Festival Internacional de Cine de Loreto

Deadline: 28 Feb 2025

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FIRST FILM

Loreto International Film Festival 2025 - Second Edition!

The first edition of the Loreto International Film Festival has arrived to take us on an extraordinary cinematic journey!✨ Join us in this exciting debut, where the screen will light up with captivating stories and the magic of the seventh art.

Welcome to a new chapter in the history of cinema at Loreto. In this first edition, we will explore the diversity of cinema from its classic roots to new emerging voices. Get ready to experience exciting screenings, participate in conversations with filmmakers and immerse yourself in the unique cinematic experience we will offer.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



loreto, Mexico



 
 
 
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Published: 07 Jan 2025
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Int. low & no budget film-sharing festival

Deadline: 20 Apr 2025

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Int. Low & No Budget Video Film Festival "film-sharing"
 
Latest Festival 2025 Announcement

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Film Sharing – 23th International Low & No Budget Video Film Festival 2025
 
Festival Date: Sept.2025 Stuttgart, Aug. 2025 Heilbronn

Open Screenings start: Mai 2025/Stuttgart, Heilbronn ,

Place: Stuttgart, Heilbronn - Germany

Status: Independent Short Film Festival

Festival Niveau: Semi-Professional

Outreach: International

Submission Deadline: 10/10/2024 to 30/04/2025
Category: narrative short films, animations, comedy ( no documentray, music clips, artfilms)
Lenght: 1 - 16 min ( please don't send us films longer than 15 min!!!!)

Ages: 0-99
Internet: www.film-sharing.net (all terms)

Short Outline:
nineteen successful years of the ‘International [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Stuttgart, Germany



 

 
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Published: 07 Jan 2025
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FESTIVAL DU CINEMA DOCUMENTAIRE MEDITERRANEEN EN TUNISIE

Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

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DOCUMED - MEDITERRANEAN DOCUMENTARY CINEMA FESTIVAL
IN TUNISIA
8th Edition - 2025

DocuMed – Mediterranean Documentary Cinema Festival in Tunisia, organized annually by the Tunisian Documentary Cinema Association, offers screenings of creative documentaries from countries around the Mediterranean. It aims to promote the influence and dissemination of documentary films in Tunisia and to promote exchanges between professionals, creators and the public in a spirit of openness to anthropological, cultural and social diversity.

DocuMed:
- Carries humanist values, based on openness to other cultures, freedom of creation and sharing.

- Demonstrates its belonging to the world, its openness to its Maghreb, Arab and Mediterranean [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



TUNIS , Tunisia



 
 
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Published: 06 Jan 2025
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Mostra de Curtmetratges Dr. Mabuse

Deadline: 28 Feb 2025

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International Festival

Short film festival

Mostra Dr. Mabuse is an international short film festival taking place in Barcelona for three days. It is conceived as a festival open to new artists as well as experienced. A jury consisting of professionals in the audiovisual world, teachers and students of film festivals and other collaborators carry out the selection of films to be screened in the three sessions that are scheduled during the month of June in Barcelona. The project was initiated twenty years ago and has been growing and multiplying the number of films screened and registered, having received works of relevant directors such as JA Bayona, Nacho Vigalondo, Mateo Gil or Kike Maillo. Instead of just being an audiovisual festival, Dr. Mabuse is intended to be an homogeneous and free event, in which everyone can [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Barcelona, Spain