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SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia

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The SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is a specialized, competitive fantastic genre Festival in accordance with the regulations established by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations). The Festival has also been declared a “Qualified Festival” by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® in the United States. This means that those shorts winning the awards for “Best Short Film” in the Official Fantàstic Selection and “Best Short Film” in the Anima’t category will automatically be taken into consideration by the Hollywood Academy Awards® selection committee.



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Published: 20 Jun 2025
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Women and Diversities Film Festival FESTMYD

Deadline: 31 Aug 2025

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The Women's and Diversity Film Festival (FESTMYD), funded by the Audiovisual Promotion Fund through the Festival Programming modality with regional showcases in the 2025 call of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage, will celebrate its fifth edition this year.

The main goal of the festival is to give visibility to and promote national and international films with a gender perspective, directed by Latin American women filmmakers (cis/trans), trans men or transmasculine individuals, non-binary people, fluid gender, or intersex individuals.

This year, FESTMYD will take place in person in the regions of Coquimbo and Valparaíso, connecting movie theaters, cultural centers, educational institutions, social organizations, and film and audiovisual schools.

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Territorio Nacional, Chile



 
 
 
 
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Published: 19 Jun 2025
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Flying Pyrenees

Deadline: 06 Aug 2025

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Short Film Festival
Nature & Imagination Theme

This is a mini-film festival project organized around a call for short films on the themes of nature and fantasy:

strange, creative, offbeat, poetic, supernatural, experimental, visual... depending on the perspective of the filmmakers who submit their works.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



Arnaud-Guilhem, France



 
 

 
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Published: 19 Jun 2025
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Bringing Human Rights to the people, short film contest

Deadline: 07 Sep 2025

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The GEH Short Film Competition is a short film competition on human rights held in different localities of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country).

This competition is part of the global project human rights Giza Eskubideak Herrira (Bringing human rights to the people.). The GEH is a human rights awareness project created by the dar-dar Productions cooperative in 2015. The first editions were based in Ordizia. In 2023, the festival has developed and extended to several towns in Gipuzkoa (Euskal Herria).

The main objective of this competition is to raise awareness and educate on human rights. Because this short film contest is a window that we open to the world, and from that window we can see the different realities that people live in different parts of the planet. In view of these [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



Legorreta, Spain



 
Logo of La Pecca LGTBI Short Film Contest
Published: 19 Jun 2025
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La Pecca LGTBI Short Film Contest

Deadline: 20 Aug 2025

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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 [...]

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Sevilla, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 17 Jun 2025
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International Film Festival Zoom - Zbliżenia

Deadline: 21 Sep 2025

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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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Jelenia Gora, Poland



 
 
 
 
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Published: 17 Jun 2025
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Mostra de Curtas Vila de Noia

Deadline: 15 Aug 2025

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The City Council of Noia convenes the "24th Short Film Showcase Vila de Noia 2023", to be held in the last quarter of this year.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Noia, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 14 Jun 2025
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Festival La Mirada Tabú

Deadline: 15 Oct 2025

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The LA MIRADA TABÚ film festival wants to motivate artists and creators to show their view of the “taboo” concept, which is broad and diverse, encompassing from the dreams, the unconscious, the mental worlds and the ghosts that populate them , the mystery, the magic, even the untold reality, the unsaid, "the clothes hanging", in the workplace, emotional, family, vital ... from a vision as polyhedral as human thought is: casual, humorous, dramatic, dreamlike ... always from respect for all ways of thinking and from creativity.

LA MIRADA TABÚ launches an invitation to bring to light the personal and non-transferable world of each creator, which, as we have been able to verify throughout the history of art and cinema, through great names in world cinematography, connects with [...]

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Zaragoza, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 14 Jun 2025
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Festival Handifim cinema et Handicap

Deadline: 31 Aug 2025

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The Rabat Handifilm Festival is an annual artistic and sociocultural event.

In addition to promoting the seventh art through the promotion of film productions dealing with the theme of disability, it aims to develop a constructive vision on the use of the image of people with disabilities in cinematographic and artistic works in general, and to foster a culture that embraces diversity.

By building ties of communication, networking, mutual assistance, and partnership with similar events nationally and internationally, Handifilm strives to raise awareness of Morocco, its unique characteristics, and its potential in terms of cinema and civilization in general.

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Rabat, Morocco



 
 

 
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Published: 14 Jun 2025
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AVE NEGRA Film Fest

Deadline: 13 Jul 2025

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Ave Negra Film Fest represents a link between the viewer and the most avant-garde fantasy film makers.
Ave Negra Film Fest Projects and awards the Best of Ibero-American Fantastic Cinema.

Ave Negra Film Fest proudly based in Nuevo León Mexico whose Volume.3 will take place from October 31 to November 2, 2025 in person in movie theaters and other venues and virtually by streaming through our official YouTube channel.

having as its framework the State of Nuevo León Mexico.

This edition focuses on bringing together a program focused on screening the best of independent cinema on the Fantastic genre in Mexico + Latin America.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Monterrey , Mexico



 
 
 
 
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Published: 13 Jun 2025
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Mostra Competitiva De Cinema Negro Adelia Sampaio

Deadline: 31 Jul 2025

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The purpose of this CALL FOR PROPOSALS is to select and disseminate audiovisual productions made by Black Women to participate in the VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio, to be held from November 3rd to 8th, 2025. This edition will be in a hybrid format, with the films screened online and in a live event. Its goal is to promote the interchange among black female directors of world cinema. The VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio will select short, medium, and feature films and telefilms that have been made by black female directors (cis and trans), starting in January 2023 in digital format. In the case of productions whose audio has not been captured in Portuguese, the film must be subtitled in Portuguese.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Brasília, Brazil