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Message To Man

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The 35th Message to Man International Festival of documentary, short fiction, animated, and experimental films will take place from 17 to 25 October 2025 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Over the years, the Festival has hosted distinguished figures of world cinema, including Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Claude Lanzmann, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Paolo Sorrentino, Alan Berliner, Eric Roberts, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abdellatif Kechiche, Udo Kier, and many others.

With its history spanning three decades of cinema development, Message to Man was founded in 1989 in Leningrad by filmmaker Mikhail Litvyakov, who now serves as the Honorary President of the Festival.

In 2010, Alexei Uchitel, a renowned director of documentaries and feature films, assumed the role [...]



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Published: 12 Mar 2019
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CARTOON CLUB - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION CINEMA, COMICS AND GAMES

Deadline: 30 May 2019

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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: 08 Mar 2019
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Cinespaña, Festival de Cinéma Espagnol & Portugais de Toulouse

Deadline: 15 Jul 2019

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HIGHLIGHTED

International Festival

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ONLY FOR SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE PRODUCTIONS

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Toulouse, France



 
 
 

 
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Published: 02 Mar 2019
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Picknic Film Festival, Santander International Film Festival

Deadline: 31 Mar 2019

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International Festival

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In the early days of cinema, with the advent of the cinematograph, the avant-garde artists found a new medium of expression, called seventh art, which was soon adopted by the major studios.

Thus, the space occupied by the Santander International Film Festival — Picknic Film Festival, is a place where films of reduced visibility and distribution, but selected for prestigious film festivals, with the approval of the press, have the possibility to be screened.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Santander, Spain



 
 
Logo of Luna de Cortos International Short Film Festival
Published: 23 Feb 2019
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Luna de Cortos International Short Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Apr 2019

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Short film festival

THE FESTIVAL: MOVEMENT OF CULTURE

The Festival was born with a very specific mission: it aims to stimulate public attention towards an open and wide representative space, such as the rural environment, makes its outdoor projections, open to all, the best exponent. Youth and adults, generations separated by years and experiences, gather around a screen, which is the focus of the light of a past and a future: culture is timeless, culture unites, and film language will be the link common to temper emotions and feelings, to treasure memories, to provoke lively gatherings.

In this way, all attendees of the event can enjoy a heterogeneous and dynamic speech. Through this cultural impulse, the different currents of creativity allow viewers to move and explore new and old codes in a [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Veguellina de Órbigo, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 19 Feb 2019
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INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR THE ELDERLY

Deadline: 31 Mar 2019

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International Festival

Short film festival

La GRAN pantalla is an intergenerational cinematographic meeting space that seeks to dismantle stereotypes about older people through cinema. We look for stories that allow us to generate new readings and discourses about older people, beyond the conventional representations that are usually associated with this stage of life.

La GRAN pantalla seeks to delve into topics such as the sexuality of older people, the digital divide, unwanted loneliness, palliative care, intergenerational dialogues, cohousing, LGBTIQ+ older people, dignified death, migrant older people and all the visions that this population group may have about contemporary social problems such as the climate crisis, demographic change, new forms of families and organization, international conflicts, urban [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Barcelona, Spain



 
 
 
 
Logo of mónFILMAT - International film and landscape Festival - Amposta
Published: 17 Feb 2019
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mónFILMAT - International film and landscape Festival - Amposta

Deadline: 01 Apr 2019

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Monfilmat is an international film festival where the landscape has a specific weight in the development of the plot, in fiction, the documentary, the creation of author or children's entertainment.

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From june 19th to 22th, 2025, in Amposta.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Amposta, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 06 Feb 2019
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Toyama International Film Festival

Deadline: 17 May 2019

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The 12th Annual Toyama International Film Festival will take place in June of 2025 in Toyama Prefecture. With such great success in previous years, we are excited to once again share the visions of filmmakers from all over the world with our local community in the countryside of Japan.

Submissions will be open until April 14th, 2025.

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The Annual Toyama International Film Festival (TIFF) began in the rural prefecture of Toyama, Japan. Started by a few English teachers in the area, we hoped to reach people not just in Japan, but around the globe.

The first TIFF took place in a small room inside of a shopping center, where about 70 people watched the 10 films we had received. The following year was a tremendous success with over 100 submissions from different countries, [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Toyama, Japan



 
 
Logo of RIR · International Comedy Shortfilm Festival
Published: 02 Feb 2019
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RiR · Festival Internacional De Curtas De Comedia

Deadline: 30 Jun 2019

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International Festival

Short film festival

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

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Allariz, Spain



 
 

 
Logo of Ull Nu Festival Audiovisual Andorra
Published: 01 Feb 2019
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Ull Nu Festival Audiovisual Andorra

Deadline: 17 Apr 2019

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Festival Ull Nu:

It is a space to encourage, spread and fertilize creativity, art, culture and young talent.

It is a meeting point, exchange and dialogue between young creators coming from all over the Pyrenees and professionals from the film and audiovisual industry.

It is an alternative, original and innovative leisure proposal that aims to promote and bring to Andorra new proposals and audiovisual trends.

It is a unique experience, a festival of cinema and audiovisual.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Andorra la Vella, Andorra



 
 
 
 
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Published: 22 Jan 2019
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Premio Audiovisual Sobre Bioética

Deadline: 31 May 2019

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International Festival

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The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation awards this prize to an audiovisual project, with the winning entry receiving 5000 euros to support the production of the finished work.

The prize aims to promote education, discussion and analysis of bioethical issues with a social impact, through work aimed at a general audience.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Barcelona, Spain