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FanCineQueer | International LGBTI Film Festival of Extremadura

Deadline: 30 Jul 2022

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FanCineQueer, the International LGBTI Film Festival of Extremadura, celebrates this year its 29th edition between the 6th and the 15th of November launching its traditional Short Films Call with the purpose of recognising, visibilising and fostering the production and dissemination of recent or unreleased LGBTI works.

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Badajoz, Spain

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Published: 12 Apr 2022

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20th Addis International Film Festival

Deadline: 01 May 2022

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The Addis International Film Festival (AIFF) is an annual film festival created by Initiative Africa in 2007 and held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The festival is the largest independent documentary cinema festival in Africa and it was established as a unique initiative seeking to use the power of documentary films to support innovative ways of creating awareness on social issues.

The festival is a celebratory and educational event showcasing a carefully curated selection of films from both seasoned and emerging filmmakers addressing a wide range of themes such as peace building, inequality, women empowerment, children's rights, and much more.

The 18th Edition of the Addis International Film Festival (AIFF). As Ethiopia's established social activist, Initiative Africa [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Published: 08 Apr 2022

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22° Inkafest Mountain Film Festival

Deadline: 29 Jul 2022

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Mountain & Culture is a cultural non-profit organization whose objectives is to approach the sports community and the people in town to offer films, exhibitions, and all kinds of activities focusing on the mountain sports, adventure, environment and culture of peoples.

The Festival also creates a platform for the exchange of ideas between filmmakers, athletes and the public, while supporting the most artistic and effective ways to communicate everything related to the world of the mountain. The aim of this festival is to highlight the importance of ecology, environment, preservation of the mountains and nature in the world today. The Festival also presents a spectacular region to practice adventure sports, extreme and mountaineering, through Films geography.

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Arequipa, Peru

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Published: 08 Apr 2022

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Festival De Cine Itinerante Por El Bierzo 38retinas 2026

Deadline: 31 May 2022

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«38Retinas» is an annual, traveling, thematic film festival that aims to bring comedy short films to the municipalities of the El Bierzo region that request them

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Ponferrada, Spain

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Published: 08 Apr 2022

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Muestra De Cine Mujeres En Escena

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The Malaga Festival, in collaboration with the Equal Opportunities Area of the Malaga City Council, pursues the objective of supporting the presence of women in film production, creating spaces that make visible the work of women in the audiovisual field, professional field where they are underrepresented, both in the direction, in the production or in the writing of scripts; favoring the film industry with the diverse views of women.

In order to fulfill this objective, the Equal Opportunities Area will hold its “XXII FILM SHOW WOMEN ON STAGE”, between the months of October and November 2026.

THE WOMEN ON STAGE FILM EXHIBITION was created in 2002 with the aim of debating, through the holding of cineforums, the existing gender inequalities in our society as well as in other [...]

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Málaga, Spain

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Published: 06 Apr 2022

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X International University Short Film Festival - CINESTESIA FEST

Deadline: 01 Sep 2022

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The International University Short Film Festival "CINESTESIA FEST" is an international cultural space founded in 2017 at the Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores, located in Bogotá and Cartagena, Colombia.

The main objective is to provide a platform for emerging filmmakers and students enrolled in universities worldwide to exhibit their projects, foster professional recognition, encourage reflection, and cultivate new audiences.

The Festival takes place annually in the second semester of the year in Bogotá and Cartagena, Colombia, awarding the "Cinestesia" statuette—a recognition of international university talent.

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BOGOTA, Colombia

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Published: 05 Apr 2022

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Festival Internacional de Cine de Ponferrada

Deadline: 31 May 2022

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The Ponferrada International Film Festival is an event specialized in the dissemination and promotion of short films from all over the world, regardless of their production format, distribution, exhibition, category, genre, or theme.

Short films, in addition to being a learning resource for new professionals in the film industry and a promotional tool for making the leap to feature films, can also be a highly creative and free form of expression, storytelling, and experimentation, independent of the market.

We are also committed to highlighting films that, regardless of their length, reflect the cultural, social, and linguistic diversity of any region of the world as part of the memory of peoples and the most unknown universal audiovisual heritag

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Published: 04 Apr 2022

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Contra El Silencio Todas Las Voces. XIV Encuentro Hispanoamericano De Cine Documental Independiente

Deadline: 24 Jun 2022

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Open from March 2 to May 1, 2026

Voces Contra el Silencio, Video Independiente A.C., the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, with the support of TV UNAM and the UNAM Film Archive, invite filmmakers to participate in the fourteenth edition of the Hispano-American Independent Documentary Film and Video Encounter: Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces, to be held from September 4 to 12, 2026, in Mexico City and in different states across the Mexican Republic, in a hybrid format.

The main objective of Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces is to serve as a window that brings together independent documentary cinema from Mexico, Latin America, and Spain, through free, accessible, and open spaces that embrace a diversity of perspectives, encourage collective action, and foster [...]

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Tlalpan, Mexico

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BIFED - Bozcaada International Festival Of Ecological Documentary

Deadline: 30 Apr 2022

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We organize this festival in order to create a new reason to produce and introduce films and any other work of art that concentrate on the world’s problems and riches, and to pioneer the creation of a free platform and reward these works. We live in an era where too much information, and input that cannot be considered as information flow at a disconcertingly rapid pace in every plausible channel. We organize this festival so that we could all seek what is more local and smaller, and more importantly the one that is true and genuine together.

The ecological problems are increasing and becoming more and more varied; however, we also witness hope-inspiring developments. We organize this festival in order to create a platform that nurtures this hope. We hope that through our [...]

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Bozcaada, Turkey

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Published: 02 Apr 2022

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Festival Ibérico De Cine De Badajoz

Deadline: 07 May 2022

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A leading short film festival in the Iberian Peninsula, showcasing the work of Spain and Portugal's most prominent filmmakers over the last quarter of a century. Preselection festival for the Goya Awards.

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20th Addis International Film Festival

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Arequipa, Peru

Festival De Cine Itinerante Por El Bierzo 38retinas 2026

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Ponferrada, Spain

Muestra De Cine Mujeres En Escena

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Málaga, Spain

X International University Short Film Festival - CINESTESIA FEST

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BOGOTA, Colombia

Festival Internacional de Cine de Ponferrada

Deadline: 31 May 2022

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Ponferrada, Spain

Contra El Silencio Todas Las Voces. XIV Encuentro Hispanoamericano De Cine Documental Independiente

Deadline: 24 Jun 2022

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Tlalpan, Mexico

BIFED - Bozcaada International Festival Of Ecological Documentary

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Bozcaada, Turkey

Festival Ibérico De Cine De Badajoz

Deadline: 07 May 2022

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Badajoz, Spain

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