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Aguilar Film Festival

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The Aguilar de Campoo Short Film Festival is consolidated as one of the most veteran and relevant film citations in our country in its genre. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts of Spain, includes it as one of the key festivals for the selection of short films that will compete in the Goya Awards. Throughout the last editions the festival has been making important decisions that commit it to the cinema of our country. In his thirteenth edition he published his manifesto where he exhibited his philosophy and commitment to film. He made the decision to pay for selection to the selected short films thus eliminating economic competition in order to encourage artistic creation and production. Its screening rooms are open to international cinema including all genres, fiction, [...]



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Published: 14 Sep 2024
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Short films



AI ARTIST FESTIVAL

Deadline: 30 Nov 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

The AI ARTIST supported by ASSOCIATION FRANCE CHINE DES NOUVEAUX CINEMAS、 ONED Pioneer Imaging Laboratory 、PixVerse. Supported and co-organized by China's largest technology media 36Kr.

Film Festival aims to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence with film and video, fostering innovative applications of AI technology in film and video production and presentation, and advancing the development of the future film industry.

The festival will hold screenings and creator exchange activities every three months to keep up with the rapid development and updates in AI technology, fostering ongoing innovation and collaboration in the film and video industry. Through these initiatives, the festival aims to nurture a dynamic community of creators, artists, and innovators [...]

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Beijing, China



 
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Published: 14 Sep 2024
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Muestra de Cine Internacional de Palencia

Deadline: 30 Nov 2024

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GOYA Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

The Palencia International Films Festival is organised by the Association Friends of the film and the Popular University of Palencia.

This edition is number 34, and during all these years, our philosphy has been considering cinema a tool of development and social cohesion.

Our festival colaborates with the Spanish Cinema Academy, and its a qualifyer festival for the GOYA shortfilm Awards.

In addition, the short film awarded the first prize by the jury at the MCIP (the Milagros Alcalde Award) will go directly to the Short List finalist of the FUGAZ Awards, making up the short list of films that will then be evaluated for nomination by the commission that awards these prizes each year.

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Palencia, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 13 Sep 2024
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Short films



ONED ART&EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 10 Jul 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

ONED was founded in 2019, We focus on unconventional images, experiments, and extreme themes. From 2023 the official selection will be screened in China and France. We cooperate with China's largest experimental culture company, Toulouse Art Fair in France. Hope to normalize the unconventional

We cooperate with the Toulouse Experimental Exhibition in France, and it has now developed into the largest experimental film festival in China.This will be a great opportunity to showcase in front of China’s avant-garde artists and audiences

We have signed contracts with more than 40 livehouses in China, focusing on experimental and avant-garde images, combined with electronic music performances, to bring a different film festival experience to the new generation of creators.We hope [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental  Music Video



Peking, China



 
 
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Published: 11 Sep 2024
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Short films



Short Short Story Film Festival

Deadline: 03 Nov 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

The Short Short Story Film Festival is a competitive international festival of films that tell a story in under six minutes.

For 2024, the 17th edition of the festival returns with a unique closed event. The festival celebrates brevity in film-making, with films from across the globe, both live-action and animated.

The festival consists of two programs, Heartstrings and Headtrip, each with a distinctive tone yet wide-ranging styles and topics.

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N/A, United States



 
 

 
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Published: 11 Sep 2024
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Short films



DarDan Fest 2024

Deadline: 25 Oct 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

Dardan Fest is an international film festival with a focus on urbanization, civilization, and development.

This festival provides an opportunity to promote filmmakers across a variety of genres, aligning with Dardan Fest's goals. We will showcase short films and documentaries from the USA, Europe, Asia, Balkans, and other regions.

The featured works are from the past three years or are premieres.

Throughout the event, we plan to engage with both filmmakers and guests through workshops and forums, facilitating experience sharing and relationship building.

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Tirana, Albania



 
 
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Published: 11 Sep 2024
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Acid´animé Contest

Deadline: 28 Jan 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Acid'Animé Fest is an Paris international short-film competition. Our mission is to bring international independent animated short films to the widest possible audience in Europe and beyond. We want to give this opportunity to young filmakers and animators.

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Paris, France




 
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Published: 07 Sep 2024
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Feature films



MUESTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINE Y CIENCIA

Deadline: 20 Oct 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

VI INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF FILM AND SCIENCE 2024

The International Exhibition of Cinema and Science is an event that will take place at Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo (Santander, Spain), between the 6th and 8th of November, 2024. Is admitted any work of any genre related to science and scientific divulgation.

The objective of the exhibition is to promote the production and divulgation of works that foster the positive and progressive values ​​of science and technology, and that serve as a consultation for any type of audience. The subject is totally free and can refer to own or other people's research, hot topics in the society or scientific community, personal scientific-technical passions, basic science concepts, scientific milestones, historical figures, the science [...]

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Santander, Spain



 
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Published: 07 Sep 2024
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Connect to Prosper - Global Video Challenge

Deadline: 28 Mar 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Are you a creative filmmaker, storyteller, or digital artist? Join our global challenge and showcase your talent on an international stage! In 2025, we honour the 695th Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, whose visionary theme, "Connect to Prosper," redefines global connections and innovation. This is your chance to shine and be part of a historic celebration.

We invite teams of up to three members, aged 34 and under, to create a short video (2-5 minutes) that embodies the theme:

"Connect to Prosper: Celebrating Global Connections through Visual Arts"

Your mission is to capture how connections foster prosperity, innovation, and growth in our interconnected world. Showcase how the City of London serves as a global hub of knowledge and innovation, [...]

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Tipton, United Kingdom




 
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Published: 06 Sep 2024
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Bulli ed Eroi

Deadline: 10 Oct 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

Bullies and Heroes which is characterized by the phrase: Ubuntu I am because we are (Nelson Mandela), was born after 50 years of experiences, studies and research, both in the cinematographic and artistic fields and in the pedagogical and psychological ones. It is located on the border between health and culture with the certainty that "the soul needs beauty and that beauty is nourishment for the soul" and allows us to best express all the creative potential of the human being. It is therefore important, as argued by Peppino Impastato, who has always rejected the idea of ​​becoming accustomed to "ugliness", to educate children to "beauty": "...It is for this reason that people should be educated to beauty: because in men and women, let habit and resignation no longer creep in [...]

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Sinalunga, Italy



 
 
 
 
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Published: 05 Sep 2024
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Festival de Cine Escolar Raúl Ruiz

Deadline: 10 Nov 2024

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

The Raul Ruiz School Film Festival has been progressively positioned in its three previous versions as the first experimental school film festival in the country, with an increasing reach in different regions of the country. This is a positive indicator of the impact that this initiative has had. In this sense, the described initiative has become a recognized window of diffusion for school cinematographic art. In addition, the possibilities of artistic exploration that the festival suggests through its categories and evaluation criteria have enabled the production teams to investigate and experiment with different film languages. In this sense, the new challenges that the festival offers in its third version are, on the one hand, to continue and strengthen the diffusion and [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Quilpué, Chile