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SANTO DOMINGO GLOBAL FILM FESTIVAL (FCGSD)

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Since its first edition, the Santo Domingo Global Film Festival (FCGSD) has taken firm steps to grow both nationally and internationally while remaining true to its mission. The festival aims to offer Dominicans, as well as all visitors to the country during the event, the opportunity to access the unique perspective that cinema provides on "global issues" through "personal stories." In doing so, it seeks to foster learning and adaptation in a world driven by knowledge and globalization.

The festival’s mission remains to bring the best international narrative and documentary films to a diverse audience, advancing the understanding of the global challenges we face. Beyond this, it has contributed—whether significantly or modestly—to enhancing cinematic culture in the Dominican [...]



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Published: 02 Jul 2025
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FIMMER

Deadline: 15 Sep 2025

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International Festival

Short film festival

With the aim to encourage the creation of meeting spaces for the world of medium-length films, as well as fostering interest in cinematographic creation, the Manzanares El Real City Council's Department of Culture organizes the fourth edition of the International Festival of Medium-Length Films of Manzanares El Real called FIMMER.

All those films with a duration between 30 and 60 minutes produced after January 1, 2024 may be submitted to the contest. And each author or producer may submit up to a maximum of two works.

Entries can be submitted online, through the festhome.com platform or by email to fimmerfestival@gmail.com, where the documentation required in the bases must be included, and where the technical characteristics of the files to send.

The deadline for receiving [...]

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Manzanares el Real, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 02 Jul 2025
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Cikoza Film Festival

Deadline: 30 Sep 2025

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Feature film festival

The Cikoza Film Festival is a platform that celebrates and honors outstanding achievements in the realm of filmmaking. Our event is dedicated to fostering connections between industry professionals, emerging talents and students who share a passion for the art of storytelling through film.

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Pietermaritzburg , South Africa



 
 

 
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Published: 28 Jun 2025
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Cine Callejero: Narrativas del Borde Sur

Deadline: 10 Jul 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

A non-competitive showcase of community cinema and independent audiovisual work

Street Cinema is a traveling outdoor film screening series held in community-based, alternative, and publicly accessible spaces. The initiative aims to bring cinema and audiovisual creation to territories that have been historically excluded from traditional cultural circuits.

In its first edition, the showcase focused on the theme “Stories from the Southern Edge,” featuring local narratives, neighborhood memories, and voices from the periphery. The second edition explores narratives around transportation, reflecting on movement, transit, and the daily experience of living in the south.

The call is open to:

Community filmmakers

Audiovisual collectives

Individuals who create videos [...]

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Bogotá, Colombia



 
 
 
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Published: 27 Jun 2025
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FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CORTOMETRAJES CINESAN

Deadline: 08 Sep 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

It is a Festival with two sections to contest. Official Section and Section of Asturian Short Films. Three prizes will be awarded (best short official section, best performance and best short Asturian). All the information is in the bases. Any author of any nationality can participate.

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Sotrondio, Spain



 

 
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Published: 19 Jun 2025
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Concurso De Cortos Giza Eskubideak Herrira (Acercando Los Derechos Humanos Al Pueblo)

Deadline: 07 Sep 2025

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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 2025
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International Film Festival Zoom - Zbliżenia

Deadline: 21 Sep 2025

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International Festival

Short film festival

IFF ZOOM - ZBLIZENIA (Jelenia Góra) is one of the largest and most important independent cinema festivals in Poland. Its aim is to present the author's cinema, ambitious, high artistic value, moving independent and original subject matter, as well as promotion of independent film art.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, we would like to inform you that the Russian films which will be submitted to the 29. IFF ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA 2026 will not be eligible for competitions.

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Jelenia Gora, Poland



 
 
 

 
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Published: 17 Jun 2025
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Mostra de Curtas Vila de Noia

Deadline: 15 Aug 2025

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GOYA Qualifiers

International Festival

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XXVI MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CURTAMETRAXES VILA DE NOIA

The XXVI Mostra Internacional de Curtametraxes Vila de Noia extends the submission deadline and publishes the official regulations for this year’s edition.
The Mostra Internacional de Curtametraxes Vila de Noia announces the extension of the short film submission deadline until 2:00 p.m. on September 15, 2025.
This decision was made after considering the feedback received from several distributors, directors, and film industry professionals regarding the regulations published on June 15. Those rules introduced substantial changes compared to previous editions, and given that they were implemented late in the year, they risked limiting the participation of many filmmakers who usually adapt their works to the traditional [...]

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Noia, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 14 Jun 2025
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Festival La Mirada Tabú

Deadline: 15 Oct 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

The LA MIRADA TABÚ film festival wants to motivate artists and creators to show their view of the “taboo” concept, which is broad and diverse, encompassing from the dreams, the unconscious, the mental worlds and the ghosts that populate them , the mystery, the magic, even the untold reality, the unsaid, "the clothes hanging", in the workplace, emotional, family, vital ... from a vision as polyhedral as human thought is: casual, humorous, dramatic, dreamlike ... always from respect for all ways of thinking and from creativity.

LA MIRADA TABÚ launches an invitation to bring to light the personal and non-transferable world of each creator, which, as we have been able to verify throughout the history of art and cinema, through great names in world cinematography, connects with [...]

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Zaragoza, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 11 Jun 2025
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Qshorts Africa

Deadline: 25 Sep 2026

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International Festival

Short film festival

Qshorts is A FREE TO VIEW channel for the best short films by filmmakers of African descent & a community for filmmakers and film lovers.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SUBMITTED Films will be available for the public to watch on our Free to View YouTube channel.

Our YouTube channel is NON- MONITIZED- it is purely for the love of short films and sharing them.

The TOP THREE MOST VIEWED FILMS from each month will be screened at our annual QFest Creative Festival Community Film screenings.

We are a selection partner for IREP https://www.irepdocufilm.com/ Selected documentries will be screen at IREP Documentry Festival


Our focus is on promoting short films, building an empowered community, and fostering growth. Partner with us to showcase your work and be seen by a global audience

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Lagos, Nigeria



 
 
 
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Published: 11 Jun 2025
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TERCER TIEMPO - Festival Mundial De Cine Futbolero

Deadline: 31 Dec 2025

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International Festival

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The Futbolero World Film Festival seeks to promote football as a space for intercultural dialogue and heritage of humanity, through the meeting of different actors in this social phenomenon. It proposes as axes of work: Audiovisual Media, Conversations, Sports Practice, Literature and Diploma Training.

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Bogotá, Colombia