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FEST - New Directors | New Films Festival

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FEST - NDNFF #22
20th-28th of June of 2026 | Espinho, Portugal

FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival is an all-encompassing celebration of the new tendencies of world cinema. The event focuses on a competitive and non-competitive showcase of the most promising new figures and works from around the globe.
The 22ndedition of the festival will take place between the 20th and the 28th of June 2026, in the seaside town of Espinho (Portugal).

The selection is divided into several categories which include Feature Film and Short Film competitions in the Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental Non-Narrative formats, as well as content adequate for children and teenagers. The event also includes non-competitive sections that range from retrospectives to feature length and [...]



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Published: 02 Oct 2025
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L’Horror Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Feb 2026

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The International Film Festival with a Gender Perspective in Hospitalet was born in 2025 with the support of L’Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet, Torre Barrina, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival i Dones Visuals with the aim of visualizing the gender perspective through horror cinema. Promoting values through leisure. Providing windows, visions different from the hegemonic ones. Generating new perspectives. Offering opportunities and a space of representation.

The best audiovisual tool: horror.

Genre cinema is more trendier than ever, with a boom and an increase in the prestige of authors who speak from a diversity perspective. An opportunity to provide new perspectives for all types of audiences.

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L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain



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Pasturas, Festival Internacional de Cine de Trashumancia y Pastoralismo

Deadline: 18 Mar 2026

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PASTURAS. International Film Festival on Pastoralism and Transhumance. PASTURAS aims at raising awareness on the ancestral culture of transhumance through cinema, showcasing fiction and non-fiction films with a focus on this issue, facilitating communication between filmmakers and the audience, and providing learning opportunities to contribute to the development of this culture and the promotion of all audiovisual work around the issue.

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Godoy Cruz, Argentina



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Logo of Свет миру (Light Of The World)
Published: 02 Oct 2025
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Свет миру (Light Of The World)

Deadline: 31 Mar 2026

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The International Youth Film Festival “Light to the World”, founded by the Rybinsk Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, began its history in 2011. Since 2025, it has been held with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Today, in terms of its geography and the number of participants, “Light to the World” is one of the largest youth film festivals in Russia.

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Rybinsk, Russia



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Published: 02 Oct 2025
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ARUCAD Cinematic Seeds Festival

Deadline: 31 Dec 2025

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We welcome short films in the following student-created categories:

- First Steps (First-Year Films)
Introductory works by students at the beginning of their filmmaking journey.

- Experimental Films
Non-linear, conceptual, or visually innovative projects that challenge traditional norms.

- Documentary
Real-world stories, social issues, personal explorations.

- Short Fiction Films
Narrative works from all genres (max 15 minutes).

- Hybrid Narratives & Visual Essays
Multimedia or mixed-format storytelling (e.g., video essays, photo romans, visual poems).

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kyrenia, Cyprus



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Published: 02 Oct 2025
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Happy Valley Animation Festival

Deadline: 01 Dec 2025

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The Happy Valley Animation Festival takes place in State College, PA (Happy Valley) and is an open international animation competition that seeks to showcase animated works in a range of categories. HVAF is screened and exhibited locally and throughout the Pennsylvania State University (University Park) as well as online. We encourage submissions by students, early career, and practicing professional artists, designers, and filmmakers in any of the three categories that include: Animated Short Films, Experimental Animation, and Animated Motion Graphics & Design.

HVAF is a collaboration between organizers and volunteers and is sponsored by the Digital Arts & Media Design (DART) Program and the School of Visual Arts at Penn State, and the Animation Club at Penn State.

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University Park, United States



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Published: 02 Oct 2025
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V Festival Internacional De Cine Documental · PampaDocfest

Deadline: 31 Dec 2025

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Produced by the Municipality of Colonia Santa Teresa and the narrative journalism platform Angular; declared of Legislative Interest and Cultural Interest by the government of the Province of La Pampa, the V International Documentary Film Festival "PampaDocFest" will be held in person in the town from April 9-12, 2026.
This festival aims to stimulate and facilitate meetings between national and international film makers and to present non-fiction films. It also seeks to foster encounters between filmmakers, technicians, and those interested in this genre, creating a space for exchange and dialogue. It aims to provide a training space to contribute to the development of culture and the dissemination of documentary filmmaking, promoting a critical and reflective view of reality. [...]

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Colonia Santa Teresa, Argentina



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Published: 01 Oct 2025
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Screamiverse Expo

Deadline: 01 Jan 2026

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Screamiverse Expo is a horror, sci-fi, and art convention taking place in Roanoke, VA on Saturday April 26th and Sunday April 27th. We have over 100 vendors, special guests, tattoos and piercing, and panels. As part of our programming, we have created a screening room to include films from creators wanting to showcase and share their work to our dedicated audience!

If you want to attend the event and promote your project, we still have vendor space available. Go to https://www.screamiverse.com/vendors for details and pricing. You do not have to be present to have your project showcased.

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Roanoke, United States



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Logo of International Film Festival for Children and Youth “Hero”
Published: 01 Oct 2025
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Международный фестиваль фильмов для детей и юношества `Герой´

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

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International Film Festival “Hero” was initially designed by its organizers as a forum to think over and discuss the topic of spiritual and moral compass, which is one of the critical ones in bringing up the modern generation. All events of the Festival raise the issues of patriotism, traditional values, and the films are selected on the basis of diversity of genres and cultures to represent a hero in all the spheres and genres, including feature, animation, documentary films, as well as a hero in the social sphere.

The competition and non-competition program of for IV International Film Festival for Children and Youth "Hero" will comprise professional works by cinematographers, including full-length and short feature and animation films and documentaries.

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Krasnoyarsk, Russia



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Published: 24 Sep 2025
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Breaking Walls Dance Films

Deadline: 15 Nov 2025

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Open call for filmmakers!

Be part of the 5th edition of Breaking Walls Dance Films and submit your film now.

Breaking Walls Dance Films (BWDF) is the first Dance Film Festival in Egypt and the Region.

BWDF is an international event showcasing the best in dance film from around the world, which will take place in Cairo, in January 2026. We will host a special program of dance films alongside the festival's various programs of workshops and live performances.

Knowing that the application will be no later than November 15, 2025.


ON THE SIDELINES OF THE FESTIVAL:

- We welcome documentaries and feature films to be shown on the sidelines of the festival, provided that these films are dance-related.

- If the film includes non-English narration, English subtitles are required. [...]

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Cairo, Egypt



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Published: 23 Sep 2025
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Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes Versión Española – La 2 / SGAE

Deadline: 01 Jan 2026

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El programa “Versión Española” (TVE) y la Fundación SGAE (SGAE), convocan el XXIII Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes “Versión Española / SGAE”, orientado a la difusión y fomento de los nuevos autores en el sector de la creación audiovisual

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Madrid, Spain



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