Its aim is to bring together the best of international rural auteur cinema, promoting the discovery and dissemination of its unique stories and scenarios.
Deadline 10 August 2025
Prize 9,000€
The ABYCINE LANZA – AMNISTÍA INTERNACIONAL 2025 call supports the production of a short film focused on human rights. It is open to production companies, professionals, and amateurs, with at least one co-producer legally established in Spain. The short film must be in development or pre-production stage, up to 30 minutes long, and in any genre or format.
Projects should address themes such as freedom of expression, women’s rights, migration, climate justice, or armed conflict. The award includes €5,000 in production support and up to €2,000 for promotional activities.
Selected projects will be showcased at Abycine Lanza 2025, and the winning short will premiere in Abycine Cortos 2026, a Goya-qualifying section. Applications are open until June 30, 2025.
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ABYCINE LANZA – AMNISTÍA INTERNACIONAL
Curta Roteiros – 1st Short Film Script Contest rewards unpublished screenplays written in Portuguese, created for independent cinema. Open to professional and amateur writers worldwide, as long as the script hasn't been produced, published, co-authored, or generated using AI.
Submissions are open from June 5 to July 5, 2025, via form (30 BRL) or Festhome (8 USD). Scripts must be PDF, max 30 pages, using Courier New 12, with a cover page including title, author or pseudonym.
Scripts will be judged on originality, structure, coherence, characters, writing quality, technical feasibility, and emotional/social impact. Finalists will be announced July 25, and winners on August 1 during the Curta Cine Sumaré Festival.
Winners receive digital certificates, laurels, and symbolic cash prizes (120, 50, and 30 BRL via PIX). Honorable mentions may also be awarded.
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Curta Roteiros - Short Film Script Contest
Polish Days is the key industry event of the New Horizons International Film Festival, held in Wrocław, Poland, from July 17 to 27, 2025. Polish Days is expected to take place mid-festival, likely between July 20–22 (dates TBC).
The call is open to Polish film projects in three categories: completed films, works in progress, and projects in development. Selected participants benefit from private screenings, pitching sessions, and one-on-one meetings with international sales agents, distributors, and festival programmers.
Industry accreditations opened on May 6, 2025, and close on June 17, 2025, or earlier if capacity is reached. Project submissions typically close between May and early June, depending on the category.
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CIBEF - International Residency in Film Directing
The GIFF Incubator 2025, part of the Guanajuato International Film Festival, invites Mexican and international filmmakers with fiction or documentary feature film projects in development. Up to 20 projects will be selected for intensive mentorships during the festival (July 25–August 4). Participants will receive guidance on script, project dossier, pitch deck, financing, festivals, distribution, and marketing strategies.
The call is open from June 4 to June 25, 2025 (2:00 PM Mexico City time), free of charge. Travel, lodging, and food costs are covered by participants. A single PDF dossier must be submitted, including synopsis, treatment, visual references, current status, team bios, and optional materials like budgets or funding plans.
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INCUBATOR - GIFF
La convocatoria al IDFA Forum 2025 está abierta desde el 2 de junio hasta el 25 de julio de 2025. El foro se celebra en noviembre en Ámsterdam, como parte del Festival IDFA. Se pueden presentar documentales creativos, en formato de largometraje, serie o proyecto inmersivo/interactivo, en una de cuatro categorías: Forum Pitch, Rough Cut Presentations, Producers Connection y DocLab Forum.
Los proyectos deben estar en desarrollo, producción o postproducción. Se requiere material audiovisual (teaser, clip o rough cut), sinopsis, plan de financiación y estrategia de producción. Si el proyecto es preseleccionado, se solicitará más documentación en agosto.
El IDFA Forum es una plataforma clave para conectar con financiadores, distribuidores y coproductores internacionales.
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IDFA - Forum
