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Screamfest® Horror Film Festival

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Calling all independent filmmakers! Screamfest® Film Festival is back for its 25th annual 10-day event, showcasing the best in horror cinema from around the world. Held this October at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Los Angeles, our festival is a must-attend event for horror fans and industry professionals alike.

Don't just take our word for it - some of the biggest horror publications have dubbed us the 'Sundance of Horror.' Our festival has also been featured in 2024 New York Times at Top 5 Halloween Festivals Worth Traveling For. Moviemaker Magazine's lists of 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee for 2023, 50 Best Genre Fests in the World 2021, 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee & 13 Film Festivals to Die For, and 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World 2019.

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Published: 02 Sep 2018
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Short South

Deadline: 31 May 2019

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

ORGANIZERS

Cultural Association Time & Memory organizes the thirteenth edition of the Short Film Festival called "SHORT TO SOUTH", to be held in Polla (SA)ITALY from the 21 - 22 June 2025 at the Auditorium "Holy Nicolicchio".

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental



Polla, Italy



 
 
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Published: 28 Aug 2018
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MY FIRST FESTIVAL

Deadline: 31 Oct 2018

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International Festival

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Feature film festival

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MI PRIMER FESTIVAL, 10TH EDITION

The call is open until November 30!

The international film festival for children and youth MI PRIMER FESTIVAL (MPF) that sows the love for cinema. It is in our hands to find ways to encourage and promote that girls, boys, adolescents and young people understand what is happening in the world and show them ways to initiate change.

MPF invites you to participate in its 10th edition, we will celebrate our first ten years, which will take place during 2025 in different regions of Peru, taking as a starting point our first event in Lima that will be from February 16 to 22, 2025 in person, thanks to different venues and cultural centers.

MI PRIMER FESTIVAL aims to create a space for the exhibition of national and international [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental  Music Video



Lima, Peru



 
 
 

 
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Published: 21 Aug 2018
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NIKON FILM FESTIVAL

Deadline: 10 Jan 2019

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

It's a free and open to all short film festival based in Paris (France). Concept is simple : submit 2min20 shortfilms about an imposed theme each year. For this 15th edition, it'll be "A human superpower". To participate, you must register on our website www.festivalnikon.fr/en until January 10, 2025

IMPORTANT: PLEASE NOTE THAT FILMS OVER 2MIN20 WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED INTO THE COMPETITION AND WILL BE IMMEDIATELY EXCLUDED WITHOUT VIEWING.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Paris, France



 
 
 
 
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Published: 08 Aug 2018
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Lebu International Film Festival 25

Deadline: 10 Nov 2018

Call for entries

OSCAR Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

It will be held in person with online activities .

In-person format, it will be held in the cities of Lebu, Capital of the Province of Arauco, and in the city of Concepción in the Biobío Region, Chile, from April 1 to 6, 2025. With national and international virtual sub-venues for the exhibition of competitions. Since 2018, CINELEBU is the only festival in Chile that qualifies short films for the Oscar® Awards in three categories: International Animation, Regional Fiction, and International Fiction. and since 2023, qualifier for the Goya Awards and Marca Chile.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Lebu, Chile



 
 
 

 
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Published: 07 Aug 2018
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Santander International Independent Film Festival (2025) - SANFICI

Deadline: 28 Nov 2018

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

SANFICI is a space to generate meetings at different levels, with an overcoming and innovative will. First of all, it is a space for the relationship between spectators, filmmakers and theorists around cinema and all border and heterodox manifestations. Secondly, it is a special and temporary meeting point.

SANFICI wants to become, year after year, the place of convergence for world independent cinema. But it also wants to be the space where the past and the future dialogue. The place where the most diverse film traditions are embraced with their riskiest proposals.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Bucaramanga, Colombia



 
 
 
 
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Published: 19 Jul 2018
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AMAL International Euroarab Film Festival

Deadline: 16 Sep 2018

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International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

Amal is a cultural film event of reference, held annually since 2003. Its first edition was conceived as an audiovisual showcase and, after its success, in 2005 it took a step further to become an international competitive festival; the first and only Euro-Arab Film Festival in Europe at that time. After twelve editions, it has once again become a competitive festival, leaving behind the character of an exhibition, aspiring to favour the synergies created between producers, filmmakers and the public. Thus, this 23rd edition will be made up of three competitive sections: 5 fiction films, 5 documentaries and 5 short films, with the aim of recognising the cinematographic talent of the participants in each of the competitive sections.

Any film, feature film or short film - [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Santiago de Compostela, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 10 Jul 2018
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Fantastic film festival in Bourg-en-Bresse

Deadline: 09 Dec 2018

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

12th edition of the fantastic film festival of Bourg-en-Bresse.

SHort film competitions (french languages, international, middle school) and also screening of features films.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Bourg-en-Bresse, France



 
 
 
 
Logo of International Horror Film Festival Aurora
Published: 07 Jul 2018
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International Horror Film Festival Aurora

Deadline: 24 Dec 2018

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

International horror film festival based in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico. All festival activities are nonprofit.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Guanajuato, Mexico



 
 
 

 
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Published: 05 Jul 2018
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Cannes Festival Handicap ’Entre Deux... Cannes’

Deadline: 22 Nov 2018

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

FESTIVAL ENTRE DEUX... CANNES

We accept films, that deal with themes of disability or Deaf culture, or about people who identify as 'disabled', 'people with a disability', or use terms like 'handicapped', 'functional diversity', or -abled'. We also welcome Deaf and neurodiverse people who do not identify with or use these terms.'

All the films need to be SUBTITLED IN FRENCH IN WHITE COLOR and in second line in English with orange color for them to be accepted on competition.

Our jury and the board of organisation is composed by valid and handicap persons.

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Cannes, France



 
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Published: 16 Jun 2018
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LAN. Festival De Cine De Temática Obrera

Deadline: 20 Sep 2018

Call for entries

International Festival

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Feature film festival

LAN Workers' Theme Film Festival is a platform that makes visible and values ​​audiovisual projects that reflect the feelings of the so-called working class, its identity traits, its aesthetics, its social and associative framework, its architecture, its capacity for struggle and adaptation and, above all, historical and collective memory.

IMPORTANT
For LAN 08 edition that will take place in June 2025 we will focus on the workers' struggle and the different conflicts generated in the defense of work in the face of the various situations that have caused the closure of numerous factories and industries.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Bilbao, Spain