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FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival

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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 [...]



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Published: 02 Feb 2025
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MOSTRA DE CINEMA DO ROSAL

Deadline: 20 Jun 2025

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Festival of short films with a free theme.
As specified in the rules, any short film with a maximum duration of 30 minutes including credits is admitted.

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O Rosal, Spain



 
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Published: 02 Feb 2025
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24° MonFilmFest, Giochi Di Cinema Senza Frontiere

Deadline: 07 Jun 2025

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Introduction

The 24th MonFilmFest, organized by Immagina a.c. APS, returns from July 2 to July 11, 2026, in Mombello Monferrato (Turin) and in "everywhere" mode. The festival aims to tell stories through cinema, giving space to new voices and talents. This edition celebrates the theme "This Land Is My Land" (Questa terra è la mia terra), a tribute to Monferrato and the Planet in their complexity and beauty.

Mission

The search for new stories and new cinema talents through "a game" that defines and determines "a way of producing."
Uniqueness and Characterization: MonFilmFest has maintained its roots as "cinema games without borders" in Monferrato but has opened up to the world. In our regulations, we provide guidelines consistent with our past, starting from the idea of [...]

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Casalborgone, Italy



 
 

 
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Published: 31 Jan 2025
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SESTRIERE SPORT AWARDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

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The Cinema e Arte Association, in collaboration with the Municipality of Sestriere, organizes “SESTRIERE SPORT AWARDS Film Festival", an international competition on sports cinema.

It will be a cinema event in which directors, independent directors, film companies and private productions will have the chance to participate by sending works such as fictions, commercials, short and feature films, documentaries, animated films and television programs, through an international competition call. The event’s theme will be the world of sports, expressed in all of its disciplines and events, great achievements, sports culture, the lives and stories of the characters who more than others have excited the public with their great achievements.

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BERGAMO, Italy



 
 
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Published: 21 Jan 2025
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vvfilmf - Kids and Teens International Film Festival

Deadline: 01 Jul 2025

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GuglilemoMarconi filmf - Kids and Teens International Film Festival (former vvfilmf) was created to create a large film festival for children and teenagers that combines talent and culture, to indicate welcoming places for young people and to offer workshops dedicated to the study of new forms of artistic expression.

#GuglielmoMarconi filmf (former vvfilmf) aims to be an initiative aimed at the whole country and internationally to satisfy both the expectations of a young population and those of adult spectators, in an attempt to bring the general public closer to quality forms of cinema. The Festival's programming, despite having children, school-age children and university students as its preferential audience, also opens up with enthusiasm to adults and to the entire [...]

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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 Opera Film Festival is a meeting and discussion place for delving into the relationship between cinema and opera through various artistic perspectives and trends. The Messina Opera 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, which [...]

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Messina, Italy



 
 
 
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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.

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Bogotá, Colombia



 
 

 
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Published: 16 Jan 2025
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T-Short Animated Film Festival

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

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On November 27 and 28, 2026, the T-Short Festival will take place at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe cinema in Karlsruhe, Germany.

From November 30 to December 13, 2026, the festival films will be available online only for residents of Germany, as well as for festival participants and guests.

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T-Short Festival for professionals from all over the world and animated movie fans in Germany.

Only short films up to 15 minutes are presented at the festival, preferably without monologues and dialogues.

Films finished after January 1, 2024 are accepted for selection.

T-Short Festival treats any auteur animated films with trepidation, however, it prefers abstract, experimental, and surreal animated films.

T-Short doesn’t target children’s audience and doesn’t allow [...]

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Karlsruhe, Germany



 
 
 
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Published: 16 Jan 2025
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Òrbita Film Fest

Deadline: 15 Apr 2025

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Òrbita Film Fest (formerly Ficcions de Ciència), a festival dedicated to exploring the interaction between science, society and cinema, will hold its second edition from 20 to 25 October 2026 in Barcelona.
The call is open to fiction, animation and documentary short films that contribute to a broad dialogue on the role of science in society. In this second edition, the festival will also include a special section devoted to Narratives on Nature.

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Barcelona, Spain



 

 
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Published: 14 Jan 2025
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Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival & A World of Dark Comedy.

Deadline: 29 Nov 2025

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Hamilton Hill, Australia



 
 
 
 
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Published: 10 Jan 2025
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Festival de Cine de Bogotá

Deadline: 10 Jul 2025

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XLIII BOGOTA FILM FESTIVAL

September 17th to 23rd of 2026

THE FESTIVAL

The Bogota International Film Festival, organized by the Colombian-local organization Corporación Bogocine, was created in 1984 in order to recognize and reward the Colombian film production. For its second edition, the Festival brought together not only Colombian but other Andean countries cinema as well, and went on to honor productions from the Caribbean Islands, South America, Spain, France, Africa and the Pacific Coast on subsequent editions.

Currently, the Festival is recognized worldwide as a relevant platform for new directors (with no more than 3 released feature films) and debut feature films. Renowned filmmakers such as Pedro Almodovar, Bong Joon-Ho, Isabel Coixet, Alejandro González [...]

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Bogotá, Colombia