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Busan International Short Film Festival

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Launched in 1980, our festival, the first of its category in South Korea, has grown and evolved from the Korean Short Film Festival, to become the Busan Asian Short Film Festival in 2000 and eventually the Busan International Short Film Festival in 2010 (www.bisff.org).

Taking place late April at the Busan Cinema Center, BISFF delivers a dozen awards in three competitive sections (International Competition, Korean Competition and Operation Kino) while also presenting several curated, non-competitive sections including: Guest Country, Korean Shorts, Asian Shorts, Prism, 3D Cinema, etc.

BISFF is a member of the Short Film Conference (http://shortfilmconference.com/) and of the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema https://netpacasia.org). In 2018, it became [...]



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Published: 02 Jan 2025
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XII Pineda de Mar International Short Film Festival

Deadline: 31 Mar 2025

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International Festival

Short film festival

The Festival is organized by the CinemArt Association of Pineda de Mar, it is an international festival with the aim of promoting a specific space for the discovery, screening and dissemination of short films.

The main thematic axis of the festival is that of comedy; however, the theme and genre of the productions is free. Quality and originality will be prioritized as the main objective, and that the production is unprecedented.

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Pineda de Mar, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 02 Jan 2025
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Festival Cine do Mar

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

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The III SEA FILM FESTIVAL will be held from 20 to 26 April 2026 in the town of Marín.

The Cultural Association for a Sea Museum for Marín is the organizing entity of this festival. Since its creation, the Marin Sea Museum has had as one of its main objectives the recovery of the seafaring identity of the town of Marín, as well as the conservation and dissemination of the cultural heritage linked to the sea, maritime and seafaring culture, especially among the new generations. On the other hand, the Galician language is an indissoluble part of our culture. Language and the sea are two fundamental elements to understand and disseminate our identity. Therefore, the Sea Film Festival is fully within the objectives of the Marin Sea Museum.

The Cine do Mar Festival promotes the [...]

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Marín, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 02 Jan 2025
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Festival Internacional De Cine Del San Jorge

Deadline: 31 Mar 2025

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Descripción del festival (Edición: 9)
Inicio Festival: 22 de abril de 2026 Fin Festival: 25 de abril de 2026

El F I C S J. (Festival Internacional de Cine del San Jorge) es un evento que se llevará a cabo del 22 de abril al 25 de abril del 2026 en las ciudades de Montelíbano Córdoba - Colombia. Este festival tiene como objetivo principal promover la producción regional, nacional e internacional de cine y potenciar a la región como un epicentro del séptimo arte.

El festival busca fomentar la economía circular en torno a la producción audiovisual, generando una mayor oferta de empleo y desarrollo económico en la región. Además, el F I C S J propone nuevas expresiones de cultura y folclore en la región, a través de la presentación de películas que aborden temáticas [...]

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Montelíbano, Colombia



 
 
 
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Published: 29 Dec 2024
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Cartoon Club - Festival Internazionale Del Cinema D’animazione, Fumetto E Games

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

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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 42nd 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:

The CARTOON CLUB AWARD: open to short animated films made by professional filmmakers and production companies.

The SIGNOR ROSSI AWARD: open to animated shorts made by secondary school and university students, and by the students of animation film schools.

The CARTOON KIDS AWARD: open to animated shorts aimed at a children’s audience. Among the films [...]

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Rimini, Italy



 
 
 

 
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Published: 28 Dec 2024
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Chhayanat Film and Theatre Festival

Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

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Founded within the cultural heartbeat of Jadavpur University, Chhayanat has evolved into India’s largest student-run film and theatre festival — a platform where art and rebellion, screen and
stage, intellect and emotion converge.

Over the years, it has hosted National Award–winning filmmakers, international screenings, industry panels, and global student collaborations — from France to South Korea, Brazil to Spain —
making it a truly cross-continental dialogue on storytelling and truth.

At its core, Chhayanat stands for freedom of expression and the power of collective imagination. It celebrates the voices that resist convention, amplify diversity, and reflect the changing faces of our society. Each frame, each performance, each conversation here becomes part of a larger [...]

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Kolkata, India



 
 
 
 
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Published: 21 Dec 2024
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PASTURAS, Festival Internacional de Cine de Trashumancia y Pastoralismo

Deadline: 14 Apr 2025

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PASTURAS. International Film Festival on Pastoralism and Transhumance. PASTURAS aims at raising awareness on the ancestral culture of transhumance through cinema, showcasing fiction and non-fiction films with a focus on this issue, facilitating communication between filmmakers and the audience, and providing learning opportunities to contribute to the development of this culture and the promotion of all audiovisual work around the issue.

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Godoy Cruz, Argentina



 

 
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Published: 17 Dec 2024
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Festival Eszena

Deadline: 09 Feb 2025

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ESZENA is the Young Film Festival of Aragón, with a distinctly Aragonese identity and a national impact. It is a meeting point for young people, by young people, which seeks to focus on the new voices, those who in the future will carry the weight of the industry on their shoulders in Spain.

A festival to award and showcase emerging talent in cinema, both in front of and behind the cameras. At the same time, it serves as a platform to generate a network of talent for the future of cinema in the country.

ESZENA is a film festival held between the months of March and April. The 2026 edition will be its second edition with an official selection. ESZENA screens short films directed and scripted by young people, granting awards in technical categories such as cinematography, art [...]

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Zaragoza, Spain



 
 
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Published: 13 Dec 2024
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La Gran Pantalla - Festival Internacional de Cinema de les Persones Grans de Barcelona

Deadline: 28 Feb 2025

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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 [...]

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Barcelona, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 09 Dec 2024
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Tigers Dance Film Festival

Deadline: 16 Mar 2025

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Tigers Dance is a film festival dedicated to short dance for the camera films that are appropriate for all audiences. It will be adjudicated as part of a middle school class about Dance on Film, and we hope to include a wide variety of short dance films in our program.

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Urbana, United States



 
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Published: 06 Dec 2024
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Indifest - Festival De Cinema Indígena De Barcelona

Deadline: 16 Feb 2025

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IndiFest - Barcelona Indigenous Film Festival - aims to promote the identity and rights of indigenous peoples through their own audiovisual narratives.

The festival consists of in-person screenings and online programming, complemented by other advocacy activities such as discussions with Indigenous representatives and communicators in direct dialogue and exchange with the public.

IndiFest is an initiative promoted by alterNativa Intercanvi amb Pobles Indígenes (a member organization of CLACPI), an organization that aims to give Indigenous peoples their own voice and demand compliance with their internationally recognized rights.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Barcelona, Spain