Ixtar Curts, the Sant Bartomeu Short Film Festival, is the oldest short film festival in the Balearic Islands and is now in its 27th year with a new, expanded format. If you have a story to tell, now is your chance!
Deadline 30 July 2026
The Productoras Lab 2025 at SANFIC Industry is a program aimed at female producers from Latin America working on fiction or documentary first or second feature film projects. The program offers mentorship from international experts, and participants will have the opportunity to pitch their projects to a jury and international guests during the in-person SANFIC Industry event.
Eligibility: Female producers from Latin America with first or second feature film projects (fiction or documentary).
Dates: The lab will take place in person from August 17 to August 22, 2025. The application deadline is May 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM (UTC-4).
Application: Submissions are open through the official SANFIC Industry website.
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The SANFIC ODS LAB 2025 invites filmmakers, producers, and screenwriters from Ibero-America to submit audiovisual projects related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, in advanced stages of development. The third edition of the lab will take place online from August 17-22, 2025, as part of SANFIC Industria. The event is co-financed by the Audiovisual Fund, a support program for international meetings in Chile.
The lab offers two main awards:
PAMPA 2030: Monitoring for two projects on SDG-related topics.
RED TAL Award: Provides two follow-ups for project development in collaboration with public and cultural TV networks in Latin America.
The full list of awards for 2025 will be announced during the SANFIC press conference in the last week of July 2025.
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ODS Lab - Sanfic
The CREATION 2025 Call by the Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics (IEB) aims to support creators in research and creation processes leading to the future production of works in the fields of performing arts, music, literature, comics and illustration, visual arts, and audiovisual in the Balearic Islands.
It is open to individuals over 18 years old who carry out their professional activity in these sectors and are natives of or professionally active in the Balearic Islands.
The total budget for the call is €490,000, distributed over two fiscal years: €49,000 in 2025 and €441,000 in 2026.
The application period was from March 10 to April 15, 2025.
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Grants for Artistic Creation in the Balearic Islands
Curta Roteiros – 1st Short Film Screenplay Contest is a Brazilian call focused on recognizing unpublished short film screenplays created for independent cinema. It accepts international submissions and is open to both professional and amateur writers presenting original works.
The 2026 edition will take place from November 14, 2025 to February 15, 2026, with the submission deadline on January 6, 2026. The call is focused on a screenplay competition and does not correspond to a pitch, laboratory, market, or Work in Progress program.
It accepts fiction and non-fiction short film screenplays, written in Portuguese, with a maximum length of 30 pages and following the Master Scenes format. Eligible genres include fiction, documentary, animation, fantasy, horror, experimental and other short film narrative formats.
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Curta Roteiros - Short Film Script Contest
Polish Days 2026 is a film industry platform taking place from July 26–28, 2026, in Wrocław, Poland, as part of the New Horizons International Film Festival. The event is dedicated to the international promotion of Polish cinema and brings together producers, distributors, sales agents, funding representatives, and audiovisual professionals from around the world.
The call is aimed at Polish feature films at different stages of development. Eligible submissions include projects in development for pitching sessions, films in production or post-production for the Work in Progress section, and completed films for industry screenings. No specific genre restrictions are stated.
Application deadlines are April 17, 2026 for projects in development and May 25, 2026 for completed films and Work in Progress entries. The initiative is designed to foster international co-production opportunities, distribution strategies, and festival exposure for Polish film projects.
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Polish Days - New Horizons International Film Festival
