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Brussels Short Film Festival

Brussels Short Film Festival is an exhibition intended for cinema lovers, both audience and professionals. The purpose is to promote and circulate short films and to generate contacts between audience, young directors and professionals.

Since 2018, the winner of the Great Prize of the International competition will be eligible for consideration in the Animated Short Film/ Live Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.

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Published: 01 Oct 2025

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Screamiverse Expo

Deadline: 01 Jan 2026

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Screamiverse Expo is a horror, sci-fi, and art convention taking place in Roanoke, VA on Saturday April 26th and Sunday April 27th. We have over 100 vendors, special guests, tattoos and piercing, and panels. As part of our programming, we have created a screening room to include films from creators wanting to showcase and share their work to our dedicated audience!

If you want to attend the event and promote your project, we still have vendor space available. Go to https://www.screamiverse.com/vendors for details and pricing. You do not have to be present to have your project showcased.

Fiction Fantastic Terror Other

Roanoke, United States

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Published: 01 Oct 2025

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Gouel Hir Filmoù Berr

Deadline: 15 Nov 2025

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Festival of short films in Brittany or Celtic languages.

Fiction Animation Fantastic Terror Other

Lannion , France

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Published: 01 Oct 2025

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Международный фестиваль фильмов для детей и юношества `Герой´

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

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International Film Festival “Hero” was initially designed by its organizers as a forum to think over and discuss the topic of spiritual and moral compass, which is one of the critical ones in bringing up the modern generation. All events of the Festival raise the issues of patriotism, traditional values, and the films are selected on the basis of diversity of genres and cultures to represent a hero in all the spheres and genres, including feature, animation, documentary films, as well as a hero in the social sphere.

The competition and non-competition program of for IV International Film Festival for Children and Youth "Hero" will comprise professional works by cinematographers, including full-length and short feature and animation films and documentaries.

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Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other

Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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Published: 24 Sep 2025

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Breaking Walls Dance Films

Deadline: 15 Nov 2025

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Open call for filmmakers!

Be part of the 5th edition of Breaking Walls Dance Films and submit your film now.

Breaking Walls Dance Films (BWDF) is the first Dance Film Festival in Egypt and the Region.

BWDF is an international event showcasing the best in dance film from around the world, which will take place in Cairo, in January 2026. We will host a special program of dance films alongside the festival's various programs of workshops and live performances.

Knowing that the application will be no later than November 15, 2025.

ON THE SIDELINES OF THE FESTIVAL:

- We welcome documentaries and feature films to be shown on the sidelines of the festival, provided that these films are dance-related.

- If the film includes non-English narration, English subtitles are required. [...]

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental

Cairo, Egypt

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Published: 23 Sep 2025

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Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes Versión Española – La 2 / SGAE

Deadline: 01 Jan 2026

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El programa “Versión Española” (TVE) y la Fundación SGAE (SGAE), convocan el XXIII Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes “Versión Española / SGAE”, orientado a la difusión y fomento de los nuevos autores en el sector de la creación audiovisual

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental

Madrid, Spain

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Published: 22 Sep 2025

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Aswan International Women Film Festival مهرجان أسوان الدولي لأفلام المرأة

Deadline: 20 Dec 2025

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Aswan International Women Film Festival (est. 2017) is the first annual Egyptian film festival that focuses on cinematic works representing women’s issues, celebrating their success stories and supporting female filmmakers in Egypt and the MENA.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental

ASWAN, Egypt

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Published: 20 Sep 2025

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Cortisonici International Short Film Festival

Deadline: 31 Dec 2025

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International short film festival - MX 15 min.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental

Varese, Italy

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Published: 17 Sep 2025

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Festival du film fantastique de Bourg-en-Bresse

Deadline: 04 Jan 2026

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13th edition of the fantastic film festival of Bourg-en-Bresse.

SHort film competitions (french languages, international, middle school) and also screening of features films.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental

Bourg-en-Bresse, France

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Published: 17 Sep 2025

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Cinhomo - Muestra Internacional de Cine y Diversidad Sexual de Castilla y León

Deadline: 15 Dec 2025

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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 [...]

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental

Valladolid, Spain

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Published: 16 Sep 2025

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NIKON FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 15 Jan 2026

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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 15, 2026

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

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental Music Video

Paris, France

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Screamiverse Expo

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Roanoke, United States

Gouel Hir Filmoù Berr

Deadline: 15 Nov 2025

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Lannion , France

Международный фестиваль фильмов для детей и юношества `Герой´

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

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Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Breaking Walls Dance Films

Deadline: 15 Nov 2025

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Cairo, Egypt

Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes Versión Española – La 2 / SGAE

Deadline: 01 Jan 2026

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Madrid, Spain

Aswan International Women Film Festival مهرجان أسوان الدولي لأفلام المرأة

Deadline: 20 Dec 2025

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ASWAN, Egypt

Cortisonici International Short Film Festival

Deadline: 31 Dec 2025

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Varese, Italy

Festival du film fantastique de Bourg-en-Bresse

Deadline: 04 Jan 2026

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Bourg-en-Bresse, France

Cinhomo - Muestra Internacional de Cine y Diversidad Sexual de Castilla y León

Deadline: 15 Dec 2025

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Valladolid, Spain

NIKON FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 15 Jan 2026

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Paris, France

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