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Deadline
29 Apr 2023


Published: 27 Apr 2023
 Has submission fees
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SHORT FILM SLAM presented by The Madlab Post

Philadelphia, United States


*** Submissions for the 2024 Short Film Slam, presented by The Madlab Post will be opening in the Spring. If you are interested in submitting your live action, animation, documentary or experimental film, Sign up for our waitlist to be the first to hear about the Call for Entries for our 2024 season - https://cinema.madlabpost.com ***

The Short Film Slam is a bimonthly competition presented by The Madlab Post that focuses on providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers to showcase their work. Each round, a selection of up to twelve short films will be screened for local audiences who get to cast a vote for their favorite film. The highest rated film at live screenings will be declared "Movie of the Month" during the following month. The highest rated "in-competition" films from each live and online screening room will advance to the final round. All finalists get to compete for a total of $1,000 in prize money during the final round and festivities preceding the 2023 shnit Cinemas screening in Philadelphia.

Since 2012, The Madlab Post has promoted community outreach and engagement through film, screening dozens of exceptional short films from around the world to local audiences; including the Academy Award nominated short film A SINGLE LIFE, Clermond-Ferrand International Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner THE BATHTUB and Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Et ta prostate, ça va? (HOW'S YOUR PROSTATE). Main venues include the historic Bok building and Taller Puertorriqueño's state-of-the-art El Corazón Cultural Center.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic



 
Logo of Avanca 2025

Deadline
28 Apr 2023


Published: 26 Apr 2023
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Avanca 2025

Avanca, Portugal


AVANCA Film Festival was awarded first place in 2011 contest of the support film festivals sponsored by ICA / Ministry of Culture.

An additional thematic programming has happened over all these years, giving space to screening of significant works of contemporary cinema appropriately framed in concerns and / or well-defined objectives.

The AVANCA is known as a space for workshops led by personalities of world cinema, and being more than a "master class", has allowed a unique cinema practice. Every year we have workshops, bringing together participants from all over Europe. The media have written that this is the largest European area of professional workshops in the field of cinema.

AVANCA is the only festival that congregates a Cinema International Competition, works from the television area, video and new supports of multimedia, with a special concern of exhibit the best world productions done in each category.

Since the first edition, the festival only accepts unprecedented films in Portugal.

The World Premiere competition is unique in our country and was only possible because Avanca became a passage point of unpublished authors and movies with great quality. Films that have their world premiere in the festival, independently of the submitted category, are also participating in the World Premiere Competition.

AVANCA is the Portuguese festival with the highest percentage of worldwide unpublished movies that find here their first showing.

Since 2010, we have organized the international film conference AVANCA | CINEMA, becoming the most important conference in the field of cinema in the Iberian Peninsula. This conference brings together speakers and participants from around the world.
Thematic exhibitions, editions of books, bibliographic presentations and various projects have marked these last 10 years of AVANCA with the quality that compels the festival and the participants obviously require.


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Logo of Cerdanya Film Festival

Deadline
28 Apr 2023


Published: 26 Apr 2023
 Has submission fees
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Cerdanya Film Festival

Puigcerdà, Spain


Cerdanya Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cerdanya, is a Festival specialized in the documentary, fiction and animation genre, short and feature films, consisting of competitive international sections, non-competitive sections and parallel activities. All the films that are part of the different sections will be selected by the Festival programmers.

Cerdanya Film Festival qualifies for Premios Goya – Spanish Film Academy in Best Spanish Shortfilm, in Fiction, Animation and Documentary categories.

The 16th edition of the Cerdanya Film Festival will be held from 28th July to 17th August 2025.


GOYA!

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Logo of Monticello Park Film Festival

Deadline
28 Apr 2023


Published: 26 Apr 2023
 Has submission fees
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Monticello Park Film Festival

Brooklyn, United States


Showcasing boundary pushing works from up-and-coming talents of the experimental, avant-garde and arthouse worlds.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of International festival of environmental films

Deadline
25 Apr 2023


Published: 23 Apr 2023
 Has submission fees
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International festival of environmental films

Chefchaouen, Morocco


The Chefchaouen International Environmental Film Festival is a film festival dedicated to film lovers and those concerned about the environment in Morocco and abroad, it is an annual event in the superb blue pearl of northern Morocco, the tourist and ecological city of Chefchaouen.

The 14th Edition of the Chefchaouen International Environmental Film Festival will be held from June 25 to 28, 2025 on the occasion of World Environment Day.

The 14th Edition of the Chefchaouen International Environmental Film Festival will be held from June 25 to 28, 2025 on the occasion of World Environment Day.

A varied program, and a jury composed of internationally and nationally renowned film and environmental professionals will be responsible for designating the winners of the planned awards.


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 Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental Calango

Deadline
25 Apr 2023


Published: 23 Apr 2023
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental Calango

Taguatinga, Vicente Pires, Arniqueira, Águas Claras e Guará, Brazil


The 2nd Calango International Environmental Film Festival aims to entertain, inform and educate the population of the region of Taguatinga, Águas Claras, Vicente Pires, Guará and Arniqueira.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



 
Logo of Igualgaba Film Festival

Deadline
25 Apr 2023


Published: 23 Apr 2023
 Has submission fees
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Igualgaba Film Festival

La Algaba, Spain


Sección Oficial a concurso.

Official Competition Section.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Officine Social Movie

Deadline
24 Apr 2023


Published: 22 Apr 2023
 Has submission fees
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Officine Social Movie

Arezzo, Italy


In a historical moment in which the fear of different seems to prevail and the values of equality and social justice are neglected for the benefit of a widespread selfishness, it seems important to us to experiment new initiative to promote the positive values that the Associazione Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo tried to convey in these years using the universal language of the music. Solidarity, hospitality, integration, civil commitment, those are the values we want to pass on through cinema and Audiovision’s language, in an active citizenship experience above all young people, to give our contribution to a wide cultural sensibility growth, with a view to a supportive, multicultural and cohesive society.

Officine social movie: 6nd cinema and Audiovision’s festival dedicated to social issues and civil commitment and to dissemination of content that promoted solidarity, hospitality, social inclusion, cultural diversity and rights values.

Officine social movie is born for an attempt to create new artistic context and new formulas to convey, through cinema and audiovision’s versatility, the idea of cultural and social commitment above expressed. An open festival to short films presented by young emergent and independent filmmakers and videomakers, a showcase dedicated to projection of titles (movie, docu-movie, animation…) on call through film distribution channels also alternative. Projections that will be enriched by guest’s presence (filmmakers, authors, screenwriters, actors) with whose the audience will have the opportunity to confront at the end of projection.

We want to report that Officine Social Movie is born with the intention to pose the same caution both on the final result, the festival that will take place at Arezzo from 3th to 8th june 2025, and on the project creation and implementation process. One of the targets is in fact the involvement of a group of young people who can share an active citizenship, giving space to their creativity.

To arrive to the festival made up by the step of design, analysis, planning and management, communication and critical vision of short films in the competition, will be part of the project itself, with the same importance of the festival days.

The group will be composed by some young people of the promoter association with around twenty people of the students from the Multimedia, cinema and graphic design sections of Liceo Artistico “Piero della Francesca di Arezzo” that, flanked by expert and operation, will draw the outlines of the festival, will draw up the national competition announcement, will be an integral part in the selection of short films in competition and will be part of the jury who will designate it the winners.

The students, in addition of being part of the group of the design team, will be involved in the creation of an own short film too, to be presented out of competition, as well as for the project and the festival’s video-photographic documentation.

The Officine Social Movie project has as leader the Association “Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo” (OMA), in collaboration with Officine della Cultura, the Liceo Artistico Coreutico Scientifico Internazionale “Piero della Francesca”, annex to Convitto Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele II” of Arezzo and Poti Pictures, with the support of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze and Ottopermille chiesa Valdese, contribution Prodigio Divino and Associazione Autismo Arezzo. Media partner of the event Teletruria.


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Logo of Cowpokes International Film Festival

Deadline
23 Apr 2023


Published: 21 Apr 2023
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Cowpokes International Film Festival

Harrah, United States


It's The 3rd ANNUAL COWPOKES INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - from the founders of the 6th Annual Sunny Side Up Film Festival (SSUFF) & the 7th Annual Wild Bunch Film Festival (TWBFF).

Join us online, June 23rd - 25th 2023 for a family fun weekend, and experience our virtual film festival competition.

Cowpokes Int'l Film Festival is a competitive event for filmmakers and screenwriters, as well as authors, songwriters, musicians, photographers, poets and more!

Also visit us at cowpokesfilmfestival.com


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Cotignola Ciak

Deadline
23 Apr 2023


Published: 21 Apr 2023
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Cotignola Ciak

Cotignola , Italy


Cotignola Ciak i programma:

29 Aprile
Dalle ore 16.00 Proiezioni C/o Teatro
30 Aprile
Interviste Media
Premiazioni Vincitori

In entrambe le Giornate sara' possibile visitare i musei ed il centro storico di Cotignola


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Valdivia International Film Festival

Deadline
21 Apr 2023


Published: 19 Apr 2023
 Has submission fees
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Valdivia International Film Festival

Valdivia, Chile


Valdivia International Film Festival showcases Chilean and international cinema in five competitive categories: Feature Competition, Youth Feature Competition, Latin American and Caribbean Short Film Competition, Latin American and Caribbean Children’s Short Film Competition and Chilean Short Film Competition for Film Students. Its non-competitive program includes historical retrospectives, contemporary filmmakers’ retrospectives, political cinema, avant-garde cinema, genre, and a children-family oriented cinema slot.

1.- OBJECTIVES
The festival aims to offer Chilean and foreign filmmakers a place to screen and to compete, and by doing so, promoting national and international film works of artistic quality.

2. DATES
The festival will be held from October 13th to 19th, 2025, in Valdivia, Chile.


HIGHLIGHTED!

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



 
Logo of SiciliAmbiente Film Festival

Deadline
21 Apr 2023


Published: 19 Apr 2023
 Has submission fees
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SiciliAmbiente Film Festival

Palermo, Italy


17th SiciliAmbiente Film Festival - July 14-19, 2025
The aim of SiciliAmbiente Film Festival is to promote independent and documentary cinema, encouraging creative exchange and networking among filmmakers.
The Festival is organized and sponsored by Demetra Produzioni SAS and the CANTIERE 7 Cultural Association, made possible by public and private partners and sponsors who share the ethical principles of the Festival.
ELIGIBLE THEMES
Films addressing the following themes may participate in the Festival:
Environment / Anthropology / Human Rights / Biodiversity / War / Integration / Civil Rights / Sustainable Development / The Relationship between Humans and the Environment
FESTIVAL SECTIONS
The Festival is divided into the following sections:
• Documentary Film Contest (minimum runtime: 31 minutes)
• Fiction Feature Film Contest (minimum runtime: 70 minutes)
• Short Film Contest for Fiction and Documentary Shorts (maximum runtime: 31 minutes)
• Animated Short Film Contest (maximum runtime: 31 minutes)
• Overview of documentaries, fiction films, short films, tributes, retrospectives, seminars, and panel discussions
The Selection Committee will evaluate films based on the quality of writing, imagery, and the use of a creative language that characterizes artistic documentary cinema.


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Logo of Bosifest - Belgrade international film festival for and by people with disabilities

Deadline
20 Apr 2023


Published: 18 Apr 2023
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Bosifest - Belgrade international film festival for and by people with disabilities

Belgrade, Serbia


BOSIFEST is the International Festival Of Documentary Film for and by persons with disabilities, the only one of this kind in the Southeast Europe, which will be organized this year for the sixteenth time in Serbia by the Hendi Center Koloseum. As in past fifteen years, this year on the big screen a great number of films will be shown both in competitive and non-competitive part. So far visitors of the BOSIFEST had an opportunity to watch 850 films that had life of the people with disabilities as their subject or were created by the disabled authors.
In addition to film screenings, BOSIFEST offers additional programs in the form of workshops, panel discussions and roundtables.


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 Documentary



 
Logo of Zero Plus International festival of films for children and youth

Deadline
20 Apr 2023


Published: 18 Apr 2023
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Zero Plus International festival of films for children and youth

Tyumen, Russia


"0+" International film festival is aimed at:

1. promotion and popularization of high-quality films, which foster a positive, creative and formative worldview in children and young people, strengthen common human values like family, childhood, friendship, kindness, nature, love for a profession, etc.

2. integration of cinema and education by creating a collection of value-oriented films for carrying out educational screenings in schools and social institutions of Russia.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other



 
Logo of Zafic International Film Festival

Deadline
20 Apr 2023


Published: 18 Apr 2023
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Zafic International Film Festival

Mosquera, Colombia


The ZAFIC Festival 2025 call will have 6 lines of development that will be called "Capsules", which will be aimed at 5 different industries with the objective of articulating Cinematography and audiovisual, with new creators and cultural managers.

The capsules that will be developed in the call are:

1. Cinematographic capsule.
2. Musical capsule.
3. Literary capsule.
4. gastronomic capsule.
5. Dance capsule.
6. Cápsula Market Fest

Similarly, different categories detail in each capsule that detail diverse interests, genres and creation formats, as well as their requirements and who can take part.

These projects can come from any country or region, and must be originally developed, subtitled or folded to the Spanish language.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Lusomovies

Deadline
20 Apr 2023


Published: 18 Apr 2023
 Has submission fees
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Lusomovies

Roma, Italy


Lusomovies – Portuguese language short film festival

Third edition - Roma, Italy


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Festival de Cine Rural y Montaña de Cervera de Pisuerga

Deadline
19 Apr 2023


Published: 17 Apr 2023
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Festival de Cine Rural y Montaña de Cervera de Pisuerga

Cervera de Pisuerga, Spain


Third edition of the Rural and Mountain Festival of Cervera de Pisuerga.

This festival was born out of the need to give visibility to rural and mountain works. To value the natural environment from a rural, ethnographic, sporting and heritage value point of view.


Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Cinalfama Film Observatory

Deadline
17 Apr 2023


Published: 15 Apr 2023
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Cinalfama Film Observatory

Lisbon, Portugal


The CINALFAMA FILM OBSERVATORY, held in a historic neighborhood, emerges as a transformative cultural initiative that strengthens the community network. By showing independent films, the project not only widens access to alternative and innovative narratives but also stimulates cultural engagement among residents, fostering a sense of identity and belonging.

This regular event, which takes place at Museu do Fado Auditorium, becomes a meeting point where generations cross paths, sharing experiences and reflections that transcend mere film viewing. In addition, by being located in a neighborhood with a rich historical heritage, the observatory revitalizes the urban space, attracting visitors and enhancing the appreciation of the local heritage, generating a very positive cultural dynamic

The Cinalfama Film Observatory is a regular cinema competition in January, April, and October.

The winning films of each of the three editions (Jan, Apr, Oct), will be showcased in our annual outdoor cinema event, Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Festival, in July 2025.


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Logo of Entretodos - Human Rights  Short Film Festival of São Paulo

Deadline
16 Apr 2023


Published: 14 Apr 2023
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Entretodos - Human Rights Short Film Festival of São Paulo

São Paulo, Brazil


ENTRETODOS 17 - Is a free entrance Festival dedicated to the exhibition and award of short films, with up to 25 minutes, of all genres and formats, that addresses issues related to Human Rights.

The Festival takes place in São Paulo. Produced by Prefeitura de São Paulo, Spcine and ESTATE Produções.

ENTRETODOS Festival team.


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Logo of Toyama International Film Festival

Deadline
16 Apr 2023


Published: 14 Apr 2023
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Toyama International Film Festival

Toyama, Japan


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, quite a step from our first year. The event was held in the city of Toyama at a local independently-owned venue, Bodegas-Mambo with around 80-100 guests coming to view the films. Every year since, we hope to expand even further and provide an even larger venue for participants and the movie-going community in Japan.

Today, with over 3000 submissions each year from countries around the world, TIFF has become a highly-anticipated annual event and a staple of Toyama's international community.

Note: Due to time constraints, we cannot accept films that run over 10 minutes. However, any genre of short film will be considered for exhibition.


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