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The Dallas International Film Festival

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Join Us for the Dallas International Film Festival 2025, April 25 - May 1, 2025!

The 19th annual Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF 2025) will present the finest narrative and documentary features, along with short films, from around the globe. DIFF offers filmmakers a unique opportunity to gain recognition on the international stage.

The 19th 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 2025 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 [...]



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Logo of FICARQ International Film & Architecture Festival
Published: 25 Sep 2018
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FICARQ International Film & Architecture Festival

Deadline: 26 Oct 2018

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FICARQ is the International Film & Architecture Festival of Spain to screen both documentary and fiction films where architecture plays the main role.

This year, following the success of previous editions (in Avilés and Oviedo, Asturias, Santander, Madrid and Barcelona).

The official competitive sections are ARTE EN EL SÉPTIMO ARTE (fiction films) and ARQUITECTURAS FILMADAS (documentaries).

In this new edition of FICARQ, in addition to being a bridge between the cinematographic and architectural arts, we want to be a bridge between generations and for this reason we dedicate a special mention to those proposals that come to the festival made by people who are younger that twenty-five y.o. and over fifty y.o.

With this, we intend to encourage the participation of citizens, [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



MADRID, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 20 Sep 2018
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Palencia International Film Festival

Deadline: 14 Dec 2018

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The Palencia International Films Festival is organised by the Association Friends of the film and the Popular University of Palencia.

This edition is number 34, and during all these years, our philosphy has been considering cinema a tool of development and social cohesion.

Our festival colaborates with the Spanish Cinema Academy, and its a qualifyer festival for the GOYA shortfilm Awards.

In addition, the short film awarded the first prize by the jury at the MCIP (the Milagros Alcalde Award) will go directly to the Short List finalist of the FUGAZ Awards, making up the short list of films that will then be evaluated for nomination by the commission that awards these prizes each year.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



Palencia, Spain



 
 
 

 
Logo of Cortisonici International Short Film Festival
Published: 19 Sep 2018
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Cortisonici International Short Film Festival

Deadline: 31 Dec 2018

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International short film festival - MX 15 min.

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Varese, Italy



 
 
 
 
Logo of MEDINA FILM FESTIVAL
Published: 18 Sep 2018
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MEDINA FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 18 Jan 2019

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Medina del Campo Film Week (SECIME) is one of the most consolidated events on the national film scene, standing out as a benchmark in the promotion and dissemination of short films, and being a key exhibitor festival for the Academy of Arts Awards. and the Cinematographic Sciences of Spain. Its main objectives are to support both new talents and established filmmakers, promote the creation and production of short films and contribute to the growth of the audiovisual industry.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Medina del Campo, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 14 Sep 2018
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CINHOMO - International LGBT Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Dec 2018

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The International Film and Sexual Diversity Festival CINHOMO accepts LGBTIQ-themed films of all nationalities, which will be eligible in the various sections of the festival: Fiction Feature Films, Fiction Short Films, Documentary Feature Films and Documentary Short Films.

The works must not have been exhibited in commercial theaters, broadcast on TV or be available to the public on the Internet or any other platform in Spanish territory prior to the celebration of the festival and must be copyrighted after 01/01/2023. Feature films must be unpublished in the Community of Castilla y León; in the case of short films it will not be exclusive but it will be positively valued. The organization reserves the right to include in the out-of-competition program films that do not meet [...]

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Valladolid, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 02 Sep 2018
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Short South

Deadline: 31 May 2019

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ORGANIZERS

Cultural Association Time & Memory organizes the thirteenth edition of the Short Film Festival called "SHORT TO SOUTH", to be held in Polla (SA)ITALY from the 21 - 22 June 2025 at the Auditorium "Holy Nicolicchio".

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Polla, Italy



 

 
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Published: 28 Aug 2018
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MY FIRST FESTIVAL

Deadline: 31 Oct 2018

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SUBMISSIONS 2025
MI PRIMER FESTIVAL, 10TH EDITION

The call is open until November 30!

The international film festival for children and youth MI PRIMER FESTIVAL (MPF) that sows the love for cinema. It is in our hands to find ways to encourage and promote that girls, boys, adolescents and young people understand what is happening in the world and show them ways to initiate change.

MPF invites you to participate in its 10th edition, we will celebrate our first ten years, which will take place during 2025 in different regions of Peru, taking as a starting point our first event in Lima that will be from February 16 to 22, 2025 in person, thanks to different venues and cultural centers.

MI PRIMER FESTIVAL aims to create a space for the exhibition of national and international [...]

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Lima, Peru



 
 
 
 
Logo of NIKON FILM FESTIVAL
Published: 21 Aug 2018
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NIKON FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 10 Jan 2019

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Short film festival

It's a free and open to all short film festival based in Paris (France). Concept is simple : submit 2min20 shortfilms about an imposed theme each year. For this 15th edition, it'll be "A human superpower". To participate, you must register on our website www.festivalnikon.fr/en until January 10, 2025

IMPORTANT: PLEASE NOTE THAT FILMS OVER 2MIN20 WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED INTO THE COMPETITION AND WILL BE IMMEDIATELY EXCLUDED WITHOUT VIEWING.

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Paris, France



 
 
 

 
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Published: 08 Aug 2018
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Lebu International Film Festival 25

Deadline: 10 Nov 2018

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It will be held in person with online activities .

In-person format, it will be held in the cities of Lebu, Capital of the Province of Arauco, and in the city of Concepción in the Biobío Region, Chile, from April 1 to 6, 2025. With national and international virtual sub-venues for the exhibition of competitions. Since 2018, CINELEBU is the only festival in Chile that qualifies short films for the Oscar® Awards in three categories: International Animation, Regional Fiction, and International Fiction. and since 2023, qualifier for the Goya Awards and Marca Chile.

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Lebu, Chile



 
 
 
 
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Published: 07 Aug 2018
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Santander International Independent Film Festival (2025) - SANFICI

Deadline: 28 Nov 2018

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SANFICI is a space to generate meetings at different levels, with an overcoming and innovative will. First of all, it is a space for the relationship between spectators, filmmakers and theorists around cinema and all border and heterodox manifestations. Secondly, it is a special and temporary meeting point.

SANFICI wants to become, year after year, the place of convergence for world independent cinema. But it also wants to be the space where the past and the future dialogue. The place where the most diverse film traditions are embraced with their riskiest proposals.

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Bucaramanga, Colombia