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LA Shorts International Film Festival

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LA Shorts International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world.

The festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences OSCAR®, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) presenters of the Canadian Screen Awards and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain (Goya Awards).

We are proud to have 66 filmmakers from LA Shorts earned an Academy Award® nomination.

Now in its 28th year, LA Shorts is the longest-running short film festival in Los Angeles. The festival screens over 350 films and attracts over 10,000 attendees each year including Hollywood industry professionals and emerging independent filmmakers.

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Published: 26 Jan 2025
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Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental de Garopaba

Deadline: 05 Apr 2025

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The 4nd Garopaba International Environmental Film Festival aims to promote socio-environmental cinema in one of the most beautiful regions of Brazil.

The Festival is based on the diversity of themes, film formats, team, in the search to embrace the diversity of socio-environmental cinema produced in Brazil and in the world. The comprehensive curatorship will denote an equally comprehensive program, with specialists from the most diverse areas of knowledge to promote exchanges during the event and that translate into interventions in reality.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



Garopaba, Brazil



 
 
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Published: 26 Jan 2025
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Rani Durgavati International Film Festival

Deadline: 25 May 2025

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The Rani Durgavati International Film Festival is designed to celebrate Cinema.

RDIFF is committed to Showcase films from amazing filmmakers across the globe. The festival welcomes films from around the world.

RDIFF is a Jabalpur, India based international film festival with screenings and Q&A and a twice-yearly awards event. One event is totally dedicated to Short Films and other event is for Full Length Films.

Our First Edition SUCCESSFULLY launched on 5th October 2023 for Short Films.
in June 2024 our Full Length Films Edition was a success.
The 3rd Edition for short films category was completed on 5 Oct 2024. Honorable MLA Shri Abhilash Pandey distributed the Awards.

Entries for edition 04 are open from 25/01/2025.
There will be two events every year.

Our main focus [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



Jabalpur, India



 
 

 
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Published: 25 Jan 2025
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7a Mostra Internacional d’Audiovisuals d’Artesania

Deadline: 18 May 2025

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7TH INTERNATIONAL CRAFT AUDIOVISUAL EXHIBITION

The International Craft Audiovisual Exhibition, promoted by the Catalan Government through the Consortium of Commerce, Crafts and Fashion (CCAM), is a meeting point for two fields:
crafting and audiovisual. It was created to generate synergies and promote the creation of quality audiovisuals based on artisanal creative processes and focusing on artisans and their crafts.

The exhibition is the only one of its kind to be held in Catalonia and throughout Spain. This year it reaches its seventh edition to show the diversity and creative richness of the crafting world, through unique and contemporary stories from artisanal crafts around the world.

In past editions we have seen projects showing the commitment to sustainability and [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



Barcelona, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 24 Jan 2025
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LimaDocs

Deadline: 31 Mar 2025

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The Lima Docs Documentary Film Festival will take place from May 22nd to 25th, 2025. In its first edition, the festival invites filmmakers from all over the country to submit their documentary short films.

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Lima, Peru



 

 
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Published: 22 Jan 2025
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CERTAMEN MIRADAS QUE PERDURAN

Deadline: 04 Apr 2025

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Welcome to the 1st International Photography and Short Film Contest MIRADAS QUE PERDURAN organized by BAYER, dedicated to AMD (age-related macular degeneration) and DME (diabetic macular edema). The contest is aimed at photography and film enthusiasts, as well as health professionals. We want you to be creative, to interpret what it means to you, in a symbolic way, to suffer from a disease that limits your vision when the reality around you is blurred and distorted. Explore your creativity. Express yourself with freedom and emotion. Put yourself in the shoes of a patient, a family member, a caregiver, a nurse, a doctor or a friend of a person with vision problems ... and through your eyes, surprise us. Find out what it means to suffer from AMD or DME, and send us your work, we [...]

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Barcelona, Spain



 
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Published: 21 Jan 2025
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vvfilmf - Festival Internazionale di Cinema per Ragazzi

Deadline: 01 Jul 2025

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The Association 400 Colpi is a non-profit organization created with the aim of promoting films that, thanks to their language, style, story, and themes, are intended for both young and adult audiences.

vvfilmf is synonymous with film quality and represents a window into the youth world. It is not just a film festival. It's an experience. It's a significant cultural moment for young people that unites and cultivates.

Over the years, vvfilmf has created events that discover spaces for young people, workshops for the study of new forms of visual expression. #vvfilmf presents itself as an initiative aimed at the entire country and internationally, with the intention of meeting the expectations of both a young population and adult viewers.

The goal is to bring the general [...]

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Vittorio Veneto, Italy



 
 
 

 
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Published: 21 Jan 2025
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Messina Opera Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Sep 2025

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The Messina Film Festival – Cinema&Opera is a meeting and discussion place for delving into the relationship between cinema and opera through various artistic perspectives and trends. The Messina Film Festival is the only event in the Italian cinematic landscape that addresses this interaction and offers the public a diverse cultural program consisting of screenings, concerts, presentations, and exhibitions. The entire program is exclusively dedicated to the relationship between the Seventh Art and one of the greatest Italian cultural traditions, Melodrama. There are non-competitive sections and a section dedicated to short films, which is competitive in nature. The competition is thematic, and only works with a maximum duration of 15 minutes (including titles) are admitted, [...]

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Messina, Italy



 
 
 
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Published: 21 Jan 2025
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3º Cine Ro - Rondônia Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

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The 3rd CINE RO – Rondônia Film Festival, to be held in August 2025, is a cinematic event that celebrates the diversity and richness of national and international cinema. This festival provides a platform for filmmakers from across Brazil and around the world to showcase their work, with a special focus on productions that reflect the various facets of society.

With a hybrid format, the festival will be held both in-person and virtually, offering broad access to a diverse audience through its official website and social media channels. This format enables the festival to reach viewers beyond the geographic borders of Rondônia, fostering a more inclusive and accessible cinematic experience.

CINE RO welcomes a wide range of works, including fiction shorts, documentaries, [...]

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Porto Velho, Brazil



 
 

 
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Published: 20 Jan 2025
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Migración en Tránsito

Deadline: 30 Jun 2025

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Migration in Transit is a global festival that harnesses the power of cinema to delve into the complexities of migration, fostering empathy, inclusion, and intercultural dialogue. This event addresses multiple dimensions of human mobility, including:

Internal and International Migration: Movements of people within a country or across international borders in search of better opportunities or living conditions.
Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Individuals fleeing persecution, conflict, or human rights violations who seek protection in other countries.
Internally Displaced Persons: Those forced to leave their homes due to conflict, natural disasters, or violence but remain within their country’s borders.
Forced Migration: Displacements driven by war, persecution, economic crises, or [...]

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Lima, Peru



 
 
 
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Published: 17 Jan 2025
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We Cam Fest

Deadline: 10 Jun 2025

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WE CAM FEST is the first inclusive film festival in Colombia. It brings together the cinematographic content related to disability in the world. An innovative proposal that, in addition to showing other perspectives of life through cinema, seeks to be a platform for the creation of content made by and with people with disabilities, in order to recognize their contribution and talent for the environment and society.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Bogotá, Colombia