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Bonito South American Film Festival

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Bonito CineSur – South American Film Festival – 2026

The heart of South American cinema beats in Bonito

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

Competitive screenings of new South American feature films and short films produced between 2025 and 2026;

Parallel exhibition of South American children’s animation films;

Competitive screening of environmental-themed films;

Competitive screening of films from Mato Grosso do Sul, produced between 2025 and 2026;

Awards, debates, and roundtable discussions aimed at international cooperation;

Workshops for professionals, film and audiovisual academics, and local residents;

Exchange with leading South American film festival directors.

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Bonito [...]








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Published: 05 Nov 2025
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Short films



Fescila (festival De Cine De La Almunia) CORTOMETRAJES ESCOLARES

Deadline: 25 Feb 2026

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GOYA Qualifiers

Short film festival

The sample of school short films of the La Almunia Film Festival is a national short film competition that hosts works made in Early Childhood, Primary and Special Education Centers, Secondary and High School Educational Centers.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental  Music Video



La Almunia, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 31 Oct 2025
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ShorTS International Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Feb 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED

International Festival

Short film festival

ShorTS International Film Festival (ShorTS IFF) is organised by the Maremetraggio Association and financed by public entities and private sponsors.

Since 2000, ShorTS IFF has been a landmark for short films and up and coming cinematographers at international level. In every edition, ShorTS IFF aims to make the short film genre known to a broad and heterogeneous audience, with particular attention to the young with specific sections for children and teenagers aged 6 to 15.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental  Music Video



Trieste, Italy



 
 
 

 
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Published: 30 Oct 2025
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Biografilm Festival

Deadline: 18 Mar 2026

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Feature film festival

Biografilm is known internationally as the cinematic event entirely dedicated to life stories and to quality cinema. Biografilm is organised by the Fanatic About Festivals association, under the Artistic Direction of Chiara Liberti and Massimo Benvegnù.

Biografilm promotes growth, development, knowledge, dialogue and inclusivity through the use of the cinematic language in all its forms, like art, entertainment and industry. By telling real lives and stories, it aims to create a free, democratic space with no distinction.

For the upcoming 22nd edition of Biografilm we are pleased to officially launch the call for both national and international films to participate in the Festival, in Bologna, 05-15 June 2026.

For more detailed information regarding the event, programmes [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental  Music Video



Bologna, Italy



 
 
 
 
Logo of The Dallas International Film Festival
Published: 27 Oct 2025
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The Dallas International Film Festival

Deadline: 17 Feb 2026

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International Festival

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Join Us for the Dallas International Film Festival 2026, April 23-April 30, 2026!

DIFF 2026, the 20th annual Dallas International Film Festival, will screen the best narrative and documentary features and short films from across the globe.

The 20th annual Dallas International Film Festival doesn’t just screen films. The interaction between story tellers, audiences and the Texas community is what we strive to develop both during the festival and throughout the year.

DIFF 2026 is a global adventure that features premiere screenings, nightly red carpets, eye-opening documentaries, intriguing short films, filmmaker panels, award presentations, daily filmmaker happy hours, and an enhanced filmmaker hospitality program that includes city tours and a Festival Lounge where [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental  Music Video



Dallas, United States



 
 

 
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Published: 25 Oct 2025
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Fidba, Festival Internacional De Cine Documental de Buenos Aires

Deadline: 25 Jul 2026

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In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.

It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina



 
 
 
 
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Published: 11 Oct 2025
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Saraqusta Film Festival

Deadline: 20 Feb 2026

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Saraqusta Film Festival is a film and tv series festival about the historical genre in its broadest sense. It was created with the aim of exhibiting and promoting feature films, documentaries and series using the past and the historical context as a common thread.

Submissions are open to Spanish and International works, real-image or animated that deal with the historical genre or whose theme, context or set design are historical or refer to a period of the past.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Zaragoza, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 08 Oct 2025
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Festival de Cine Hispanófono de Atenas

Deadline: 28 Feb 2026

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FeCHA is Festival de Cine Hispanófono de Atenas and was first organized in 2016 with great success.

The festival focuses on screening current Spanish- speaking films from Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, etc. showcasing the rich cinematic wealth of these countries.

The festival, since June 2016, has attracted more than 20.000 audience members. Multi-awarded films from Spain and Latin America premiere at the festival. With its sold- out screenings and a diverse programme Athens has shown its love for Spanish speaking culture and cinema.

The festival also features:

-cortoFeCHA, a screening of a collection of Spanish speaking short films from Spain and Latin America, which are screened with free entry to the public.

-docuFeCHA, screening of spanish speaking [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Athens, Greece



 
 
 
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Published: 01 Oct 2025
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Cerdanya Film Festival

Deadline: 10 May 2026

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GOYA Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

Cerdanya Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cerdanya, is a Festival specialized in the documentary, fiction and animation genre, short and feature films, consisting of competitive international sections, non-competitive sections and parallel activities. All the films that are part of the different sections will be selected by the Festival programmers.

Cerdanya Film Festival qualifies for Premios Goya – Spanish Film Academy in Best Spanish Shortfilm, in Fiction, Animation and Documentary categories.

The 16th edition of the Cerdanya Film Festival will be held from 1st to 17th August 2026.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Puigcerdà, Spain



 
 
 

 
Logo of Cuenca Internacional Film Festival
Published: 24 Sep 2025
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Festival Internacional de Cine de Cuenca

Deadline: 17 Apr 2026

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Cuenca International Film Festival 2026

Where the world's stories find their echo in the Andes.

The Cuenca International Film Festival (FICC) is one of the pioneering film events in Ecuador. With more than twenty years of history, it has become a strategic meeting point for international filmmakers, producers, distributors, and programmers, consolidating Cuenca as an epicenter of cinema in Latin America.

Throughout its history, the FICC has featured important figures, names that reaffirm the festival's mission to build bridges between the global industry and local narratives.

In 2022, the festival expanded its reach with the creation of Shortfest Cuenca, a platform specialized in short films that functions as a laboratory for narrative innovation and the discovery of new [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Cuenca, Ecuador



 
 
 
 
Logo of Almagro International Film Festival AIFF
Published: 18 Sep 2025
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Short films



Festival Internacional De Cine De Almagro

Deadline: 15 Mar 2026

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In 2018, Almagro International Film Festival -AIFF- born with the aim of establishing a useful platform for the promotion of the audiovisual industry: a space and time for dissemination and promotion of audiovisual content, transforming the city of Almagro into a meeting point for filmmakers, favoring the exchange of initiatives and promoting a market open to the development of new projects.

AIFF will provide a showcase for the most interesting short format projects done within the last recent months, constituting an standard of quality and high level of commitment to the society & culture of Audiovisual Arts. In addition, the Festival has opened an important window to formats created for online distribution, bringing support to one of the most active and emerging sectors of [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Almagro, Spain