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Deadline
19 Sep 2022


Published: 17 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Wallachia International Film Festival

Bucharest, Romania


Wallachia International Film Festival is a highly professional, industry connected film festival, an exclusive independent grassroots film festival taking place in an exquisite location in Downtown Bucharest, only hundreds of meters away from Dracula’s former court in the grand Old Town!

We won multiple cinema prizes including important awards at major film festivals, like Cannes, Locarno, Montreal, London, Milan, Miami and Atlanta. Also, our advertising work received accolades at Clio, Effie, In-Awe, Lion Awards, ANDY Awards and Ad’Or, while working for companies like Coca-Cola, UNICEF, McDonalds, Renault, Yahoo! and Nestlé-Purina.

But there’s nothing we love more than indulging ourselves with cinematic candies from all over the world, under the autumn night sky of Wallachia. We will be arguing for a long time about which ones we feel are the best, and about the most promising unproduced screenplays.

Welcome to Wallachia, the Legendary Land of Voivode Vlad III Dracula, universally known as Vlad the Impaler. Born in 1431, Vlad was an authoritarian Principe, he revolutionized the affairs of Wallachia and refused to pay tribute to the sultan Mehmed II, resulting in a bloody war with the Ottomans. Multiple works containing stories about Vlad's cruelty were published soon after his assassination in 1475. In 1897, Bram Stoker downgrades Prince Vlad to Count Dracula, a blood-sucking vampire inspired by Wallachian ancient folklore. Loosely based on the book, Dracula (1931) casts immortal Bela Lugosi as the doomed romantic Count.

Just think cinétopia! Feel hundreds of years of mythic Wallachian history under the night sky! It’s a 100% natural film affair!

We watch all movies, we read all screenplays and we select exclusively based on artistic merits.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of International Film Festival Zoom - Zbliżenia

Deadline
18 Sep 2022


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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International Film Festival Zoom - Zbliżenia

Jelenia Gora, Poland


IFF ZOOM - ZBLIZENIA (Jelenia Góra) is one of the largest and most important independent cinema festivals in Poland. Its aim is to present the author's cinema, ambitious, high artistic value, moving independent and original subject matter, as well as promotion of independent film art.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, we would like to inform you that the Russian films which will be submitted to the 29. IFF ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA 2026 will not be eligible for competitions.


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Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other



 
Logo of FICCAB - Benalmadena Internacional Short Films Festival

Deadline
18 Sep 2022


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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FICCAB - Benalmadena Internacional Short Films Festival

Arroyo de la Miel - Benalmádena, Spain


In 1998, the Benalmádena Cinematographic Youth Association (ACIBE) recovered the spirit of the defunct SICAB (Benalmádena International Author's Film Week, 1969-1989) to undertake the project of creating a film festival for the city. The result, after seventeen years of management, is the Benalmádena International Short Film and Alternative Film Festival (FICCAB), a meeting forum for lovers of quality cinema. More than four hundred short films are presented each year at a festival for all ages that unites the glamor of the stars to the best auteur, independent, alternative and unknown cinematographies, paying special attention to European ones.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Bugarte Film and Visual Arts Festival

Deadline
18 Sep 2022


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Bugarte Film and Visual Arts Festival

Guadalajara de Buga, Colombia


Born in 2009 in order to highlight and encourage artistic expression, film and cultural identity of the region. Promoting the permanence of cultures and strengthening the cultural policies of the city as a mechanism for citizen and community participation; thus supporting the development, exhibition and dissemination of film and the visual arts in the city of Guadalajara de Buga and Valle del Cauca; proposing dialogue between the various expressions of art today and their participation mechanisms mainly in the youth population. This festival seeks to create spaces for discussion, artistic and audiovisual creation in a participatory manner.

The festival became the first event of its kind in this area, for display, training, capacity building and collective on the subject of film and visual arts in Guadalajara de Buga and Valle del Cauca.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Other  Music Video



 
Logo of International Fantastic Film Festival of Castilla y León Terroríficamente Cortos

Deadline
18 Sep 2022


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films


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International Fantastic Film Festival of Castilla y León Terroríficamente Cortos

Palencia, Spain


International Fantastic Film Festival of Castilla y León "Terroríficamente Cortos" born from enthusiasm and love for the cinema of palencian young and the need to boost the cultural and leisure in the city of Palencia on it involving institutional and business sector of the Spanish province.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror



 
Logo of SMR13 INTERNATIONAL IDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline
18 Sep 2022


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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SMR13 INTERNATIONAL IDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Saint Mitre les Remparts, France


SMR13 INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

The SMR13 International Independent Film Festival is an annual, IMDb-certified, four (4)-day event held in the second half of November, in Saint-Mitre-Les-Remparts, in the south of France, near Marseille.

First and foremost, it's a physical festival, taking place in "La Manare", a dedicated performance hall with a total surface area of 1000m² and a capacity of 250 spectators.

The 10th edition of the SMR13 international independent film festival will take place from November 21 to 23, 2025.

The festival stands out for its highly developed network, passionate members and trusted partnerships. It is a unique showcase for independent cinema, attracting professionals from all over the world.

Since its inception, the festival has been supported by a patron, an emblematic figure in independent cinema. John Carpenter (2018), director, screenwriter and composer (Halloween, The Thing, New York 1997...). Andréa Ferréol (2019), actress (La Grande Bouffe, Le Dernier Métro, La Scoumoune...). Francis Ford Coppola (2019), director and screenwriter (Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Dracula...). Virginie Lemoine (2020), actress (Famille d'Accueil, Nos années parallèles, Oscar...). Sean S. Cunningham (2021), director and producer (Friday The 13th, Spring Break, DeepStar Six...). Patrice Leconte (2022 and 2023), director and producer (Les Bronzés, Les Spécialistes, Maigret, Olivier Marchal (2024), actor, screenwriter and director ( 36 quai des Orfèvres, Flics, Braquo and Pax Massillia.


International Festival

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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Festival

Deadline
18 Sep 2022


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Festival

Montreal, Canada


COVID-19 UPDATE: We will still hold our festival, though the format would be via online streaming due to COVID-19 restrictions. Same rules apply. For more info, visit www.miwaff.com.

MIWAFF AWARD WINNERS receive not only our prestigious awards but also recognition on IMDB and a one-year membership at iPitchTv.com! Film screenings will be available for streaming during our Festival period.

MIWAFF promotes all types of film, whether it is indie or studio based. Our mission is to unite filmmakers and artists in a competitive atmosphere by giving out prestigious Wreath Awards under a democratic process of popular vote. Our Festival recruits artists involved in film. This Jury of artists collectively votes on which film will be playing at our festival, and moreover, votes on which films get nominated and win.


International Festival

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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of BCN Sports Film – 16th Barcelona International FICTS Festival

Deadline
18 Sep 2022


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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BCN Sports Film – 16th Barcelona International FICTS Festival

Barcelona, Spain


The Barcelona Olympic Foundation, with the support of the Barcelona City Council, organizes the BCN Sports Film 2026 – 16th BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL FICTS FESTIVAL and forms part of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE 2026.

The BCN Sports Film 2026 will take place in Barcelona on dates yet to be determined during the first quarter of 2026. In this sixteenth edition, the festival will have a competitive nature.

The sixteenth edition of the festival will have a hybrid format so, there will be face-to-face screenings and online screenings. The rights that the authors assign, therefore, are both for the face-to-face sessions that are held in the official venues of the contest, as well as for the sessions that will be held online through an online platform.

These Rules & Regulations have been approved by the BCN Sports Film 2026 Organising Committee. Your taking part in BCN Sports Film 2026 implies the total acceptance of these regulations.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Actors Web Series Fest - Los Angeles [Videos, Vlogs, Social Series, Influencers]

Deadline
17 Sep 2022


Published: 15 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Actors Web Series Fest - Los Angeles [Videos, Vlogs, Social Series, Influencers]

Los Angeles , United States


From YouTube, Twitch, IGTV, TikTok, Spotify, Facebook and beyond, web content is king. And we want to celebrate you! ACTORS whether you are creating your own content or starring in other web series style show and video, this fest is for YOU!

IMDb qualifying!

After years of running Chicago Comedy Film Festival, LA Comedy Film Fest and America's Funniest Viral Videos, we see the need to add another event to our programming. Web content often gets lost in the traditional festival circuit and we're out to change that. In the Spring of 2022 LA Web Series Fest will all take part during LACFF! It's hard to predict what the "new normal" will be for events, but we plan to have this portion of LACFF at a fun live venue in 2022.


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 Other



 
Logo of Cortocomenius

Deadline
16 Sep 2022


Published: 14 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films

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Cortocomenius

Valencia, Spain


The 19th edition of CORTOCOMENIUS intends to show the best valencian productions , with the intention of promoting, broadcast and support to the development of the digital cinema.


Short film festival


 Fiction  Other



 
Logo of STUFF MX FILM FEST: INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline
16 Sep 2022


Published: 14 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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STUFF MX FILM FEST: INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

México DF, Mexico


The Mexico City International Independent Film Festival STUFF MX celebrates its 10th edition in June 2025 and opens its official call to filmmakers from all over the world to register all their film materials, music videos; in all formats, genres and categories of any length, in animation, documentary, fiction and live-action, which will be valid from December 1, 2024 until March 31, 2025 at 23:59 CST (CST), Washington, D. C. time. CST (CST), Mexico City time.


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental



 
Logo of XXII Piriápolis de Película Film Festival (Uruguay)

Deadline
16 Sep 2022


Published: 14 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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XXII Piriápolis de Película Film Festival (Uruguay)

Piriápolis, Uruguay


The International Film Festival "Piriápolis de Película" is an event that has consolidated itself as an essential space for the meeting of the independent production of national and international filmmakers. It is characterized by exhibiting, completely free of charge, a selection of outstanding audiovisual productions, short, medium and feature films of all genres. It also has an Iberoamerican Short Film Contest, whose objective is to stimulate and disseminate the production of short films in the region and the continent, adorned by an outstanding international jury.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Cortometrajes relacionados con el descanso y la salud.

Deadline
16 Sep 2022


Published: 14 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films

Promotional card of Cortometrajes relacionados con el descanso y la salud.

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Cortometrajes relacionados con el descanso y la salud.

Madrid, Spain


PRIMER FESTIVAL NACIONAL DE CORTOMETRAJES de InOut Distribution
“BUENAS NOCHES, GENTE DESPIERTA”

Contexto:

Dormir es una actividad absolutamente necesaria. Mientras dormimos se llevan a cabo funciones fisiológicas imprescindibles para la restauración del equilibrio psíquico y físico de los individuos. Por el contrario, la ausencia de un sueño normalizado puede alterar el humor, crear dificultad para la concentración y falta de atención, somnolencia, cansancio físico y mental, estado general de nerviosismo, tensión, tristeza e irritabilidad, impactando de manera distinta a cada persona.

Expuesto lo anterior, aflora el tema del presente concurso de cortometrajes. A través de las distintas situaciones que se pueden dar en la vida real, queremos promover y concienciar sobre la importancia para nuestras vidas de tener y disfrutar de un sueño reparador y de calidad.

El concurso "BUENAS NOCHES, GENTE DESPIERTA" surge para proponer la creación de cortos relacionados con el buen sueño​ y ​el buen descanso.​ Relacionado con esta idea, los cortometrajes deberían, a modo de ejemplo, tratar sobre​:

• Disfrutar de un descanso reponedor
• Recrear imágenes y fantasías mientras dormimos de una manera saludable
• Cumplir nuestras metas y sueños (gente vital porque ha descansado bien)


Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of BaideFest

Deadline
15 Sep 2022


Published: 13 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films


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BaideFest

Roses, Spain


Festival of fantasy and horror genre shorts, open to all types of filmmakers, whether professionals or amateurs. The festival will be held in the town of Roses (Spain), from November 13 to 16, 2025. We accept short films of the Fantastic, Horror, Animation, Gore, Freak and Trash genres.

La GEEK SHOCK CINEMA, on Sunday the 17th we will hold a marathon of short films, we are looking for underground, festival, comedy, gore and fantastic short films, fake trailers, so that the public can have fun, and shout at the screen, These short films that are selected WILL NOT ENTER THE COMPETITION, participation will be free, but we repeat, THEY WILL NOT ENTER THE COMPETITION, it will only be screened in said marathon, with a maximum of 15 minutes.


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Short film festival


 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other



 
Logo of EL GRITO: International Fantastic Film Festival

Deadline
15 Sep 2022


Published: 13 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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EL GRITO: International Fantastic Film Festival

San Cristóbal, Venezuela


El Grito is the first and only fantasy an horror film festival in Venezuela.

This event seeks to celebrate fear and showcase the narrative visions of both emerging and established filmmakers, whose stories reveal the darkest aspects of the human condition.

Over the past seven years, it has served as a disruptive platform in the country’s periphery—the state of Táchira—where filmmakers, producers, and fantasy film enthusiasts have come together to reflect, enjoy, and learn. El Grito is part of the Latin American Alliance of Fantasy Film Festivals (FANTLATAM), the Venezuelan Film Festival and Showcase Circuit (CIFEST), and the Ibero-American Network of Film Festivals (REDIBEROFEST).

We invite feature films, short films, and music videos from around the world—spanning fantasy, horror, sci-fi, thriller, suspense, and related subgenres— in any narrative format (fiction, documentary, animation, or experimental) to participate in our 7th edition.

More info at: elgritoproduce.com/festival


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Music Video



 
Logo of Hacer Encima

Deadline
15 Sep 2022


Published: 13 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Hacer Encima

VALENCIA, Spain



International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of FESCISE 2023

Deadline
15 Sep 2022


Published: 13 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films


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FESCISE 2023

Maturín, Venezuela


FESCISE; It is a film festival that rewards the complexity of making a sequence shot, the works will have a minimum duration of 5 minutes and a maximum of 15 minutes (including credits); with a minimum continuous sequence shot of 3 minutes 30 seconds in the development of the short.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of La Pecca LGTBI Short Film Contest

Deadline
15 Sep 2022


Published: 13 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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La Pecca LGTBI Short Film Contest

Sevilla, Spain


LA PECCA -Small Environmental Film Contest- was born in 2007 by the DeFrente Association.

The main purpose of this project is to promote respect for sexual and gender diversity through cinema, contributing to the development of a plural and inclusive society.
Taking a quality film event as a vehicle, we show plural life stories and encourage people to visibly live their sexual and gender identity, to promote social awareness and claim at the same time the right of the LGTBIQ + community to be present in culture and in society equally.

We also give visibility and support to quality cinematography, promoting the discovery of new talents.

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ASOCIACIÓN DEFRENTE is a non-profit organization in Seville that was established in 2006. Since its inception, its objectives have been aimed at serving the lesbian, gay, transsexual and bisexual community in response to a social demand by being this group in a situation of marginalization and discrimination in many areas of daily life.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Short Movie Club Film Festival Nefiltravanae Kino

Deadline
15 Sep 2022


Published: 13 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Short Movie Club Film Festival Nefiltravanae Kino

Vilnius, Lithuania


The purpose of the festival refers to awareness of both the external filters on the screen, including censorship (commercial, ideological, aesthetic), and the internal filters of screen perception and projection, including self-censorship. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is an exploration of aestheticization and commodification in art. The next aim of the festival is to expose the complexity, manysidedness, and variety of filmmaking.

NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is a film festival that is held by the Short Movie Club, the platform for cinematic projects. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is ADAMI Media Prize qualified festival. The International Film Studies Conference is held at the same time as the film festival. In this way, film theory and practice are integrated together at the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO.

Originally the festival was held in Belarus, but because of political repression and publicly stated anti-war stance, screenings and events can be held in different countries. First of all in Lithuania (Vilnius). For example, the 10th Nefiltravanae Kino took place in Berlin, Vilnius and Helsinki last year. There were selected 63 films for 12 film programmes. https://shortmovie.club/programmes/10-2024/

The concept of the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (Unfiltered Cinema):

ALIENATION PROBLEM

We live in a world of malls and cinema multiplexes. We see that indie cinema and non-commodity art go to the periphery of public attention. Primitive attractions replace the cinematography. The escape audience is alienated behind the big screen. So modern mainstream cinema is part of a manipulating tool that leads to the society of alienation. Thus the tendency is that indie cinema becomes more unreadable for the wide audience. We should understand the context of the filmmaker to understand the independent cinema. That is why the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO concept implies the physical presence of filmmakers.

FILM SELECTION PROBLEM
Filmmakers shoot millions of movies. And thousands of short film festivals organize screenings all over the world every year. On average, several thousand films are submitted to a film festival. So various good films can be neglected for whatever reason. Often selecting probability is like winning a lottery. As a result, filmmakers are left with no feedback. It is a paradox that no one can hear you in the age of the Internet! The mainstream culture prefers attractions and casual viewing.

Also, this idea is based on the film selection problem. Perhaps it’s no surprise one person, i.e. programme director at best, or even students of film schools make a preliminary decision to select a movie. Сoncordance of judges or previewers is more seldom thing than the difference of background, tastes. So selection or judging can be one-sided or perfunctory. It is not bad as the programme director has a good taste and aesthetic sensitivity, of course. But we’ve discovered another conception of “unfiltered cinema”. We matched it against “the best of the best” way. This way aids to perceive cinematic idiom without the dictate of art-curators.

CELEBRATION OF INDIE CINEMA
So the Unfiltered Cinema Film Festival tries to avoid “the best of the best” way but it does not ignore it completely, sure. The festival selects fiction, animation, documentary, experimental and virtual reality sections. A jury awards the best film in every section. The festival holds the screenings at cinema theatres, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, and art-spaces.

Our aim is to gather people in art, to have a dialogue to be happy with smart communication. Cinema is art but not sport. The key point of our project is to establish communication between the filmmaker and the audience.

Please, read about the festival history through the link to the festival's website. http://shortmovie.club/history/

The Short Movie Club provides constructing of CinemaVan ( see https://www.behance.net/gallery/33392769/Cinema-van-Mobile-library-Amphibia ).


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Diputación de Jaen Short Film Festival against Gender violence

Deadline
15 Sep 2022


Published: 13 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films

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Diputación de Jaen Short Film Festival against Gender violence

Jaén, Spain


The topic of the work will be the violence of gender, in any of its manifestations, its prevention and sensitization against it, being able to present documentaries and short films of plot fiction.

The jury will have special consideration for those works that address this issue by focusing on the youth world.


GOYA!

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary