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FEST - New Directors | New Films Festival

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FEST - NDNFF #22
20th-28th of June of 2026 | Espinho, Portugal

FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival is an all-encompassing celebration of the new tendencies of world cinema. The event focuses on a competitive and non-competitive showcase of the most promising new figures and works from around the globe.
The 22ndedition of the festival will take place between the 20th and the 28th of June 2026, in the seaside town of Espinho (Portugal).

The selection is divided into several categories which include Feature Film and Short Film competitions in the Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental Non-Narrative formats, as well as content adequate for children and teenagers. The event also includes non-competitive sections that range from retrospectives to feature length and [...]





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Published: 27 Oct 2025
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Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival

Deadline: 11 Apr 2026

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The Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival aims to showcase crime drama, true crime, horror, and related subgenres from around the world.

We provide independent filmmakers with a platform to connect with audiences, industry professionals, and fellow filmmakers who share their passion for crime and horror cinema.

With live screenings at a historic theater in Hollywood, the LA Crime and Horror Film Festival gives recognition to the independent films and filmmakers in crime and horror storytelling.

Winners considered by Hollywood production companies reps, and streaming platforms including:

ZERO GRAVITY
THE BLOOD LIST / BRILLSTEIN
THINK TANK MANAGEMENT
TXL FILMS
BINGE HORROR
... and more.

 Fiction  Documentary  Terror



Los Angeles, United States



 
 
 
 
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Published: 27 Oct 2025
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One Minute Story Film Festival

Deadline: 21 Jul 2026

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Any genre: Drama, Action, Comedy, Horror, Animation, Music Video, PSA, or other. Film must be no longer than 60 seconds, including credits.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Teaneck, United States




 
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Published: 27 Oct 2025
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Black Star International film festival

Deadline: 10 Feb 2026

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To be considered for selection, kindly read the following rules thoroughly before submitting. Flouting any of the Eligibility Rules & Terms below may lead to a disqualification of your work. Please read before submitting:

General Rules

* BSIFF accepts films in the following forms: Features, shorts and episodic series.

* Feature-length, short films and episodic series must be at minimum Ghana premieres. This means, you should not have been screened publicly in Ghana prior to the 2024 Festival.

* Features and short films including episodic series must not be available online in any form, for any period of time at the time of submission.

* All films must be in English, subtitled in English or English versioned. Non-English language works must have English subtitles at the [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Accra, Ghana



 
 
 
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Published: 27 Oct 2025
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Mac Marín

Deadline: 31 Jul 2026

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MAC MARÍN - Atlantic Films & New Media is an emerging space that aims to promote the independennt cinema and audiovisual creation at the same time that pays homage to the local talent, valuing the Marin Town identity and its sourounded parishs , located in one of the most beautiful corners of Galicia, in the northwest of Spain, in Europe.

Our main objective is to connect the New Galician Filmmakers to the neighborhood, as well as to seek a connection between local creators with international audiovisual communities. We pay special attention to those who have been working into european values through media and cinema.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Marín, Spain



 
 

 
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The Dallas International Film Festival

Deadline: 17 Feb 2026

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Join Us for the Dallas International Film Festival 2026, April 23-April 30, 2026!

DIFF 2026, the 20th annual Dallas International Film Festival, will screen the best narrative and documentary features and short films from across the globe.

The 20th annual Dallas International Film Festival doesn’t just screen films. The interaction between story tellers, audiences and the Texas community is what we strive to develop both during the festival and throughout the year.

DIFF 2026 is a global adventure that features premiere screenings, nightly red carpets, eye-opening documentaries, intriguing short films, filmmaker panels, award presentations, daily filmmaker happy hours, and an enhanced filmmaker hospitality program that includes city tours and a Festival Lounge where [...]

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Dallas, United States



 
 
 
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Published: 27 Oct 2025
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Animatex Animation Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Nov 2025

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Animatex is the biggest animation event in Egypt and the annual meeting point for all the animation community in the region; studios, freelancers, students, academics, amateurs and general audience. It offers a much needed window on the local and international animation scenes, through a multitude of workshops, talks, discussions, screenings, competitions, exhibitions, keynotes, networking sessions and markets. It is also the driving force of many collaborations and opportunities with international festivals and partners for the benefit of the animation industry in Egypt.

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Cairo, Egypt



 
 

 
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International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra & Awards

Deadline: 30 Jun 2026

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Submit your entry now!

The 13th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra & Awards, offers you the opportunity to submit your documentaries now, in order to compete in the monthly awards of the Festival for February. Winners will automatically qualify to compete for the annual Festival awards, taking place from August 1nd to 21st, 2026.

This year the IDFI, is dedicated to Climate Change. It is worth noting that films from all thematic sections will be eligible at the end of each month to compete for the annual awards in August. The rich thematic sections of the Festival include: human rights, recordings of memory, docudrama, young directors, true stories, climate change, environment, the role of women, Greek Panorama, views of the world, human portrait, violence, war [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



IERAPETRA, Greece



 
 
 
 
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Funny Under Fifteen Minutes Comedy Film Festival

Deadline: 14 Feb 2026

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Funny Under Fifteen Minutes is a comedy Film Festival for comedy films fifteen minutes or less.

The 2nd Annual Funny Under Fifteen Minutes is the Comedy Film Festival that compliments our long running Hamilton New York International Film Festival and we are looking for short films Fifteen minutes in duration or less that will make the World laugh out loud.


Over the Past 17 years we realized how much people like to laugh. So with that in mind and some prodding from our festival friends we launched the Funny Under Fifteen Minutes Comedy Film Festival as an addition to The Hamilton New York International Film Festival.


The weekend Festival will hold Q & A sessions after the screenings, panel discussions and meet and greet opportunities for our filmmakers and film fans to [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Hamilton, United States



 
 

 
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Fidba, Festival Internacional De Cine Documental de Buenos Aires

Deadline: 25 Jul 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED

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In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.

It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina



 
 
 
 
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New Hope Film Festival

Deadline: 11 Dec 2026

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MISSION & OBJECTIVE
New Hope Film Festival is especially interested in discovering and nurturing talented but underappreciated filmmakers from around the globe.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The 16th Edition New Hope Film Festival will take place from August 16-25, 2027. A hybrid festival with a combination of physical and virtual events, the New Hope Film Festival offers currently rare opportunities for in-person networking and audience interaction. The Festival owns and uses first class audio-video components for screenings, with 4K laser projection, reference-level surround sound processing and other high quality, carefully-selected components. All films are screened in physical, in-person events except under rare circumstances beyond our control, such as a pandemic or a problem with [...]

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New Hope, United States