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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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Published: 12 Nov 2016
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Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival

Deadline: 08 Jan 2017

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International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

The 54th edition of the Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, one of the biggest film festivals for young filmmakers in Europe, will take place from 23rd April to 27th of April 2025 in Potsdam. It offers up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world a platform to present their works to a broad audience and come into contact with the industry. Founded in the 1970s as a showcase for young filmmakers in the GDR, Sehsüchte has established itself over the decades as an internationally important festival and has become an integral part of the Berlin and Brandenburg cultural landscape.

Sehsüchte sees itself as a place of encounter and creativity, as an event of cultural diversity and a celebration of cinema, today as well as tomorrow. The festival is planned, organized [...]

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Potsdam, Germany



 
 
 
 
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Published: 19 Oct 2016
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Short South

Deadline: 31 May 2017

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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: 15 Oct 2016
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Palencia International Film Festival

Deadline: 16 Dec 2016

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GOYA Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

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.

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Palencia, Spain



 
 
 
 
Logo of Très Court International Film Festival
Published: 04 Oct 2016
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Très Court International Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Feb 2017

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International Festival

Short film festival

You know it better than anyone: making a film of less than 4 minutes requires a lot of talent and creativity. That's why the Très Court has been honoring them for more than twenty years with its International Festival, which takes place simultaneously in June in about fifty places on the five continents. The screenings take place exclusively on the big screen, in theatres or outdoors, for an audience as faithful as it is fervent.

The Très Courts are divided into six selections, two of which are in Competition: International Competition, Women's Words Competition, French Selection, Family Selection, Documentary Selection, and the Laugh(before the end of the world) Selection.

Whether you are a novice or a professional, classic or avant-garde, as long as your film does not [...]

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Tours, France



 
 
 

 
Logo of NIKON FILM FESTIVAL
Published: 01 Oct 2016
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NIKON FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 11 Jan 2017

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International Festival

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



 
 
 
 
Logo of ANDALESGAI: Andalusian gay, lesbian, bisexual and transexual Film Festival
Published: 22 Sep 2016
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ANDALESGAI: Andalusian gay, lesbian, bisexual and transexual Film Festival

Deadline: 31 Oct 2016

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Short film festival

Feature film festival

Festival accepts movies of interest for gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersexual and transexual people. To participate in the competitive section (prizes), these films should have not been programmed on TV, screened in comercial venues or another spanish festival excluding the organized by Fundacion Triangulo. In any case, copyleft or copyright should be later than 2022.

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Sevilla, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 20 Sep 2016
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Cortisonici International Short Film Festival

Deadline: 08 Jan 2017

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International short film festival - MX 15 min.

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Varese, Italy



 
 
 
 
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Published: 16 Sep 2016
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Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest

Deadline: 31 Mar 2017

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The Film Tracks Film Fest wants to be a meeting point between fans of filmic language, propose quality works.

A special prize will go to a short film about the MEDITERRANEAN.

We love Cinema and how we want to spread it.

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Nettuno, Italy



 

 
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Published: 14 Sep 2016
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International Horror Film Festival Aurora

Deadline: 24 Dec 2016

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International horror film festival based in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico. All festival activities are nonprofit.

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Guanajuato, Mexico



 
 
 
 
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Published: 31 Aug 2016
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Lebu International Film Festival 25

Deadline: 15 Nov 2016

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OSCAR Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

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