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Bilbao City Council is currently organizing the 31st BILBAO FANTASY FILM FESTIVAL – FANT2025, to take place in Bilbao from 2nd to 10th of May 2025.



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Published: 31 Dec 2024
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Sobh International Media Festival

Deadline: 03 Feb 2025

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The Sobh International Media Festival was established in 2023 to connect a diverse range of international program producers and promote constructive interactions among them, aimed at shaping trends in the global media landscape.

The festival seeks to recognize and honor talented individuals involved in media activities, offering them the opportunities they deserve to further their artistic creation and innovation. Our goal is to build a strong and influential international media presence. We aim to expose artists to a diverse array of media through our educational initiatives, including workshops and seminars, thereby broadening their perspectives and encouraging independent thinking.

Thematic Focus:

The Sobh Media Festival focuses on "Media and the New World Order," [...]

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Tehran, Iran



 
 
 
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Published: 31 Dec 2024
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2025 Sparknify Human Vs. AI Film Festival

Deadline: 20 Apr 2025

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2025 Sparknify Human vs. AI Film Festival

Welcome to the 2025 parknify Human vs. AI Film Festival, a groundbreaking event at the intersection of art, technology, and humanity.

Taking place in the heart of Silicon Valley—home to some of the world’s most significant advancements in AI generative video production—this festival celebrates the synergy between cutting-edge technology and the timeless essence of human creativity.

This year’s festival spotlights two distinct categories of films:

1. AI-Generated Films: This category showcases the revolutionary capabilities of artificial intelligence in film creation. The winning film will be the one that most convincingly mirrors human realism, seamlessly blurring the line between machine-generated art and human ingenuity.

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Sunnyvale, United States




 
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Published: 30 Dec 2024
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Actrum International Film Fest (AIFF)

Deadline: 31 Aug 2025

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ACTRUM is a non-profit Cultural Association that works in all areas of the artistic sector.

In this festival, the finalist works will be screened online and it will be open to the public, who will have to vote through our website for their 3 favorite shorts/feature films from each section to award the public prizes.

Register your project! We accept any gender.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 30 Dec 2024
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Ladies in Control by Cultura Groovy

Deadline: 20 Jan 2025

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Cultura Groovy invites you to experience intimate, high-quality short-film festivals in the heart of Barcelona. Each event offers a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience, showcasing the visionary work of talented filmmakers, with every director presenting their film in person.

Our festivals celebrate diversity in storytelling, exploring a wide range of themes, genres, and forms of expression. For this edition, "Ladies in Control," we are exclusively accepting films directed by women. (We want to highlight that we’re not limiting submissions to films about female topics—any story told by women storytellers is welcome.)

We aim to empower, support, and inspire women in the film industry, who often face prejudice, harassment, and systemic neglect. Your voice matters, and your [...]

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Barcelona, Spain



 

 
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Published: 29 Dec 2024
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Cartoon Club - Festival Internazionale Del Cinema D’animazione, Fumetto E Games

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

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EUROPEAN ANIMATION AWARDS Qualifier

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Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games, now at its 41st edition, is one of the best known festivals on the Italian scene.

It is a remarkable window for animation, short films in particular, including fiction, educational, experimental, and computer graphic works, with a whole section solely dedicated to comics: Riminicomix.

The Festival features SHORT ANIMATED FILMS in various sections:

CARTOON CLUB AWARD, open to short animated films made by professional filmmakers and production companies.

SIGNOR ROSSI AWARD, open to animated films made by secondary school and university students, and by the students of animation film schools.

CARTOON KIDS AWARD, among the titles submitted to either Cartoon Club Award or to Signor Rossi Award, the [...]

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Rimini, Italy



 
 
 
 
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Published: 28 Dec 2024
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Chhayanat

Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

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Chhayanat is not just another film festival!
Since its inception, the Chhayanat Film and Theatre Festival at Jadavpur University has stood as a bastion of alternative cultural expression. Rooted in a profound commitment to challenge dominant narratives and advocating for social change, this festival has evolved into a vital platform for cinematic and theatrical exploration. Drawing inspiration from cinematic movements such as poetic realism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, Surrealism and Iranian and world cinema, as well as the rich tradition of socially conscious theater, Chhayanat has become an abode for film lovers. It embraces an anti-fascist and anti-imperialist perspective. The influence of Italian Neorealism on Chhayanat is evident in the festival's selection of [...]

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Kolkata, India



 
 

 
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Published: 27 Dec 2024
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The Soul Center Film Fest: Shades Of She

Deadline: 20 Jan 2025

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The Soul Center of Art & History is partnering with AfriSoul Education Center to celebrate BIPOC women in film for International Women’s Day .

the Soul Center Film Fest was created to:

1. Showcase a diverse array of films that expand our understanding of the world, confront critical social justice issues—like racial equity, immigration, public safety, and environmental justice—and delve into the dynamics of human relationships.


2. Amplify the voices and stories of Black and Brown filmmakers, both emerging and established.


3. Encourage dialogue, collaboration, and action by connecting filmmakers, activists, and audiences.


4. Foster a space for critical reflection and empathy through the art of storytelling.

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Phoenix, United States



 
 
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Published: 23 Dec 2024
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Eita! Ceará – Encontro Internacional De Arte Contemporânea

Deadline: 15 Feb 2025

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The EITA! Ceará event invites artists to submit their works to be included in the exhibition that will take place at the Casa da Cultura de Sobral, with the aim of valuing contemporary artistic production and encouraging experimentation in different artistic languages. 50 artists will be selected, 30 from Ceará, 10 from other states and 10 international.

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Sobral, Brazil



 

 
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Published: 21 Dec 2024
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PASTURAS, Festival Internacional de Cine de Trashumancia y Pastoralismo

Deadline: 14 Apr 2025

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PASTURAS. International Film Festival on Pastoralism and Transhumance. PASTURAS aims at raising awareness on the ancestral culture of transhumance through cinema, showcasing fiction and non-fiction films with a focus on this issue, facilitating communication between filmmakers and the audience, and providing learning opportunities to contribute to the development of this culture and the promotion of all audiovisual work around the issue.

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Godoy Cruz, Argentina



 
 
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Published: 20 Dec 2024
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Spi Stories | Bolle. Connessi. Sconnessi. Disconnessi

Deadline: 15 Feb 2025

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The Spi Stories Short Film Festival reaches its thirteenth edition. The competition, created by the publisher LiberEtà and the CGIL Pensioners' Union, has chosen the title "Bolle. Connessi. Sconnessi. Disconnessi." ("Bubbles. Connected. Disconnected. Unplugged") for this edition.

This year, the competition focuses on the future that awaits us and how our daily choices can influence tomorrow. Climate change, social inequalities, global connectivity, and individual alienation are the central themes of this edition, which invites filmmakers to imagine future scenarios and tell stories that address the challenges of the present. The chosen title, “Bolle. Connessi. Sconnessi. Disconnessi” (Bubbles. Connected. Disconnected. Unplugged), is an invitation to explore the contradictions [...]

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Roma, Italy