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Brussels Short Film Festival

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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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Logo of Bringing Human Rights to the people,  short film contest
Published: 21 Jun 2017
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Bringing Human Rights to the people, short film contest

Deadline: 10 Sep 2017

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International Festival

Short film festival

The GEH Short Film Competition is a short film competition on human rights held in different localities of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country).

This competition is part of the global project human rights Giza Eskubideak Herrira (Bringing human rights to the people.). The GEH is a human rights awareness project created by the dar-dar Productions cooperative in 2015. The first editions were based in Ordizia. In 2023, the festival has developed and extended to several towns in Gipuzkoa (Euskal Herria).

The main objective of this competition is to raise awareness and educate on human rights. Because this short film contest is a window that we open to the world, and from that window we can see the different realities that people live in different parts of the planet. In view of these [...]

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Legorreta, Spain



 
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Published: 17 Jun 2017
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Bugarte Film and Visual Arts Festival

Deadline: 31 Jul 2017

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International Festival

Short film festival

Born in 2009 in order to highlight and encourage artistic expression, film and cultural identity of the region. Promoting the permanence of cultures and strengthening the cultural policies of the city as a mechanism for citizen and community participation; thus supporting the development, exhibition and dissemination of film and the visual arts in the city of Guadalajara de Buga and Valle del Cauca; proposing dialogue between the various expressions of art today and their participation mechanisms mainly in the youth population. This festival seeks to create spaces for discussion, artistic and audiovisual creation in a participatory manner.

The festival became the first event of its kind in this area, for display, training, capacity building and collective on the subject of [...]

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Guadalajara de Buga, Colombia



 
 
 

 
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Published: 09 Jun 2017
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EDITA Social Film Festival

Deadline: 17 Oct 2017

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International Festival

Short film festival

EDITA is a short film festival focused on social transformation. Its goal is to increase critical capability, involve society in the promotion of human rights through film making, besides making the public feel the calling of social change.

ASAD aspires to encourage the debate and the critical reflection about these topics through the participants’; works and proposals. We want to know new social imaginaries, look from other perspectives and approximate to non-hegemonic proposals which support human rights, gender equality, and sustainable human development.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Granada, Spain



 
 
 
 
Logo of Frontera Sur, International Non-Fiction Film Festival
Published: 07 Jun 2017
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Frontera Sur, International Non-Fiction Film Festival

Deadline: 06 Aug 2017

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International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

FRONTERA SUR, International Non-Fiction Film Festival, is a non-competitive event that exhibits a set of cinematographic, Chilean, Latin American and worldwide works related to the concept of non-fiction cinema.

The seventh edition of the FRONTERA SUR Festival will take place from May 26 to 30, 2026, in the Concepción city, Biobío Region, southern Chile.

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Concepción, Chile



 
 
 

 
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Published: 07 Jun 2017
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IFI Horrorthon

Deadline: 03 Sep 2017

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International Festival

Short film festival

Halloween Weekend of Horror at the Irish Film Institute.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Dublin, Ireland



 
 
 
Logo of PLAY - Lisbon`s International Kids Film Festival
Published: 07 Jun 2017
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PLAY - Festival Internacional de Cinema Infantil e Juvenil de Lisboa

Deadline: 30 Sep 2017

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International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

PLAY is the first Portuguese film festival, exclusively dedicated to children and teenagers, determined to promote the access to culture for a younger audience through Cinema and screening films for audiences aged between 1 and 16 years old.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Lisboa, Portugal



 
 
 

 
Logo of Algeciras Fantastika
Published: 06 Jun 2017
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Algeciras Fantastika

Deadline: 30 Sep 2017

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Feature film festival

Algeciras Fantástika is a multidisciplinary cultural event specialized in matters of fantastic nature, suspense, terror and science fiction, organized by Algeciras City Council and the University of Cadiz.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Algeciras, Spain



 
 
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Published: 27 May 2017
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Minidoc

Deadline: 10 Oct 2017

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International Festival

Short film festival

The theme must focus, from the values ​​of solidarity, tolerance, culture of peace, nature and commitment to gender equality, on ways of life, traditions, trades, crafts, sustainable economy, respect for the environment and living beings, that is, all aspects of the diversity of human culture, with a specific section dealing with issues of the peoples of Siberia and Central Asia.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Polán, Spain



 

 
Logo of Viña del Mar International Film Festival
Published: 29 Apr 2017
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Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña del Mar

Deadline: 12 Jun 2017

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Feature film festival

Any Ibero-American work may participate in the Fiction Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film, and Short Film categories, and any national work may participate in the "National Feature Film Competition" and "Miradas al Territorio" categories. All works must be considered as NOT having participated in the FICVIÑA Competition prior to the 2023 and 2024 versions.

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Valparaíso , Chile



 
 
 
 
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Published: 28 Apr 2017
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Festival Atmosphères - Concours de courts métrages

Deadline: 01 Oct 2017

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Contest is open to everyone !

Topic of the contest is "The Dream life".

You can submit your any type of film up to 15 minutes max.

Festival Atmospheres uses all kinds of art forms in order to arouse afterthought and commitment to an accessible and constructive sustainable development.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Courbevoie, France